National Dex SD Iron Boulder [Done]

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SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Mighty Cleave
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Swords Dance
move 4: Zen Headbutt / Substitute
item: Booster Energy / Rockium Z
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Jolly
tera type: Flying
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Iron Boulder is an excellent late-game cleaner, with Swords Dance allowing it to sweep and its good Speed stat and Booster Energy letting it outspeed the entire unboosted metagame including most Choice Scarf users. It has access to a strong STAB move in Mighty Cleave that bypasses Protect, which can be useful against a weakened Gliscor. Close Combat has great coverage alongside Mighty Cleave and hits Pokemon like Ferrothorn, Garganacl, Mega Lopunny, and Mega Tyranitar for massive damage, being able to OHKO all of them at +2 Attack with Tera Fighting. Zen Headbutt hits Zamazenta, Great Tusk, and Urshifu-R. Substitute allows Iron Boulder to scout for switches, as well as become immune to certain status moves like Thunder Wave and Will-O-Wisp. Iron Boulder can use Tera Flying to become immune to Earthquake that would otherwise OHKO it from Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. If your team has Tapu Koko to provide Electric Terrain, one option is to use Rockium Z over Booster Energy to power up Mighty Cleave to insane levels, OHKOing Gliscor and all but the bulkiest Landorus-T with Stealth Rock support after a Swords Dance. However, this option does make Iron Boulder dependent on Electric Terrain to retain its boosted Speed. Tapu Koko can also set up Reflect and Light Screen to help facilitate a sweep. Iron Boulder fits best on highly offensive teams, and functions as a late-game cleaner as well as a emergency check to speedy threats including Dragon Dance users like Gouging Fire and Booster Energy Iron Valiant. Fighting-types like Great Tusk, Mega Lopunny, and Urshifu-R benefit from having Iron Boulder on the team, as Iron Boulder can take advantage of and switch into Flying-types such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T that such allies are weak to. Teammates such as Hawlucha, Kartana and Iron Valiant can appreciate Rockium Z Iron Boulder's massive damage onto Landorus-T and Gliscor. Non-Rockium Z Iron Boulder can struggle with Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. Because of this, having a switch-in like your own Landorus-T or Gliscor is very helpful. Additionally, Iron Boulder can be revenge killed by Mega Scizor's Bullet Punch, so having answers to it like Volcarona and Gouging Fire is important. Iron Boulder appreciates hazard support from Pokemon like Great Tusk, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as it can chip checks that would otherwise just fall short of a KO. Furthermore, physical wallbreakers such as Kartana and Mega Lopunny that can put Landorus-T and Gliscor in range of a +2 Mighty Cleave are also appreciated, especially since Gliscor can’t use Protect to heal with Poison Heal against Mighty Cleave, and Landorus-T doesn't have any reliable recovery. Finally, Pokemon such as Mega Medicham and Volcarona that can break through foes like Alomomola, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Mega Scizor are also greatly appreciated.

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remove eq it is impossible to realistically justify over zen

reiterating my points on cord, u can setup on koko and tran, eq doesnt even ohko koko, and cleave and cc already do enough to both. zen hits pex harder. we do not have ghold, so no eq targets

