VGC Porygon2

[sempra]

[OVERVIEW]

* Porygon2 functions as a bulky Trick Room setter with support options in Eerie Impulse, Icy Wind, and a key support ability, Trace. Porygon2 can also forfeit some bulk and Trace for a more offensive set with its large coverage and Download, allowing it to pick up key OHKOs on meta threats such as Landorus, as well as both Urshifu formes and Tornadus at +1.

* One of Porygon2's biggest strengths is its enormous bulk with Eviolite and using Terastallization extremely effectively, as well as great longevity with Recover, allowing it to set Trick Room multiple times in a single game. Due to this, Porygon2 appreciates Fake Out support to get up Trick Room easier, damage reduction from Pokemon such as Incineroar, Landorus-T, and Snarl Raging Bolt, and pivots that can allow sweepers to hit the field after Trick Room is set up. Common partners include Incineroar, Rillaboom, Amoonguss, and bulky sweepers such as Ursaluna.

* Porygon2 fits best on teams that don't rely on Trick Room, yet feel as though their team would benefit from the option. Thanks to Porygon2's incredible flexibility, it doesn't actually need Trick Room to function best, working just as well outside of Trick Room, trading positively with its huge bulk and tapping into key weaknesses with BoltBeam coverage.

* Porygon2 checks include Pokemon that disrupt its usually passive playstyle. Pokemon such as Incineroar can remove Porygon2's Eviolite and make it far less stable defensively. Snarl Pokemon such as Chi-Yu and Raging Bolt can make Porygon2 a sitting duck, making it far less of an issue offensively. Finally, Porygon2 generally struggles against Amoonguss balance teams, as Amoonguss can threaten to use Spore and restore the HP of stronger threats even while Porygon2 is awake due to Porygon2's inability to OHKO it.

[SET]
Bulky Disruption (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace / Download
Tera Type: Poison / Ghost / Fairy / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Tera Blast / Thunderbolt
- Eerie Impulse / Ice Beam / Icy Wind
- Trick Room
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]

* Eerie Impulse lets Porygon2 completely blow by special attackers such as Flutter Mane and Chi-Yu in Trick Room, Pokemon Porygon2 is unable to KO quickly. While Trace is generally preferred, Download can be strong on BoltBeam support sets where the boost may completely swing damage rolls. Tera Blast is generally preferred over Tri-Attack due to Porygon2's flexibility with Terastallization.

* The given EV spread maximizes Porygon2's ridiculous bulk, resulting in moves such as Adamant Chien-Pao's Sacred Sword never 3HKOing. Other important damage calculations include always surviving Timid Choice Specs Chi-Yu's Overheat, Special Attack Booster Energy Flutter Mane never 2HKOing with Moonblast, and nearly always surviving Sword of Ruin-boosted Close Combat from both Urshifu formes.

* Porygon2's Tera type will usually depend on the composition it's part of. Tera Ghost allows Trick Room teams without redirection or Fake Out to get their own Trick Room up more easily against opposing Fake Out, Tera Fairy removes Porygon2's only weakness and provides key resistances against foes such as Urshifu formes, and Tera Poison is generally a strong typing across the board.

[SET]
Offensive Support (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Download
Tera Type: Poison / Fairy / Ghost / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 116 SpA / 132 SpD / 4 Spe
Quiet / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam / Tera Blast
- Thunderbolt / Tera Blast / Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Trick Room

[SET COMMENTS]

* Offensive Porygon2 can play outside of Trick Room, absorbing hits and trading positively into much of the metagame whiles till providing solid support. Its coverage depends on the team and set; many Iron Hands-based teams will choose to drop Thunderbolt for Tera Blast on Tera Flying and Tera Fairy sets, while Tera Ghost sets sometimes use Shadow Ball. It's important to note that with Download, Tera Blast will use the higher stat, meaning a Quiet nature is preferred to have a stronger hitting physical Tera Blast when Porygon2 Terastallizes offensively.

