PU Altaria

[Bella]

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Defog
move 2: Roost
move 3: Brave Bird
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Haze / Roar
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Natural Cure
nature: Impish
evs: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Spe
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Altaria's wide variety of utility options like Defog, Will-O-Wisp, Haze, and Roar, great defensive stats, useful ability in Natural Cure, and excellent typing allowing it to check a wide variety of Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-W, Golurk, Bruxish, and Hariyama make it one of PU's few forms of entry hazard control and a decent wall, although it needs to watch out for Ice-type coverage from Pokemon like Golurk and Scrafty. Brave Bird allows Altaria to not be completely passive and helpless against Taunt from Pokemon like Bombirdier and Skuntank while also doing more damage than Hurricane against specially defensive Pokemon like Florges and Delphox. Altaria's choice of its final move is flexible; Will-O-Wisp cripples physical attackers Altaria switches into like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Decidueye. Haze allows Altaria to prevent setup sweepers like Nasty Plot Delphox and Zoroark as well as Curse Arcanine from using it as setup fodder, while Roar does the same but also functions better against Substitute users such as Scream Tail, although it can be counterintuitive with Defog due to not being able to accrue chip damage from hazards that Defog removes. The given EV spread allows Altaria to outspeed Golurk and Adamant Emboar while still providing as much bulk as possible, although a spread of 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD can be used to be bulkier if outspeeding these two is not needed. An alternative spread of 252 HP / 120 SpD / 136 Spe can allow Altaria to become a better special wall, checking Pokemon like Kilowattrel and Meloetta better. Tera Steel flips all of Altaria's weaknesses, allowing it to more safely threaten Pokemon like Alolan Sandslash, Florges, and Scream Tail, although Terastallizing does make it unable to check Fighting- and Fire-types like Flamigo and Delphox as well as removing Altaria's Ground immunity, making the matchup against hazard setters like Gligar and Mudsdale harder.

Due to its relative passivity, Altaria fits mostly on bulky balance teams needing a defogger that can also compress multiple roles. Altaria's ability to absorb status moves like Toxic and Thunder Wave is appreciated by other walls like Wo-Chien and Gastrodon as well as setup sweepers like Delphox and Virizion. In turn, Pokemon like Wo-Chien and Virizion can be reliable Knock Off absorbers for Altaria, so it does not lose its Heavy-Duty Boots. Altaria finds itself extremely susceptible to Ice- and Fairy-types like Alolan Sandslash, Froslass, and Florges as well as coverage moves like Triple Axel from Ambipom; checks to these threats like Bronzong, Skuntank, and Rotom-H thus make excellent partners. Specially defensive walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges create a defensive backbone with Altaria. Altaria's ability to check and burn physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-W, Zoroark, and Flamigo allows Pokemon that are checked by these threats like Arcanine and Houndstone become more potent attackers. Altaria's ability to remove entry hazards allows Pokemon particularly weak to them like Choice Scarf Staraptor, Arcanine, and Galarian Slowbro to become bigger threats.

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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Defog
move 2: Roost
move 3: Brave Bird
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Haze / Roar
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Natural Cure
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP / 124 Def / 136 Spe
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Altaria's wide variety of utility options like Defog, Will-O-Wisp, and Haze (might as well throw roar mention in there too), great defensive stats, useful ability in Natural Cure, and excellent typing allowing it to check a wide variety of Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-F (little curious why you mentioned redbull here considering you honestly check wetbull better seeing as you can burn it), Golurk, Bruxish, and Hariyama makes it one of PU's best walls and forms of hazard control. Brave Bird allows Altaria to not be completely passive and helpless against Taunt from Pokemon like Bombirdier and Skuntank while also doing more damage than Hurricane against specially defensive Pokemon like Florges and Delphox. Altaria's choice of final move is flexible; Will-O-Wisp cripples physical attackers Altaria switches into like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Decidueye. Haze allows Altaria to prevent setup sweepers like Nasty Plot Delphox and Zoroark as well as Curse Arcanine to use it as setup fodder, while Roar does the same but also functions better against Substitute users such as Scream Tail, although it can be counterintuitive with Defog (you could mention why, i feel like the average person reading this might not automatically assume that it's due to not being able to accrue the extra chip from hazards. not rly mandatory though). The given EV spread allows Altaria to outspeed Golurk and Adamant Emboar while still providing as much bulk as possible. Tera Steel flips all of Altaria's weaknesses, allowing it to more safely threaten Pokemon like Alolan Sandslash, Florges, and Scream Tail, although it does make it a more shaky check to Fighting-types. (also note that it removes your ground immunity leaving you more of a sitting duck vs/not a switch-in to stuff like muds, gligar, and lurk, could also mention the added fire weakness making your mu into stuff like microwave and phox harder)

