NU Defensive Qwilfish-H [QC: 2/1] [GP: 1/1]

[Lucario]

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Barb Barrage
move 2: Spikes
move 3: Taunt / Haze / Toxic
move 4: Crunch / Toxic Spikes
item: Eviolite
ability: Intimidate / Poison Point
nature: Careful / Jolly
evs: 252 HP / 200 SpD / 56 Spe
tera type: Grass / Ghost

[SET COMMENTS]

With access to a deep utility movepool, great defensive abilities, and Eviolite, Hisuian Qwilfish can take on many offensive threats. Intimidate is useful to weaken physical attackers, allowing it to tank strong neutral attacks from the likes of Ursaring and Tauros. Hisuian Qwilfish can also make use of Poison Point to punish contact moves, even generally commitment-free moves like Scyther's and Mesprit's U-turn. Barb Barrage is preferred over stronger options like Poison Jab and Gunk Shot thanks to its high chance to poison, as well as dealing double damage to a poisoned target. Taunt helps to dismantle setup sweepers such as Eelektross while also preventing Defog. Haze is an option over Taunt to prevent setup sweepers like Tera Steel Mesprit and Eelektross from exploiting Hisuian Qwilfish's passivity. Toxic can also be run over Taunt to take advantage of Defog users removing your Spikes and cripple opposing walls like Appletun, Articuno, and Eelektross. Crunch is an extra STAB option that beats Ghost- and Psychic-types like Froslass, Rotom, and Bruxish. Toxic Spikes can be used over Crunch to punish teams that have no grounded Poison-type or entry hazard control. Tera Grass enables Hisuian Qwilfish to set more Spikes against Sandaconda thanks to its Earthquake resistance after Terastallizing. Tera Grass also gives Hisuian Qwilfish a resistance to Volt Switch, allowing it to more easily beat Rotom and Eelektross. Alternatively, Tera Ghost lets it spinblock Cryogonal and Avalugg. 56 Speed EVs allows Hisuian Qwilfish to outspeed maximum Speed Cacturne as well as neutral-nature Abomasnow and Farigiraf; Jolly allows Hisuian Qwilfish to always outspeed the latter two.

Pokemon that like to take advantage of Spikes, such as Tauros, love having Hisuian Qwilfish around to add some extra chip damage. To maximize the effect of Spikes and keep them up as long as possible, Hisuian Qwilfish appreciates help from Rotom, Cryogonal, and Articuno, which all put pressure onto Defog users like Braviary and Lurantis. Without Terastallizing, Hisuian Qwilfish folds to Sandaconda and other strong physical attackers that can switch into it like Toxicroak, Hisuian Sneasel, and both Tauros formes. To help solve this issue, Pokemon such as your own Sandaconda, Hattrem, and Drifblim can pivot into their attacks and threaten them with paralysis or burn. Hisuian Qwilfish is hindered by losing its Eviolite via Knock Off and Trick, pair it with Pokemon that can afford to lose their item such as Sandaconda, Sableye, and Sticky Hold Muk.

[CREDITS]
Written by: https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lucario.189361/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/

 

[Lucario]

ready for qc, hopefully this isn't too much for a mini

 

[Stories]

add / remove / comment

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Barb Barrage
move 2: Spikes
move 3: Taunt / Haze / Toxic
move 4: Crunch / Toxic Spikes
item: Eviolite
ability: Intimidate / Poison Point
nature: Careful
evs: 252 HP / 200 SpD / 56 Spe
tera type: Grass / Steel

[SET COMMENTS]

