Drednaw (QC - 0/2)

[thebestneverrest]

[SET]
name: Rain Gigantamax Sweeper
move 1: Liquidation
move 2: Earthquake
move 3: Crunch / Swords Dance
move 4: Superpower
item: life orb
ability: swift swim
nature: adamant / jolly
evs: 252 atk / 4 hp / 252 spe
Gigantamax: Yes

[SET COMMENTS]

Drednaw is an amazing sweeper when he's under the rain, thanks to his nice base atk and his ability swift swim. With life orb maximizing his damage output, you can get the most out of Drednaw's Dynamax as possible. With his decent move pool allowing him to hit the whole SS metagame for super effective or neutral damage, no typing is safe. Under rain Drednaw out speeds Zacian-Crowned, Galarian-Darmanitan, Eternatus, Mewtwo, Marshadow, and more. Pelipper should always be paired with Drednaw as he gives Drednaw the rain he needs to sweep. Superpower becomes max knuckle on Drednaw when dynamaxed, which rises his atk power by one. Earthquake does a very good chunk of damage on Defensive Eternatus and Toxapex. With his STAB move Liquidation getting a power boost by rain and his Dynamax, Drednaw will always do effective damage.

Drednaw may be a good sweeper but he has his problems that need to be dealt with, like Lunala and weather changers. Drednaw with crunch (when dynamaxed) he has a 6.3% chance to ohko Lunala if no atk boosts. If Drednaw doesn't KO Lunala he will have to deal with a will o wisp. So getting chip damage on Lunala can benefit Drednaw's sweep or just run lum berry. Pokemon that change the weather (like Tyranitar) will be very annoying for Drednaw to sweep, so getting rid of the weather changer will help Drednaw so he won't have to worry about wasting his dynamax. Sadly Drednaw only fits on rain teams knowing that no other type of team gives him the rain support that he needs to sweep. In the current metagame, Drednaw can scare teams if they don't have a weather changer or their method to deal with rain teams. Overall Drednaw is a very good rain sweeper with his ability doubling his speed and his good atk power.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[thebestneverrest]]
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[SiTuM]

Mega horn is a very good move on Drednaw as it is not common at all but is effective in doing a lot of damage on Tangrowth and other grass types.

megahorn is irrelevant, since almost no one uses tangrowth and there is no viable "other grass types" in ubers, so crunch with always be prioritized to deal with lunala and slowbro. please remove megahorn from the set and your sentence about it

Under rain Drednaw out speeds Zacian and common choice scarfers like Galarian-Darmanitan.

there are many more mons which drednaw outspeeds thanks to rain. please include more examples.

Thanks to his G max move (G max stone surge) setting up rocks so he doesn't need a suicide lead like common sweepers.

not really. you won't always gigantamax with drednaw in every game, so you still need a stealth rocks setter on your team. i also dont know why you're mentioning a suicide lead with a pokemon mainly played in rain, so please remove that

for a sweeper who only needs rain to sweep he is a very impressive sweeper.

i feel like this is a pretty useless sentence since you don't really explain why

i've also seen no mention of why drednaw runs life orb, even if it seems obvious you still have to mention it.

implement these changes and i'll put my QC

 

[thebestneverrest]

megahorn is irrelevant, since almost no one uses tangrowth and there is no viable "other grass types" in ubers, so crunch with always be prioritized to deal with lunala and slowbro. please remove megahorn from the set and your sentence about it



there are many more mons which drednaw outspeeds thanks to rain. please include more examples.



not really. you won't always gigantamax with drednaw in every game, so you still need a stealth rocks setter on your team. i also dont know why you're mentioning a suicide lead with a pokemon mainly played in rain, so please remove that



i feel like this is a pretty useless sentence since you don't really explain why

i've also seen no mention of why drednaw runs life orb, even if it seems obvious you still have to mention it.

implement these changes and i'll put my QC

Implemented. Thanks for your reply.

 

[Minority]

If you're going to slash Jolly it needs to be explained what it does. Glancing at speed tiers it seems Adamant Rain Drednaw outspeeds up to +2 Adamant Cloyster, including mons such as Scarf Darmanitan-G, Scarf Zekrom, Jolly Zacian-C, Dragapult, and +2 Necro-DM. Jolly Rain Drednaw hits 542 Speed, which beats up to +1 252 Eternatus, and a few random mons like Scarf Marshadow and Scarf Dugtrio. I haven't personally used this Pokemon in DLC 1 meta so I don't know if these speed benchmarks are important enough to slash Jolly, or have it first slash. Also are there any critical calcs for Adamant?

Sadly Drednaw only fits on rain teams knowing that no other type of team gives him the rain support that he needs to sweep. In the current meta game Drednaw can scare teams if they don't have a weather changer or there own method to deal with rain teams. Overall Drednaw is a very good rain sweeper with his ability doubling his speed and his good atk power.

These last three sentences in paragraph two aren't useful because they only repeat information that has already been established. Please remove and come up with other important (and new) points.

 

[Nayrz]

This analysis and the Urshifu analysis seem a long way from finishing. The paragraphs don't quite follow the standards we set in the index and general C&C quality we expect, and it's already resulted in your past 2 analyses being reassigned. If you intend to get these out then please look to the previous posts and have a read of the following threads and use this to bring your active analyses up to our standards:

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...ions-corrections-read-before-posting.3656646/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/c-c-guide-to-writing-and-qcing.3646989/

If you aren't or don't seem interested in the near future then the mods will lock these analyses and you will have to wait till DLC 2 C&C starts to work on more.

 

[thebestneverrest]

This analysis and the Urshifu analysis seem a long way from finishing. The paragraphs don't quite follow the standards we set in the index and general C&C quality we expect, and it's already resulted in your past 2 analyses being reassigned. If you intend to get these out then please look to the previous posts and have a read of the following threads and use this to bring your active analyses up to our standards:

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...ions-corrections-read-before-posting.3656646/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/c-c-guide-to-writing-and-qcing.3646989/

If you aren't or don't seem interested in the near future then the mods will lock these analyses and you will have to wait till DLC 2 C&C starts to work on more.

You can just take them down i still not ready to write analysis yet, i will just study the new meta game and see if i can make an analysis out of them. So just lock them both.