Doubles Dragapult

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Dragapult @ Choice Band
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Phantom Force
- U-turn
- Tera Blast

Dragapult darts through the Doubles OU metagame! Dragapult's high Attack and Speed stats, as well as its Dragon- and Ghost-type STAB attacks in Dragon Darts and Tera Blast Ghost, are difficult to resist simultaneously. Clear Body preventing Attack stat drops from Intimidate makes Dragapult a force to be reckoned with. Dragon Darts additionally discourages Protect, redirection, and Tera Fairy thanks to its smart targeting. Phantom Force is used to clean up late-game when the opponent has limited switching options or when Dragapult is likely to be attacked by both foes. U-turn is used to pivot out of unfavorable board states. With a Choice Band, Dragapult OHKOes Sinistcha with Tera Blast Ghost. Dragapult struggles against bulky Dark-types like Incineroar, and it is threatened by Sucker Punch from Chien-Pao and Kingambit. Ogerpon-W mitigates these weaknesses, as it threatens Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel and provides redirection so Chien-Pao and Kingambit are unable to land Sucker Punch. Chien-Pao supports Dragapult by providing Sword of Ruin, allowing Dragapult to OHKO opposing Ogerpon-W with Dragon Darts as well as threatening Kingambit with Sacred Sword.
 
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Ready for QC, this is at 1153 characters so I will need some help with cutting this down
 
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Dragapult @ Choice Band
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Phantom Force
- U-turn
- Tera Blast

This spooky dragon has been haunting haunts (free character count removal lol) Doubles OU! With its high Attack and Speed, Dragapult is capable of dealing massive damage before its opponents can move. Dragon Darts is the Dragon-type STAB attack of choice providing good spread damage and OHKOing Regidrago with two hits. This is all true, but really lacks what makes Darts so good - the smart targeting. Broadly, what makes Pult strong is that it's difficult to cover its stab combo well or slow down. (i.e. Clear Body) In this section, I'd want to focus more on that. The particulars of the move aren't that relevant. Despite being listed last, Tera Blast is by far it's most important move. Also, given that Darts is often not hitting twice in one turn, Regidrago shouldn't be mentioned in this way. It does threaten it out, and maybe prevent it from clicking Dragon energy, but that's it. Phantom Force provides a powerful Ghost-type STAB attack which shatters protection Shattering protection is nice, but it's best used in endgames where there aren't good switch-ins to it which is the primary weakness of this move rather than simply "taking two turns". It's also good when expecting a double-up into the Pult slot from your opponent. while taking two turns while Tera Blast is used as a one-turn Ghost-type STAB attack. U-turn is used to pivot while dealing significant damage to Rillaboom. Rillaboom is not the primary target here - it's for pivoting out of board states where neither move is a great click, the damage on to a few particular targets isn't that important. The EV spread maximizes Dragapult's Attack and Speed allowing it to outspeed the metagame What part of the metagame? This is too generic. Is there something important it outspeeds, for example even with the opponent in Tailwind? and Choice Band allows Dragapult to OHKO Raging Bolt with Dragon Darts. You already mention offensive targets for Dragon Darts, and Raging Bolt often is using Tera Fairy. Tera Ghost is used in tandem with Tera Blast and sheds Dragapult's Ice-type weakness to survive Kyurem's Blizzard. Kyurem is not a great target here - Shedding the Dragon type is nice for that but actually a bit harmful since it loses Dragon's excellent resistances and is not able to stand up to both Kyurem and Alolan-Ninetales at the same time, which are often led together. Dragapult struggles against bulky Dark-types like Incineroar and it is threatened by Sucker Punch from Chien-Pao. Gambit as well. Normal-types like Farigiraf are also problematic when Dragapult is locked into a Ghost-type attack. Partners such as Ogerpon-W and Chien-Pao mitigate these weaknesses. Ogerpon-W threatens Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel and provides redirection so Chien-Pao is unable to land Sucker Punch. Meanwhile Chien-Pao threatens Farigiraf with Throat Chop and additionally provides Sword of Ruin allowing Dragapult to OHKO opposing Ogerpon-W with Dragon Darts. These are good partners, Oger-W for the correct reason but Pao isn't quite right. Pao is its best partner simply because it massively boosts its damage, not to just hit one benchmark on opposing Ogerpon, and can help with Kingambit which is much more threatening. I don't hate the throat chop mention as it's probably correct, but Farig is generally not that threatening to Dragapult given its typical coverage set (Psychic/Normal) - Foul Play isn't run very often or at all, and you have banded U-Turn if it's really an issue. Not sure I'd focus on it much or at all in this spotlight - you can use the character count from here to be more descriptive elsewhere.
 
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Dragapult's high Attack and Speed stats, combination of the Dragon- and Ghost-type STAB attacks Dragon Darts and Ghost-type Tera Blast which are difficult to resist simultaneously, as well as Clear Body preventing Attack stat drops from Intimidate are a force to be reckoned with.
 
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Dragapult @ Choice Band
Ability: Clear Body
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Darts
- Phantom Force
- U-turn
- Tera Blast

Dragapult darts through the Doubles OU metagame! Dragapult's high Attack and Speed stats, as well as its Dragon- and Ghost-type STAB attacks (RC) in Dragon Darts and Ghost-type Tera Blast Ghost, are difficult to resist simultaneously. Clear Body preventing Attack stat drops from Intimidate make makes Dragapult a force to be reckoned with. Dragon Darts additionally discourages Protect, redirection, (AC) and Tera Fairy thanks to its smart targeting. Phantom Force is used to clean up in the late-game when the opponent has limited switching options or when Dragapult is likely to be attacked by both foes. U-turn is used to pivot out of unfavourable unfavorable board states. With a Choice Band, Dragapult OHKOs OHKOes Sinistcha with Ghost-type Tera Blast Ghost. Dragapult struggles against bulky Dark-types like Incineroar, (AC) and it is threatened by Sucker Punch from Chien-Pao and Kingambit. Ogerpon-W mitigates these weaknesses, (AC) as it threatens Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel and provides redirection so Chien-Pao and Kingambit are unable to land Sucker Punch. Chien-Pao supports Dragapult by providing Sword of Ruin, (AC) allowing Dragapult to OHKO opposing Ogerpon-W with Dragon Darts as well as threatening Kingambit with Sacred Sword.
 
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