UU Pivot Lokix

[cheru]

[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. Tinted Lens prevents foes from playing around Lokix with defensive Terastallization, meaning they will all be hit for neutral damage at best. Knock Off punishes common switch-ins like Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Kommo-o. Sucker Punch is additional priority that allows Lokix to pick off foes like Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock and First Impression damage. Tera Bug is used to blow past Excadrill and Azumarill, letting Lokix KO the latter after Belly Drum if Stealth Rock is up. Heavy-Duty Boots allows Lokix to dash in and out of the field easily. Silver Powder puts an additional kick into First Impression, OHKOing Choice Scarf Mienshao, Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock, and Excadrill with a layer of Spikes after Tera Bug at the cost of Lokix taking entry hazard damage, limiting the amount of entry points in a game. On such sets, Leech Life can be used over Knock Off to retain longevity, at the cost of forgoing the ability to punish common switch-ins. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix to nail Hisuian Arcanine before it uses Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. Offensive partners like Latios and Ogerpon-C appreciate Lokix's U-turn freely bringing them in on Kommo-o and Zapdos. Removing Zapdos in particular is very important to let Lokix more freely pivot around without worry about Static. Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core with Lokix, as slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon and it can handle the likes of Toxapex and mixed Kommo-o. Slowking's Future Sight support can also dissuade Toxapex and defensive Kommo-o from wanting to switch into Lokix in the first place. Other pivots like Zapdos and Thunder Wave Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out. Lokix greatly appreciates entry hazard support to more easily revenge kill Excadrill. Tinkaton and defensive Kommo-o appreciate Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C and Hisuian Arcanine. Spikes setters such as Sandy Shocks and Ogerpon can take on Zapdos and Hippowdon. Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T. In return, Lokix nails Hydrapple and can give Excadrill safe entry against Rotom-W and Toxapex. Slower wallbreakers such as Azumarill, Hisuian Arcanine, and Mamoswine appreciate having faster checks like Ogerpon and Sand Rush Excadrill dealt with.

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[Rae]

Nice work! 1/2 with this done

[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]

Tinted Lens First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. Sucker Punch is additional priority that allows Lokix to pick off foes AV Tornadus after Stealth Rock and First Impression. Tera Bug is used to really blow past Azumarill and Excadrill. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to dash in and out of the field easily, but Silver Powder puts an additional kick into First Impression at the cost of taking entry hazard damage. You could include in here the fact that Lokix OHKO's Choice Scarf Mienshao and Choice Band Tyranitar after Spikes thanks to Silver Powder, as well as its ability to OHKO AV Torn after rocks and Excadrill after Spikes with Adamant Tera Bug Silver Powder. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix to nail Hisuian Arcanine before Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

As obvious and self-explanatory as it is, I'd add a sentence about how Knock Off punishes its common switch ins like Zapdos, Torn-T and Kommo-o by removing their Heavy-Duty Boots or Leftovers

Lokix fits best on balance and bulky offense teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. (I'd say offense over balance, but thats up to you.) Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core, as its slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon, while being able to handle the likes of Keldeo and Mixed Kommo-o for it. Tinkaton and Defensive Kommo-o appreciates Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock, while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C and Iron Boulder. (You could also mention the Lokix wars and how they check opposing ones well. Mentioning some Spikes setters like Ogerpon and Sandy Shocks would also be nice because of how important hazards are for Kix to break) Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T; Lokix in return nails Hydrapple and can give it safe entry. Other pivots like Zapdos and Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out.

Add in a sentence for wallbreakers that love Lokix's ability to pivot them in and clean for them thanks to its powerful priority above the Slowking mention while moving the pivots section beneath it, im not sure if this is a specific rule but it looks better having archetypes of Pokemon before the specifics that work

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[Estarossa]

[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]

