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Amoonguss @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Pollen Puff
- Spore
- Rage Powder
- Protect

From the Hidden Grotto, Amoonguss is ready to fight! With supportive options like Spore, Rage Powder, and Pollen Puff, Amoonguss is able to support its team in a variety of ways, whether it be putting foes to sleep, redirecting attacks, or healing up allies. The combination of Rage Powder and Spore is able to give partners such as Gholdengo and Kingambit free turns to set up. Tera Fairy allows Amoonguss to safely redirect attacks such as Draco Meteor from Raging Bolt and Kyurem. Amoonguss can be used alongside setup sweepers such as Gholdengo, using Rage Powder and Spore to keep Gholdengo safe while it sets up. Amoonguss can also effectively be used on Trick Room teams, using its low Speed stat to move first under Trick Room and put foes to sleep with Spore. Amoonguss struggles with powerful Fire-type attackers and Spore-immune Pokemon such as Chi-Yu and Ogerpon-W. Safety Goggles users and Grass-types like Indeedee-F and Rillaboom are able to ignore both Spore and Rage Powder, practically invalidating Amoonguss. To tackle these, Landorus and Ogerpon-W can easily target down Fire-types, while allies like Incineroar can remove Safety Goggles from foes by using Knock Off and can threaten Grass-types with Flare Blitz.

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I don't think this spotlight does a great job of really getting Amoonguss's role across. It reads like somebody was told what Amoonguss does and then asked a week later to summarize what they were told.

- While every move is mentioned, there's not much in this spotlight about what they do together. Amoonguss is able to use both Rage Powder and Spore to actively support partners; it gives those partners free turns to set up or deal damage. One might describe Amoonguss as a supportive threat, rather than a pure support like Cresselia or Indeedee-F.
- I think Kyurem might be a slightly better callout than Raging Bolt when mentioning Tera Fairy. It's a little bit more niche than Bolt, but Fairy is a lot more potent against Kyurem since it also removes the Ice weakness. I'll let an actual QC member make the final call here.
- Trick Room structures don't run Amoonguss all that much any more, but the TR shout is probably still worth having. That sentence feels a little awkward though.
- I think Hearthflame is a poor example of an Amoonguss check. It's a phenomenal Amoonguss check, maybe even the best one, but I worry that it doesn't quite get the point across. I think mentioning both Chi-Yu (a Fire type that threatens Amoonguss with damage) and Ogerpon-Wellspring (a Grass type that can invalidate Amoonguss) would be better. Bonus points if you have space to mention how Wellspring plays against Amoonguss.
- Safety Goggles should absolutely be mentioned somewhere before the end of the spotlight. That item exists because of Amoonguss. Maybe add a separate line in checks that talks about how good Grass-types and Goggles are against Amoonguss?

I'm not super familiar with spotlight writing, and I'm not really sure how much room there is for nuance in these, but I think there's room for some changes. I don't love some of the sentence structure in this spotlight either, but idk gamer I dropped out of my writing courses so maybe I'm not the expert there lol
- I have been told that the Clear Smog line should be removed entirely by Marnie
- The partners lines are a little funky. "Amoonguss can be used on teams that consist of setup..." could be shortened to "Amoonguss can be used alongside setup..." If you're able to better explain Amoonguss's role in the beginning, you'll also be able to trim "redirecting attacks away from them."

This post was cleared by Smudge but is my personal thoughts and not a formal QC check.
 
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For the record, I agree with everything Arctic has written here - please consider it as a QC check (he's a qc member!) and implement, I noticed you've done some already but feel free to contact me on Discord if you have questions on how to do so.

A couple things I noticed -

put everything to sleep with Spore.
This is often difficult to do in practice, many teams have multiple sleep immune Pokemon whether via goggles, base typing, or tera typing. It's more often used primarily as a redirector that threatens spore rather than the main mode of play. I see that you edited a different part of the spotlight to reflect this, but please consider your wording here as well.

to give partners free turns to set up.
Example? Kingambit or Gholdengo would be good, whether it be redirecting things like fighting type moves for Gambit, or Sucker Punch for Gholdengo.

Tera Fairy allows Amoonguss to take safely redirect attacks
 
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:amoonguss:
Amoonguss @ Covert Cloak
Ability: Regenerator
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Pollen Puff
- Spore
- Rage Powder
- Protect

From the Hidden Grotto, Amoonguss is ready to fight! With supportive options like Spore, Rage Powder, and Pollen Puff, Amoonguss is able to support its team in a variety of ways, whether it be putting foes to sleep, redirecting attacks, or healing up allies. The combination of Rage Powder and Spore are is able to give partners such as Gholdengo and Kingambit free turns to set up. Tera Fairy allows Amoonguss to safely redirect attacks such as Draco Meteor from Raging Bolt and Kyurem. Amoonguss can be used alongside setup sweepers such as Gholdengo, using Rage Powder and Spore to keep Gholdengo safe while it sets up. Amoonguss can also effectively be used on Trick Room teams, using its low Speed stat to move first under Trick Room and put foes to sleep with Spore. Amoonguss struggles with powerful Fire-type attackers and Spore immunities Spore-immune Pokemon such as Chi-Yu and Ogerpon-W. Safety Goggles users and Grass-types like Indeedee-F and Rillaboom are able to ignore both Spore and Rage Powder, practically invalidating Amoonguss. To tackle these, Landorus and Ogerpon-W can easily target down Fire-types, while allies like Incineroar can remove Safety Goggles from foes by using Knock Off and can threaten Grass-types with Flare Blitz.

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