[overview]
**Draft Order**: Round 8
**Price Range**: 2-3 points
**Overview**: Dachsbun is a relatively speedy wall that offers immunities to Fire- and Dragon-type moves, solid resistances, usable Wish support, and decent coverage and disruption options that make it valuable to very specific teams as a late-round pick. However, due to its limited movepool and low offensive stats, it can struggle to prevent itself from becoming setup fodder or contribute any significant impact to battles where it isn't used to handle a specific threat. Due to its low HP stat, its Wish passes are surprisingly small for higher HP allies, and it is more frail than it looks on paper.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
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**Defensive Tank**: Dachsbun's decent defenses combined with multiple useful resistances and immunities let it pivot into expected resisted hits, allowing it to threaten a super effective attack, disrupt with Roar or Yawn, or set up a Wish to keep itself or a teammate moderately healthy. If it doesn't need the Fire immunity from Well-Baked Body, it can utilize Aroma Veil to bypass common disruption tools like Taunt and Encore.
Common Moves
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**Primary STAB Moves**: Play Rough
**Utility Moves**: Wish, Roar, Yawn, Protect, Snarl
**Coverage**: Body Press, Stomping Tantrum, Crunch, Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Psychic Fangs, Trailblaze
Niche Moves
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**Endeavor**: Dachsbun typically outspeeds opposing walls, allowing it to deal far more damage than expected with Endeavor if it is at low HP from prior attacks.
Common Items
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**Leftovers**: Dachsbun appreciates the passive healing that Leftovers provides, assuming it will be on the field for several turns.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: If Dachsbun is expected to switch into entry hazards multiple times to absorb attacks or pass Wish to teammates, Heavy-Duty Boots can negate the extra damage.
Niche Items
========
**Rocky Helmet**: Dachsbun can punish physical attackers and U-turn users with Rocky Helmet, chipping away at their health without needing to attack.
**Sitrus Berry**: For more fast-paced games where Dachsbun is expected to spend less time on the field, it can gain more benefit from a single Sitrus Berry than it would from Leftovers if it is consistently switching out.
**Mental Herb**: If Dachsbun needs to run Well-Baked Body over Aroma Veil, it can prevent disruption a single time by utilizing Mental Herb, allowing it an additional turn to use a status move.
Tera
========
One of Dachsbun's primary draws is its typing, and it cannot use offensive Tera types effectively, so it should only be a Tera Captain if there are no other options. In that case, Tera Steel and Tera Grass can give it more varied resistances while maintaining its immunity to Fire-type moves, whereas Tera Fighting can boost its Body Press damage if it can obtain a Defense raise from Well-Baked Body.
Draft Strategy
========
Dachsbun fits best on teams that need a Fairy-type's defensive profile on a budget alongside a Fire immunity and decent Wish support. It is not an option that comes to every single battle but rather a defensive pivot against specific threats like Gouging Fire, Urshifu-S, Chi-Yu, and Roaring Moon.
Checks and Counters
========
**Bulky Fairy- and Fighting-resistant Foes**: Foes like Gholdengo, Skeledirge, Iron Moth, and Pecharunt that resist or nullify Play Rough and Body Press can typically ignore Dachsbun's other coverage, leaving it only able to use Yawn, use Wish, or double out on the expected switch in.
**Special Attackers**: Dachsbun is best used as a defensive wall, but it has considerably low Special Defense, so it struggles to take hits from prominent special attackers like Walking Wake, Enamorus, and Iron Crown.
**Taunt and Encore**: Dachsbun's disruption and Wish passing options can be prevented by faster foes like Cinderace, Fezandipiti, and Talonflame using Taunt or Encore when it needs to run Well-Baked Body.
[credits]
Written by:
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**Draft Order**: Round 8
**Price Range**: 2-3 points
**Overview**: Dachsbun is a relatively speedy wall that offers immunities to Fire- and Dragon-type moves, solid resistances, usable Wish support, and decent coverage and disruption options that make it valuable to very specific teams as a late-round pick. However, due to its limited movepool and low offensive stats, it can struggle to prevent itself from becoming setup fodder or contribute any significant impact to battles where it isn't used to handle a specific threat. Due to its low HP stat, its Wish passes are surprisingly small for higher HP allies, and it is more frail than it looks on paper.
[strategy comments]
Common Roles
========
**Defensive Tank**: Dachsbun's decent defenses combined with multiple useful resistances and immunities let it pivot into expected resisted hits, allowing it to threaten a super effective attack, disrupt with Roar or Yawn, or set up a Wish to keep itself or a teammate moderately healthy. If it doesn't need the Fire immunity from Well-Baked Body, it can utilize Aroma Veil to bypass common disruption tools like Taunt and Encore.
Common Moves
========
**Primary STAB Moves**: Play Rough
**Utility Moves**: Wish, Roar, Yawn, Protect, Snarl
**Coverage**: Body Press, Stomping Tantrum, Crunch, Fire Fang, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Psychic Fangs, Trailblaze
Niche Moves
========
**Endeavor**: Dachsbun typically outspeeds opposing walls, allowing it to deal far more damage than expected with Endeavor if it is at low HP from prior attacks.
Common Items
========
**Leftovers**: Dachsbun appreciates the passive healing that Leftovers provides, assuming it will be on the field for several turns.
**Heavy-Duty Boots**: If Dachsbun is expected to switch into entry hazards multiple times to absorb attacks or pass Wish to teammates, Heavy-Duty Boots can negate the extra damage.
Niche Items
========
**Rocky Helmet**: Dachsbun can punish physical attackers and U-turn users with Rocky Helmet, chipping away at their health without needing to attack.
**Sitrus Berry**: For more fast-paced games where Dachsbun is expected to spend less time on the field, it can gain more benefit from a single Sitrus Berry than it would from Leftovers if it is consistently switching out.
**Mental Herb**: If Dachsbun needs to run Well-Baked Body over Aroma Veil, it can prevent disruption a single time by utilizing Mental Herb, allowing it an additional turn to use a status move.
Tera
========
One of Dachsbun's primary draws is its typing, and it cannot use offensive Tera types effectively, so it should only be a Tera Captain if there are no other options. In that case, Tera Steel and Tera Grass can give it more varied resistances while maintaining its immunity to Fire-type moves, whereas Tera Fighting can boost its Body Press damage if it can obtain a Defense raise from Well-Baked Body.
Draft Strategy
========
Dachsbun fits best on teams that need a Fairy-type's defensive profile on a budget alongside a Fire immunity and decent Wish support. It is not an option that comes to every single battle but rather a defensive pivot against specific threats like Gouging Fire, Urshifu-S, Chi-Yu, and Roaring Moon.
Checks and Counters
========
**Bulky Fairy- and Fighting-resistant Foes**: Foes like Gholdengo, Skeledirge, Iron Moth, and Pecharunt that resist or nullify Play Rough and Body Press can typically ignore Dachsbun's other coverage, leaving it only able to use Yawn, use Wish, or double out on the expected switch in.
**Special Attackers**: Dachsbun is best used as a defensive wall, but it has considerably low Special Defense, so it struggles to take hits from prominent special attackers like Walking Wake, Enamorus, and Iron Crown.
**Taunt and Encore**: Dachsbun's disruption and Wish passing options can be prevented by faster foes like Cinderace, Fezandipiti, and Talonflame using Taunt or Encore when it needs to run Well-Baked Body.
[credits]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/xand.614716/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/e-man.617175/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/drizzle.313217/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/rose.511181/
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