Tinted Lens First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Iron Boulder, Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. would talk a bit about the value of tinted lens specifically here, unlike other speed control options lokix doesn't necessarily care that latios for instance has tera'd around, tera'ing always makes first impression functionally neutral at worst. Knock Off punishes common switch-ins like Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Kommo-o. Sucker Punch is additional priority that allows Lokix to pick off foes such as AV (Assault Vest) Tornadus (remember its therian not normal) after Stealth Rock and First Impression. Tera Bug is used to really blow past Azumarill and Excadrill. provide some specific info here probably, ik u go into the silver powder calc after, but you could mention that it can KO BD Azu after rocks + sitrus + bd maybe if you want to keep the other one for later. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to dash in and out of the field easily. Silver Powder put an additional kick into First Impression, OHKOing Choice Scarf Mienshao, Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock, and Excadrill with a layer of Spikes after Tera Bug, at the cost of taking entry hazard damage. mention why this is particularly relevant, as lokix can often end up coming into the field quite a lot of times in a game when boots so you really limit this and need to get ur value out of it each time, can't just use it to open up opportunities for other things. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix to nail Hisuian Arcanine before Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. Slower wallbreakers such as Azumarill, Hisuian Arcanine, and Mamoswine appreciate having faster checks like Sand Rush Excadrill dealt with. not sure this makes much sense, you aren't sending lokix in on excadrill and theyd have to die or sack something else to get lokix in in first place. if you want to frame it around this you can talk about like lokix being able to handle these pokemon giving free turns to potentially dangerous threats like those and stop games being lost, but they definitely don't appreciate the checking that directly. Would also want an example for azu if doing this cause exca very much isn't one. This would also not be my first point in this section. Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core, as its slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon, while being able to handle the likes of Keldeo and mixed Kommo-o for it. mention future sight + lokix combo too because it stops like blobpex and clanger taking u on at all etc. Other pivots like Zapdos and Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out. Lokix greatly appreciates entry hazard support to more easily revenge kill a foe. can mention some of those calcs like excadrill here. Tinkaton and defensive Kommo-o appreciate Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock, while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C, Hisuian Arcanine, and Iron Boulder. Spikes setters such as Sandy Shocks and Ogerpon can take on Zapdos ogerpon definitely does not take on zapdos, assuming you mean cornerstone here not base one but even then thats definitely wildly questionable (and it doesn't set spikes either). Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T; Lokix in return nails Hydrapple and can give it safe entry. mention some of the entry points it gets here that excadrill can take advantage of, because a lot of them aren't necesarily that obvious tbh? things like kommo-o, tornadus, zapdos etc are not necessarily always gonna be ideal.

Instead of that bit at the start about slower wallbreakers, i'd instead focus on some more of the offensive teammates that take advantage of lokix's pivoting, what pokemon can take advantage of the entry points against like kommo-o, zapdos, blobpex etc on these offensive teams to make the progress? eg. latios, iron crown, cornerstone, memoswine etc or anything of ur choice to talk about here.

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[Estarossa]

[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant / Jolly Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. Tinted Lens also has the benefit of not being able to be played around with defensive Terastalization, meaning they will all be neutral at best. Knock Off punishes common switch-ins like Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Kommo-o. Sucker Punch is additional priority that allows Lokix to pick off foes Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock and First Impression. Tera Bug is used to really blow past Excadrill and Azumarill after Belly Drum and Stealth Rock being able to KO the latter after Belly Drum if Stealth Rock are up. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to dash in and out of the field easily. Silver Powder put an additional kick into First Impression, OHKOing Choice Scarf Mienshao, Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock, and Excadrill with a layer of Spikes after Tera Bug, at the cost of taking entry hazard damage, limiting the amount of entry points in a game. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix to nail Hisuian Arcanine before Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. Offensive partners like Latios and Ogerpon-C appreciate Lokix's U-turn freely bringing it in on Kommo-o and Zapdos; the latter is very important to let Lokix more freely pivot around. Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core, as its slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon, while being able to handle the likes of Toxapex and mixed Kommo-o. Slowking's Future Sight support can also dissuade Toxapex and defensive Kommo-o from wanting to switch into Lokix in the first place. Other pivots like Zapdos and Thunder Wave Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, specify more that this is coming from like twave from rotom-w if this is what you meant as it does read a little confusingly rn giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out. Lokix greatly appreciates entry hazard support to more easily revenge kill Excadrill. Tinkaton and defensive Kommo-o appreciate Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock, while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C and Hisuian Arcanine. Spikes setters such as Sandy Shocks and Ogerpon can take on Zapdos. Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T; Lokix in return nails Hydrapple and can give it safe entry in on Rotom-W and Toxapex. Slower wallbreakers such as Azumarill, Hisuian Arcanine, and Mamoswine appreciate having faster checks like Ogerpon and Sand Rush Excadrill dealt with.

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[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]

First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. Tinted Lens also has the benefit of not being able to be played around with defensive Terastalization Tinted Lens prevents foes from outplaying Lokix using Terastallization, meaning they will all be hit for neutral damage at best. Knock Off punishes common switch-ins like Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Kommo-o. Sucker Punch is an additional priority move that allows Lokix to pick off foes like Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock and First Impression damage. Tera Bug is used to really blow past Excadrill and Azumarill, being able to KO the latter after Belly Drum if Stealth Rock are is up. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it to dash in and out of the field easily. Silver Powder put puts an additional kick into First Impression, OHKOing Choice Scarf Mienshao, Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock, and Excadrill with a layer of Spikes after Tera Bug,(remove comma) at the cost of taking entry hazard damage, limiting the amount of entry points in a game. On such sets, Leech Life can be used over Knock Off to retain longevity, at the cost with the added benefit of punishing its common switch-ins. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix's First Impression to nail Hisuian Arcanine before Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. Offensive partners like Latios and Ogerpon-C appreciate Lokix's U-turn freely bringing it them in on Kommo-o and Zapdos; the latter is very important to let Lokix more freely pivot around(this part just doesn't make sense / is lacking info). Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core, as its slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon,(remove comma) while being able to handle the likes of Toxapex and mixed Kommo-o. Slowking's Future Sight support can also dissuade Toxapex and defensive Kommo-o from wanting to switch into Lokix in the first place. Other pivots like Zapdos and Thunder Wave Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out. Lokix greatly appreciates entry hazard support to more easily revenge kill Excadrill. Tinkaton and defensive Kommo-o appreciate Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock,(remove comma) while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C and Hisuian Arcanine. Spikes setters such as Sandy Shocks and Ogerpon (Ogerpon-C?) can take on Zapdos. Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T;.(period) Lokix in return In return, Lokix nails Hydrapple and can give it Excadrill safe entry in on Rotom-W and Toxapex. Slower wallbreakers such as Azumarill, Hisuian Arcanine, and Mamoswine appreciate having faster checks like Ogerpon (Ogerpon-C?) and Sand Rush Excadrill dealt with.

