Quality Control Bronzong (Stealth Rock) [QC 0/2]

[bleahey]

[SET]
Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Ground
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful / Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Earthquake / Night Shade
- Protect / Night Shade / Psychic Noise

[SET COMMENTS]

The only Specially Defensive Steel-type in PU, Bronzong uses its defensive profile and typing to be a solid switch-in and Stealth Rock setter. Earthquake pressures Fire- and Steel-type Pokemon, most notably spinners like Coalossal and Alolan Sandslash. Alternatively, Night Shade provides consistent damage into Steel-type resists like Milotic and Paldean Tauros-A. In its fourth moveslot, Protect pairs with Leftovers to improve Bronzong's passive recovery. Night Shade may be used instead to cover Steel-type and Ground-type resists, particularly Rotom-H and opposing Bronzong which have Ground-type immunities. Finally, Psychic Noise disrupts common recovery users like Gastrodon and Galarian Slowbro switching in. Tera Water allows Bronzong to wall Inteleon and beat Tatsugiri, as well as improve its matchup against Fire-types like Salazzle on sets without Heatproof. Meanwhile, Tera Poison maintains Bronzong's Toxic immunity and improves its matchup into Fighting-types such as Paldean Tauros-A and Flamigo. Instead of Leftovers and Protect, Bronzong may opt for Toxic Orb and Trick to punish switch-ins by disrupting walls like Bellibolt and Florges or impair offensive threats like Decidueye and Arcanine whose items help them sweep or switch in to set up. Bronzong may also use no item, becoming immune to Poltergeists from powerful Ghost-type Pokemon like Golurk and Decidueye. Heatproof may be used instead of Levitate on teams that struggle against Fire-types like Arcanine and Delphox.

Bronzong is a great defensive backbone for bulky balance teams. Fairy-types make good defensive partners, switching in on Dark-type attacks—especially Knock Off—while gaining a fallback against Toxic and Poison-type attacks. Florges is a particularly good partner, providing Wish support for Bronzong's limited recovery. Alternatively, other Fairy-types like Grimmsnarl that don't depend on Heavy-Duty Boots for longevity can better switch in on Knock Off. Physically defensive Pokemon like Bellibolt and Gligar or Dragon types like Altaria and Goodra round off these defensive cores, appreciating a Ground-type immunity or Ice-type and Dragon-type resistance, as well as a specially defensive switch-in. In turn, Bronzong takes advantage of status ticks like Bellibolt, Gligar, and Goodra's Toxic and Altaria's Will-O-Wisp on Protect turns and appreciates teammates that cover its lack of physical investment. Given these team structures, Bronzong cores can end up feeling passive and susceptible to Knock Off. PU has many powerful Dark- and Fighting-types that alleviate this issue through their offensive presence and typing synergy. Paldean Tauros-A and Scrafty appreciate a switch-in on Fairy-types like Florges and Scream Tail and are potent sweepers with the longevity to threaten Dark-types throughout games. Other Dark-types like Zoroark and Skuntank can safely switch in on Knock Off, relieving pressure on Bronzong and its defensive partners. Finally, Heatproof Bronzong's ability to switch on Salazzle and Delphox aids other sweepers like Virizion and Scyther, granting them more opportunities to set up.

[SET CREDITS]
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[Bella]

[SET]
Bronzong (Stealth Rock) Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers / Toxic Orb
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Poison
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Night Shade / Psychic Noise / Body Press
- Protect / Trick

[SET COMMENTS]

The only Specially Defensive Steel-type (add hyphen) in PU, Bronzong uses its defensive profile and typing to be a solid switch-in and Stealth Rock setter. Heavy Slam is a decent STAB option and notably threatens 2HKOs on Florges and Scream Tail, forcing them to switch rather than recover on Bronzong. (STAB moves don't need explainations.) (Maybe add a transitional line saying Bronzong has alot of options in its third moveslot?) Night Shade provides consistent damage into Steel-type resists like Milotic and bulky setup users like Calm Mind Galarian Slowbro (These run Flamethrower; mention something else here like Paldean Tauros-W or something?). Psychic noise Noise disrupts common recovery users like Gastrodon and Galarian Slowbro switching in. Body Press utilizes Bronzong's solid defense stat to hit Alolan Sandslash, one of the few spinners in PU. (I would add another example here; something like Scrafty or Wo-Chien who would otherwise comfortably swap into Bronzong could be an option) Protect pairs with Leftovers to improve Bronzong's passive recovery. On Toxic Orb sets, Trick punishes switch-ins like Bellibolt (once again, another example here. Mention how it disrupts both walls like Belli / Wo-Chien AND Setup sweepers like Decid for example). Heatproof may be used instead of Levitate on teams weak to special Fire attacks from Pokemon who struggle against Fire-types like Rotom-H Arcanine (better example here imo, Arc has a pretty rough time breaking heatproof zong) and Delphox. Tera Water allows Bronzong to wall Inteleon (Another example would be nice to have here) and improve its matchup against fire types Fire-type Pokemon like Salazzle if it is not running Heatproof. Meanwhile, Tera poison Poison maintains Bronzong's Toxic immunity and may be used with Levitate to shed all weaknesses except Psychic or wall Salazzle with Heatproof. (No need to mention the type mu because that seems pretty self explanatory + you kinda already win vs lazzle w Heatproof anyways without Tera. Mention how this allows it to check Fighting-types like Scrafty / Bull formes better instead.)