Due to its relative passivity, Altaria fits exclusively on bulky balance teams needing to compress multiple roles into one Pokemon. Altaria's ability to absorb status like Toxic and Thunder Wave is appreciated by other walls like Wo-Chien and Gastrodon as well as setup sweepers like Delphox and Decidueye (would change this to something like virizion since sd decid isn't as common as AoA, viri can also absorb knocks to let alt keep boots). Altaria finds itself extremely susceptible to opposing Ice- and Fairy-types (would also probably just toss in axel ambi since that ruins your day too) like Alolan Sandslash, Froslass, and Florges; checks to these threats like Bronzong, Skuntank, and a partner Alolan Sandslash thus makes excellent partners. Specially defensive walls like Gastrodon, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Grimmsnarl (I think calling 95/75 bulk a special wall is generous, even if the BU set does invest fully) create a defensive backbone with Altaria. Altaria's ability to check and cripple physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-W, Golurk, and Decidueye and cripple them with status allows Pokemon who are checked by these threats like Arcanine and Houndstone (these mons do check the dogs but for ENTIRELY different reasons than being physical attackers, there's nuance here that you're not really bringing up like decid and lurk being able to kill hound because poltergeist isn't contact and being able to stuff k9 because they're faster - at least after curse - and immune to e-speed. I'd probably just mention something like phox, melo, zoro, etc etc) become more potent attackers.
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1/2 once done, good work as usual

 

[UberSkitty]

[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Defog
move 2: Roost
move 3: Brave Bird
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Haze / Roar
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Natural Cure
nature: Impish
evs: 248 HP / 124 Def / 136 Spe should be 252 HP / 120 Def, its max hp isnt divisible by 4
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Altaria's wide variety of utility options like Defog, (emphasize how it is one of the best defoggers/hazard removers in the tier)Will-O-Wisp, Haze, and Roar, great defensive stats, useful ability in Natural Cure, and excellent typing allowing it to check a wide variety of Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-W, Golurk, Bruxish, and Hariyama makes it one of PU's best walls and forms of hazard control. (add something about having to watch out for their coverage like ice punch on golurk)Brave Bird allows Altaria to not be completely passive and helpless against Taunt from Pokemon like Bombirdier and Skuntank while also doing more damage than Hurricane against specially defensive Pokemon like Florges and Delphox. Altaria's choice of final move is flexible; Will-O-Wisp cripples physical attackers Altaria switches into like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Decidueye. Haze allows Altaria to prevent setup sweepers like Nasty Plot Delphox and Zoroark as well as Curse Arcanine to use it as setup fodder, while Roar does the same but also functions better against Substitute users such as Scream Tail, although it can be counterintuitive with Defog due to not being able to accrue chip from entry hazards that Defog removes. The given EV spread allows Altaria to outspeed Golurk and Adamant Emboar while still providing as much bulk as possible. (mention that bulkier spreads can be used) Tera Steel flips all of Altaria's weaknesses, allowing it to more safely threaten Pokemon like Alolan Sandslash, Florges, and Scream Tail, although it does make it a shakier check (its not a 'shakier' check anymore, it's just not a check)to Fighting- and Fire-types like Flamigo and Delphox as well as removing Altaria's Ground-type immunity, making the matchup against Pokemon(specify hazard setters) like Gligar and Mudsdale harder.
Add something about it being also usable as a special wall but why physical is preferred

