Barraskewda (QC 0/2)

[Yoko]

[SET]
Rain Sweeper (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Water
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Barraskewda leverages its insane power of its Choice Band Tera Water-boosted Water-type moves under rain to be one of the archetype's most powerful wallbreaker, offensive pivot, late-game cleaner, and revenge killer, OHKOing defensive Pokemon like Great Tusk and Gliscor with Tera Water Liquidation under rain. Its amazing Speed tier also allows it to nearly outpace the entire metagame under rain, including boosted foes like Booster Energy Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Swift Swim Kingdra in rain. STAB-boosted Liquidation is Barraskewda's main calling card, smashing through Pokemon like Volcarona, Ting-Lu, and Skeledirge. Flip Turn lets Barraskewda pivot out of Pokemon that check it like Primarina, Dragonite, and Latias, while still maintaining momentum to get in its teammates to deal with the aforementioned Pokemon. Aqua Jet lets Barraskewda pick off and revenge kill weakened foes even when rain isnt active like Volcarona, Iron Boulder, and Tera Ground Gouging Fire; Aqua Jet also outprioritizes attacks like Thunderclap and Sucker Punch from Raging Bolt and Kingambit respectively. Close Combat provides strong coverage into Water-resistant foes like Roaring Moon, Kyurem, and Ogerpon-W. Psychic Fangs is also another option over Aqua Jet which lets Barraskewda hit foes like Toxapex and Water Absorb Clodsire. Tera Water bolsters Barraskewda's rain-boosted STAB moves further, OHKOing defensive Landorus as well as 2HKOing Water-resists like Primarina, Rotom-W, and Manaphy.

Barraskewda is only seen on rain teams, hence Pelipper is a mandatory teammate to reliably set rain with Drizzle and compensate for Barraskewda's poor defenses by being able to bring it in safely with U-turn. Offensive rain partners like Manaphy are also appreciated teammates, as it can help overwhelm each others checks like Toxapex. Raging Bolt is also another notable partner for Barraskewda, as it can help against bulky Water-types which can wall Barraskewda like Dondozo, Alomomola, and Toxapex; Raging Bolt also forms a double priority core with Kingambit allowing it to check Ogerpon-W for example for Barraskewda. Kingambit is also a excellent late-game cleaner for Barraskewda, as it can help overwhelm their shared checks like Dondozo and Alomomola even further; Kingambit can also help against revenge killing attempts from Rillaboom without Drain Punch, as well as helping serve as a important short-term check to Kyurem. Ground-types like Iron Treads are also beneficial teammates, as they provide a necessary Electric immunity and can support it with Knock Off to cripple the bulky Water-types, including Alomomola, Dondozo, and Toxapex, as well as Tera Water Volcarona, and Tera Water Skeledirge, by making them take susceptible from Stealth Rock.

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[Yoko]

Should be ready for qc

 

[veti]

not qc 1/2

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[SET]
Rain Sweeper (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Water
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Barraskewda leverages its insane power of its Choice Band Tera Water-boosted Water-type moves under rain to be one of the archetype's most powerful wallbreaker, offensive pivot, late-game cleaner, and revenge killer, having good odds to OHKO defensive Pokemon like Gholdengo and Clefable with Tera Water Liquidation under rain. These examples are both rolls to kill. Its amazing Speed tier also allows it to nearly outpace the entire metagame under rain, including boosted foes like +2 Roaring Moon and +2 Volcarona, booster energy iron valiant and boulder are very relevant, as the other swift swimmers are outsped. as well as other rain sweepers like Kingdra and Basculegion. Kingdra is the only other relevant one, combine into last sentence if you want to include it. STAB-boosted Liquidation is Barraskewda's main calling card, smashing through Pokemon like Landorus-T, Galarian Slowking, and Skeledirge; while having the chance to lower the enemy's Defense. this is dex info, what does a defense drop turn the tables against? Landorus-T, Skeledirge and Galarian Slowking are also weird examples. Flip Turn lets Barraskewda pivot out of Pokemon that wallcheck it like Primarina, Dragonite, and Latias, while still maintaining momentum to get in its teammates to deal with the aforementioned Pokemon. Aqua Jet lets Barraskewda pick off and revenge kill weakened foes like Volcarona, Iron Boulder, and Tera Ground Gouging Fire; mention how this is only useful when rain isnt up it also lets Barraskewda outprioritize attacks like Thunderclap and Sucker Punch from Raging Bolt and Kingambit respectively. Close Combat provides strong coverage into Water-resistant foes like Roaring Moon and Kyurem, as well as hitting foes like Kingambit, Tera Water Great Tusk, and Tera Water Gliscor. Against Kingambit its safer to liquidation on the switch or aqua jet, tera water tusk isn't very common and eats CC, tera water gliscor walls cc. Wellspring is a very relevant mon left out. Psychic Fangs is also another option over Aqua Jet which lets Barraskewda hit foes like Toxapex, Water Absorb Clodsire, and Zamazenta. Liquidation does more to zama under rain and out of rain zama outspeeds Tera Water bolsters Barraskewda's rain-boosted STAB moves further, OHKOing defensive Landorus, Great Tusk, and Garganacl, as well as even 2HKOing Water-resists like Primarina, Rotom-W, and Manaphy. Great Tusk and Garganacl are OHKOd without tera

