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[SET]
name: The Pex
move 1: Surf
move 2: Recover
move 3: Toxic / Haze
move 4: Haze / Toxic Spikes
item: Leftovers / Covert Cloak
tera type: Steel / Fairy
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
With a valuable defensive profile and remarkable longevity, Toxapex cements itself as a very sturdy mixed wall and defensive pivot. It can switch into and counter Pokemon like Volcarona, Cinderace, and Greninja, scout for Choice item users like Dragapult, Breloom, and Iron Valiant, and absorb Toxic Spikes from Glimmora and opposing Toxapex. Surf forces damage onto Toxic-immune foes such as Gholdengo, Garganacl, Iron Moth, and Kingambit. Toxic shuts down Pokemon such as Dragonite, Volcarona, Baxcalibur, Skeledirge, and Rotom-W, and if Toxapex should run Toxic Spikes, it matches up well against offensive teams that contain setup sweepers such as Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, and Great Tusk. Any attempts of boosting past Toxapex gets shut down easily by Haze, which combined with poison damage prevents Toxapex from being used as setup fodder by Pokemon such as Substitute Baxcalibur and Calm Mind Hatterene. Covert Cloak is an option to ignore Garganacl's Salt Cure, Dragapult and Gholdengo's Shadow Ball drops, and Greninja's Dark Pulse flinches, but Leftovers's longevity reduces Toxapex's reliance on Recover, and it is used over Black Sludge in case Toxapex decides to Terastallize. Tera Steel improves Toxapex's matchup against non-Earthquake Roaring Moon and Meowscarada while still maintaining an immunity to poison. Alternatively, Tera Fairy fares better against Dragapult, Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Choice Band Roaring Moon. The given EVs allow Toxapex to survive two Choice Band Meowscarada's Flower Trick from full health.

Toxapex fits nicely on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a sturdy defensive backbone. Teammates like Corviknight, Ting-Lu, and Garganacl are terrific defensive partners that covers Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Choice Specs Dragapult, and Tera Electric Iron Valiant, (comma) respectively. Corviknight and Great Tusk in particular provide a backup check to multiple combinations of physical attackers like Roaring Moon, Dragonite, and Kingambit that attempt to overwhelm Toxapex. They also remove entry hazards, which would mitigate Toxapex's Regenerator and force it to use Recover more often; in return, Toxapex covers Pokemon such as Cinderace for the former and Greninja for the latter. Bulky setup sweepers like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Gholdengo can take advantage of Toxic Spikes slowly chipping down checks such as Dondozo, Ting-Lu, and Great Tusk. Particularly, Skeledirge and Gholdengo can make use of Hex easily to take advantage of Toxapex spreading poison, as well as threaten Hatterene, which can block Toxapex's Toxic Spikes and use non-Haze variants as setup fodder. Offensive partners like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, and Kingambit compensate for Toxapex's overall passivity; in return, they appreciate Toxapex switching into their revenge killers such as Choice Scarf Gholdengo, Scizor, and Iron Valiant, respectively.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Lumari, 232216]]
 
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[SET]
name: The Pex
move 1: Surf
move 2: Recover
move 3: Toxic / Haze
move 4: Haze / Toxic Spikes
item: Leftovers / Covert Cloak
tera type: Steel / Fairy
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
With a valuable defensive typing, remarkable overall bulk, and impressive longevity from Regenerator + Recover, Toxapex establishes itself as one of the metagame's sturdiest mixed wall and defensive pivot. I would just shorten this down as a simple introduction without going into too much detail, just mention that its a defensive wall because of its bulk and typing. It can switch into and check counter Pokemon like Volcarona, Cinderace, and Greninja, scout for Choice item users like Dragapult, Breloom, and Iron Valiant, and absorb Toxic Spikes from Iron Moth defensive isn't used enough to deserve a mention here, Glimmora, and opposing Toxapex. Surf complements its ability to spread poison by chipping down and force forces damage onto poison toxic-immune foes such as Gholdengo, Garganacl, Iron Moth, and Kingambit. Toxic shuts down non-grounded Pokemon such as Dragonite, Volcarona, Baxcalibur, Skeledirge, and Rotom-W as well as Heavy-Duty Boots users like Volcarona, Skeledirge, and Baxcalibur and if Toxapex should run Toxic Spikes, it matches up well against offensive teams that contains setup sweepers such as Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, and Great Tusk. Any attempts of boosting past Toxapex gets shut down easily by Haze as they whittle down from poison damage and prevents Toxapex from being setup fodder by Pokemon such as Substitute + Nasty Plot Rotom-W, Curse Garganacl, and Calm Mind Hatterene Could mention Baxcalibur, on the rise. Covert Cloak is an option to ignore Garganacl's Salt Cure, Dragapult and Gholdengo's Shadow Ball drops, and Greninja's Dark Pulse flinches. Tera Steel improves Toxapex's matchup against non-Earthquake Roaring Moon and Meowscarada while still maintaining an immunity to poison. Alternatively, Tera Fairy fares better against Dragapult, Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Choice Band Roaring Moon. The given EVs spread allows Toxapex to survive two Choice Band Meowscarada's Flower Trick from full health.