Bronzong is limited to slower team styles, fitting into defensive cores on balance teams. Bronzong finds itself on bulky balance teams as a great defensive backbone for them. (rewrote because the sentence was kinda clunky) Florges is one of its best a good defensive partners partner (this is very overselling Zong-Florges imo, its a decent structure but it can fold to powerful physical breakers pretty easily.), providing Wish support for Bronzong's limited recovery and a much-needed Dark resist while gaining a Poison and Toxic immune. while in turn, Bronzong provides Florges with a fallback against Toxic and Poison-type attacks. Bellibolt or Gligar round off this defensive core—Bronzong provides a Ground-type immune immunity or Ice resist and a specially defensive switch-in. In turn, Bronzong takes advantage of Toxic ticks on Protect turns and appreciates teammates to cover its lack of physical investment. Other defensive partners can include Wo-Chien, a physical wall whose Knock Offs enable Stealth Rock chip by removing Heavy-Duty Boots from users like Bombardier and Goodra, can absorb Knock Off itself, and appreciates Bronzong's typing to cover its Ice-, Poison-, and Fairy-type Weaknesses (add hyphens here). Given these team structures, Bronzong cores can end up feeling passive. Powerful Fighting types can relieve this issue: Paldean Tauros-A and Scrafty are potent sweepers with the longevity to pair with these cores. They give Bronzong a reliable switch-in for Knock Offs and handle most opposing Dark types while benefitting greatly from Bronzong's coverage of checks like Florges and Stealth Rock to wear down opponents. (please combine these two sentences together somehow. this seems really clunky otherwise.)

(The lack of offensive teammate options is really dire here. Bronzong checks Florges, Toxtricity, Salaz w Heatproof, etc. This is really really helpful for Pokemon like Zoroark, Raptor, Decid, etc who really like having Zong fall back and wall these mons out / potentially trick in the case of florges and should 100% be mentioned. Mentioning some offensive knock absorbers like Scrafty and Skunk or something so Zong does not have to take it itself / rely entirely on defensive partners would be good to have.)
[SET CREDITS]
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So this is not 1/2 yet, i want to check again before stamping. Dm me or @ me in discord when you implement so i can recheck.

 

[Bella]

[SET]
Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers / Toxic Orb
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Poison
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Night Shade / Psychic Noise / Body Press
- Protect / Trick

[SET COMMENTS]

The only Specially Defensive Steel-type in PU, Bronzong uses its defensive profile and typing to be a solid switch-in and Stealth Rock setter. Bronzong has many options for its third moveslot. Night Shade provides consistent damage into Steel-type resists like Milotic and Paldean Tauros-A. Psychic Noise disrupts common recovery users like Gastrodon and Galarian Slowbro switching in. Body Press utilizes Bronzong's solid defense stat to hit Alolan Sandslash, one of the few spinners in PU, and otherwise safe switch-ins such as Scrafty. In its final moveslot, Protect pairs with Leftovers to improve Bronzong's passive recovery. Alternatively, Trick and Toxic Orb together punish switch-ins by disrupting walls like Bellibolt and Florges or impair offensive threats like Decidueye and Arcanine whose items help them sweep or switch in to set up. Heatproof may be used instead of Levitate on teams that struggle against Fire-types like Arcanine and Delphox. Tera Water allows Bronzong to wall Inteleon and beat Tatsugiri, as well as improve its matchup against Fire-types like Salazzle on sets without Heatproof. Meanwhile, Tera poison Poison maintains Bronzong's Toxic immunity and improves its matchup into Fighting-types such as Paldean Tauros-A and Flamigo.

