Volcanion (Assault Vest) QC(1/2)

[big pichu]

Volcanion is alive and better than ever.

Volcanion @ Assault Vest
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest / Quiet Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Heavy Slam / Sludge Bomb

[SET COMMENTS]

• Steam Eruption is an incredible STAB move, with it's chance to burn allowing it to weaken physical attackers.
• Heat Wave provides a spread option that can bypass redirection to hit Pokemon like Kingambit and Rillaboom.
• Earth Power is the best coverage move for Volcanion, since it's the only option that allows it to hit Iron Hands and opposing Volcanion super effectively.
• Heavy Slam is exclusively meant as a weapon against Flutter Mane, which can survive Volcanion's other moves due to its extremely high Special Defense. Sludge Bomb, on the other hand, provides more general use as neutral damage, as well as providing a super effective option against Tera Grass Heatran and Armarouge. Heavy Slam can also be useful against Diancie, as the 4x super effective damage means that it has a chance to OHKO a specially defensive Diancie from full.
• Assault Vest, working in conjunction with its typing, makes Volcanion into an extremely powerful Specially defensive option that can survive hits from Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Flutter Mane.
• Tera Fairy provides Volcanion has no shared weaknesses with its base type, and provides a resistance to Dark and Fighting type moves, allow it to stay in on Kingambit's Kowtow Cleave.
• Volcanion functions best on bulkier archetypes such as semi-Trick Room or balance, where it takes advantage of its defenses to safely survive and trade favorably against some of the high powered special attackers in the tier, such as Chi Yu and Flutter Mane.
• Volcanion appreciates support from Rillaboom and Amoonguss, which can switch into Electric-type attacks and provide recovery to Volcanion, with Grassy Terrain and Pollen Puff, respectively. Volcanion also pairs well with Landorus-T, due to the latter resisting or being immune to Electric- and Ground-type attacks, and providing Intimidate, complementing Volcanion's natural bulk.

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[zee]

big pichu can we get this into qc soon, you know where to find us on discord if you need anything

 

[big pichu]

I forgot to do the post here but I'm QC ready

 

[ryo yamada2001]

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Volcanion is alive and better than ever.

Volcanion @ Assault Vest
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest / Quiet Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Heavy Slam / Sludge Bomb

[SET COMMENTS]

• add a point about steam eruption
• add a point about heat wave
• add a point about earth power
• Heavy Slam is exclusively meant as a weapon against Flutter Mane, which can survive Volcanion's other moves due to its extremely high Special Defense. Sludge Bomb, on the other hand, provides more general use as neutral damage, as well as providing a super effective option against Tera Grass Heatran and Armarouge.
• Assault Vest makes Volcanion into an extremely powerful Specially defensive option, working in conjuction conjunction with its typing to give bulky teams an option for a Pokemon that can survive hits from Chi Yu Chi-Yu (remember to hyphenate names like Chi-Yu, Chien-Pao, etc.), Gholdengo, and Flutter Mane.

this sentence is confusingly written, you could do this more concisely e.g.:
With Assault Vest, in conjunction with its typing, Volcanion is an extremely bulky specially defensive option for teams that need switch ins to Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Flutter Mane.

• Tera Grass provides Volcanion with resistances to Electric and Ground moves, allowing it to stay in on threats and to avoid taking super effective damage (threats such as? which super effective moves should we watch out for?). It Tera Grass also provides an immunity to Spore and Rage Powder immunity, allowing it Volcanion to use its single target moves without worrying about Amoonguss's redirection or sleep. from Amoonguss.
• Volcanion functions best on bulkier archetypes such as semiroom semi-Trick Room or bulky balanced (this is to avoid 'bulky' repetition, up to your discretion) offense, where it can take takes advantage of its defenses to safely survive and trade favorably against some of the high powered special attackers in the tier, such as Chi Yu Chi-Yu and Flutter Mane.
• Volcanion appreciates support from Rillaboom and Amoonguss, which can switch into Electric-type attacks and provide recovery to Volcanion, either in the form of Grassy Terrain from Rillaboom and Pollen Puff from Amoonguss. with Grassy Terrain and Pollen Puff, respectively.
• (condense with previous point) Volcanion also pairs well with Landorus-T, due to the latter resisting or being immune to Electric- (add hyphen) and Ground-type (add hyphen) attacks. Additionally, Intimidate allows Volcanion to better survive physical attackers, complementing its natural special resilience. Special Defense.

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this is well written, just some prose things. i trust you'll be able to add the aforementioned points in a satisfactory way, and i'm leaving it up to qc 2 to check those

 

[big pichu]

done

 

[Smudge]

Volcanion is alive and better than ever.

Volcanion @ Assault Vest
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest / Quiet Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Heavy Slam / Sludge Bomb

[SET COMMENTS]

• Steam Eruption and Heat Wave are Volcanion's main STABs. Volcanion enjoys the chance to burn, as it weakens physical attackers, and Heat Wave provides effective spread, allowing it to bypass redirection. Separate these points and elaborate on each of them, it's not just burn why you use them. Heat Wave's main feature isn't burn, but it is notable enough to mention on Steam Eruption as an analysis point. Feel free to check my spotlight for Volcanion for some inspiration on these.
• Earth Power is the best coverage move for Volcanion, due to its ability to hit opposing Electric types like Iron Hands. It's just Iron Hands + opposing Volcanion since it's the only way to hit that.
• Heavy Slam is exclusively meant as a weapon against Flutter Mane, which can survive Volcanion's other moves due to its extremely high Special Defense. Sludge Bomb, on the other hand, provides more general use as neutral damage, as well as providing a super effective option against Tera Grass Heatran and Armarouge. Heavy Slam is also very good into Diancie, mention this.
• Assault Vest, working in conjunction with its typing, makes Volcanion into an extremely powerful Specially defensive option that can survive hits from Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Flutter Mane.
• Tera Grass provides Volcanion with resistances to Electric and Ground moves, allowing it to stay in on threats and avoid taking super effective damage from threats such as Landorus-T's Stomping Tantrum and Iron Hands' Thunder Punch. It also provides Spore and Rage Powder immunity, allowing it to use single target moves without worrying about redirection or sleep from Amoonguss. I'm not sure about this tera- want to discuss, thinking we should change the type to Fairy and redo.
• Volcanion functions best on bulkier archetypes such as semi-Trick Room or balance, where it takes advantage of its defenses bulk and great defensive typing to safely survive and trade favorably against some of the high powered special attackers in the tier, such as Chi Yu and Flutter Mane.
• Volcanion appreciates support from Rillaboom and Amoonguss, which can switch into Electric-type attacks and provide recovery to Volcanion, with Grassy Terrain and Pollen Puff, respectively. Volcanion also pairs well with Landorus-T, due to the latter resisting or being immune to Electric- and Ground-type attacks, and providing Intimidate, complementing Volcanion's natural Special Defense. I'm not quite sure how it complements the special defense, if you could clarify this it would be good otherwise I'd think it just generally complements its bulk as the ways to hit it would be things like stomping tantrum/wood hammer/wild charge/etc.

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fix these for now and we'll go over it again. not 2/2 yet

 

[big pichu]

sorry for the delay
I think I made the changes but wanted to check on what do to with the first two points since they seem somewhat lacking rn