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[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe or 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power Fire
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good cleaner due to its excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps it find opportunities to switch in and set up against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power Fire is its most important coverage move for foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility by crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona with paralysis. Substitute, when paired with Glare and passive recovery from Leftovers, enables Serperior to fish for full paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and it can even stall out Heatran's Magma Storm PP. The combination of Glare and Substitute often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to accept paralysis if they want to break Serperior's Substitute. Leech Seed is an alternative that enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from being broken by Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona as well as Flying-types like Zapdos, Moltres, and Flyinium Z Tornadus-T. Wallbreakers that benefits from speed control like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing faster foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T, and Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time, especially when it's unable to Terastallize, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking and Mega Latios, and both of them can also threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good wallbreaker and cleaner at the same time due to it excellent Speet Speed Tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm add having good natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps it find opportunities on pokemons like gliscor and ogerpon . It outspeeds many common offensive threats like Great Tusk, Landorus-T, Mega Diancie, and Ogerpon-W, and can threaten them with either a powerful Leaf Storm or an annoying Glare. Hidden Power [Fire] is its most important coverage move against foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utilities in Speed controlling against pivots like Tornadus-T Glare provides excellent utility in crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona. Substitute paired with Glare enables Serperior to fish for paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran together with passive recovery from Leftovers. add sentence about leech seed as alternative option to beat threads like heatran here Meanwhile, this combination often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking and Alomomola with alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking also allows you to beat Tornadus-T and Zapdos as it removes its Hurricane weakness, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat is for Mega Charizard Y, and Volcarona, Moltres, Tornadus-T, and Zapdos. Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-Tand Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time especially when it cannot use Terastal, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them try to delve deeper into the variety of teammates that serperior can have such as pursuiters, hazzard stack and cleaners.
 
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[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good wallbreaker and cleaner at the same time due to it excellent Speet Speed Tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm add having good natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps it find opportunities on pokemons like gliscor and ogerpon . It outspeeds many common offensive threats like Great Tusk, Landorus-T, Mega Diancie, and Ogerpon-W, and can threaten them with either a powerful Leaf Storm or an annoying Glare. Hidden Power [Fire] is its most important coverage move against foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utilities in Speed controlling against pivots like Tornadus-T Glare provides excellent utility in crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona. Substitute paired with Glare enables Serperior to fish for paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran together with passive recovery from Leftovers. add sentence about leech seed as alternative option to beat threads like heatran here Meanwhile, this combination often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking and Alomomola with alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking also allows you to beat Tornadus-T and Zapdos as it removes its Hurricane weakness, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat is for Mega Charizard Y, and Volcarona, Moltres, Tornadus-T, and Zapdos. Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-Tand Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time especially when it cannot use Terastal, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them try to delve deeper into the variety of teammates that serperior can have such as pursuiters, hazzard stack and cleaners.
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Done. Thanks!
 
[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good wallbreaker and serp's immediate damage is horrible, it isn't really forcing things out in the same way a traditional breaker does imo cleaner at the same time due to it excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps to find opportunities to do what? against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power [Fire] remove the brackets here and in the set is its most important coverage move against foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility in crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona. Substitute paired with Glare enables Serperior to fish for paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran together with passive recovery from Leftovers. move the mention of farming lefties recovery to the beginning of this sentence, doesn't fit here bc people would think that lefties help stall out magma pp Leech Seed as an alternative enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Meanwhile, this combination often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe we can surely just put this in the set too (add an "or" and then the spread in the evs line) and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking as well as Tornadus-T and Zapdos as it removes its Hurricane weakness, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona. mention more reliably being able to beat flyers bc hurricane still does a chunk from them + a lot of torn are fly z rn Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T and added a space Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time especially when it cannot use Terastal, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking, mtios is probs worth a mention too and both of them can threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
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Grammar checked by:
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QC 2/2.
 
Sulo said:
[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good wallbreaker and serp's immediate damage is horrible, it isn't really forcing things out in the same way a traditional breaker does imo cleaner at the same time due to it excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps to find opportunities to do what? against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power [Fire] remove the brackets here and in the set is its most important coverage move against foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility in crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona. Substitute paired with Glare enables Serperior to fish for paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran together with passive recovery from Leftovers. move the mention of farming lefties recovery to the beginning of this sentence, doesn't fit here bc people would think that lefties help stall out magma pp Leech Seed as an alternative enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Meanwhile, this combination often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe we can surely just put this in the set too (add an "or" and then the spread in the evs line) and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking as well as Tornadus-T and Zapdos as it removes its Hurricane weakness, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona. mention more reliably being able to beat flyers bc hurricane still does a chunk from them + a lot of torn are fly z rn Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T and added a space Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time especially when it cannot use Terastal, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking, mtios is probs worth a mention too and both of them can threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
user link here

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QC 2/2.
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Done. Thanks! GP Team ready for GP
 
AM check, implement what you want

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Nashrock said:
[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe or 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power Fire
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good cleaner due to its excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps to findgrants opportunities to switch in and set up against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power Fire is its most important coverage move against foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stopotherwise counter Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility, [ac] in crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona. Substitute, [ac] paired with Glare, [ac] and passive recovery from Leftovers enables Serperior to fish for paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of HeatranHeatrans Magma Storm. Leech Seed ais an alternative that enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Meanwhile, tThis combination also often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Move this sentence before the Leech Seed mention. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from allow Serperior's Substitute to survive Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona as well as Flying-types like Zapdos, Moltres, and Tornadus-T, [ac] especially when they're equipped with Flyinium Z. Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T and Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time especially when it cannot use Terastallize, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking and Mega Latios, and both of them can threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
user link here
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Best gen 5 starter wins again <3
Additions Removals Comments/silly nitpicks
Punctuation Key (in order of appearance):
(AC) = Added Comma