Barraskewda is only seen on rain teams, hence rain setters like Pelipper are mandatory teammates Pelipper is the only relevant setter so "rain setters like" is unnecessary, Politoed technically kinda exists but its UR for good reason. to reliably set rain with Drizzle and compensate for Barraskewda's poor defenses by being able to bring it in safely with U-turn. Offensive rain partners like Manaphy and Basculegion also are appreciated teammates, as they can help overwhelm each others checks like Dondozo and Toxapex. Basculegion isn't used alongside Barraskewda. Raging Bolt is also another notable partner for Barraskewda, as its resistances to Electric- and Water-type attacks can be beneficial and it can help against bulky Water-types which can wall Barraskewda like Dondozo, Alomomola, and Toxapex. Raging Bolt is one of its best partners and should be expanded on, forming a double prio core with Kingambit and checking Ogerpon-W for example. Kingambit is also a excellent late-game cleaner with can appreciate having the presence of Barraskewda, as it can help pressure it's checks like Zamazenta, Great Tusk, and Enamorus. Barraskewda can't swap into them and Kingambit lacks a pivot move, hard swapping with Barraskewda is risky so this can be removed In return, Kingambit can help overwhelm their shared checks like Alomomola and Dondozo even further; Kingambit can also help against revenge killing attempts from the likes of Rillaboom and Scizor without Drain Punch and Close Combat respectively. Kingambit, especially with Air Balloon, is also an important short term check to Kyurem. Ground-types like Iron Treads and Great Tusk are also beneficial teammates, as they provide a necessary Electric immunity Great Tusk doesn't serve as an effective electric immunity because the main mon you're dealing with are Raging Bolt, occasionally Zapdos and RotomW pop up. Both lose to Rotom-W but Iron Treads can 1v1 Bolt and use Zapdos as an opportunity to pivot, remove hazards and such. Whilewhile setting entry hazards to put Pokemon in range of Barraskewda, also making Dondozo and Toxapex easier to break; they can also provide Knock Off support to cripple the bulky Water-types, Dondozo and Pex were just mentioned, combine these two parts. including Alomomola, Tera Water Volcarona, and Tera Water Skeledirge, by making them take damage from Stealth Rock.

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[Yoko]

not qc 1/2

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ready for recheck:!

 

[veti]

same colors

[SET]
Rain Sweeper (Barraskewda) @ Choice Band
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Tera Type: Water
Adamant Nature
- Liquidation
- Flip Turn
- Aqua Jet
- Close Combat

[SET COMMENTS]
Barraskewda leverages its insane power of its Choice Band Tera Water-boosted Water-type moves under rain to be one of the archetype's most powerful wallbreaker, offensive pivot, late-game cleaner, and revenge killer, OHKOing defensive Pokemon like Great Tusk and Gliscor with Tera Water Liquidation under rain. They don't need tera, could use 2hkoing Dragonite and OHKOing Dragapult after Stealth Rock with tera. Its amazing Speed tier also allows it to nearly outpace the entire metagame under rain, including boosted foes like Booster Energy Iron Valiant, Iron Boulder, and Swift Swim Kingdra in rain. STAB-boosted Liquidation is Barraskewda's main calling card, smashing through Pokemon like Volcarona, Ting-Lu, and Terastallized Skeledirge. could be changed to something along the lines of "everything besides bulky water-types like dondozo, toxapex and alomomola and water immune pokemon", either way Volcarona isn't a great example but other two are fine. Flip Turn lets Barraskewda pivot out of Pokemon that check it like Primarina, Dragonite, and Latias, while still maintaining momentum to get in its teammates to deal with the aforementioned Pokemon. Aqua Jet lets Barraskewda pick off and revenge kill weakened foes even when rain isnt active like Volcarona, Iron Boulder, and Tera Ground Gouging Fire; Aqua Jet also outprioritizes attacks like Thunderclap and Sucker Punch from Raging Bolt and Kingambit respectively. Close Combat provides strong coverage into Water-resistant foes like Roaring Moon, Kyurem, and Ogerpon-W. Psychic Fangs is also another option over Aqua Jet which lets Barraskewda hit foes like Toxapex and Water Absorb Clodsire. Mention the downside of losing the OHKO on Roaring Moon, Kyurem, and Hisuian Samurott. Tera Water bolsters Barraskewda's rain-boosted STAB moves further, OHKOing defensive Landorus as well as 2HKOing Water-resists like Primarina, Rotom-W, and Manaphy.

Barraskewda is only seen on rain teams, hence Pelipper is a mandatory teammate to reliably set rain with Drizzle and compensate for Barraskewda's poor defenses by being able to bring it in safely with U-turn. Offensive rain partners like Manaphy are also appreciated teammates, as it can help overwhelm each others checks like Toxapex. Raging Bolt is also another notable partner for Barraskewda, as it can help against bulky Water-types which can wall Barraskewda like Dondozo, Alomomola, and Toxapex; Raging Bolt also forms a double priority core with Kingambit move this after Kingambit and rephrase the beginning to be something that conveys a similar message to "if used together, Kingambit and Raging Bolt can form a double priority core to clean up late-game" allowing it to check Ogerpon-W for example for Barraskewda. Add in its excellence vs Sun teams which have a good mu vs rain due to it functioning in both and getting entry on tork while sun generally doesn't have good answers. Kingambit is also a excellent late-game cleaner for Barraskewda, as it can help overwhelm their shared checks like Dondozo and Alomomola even further; Kingambit can also help against revenge killing attempts from Rillaboom without Drain Punch, as well as helping serve as a important short-term check to Kyurem. Ground-types like Iron Treads are also beneficial teammates, as they provide a necessary Electric immunity and can support this part has grammar errors in word choice introduced by removing "Ground-types like", it with Knock Off to cripple the bulky Water-types, including Alomomola, Dondozo, and Toxapex, as well as Tera Water Volcarona, and Tera Water Skeledirge, by making them take susceptible from Stealth Rock.

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