With access to a deep utility movepool, great defensive abilities, and Eviolite, Hisuian Qwilfish can bulk past many take on many I'm not sure if bulk can be used as a verb lol? if it can then keep it but otherwise I would reword this how I provided or another way if you prefer. offensive threats. Intimidate is useful to weaken physical attackers as Hisuian Qwilfish pivots into battle, superfluous, reader should know what intimidate does allowing it to tank strong neutral attacks from the likes of Toxicroak and Tauros. Another way Hisuian Qwilfish can threaten physical attackers is with Poison Point, allowing it to poison on contact against common pivots like Scyther and Bombirdier. Hisuian Qwilfish can also make use of Poison Point to punish contact moves, even generally commitment-free moves like Scyther's U-turn. Barb Barrage is preferred over stronger options like Poison Jab and Gunk Shot thanks to its 50% chance to poison as well as dealing double damage to a poisoned target. Taunt helps to dismantle setup sweepers such as Dudunsparce while also causing preventing Defog users like Drifblim and Lurantis to be useless against it, often allowing an extra layer of Spikes to get set. Thanks to Hisuian Qwilfish's ability to tank hits, Haze is used to further cripple setup sweepers that already have boosts. Toxic can be used to take advantage of Defog users removing your Spikes as well as to cripple opposing walls like Appletun, Articuno, and Eelektross. Crunch is an extra STAB option that beats Ghost- and Psychic-types like Froslass, Rotom, and Bruxish. Toxic Spikes can be used over Crunch to punish teams that have no grounded Poison-type or hazard control. A Grass-type Tera type enables Hisuian Qwilfish to set more Spikes against Sandaconda thanks to its Earthquake resistance after Terastallizing. A Grass-type Tera also gives Hisuian Qwilfish a resistance to Volt Switch, allowing it to more easily beat Jolteon, Rotom, and Eelektross. A Steel-type Tera allows Hisuian Qwilfish to keep its immunity to Toxic as well as retaining its potential to beat Mesprit. ngl tera steel doesn't really sound worth it besides a general "i am a steel type now", probably no need to mention it. 56 Speed EVs allows Hisuian Qwilfish to outspeed max Speed Cacturne, Abomasnow, and Farigiraf without a Speed boosting nature.

Pokemon that like to abuse take advantage of abuse is a no-no word here Spikes, such as Tauros and Jolteon, love having Hisuian Qwilfish around to add some extra chip damage. To maximize the effect of Spikes and keeping them up as long as possible, Hisuian Qwilfish appreciates help from Rotom, Jolteon, and Articuno who all put pressure onto Defog users like Braviary and Lurantis. Sableye is also a good Defog deterrent thanks to Prankster and Taunt. also pairs well with Spikes, removing Heavy-Duty Boots with Knock Off and using Prankster Taunt to prevent Defog. Without using Tera, Hisuian Qwilfish folds to Sandaconda and other strong physical attackers that can switch-in on it like Toxicroak, Hisuian Sneasel, and both Tauros forms. To help solve this issue, Pokemon such as your own Sandaconda, Hattrem, or Drifblim can pivot into their attacks and threaten them with paralysis or burn, respectively.

[CREDITS]
Written by: https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lucario.189361/

Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
Grammar checked by:

this is a lot and I'm not too experience with Qwilfish, implement this then Rabia or another member of the team for another check pls :3

 

[Lucario]

implemented
Rabia

 

[Rabia]

add remove comments

qc

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Barb Barrage
move 2: Spikes
move 3: Taunt / Haze / Toxic
move 4: Crunch / Toxic Spikes
item: Eviolite
ability: Intimidate / Poison Point
nature: Careful / Jolly (means you get the choice between outspeeding neutral nature and positive nature Abomasnow)
evs: 252 HP / 200 SpD / 56 Spe
tera type: Grass

[SET COMMENTS]

With access to a deep utility movepool, great defensive abilities, and Eviolite, Hisuian Qwilfish can take on many offensive threats. Intimidate is useful to weaken physical attackers, allowing it to tank strong neutral attacks from the likes of Toxicroak and Tauros. Hisuian Qwilfish can also make use of Poison Point to punish contact moves, even generally commitment-free moves like Scyther's U-turn. Barb Barrage is preferred over stronger options like Poison Jab and Gunk Shot thanks to its 50% chance to poison as well as dealing double damage to a poisoned target. Taunt helps to dismantle setup sweepers such as Dudunsparce while also preventing Defog. Thanks to Hisuian Qwilfish's ability to tank hits, Haze is used to further cripple setup sweepers that already have boosts. Toxic can be used to take advantage of Defog users removing your Spikes as well as to cripple opposing walls like Appletun, Articuno, and Eelektross. (fix the phrasing here to make it clear these second two options are alternatives to Taunt) Crunch is an extra STAB option that beats Ghost- and Psychic-types like Froslass, Rotom, and Bruxish. Toxic Spikes can be used over Crunch to punish teams that have no grounded Poison-type or hazard control. A Grass-type Tera type Tera Grass (concision, change this wherever it applies) enables Hisuian Qwilfish to set more Spikes against Sandaconda thanks to its Earthquake resistance after Terastallizing. A Grass-type Tera also gives Hisuian Qwilfish a resistance to Volt Switch, allowing it to more easily beat Jolteon, Rotom, and Eelektross. 56 Speed EVs allows Hisuian Qwilfish to outspeed max Speed Cacturne, Abomasnow, and Farigiraf without a Speed boosting nature. (make a note of Jolly's benefits)

