Quality Control Choice Band Hisuian Arcanine [QC 0/2] [GP 0/1]

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[SET]
Choice Band (Arcanine-Hisui) @ Choice Band
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Raging Fury
- Outrage
- Close Combat / Iron Head

[SET COMMENTS]
* Head Smash is Hisuian Arcanine's strongest Rock-type STAB move, dealing with foes such as Non-Choice Scarf Volcanion and Skeledirge, while also dealing great damage against neutral foes such as Hoopa-Unbound and Sylveon.
* Raging Fury is its best move against Steel-types like Non-Choice Scarf Metagross, Non-Focus Blast Iron Crown and Corviknight.
* Outrage secures the matchup into frailer dragons, such as Roaring Moon, Raging Bolt, and Choice Specs Dragapult.
* Close Combat beats non-Chople Berry Hisuian Goodra. Alternatively, Iron Head can be used to deal with Diance.
* Hisuian Arcanine struggles against Fighting-type foes, as well as Water and Ground-types. It is recommended to use it alongside partners such as Primarina, Zapdos and Ogerpon-Wellspring that can deal with these threats.


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[SET]
Choice Band (Arcanine-Hisui) @ Choice Band
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (I think we can also run Jolly here to have a good matchup against Hoopa)
- Head Smash
- Raging Fury
- Outrage
- Close Combat / Iron Head

[SET COMMENTS]
* Head Smash is Hisuian Arcanine's strongest Rock-type STAB move, dealing with foes such as Non-Choice Scarf Volcanion and Skeledirge, while also dealing great damage against neutral foes such as Hoopa-Unbound and Sylveon. (There are cases where it is better to not click Head Smash against Hoopa. Also, the Sylveon matchup isn't really that surefire, cause Custap can click Endure into Hyper Beam and win due to Head Smash recoil. It's a 50/50 there.)
* Raging Fury is its best move against Steel-types like non-Choice Scarf Metagross, non-Focus Blast Iron Crown,(AC) (oxford comma, also +2 0 SpA Iron Crown Tachyon Cutter (2 hits) vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Arcanine-Hisui: 306-362 (92.4 - 109.3%) -- 61.3% chance to OHKO, this isn't even reliable into Fast WP Iron Crown because Raging Fury doesn't do enough to prevent ID WP activation.) and Corviknight.
* Outrage secures the matchup into frailer dragons Dragon-types, such as Roaring Moon, Raging Bolt, and Choice Specs Dragapult. (None of these are actually reliable. Hisuian Arcanine can lose to Sub Roaring Moon due to having to land Outrage five times. It loses to Haban Berry Raging Bolt, as Thunderbolt into Thunderclap kills. It also just gets nuked by Choice Specs Dragapult more often than not.)
* Close Combat beats non-Chople Berry Hisuian Goodra. (Custap Berry Hisuian Goodra goes Endure into Draco Meteor and wins.) Alternatively, Iron Head can be used to deal with Diance Diancie.
* Hisuian Arcanine struggles against Fighting-type foes, as well as Water and Ground-types. It is recommended to use it alongside partners such as Primarina, Zapdos and Ogerpon-Wellspring that can deal with these threats.

I'm gonna need another look or two at this before I give you the 1/2 here.