Bronzong is a great defensive backbone for bulky balance teams. Fairy-types make good defensive partners, switching in on Dark-type attacks—especially Knock Off—while gaining a fallback against Toxic and Poison-type attacks. Florges is a particularly good partner, providing Wish support for Bronzong's limited recovery. Alternatively, other Fairy-types like Grimmsnarl that don't depend on Heavy-Duty Boots for longevity can better switch in on Knock Off. Physically defensive Pokemon like Bellibolt and Gligar or Dragon types like Altaria and Goodra round off these defensive cores. Bronzong provides them a Ground-type immunity or Ice-type and Dragon-type resistance, as well as a specially defensive switch-in. (combine this sentence + the last one together somehow please.) In turn, Bronzong takes advantage of status ticks like Bellibolt, Gligar, and Goodra's Toxic and Altaria's Will-O-Wisp on Protect turns and appreciates teammates that cover its lack of physical investment. Given these team structures, Bronzong cores can end up feeling passive and susceptible to Knock Off. PU has many powerful Dark- and Fighting-types that alleviate this issue through their offensive presence and typing synergy. Paldean Tauros-A and Scrafty appreciate a switch-in on Fairy-types like Florges and Whimsicott (unfortunately, shes not that common, would rather mention something like Scream Tail instead i guess) and are potent sweepers with the longevity to threaten Dark-types throughout games. Other Dark-types like Zoroark and Skuntank can safely switch in on Knock Off, relieving pressure on Bronzong and its defensive partners. Further, those who can dish out Knock Offs of their own improve Stealth Rock's utility by removing Heavy-Duty Boots. (Feels kinda filliery and self explainitory imo) Finally, Heatproof Bronzong's ability to switch on Salazzle and Delphox aids other sweepers like Decidueye and Scyther, showcasing its range of potential offensive teammates (Mention how this allows them to become better sweepers, also i would not use Deci as an example here since both salazz and delphox get owned by +2 Shadow Sneak, so another mention would be better).

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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much better, 1/2 once this is implemented!

 

[bleahey]

much better, 1/2 once this is implemented!
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implemented!

 

[UberSkitty]

[SET]
Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers / Toxic Orb
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Poison
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Night Shade / Psychic Noise / Body Press
- Protect / Trick

[SET COMMENTS]

The only Specially Defensive Steel-type in PU, Bronzong uses its defensive profile and typing to be a solid switch-in and Stealth Rock setter. Bronzong has many options for its third moveslot. Night Shade provides consistent damage into Steel-type resists like Milotic and Paldean Tauros-A. Psychic Noise disrupts common recovery users like Gastrodon and Galarian Slowbro switching in. Body Press utilizes Bronzong's naturally high defense stat to hit Alolan Sandslash, one of the few spinners in PU, and otherwise safe switch-ins such as Scrafty. In its final moveslot, Protect pairs with Leftovers to improve Bronzong's passive recovery. Alternatively, Trick and Toxic Orb together punish switch-ins by disrupting walls like Bellibolt and Florges or impair offensive threats like Decidueye and Arcanine whose items help them sweep or switch in to set up. Heatproof may be used instead of Levitate on teams that struggle against Fire-types like Arcanine and Delphox. Tera Water allows Bronzong to wall Inteleon and beat Tatsugiri, as well as improve its matchup against Fire-types like Salazzle on sets without Heatproof. Meanwhile, Tera Poison maintains Bronzong's Toxic immunity and improves its matchup into Fighting-types such as Paldean Tauros-A and Flamigo.

Bronzong is a great defensive backbone for bulky balance teams. Fairy-types make good defensive partners, switching in on Dark-type attacks—especially Knock Off—while gaining a fallback against Toxic and Poison-type attacks. Florges is a particularly good partner, providing Wish support for Bronzong's limited recovery. Alternatively, other Fairy-types like Grimmsnarl that don't depend on Heavy-Duty Boots for longevity can better switch in on Knock Off. Physically defensive Pokemon like Bellibolt and Gligar or Dragon types like Altaria and Goodra round off these defensive cores, appreciating a Ground-type immunity or Ice-type and Dragon-type resistance, as well as a specially defensive switch-in. In turn, Bronzong takes advantage of status ticks like Bellibolt, Gligar, and Goodra's Toxic and Altaria's Will-O-Wisp on Protect turns and appreciates teammates that cover its lack of physical investment. Given these team structures, Bronzong cores can end up feeling passive and susceptible to Knock Off. PU has many powerful Dark- and Fighting-types that alleviate this issue through their offensive presence and typing synergy. Paldean Tauros-A and Scrafty appreciate a switch-in on Fairy-types like Florges and Scream Tail and are potent sweepers with the longevity to threaten Dark-types throughout games. Other Dark-types like Zoroark and Skuntank can safely switch in on Knock Off, relieving pressure on Bronzong and its defensive partners. Finally, Heatproof Bronzong's ability to switch on Salazzle and Delphox aids other sweepers like Virizion and Scyther, granting them more opportunities to set up.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bleahey.641532/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bella.567483/
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hihi, sorry for the wait, but the sample Bronzong set was kinda outdated, so here's what we decided on instead:

[SET]
Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Ground
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful / Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Earthquake / Night Shade
- Protect / Night Shade / Psychic Noise

With Trick+Toxic Orb and itemless (for Poltergeist) mentioned in the comments.