Pokemon that like to take advantage of Spikes, such as Tauros and Jolteon, love having Hisuian Qwilfish around to add some extra chip damage. To maximize the effect of Spikes and keeping them up as long as possible, Hisuian Qwilfish appreciates help from Rotom, Jolteon, and Articuno who all put pressure onto Defog users like Braviary and Lurantis. Sableye also pairs well with Spikes, removing Heavy-Duty Boots with Knock Off and using Prankster Taunt to prevent Defog. (this isn't really too significant of a teammate imo) Without using Tera, Hisuian Qwilfish folds to Sandaconda and other strong physical attackers that can switch-in on it like Toxicroak, Hisuian Sneasel, and both Tauros forms. To help solve this issue, Pokemon such as your own Sandaconda, Hattrem, or Drifblim can pivot into their attacks and threaten them with paralysis or burn, respectively.

item displacement i.e. Trick and Knock Off is pretty detrimental to Hisuian Qwilfish, so I'd like you to talk about that down here in some way. This can be just adding to your sentences that already mention certain teammates or making a specific point about item displacement and teammates that are good to help with that.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lucario.189361/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/
Grammar checked by:

fixed the linebreaks in credits just so they remain standard across all of our analyses, qc 2/2 when implemented

 

[Lucario]

GP Team

 

[Rabia]

add remove comments

gp

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Barb Barrage
move 2: Spikes
move 3: Taunt / Haze / Toxic
move 4: Crunch / Toxic Spikes
item: Eviolite
ability: Intimidate / Poison Point
nature: Careful / Jolly
evs: 252 HP / 200 SpD / 56 Spe
tera type: Grass / Ghost

[SET COMMENTS]

With access to a deep utility movepool, great defensive abilities, and Eviolite, Hisuian Qwilfish can take on many offensive threats. Intimidate is useful to weaken physical attackers, allowing it to tank strong neutral attacks from the likes of Toxicroak Ursaring (croak will set up to +69 vs you and break your back) and Tauros. Hisuian Qwilfish can also make use of Poison Point to punish contact moves, even generally commitment-free moves like Scyther's and Mesprit's U-turn. Barb Barrage is preferred over stronger options like Poison Jab and Gunk Shot thanks to its 50% high chance to poison,(comma) as well as dealing double damage to a poisoned target. Taunt helps to dismantle setup sweepers such as Dudunsparce Eelektross while also preventing Defog. Thanks to Hisuian Qwilfish's ability to tank hits,(not really relevant because just about every setup mon you haze on is slower) Haze is an option over Taunt to further cripple prevent setup sweepers that already have boosts like Tera Steel Mesprit and Eelektross from exploiting Hisuian Qwilfish's passivity. Toxic can also be run over Taunt to take advantage of Defog users removing your Spikes as well as to cripple and cripple opposing walls like Appletun, Articuno, and Eelektross. Crunch is an extra STAB option that beats Ghost- and Psychic-types like Froslass, Rotom, and Bruxish. Toxic Spikes can be used over Crunch to punish teams that have no grounded Poison-type or entry hazard control. Tera Grass enables Hisuian Qwilfish to set more Spikes against Sandaconda thanks to its Earthquake resistance after Terastallizing. Tera Grass also gives Hisuian Qwilfish a resistance to Volt Switch, allowing it to more easily beat Rotom and Eelektross. Alternatively, Tera Ghost lets it spinblock Cryogonal and Avalugg. 56 Speed EVs allows Hisuian Qwilfish to outspeed max maximum Speed Cacturne, Abomasnow, and Farigiraf without a Speed boosting nature as well as neutral-nature Abomasnow and Farigiraf; Jolly allows Hisuian Qwilfish to always outspeed these Pokemon the latter two.

Pokemon that like to take advantage of Spikes, such as Tauros, love having Hisuian Qwilfish around to add some extra chip damage. To maximize the effect of Spikes and keeping keep them up as long as possible, Hisuian Qwilfish appreciates help from Rotom, Cryogonal, and Articuno,(comma) who which all put pressure onto Defog users like Braviary and Lurantis. Without using Tera Terastallizing, Hisuian Qwilfish folds to Sandaconda and other strong physical attackers that can switch-in on switch into it like Toxicroak, Hisuian Sneasel, and both Tauros forms formes. To help solve this issue, Pokemon such as your own Sandaconda, Hattrem, or and Drifblim can pivot into their attacks and threaten them with paralysis or burn, respectively. Hisuian Qwilfish is hindered by losing its Eviolite via Knock Off and Trick, this gives room for teammates so pair it with Pokemon that can afford to lose their item such as Sandaconda, Sableye, and Sticky Hold Muk.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lucario.189361/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/togkey.400664/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rabia.336073/

GP Team done

gp1/1 when implemented

 

[Lucario]

Implemented!