* The given EV spread lets Thunderbolt KO most Tornadus sets and all Urshifu-R sets after a Special Attack boost from Download while still surviving most double-ups such as Moonblast from non-boosting Flutter Mane followed by pretty much any physical attack.

* This set is generally stronger on teams with Trick Room as an afterthought, as it's generally greedy to invest this much into offensive stats when Trick Room must go up.

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[yuki]

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QC

[OVERVIEW]

* Porygon2 functions as a bulky Trick Room setter with support options in Eerie Impulse, Icy Wind, and access to the key support ability, Trace. Porygon2 can also forfeit some bulk and Trace for a more offensive set with its large coverage and Download, allowing you it (always try to write in terms of the Pokemon, not the reader) to pick up key OHKOs on many meta threats before and after Download. (There's always just something odd about talking about OHKOs like this, cause in the grand scheme of things it's generally only doing that to 4x weak Pokemon. Maybe just provide an example, it likely clears this up.)

* One of Porygon2's key features is in its ability to withstand pretty much any double up especially with access to tera, Trick Room, and recover under Trick Room to then get up a second Trick Room. (This reads a little clunky to me, I know exactly what you're saying though. Maybe something like "One of Porygon2's biggest strengths is its enormous bulk with Eviolite and access to Tera, as well as great longevity with Recover, allowing it to set Trick Room multiple times in a single game." I'll let you play with it.) Due to this, Porygon2 appreciates Fake Out support to get up Trick Room easier, damage reduction Pokemon such as intimidate Pokemon Incineroar, Landorus-T, and Snarl Raging Bolt, and pivots that can allow sweepers to take the field after Trick Room is set up. Common partners include Incineroar, Rillaboom, Amoonguss, and bulky sweepers such as Ursaluna.

* Porygon2 fits best on teams that don't rely on Trick Room, yet feel as though their team would benifit from the option. Thanks to Porygon's incredible flexiblity, Porygon doesn't actually need Trick Room to function best, working just as well outside of Trick Room picking up OHKOs (Is there a better way of describing its coverage, same reason as above) with BoltBeam (Thunderbolt + Ice Beam) (I believe BoltBeam is actually standardised, so it's totally fine to just say that) coverage.

* Porygon2 checks include Pokemon that disrupt Porygon's its usually passive playstyle. Pokemon such as Incineroar can Knock Off Porygon2's Eviolite and make it far less of a threat (Maybe a wording like "far less stable defensively" is nicer?),. (RC, AP) Snarl Pokemon such as variations of Chi-Yu and Raging Bolt can make Porygon2 literally a sitting duck, making it far less of an issue both late and early game offensively. Finally, Porygon2 generally struggles against Amoonguss balance teams as Amoonguss can threaten a Spore and Pollen Puff back stronger threats even while Porygon2 is awake due to its overall lower damage output. (This is why I have a problem with talking about it OHKOing other Pokemon. The prior couple paragraphs you mention it can OHKO stuff, now it's said to have lower damage output. Little bit incongruent.)

[SET]
Bulky Disruption (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace / Download
Tera Type: Poison / Ghost / Fairy / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Tera Blast / Thunderbolt
- Eerie Impulse / Ice Beam / Icy Wind
- Trick Room
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]

* Fully supportive Porygon2 generally enjoys Eerie Impulse to completely blow by special attackers such as Flutter Mane and Chi-Yu in Trick Room such as Flutter Mane and Chi-Yu, Pokemon Porygon2 is unable to KO in a meaningful amount of time. While Trace is generally preferred, Download can be strong on BoltBeam support sets where the boost may completely swing damage rolls. Tera Blast is generally preferred over Tri-Attack (RH) due to the added benefit of becoming any type of your choosing by using Tera, something Porygon2 has a lot of options with.