[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe or 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power Fire
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good cleaner due to it its excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps to it find opportunities to switch in and set up against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power Fire is its most important coverage move against for foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility in by crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona with paralysis. Substitute,(AC) when paired with Glare and passive recovery from Leftovers,(AC) enables Serperior to fish for full paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran (what moves? If you refer to specific moves rephrase to "and even stall out Heatran's [move name] PP", or if you're speaking generally say "and even PP stall Heatran"). Leech Seed as is an alternative that enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Meanwhile, this combination (which combination? Specify, if you mean SubGlare then this sentence should go before Leech Seed) often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from being broken by Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona as well as Flying-types like Zapdos, Moltres, and Tornadus-T,(AC) especially when they're equipped with Flyinium Z (does the interaction change between Z and non-Z flying-types? If not I recommend rephrasing this somehow, it doesn't make sense as an uninformed reader). Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed benefit from speed control like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast faster foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T,(AC) and Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time,(AC) especially when it cannot use Terastal it's unable to Terastallize, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking and Mega Latios, and both of them can also threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
user link here meeeeeeee :)
I will hold off on stamping until I see how you implement some of the changes I mentioned, but you're very close to ready!
 
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StupidFlandrs48 said:
Best gen 5 starter wins again <3
Additions Removals Comments/silly nitpicks
Punctuation Key (in order of appearance):
(AC) = Added Comma

[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe or 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power Fire
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good cleaner due to it its excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps to it find opportunities to switch in and set up against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power Fire is its most important coverage move against for foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility in by crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona with paralysis. Substitute,(AC) when paired with Glare and passive recovery from Leftovers,(AC) enables Serperior to fish for full paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and even stall out PPs of Heatran (what moves? If you refer to specific moves rephrase to "and even stall out Heatran's [move name] PP", or if you're speaking generally say "and even PP stall Heatran"). Leech Seed as is an alternative that enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Meanwhile, this combination (which combination? Specify, if you mean SubGlare then this sentence should go before Leech Seed) often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types including such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from being broken by Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona as well as Flying-types like Zapdos, Moltres, and Tornadus-T,(AC) especially when they're equipped with Flyinium Z (does the interaction change between Z and non-Z flying-types? If not I recommend rephrasing this somehow, it doesn't make sense as an uninformed reader). Wallbreakers that lack of enough Speed benefit from speed control like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing fast faster foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T,(AC) and Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially Defensive defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time,(AC) especially when it cannot use Terastal it's unable to Terastallize, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking and Mega Latios, and both of them can also threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
user link here meeeeeeee :)
I will hold off on stamping until I see how you implement some of the changes I mentioned, but you're very close to ready!
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done thanks! lmk when this is good to go
 
Nashrock said:
done thanks! lmk when this is good to go
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Make these minor adjustments and you've got yourself a GP 1/1!
[SET]
Contrary Sweeper (Serperior) @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
Tera Type: Steel / Ground / Rock
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe or 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power Fire
- Glare
- Substitute / Tera Blast

[SET COMMENTS]
Serperior is a good cleaner due to its excellent Speed tier and the combination of Contrary and Leaf Storm. It has decent natural bulk and a useful defensive typing that helps it find opportunities to switch in and set up against foes like Gliscor and Ogerpon-W. Hidden Power Fire is its most important coverage move for foes like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Corviknight, and Iron Crown, all of which could stop Serperior otherwise even after several boosts. Glare provides excellent utility by crippling would-be checks such as Tornadus-T, Dragonite, and Volcarona with paralysis. Substitute, when paired with Glare and passive recovery from Leftovers, enables Serperior to fish for full paralysis and set up against more passive foes like Ferrothorn and Galarian Slowking, and it can even stall out Heatran's Magma Storm PP. Meanwhile, this The combination of Glare and Substitute often forces faster revenge killers like Zamazenta and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele to accept paralysis if they want to break Serperior's Substitute at the cost of being paralyzed. Leech Seed is an alternative that enables Serperior to beat threats like Heatran on its own. Tera Steel is a wonderful defensive choice that helps against the likes of Tapu Lele, Weavile, and Flying-types such as Zapdos and Tornadus-T, and it completely shuts down walls like Galarian Slowking alongside Substitute. 56 HP EVs make sure that Serperior can keep its Substitute from being broken by Rotom-W's Hydro Pump and Ferrothorn's Power Whip. Tera Blast with an EV spread of 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe and Tera Ground can be chosen over Substitute to hit foes like Heatran and Galarian Slowking, while Tera Rock trades Serperior's ability to break past Heatran and Galarian Slowking to beat Mega Charizard Y and Volcarona as well as Flying-types like Zapdos, Moltres, and Flyinium Z Tornadus-T. Wallbreakers that benefits from speed control like Urshifu-R, Tapu Lele, and Mega Medicham appreciate Serperior paralyzing faster foes like Darkrai, Tornadus-T, and Iron Valiant with Glare. Specially defensive Pokemon like Heatran and Galarian Slowking can give Serperior a hard time, especially when it's unable to Terastallize, so it is very helpful to have teammates like Landorus-T that can threaten them. Mega Tyranitar and Weavile can both provide Pursuit support for Serperior to pressure Galarian Slowking and Mega Latios, and both of them can also threaten foes like Zapdos and Tornadus-T.

[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/nashrock.607310/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/oblivion-wing.609346/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/sulo.528036/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/stupidflandrs48.633500/
GP Team done
 
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