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Copyediting Loaded Dice Dragonite [QC 2/2]

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[SET]
Loaded Dice Sweeper (Dragonite) @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Inner Focus / Multiscale
Level: 50
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Scale Shot
- Iron Head
- Extreme Speed
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]

* Loaded Dice Dragonite threatens heavy damage and a boost to its Speed with Scale Shot, allowing it to outspeed Adamant Chien-Pao and Modest Flutter Mane. Its Inner Focus ability can be used to stop Incineroar from slowing it down, or Multiscale can make it difficult to remove, letting it get a key Scale Shot off.

* Dragonite is common on teams with partners that make it even harder to remove, especially if it has Multiscale, such as Ting-Lu's Vessel of Ruin making foes like Flutter Mane and Raging Bolt weaker, or Sinistcha's Hospitality to heal it back to full HP and reactivate Multiscale. Partners that struggle into Incineroar such as Chien-Pao and Gouging Fire appreciate Dragonite blocking Intimidate with Inner Focus and threatening more damage into it.

* Scale Shot is Dragonite’s strongest Dragon-type attack without risking imperfect targeting and confusion like Outrage. Iron Head can threaten an OHKO into opposing Fairy-types like Flutter Mane and large damage into Tera Fairy Raging Bolt, after Scale Shot threatens it to Terastallize. Extreme Speed can pick off low HP targets and beat out other priority moves like Sucker Punch and Thunderclap.

* Loaded Dice turns Scale Shot into a much more powerful move on average, with 4 hits getting an OHKO onto less bulky variants of Raging Bolt, and 5 hits nearly always getting an OHKO.

* After a Speed boost from Scale Shot, Dragonite will outspeed most of the unboosted metagame, allowing it to be Adamant to improve damage rolls. Once its Speed is boosted, it can OHKO Focus Sash Chien-Pao with a 5-hit Scale Shot, and can flinch slower foes with Iron Head. Adamant nature is necessary for OHKOs into bulky Raging Bolt, and a Chien-Pao on the field can improve damage rolls even further with Sword of Ruin.

* Tera Steel turns Dragonite’s weaknesses into Dragon-, Fairy-, and Ice-type moves into resistances, helping against Draco Meteor from Raging Bolt, Moonblast from Flutter Mane, and Icicle Crash from Chien-Pao. Additionally, it boosts Iron Head’s damage output, guaranteeing an OHKO onto bulky Flutter Mane.

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I'm proper ready for a proper QC check proper. I added in the 2nd bullet point for the purpose of identifying some of this specific sets's common partners not already stated in the overview on smogon, given Banded Dnite does not get used with stuff like Sinistcha. Calcs referenced:

252+ Atk Dragonite Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 228 HP / 4 Def Raging Bolt: 216-264 (94.3 - 115.2%) -- 86.76% chance to OHKO

252+ Atk Dragonite Scale Shot (5 hits) vs. 252 HP / 232 Def Raging Bolt: 220-270 (94.8 - 116.3%) -- 92.58% chance to OHKO
 
1/2 after implementing!

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[SET]
Loaded Dice Sweeper (Dragonite) @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Multiscale / Inner Focus
Level: 50
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Scale Shot
- Iron Head
- Extreme Speed
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]

* Loaded Dice Dragonite threatens heavy damage and a boost to its Speed with Scale Shot. Would be worth briefly mentioning anything noteworthy Dragonite outspeeds at +1 here then go into more detail later Its Multiscale ability can make it difficult to remove, letting it get a key Scale Shot off, or Inner Focus can be used to stop Incineroar from slowing it down.

* This specific set is common on teams that synergize with Dragonite's Multiscale ability to make it even harder to remove, such as Ting-Lu's Vessel of Ruin making opponents foes like Flutter Mane and Raging Bolt weaker, or Sinistcha's Hospitality to heal it back to full HP, reactivating Multiscale.

