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[SET]
Rain Setter (Pelipper) @ Damp Rock
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- U-turn
- Roost
- Defog / Hurricane

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to Drizzle, Pelipper establishes itself as rain teams' dedicated weather setter and the archetype's most important supporting piece. Scald punishes threats like Dragonite and Roaring Moon for using Pelipper as setup fodder as well as Mega Tyranitar for switching in to replace the weather. Additionally, it cripples walls that can be very hard for rain teams to break through like Ferrothorn, Alomomola, and Toxapex. U-turn makes Pelipper an effective pivot; in conjunction with minimum Speed investment, it can comfortably take hits from foes and safely bring in teammates like Mega Swampert and Archaludon afterwards. More specifically, being as slow as possible allows Pelipper to underspeed Ting-Lu and Clefable as well as Speed tie with Alomomola, potentially preventing it from gaining momentum. Not only does Roost allow Pelipper to keep itself healthy so that it can repeatedly set up rain throughout the game in the face of Stealth Rock, Roost also lets Pelipper switch into and check foes like Great Tusk, Urshifu-R, and Zamazenta more consistently. Pelipper can run Defog to act as the team's entry hazard remover, especially due to its positive matchup against the tier's common hazard setters such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Heatran. However, if the team has another form of hazard removal, Pelipper can opt to run Hurricane instead; on top of synergizing well with Drizzle, the move allows Pelipper to immediately threaten Zamazenta and, more importanly, Ogerpon-W, which is a tough matchup for rain. Knock Off is a niche option to cripple walls like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Alomomola, allowing Pelipper's offensive teammates to overwhelm them more easily.

Pelipper is exclusively found on rain teams and is essentially required for the archetype. Mega Swampert is Pelipper's best friend, as the rain makes it stronger and enables its Swift Swim, allowing it to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame. Its Electric immunity is also valuable, providing rain teams, especially Pelipper itself, a stopgap against the likes of Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt. Similarly, the team's own Raging Bolt and Zapdos are great teammates, and they threaten bulky Water-types like Alomomola, Toxapex, and Slowbro, which Pelipper draws in and pivots on. Pelipper's rain allows them to take advantage of Thunder as well as Hurricane and run Water-type Weather Ball to deal with their Ground-type checks like Gliscor and Ting-Lu more easily. Defensively, Raging Bolt helps check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, the latter of which can remove Pelipper's rain, while Zapdos takes on Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for rain teams. Other wallbreakers in rain include offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R and Barraskewda as well as Archaludon; Urshifu-R gives rain teams a way to threaten Ferrothorn and Kingambit, Barraskewda is an even faster Swift Swim user than Mega Swampert, and Archaludon can make use of Electro Shot to accumulate boosts and snowball games while providing defensive value in checking threats like Ogerpon-W and Zapdos. Other Steel-types, like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn, that focus more on utility are also valuable, as they take advantage of the weather to do better against Pokemon with Fire-type coverage like Terapagos and Mega Diancie. On top of that, both of them in particular are sturdy checks to Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt, and Iron Treads also provides hazard removal with Rapid Spin, mitigating Pelipper's Stealth Rock weakness and even letting it forgo Defog. In return, Pelipper is great at checking Ground- and Fighting-types that would threaten the aforementioned Steel-types and Raging Bolt out like Zamazenta, Urshifu-R, Great Tusk, and Landorus-T. Tornadus-T can take advantage of the weather for a fully accurate STAB move, be a check to Kartana and—if holding an Assault Vest—Iron Valiant, and become the team's hazard removal instead if necessary.

