[SET]
Farigiraf @ Sitrus Berry / Safety Goggles / Electric Seed
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fairy / Water / Ground
EVs: 228 HP / 68 Def / 4 SpA / 180 SpD / 28 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic / Tera Blast / Shadow Ball
- Dazzling Gleam / Foul Play
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand / Protect
[SET COMMENTS]
Farigirafs main role is as a bulky disruption piece as well as a Trick Room setter since its access to priority blocking is incredibly valuable in a format full of moves like Fake Out, Grassy Glide and Thunderclap. Due to its typing, it has a good matchup into Calyrex-S, as well as Psychic STAB being a strong general STAB, especially into but not limited to Amoonguss and Urshifu-R. Shadow Ball is used to utilise Farigirafs typing giving it a good matchup into Calyrex-S by giving it the tools to hit it back with a 2HKO. Tera Blast is often seen in this slot too, as both before and after tera it gives Farigiraf a consistent single-target STAB move. Similarly to Shadow Ball, Foul Play is used to give Farigiraf a way to hit Calyrex-I for super effective, with it being able to OHKO if Calyrex-I has some attack boosts. Sitrus Berry is relatively simple, with the extra healing, it allows Farigiraf to disrupt the opponent for longer than it would be able to without it, it can also help live some double-ups to help safely get Trick Room up. Safety Goggles is for if your team has a particularly bad matchup into Amoonguss and you want to be able to set up Trick Room without being put to sleep when you don't have Electric Terrain support from Miraidon. The HP and Special Defense EVs allow Farigiraf to live a Choice Specs Beads of Ruin Single Target Tera Starstorm from Terapagos, the Speed allows it to outspeed some other Farigirafs and Incineroars, and the rest is put into Defense. Tera Fairy is the most common Tera on Farigiraf. This allows it to resist the Dark and Bug moves it'd otherwise be weak too like Knock Off and U-Turn, whilst also resisting Fighting and gaining an immunity to Dragon, like Collision Course and Draco Meteor. Tera Ground is used next to Miraidon to allow it to freely use Discharge, and Tera Water is usually used alongside Foul Play for a good matchup into Calyrex-I.
Farigiraf really doesn't like any restricted legendaries that can OHKO it, such as Kyogre or Tera Fire Koraidon. It also struggles against fast Taunt users, such as Speed booster Flutter Mane due to it sometimes being able to render Farigiraf useless, as well as bulky Dark-types like Incineroar as Farigiraf can't hit it very hard and Incineroar can force a Tera with Knock Off. Pokémon that are inherently weak to priority highly benefit from Farigiraf, such as Kyogre now being immune to Grassy Glide and Thunderclap, and Calyrex-I now being immune to Fake Out, with that Fake Out immunity getting rid of one of the biggest ways to stall out Trick Room turns. Miraidon can also benefit from Farigiraf, as the Fake Out immunity can remove a big way to halt the Choice Specs set. Farigiraf itself benefits from partners that can help it set Trick Room, such as bulky Fake Out users like Incineroar and Rillaboom, as well as redirectors like Amoonguss and the Ogerpon formes. Trick Room sweepers themselves also like having Farigiraf as a partner, for example Calyrex-I loves the boost from Helping Hand, and so does Ursaluna-Bloodmoon. Miraidon and Farigiraf also great partners for each other, as Farigiraf stops Miraidon from being interrupted by Fake Out and Miraidon can activate the Electric Seed making Farigiraf even bulkier, and as previously mentioned, Farigiraf can even Tera Ground so Miraidon can freely click Discharge next to it, whilst the Electric Terrain makes Farigiraf immune to Spore.
[SET CREDITS]
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Farigiraf @ Sitrus Berry / Safety Goggles / Electric Seed
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
Tera Type: Fairy / Water / Ground
EVs: 228 HP / 68 Def / 4 SpA / 180 SpD / 28 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic / Tera Blast / Shadow Ball
- Dazzling Gleam / Foul Play
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand / Protect
[SET COMMENTS]
Farigirafs main role is as a bulky disruption piece as well as a Trick Room setter since its access to priority blocking is incredibly valuable in a format full of moves like Fake Out, Grassy Glide and Thunderclap. Due to its typing, it has a good matchup into Calyrex-S, as well as Psychic STAB being a strong general STAB, especially into but not limited to Amoonguss and Urshifu-R. Shadow Ball is used to utilise Farigirafs typing giving it a good matchup into Calyrex-S by giving it the tools to hit it back with a 2HKO. Tera Blast is often seen in this slot too, as both before and after tera it gives Farigiraf a consistent single-target STAB move. Similarly to Shadow Ball, Foul Play is used to give Farigiraf a way to hit Calyrex-I for super effective, with it being able to OHKO if Calyrex-I has some attack boosts. Sitrus Berry is relatively simple, with the extra healing, it allows Farigiraf to disrupt the opponent for longer than it would be able to without it, it can also help live some double-ups to help safely get Trick Room up. Safety Goggles is for if your team has a particularly bad matchup into Amoonguss and you want to be able to set up Trick Room without being put to sleep when you don't have Electric Terrain support from Miraidon. The HP and Special Defense EVs allow Farigiraf to live a Choice Specs Beads of Ruin Single Target Tera Starstorm from Terapagos, the Speed allows it to outspeed some other Farigirafs and Incineroars, and the rest is put into Defense. Tera Fairy is the most common Tera on Farigiraf. This allows it to resist the Dark and Bug moves it'd otherwise be weak too like Knock Off and U-Turn, whilst also resisting Fighting and gaining an immunity to Dragon, like Collision Course and Draco Meteor. Tera Ground is used next to Miraidon to allow it to freely use Discharge, and Tera Water is usually used alongside Foul Play for a good matchup into Calyrex-I.
Farigiraf really doesn't like any restricted legendaries that can OHKO it, such as Kyogre or Tera Fire Koraidon. It also struggles against fast Taunt users, such as Speed booster Flutter Mane due to it sometimes being able to render Farigiraf useless, as well as bulky Dark-types like Incineroar as Farigiraf can't hit it very hard and Incineroar can force a Tera with Knock Off. Pokémon that are inherently weak to priority highly benefit from Farigiraf, such as Kyogre now being immune to Grassy Glide and Thunderclap, and Calyrex-I now being immune to Fake Out, with that Fake Out immunity getting rid of one of the biggest ways to stall out Trick Room turns. Miraidon can also benefit from Farigiraf, as the Fake Out immunity can remove a big way to halt the Choice Specs set. Farigiraf itself benefits from partners that can help it set Trick Room, such as bulky Fake Out users like Incineroar and Rillaboom, as well as redirectors like Amoonguss and the Ogerpon formes. Trick Room sweepers themselves also like having Farigiraf as a partner, for example Calyrex-I loves the boost from Helping Hand, and so does Ursaluna-Bloodmoon. Miraidon and Farigiraf also great partners for each other, as Farigiraf stops Miraidon from being interrupted by Fake Out and Miraidon can activate the Electric Seed making Farigiraf even bulkier, and as previously mentioned, Farigiraf can even Tera Ground so Miraidon can freely click Discharge next to it, whilst the Electric Terrain makes Farigiraf immune to Spore.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/cbuttyvgc.615665/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flarefox_7.657713/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/choruto.646006/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/
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