* Scale Shot is Dragonite’s strongest Dragon-type attack without risking imperfect targeting and confusion like Outrage. Iron Head can threaten an OHKO into opposing Fairy-types like Flutter Mane and Tera Fairy Raging Bolt Iron Head doesn't OHKO Tera Fairy Raging Bolt, after Scale Shot threatens it to Terastallize. Extreme Speed can pick off low HP targets and beat out other priority moves like Sucker Punch and Thunderclap. Protect can stall Fake Out for the Multiscale set, allowing Dragonite to retain full HP. Normally Protect shouldn't be mentioned but since it has an important interaction with Fake Out and breaking Multiscale it is fine to keep imo but QC 2 may ask you to remove it

* Loaded Dice turns Scale Shot into a much more powerful move on average, with 4 hits getting an OHKO onto less bulky variants of Raging Bolt, and 5 hits nearly always getting an OHKO.

* With a +1 Speed boost, Dragonite will outspeed most of the unboosted metagame, allowing it to be Adamant to improve damage rolls. I suggest going into a bit more detail about why Dragonite appreciates being at +1 Speed, you could mention anything vital it outspeeds and KOes and while niche but could be worth mentioning, the handy Iron Head flinch chance Adamant nature is necessary for OHKOs into bulky Raging Bolt, and a Chien-Pao on the field can improve damage rolls even further with Sword of Ruin.

* Tera Steel turns Dragonite’s weaknesses into Dragon-, Fairy-, and Ice-type moves into resistances, helping against Draco Meteor from Raging Bolt, Moonblast from Flutter Mane, and Icicle Crash from Chien-Pao. Additionally, it boosts Iron Head’s damage output, guaranteeing an OHKO onto bulky Flutter Mane.

[SET CREDITS]
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2/2 nice work on this
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[SET]
Loaded Dice Sweeper (Dragonite) @ Loaded Dice
Ability: Multiscale / Inner Focus (i would reorder these abilities so Inner Focus is first, had more usage at both Birmingham and Merida)
Level: 50
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Scale Shot
- Iron Head
- Extreme Speed
- Protect

[SET COMMENTS]

* Loaded Dice Dragonite threatens heavy damage and a boost to its Speed with Scale Shot, allowing it to outspeed Adamant Chien-Pao and Modest Flutter Mane. Its Multiscale ability can make it difficult to remove, letting it get a key Scale Shot off, or Inner Focus can be used to stop Incineroar from slowing it down. (again, make it so Inner Focus is mentioned first here)

* This specific set is common on teams that synergize with Dragonite's Multiscale ability to make it even harder to remove, such as Ting-Lu's Vessel of Ruin making foes like Flutter Mane and Raging Bolt weaker (is this synergy really specific to multiscale varaints? i would just make this a statement for dragonite in general instead of a statement for multiscale variants), or Sinistcha's Hospitality to heal it back to full HP, reactivating Multiscale. (while you're here I would mention mons like chien-pao and gouging fire appreciating dragonite's pressure onto incineroar when it has inner focus)

* Scale Shot is Dragonite’s strongest Dragon-type attack without risking imperfect targeting and confusion like Outrage. Iron Head can threaten an OHKO into opposing Fairy-types like Flutter Mane and large damage into Tera Fairy Raging Bolt, after Scale Shot threatens it to Terastallize. Extreme Speed can pick off low HP targets and beat out other priority moves like Sucker Punch and Thunderclap. Protect can stall Fake Out for the Multiscale set, allowing Dragonite to retain full HP. (up to you but I don't really think Protect needs explaining on this set, could possibly go without this line)

* Loaded Dice turns Scale Shot into a much more powerful move on average, with 4 hits getting an OHKO onto less bulky variants of Raging Bolt, and 5 hits nearly always getting an OHKO.

* With a +1 Speed boost After a Speed boost from Scale Shot, Dragonite will outspeed most of the unboosted metagame, allowing it to be Adamant to improve damage rolls. Once its Speed is boosted, it can OHKO Focus Sash Chien-Pao with a 5-hit Scale Shot, and can flinch slower foes with Iron Head. Adamant nature is necessary for OHKOs into bulky Raging Bolt, and a Chien-Pao on the field can improve damage rolls even further with Sword of Ruin.

* Tera Steel turns Dragonite’s weaknesses into Dragon-, Fairy-, and Ice-type moves into resistances, helping against Draco Meteor from Raging Bolt, Moonblast from Flutter Mane, and Icicle Crash from Chien-Pao. Additionally, it boosts Iron Head’s damage output, guaranteeing an OHKO onto bulky Flutter Mane.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rausakura.589964/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
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