[SET]
Bulky Disruption (Farigiraf) @ Electric Seed / Sitrus Berry / Safety Goggles
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ground / Fairy
EVs: 228 HP / 100 Def / 180 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic / Tera Blast
- Foul Play
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand
[SET COMMENTS]
Farigirafs main role is as a bulky disruption piece as well as a Trick Room setter since its access to priority blocking is incredibly valuable in a format full of moves like Fake Out, Grassy Glide and Thunderclap. Due to its typing, it has a good matchup into Calyrex-S, as well as Psychic STAB being a strong general STAB, especially into but not limited to Amoonguss and Urshifu-R. Tera Blast is often seen in this slot too, as both before and after tera it gives Farigiraf a consistent single-target STAB move. Foul Play is used to give Farigiraf a way to hit both Calyrex formes for super effective damage, being able to 2HKO both. Electric Seed is used in tandem with Miraidon, giving it a defense boost in Electric Terrain, this gives Farigiraf more bulk allowing it to stick around longer to support the team with Helping Hand and priority blocking. Sitrus Berry is relatively simple, with the extra healing, it allows Farigiraf to disrupt the opponent for longer than it would be able to without it, it can also help live some double-ups to help safely get Trick Room up, such as Surging Strikes + Knock Off from Urshifu-R and Incineroar respectively. Safety Goggles is for if your team has a particularly bad matchup into Amoonguss and you want to be able to set up Trick Room without being put to sleep when you don't have Electric Terrain support from Miraidon. The HP and Special Defense EVs allow Farigiraf to live a Choice Specs Beads of Ruin Single Target Tera Starstorm from Terapagos, and the rest was put into defense. Tera Ground is used next to Miraidon to allow it to freely use Discharge, and Tera Fairy is a rather common Tera on Farigiraf. This allows it to resist the Dark and Bug moves it'd otherwise be weak to like Knock Off and U-Turn from Incineroar and Rillaboom, whilst also resisting Fighting and gaining an immunity to Dragon-type moves, like Collision Course and Draco Meteor from Koraidon and Miraidon respectively.
Farigiraf really doesn't like any restricted legendaries that can OHKO it, potentially preventing Trick Room, such as Kyogre or Tera Fire Koraidon. It also struggles against fast Taunt users, such as Speed booster Flutter Mane due to it being able to prevent Trick Room from going up, as well as bulky Dark-types like Incineroar as Farigiraf can't hit it very hard without Tera Ground, and Incineroar can force a Tera with Knock Off. Miraidon and Farigiraf also great partners for each other, as Farigiraf stops Miraidon from being interrupted by Fake Out and Miraidon can activate the Electric Seed making Farigiraf even bulkier, and as previously mentioned, Farigiraf can even Tera Ground so Miraidon can freely click Discharge next to it, whilst the Electric Terrain makes Farigiraf immune to Amoonguss' Spore. Another reason Miraidon benefits from Farigiraf is that the Fake Out immunity can remove a big way to halt the Choice Specs set. Farigiraf itself benefits from partners that can help it set Trick Room, such as bulky Fake Out users like Incineroar and Rillaboom, as well as redirectors like Amoonguss and the Ogerpon formes. Trick Room sweepers themselves also like having Farigiraf as a partner, for example Calyrex-I loves the boost from Helping Hand, and so does Ursaluna-Bloodmoon. Another great partner is Iron Hands on the aforementioned Miraidon teams, as Farigiraf enjoys having a Fake Out user as a partner, and Helping Hand allows for Iron Hands to do some insane levels of damage with Quark Drive.
[SET CREDITS]
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Bulky Disruption (Farigiraf) @ Electric Seed / Sitrus Berry / Safety Goggles
Ability: Armor Tail
Level: 50
Tera Type: Ground / Fairy
EVs: 228 HP / 100 Def / 180 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Psychic / Tera Blast
- Foul Play
- Trick Room
- Helping Hand
[SET COMMENTS]
Farigirafs main role is as a bulky disruption piece as well as a Trick Room setter since its access to priority blocking is incredibly valuable in a format full of moves like Fake Out, Grassy Glide and Thunderclap. Due to its typing, it has a good matchup into Calyrex-S, as well as Psychic STAB being a strong general STAB, especially into but not limited to Amoonguss and Urshifu-R. Tera Blast is often seen in this slot too, as both before and after tera it gives Farigiraf a consistent single-target STAB move. Foul Play is used to give Farigiraf a way to hit both Calyrex formes for super effective damage, being able to 2HKO both. Electric Seed is used in tandem with Miraidon, giving it a defense boost in Electric Terrain, this gives Farigiraf more bulk allowing it to stick around longer to support the team with Helping Hand and priority blocking. Sitrus Berry is relatively simple, with the extra healing, it allows Farigiraf to disrupt the opponent for longer than it would be able to without it, it can also help live some double-ups to help safely get Trick Room up, such as Surging Strikes + Knock Off from Urshifu-R and Incineroar respectively. Safety Goggles is for if your team has a particularly bad matchup into Amoonguss and you want to be able to set up Trick Room without being put to sleep when you don't have Electric Terrain support from Miraidon. The HP and Special Defense EVs allow Farigiraf to live a Choice Specs Beads of Ruin Single Target Tera Starstorm from Terapagos, and the rest was put into defense. Tera Ground is used next to Miraidon to allow it to freely use Discharge, and Tera Fairy is a rather common Tera on Farigiraf. This allows it to resist the Dark and Bug moves it'd otherwise be weak to like Knock Off and U-Turn from Incineroar and Rillaboom, whilst also resisting Fighting and gaining an immunity to Dragon-type moves, like Collision Course and Draco Meteor from Koraidon and Miraidon respectively.
Farigiraf really doesn't like any restricted legendaries that can OHKO it, potentially preventing Trick Room, such as Kyogre or Tera Fire Koraidon. It also struggles against fast Taunt users, such as Speed booster Flutter Mane due to it being able to prevent Trick Room from going up, as well as bulky Dark-types like Incineroar as Farigiraf can't hit it very hard without Tera Ground, and Incineroar can force a Tera with Knock Off. Miraidon and Farigiraf also great partners for each other, as Farigiraf stops Miraidon from being interrupted by Fake Out and Miraidon can activate the Electric Seed making Farigiraf even bulkier, and as previously mentioned, Farigiraf can even Tera Ground so Miraidon can freely click Discharge next to it, whilst the Electric Terrain makes Farigiraf immune to Amoonguss' Spore. Another reason Miraidon benefits from Farigiraf is that the Fake Out immunity can remove a big way to halt the Choice Specs set. Farigiraf itself benefits from partners that can help it set Trick Room, such as bulky Fake Out users like Incineroar and Rillaboom, as well as redirectors like Amoonguss and the Ogerpon formes. Trick Room sweepers themselves also like having Farigiraf as a partner, for example Calyrex-I loves the boost from Helping Hand, and so does Ursaluna-Bloodmoon. Another great partner is Iron Hands on the aforementioned Miraidon teams, as Farigiraf enjoys having a Fake Out user as a partner, and Helping Hand allows for Iron Hands to do some insane levels of damage with Quark Drive.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/cbuttyvgc.615665/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/flarefox_7.657713/
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