Toxapex fits nicely on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a sturdy defensive backbone. Teammates like Corviknight, Ting-Lu, and Garganacl are terrific defensive partners that covers Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Choice Specs Dragapult, and Tera Electric Iron Valiant. respectively. Corviknight and Great Tusk in particular provide a backup check to multiple combination of physical attackers like Roaring Moon, Dragonite, and Kingambit that attempts to overwhelm Toxapex. Corviknight and Great Tusk This is the third mention of corv and great tusk, better to just be brief here They also removes entry hazards, which would mitigate Toxapex's Regenerator and force it to use Recover more often; in return, Toxapex covers Pokemon such as Cinderace and Greninja, respectively. Bulky setup sweepers like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Gholdengo can take advantage of Toxic Spikes slowly chipping down checks such as Dondozo, Ting-Lu, and Great Tusk. Particularly, Skeledirge and Gholdengo can make use of Hex easily to take advantage of Toxapex spreading poison, as well as threaten Hatterene, which can block Toxapex's Toxic Spikes and use non-Haze variants as setup fodder. Find a place to mention wallbreakers and revenge killers like Dragapult, Iron Valiant and Kingambit as offensive partners for pex somewhere in here.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Implement and QC 1/2

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royalfluxh said:
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[SET]
name: The Pex
move 1: Surf
move 2: Recover
move 3: Toxic / Haze
move 4: Haze / Toxic Spikes
item: Leftovers / Covert Cloak
tera type: Steel / Fairy
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
With a valuable defensive profile and remarkable longevity, Toxapex cements itself as a very sturdy mixed wall and defensive pivot. It can switch into and counter Pokemon like Volcarona, Cinderace, and Greninja, scout for Choice item users like Dragapult, Breloom, and Iron Valiant, and absorb Toxic Spikes from Glimmora and opposing Toxapex. Surf forces damage onto toxic-immune foes such as Gholdengo, Garganacl, Iron Moth, and Kingambit. Toxic shuts down Pokemon such as Dragonite, Volcarona, Baxcalibur, Skeledirge, and Rotom-W and if Toxapex should run Toxic Spikes, it matches up well against offensive teams that contains setup sweepers such as Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, and Great Tusk. Any attempts of boosting past Toxapex get shut down easily by Haze as they whittle down from which, when combined with poison damage, and prevents Toxapex from being used as setup fodder by Pokemon such as Substitute Baxcalibur, Curse Garganacl, Garganacl is immune to status, so its probably not worth mentioning in this context and Calm Mind Hatterene. Covert Cloak is an option to ignore Garganacl's Salt Cure, Dragapult and Gholdengo's Shadow Ball drops, and Greninja's Dark Pulse flinches. Tera Steel improves Toxapex's matchup against non-Earthquake Roaring Moon and Meowscarada while still maintaining an immunity to poison. Alternatively, Tera Fairy fares better against Dragapult, Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Choice Band Roaring Moon. The given EVs allow Toxapex to survive two Choice Band Meowscarada's Flower Trick from full health.