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[SET]
Rain Setter (Pelipper) @ Damp Rock
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- U-turn
- Roost
- Defog / Hurricane

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to Drizzle, Pelipper establishes as rain team's dedicated weather setter. On top of punishing threats like Dragonite and Dragapult include a different example because pult can run sub from using it as setup fodder and Mega Tyranitar from switching in to replace the weather, Scald cripples walls like Ferrothorn, Alomomola, and Toxapex that can be very hard for rain teams to break through. U-turn makes Pelipper into an effective pivot; in conjunction with its typing, bulk, and minimum Speed investment, it can more comfortably take hits from foes and bring its teammates usually think it’s fine to mention some examples in these kinds of sections safely afterwards. More specifically, being as slow as possible allow it to underspeed Ting-Lu and Clefable and Speed tie with Alomomola, potentially preventing it from gaining momentum. Roost not only allows Pelipper to keep itself healthy for more rain turns throughout the game in the face of Stealth Rock, it also lets Pelipper switch into and check foes like Great Tusk, Urshifu-R, and Zamazenta more consistently. Pelipper can run Defog as the team's entry hazard remover, especially due to its positive matchup against the tier's common hazard setters such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Heatran. However, if the team has another Defogger form of hazard removal treads can also exist on rain, Pelipper can opt to run Hurricane instead; on top of synergizing well with Drizzle, the move allows Pelipper to immediately threaten Urshifu-R, Zamazenta, Rillaboom, shifu you check already and Rilla isn’t all too relevant rn, wouldn’t be a bad mu for rain anyway since that playstyle runs like 3 rilla checks naturally. Rlly just want to stress zama and ogerpon here and more importanly Ogerpon-W, the latter two of which are is a tough matchups for rain. Knock Off is a niche option to cripple walls like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Alomomola, allowing Pelipper's offensive teammates to overwhelm them more easily.

Pelipper is exclusively found on rain teams and is essentially required for the archetype. Mega Swampert is Pelipper's best friend, as the rain makes it stronger and enables its Swift Swim to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame. Its Electric immunity is also valuable, providing rain teams, especially Pelipper itself, a stopgap against the likes of Tapu Koko, and Raging Bolt, and Zapdos cane hurts and you can’t really click into zap safely anyways. Similarly, the team's own Raging Bolt and Zapdos are great teammates to threaten bulky Water-types like Alomomola, Toxapex, and Slowbro, which Pelipper pivots on. Pelipper's rain allow them to take advantage of their fully accurate Thunder and Hurricane, with Raging Bolt in particular capable of running rain Water-type Weather Ball in rain clearer to deal with its Ground-type checks like Gliscor and Ting-Lu more easily. Defensively, Raging Bolt helps check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, which can reset Pelipper’s rain, while Zapdos takes on Rillaboom and Kartana Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for rain teams. Other wallbreakers in rain include offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R as well as Archaludon; the former also gives rain teams a way to immediately threaten Ferrothorn and Kingambit important because gambit can clean through weakened rain stuff, while the latter can make use of Electro Shot to accumulate boosts and snowball games while providing defensive value in checking threats like Ogerpon-W and, with an Assault Vest, Kyurem in most games u will lose long term to Kyu pretty easily, replace with smth like Zapdos. Other Steel-types like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn that focus more on the utility are also valuable, as they take advantage of the weather to alleviate their Fire Weakness and do better against Pokemon with Fire-type coverage like Terapagos and Mega Diancie, with both of them in particular being sturdy checks to Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt. Moreover, Ferrothorn can set entry hazards for the team, while not relevant to peli specifically Iron Treads provides hazard removal with Rapid Spin, mitigating Pelipper's Stealth Rock weakness and even letting it forgo Defog. In return, Pelipper is great at checking Ground- and Fighting-types like Zamazenta, Urshifu-R, Great Tusk, and Landorus-T that would threaten the aforementioned Steel-types and Raging Bolt out. Other hazard removal options like you can run tornt on rain as non-removal too Tornadus-T can also be considered, especially because it also checks Grass-types like Kartana and Rillaboom Iron Valiant if holding an Assault Vest as well as taking advantage of the weather for a fully-accurate STAB move. While niche, Manaphy can take advantage of Rest + Hydration alongside Pelipper's rain to become a strong wallbreaker and stallbreaker for the archetype. personally think the section is long enough already and mana isn’t even at its best in rain teams, just a niche pick like you said that idt needs to be mentioned in this analysis because I have not seen a single viable nd mana rain
1/2 nice stuff

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[SET]
Rain Setter (Pelipper) @ Damp Rock
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- U-turn
- Roost
- Defog / Hurricane

