We were flyin', but we'd never get far
[SET]
Bulky Priority Attacker (Arcanine-Hisui) @ Pinsirite
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 184 HP / 252 Atk / 72 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Flare Blitz
- Double-Edge
- Morning Sun / Howl / Stealth Rock
[SET COMMENTS]
Pinsirite Hisuian Arcanine is a great revenge killer in Mix and Mega due to its high Attack and powerful Aerilate-boosted Extreme Speed. Double-Edge chips down slower threats like Galarian Slowking and Ho-Oh. Morning Sun provides Hisuian Arcanine with much-enjoyed longevity and takes advantage of Red Orb users like Lugia switching in. Howl makes Hisuian Arcanine a good cleaner, allowing it to OHKO Tough Claws and Lopunnite Great Tusk with Extreme Speed and offensive Eternatus with Double-Edge, as well as improving its matchup against Venusaurite Corviknight and Solgaleo. Hisuian Arcanine is a good Stealth Rock setter because of its ability to pressure common Sablenite users such as Corviknight. Intimidate provides defensive utility before Hisuian Arcanine Mega Evolves, handling physical attackers like Gouging Fire and Dragonite. 72 Speed EVs allow Hisuian Arcanine to outpace Adamant Altarianite Dragonite. Hisuian Arcanine's ability to revenge kill fast threats such as Urshifu-R and Altarinate Hisuian Arcanine helps sweepers prone to revenge killing like Weavile and Lopunnite Iron Boulder. After Mega Evolving, Hisuian Arcanine gains a crippling Stealth Rock weakness, so entry hazard removers like Regieleki, Corviknight, and Great Tusk make for good partners. Hisuian Arcanine struggles to break through physical walls such as Garganacl and Toxapex, so checks to these such as Urshifu-R and Raging Bolt, respectively, make for good teammates. Ground-types like Arceus-Ground, Landorus, and Great Tusk have good synergy with Hisuian Arcanine; it is able to take on non-grounded Steel-types such as Corviknight and Latiasite Solgaleo that they struggle to break through, while they handle Rock-types and Venusaurite and Blue Orb Steel-types like Iron Boulder, Solgaleo, and Magearna in return.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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