[SET]
name: Choiced Attacker
move 1: Fishious Rend
move 2: Psychic Fangs
move 3: Ice Fang / Crunch
move 4: Rock Slide / Dragon Rush
item: Choice Scarf / Choice Band
ability: Strong Jaw / Sand Rush
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
* Fishious Rend is the reason to use Dracovish. It is one of the strongest attacks in the metagame, easily OHKOing the likes of Incineroar, Nihilego, and Dynamaxed Landorus-T at doubled power.
* Psychic Fangs is useful for hitting Amoonguss, which can redirect Fishious Rend. It can also shatter screens from Grimmsnarl or Gigantamax Lapras, which can be extremely useful for it and offensive partners like Zapdos and Cinderace.
* Ice Fang lets Dracovish hit Water-resistant Pokemon like Rillaboom and Dragapult, though Crunch can be used for more damage on the latter.
* Rock Slide allows Dracovish to fish for flinches in desperate situations, as it often moves first. Dragon Rush is Dracovish's best way to hit Dragon-types like opposing Dracovish and Kingdra, though its accuracy means it isn't extremely reliable.
* Strong Jaw lets Dracovish get the most damage out of Fishious Rend, and typically it can afford to run Choice Scarf to outspeed Cinderace, Landorus-T, and Spectrier without relying on other means of speed control. Sand Rush sets are effective when paired with Tyranitar for an extremely useful Speed boost, as it can outspeed Pokemon like Dragapult and +1 Landorus-T, which Choice Scarf cannot do; however, Choice Band is the recommended item to make up for the lack of a Strong Jaw boost. It is worth noting that maximum invested Jolly Dracovish outspeeds Regieleki in sand, which Adamant fails to do.
[SET]
name: Substitute
move 1: Fishious Rend
move 2: Ice Fang
move 3: Substitute
move 4: Protect
item: Mystic Water
ability: Strong Jaw
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
* Fishious Rend is what makes Dracovish threatening. At full power, it is capable of OHKOing numerous Dynamaxed threats like Landorus-T and Charizard.
* Ice Fang is the best complementary move to Fishious Rend, hitting common Water-resistant Pokemon like Dragapult, Venusaur, and Rillaboom for super effective damage.
* Substitute is useful for keeping Dracovish safe from Intimidate and Fake Out, which are common methods used to check it.
* Strong Jaw and Mystic Water are both important for ensuring Fishious Rend's damage output stays high, while 252 Speed EVs and a Jolly nature let it outspeed Modest Heatran.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[zeefable, 501951]]
- Quality checked by: [[Raineko, 294287]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Estronic, 240732]]
Dracovish is a weird mon in that you can interchange every mention of Dracovish with Fishious Rend and it still makes sense. I sort of combined Fishious Rend and the overview point into one because of this but lmk if you'd rather have it done differently.
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