* EV spread maximizes Porygon2's ridiculous bulk, with calcs such as -1 Adamant Chien-Pao's Sacred Sword be unable to 3HKO. Other important calcs include always living Timid Specs Chi-Yu Overheat, Moonblast never 2HKOing on Booster Spa Flutter Mane, and nearly always surviving Urshifu Close Combat with Sword of Ruin. (This reads a little clumsy to me, but I'll let GP fix this one)

* Porygon2's Tera Type will usually depend on the composition it's part of. Trick Room teams without redirection or Fake Out may opt for Tera Ghost to get up Trick Room easier infront of opposing Fake Out, Fairy removes Porygon2's only weakness while giving it key resistances, (AC) would like a mention of Urshifu here and Poison is generally a strong typing accross the field.

[SET]
Offensive Support (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Download
Tera Type: Poison / Fairy / Ghost / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 116 SpA / 132 SpD / 4 Spe
Modest / Quiet Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam / Tera Blast
- Thunderbolt / Tera Blast / Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Trick Room

[SET COMMENTS]

* Offensive Porygon2 can play outside of Trick Room, absorbing hits and trading positively into much of the metagame, while also still enjoying many of the support benefits of bulkier Porygon2s. Coverage depends on the team mostly, many Iron Hands-based (AH) teams will choose to drop Thunderbolt for Tera Blast on Flying and Fairy sets, while running Shadow Ball sometimes on Tera Ghost sets. It's important to note that with Download, Tera Blast will be the higher stat, meaning Quiet nature is preferred to have stronger hitting Physical moves when Porygon2 Teras offensively. (Really like that last point, though consider what that means for the order of natures in the actual set. It probably doesn't need to change.)

* The given EV spread picks up most Tornadus and all Urshifu (If this includes Single-Strike, you need to specify both "Urshifu and Urshifu-R". If not, just specify which it is) with Thunderbolt after +1 Spa a Special Attack boost from Download with Thunderbolt, while still surviving most double ups such as Moonblast from non-boosting Flutter Mane followed by pretty much any physical attack.

* This set is generally stronger on teams with Trick Room as an afterthought, as it's generally greedy to invest this much into offensive stats when Trick Room must go up.

[CREDITS]
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(Just added your credits)

This is pretty well written, I'm being nitpicky as normal for when I do QCs hence all the colours. Give me a ping when you've implemented, and we can likely get this into GP pretty quickly.

 

[yuki]

Nice work! QC 1/1

 

[LovelyLuna]

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[Sulo]

GP 1/1

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[OVERVIEW]

* Porygon2 functions as a bulky Trick Room setter with support options in Eerie Impulse, Icy Wind, and a access to the key support ability, Trace. Porygon2 can also forfeit some bulk and Trace for a more offensive set with its large coverage and Download, allowing it to pick up key OHKOs on meta threats such as Landorus, (ac) as well as both Urshifu formes and Tornadus at +1. at neutral, and other meta relavant threats at +1 such as Urshifu and Tornadus.

* One of Porygon2's biggest strengths is its enormous bulk with Eviolite and Terastallization, access to Tera, i'm questioning if this is necessary because... everything can tera (or at least i would hope so)? as well as great longevity with Recover, allowing it to set Trick Room multiple times in a single game. Due to this, Porygon2 appreciates Fake Out support to get up Trick Room easier, damage reduction from Pokemon such as Incineroar, Landorus-T, and Snarl Raging Bolt, and pivots that can allow sweepers to hit take the field after Trick Room is set up. Common partners include Incineroar, Rillaboom, Amoonguss, and bulky sweepers such as Ursaluna.

* Porygon2 fits best on teams that don't rely on Trick Room, yet feel as though their team would benefit from the option. Thanks to Porygon2's Porygon's incredible flexibility, it flexiblity, Porygon doesn't actually need Trick Room to function best, working just as well outside of Trick Room, trading positively with its huge bulk and tapping into key weaknesses with BoltBeam coverage.

