RU Virizion

[HailFall]

[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Leaf Blade
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Stone Edge / Zen Headbutt
item: Life Orb
ability: Justified
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
With its solid offensive typing, excellent coverage, and great Speed stat, Swords Dance Virizion is not a threat to be taken lightly. Stone Edge complements its Grass- and Fighting-type STAB moves well, allowing it to break past Charizard, Centiskorch, and Xatu. Alternatively, Zen Headbutt hits Dragalge, Toxicroak, and Vileplume but leaves Virizion hard walled by Xatu. Life Orb is the chosen item to enable Virizion to make the most of its average-at-best offenses.

Virizion is a great sweeper that also serves as an offensive check to Pokemon like Seismitoad, Milotic, Copperajah, and Umbreon. Gardevoir and Indeedee-F make for good teammates, being able to easily break past Pokemon like Vileplume and Dragalge while appreciating Virizion's ability to answer Umbreon and Copperajah. Klefki can support Virizion by switching into Vileplume and Dragalge and freely setting up Spikes while also checking Choice Scarf Gardevoir and Goodra. Inteleon and Barraskewda appreciate Virizion's capability to pressure defensive Water-types like Seismitoad, Milotic, and Mantine. This Virizion set struggles to break Tangela and Dhelmise, so it requires teammates capable of checking them like Dragalge, Xatu, Arcanine, and Charizard.

[SET]
name: Mixed Wallbreaker
move 1: Leaf Storm
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Stone Edge
move 4: Air Slash
item: Life Orb
ability: Justified
nature: Hasty
evs: 200 Atk / 56 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Mixed Virizion is a wallbreaker capable of defeating many of Virizion's regular checks by taking advantage of its great coverage options. Leaf Storm is used over Leaf Blade for its much greater initial power. Close Combat is chosen for its accuracy and ability to deal the most damage to specially defensive Pokemon like Goodra, Bronzong, and Copperajah; however, Focus Blast can be used with a spread of 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe to OHKO Bewear and Steelix and deal massive damage to Tangela and Bulk Up Scrafty. Stone Edge covers Pokemon such as Charizard, Salazzle, and Centiskorch. Air Slash hits Tangela, Dhelmise, and Vileplume. Alternatively, Zen Headbutt 2HKOes Dragalge and Vileplume and OHKOes Toxicroak. Synthesis is an option that extends Virizion's longevity, allowing it to more reliably answer Pokemon like Heliolisk and Seismitoad, but sacrifices a valuable slot of coverage to do so. 56 Special Attack EVs allow Air Slash to 2HKO Dhelmise after Stealth Rock. A Hasty nature is preferred over Naive to maintain Virizion's natural special bulk so that it can take attacks like Heliolisk's Thunderbolt and Inteleon's Hydro Pump more easily without sacrificing its offenses.

This set works best with Pokemon capable of capitalizing on its ability to lure defensive Grass-types like Tangela and Vileplume. Lycanroc, Hitmonlee, and Choice Scarf Passimian are some examples of Pokemon able to clean after Virizion has punched holes through the opposing team's defensive backbone. Virizion also appreciates being paired with answers to some faster Pokemon. Salazzle can threaten Virizion with minimal prior chip damage assuming it switches in safely, so answers to it like Gigalith or Coalossal are helpful. Both these Pokemon also check Choice Scarf Braviary and Gardevoir while setting up Stealth Rock. Virizion's low physical bulk leaves it easily revenge killed by Golisopod's First Impression, so answers to Golisopod like Dragalge, Mantine, and Toxicroak are necessary.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[HailFall, 308025]]
- Quality checked by: [[phantom, 180300], [Averardo, 409096]]
- Grammar checked by: [[The Dutch Plumberjack, 232216]]

 

[HailFall]

Ready for qc. Apologies for the delay I've been up to my neck in it this week.

 

[roman]

not qc

- would mention slowbro near the beginning, as that's really what kills virizion's viability atm. you make it seem very solid, and it is, but only when there isn't a slowbro on the opposing side
- drop zen, no mention even-- croak can't switch into cc with rocks up, dragalge fails to handle stone edge after a tiny bit of chip, vileplume is too fringe to bother with a mention
- add synthesis slash, stone edge does have a lot of relevant targets right now, but synthesis is good for the same reasons it was in sm
- remove megahorn mention, virizion just isn't going to break slowbro and megahorn virizion is crippled by toxic and sort of sludge bomb from tangela, not worth wasting the moveslot
- maybe this is getting too deep into the rest of the team, but i'd mention teleport p2 to bring in virizion and also (idk if this is allowed) support pokemon who abuse slowbro's presence. normally this is 100% overkill, but slowbro is sooo oppressing for virizion teams and p2 in particular is important for getting a leg up against slowbro builds with slowbro breakers, as all slowbro breakers bar seismitoad fail to switch into slowbro reliably
- delete everything in 2nd paragraph following "If Stone Edge is used.." and replace it with something about support for synthesis sets (similar to what you have already for zen)
- is mixed viable?