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to Drizzle, Pelipper establishes as rain team's dedicated weather setter might wanna expand on this. On top of punishing threats like Dragonite and Roaring Moon from using it as setup fodder and Mega Tyranitar from switching in to replace the weather, Scald cripples walls like Ferrothorn, Alomomola, and Toxapex that can be very hard for rain teams to break through. U-turn makes Pelipper into an effective pivot; in conjunction with minimum Speed investment, it can comfortably take hits from foes and bring its teammates like Mega Swampert and Archaludon safely afterwards. More specifically, being as slow as possible allow it to underspeed Ting-Lu and Clefable and Speed tie with Alomomola, potentially preventing it from gaining momentum. Roost not only allows Pelipper to keep itself healthy for more rain turns throughout the game in the face of Stealth Rock, it also lets Pelipper switch into and check foes like Great Tusk, Urshifu-R, and Zamazenta more consistently. Pelipper can run Defog as the team's entry hazard remover, especially due to its positive matchup against the tier's common hazard setters such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Heatran. However, if the team has another form of hazard removal, Pelipper can opt to run Hurricane instead; on top of synergizing well with Drizzle, the move allows Pelipper to immediately threaten Zamazenta and more importanly Ogerpon-W, the latter of which is a tough matchup for rain. Knock Off is a niche option to cripple walls like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Alomomola, allowing Pelipper's offensive teammates to overwhelm them more easily.

Pelipper is exclusively found on rain teams and is essentially required for the archetype. Mega Swampert is Pelipper's best friend, as the rain makes it stronger and enables its Swift Swim to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame. Its Electric immunity is also valuable, providing rain teams, especially Pelipper itself, a stopgap against the likes of Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt. Similarly, the team's own Raging Bolt and Zapdos are great teammates to threaten bulky Water-types like Alomomola, Toxapex, and Slowbro, which Pelipper pivots on. Pelipper's rain allow them to take advantage of their fully accurate Thunder and Hurricane, with Raging Bolt in particular capable of running Water-type Weather Ball in rain Zapdos also runs weather ball on rain quite often, so might wanna reword this sentence to deal with its Ground-type checks like Gliscor and Ting-Lu more easily. Defensively, Raging Bolt helps check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, which can reset Pelipper’s rain, while Zapdos takes on Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for rain teams. Other wallbreakers in rain include offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R might wanna mention at lest 1 more example here, like Barraskewda as well as Archaludon; the former also gives rain teams a way to threaten Ferrothorn and Kingambit, while the latter can make use of Electro Shot to accumulate boosts and snowball games while providing defensive value in checking threats like Ogerpon-W and Zapdos. Other Steel-types like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn that focus more on the utility are also valuable, as they take advantage of the weather to do better against Pokemon with Fire-type coverage like Terapagos and Mega Diancie, with both of them in particular being sturdy checks to Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt. Iron Treads also provides hazard removal with Rapid Spin, mitigating Pelipper's Stealth Rock weakness and even letting it forgo Defog. In return, Pelipper is great at checking Ground- and Fighting-types like Zamazenta, Urshifu-R, Great Tusk, and Landorus-T that would threaten the aforementioned Steel-types and Raging Bolt out. Tornadus-T can take advantage of the weather for a fully-accurate STAB move, be a check to Kartana and Iron Valiant if holding an Assault Vest, and become the team's hazard removal instead if necessary

2/2, really just nitpicking stuff, good job
 
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[SET]
Rain Setter (Pelipper) @ Damp Rock
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Scald
- U-turn
- Roost
- Defog / Hurricane