* Porygon2 checks include Pokemon that disrupt its usually passive playstyle. Pokemon such as Incineroar can remove Knock Off Porygon2's Eviolite and make it far less stable defensively. Snarl Pokemon such as Chi-Yu and Raging Bolt can make Porygon2 a sitting duck, making it far less of an issue offensively. Finally, Porygon2 generally struggles against Amoonguss balance teams, (ac) as Amoonguss can threaten to use a Spore and restore the HP of Pollen Puff back does this work? stronger threats even while Porygon2 is awake due to Porygon2's inability to OHKO it. pick up an OHKO back. if you were referring to specifically ohkoing amoonguss here

[SET]
Bulky Disruption (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace / Download
Tera Type: Poison / Ghost / Fairy / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Tera Blast / Thunderbolt
- Eerie Impulse / Ice Beam / Icy Wind
- Trick Room
- Recover

[SET COMMENTS]

* Eerie Impulse lets Porygon2 Fully supportive Porygon2 generally enjoys Eerie Impulse to completely blow by special attackers such as Flutter Mane and Chi-Yu in Trick Room, Pokemon Porygon2 is unable to KO quickly. in a meaningful amount of time. While Trace is generally preferred, Download can be strong on BoltBeam support sets where the boost may completely swing damage rolls. Tera Blast is generally preferred over Tri-Attack added hyphen due to Porygon2's flexibility with Terastallization. the added benefit of becoming any type of your choosing by using Tera, something Porygon2 has a lot of options with.

* The given EV spread maximizes Porygon2's ridiculous bulk, resulting in moves such as Adamant Chien-Pao's Sacred Sword never 3HKOing. with calcs such as -1 Adamant Chien-Pao's Sacred Sword be unable to 3HKO. Other important damage calculations calcs include always surviving living Timid Choice Specs Chi-Yu's Overheat, Special Attack Booster Energy Flutter Mane never 2HKOing with Moonblast, Moonblast never 2HKOing on Booster Spa Flutter Mane, and nearly always surviving Sword of Ruin-boosted Close Combat from both Urshifu formes. Urshifu Close Combat with Sword of Ruin.

* Porygon2's Tera type Type will usually depend on the composition it's part of. Tera Ghost allows Trick Room teams without redirection or Fake Out to get their own Trick Room up more easily against opposing Fake Out, Trick Room teams without redirection or Fake Out may opt for Tera Ghost to get up Trick Room easier infront of opposing Fake Out, Tera Fairy removes Porygon2's only weakness and provides key resistances against foes such as Urshifu formes, while giving it key resistances such as Urshifu's Close Combat and Tera Poison is generally a strong typing across the board. field.

[SET]
Offensive Support (Porygon2) @ Eviolite
Ability: Download
Tera Type: Poison / Fairy / Ghost / Flying
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 116 SpA / 132 SpD / 4 Spe
Quiet / Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Ice Beam / Tera Blast
- Thunderbolt / Tera Blast / Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Trick Room

[SET COMMENTS]

* Offensive Porygon2 can play outside of Trick Room, absorbing hits and trading positively into much of the metagame. add period while also still enjoying many of the support benefits of bulkier Porygon2s. i could be badly misinterpreting this but is this referring to porygon receiving support itself or providing it? if the former then say "while still appreciating being given support"; if the latter, then say "while still providing solid support". (can obvs change to w/e fits) Its coverage Coverage depends on the team and set; if that's what you meant? mostly, many Iron Hands-based removed bold on hyphen teams will choose to drop Thunderbolt for Tera Blast on Tera Flying and Tera Fairy sets, while Tera Ghost sets sometimes use Shadow Ball. running Shadow Ball sometimes on Tera Ghost sets. It's important to note that with Download, Tera Blast will use be the higher stat, meaning a Quiet nature is preferred to have stronger hitting special Physical there are no physical moves so i'm a bit confused moves when Porygon2 Terastallizes Teras offensively.

* The given EV spread lets Thunderbolt KO picks up most Tornadus sets and all Urshifu-R sets Rapid-Strike Urshifu with Thunderbolt after a Special Attack boost from Download (rc) while still surviving most double-ups add hyphen such as Moonblast from non-boosting Flutter Mane followed by pretty much any physical attack.

* This set is generally stronger on teams with Trick Room as an afterthought, as it's generally greedy to invest this much into offensive stats when Trick Room must go up.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
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