[SET]
name: Choice Scarf (Rock)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Poison Jab/ Megahorn
move 4: Earthquake
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Justified
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk/ 252 Spe/ 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Terrakion serves a vital role on offensive Rock teams, providing excellent physical coverage and speed control. Base 108 speed is an excellent speed tier, and with a Choice Scarf, Terrakion can outspeed and KO dangerous setup sweepers, such as Dragonite, and common Choice Scarf users like Tapu Lele and Galarian Zapdos, and big offensive threats like Mega Lopunny, Mega Alakazam, Greninja, and Tapu Koko. Close Combat is very spammable and allows Terrakion to threaten key threats on Steel teams, hitting Heatran, Excadrill, and Ferrothorn for massive damage. Close Combat also helps break through Normal teams, destroying Blissey, Porygon2, and Mega Lopunny. It also provides Terrakion the ability to clean up Dark teams in the late game. Stone Edge is a powerful STAB that allows Terrakion to hit most Pokémon otherwise unaffected by Close Combat, like Staraptor, Mega Sableye, and Zapdos. Earthquake allows Terrakion to threaten Toxapex and Aegislash, which shrug off Terrakion's STABs. Finally, Poison Jab allows for Terrakion to improve its matchup against Fairy teams by hitting Clefairy, Tapu Bulu, and Azumarill hard. Alternatively, Megahorn can be used to improve Terrakion’s matchup against Psychic teams by letting it hit Slowbro super effectively.
Terrakion’s ability to revenge kill faster threats and threaten Steel types is greatly appreciated by its teammates, many of which struggle to KO Steel types that Terrakion has no problem removing from the field. Shuckle’s hazard support helps Terrakion immensely, with Sticky Web in particular slowing down faster scarfers, like Greninja, so that Terrakion can outspeed and KO them as well. Shuckle’s Encore allows it to force a set-up sweeper into its setup moves, allowing Terrakion to switch in and pick them off. Mega Diancie helps break physical walls that Terrakion can’t, like Toxapex and Mega Sableye, and can help soften walls like Celesteela, which allows Terrakion to sweep Flying and Steel teams late-game. Nihilego threatens Fairy types and bulky Water types that Terrakion struggles with, like Clefable, Tapu Bulu, and Slowbro. Tyranitar’s sand helps bolster Terrakion's special bulk, and it traps troublesome Psychic-types like Scarf Latias with STAB Pursuit. Alolan Golem and Coalossal deal with Steel types like Scizor and Celesteela that Terrakion struggles to break.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Rock
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* Double Dance sets with Swords Dance, Rock Polish, Stone Edge, Earthquake, and Rockium Z can potentially provide more flexibility than scarf sets in some matchups, such as the Poison and Ghost matchup. In particular, a Swords Dance boosted Continental Crush can OHKO physically defensive Mega Venusaur. The lack of immediate speed ultimately hurts Terrakion’s ability to be a successful and threatening revenge killer, as it can no longer outspeed and threaten targets like Mega Lopunny and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele. The lack of coverage also hurts Terrakion’s ability to target Pokémon that can wall it, and it also has a hard time setting up due to its poor bulk and terrible defensive typing, so setup sets usually require Shuckle Encore support in order to succeed. Choice Band sets can provide Terrakion a much greater damage output, allowing it to 2HKO physically defensive walls like Corviknight and physically defensive Mega Venusaur after Stealth Rock, but they leave Terrakion open to be immediately revenge killed by a faster threat, like Mega Lopunny.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Khahara userid1]]
- Type analysis by: [[Khahara, userid1]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
name: Choice Scarf (Rock)
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Stone Edge
move 3: Poison Jab/ Megahorn
move 4: Earthquake
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Justified
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk/ 252 Spe/ 4 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
Terrakion serves a vital role on offensive Rock teams, providing excellent physical coverage and speed control. Base 108 speed is an excellent speed tier, and with a Choice Scarf, Terrakion can outspeed and KO dangerous setup sweepers, such as Dragonite, and common Choice Scarf users like Tapu Lele and Galarian Zapdos, and big offensive threats like Mega Lopunny, Mega Alakazam, Greninja, and Tapu Koko. Close Combat is very spammable and allows Terrakion to threaten key threats on Steel teams, hitting Heatran, Excadrill, and Ferrothorn for massive damage. Close Combat also helps break through Normal teams, destroying Blissey, Porygon2, and Mega Lopunny. It also provides Terrakion the ability to clean up Dark teams in the late game. Stone Edge is a powerful STAB that allows Terrakion to hit most Pokémon otherwise unaffected by Close Combat, like Staraptor, Mega Sableye, and Zapdos. Earthquake allows Terrakion to threaten Toxapex and Aegislash, which shrug off Terrakion's STABs. Finally, Poison Jab allows for Terrakion to improve its matchup against Fairy teams by hitting Clefairy, Tapu Bulu, and Azumarill hard. Alternatively, Megahorn can be used to improve Terrakion’s matchup against Psychic teams by letting it hit Slowbro super effectively.
Terrakion’s ability to revenge kill faster threats and threaten Steel types is greatly appreciated by its teammates, many of which struggle to KO Steel types that Terrakion has no problem removing from the field. Shuckle’s hazard support helps Terrakion immensely, with Sticky Web in particular slowing down faster scarfers, like Greninja, so that Terrakion can outspeed and KO them as well. Shuckle’s Encore allows it to force a set-up sweeper into its setup moves, allowing Terrakion to switch in and pick them off. Mega Diancie helps break physical walls that Terrakion can’t, like Toxapex and Mega Sableye, and can help soften walls like Celesteela, which allows Terrakion to sweep Flying and Steel teams late-game. Nihilego threatens Fairy types and bulky Water types that Terrakion struggles with, like Clefable, Tapu Bulu, and Slowbro. Tyranitar’s sand helps bolster Terrakion's special bulk, and it traps troublesome Psychic-types like Scarf Latias with STAB Pursuit. Alolan Golem and Coalossal deal with Steel types like Scizor and Celesteela that Terrakion struggles to break.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Rock
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* Double Dance sets with Swords Dance, Rock Polish, Stone Edge, Earthquake, and Rockium Z can potentially provide more flexibility than scarf sets in some matchups, such as the Poison and Ghost matchup. In particular, a Swords Dance boosted Continental Crush can OHKO physically defensive Mega Venusaur. The lack of immediate speed ultimately hurts Terrakion’s ability to be a successful and threatening revenge killer, as it can no longer outspeed and threaten targets like Mega Lopunny and Choice Scarf Tapu Lele. The lack of coverage also hurts Terrakion’s ability to target Pokémon that can wall it, and it also has a hard time setting up due to its poor bulk and terrible defensive typing, so setup sets usually require Shuckle Encore support in order to succeed. Choice Band sets can provide Terrakion a much greater damage output, allowing it to 2HKO physically defensive walls like Corviknight and physically defensive Mega Venusaur after Stealth Rock, but they leave Terrakion open to be immediately revenge killed by a faster threat, like Mega Lopunny.
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Khahara userid1]]
- Type analysis by: [[Khahara, userid1]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
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