[SET]
name: Rain Sweeper
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Hydro Pump / Surf
move 3: Liquidation / Flip Turn
move 4: Dragon Dance / Hurricane
item: Life Orb
ability: Swift Swim
nature: Rash / Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Kindgra is one of the deadliest rain sweepers in the SS Ubers metagame. Its access to strong coverage moves as well as a pivoting option allows it to take advantage of common defensive Pokemon that would like to stand in the way of most other offensive rain sweepers. Its Dragon-type STAB provides a huge amount of support for rain offense against Pokemon such as Eternatus, Rotom-W, and Dynamaxed Kyurem-B, which are able to take on a majority of the Water-type attacks rain teams usually throw out. Surf and Hydro Pump are interchangeable; Surf lacks in power what it makes up for in consistency, missing out on certain KOs such as Mewtwo after Stealth Rock or a guaranteed OHKO on Quagsire. The combination of Liquidation and Dragon Dance turns Kingdra into a terrifying mixed sweeper, letting it set up and break through Pokemon that can normally check its special attacks, such as Blissey. However, those two moves can switched out for Flip Turn and Hurricane as well. Flip Turn gives Kingdra an option to pivot on special walls instead of trying to breaking them, allowing strong physical teammates, such as Dracovish and Drednaw, to switch in and break through them. Hurricane gives it strong Flying-type coverage to hit Grass-types like Tangrowth and another way to boost its Speed with Max Airstream, which is beneficial if rain is ending and the Speed boost is needed to avoid being revenge killed.
Kingdra works best when paired with Pelipper and other rain attackers looking for easy ways to get free switches as well as ways to get through common hurdles for Water-types, such as the aforementioned physically defensive Eternatus and Rotom-W. A Rash nature allows Kingdra to hit harder with its special moves while retaining the mixed power on Liquidation or Flip Turn, but a Naive nature trades in that power for the ability to outspeed Zacian-C after a Speed boost from Dragon Dance or Max Airstream outside the rain, as well as Modest Choice Scarf Eternatus in rain. Kingdra has the hardest time breaking through very defensive Pokemon that can shake off special moves such as Blissey and especially Ferrothorn, which is a fantastic natural check to Kingdra and most of its rain partners. As a result, strong ways to lure Ferrothorn such as Dracovish and Gigantamax Drednaw are good partners for Kingdra.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fc04, 511624]]
- Quality checked by: [[Nayrz, 212134], [Manaphy, 50695]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]
name: Rain Sweeper
move 1: Draco Meteor
move 2: Hydro Pump / Surf
move 3: Liquidation / Flip Turn
move 4: Dragon Dance / Hurricane
item: Life Orb
ability: Swift Swim
nature: Rash / Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Kindgra is one of the deadliest rain sweepers in the SS Ubers metagame. Its access to strong coverage moves as well as a pivoting option allows it to take advantage of common defensive Pokemon that would like to stand in the way of most other offensive rain sweepers. Its Dragon-type STAB provides a huge amount of support for rain offense against Pokemon such as Eternatus, Rotom-W, and Dynamaxed Kyurem-B, which are able to take on a majority of the Water-type attacks rain teams usually throw out. Surf and Hydro Pump are interchangeable; Surf lacks in power what it makes up for in consistency, missing out on certain KOs such as Mewtwo after Stealth Rock or a guaranteed OHKO on Quagsire. The combination of Liquidation and Dragon Dance turns Kingdra into a terrifying mixed sweeper, letting it set up and break through Pokemon that can normally check its special attacks, such as Blissey. However, those two moves can switched out for Flip Turn and Hurricane as well. Flip Turn gives Kingdra an option to pivot on special walls instead of trying to breaking them, allowing strong physical teammates, such as Dracovish and Drednaw, to switch in and break through them. Hurricane gives it strong Flying-type coverage to hit Grass-types like Tangrowth and another way to boost its Speed with Max Airstream, which is beneficial if rain is ending and the Speed boost is needed to avoid being revenge killed.
Kingdra works best when paired with Pelipper and other rain attackers looking for easy ways to get free switches as well as ways to get through common hurdles for Water-types, such as the aforementioned physically defensive Eternatus and Rotom-W. A Rash nature allows Kingdra to hit harder with its special moves while retaining the mixed power on Liquidation or Flip Turn, but a Naive nature trades in that power for the ability to outspeed Zacian-C after a Speed boost from Dragon Dance or Max Airstream outside the rain, as well as Modest Choice Scarf Eternatus in rain. Kingdra has the hardest time breaking through very defensive Pokemon that can shake off special moves such as Blissey and especially Ferrothorn, which is a fantastic natural check to Kingdra and most of its rain partners. As a result, strong ways to lure Ferrothorn such as Dracovish and Gigantamax Drednaw are good partners for Kingdra.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Fc04, 511624]]
- Quality checked by: [[Nayrz, 212134], [Manaphy, 50695]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]
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