e: +2 cc ohkoes garg already, and +2 zen ohkoes pex, tera ground is a waste
 
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[SET]
name: Iron Boulder Swords Dance
move 1: Mighty Cleave
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Zen Headbutt
move 4: Swords Dance
item: Booster Energy / Rockium Z
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Jolly
tera type: Flying / Fighting / Rock
evs: 252 Atk/4 SpD/252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Iron Boulder is an excellent late-game cleaner, with Swords Dance allowing it to sweep, and its good Speed stat and Booster Energy letting it outspeed the entire unboosted metagame, and most Choice Scarf users too. It has access to a strong STAB move in Mighty Cleave, being almost as strong as Stone Edge, but with 100% accuracy you should probably also mention that it bypasses Protect, which is very helpful against stuff like a weakened Gliscor. Close Combat has great coverage alongside Mighty Cleave and hits Pokemon like Ferrothorn, Garganacl, Mega Lopunny, and Mega Tyranitar for massive damage, being able to OHKO them at +2 Attack with Tera Fighting. Zen Headbutt hits Zamazenta, Great Tusk, and Rapid Strike Urshifu. Iron Boulder can use Tera Flying to become immune to Earthquakes that would otherwise OHKO from Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. Alternatively, Tera Fighting can be used to gain a resistance to Dark-type attacks and power up Close Combat, letting Iron Boulder OHKO Heatran with Close Combat unboosted. Finally, Tera Rock further boosts the power of Mighty Cleave against bulky targets such as Gliscor and Terastallized Garganacl. If your team has Tapu Koko to provide Electric Terrain, one option is to use Rockium Z to power up Mighty Cleave to insane levels, OHKOing Gliscor and all but the bulkiest Landorus-T with Stealth Rock support after a Swords Dance. However, this option does make Iron Boulder dependent on Electric Terrain to retain its boosted Speed. Tapu Koko can also set up Reflect and Light Screen to help facilitate a sweep. Fighting-types like Great Tusk, Mega Lopunny, and Rapid Strike Urshifu benefit from having Iron Boulder on the team, as Iron Boulder can take advantage of the Flying-types such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T that they are weak to. Iron Boulder can struggle with Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. Because of this, having switch-ins like Landorus-T and Gliscor are very helpful. Additionally, Iron Boulder can be revenge killed by Mega Scizor's Bullet Punch and Urshifu Rapid Strike's Aqua Jet, so having answers to them like Alomomola and Zapdos is important. Additionally, I would mention entry hazard support from the likes of Great Tusk, Glimmora, etc. since you are going to want your targets softened up a bit or else you could fall just short of a KO. Physical breakers to soften up Gliscor/Lando-T into range of +2 cleave are also appreciated, esp. since Gliscor can't protect heal against cleave and Lando-T has no recovery.

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change a lot of ur examples, 99% of the time ur using this set on a ho team, ur not gna see half the mons you mentioned there. mention stuff that appreciate rockium z sets koing lando and glisc, mention stuff that can break through stuff like alo, glisc, lando, zor for booster sets, mention stuff that appreciate it switching in on flying types like zap and torn etc etc. no one is running alo or zapdos alongside this set, change it to reflect this please.
 
A few more things, although adem might also have some ideas:

After the sentence "Tapu Koko can also set up Reflect and Light Screen to help facilitate a sweep." I would explicitly say that Iron Boulder fits best on highly offensive teams, and that Boulder is great on these teams as both a late-game cleaner as well as an emergency check (with the Booster Energy set) to speedy threats such as Dragon Dance users and Booster Iron Valiant.

Additionally, Iron Boulder can be revenge killed by Mega Scizor's Bullet Punch, so having answers to it like Volcarona or Electric Seed Hawlucha alongside Tapu Koko is important.
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Volc is good but I wouldn't really call Hawlucha a Mega Scizor check as it still takes a lot even with the +1 Def boost from Electric Seed. I would instead mention Hawlucha (and Mega Lopunny as well) as one of the mons that benefits from Rockium Z Boulder's ability to remove or severely weaken Lando/Gliscor. I think Gouging Fire is a pretty good partner for Iron Boulder that fits on HO well, as it comes in on MScizor and also really appreciates Boulder's ability to weaken or remove Lando-T/Gliscor. Together these two mons can break down shared checks to let one of them sweep.
 
nimzowitsch said:
A few more things, although adem might also have some ideas:

After the sentence "Tapu Koko can also set up Reflect and Light Screen to help facilitate a sweep." I would explicitly say that Iron Boulder fits best on highly offensive teams, and that Boulder is great on these teams as both a late-game cleaner as well as an emergency check (with the Booster Energy set) to speedy threats such as Dragon Dance users and Booster Iron Valiant.



Volc is good but I wouldn't really call Hawlucha a Mega Scizor check as it still takes a lot even with the +1 Def boost from Electric Seed. I would instead mention Hawlucha (and Mega Lopunny as well) as one of the mons that benefits from Rockium Z Boulder's ability to remove or severely weaken Lando/Gliscor. I think Gouging Fire is a pretty good partner for Iron Boulder that fits on HO well, as it comes in on MScizor and also really appreciates Boulder's ability to weaken or remove Lando-T/Gliscor. Together these two mons can break down shared checks to let one of them sweep.
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implemented +added sub and removed other tera types
 
Teammates such as Hawlucha, Kartana and Iron Valiant can appreciate Rockium Z Iron Boulders massive damage onto Landorus-T and Gliscor. Non-Rockium Z Iron Boulder can struggle with Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. Because of this, having switch-ins like your own Landorus-T and or Gliscor are very helpful.
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This sentence might be kind of confusing to readers so I would probably change it to "...Non-Rockium Z Iron Boulder can struggle with Ground-types like..."

