Pokémon Quagsire

[Kizaco]

The silly little guy

95/85/85/65/65/35
Abilities: Damp, Water Absorb, Unaware
Unaware:this Pokémon ignores the stat changes of other Pokémon when taking or reciting damage

Move Pool

Learned by level up

1	Water Gun	Water​	Special​	40	100%	25
1	Tail Whip	Normal​	Status​	—	100%	30
1	Rain Dance	Water​	Status​	—	—%	5
1	Mud Shot	Ground​	Special​	55	95%	15
12	Mist	Ice​	Status​	—	—%	30
12	Haze	Ice​	Status​	—	—%	30
16	Slam	Normal​	Physical​	80	75%	20
23	Yawn	Normal​	Status​	—	—%	10
28	Aqua Tail	Water​	Physical​	90	90%	10
34	Muddy Water	Water​	Special​	90	85%	10
40	Amnesia	Psychic​	Status​	—	—%	20
46	Toxic	Poison​	Status​	—	90%	10
52	Earthquake	Ground​	Physical​	100	100%	10

learnt via TM

​	TM001	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85%	20
​	TM005	Mud-Slap	Ground	Special	20	100%	10
​	TM007	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM011	Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100%	20
​	TM013	Acid Spray	Poison	Special	40	100%	20
​	TM018	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100%	25
​	TM020	Trailblaze	Grass	Physical	50	100%	20
​	TM022	Chilling Water	Water	Special	50	100%	20
​	TM025	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100%	20
​	TM028	Bulldoze	Ground	Physical	60	100%	20
​	TM034	Icy Wind	Ice	Special	55	95%	15
​	TM035	Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95%	15
​	TM036	Rock Tomb	Rock	Physical	60	95%	15
​	TM043	Fling	Dark	Physical	—	100%	10
​	TM046	Avalanche	Ice	Physical	60	100%	10
​	TM047	Endure	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM050	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—%	5
​	TM051	Sandstorm	Rock	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM052	Snowscape	Ice	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM055	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100%	10
​	TM058	Brick Break	Fighting	Physical	75	100%	15
​	TM066	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	85	100%	15
​	TM069	Ice Punch	Ice	Physical	75	100%	15
​	TM070	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM073	Drain Punch	Fighting	Physical	75	100%	10
​	TM077	Waterfall	Water	Physical	80	100%	15
​	TM084	Stomping Tantrum	Ground	Physical	75	100%	10
​	TM085	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—%	5
​	TM086	Rock Slide	Rock	Physical	75	90%	10
​	TM089	Body Press	Fighting	Physical	80	100%	10
​	TM090	Spikes	Ground	Status	—	—%	20
​	TM091	Toxic Spikes	Poison	Status	—	—%	20
​	TM096	Eerie Impulse	Electric	Status	—	100%	15
​	TM103	Substitute	Normal	Status	—	—%	10
​	TM110	Liquidation	Water	Physical	85	100%	10
​	TM116	Stealth Rock	Rock	Status	—	—%	20
​	TM122	Encore	Normal	Status	—	100%	5
​	TM123	5Surf5	Water	Special	90	100%	1
​	TM128	Amnesia	Psychic	Status	—	—%	20
​	TM130	Helping Hand	Normal	Status	—	—%	20
​	TM133	Earth Power	Ground	Special	90	100%	10
​	TM135	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100%	10
​	TM142	Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	80%	5
​	TM143	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70%	5
​	TM148	Sludge Bomb	Poison	Special	90	100%	10
​	TM149	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	100%	10
​	TM150	Stone Edge	Rock	Physical	100	80%	5
​	TM152	Giga Impact	Normal	Physical	150	90%	5
​	TM158	Focus Blast	Fighting	Special	120	70%	5
​	TM163	Hyper Beam	Normal	Special	150	90%	5
​	TM171	Tera Blast	Normal	Special	80	100%	10