[SET COMMENTS]
Thanks to Drizzle, Pelipper establishes itself as rain teams' team's dedicated weather setter and the archetype's most important supporting piece. On top of punishing Scald punishes threats like Dragonite and Roaring Moon for from using it Pelipper as setup fodder as well as and Mega Tyranitar from for switching in to replace the weather. (RC; Add period) Additionally, (AC) it Scald cripples walls like Ferrothorn, Alomomola, and Toxapex that can be very hard for rain teams to break through like Ferrothorn, Alomomola, and Toxapex. U-turn makes Pelipper into an effective pivot; in conjunction with minimum Speed investment, it can comfortably take hits from foes and safely bring in its teammates like Mega Swampert and Archaludon safely afterwards. More specifically, being as slow as possible allows Pelipper allow it to underspeed Ting-Lu and Clefable and as well as Speed tie with Alomomola, potentially preventing it from gaining momentum. Roost not Not only does Roost allow allows Pelipper to keep itself healthy for more so that it can repeatedly set up rain turns throughout the game in the face of Stealth Rock, Roost it also lets Pelipper switch into and check foes like Great Tusk, Urshifu-R, and Zamazenta more consistently. Pelipper can run Defog to act as the team's entry hazard remover, especially due to its positive matchup against the tier's common hazard setters such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Heatran. However, if the team has another form of hazard removal, Pelipper can opt to run Hurricane instead; on top of synergizing well with Drizzle, the move allows Pelipper to immediately threaten Zamazenta and, (AC) more importanly, (AC) Ogerpon-W, the latter of which is a tough matchup for rain. (saying “more importantly” adds distance between the Zamazenta mention + saying “which IS” makes it clear you don’t mean both, as in that case, you’d say “which ARE”) Knock Off is a niche option to cripple walls like Toxapex, Ferrothorn, and Alomomola, allowing Pelipper's offensive teammates to overwhelm them more easily.

Pelipper is exclusively found on rain teams and is essentially required for the archetype. Mega Swampert is Pelipper's best friend, as the rain makes it stronger and enables its Swift Swim, (AC) allowing it to outspeed the entire unboosted metagame. Its Electric immunity is also valuable, providing rain teams, especially Pelipper itself, a stopgap against the likes of Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt. Similarly, the team's own Raging Bolt and Zapdos are great teammates, (AC) and they to threaten bulky Water-types like Alomomola, Toxapex, and Slowbro, which Pelipper draws in and pivots on. (that implied Swampert also threatened bulky Water-types. if that’s true, ignore this change:(( , (AC) and they to))) Pelipper's rain allows allow them to take advantage of their fully accurate Thunder and as well as Hurricane and run Water-type Weather Ball to deal with their Ground-type checks like Gliscor and Ting-Lu more easily. Defensively, Raging Bolt helps check Ogerpon-W and Mega Charizard Y, the latter of which can remove reset Pelipper's (fixed apostrophe [ ’ ] -> [ ' ]) rain, while Zapdos takes on Zamazenta and Mega Lopunny for rain teams. Other wallbreakers in rain include offensive Water-types like Urshifu-R and Barraskewda as well as Archaludon; Urshifu-R also gives rain teams a way to threaten Ferrothorn and Kingambit, Barraskewda is an even faster Swift Swim user than Mega Swampert, and Archaludon can make use of Electro Shot to accumulate boosts and snowball games while providing defensive value in checking threats like Ogerpon-W and Zapdos. Other Steel-types, (AC) like Iron Treads and Ferrothorn, (AC) that focus more on the utility are also valuable, as they take advantage of the weather to do better against Pokemon with Fire-type coverage like Terapagos and Mega Diancie. (RC; Add period) On top of that, (AC) with both of them in particular being are sturdy checks to Tapu Koko and Raging Bolt, (Remove period; AC) and Iron Treads also provides hazard removal with Rapid Spin, mitigating Pelipper's Stealth Rock weakness and even letting it forgo Defog. In return, Pelipper is great at checking Ground- and Fighting-types like Zamazenta, Urshifu-R, Great Tusk, and Landorus-T that would threaten the aforementioned Steel-types and Raging Bolt out like Zamazenta, Urshifu-R, Great Tusk, and Landorus-T. Tornadus-T can take advantage of the weather for a fully (Remove hyphen) accurate STAB move, be a check to Kartana and—if holding an Assault Vest—Iron Valiant if holding an Assault Vest, (i assume kartana isn’t running specs nowadays) and become the team's hazard removal instead if necessary.

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Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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