Calm Mind + Iron Defense Enamorus-Therian

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[SET]
name: Calm Mind + Iron Defense
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Iron Defense
move 3: Draining Kiss
move 4: Earth Power
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Steel / Ground
ability: Overcoat
nature: Modest
evs: 220 HP / 252 SpD / 36 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk


Enamorus-T serves as a setup-focused sweeper that can come in during the latter stages of the game to serve as an off-meta win condition. After finding a chance to send her in against a mon that lacks the coverage to punch through its high defenses, Enamorus-T can begin setting up with Calm Mind and Iron Defense to make removing her even more difficult. Because her base Defense and Special Defense stats are already so high, her EV spread can focus on maxing out her Special Attack with a boosting nature, making her threatening offensively and giving her enough Speed to move faster than a Kingambit with no Speed investment. Draining Kiss can serve as a valuable form of STAB damage and recovery that eases the need for Leftovers, allowing her to run Heavy-Duty Boots instead to avoid her Stealth Rock weakness, and Earth Power super effectively hits Poison and Steel types she otherwise fears and gives her neutral coverage against every OU ranked mon except Moltres. Tera Steel can be used as a panic button to give her Poison immunity and Steel resistance as well as neutrality to moves that hit Flying super effectively, potentially giving it extra turn of crucial setup, while Tera Ground trades those benefits for a Poison resistance, Electric immunity, and STAB on Earth Power. Due to her nature as a lategame all-or-nothing setup sweeper, positioning Enamorus-T correctly is crucial as she may not get a second chance to come in and try again. Her power is tied to having several turns to set up her defenses and her low Speed makes it susceptible to being worn down early. She most appreciates teammates who can set up or keep up hazards like Samurott-H, Cinderace, or Gholdengo, useful for wearing down the opponents over time. She also performs well when paired with ones who can clear her most threatening checks ahead of time before she takes the field, such as Ting-Lu who can deal with Slowking-G, or Great Tusk who can deal with Kingambit.

Is gendering Enamorus cool? There's only one in lore and it's always female. She's always female. I dunno. Both she and it feel off to me.

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[autumn]

Return to Zero would you be able to finish this by the end of the weekend? dlc is in ~3 weeks now

 

[autumn]

lmk when this is implemented Return to Zero - content is good but expand a bit more on your points. make sure that you're including examples so your analysis provides unique insight into ou instead of just explaining what a move does )which can be googled). our unique selling point is metagame relevant analysis

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[SET]
name: Calm Mind + Iron Defense
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Iron Defense
move 3: Draining Kiss
move 4: Earth Power
item: Leftovers / Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Steel / Ground Water (you can leave ground in as a mention in the paragraph)
ability: Overcoat
nature: Modest Bold
evs: 220 HP / 252 SpD / 36 Spe 248 HP / 224 Def / 36 Spe
ivs: 0 Atk
made set changes following discussion yesterday - don't forget to update the paragraph to reflect this

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Enamorus-T serves as a setup-focused sweeper that can come in during the latter stages of the game to serve as an off-meta win condition. After finding a chance to send her in against a mon Pokemon (casual writing like 'mons' won't pass a go check so fixing now makes it a lot easier for the gp team) that lacks the coverage to punch through its high defenses (give an example or two here to help relate this statement back to the meta), Enamorus-T can begin setting up with Calm Mind and Iron Defense to make removing her even more difficult. Because her base Defense and Special Defense stats are already so high, her EV spread can focus on maxing out her Special Attack with a boosting nature, making her threatening offensively and giving her enough Speed to move faster than a Kingambit with no Speed investment. (this needs to be reworked to reflect nature change + also the paragraph should follow the order of the set. moves explaiend first, then evs/nature/tera types etc) Draining Kiss can serve as a valuable form of STAB damage and recovery that eases the need for Leftovers, allowing her to run Heavy-Duty Boots instead to avoid her Stealth Rock weakness, and Earth Power super effectively hits Poison and Steel types she otherwise fears (such as?) and gives her neutral coverage against every viable OU ranked mon except Moltres. (add ev explanation here) Tera Steel can be used as a panic button to give her Poison immunity and Steel resistance as well as neutrality to moves that hit Flying super effectively (give examples here too to avoid dex info - you don't need to list the type chart and say "steel resists steel" and instead you want to be able to apply that knowledge to the ou meta. what steel or poison types can you tera on to be able to set up in a pinch? what pokemon struggle to break tera steel enam?), potentially giving it extra turn of crucial setup, while (add tera water here) Tera Ground trades those benefits for a Poison resistance, Electric immunity, and STAB on Earth Power. (mention here what types of teams enam fits on because its a niche mon that won't fit everywhere. this will also help expand the teammates section too) Due to her nature as a lategame all-or-nothing setup sweeper, positioning Enamorus-T correctly is crucial as she may not get a second chance to come in and try again. Her power is tied to having several turns to set up her defenses and her low Speed makes it susceptible to being worn down early. (you've given this useful information here but no real examples on how to support enam. it's a lategame setup mon, so you wanna mention early game breakers that can wear things down. you can mention screens too as a way to support it because you've mentioned needing several turns to set up) She most appreciates teammates who can set up or keep up hazards like Samurott-H, Cinderace, or Gholdengo, useful for wearing down the opponents over time. She also performs well when paired with ones who can clear her most threatening checks ahead of time before she takes the field, such as Ting-Lu who can deal with Slowking-G, or Great Tusk who can deal with Kingambit.

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Is gendering Enamorus cool? There's only one in lore and it's always female. She's always female. I dunno. Both she and it feel off to me.

all pokemon regardless of their ingame gender are referred to as "it" by the dex - we don't use gender pronouns for mons so please fix throughout

 

[autumn]

Return to Zero can you implement the above please? i’ve been trying to reach out on discord too not sure if you saw

 

[Dreadfury]

Return to Zero you have 48 hours to implement the above changes or we will reassign this analysis.

 

[autumn]

reassigning, chimp is taking over