Could you to put this back in WIP and implement this set? Not to say you have to delete everything and restart from scratch ofc. You can also drop it if you want.

 

[Bella]

[SET]
Utility (Bronzong) @ Leftovers / No Item (ill leave it up to QC 2 to decide if they wanna keep but this is very useful imo since polter is so common from deci and lurk)
Ability: Levitate / Heatproof
Tera Type: Water / Ground
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful / Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heavy Slam
- Earthquake / Night Shade
- Protect / Night Shade / Psychic Noise

[SET COMMENTS]

The only Specially Defensive Steel-type in PU (seems like copper will become a spd steel-type and aslash can kinda function as one already, so this can be cut), Bronzong uses its defensive profile and typing to be a solid switch-in (mention some pokemon it checks, such as Florges and Kilowatt) and Stealth Rock setter. Earthquake pressures Fire- and Steel-type Pokemon, most notably spinners like Coalossal and Alolan Sandslash. (honestly you could mention how to 2hkos raikou, seems like thats a very useful reasoning to run EQ now.) Alternatively, Night Shade provides consistent damage into Steel-type resists like Milotic and Paldean Tauros-A. (and boosted setup sweepers like Tauros formes) In its fourth moveslot, Protect pairs with Leftovers to improve Bronzong's passive recovery. Night Shade may be used instead to cover Steel-type and Ground-type resists, particularly Rotom-H and opposing Bronzong which have Ground-type immunities. (We talk about Night shade earlier. No need to add.) Finally, Psychic Noise disrupts common recovery users like Gastrodon and Galarian Slowbro switching in. (add an opening line saying Bronzong has a wide variety of options in its fourth slot.)Tera Water allows Bronzong to wall Inteleon and beat Tatsugiri (this isnt true; you still lose to NP Draco. Would rather mention stuf like Delphox), as well as improve its matchup against Fire-types like Salazzle on sets without Heatproof. Meanwhile, Tera Poison maintains Bronzong's Toxic immunity and improves its matchup into Fighting-types such as Paldean Tauros-A and Flamigo. Instead of Leftovers and Protect, Bronzong may opt for Toxic Orb and Trick to punish switch-ins by disrupting walls like Bellibolt and Florges or impair offensive threats like Decidueye and Arcanine whose items help them sweep or switch in to set up. (mention how this is much more niche) Bronzong may also use no item, becoming immune to Poltergeists from powerful Ghost-type Pokemon like Golurk and Decidueye. (swap this line and the tricktox line around.)Heatproof may be used instead of Levitate on teams that struggle against Fire-types like Arcanine and Delphox.

Bronzong is a great defensive backbone for bulky balance teams. Fairy-types make good defensive partners, switching in on Dark-type attacks—especially Knock Off—while gaining a fallback against Toxic and Poison-type attacks. (Would you not want to mention knock resists like Skunk and Scrafty here too..?) Florges is a particularly good partner, providing Wish support for Bronzong's limited recovery. (Does this also not make Scream Tail a good partner? What makes florges better as a wishpasser for bronzong than scream tail?) Alternatively, other Fairy-types like Grimmsnarl that don't depend on Heavy-Duty Boots for longevity can better switch in on Knock Off. Physically defensive Pokemon like Bellibolt and Gligar or Dragon-types (AH) like Altaria and Goodra round off these defensive cores, appreciating a Ground-type immunity or Ice-type and Dragon-type resistance, as well as a specially defensive switch-in. In turn, Bronzong takes advantage of status ticks like Bellibolt, Gligar, and Goodra's Toxic and Altaria's Will-O-Wisp on Protect turns and appreciates teammates that cover its lack of physical investment. Given these team structures, Bronzong cores can end up feeling passive and susceptible to Knock Off. PU has many powerful Dark- and Fighting-types that alleviate this issue through their offensive presence and typing synergy. Paldean Tauros-A and Scrafty appreciate a switch-in on Fairy-types like Florges and Scream Tail and are potent sweepers with the longevity to threaten Dark-types throughout games. Other Dark-types like Zoroark and Skuntank can safely switch in on Knock Off, relieving pressure on Bronzong and its defensive partners. (move this up to the fairy-type part) Finally, Heatproof Bronzong's ability to switch on Salazzle and Delphox aids other sweepers like Virizion and Scyther, granting them more opportunities to set up.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bleahey.641532/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bella.567483/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/

Heres your recheck; this is 1/2 once implemented!