Toxapex fits nicely on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a sturdy defensive backbone. Teammates like Corviknight, Ting-Lu, and Garganacl are terrific defensive partners that covers Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Choice Specs Dragapult, and Tera Electric Iron Valiant. respectively. Corviknight and Great Tusk in particular provide a backup check to multiple combination of physical attackers like Roaring Moon, Dragonite, and Kingambit that attempts to overwhelm Toxapex. They also remove entry hazards, which would mitigate Toxapex's Regenerator and force it to use Recover more often; in return, Toxapex covers Pokemon such as Cinderace and Greninja, respectively. Bulky setup sweepers like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Gholdengo can take advantage of Toxic Spikes slowly chipping down checks such as Dondozo, Ting-Lu, and Great Tusk. Particularly, Skeledirge and Gholdengo can make use of Hex easily to take advantage of Toxapex spreading poison, as well as threaten Hatterene, which can block Toxapex's Toxic Spikes and use non-Haze variants as setup fodder. Offensive partners like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, and Kingambit compensate for Toxapex's overall passivity; in return, they appreciate Toxapex switching into their revenge killers such as Choice Scarf Gholdengo, Scizor, and Iron Valiant, respectively.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
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Cool. 2/2 once implemented.
 
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[SET]
name: The Pex
move 1: Surf
move 2: Recover
move 3: Toxic / Haze
move 4: Haze / Toxic Spikes
item: Leftovers / Covert Cloak
tera type: Steel / Fairy
ability: Regenerator
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 192 Def / 64 SpD

[SET COMMENTS]
With a valuable defensive profile and remarkable longevity, Toxapex cements itself as a very sturdy mixed wall and defensive pivot. It can switch into and counter Pokemon like Volcarona, Cinderace, and Greninja, scout for Choice item users like Dragapult, Breloom, and Iron Valiant, and absorb Toxic Spikes from Glimmora and opposing Toxapex. Surf forces damage onto Toxic-immune foes such as Gholdengo, Garganacl, Iron Moth, and Kingambit. Toxic shuts down Pokemon such as Dragonite, Volcarona, Baxcalibur, Skeledirge, and Rotom-W, (AC) and if Toxapex should run Toxic Spikes, it matches up well against offensive teams that contains contain setup sweepers such as Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, and Great Tusk. Any attempts of boosting past Toxapex gets shut down easily by Haze, which when combined with poison damage (RC) prevents Toxapex from being used as setup fodder by Pokemon such as Substitute Baxcalibur and Calm Mind Hatterene. Covert Cloak is an option to ignore Garganacl's Salt Cure, Dragapult and Gholdengo's Shadow Ball drops, and Greninja's Dark Pulse flinches (but something about why Leftovers is still better). Tera Steel improves Toxapex's matchup against non-Earthquake Roaring Moon and Meowscarada while still maintaining an immunity to poison. Alternatively, Tera Fairy fares better against Dragapult, Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Choice Band Roaring Moon. The given EVs allow Toxapex to survive two Choice Band Meowscarada's Flower Trick from full health.

Toxapex fits nicely on balance and bulky offense teams that appreciate a sturdy defensive backbone. Teammates like Corviknight, Ting-Lu, and Garganacl are terrific defensive partners that covers Pokemon such as Great Tusk, Choice Specs Dragapult, and Tera Electric Iron Valiant, (comma) respectively. Corviknight and Great Tusk in particular provide a backup check to multiple combination combinations of physical attackers like Roaring Moon, Dragonite, and Kingambit that attempts attempt to overwhelm Toxapex. They also remove entry hazards, which would mitigate Toxapex's Regenerator and force it to use Recover more often; in return, Toxapex covers Pokemon such as Cinderace for the former and Greninja, respectively for the latter. Bulky setup sweepers like Garganacl, Skeledirge, and Gholdengo can take advantage of Toxic Spikes slowly chipping down checks such as Dondozo, Ting-Lu, and Great Tusk. Particularly, Skeledirge and Gholdengo can make use of Hex easily to take advantage of Toxapex spreading poison, as well as threaten Hatterene, which can block Toxapex's Toxic Spikes and use non-Haze variants as setup fodder. Offensive partners like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, and Kingambit compensate for Toxapex's overall passivity; in return, they appreciate Toxapex switching into their revenge killers such as Choice Scarf Gholdengo, Scizor, and Iron Valiant, respectively.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[Milo, 540138], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]
 
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