VGC Ninetales-Alola

[LovelyLuna]

[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and Aurora Veil support give Alolan Ninetales a strong niche in the metagame. Alolan Ninetales's great offensive typing allows it to threaten Chien-Pao, Urshifu-S, and Landorus with an OHKO while also walling the former two.

* Alolan Ninetales pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk from snow, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Hisuian Arcanine also makes for an excellent partner, helping Alolan Ninetales set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support, dishing out great damage, and threatening Ice-resistant foes, such as Gholdengo, Incineroar, and Kingambit. All of these partners have fantastic offensive pressure through setup or Choice items, making up for Alolan Ninetales's poor offenses. Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil with Follow Me and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel.

* Alolan Ninetales struggles against opposing weather setters such as Tornadus, which can shut down the snow composition. Fire- and Steel-types such as Gholdengo and Chi-Yu are threats, as they resist Ninetales-Alola's and Articuno's Ice-type STAB moves, as well as ignoring Ogerpon-W's Follow Me through Make It Rain and Heat Wave.

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast guarantees a 2HKO on Urshifu-R. Helping Hand helps make up for Alolan Ninetales's poor damage output.

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Alolan Ninetales to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment allows it to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Alolan Ninetales to resist the Fire- and Steel-type moves that otherwise give it trouble, such as Gholdengo's Make it Rain and Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
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[SoulboyVGC]

[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and screen support in Aurora Veil, allow Alolan Ninetales Ninetales-Alola (Be consistent with it, you use Ninetales-Alola everywhere else) to have a big niche in the metagame. Ninetales-Alola is great against Chien-Pao and Landorus, threatening both for an OHKO and walling the former.

* Ninetales-Alola pairs especially well with slower, bulkier Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk from snow and Aurora Veil, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui also makes for an excellent partner, providing Intimidate support and dishing out great damage, making use of Aurora Veil (a bit vague here, how does dishing out great damage and intim make use of Aurora veil?). Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil with Follow Me and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar.

* Ninetales-Alola struggles against Sunny Day / Rain Dance Tornadus which can shut down the composition, and the Urshifu formes ignore Aurora Veil with their signature moves, so Raging Bollt makes for a fantastic countermeasure. Gholdengo may also prove to be an issue, as Make it Rain doesn't care about Ogerpon-W's Follow Me.

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast is required to threaten the Urshifu formes, and Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's poor damage output.

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola to resist otherwise super effective moves like Gholdengo's Make it Rain and Chi-Yu's Heat Wave. It also invites provides (invites suggest Ogerpon-H wants to click ivy cudgel into a resist) a resistance to Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
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Grammar checked by:

Red is remove
Blue is add
Purple is remove
Amqc, implement if you like

 

[LovelyLuna]

Discussed and implemented, ty!

 

[Choruto]

You know the colours, look pre good! I'll check over again after implemented but should be fine honestly. Remember to fix some capitalizations and forme names too.

[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and screen support in Aurora Veil, allow give Ninetales-Alola to have a big a strong niche in the metagame. (Ik this is more GP, but this flowed pretty awkwardly. Also, not sure if the "In Snow Warning" needed, weather control is kinda obvious but I'll leave that up to you) Ninetales-Alola is great against Chien-Pao and Landorus, threatening both for an OHKO and walling the former. (This feels a lot like just stating the type chart, could you rephrase this into something like "Ninetales-A has a strong offensive presence thanks to its great typing hitting many metagame staples such as Landorus, Urshifu-S and Chien-Pao"?)

* Ninetales-Alola pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui also makes for an excellent partner, helping set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support and dishes out great damage, making use of the extra bulk. The Fire resist also gives it great defensive synergy with Ninetales-Alola (I mean, its true but its 1 resistance and most fire types either outspeed harc or dont rly care about it. Your gonna have to lead Ninetales and pivot into harc, but generally you dont want to switch a-tales. Can you think of another benefit for both harc and maybe artiuno, such as rectifying Ninetales low offensive pressure, and maybe harc handling steel and fire types though im a bit ehh on that). Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Follow Me and Ivy Cudgel respectively.