Egg moves

Acid Spray	Poison​	Special​	40	100%	20
	After You	Normal​	Status​	—	—%	15
	Ancient Power	Rock​	Special​	60	100%	5
	Counter	Fighting​	Physical​	—	100%	20
	Curse	Ghost​	Status​	—	—%	10
	Double Kick	Fighting​	Physical​	30	100%	30
	Recover	Normal​	Status​	—	—%	5
	Spit Up	Normal​	Special​	—	100%	10
	Stockpile	Normal​	Status​	—	—%	20
	Swallow	Normal​	Status​	—	—%	10

Notable moves

Protect
Yawn
Recover
Earthquake
Body Press
Body Slam
Counter
Curse
Haze
Liquidation
Spikes
Stealth rock
Substitute
Toxic
Toxic spikes

Pros

• Has access to 3/4 main entry hazards
• Solid ability in unaware, making for a great counter to set up sweeping
• Diverse move pool
• Solid defensive typing giving it few weaknesses
• Stealth rock resistance

Cons

• No more scald :(
• Only ok defensive and offensive stats
• 35 speed meaning it’s almost always moving last
• 4x weakness to grass

is a great Pokémon in my opinion, but is not the best when it comes to competitive. It will inevitably be moved to the lowest tier possible, as it has been in previous generations, but that doesn’t mean it is unable to function in a higher tier, and it has a solid niche in OU right now.
Being one of the 4 Pokémon in OU with unaware, it currently faces more challenge for the spot thank it ever had before for its niche. However, it still fits it.

Tera potential
To quote everyone else running a page for a defense based mon, you’re much better off with terastalizing an offensive mon. However, if you must terastalize Quagsire, I would recommend steel type to gain more defensive capabilities.

Sets

Quagsire @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Steel
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
- Protect
- Yawn
- Recover
- Earthquake
This set is all about punishing set up sweepers, with yawn forcing it to switch out, and protect +recover for longevity. Finally with earthquake for some damage, and rocky helmet for countering the mouse and other physical mons. This is similar to some gen 8 builds, with yawn replacing scald. (RIP scald)

Checks
(resists rock+poison)
(rocky helmet vs population bomb at full health kills)
(Takes very little from drain punch and less than 50 for rage fist, allowing for recover stalling with toxic/rocky helmet)

(Looking to add extra stuff like good teammates and extra sets and checks)

Please do excuse my formatting right when I was confirmed to do this my PC broke. This is all from my phone. When I regain ability to use a computer I’ll tidy this up, but until then, discuss quagsire in the replies.

Changelog

11/24/22 formatting and adding checks section
11/27/22 added annihilape to list of checks

 

[Tungdil]

You mentioned that it doesn't have resistances. However, takes 0.5 from Rock and Poison-types. That is not a big advantage overall, but it can, for example, threaten Glimmora without Toxic.

Edit: I forgot to mention immunity to Electric-types, but it doesn't change the idea.

 

[STEELDRAGON]

Quagsire has got knocked down hard this generation. There's very little reason to use it with Clodsire and Dondozo around. It's Electric immunity doesn't even really mean much as there is currently only one Electric type in OU. It is just outclassed in almost every way.

 

[Kizaco]

Quagsire has got knocked down hard this generation. There's very little reason to use it with Clodsire and Dondozo around. It's Electric immunity doesn't even really mean much as there is currently only one Electric type in OU. It is just outclassed in almost every way.

This thread was from near the start of the generation. I personally wouldn’t mind if this thread was moved to the UU thread (with warning so I can change a few things)

 

[STEELDRAGON]

This thread was from near the start of the generation. I personally wouldn’t mind if this thread was moved to the UU thread (with warning so I can change a few things)

I have found that Quagsire's best option is the Curse set as it's about the only thing that isn't completely done better by another Pokémon. It has higher attack and less weaknesses than Clodsire and has Recover on Dondozo. It's not as effective as it was in the past due to loss of pp on Recover and power level of the threats though.