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[SET]
Pivot (Lokix) @ Heavy-Duty Boots / Silver Powder
Ability: Tinted Lens
Tera Type: Bug
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- First Impression
- U-turn
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch

[SET COMMENTS]
First Impression is key in removing offensive powerhouses such as Ogerpon-C, Greninja, and Latios. Tinted Lens also has the benefit of not being able to be played around with defensive Terastalization Tinted Lens prevents foes from playing around Lokix with defensive Terastallization, meaning they will all be hit for neutral damage at best. Knock Off punishes common switch-ins like Zapdos, Tornadus-T, and Kommo-o. Sucker Punch is additional priority that allows Lokix to pick off foes like Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock and First Impression damage. Tera Bug is used to really blow past Excadrill and Azumarill, being able to letting Lokix KO the latter after Belly Drum if Stealth Rock are is up. Heavy-Duty Boots allows it Lokix to dash in and out of the field easily. Silver Powder put puts an additional kick into First Impression, OHKOing Choice Scarf Mienshao, Assault Vest Tornadus-T after Stealth Rock, and Excadrill with a layer of Spikes after Tera Bug,(remove comma) at the cost of Lokix taking entry hazard damage, limiting the amount of entry points in a game. On such sets, Leech Life can be used over Knock Off to retain longevity, at the cost of punishing its forgoing the ability to punish common switch-ins. Adamant should be used most often for maximum damage output, but Jolly allows Lokix to nail Hisuian Arcanine before it uses Extreme Speed and pivot out freely on Excadrill.

Lokix fits best on bulky offense and balance teams, acting as a potent revenge killer to offensive threats. Offensive partners like Latios and Ogerpon-C appreciate Lokix's U-turn freely bringing it them in on Kommo-o and Zapdos; the latter is very important to let Lokix more freely pivot around (this part just doesn't make sense / is lacking info). (is this saying having Ogerpon-C as a partner if very important? or that having partners that threaten Zapdos is very important? reword as applicable) Slowking forms an excellent pivoting core with Lokix, as its slow Chilly Reception can bring Lokix in safely on Pokemon that threaten Slowking such as Greninja and Ogerpon,(remove comma) while being able to and it can handle the likes of Toxapex and mixed Kommo-o. Slowking's Future Sight support can also dissuade Toxapex and defensive Kommo-o from wanting to switch into Lokix in the first place. Other pivots like Zapdos and Thunder Wave Rotom-W can handle Tornadus-T through paralysis, giving Lokix more room to pivot in and out. Lokix greatly appreciates entry hazard support to more easily revenge kill Excadrill. Tinkaton and defensive Kommo-o appreciate Lokix's Knock Off removing Heavy-Duty Boots for Stealth Rock,(remove comma) while in return handling Rock-types like Ogerpon-C and Hisuian Arcanine. Spikes setters such as Sandy Shocks and Ogerpon (Ogerpon-C?) can take on Zapdos. Excadrill is a fantastic partner for Silver Powder sets especially, as it removes entry hazards for Lokix to freely pivot around and helps overwhelm Zapdos and Tornadus-T;.(period) Lokix in return In return, Lokix nails Hydrapple and can give it Excadrill safe entry in on against Rotom-W and Toxapex. Slower wallbreakers such as Azumarill, Hisuian Arcanine, and Mamoswine appreciate having faster checks like Ogerpon and Sand Rush Excadrill dealt with.

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- Try to keep as much of the original word choice as possible when rewording stuff; "defensive Terastallization" and just "Terastallization" have different meanings.
- Avoid using "it" in place of the Pokemon's name when it isn't even mentioned in the previous sentence, like what was the case with the Heavy-Duty Boots sentence.
- The Leech Life sentence was saying that you lose out on Knock Off punishing switch-ins, not that Leech Life does so.
- Adding "'s First Impression" to the nature sentence wasn't necessary, and doing so didn't make sense because it sounds like First Impression is doing the pivoting rather than Lokix.

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