Due to its relative passivity, Altaria fits exclusively ('exclusively' is an exaggeration)on bulky balance teams needing to compress multiple roles(more specifically need a defogger) into one Pokemon. Altaria's ability to absorb status like Toxic and Thunder Wave is appreciated by other walls like Wo-Chien and Gastrodon as well as setup sweepers like Delphox and Virizion. (wo-chien and virizion are also nice knock absorbers, since doesnt really wanna lose its boots, being ur hazard remover and weak to rocks)Altaria finds itself extremely susceptible to opposing Ice- and Fairy-types like Alolan Sandslash, Froslass, and Florges as well as coverage like Triple Axel from Ambipom; checks to these threats like Bronzong, Skuntank, and a partner Alolan Sandslash (if you already have alolaslash for hazard removal, why would u need altaria? change)thus makes excellent partners. Specially defensive walls like Gastrodon, (already mentioned as teammate, change or remove)Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges create a defensive backbone with Altaria. Altaria's ability to check and cripple physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-W, Zoroark, and Delphox (already mentioned as teammate, change or remove)and cripple them(you say 'cripple them' twice)(also delphox doesnt really fit in here since wow doesnt affect it and even with psyshock its not really a physical attacker) with status allows Pokemon who are checked by these threats like Arcanine and Houndstone become more potent attackers.
talk about mons that benefit from its hazard removal
also maybe mention it not pairing well with spikes/hazardstack
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For someone who told me you only use it for Defog, you don't seem to emphasize it enough here. QC 2/2

 

[Bella]

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[SET]
name: Defensive
move 1: Defog
move 2: Roost
move 3: Brave Bird
move 4: Will-O-Wisp / Haze / Roar
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Natural Cure
nature: Impish
evs: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Spe
tera type: Steel

[SET COMMENTS]
Altaria's wide variety of utility options like Defog, Will-O-Wisp, Haze, and Roar, great defensive stats, useful ability in Natural Cure, and excellent typing allowing it to check a wide variety of Pokemon like Paldean Tauros-W, Golurk, Bruxish, and Hariyama makes it one of PU's few formes forms of entry hazard control and a decent wall, although it needs to watch out from for Ice-type coverage from Pokemon like Golurk and Scrafty. Brave Bird allows Altaria to not be completely passive and helpless against Taunt from Pokemon like Bombirdier and Skuntank while also doing more damage than Hurricane against specially defensive Pokemon like Florges and Delphox. Altaria's choice of its final move is flexible; Will-O-Wisp cripples physical attackers Altaria switches into like Paldean Tauros-W, Scrafty, and Decidueye. Haze allows Altaria to prevent setup sweepers like Nasty Plot Delphox and Zoroark as well as Curse Arcanine to use from using it as setup fodder, while Roar does the same but also functions better against Substitute users such as Scream Tail, although it can be counterintuitive with Defog due to not being able to accrue chip damage from entry hazards that Defog removes. The given EV spread allows Altaria to outspeed Golurk and Adamant Emboar while still providing as much bulk as possible, although a spread of 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD can be used to be more (redundant) bulkier if outspeeding these two is not needed. An alternative spread of 252 HP / 120 SpD / 136 Spe can allow Altaria to become a better special wall, (AC) to checking Pokemon like Kilowattrel and Meloetta better. Tera Steel flips all of Altaria's weaknesses, allowing it to more safely threaten Pokemon like Alolan Sandslash, Florges, and Scream Tail, although it Terastallizing (ambiguity on "it") does make it a unable to check Fighting- and Fire-types like Flamigo and Delphox as well as removing Altaria's Ground-type immunity, making the matchup against hazard setters like Gligar and Mudsdale harder.

Due to its relative passivity, Altaria fits mostly on bulky balance teams needing a defogger who that can also compress multiple roles into one Pokemon. Altaria's ability to absorb status moves like Toxic and Thunder Wave is appreciated by other walls like Wo-Chien and Gastrodon as well as setup sweepers like Delphox and Virizion. In turn, these two (which two Pokemon are you referring to?) can be reliable Knock Off Absorbers absorbers for Altaria, (AC) so it does not lose its Heavy-Duty Boots. Altaria finds itself extremely susceptible to opposing (implied) Ice- and Fairy-types like Alolan Sandslash, Froslass, and Florges as well as coverage moves like Triple Axel from Ambipom; checks to these threats like Bronzong, Skuntank, and Rotom-H thus makes excellent partners. Specially defensive walls like Bronzong, Assault Vest Galarian Slowbro, and Florges create a defensive backbone with Altaria. Altaria's ability to check and cripple burn physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-W, Zoroark, and Flamigo with status (burn is the only possible status effect that this set can inflict) allows Pokemon who that are checked by these threats like Arcanine and Houndstone become more potent attackers. Altaria's ability to defog remove entry hazards allows Pokemon particularly weak to hazards them like Choice Scarf Staraptor, Arcanine, and Galarian Slowbro to become more potent attackers. (Maybe reword and/or elaborate on this part, since you ended the previous sentence the same way.)

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