* Ninetales-Alola struggles against Sunny Day / Rain Dance Tornadus opposing weather control (Peli/Torkoal are fairy common, I think its better to be less specific here. You can say tornadus as an example) which can shut down the snow composition, and the Urshifu formes ignore Aurora Veil with their signature moves, so Raging Bollt makes for a fantastic countermeasure (This feels really cramped, and im not really sure on the content. Ninetales covers for both Urshifu formes already with MB, and both still are affected by the snow. Can you come up with another counter?). Gholdngo may also prove to be an issue, as Make it Rain doesn't care about Ogerpon-W's Follow Me. (First off, spelling mistakes as well as form names, its a bit sloppy. Second, can you re word this to Steel and Fire types in general being a problem as they resist articuno and ninetales, with dengo and say chi yu bypassing snow defense boost as well as follow me from pon.)

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast is required to threaten the Urshifu formes Moonblast is the strongest Fairy-type move available (The previous part was more about fairy, not rly why mb is used), and Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's poor damage output. (Maybe change this to support teamates? Poor damage output is true, but it hasen't been mentioned so far, and earlier it was said that it has good coverage ya know)

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola to resist the Fire- and Steel-types that otherwise give Ninetales-Alola trouble. otherwise super effective moves like Gholdengo's Make it Rain and Chi-Yu's Heat Wave. It also provides a resistance to Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lovelyluna.641287/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/choruto.646006/
Grammar checked by:

 

[Choruto]

Should be good to go! Can be marked QC 1/2

[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and screen support in Aurora Veil, allow Ninetales-Alola to have a big niche in the metagame (Nitpicking here, I dont rly like how this is phrased, it sounds kinda weird and imo doesen't rly explain why snow in general is so good, like great offensive damage/typing of Ice) . Ninetales-Alola's great offensive typing allows it to threaten Chien-Pao, Urshifu-S, and Landorus for an OHKO, while also walling the former two.

* Ninetales-Alola pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui also makes for an excellent partner, helping set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support and dishes out great damage, especially since its STAB types hits almost all Ice-resists, making use of the extra bulk (Include if you want and phrase it however, but yeah it does do se to steel/fire which are annoying to ice spam, also got rid of the extra bulk part cuz everymon likes the extra bulk). All of these have fantastic offensive pressure through set-up or choice items, making up for Ninetales-Alola's poor offenses. Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Follow Me and Ivy Cudgel respectively.

* Ninetales-Alola struggles against opposing weather control such as Tornadus, which can shut down the snow composition. Steel- and Fire-types such as Gholdengo and Chi-Yu are an issue, as they resist Ninetales-Alola's and Articuno's Ice STAB moves, as well as ignore Ogerpon-W's Follow Me through Make it Rain and Heat Wave. (Steel and fire as a whole are annoying, thought it sounded a bit like dengo and chi yu are big problems)

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast is preferred as Dazzling Gleam doesn't pick up the 2HKO on Urshifu-R struggles to pick up KO's, such as a 2HKO on Urshifu-R.,(AP)(RC) and Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's poor damage output. (MB isen't used for for Urshifu-R, in general you prefer the damage. Also split the sentences, they dont rly have anything to do with each other)

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola to resist the Fire- and Steel-type moves that otherwise give Ninetales-Alola trouble, such as Gholdengo's Make it Rain and Ogerpon-H's Ivy Cudgel. STAB types. (Thought resisting both STAB types is worth a mention)

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lovelyluna.641287/
Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:

 

[SoulboyVGC]

[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and screen support in Aurora Veil, gives Ninetales-Alola to have a strong niche in the metagame. Ninetales-Alola's great offensive typing allows it to threaten Chien-Pao, Urshifu-S, and Landorus for an OHKO, while also walling the former two.

* Ninetales-Alola pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui also makes for an excellent partner, helping set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support and dishes out great damage, while also threatening Ice-resistant foes, such as Gholdengo, Incineroar, and Kingambit. All of these have fantastic offensive pressure through set-up or choice items, making up for Ninetales-Alola's poor offenses. Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Follow Me and Ivy Cudgel respectively.

* Ninetales-Alola struggles against opposing weather control such as Tornadus, which can shut down the snow composition. Fire and Steel-types such as Gholdengo and Chi-Yu are a threat, as they resist Ninetales-Alola's and Articuno's Ice STAB moves, as well as ignore Ogerpon-W's Follow Me through Make it Rain and Heat Wave.

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast is preferred for the extra damage, guaranteeings a 2HKO on Urshifu-R. Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's poor damage output.

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola to resist the Fire- and Steel-type moves that otherwise give Ninetales-Alola trouble, such as Gholdengo's Make it Rain and Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lovelyluna.641287/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/choruto.646006/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/soulboyvgc.558405/
Grammar checked by:

AMQCed this one too, so not much here. Mark this as QC 2/2

 

[LovelyLuna]

GP Team

 

[adorluigi]

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[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and dual screens support in Aurora Veil,(remove comma) give Ninetales-Alola to have Alolan Ninetales a strong niche in the metagame. Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's great offensive typing allows it to threaten Chien-Pao, Urshifu-S, and Landorus for with an OHKO,(remove comma) while also walling the former two.

* Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk from snow, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui Hisuian Arcanine also makes for an excellent partner, helping set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support and dishes dishing out great damage,(remove comma) while also threatening Ice-resistant foes, such as Gholdengo, Incineroar, and Kingambit. All of these have fantastic offensive pressure through setup set-up or choice Choice items, making up for Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's poor offenses. Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping set up Aurora Veil with Follow me and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel Follow Me and Ivy Cudgel respectively.

* Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales struggles against opposing weather setters control such as Tornadus, which can shut down the snow composition. Fire Fire- and Steel-types such as Gholdengo and Chi-Yu are a threats, as they resist Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's and Articuno's Ice STAB moves, as well as ignore Ogerpon-W's Follow Me through Make it It Rain and Heat Wave.

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast guarantees a 2HKO on Urshifu-R. Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's poor damage output.

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to allows it to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales to resist the Fire- and Steel-type moves that otherwise give Ninetales-Alola it trouble, such as Gholdengo's Make it It Rain and Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lovelyluna.641287/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/choruto.646006/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/soulboyvgc.558405/
Grammar checked by:

 

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[OVERVIEW]

* Weather control in Snow Warning and screen support in Aurora Veil support,(remove comma) give Ninetales-Alola to have Alolan Ninetales a strong niche in the metagame. Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's great offensive typing allows it to threaten Chien-Pao, Urshifu-S, and Landorus for with an OHKO,(remove comma) while also walling the former two.

* Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales pairs especially well with slower Ice-types that appreciate the added bulk from snow, such as Articuno and Baxcalibur. Arcanine-Hisui Hisuian Arcanine also makes for an excellent partner, helping Alolan Ninetales set up Aurora Veil through Intimidate support, (comma) and dishes dishing out great damage, while also and threatening Ice-resistant foes, such as Gholdengo, Incineroar, and Kingambit. All of these (partners?) have fantastic offensive pressure through setup set-up or choice Choice items, making up for Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's poor offenses. Ogerpon-W does a great job at helping Alolan Ninetales set up Aurora Veil with Follow Me and threatening foes that resist Ice-type moves like Incineroar with Ivy Cudgel Follow Me and Ivy Cudgel respectively.

* Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales struggles against opposing weather setters control such as Tornadus, which can shut down the snow composition. Fire Fire- and Steel-types such as Gholdengo and Chi-Yu are a threats, as they resist Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's and Articuno's Ice Ice-type STAB moves, as well as ignore ignoring Ogerpon-W's Follow Me through Make it It Rain and Heat Wave.

[SET]
Screen Setter (Ninetales-Alola) @ Light Clay
Level: 50
Ability: Snow Warning
EVs: 84 HP / 132 Def / 84 SpA / 4 SpD / 204 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
Tera Type: Fire
Timid Nature
- Blizzard
- Moonblast
- Aurora Veil
- Helping Hand

[SET COMMENTS]

* Moonblast guarantees a 2HKO on Urshifu-R. Helping Hand helps make up for Ninetales-Alola's Alolan Ninetales's poor damage output.

* Light Clay is used to make sure Aurora Veil lasts for the majority of the game.

* The defensive investment allows Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales to survive Choice Specs Flutter Mane's Moonblast and avoid the 2HKO from Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel and Rillaboom's Wood Hammer, while the Speed investment is to allows it to outspeed Landorus.

* Tera Fire allows Ninetales-Alola Alolan Ninetales to resist the Fire- and Steel-type moves that otherwise give Ninetales-Alola it trouble, such as Gholdengo's Make it It Rain and Ogerpon-H's STAB moves.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/lovelyluna.641287/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/choruto.646006/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/soulboyvgc.558405/
Grammar checked by:

AM Check Feedback

- Phrases like "Pokemon does this and this while also doing this" can be simplified to a list ("Pokemon does this, this, and this").
- You didn't capitalize the "Me" in "Follow Me".
- I'd always put "[type]-type STAB moves" rather than just "[type] STAB moves".
- "As well as" rules are more annoying than this, but generally, when "as well as" is preceded by a comma, the proceeding verb should be in its gerund ("-ing") form.

1/1 GP Team done
Credit adorluigi too!