We're getting there. Probably will be 1/1 after you implement.
 
It has access to a strong STAB move in Mighty Cleave, being almost as strong as Stone Edge, but with 100% accuracy.
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You don't need this sentence, it's just dex info.

physical breakers that can put Landorus-T and Gliscor in range of a +2 Attack Mighty Cleave are also appreciated, especially since Gliscor can’t use Protect to heal with Poison Heal against Mighty Cleave, and Landorus-T not having any reliable recovery
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I would give at least one example of such a breaker.

QC 1/1 when implemented
 
almost didnt see this since u forgot to update the title, remember next time pls
1/1 GP Team done

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[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Mighty Cleave
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Swords Dance
move 4:(space)Zen Headbutt / Substitute
item: Booster Energy / Rockium Z
ability: Quark Drive
nature: Jolly
tera type: Flying
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Iron Boulder is an excellent late-game cleaner, with Swords Dance allowing it to sweep, (RC) and its good Speed stat and Booster Energy letting it outspeed the entire unboosted metagame, (RC) and including most Choice Scarf users too. It has access to a strong STAB move in Mighty Cleave which that bypasses Protect, which can be useful against a weakened Gliscor. Close Combat has great coverage alongside Mighty Cleave and hits Pokemon like Ferrothorn, Garganacl, Mega Lopunny, and Mega Tyranitar for massive damage, being able to OHKO all of them at +2 Attack with Tera Fighting. Zen Headbutt hits Zamazenta, Great Tusk, and Rapid Strike Urshifu-R. Substitute allows Iron Boulder to scout for switches, as well as become immune to certain status moves like Thunder Wave and Will-O-Wisp. Iron Boulder can use Tera Flying to become immune to Earthquakes that would otherwise OHKO it from Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. If your team has Tapu Koko to provide Electric Terrain, one option is to use Rockium Z over Booster Energy emphasis to power up Mighty Cleave to insane levels, OHKOing Gliscor and all but the bulkiest Landorus-T with Stealth Rock support after a Swords Dance. However, this option does make Iron Boulder dependent on Electric Terrain to retain its boosted Speed. Tapu Koko can also set up Reflect and Light Screen to help facilitate a sweep. Iron Boulder fits best on highly offensive teams, and functions as a late-game cleaner as well as a emergency check to speedy threats like including avoid repetition Dragon Dance users like Gouging Fire, (RC) and Booster Energy Iron Valiant. Fighting-types like Great Tusk, Mega Lopunny, and Rapid Strike Urshifu-R benefit from having Iron Boulder on the team, as Iron Boulder can take advantage of and switch in to the into Flying-types such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T that they such allies are weak to. Teammates such as Hawlucha, Kartana and Iron Valiant can appreciate Rockium Z Iron Boulder'(apostrophe)s massive damage onto Landorus-T and Gliscor. Non-Rockium Z Iron Boulder can struggle with Ground-types like Landorus-T, Gliscor, Garchomp, and Great Tusk. Because of this, having a switch-ins like your own Landorus-T or Gliscor are is very helpful. Additionally, Iron Boulder can be revenge killed by Mega Scizor's Bullet Punch, so having answers to it like Volcarona or and Gouging Fire is important. Iron Boulder appreciates hazard support from Pokemon like Great Tusk, Landorus-T, and Glimmora, as it can chip checks that would otherwise just fall short of a KO. Furthermore, physical wallbreakers such as Kartana or and Mega Lopunny that can put Landorus-T and Gliscor in range of a +2 Attack Mighty Cleave are also appreciated, especially since Gliscor can’t use Protect to heal with Poison Heal against Mighty Cleave, (RC) and Landorus-T not having doesn't have any reliable recovery. Finally, Pokemon such as Mega Medicham and Volcarona that can break through Pokemon foes repetition like Alomomola, Gliscor, Landorus-T, and Mega Scizor such as Mega Medicham and Volcarona are also greatly appreciated by Booster Energy Iron Boulder.

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