[SET]
Name: Sun Support
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Yawn
move 3: Overheat / Lava Plume
move 4: Solar Beam / Gyro Ball
Item: Eject Pack / Heat Rock
tera type: Grass / Fire
ability: Drought
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 12 Def / 244 SpD
ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
* Torkoal's Drought and disruption support helps set up heavy-hitting Protosynthesis users like Flutter Mane, Roaring Moon, and Gouging Fire.
* **Overheat versus Lava Plume**: Overheat with Eject Pack lets Torkoal act as a one-use pivot to safely let good sun teammates in. If running Heat Rock as Torkoal's item instead, Lava Plume is used for the consistent damage and decent burn chance.
* **Solar Beam**: Solar Beam takes advantage of Drought to let Torkoal pressure offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R.
* **Gyro Ball**: Torkoal makes excellent use of a slow Gyro Ball and can surprise semi-bulky Flutter Mane that try to use Taunt against it with a potential OHKO.
Other Options
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* **Clear Smog**: Clear Smog allows Torkoal to disrupt opposing setup while still attacking. However, its weak Base Power usually means it does not fix Yawn's problem of being weak against Substitute.
* **Fissure**: Torkoal's great defensive profile complements Fissure well, sometimes allowing it to bail itself and its team out of a bad matchup.
Tera Types
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* **Tera Dependency - Low**: Torkoal's high bulk and support focus means that it normally saves Terastallization for its teammates.
* **Grass**: Tera Grass flips Torkoal's Water and Ground weaknesses into resistances and is Torkoal's best option for cushioning Hydro Steam from Walking Wake.
* **Fire**: Tera Fire can be used in a pinch to give Torkoal more offensive presence with Overheat or Lava Plume.
* **Flying**: Tera Flying's Ground immunity is an alternative to Tera Grass that doesn't make it weak to opposing Flying-type moves, making it situationally better against Tera Flying sweepers like Dragonite and Landorus-T.
Items
========
* **Eject Pack**: Eject Pack with Overheat is the preferred choice for pivoting in teammates safely.
* **Heat Rock**: Heat Rock gives some extra flexibility with managing sun turns, which can be particularly useful if running multiple sun teammates.
EV Spreads
========
* **Negative Speed nature and 0 Speed IV**: This is the standard for the slowest Eject Pack pivot possible, as well as maximizing Gyro Ball's power.
* **252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD with Sassy**: This avoids an OHKO from Choice Specs Latios from all but the highest damage roll. It also gives Torkoal a decent chance of surviving Modest Ursaluna-B's Earth Power as well as Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Tera Stellar Power Gem.
* **252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD with Relaxed**: Maximizing physical bulk doesn't help in nearly as much places as special bulk, but one place it does is avoiding a 2HKO from Adamant Dragonite's Earthquake.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/photon.516307/
Quality checked by:
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Name: Sun Support
move 1: Stealth Rock
move 2: Yawn
move 3: Overheat / Lava Plume
move 4: Solar Beam / Gyro Ball
Item: Eject Pack / Heat Rock
tera type: Grass / Fire
ability: Drought
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 12 Def / 244 SpD
ivs: 0 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
* Torkoal's Drought and disruption support helps set up heavy-hitting Protosynthesis users like Flutter Mane, Roaring Moon, and Gouging Fire.
* **Overheat versus Lava Plume**: Overheat with Eject Pack lets Torkoal act as a one-use pivot to safely let good sun teammates in. If running Heat Rock as Torkoal's item instead, Lava Plume is used for the consistent damage and decent burn chance.
* **Solar Beam**: Solar Beam takes advantage of Drought to let Torkoal pressure offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R.
* **Gyro Ball**: Torkoal makes excellent use of a slow Gyro Ball and can surprise semi-bulky Flutter Mane that try to use Taunt against it with a potential OHKO.
Other Options
========
* **Clear Smog**: Clear Smog allows Torkoal to disrupt opposing setup while still attacking. However, its weak Base Power usually means it does not fix Yawn's problem of being weak against Substitute.
* **Fissure**: Torkoal's great defensive profile complements Fissure well, sometimes allowing it to bail itself and its team out of a bad matchup.
Tera Types
========
* **Tera Dependency - Low**: Torkoal's high bulk and support focus means that it normally saves Terastallization for its teammates.
* **Grass**: Tera Grass flips Torkoal's Water and Ground weaknesses into resistances and is Torkoal's best option for cushioning Hydro Steam from Walking Wake.
* **Fire**: Tera Fire can be used in a pinch to give Torkoal more offensive presence with Overheat or Lava Plume.
* **Flying**: Tera Flying's Ground immunity is an alternative to Tera Grass that doesn't make it weak to opposing Flying-type moves, making it situationally better against Tera Flying sweepers like Dragonite and Landorus-T.
Items
========
* **Eject Pack**: Eject Pack with Overheat is the preferred choice for pivoting in teammates safely.
* **Heat Rock**: Heat Rock gives some extra flexibility with managing sun turns, which can be particularly useful if running multiple sun teammates.
EV Spreads
========
* **Negative Speed nature and 0 Speed IV**: This is the standard for the slowest Eject Pack pivot possible, as well as maximizing Gyro Ball's power.
* **252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD with Sassy**: This avoids an OHKO from Choice Specs Latios from all but the highest damage roll. It also gives Torkoal a decent chance of surviving Modest Ursaluna-B's Earth Power as well as Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Tera Stellar Power Gem.
* **252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD with Relaxed**: Maximizing physical bulk doesn't help in nearly as much places as special bulk, but one place it does is avoiding a 2HKO from Adamant Dragonite's Earthquake.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/photon.516307/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/derpysux.528485/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/autumn.384270/
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