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name: Battle Bond
move 1: Hydro Pump / Surf
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Water Shuriken
move 4: Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
tera type: Water
ability: Battle Bond
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Owing to its incredible speed and STAB moves, Greninja is a frightening wallbreaker and sweeper that is capable of snowballing teams after a boost thanks to Battle Bond. Water Shuriken provides good priority for Greninja to revenge kill faster-weakened threats such as Darkrai and Deoxys-Speed, as well as letting Greninja bypass revenge-killing attempts from certain priority moves such as Sucker Punch from Kingambit. Ice Beam allows Greninja to hit Dragon-type Pokemon such as Roaring Moon and Dragonite as well as hitting Grass-type Pokemon such as Serperior and Meowscarada much harder. Sludge Wave can be used over Ice Beam as an alternative coverage move that can notably 2HKO Assault Vest Primarina after Stealth Rock damage while also having a stronger move to hit Ogerpon-W. Tera Water enhances Hydro Pump and Water Shuriken's damage output, giving Greninja a good chance to OHKO Hatterene and Booster Speed Great Tusk with Hydro Pump and Water Shuriken, respectively, while also letting Greninja turn its Fighting and Fairy weaknesses into neutralities. Tera Ghost can be used an alternative Tera-type that allows Greninja to bypass Dragonite's Extreme Speed and Zamazenta.

Greninja fits best on hyper offense and rain teams as an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner. On hyper offense teams, leads such as Hisuian Samurott and Deoxys-Speed can get up hazards to help Greninja grab KOs more easily. Deoxys-Speed in particular is a great teammate for Greninja, as it can get up screens, making Greninja harder to take down so it can pick up a Battle Bond boost more easily. Dragonite is an excellent teammate for Greninja as its able to deal with Grass-type Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and Rillaboom, while Greninja can eliminate physically defensive Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Garganacl. Gouging Fire is also a great teammate for Greninja as its able to deal with Pokemon such as Rillaboom, Meowscarada, and Clefable. In return, Greninja can support Gouging Fire by eliminating Gliscor and Landorus-T, 2 Pokemon that could otherwise deal with it. On rain teams, Pelipper is a prime teammate, as it sets up the rain and helps Greninja get safe switch ins with U-turn. Barraskewda is an excellent partner that helps Greninja by keeping momentum with Flip Turn and overwhelming shared checks like Primarina and Kyurem. Raging Bolt is a fantastic teammate for Greninja as it can break bulky Water-type Pokemon such as Dondozo and Alomomola, in return, Greninja can eliminate Ground-type Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor for Raging Bolt. Iron Treads is a great teammate since it can reliably clear hazards to keep Greninja healthy, as well as being able to check Raging Bolt for Greninja. Gholdengo and Dragapult are also great teammates as they can help check Iron Defense Zamazenta, which is otherwise a dangerous threat that Greninja can let in. Other teammates that can also immediately threaten or force out Primarina if Greninja is not running Sludge Wave such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon-W, are highly excellent partners for Greninja.


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View attachment 627944[SET]
name: Battle Bond
move 1: Hydro Pump / Surf (This is slashed on the on-site analysis)
move 2: Dark Pulse
move 3: Water Shuriken
move 4: Ice Beam
item: Life Orb
tera type: Water
ability: Battle Bond
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Owing to its incredible speed and STAB moves, Greninja is a frightening wallbreaker and sweeper that is capable of snowballing teams after a boost thanks to Battle Bond. Water Shuriken provides good priority for Greninja to revenge kill faster-weakened threats such as Darkrai and Deoxys-Speed. (Mention that Water Shuriken can bypass revenge killing attempts from certain opposing priority users, namely Sucker Punch from Kingambit.) Ice Beam allows Greninja to hit Dragon-type Pokemon such as Roaring Moon and Dragonite as well as hitting Grass-type Pokemon such as Serperior and Meowscarada much harder. (You can mention Sludge Wave as an alternative coverage move, as it can be useful for luring Primarina. It has a high chance to 2HKO AV Primarina after Stealth Rock damage.) Maximum Special Attack and Speed EVs allows Greninja to hit as hard as possible while maximizing its Speed. (This information is unnecessary.) Tera Water enhances Hydro Pump and Water Shuriken'(AAP)s damage output, giving Greninja a good chance to OHKO Hatterene and Booster Speed Great Tusk with Hydro Pump and Water Shuriken, respectively, while also letting Greninja turn its Fighting and Fairy weaknesses into neutralities. (Other Tera types might be worth mentioning. In particular, Tera Ghost is useful for bypassing Dragonite's Extremespeed and Zamazenta.)

Greninja fits best on hyper offense and rain teams as an excellent wallbreaker and cleaner. On hyper offense teams, leads such as Hisuian Samurott and Deoxys-Speed can get up hazards to help Greninja grab KOs more easily. Deoxys-Speed in particular is a great teammate for Greninja, as it can get up screens, making Greninja harder to take down so it can pick up a Battle Bond boost more easily. Dragonite is an excellent teammate for Greninja as its able to deal with Grass-type Pokemon such as Ogerpon-W and Rillaboom, while Greninja can eliminate physically defensive Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Garganacl. Gouging Fire is also a great teammate for Greninja as its able to deal with Pokemon such as Raging Bolt, Meowscarada, and Clefable, in return, Greninja can eliminate Gliscor and Landorus-T for Gouging Fire. (Would separate this into two sentences, one talking about what Gouging Fire does for Greninja, and another talking about how Greninja can support Gouging Fire. Also, Gouging Fire is not a good answer to Raging Bolt at all. Its standard sets have difficulty dealing with Raging Bolt immediately and are likely to get decimated by Raging Bolt's Draco Meteor. I'd mention a different Pokemon in its place, like Rillaboom.) On rain teams, Pelipper is a prime teammate, as it sets up the rain and helps Greninja get safe switch ins with U-turn while also being able to cover Grass-type Pokemon such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon-W with Hurricane. (This is somewhat valid, but Pelipper is not the best at switching into these Pokemon, given its Rocks weakness + neutrality to grass, so I would remove this point.)Barraskewda is an excellent partner that helps Greninja by keeping momentum with Flip Turn and overwhelming shared checks like Primarina and Kyurem. Raging Bolt is a fantastic teammate for Greninja as it can break bulky Water-type Pokemon such as Dondozo and Alomomola, in return, Greninja can eliminate Ground-type Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor for Raging Bolt. Iron Treads is a great teammate since it can reliably clear hazards to keep Greninja healthy, as well as being able to check Raging Bolt for Greninja. (Gholdengo and Dragapult should be added as additional partners to help check Iron Defense Zamazenta, which is a dangerous threat Battle Bond Greninja can let allow in. Partners to immediately force out or threaten Primarina, such as Rillaboom should also be mentioned.)


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Good Job. QC 1/2 when implemented.