air slash seems OK, but realistically we have very few viable grass-types, all of which can lose to virizion- grass/ghosts are somewhat shaky and virizion restricts any knock off use from their teams, tangela has to run toxic to answer (?) it. mixed virizion just seems like a relic of earlier ss metagames that was used to counteract the zard plume spam, swords dance looks entirely better here

 

[HailFall]

updated for rhyperior and glowbro rises + sigi ban

 

[phantom]

Qc 1/2

 

[Denial]

Looks good, 2/2

 

[Lumari]

remove add / fix (comments); (AC=add comma; RC=remove comma; SC=semicolon)
GP 1/1

check

[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Leaf Blade
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Stone Edge / Zen Headbutt
item: Life Orb
ability: Justified
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
With its solid offensive typing, excellent coverage, and great Speed stat, Swords Dance Virizion is not a threat to be taken lightly. Stone Edge compliments Virizion's complements its Grass- and Fighting-type STAB moves well, allowing it to break past Charizard, Centiskorch, and Xatu. Alternatively, Zen Headbutt hits Dragalge, Toxicroak, and Vileplume but leaves Virizion hard walled by Xatu. Life Orb is the chosen item to enable Virizion to make the most of its average-at-best offenses.

Virizion is a great sweeper that also serves as an offensive check to Pokemon like Seismitoad, Milotic, Copperajah, and Umbreon. Gardevoir and Indeedee-F make for good teammates, being able to easily break past Pokemon like Vileplume and Dragalge while appreciating Virizion's ability to answer Umbreon and Copperajah. Klefki can support Virizion by switching into Vileplume and Dragalge and spiking freely setting up Spikes (RC) while also checking Choice Scarf Gardevoir and Goodra. Inteleon and Barraskewda appreciate Virizion's capability to pressure defensive Water-types like Seismitoad, Milotic, and Mantine. This Virizion set struggles to break Tangela and Dhelmise, so it requires teammates capable of checking them like Dragalge, Xatu, Arcanine, (AC) and Charizard.

[SET]
name: Mixed Wallbreaker
move 1: Leaf Storm
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Stone Edge
move 4: Air Slash
item: Life Orb
ability: Justified
nature: Hasty
evs: 200 Atk / 56 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Mixed Virizion is a wallbreaker capable of defeating many of Virizion's regular checks by taking advantage of its great coverage options. Leaf Storm is used over Leaf Blade for its much greater initial power. Close Combat is chosen for its accuracy and ability to deal the most damage to specially defensive Pokemon like Goodra, Bronzong, and Copperajah; however, Focus Blast can be used with a spread of 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe can also be used to OHKO Bewear and Steelix and deal massive damage to Tangela and Bulk Up Scrafty. Stone Edge covers Pokemon such as Charizard, Salazle Salazzle, and Centiskorch. Air Slash hits Tangela, Dhelmise, and Vileplume. Alternatively, Zen Headbutt 2HKOes Dragalge and Vileplume (RC) and also OHKOes Toxicroak. Synthesis is an option that extends Virizion's longevity, allowing it to more reliably answer Pokemon like Heliolisk and Seismitoad, but sacrifices a valuable slot of coverage to do so. 56 Special Attack EVs allow Air Slash to 2HKO Dhelmise after Stealth Rocks Rock. A Hasty nature is preferred over Naive to maintain Virizion's natural special bulk so that it can take attacks like Helioisk's Heliolisk's Thunderbolt and Inteleon's Hydro Pump more easily without sacrificing its offenses.

This set works best with Pokemon capable of capitalizing on its ability to lure defensive Grass-types like Tangela and Vileplume. Lycanroc, Hitmonlee, and Choice Scarf Passimian are some examples of Pokemon able to clean after Virizion has punched holes through the opposing team's defensive backbone. Virizion also appreciates being paired with answers to some faster Pokemon. Salazzle can threaten Virizion with minimal prior chip damage assuming it switches in safely, so Salazzle answers to it like Gigalith or Coalossal are helpful. Gigalith and Coalossal Both these Pokemon also check Choice Scarf Braviary and Gardevoir while setting up Stealth Rock. Virizion's low physical bulk leaves it easily revenge killed by Golisopod's First Impression, so answers to Golisopod like Dragalge, Mantine, and Toxicroak are necessary.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[HailFall, 308025]]
- Quality checked by: [[phantom, 180300], [Averardo, 409096]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]