[OVERVIEW]
With access to boosting moves in Swords Dance and Flame Charge alongside a good offensive typing and strong stats, Silvally-Ghost makes for a strong setup sweeper. However, it faces stiff competition from the likes of Silvally-Fairy, which offers teams a stronger defensive typing with a plethora of useful resistances for a setup sweeper whilst maintaining the same coverage, meaning it's much more versatile and can fit on a wider variety of teams. Likewise, it also struggles to compare to other Ghost-types in the tier, such as Palossand and Jellicent, which provide teams excellent defensive support thanks to their solid secondary typing with useful immunities and supportive movepool.
[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Multi-Attack
move 3: Flame Charge
move 4: Explosion / U-turn / X-Scissor
item: Ghost Memory
ability: RKS System
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Explosion is outstanding for its ability to provide a one-time nuke versus defensive checks such as Miltank and Scrafty. However, U-turn can be used as a way to gain momentum against slower Dark-types like Guzzlord. X-Scissor a way to actively sweep and still acquire the Bug-type coverage U-turn would provide. Ribombee makes a great partner thanks to its ability to not only offensively check Dark-types like Absol, but it also provides Sticky Web support. Additionally, Silvally-Ghost can act as a spinblocker against the likes of Alolan Sandslash and Claydol and use either of them as setup fodder. Virizion makes a good offensive partner not only for its ability to check common Ghost-immune Pokemon such as Miltank, but it can pressure defensive checks to Silvally-Ghost like Scrafty and Regirock especially when safely brought in with U-turn. Garbodor is also a wonderful partner for its ability to provide Spikes support and both Virizion and Garbodor appreciate Silvally-Ghost's abilities of punishing all of the Psychic-types which threaten them such as Mesprit, Xatu, and Uxie.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[bagoftrixx, 467518]]
- Quality checked by: [[gum, 434150], [MZ, 202117]]
- Grammar checked by: [[bandkrook, 301217]]
With access to boosting moves in Swords Dance and Flame Charge alongside a good offensive typing and strong stats, Silvally-Ghost makes for a strong setup sweeper. However, it faces stiff competition from the likes of Silvally-Fairy, which offers teams a stronger defensive typing with a plethora of useful resistances for a setup sweeper whilst maintaining the same coverage, meaning it's much more versatile and can fit on a wider variety of teams. Likewise, it also struggles to compare to other Ghost-types in the tier, such as Palossand and Jellicent, which provide teams excellent defensive support thanks to their solid secondary typing with useful immunities and supportive movepool.
[SET]
name: Swords Dance
move 1: Swords Dance
move 2: Multi-Attack
move 3: Flame Charge
move 4: Explosion / U-turn / X-Scissor
item: Ghost Memory
ability: RKS System
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Explosion is outstanding for its ability to provide a one-time nuke versus defensive checks such as Miltank and Scrafty. However, U-turn can be used as a way to gain momentum against slower Dark-types like Guzzlord. X-Scissor a way to actively sweep and still acquire the Bug-type coverage U-turn would provide. Ribombee makes a great partner thanks to its ability to not only offensively check Dark-types like Absol, but it also provides Sticky Web support. Additionally, Silvally-Ghost can act as a spinblocker against the likes of Alolan Sandslash and Claydol and use either of them as setup fodder. Virizion makes a good offensive partner not only for its ability to check common Ghost-immune Pokemon such as Miltank, but it can pressure defensive checks to Silvally-Ghost like Scrafty and Regirock especially when safely brought in with U-turn. Garbodor is also a wonderful partner for its ability to provide Spikes support and both Virizion and Garbodor appreciate Silvally-Ghost's abilities of punishing all of the Psychic-types which threaten them such as Mesprit, Xatu, and Uxie.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[bagoftrixx, 467518]]
- Quality checked by: [[gum, 434150], [MZ, 202117]]
- Grammar checked by: [[bandkrook, 301217]]
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