Urshifu-ss (QC - 0/2)

[thebestneverrest]

[SET]
name: Wall Breaker
move 1: Wicked Blow
move 2: Close Combat
move 3: Sucker punch / Iron head / Zen headbutt
move 4: U-turn
item: choice band
ability: Unseen Fist
nature: adamant
evs: 252 atk / 4 hp / 252 speed

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu is an amazing wallbreaker due to its high base ATK stats and its signature move "Wicked Blow". Wicked blow is Urshifu's best STAB move since it always gets a critical hit allowing him to hit through defense stat rises from the likes of cosmic power Eternatus, curse Quagsire, and iron defense Corviknight. Also Being able to 2hko Necrozma-Dusk-Mane, OHKO Lunala, and revenge kill Gothielle. Close combat is another STAB move that is there to hit mandibuzz, ferrothorn, and an incoming Zacian-c. Zen headbutt is preferred as another way to hit Eternatus since he can pressure stall Urshifu's wicked blows. U-turn lets Urshifu pivot around as he scares walls out, while also gaining momentum for his team. Urshifu's evs and nature plus his choice band maximize his damage output allowing him to punish physical walls.

Urshifu fits on balanced and offensive teams that will appreciate Urshifu's wall-breaking powers. being able to take down physical walls like Quagsire, Corviknight, Dusk mane, and ferrothorn lets teammates like Zacian, dusk mane, and melmetal freely attack. Taking down strong physical walls opens up end game sweeps from pokemon that would have gotten walled. Urshifu will appreciate Quagsire or defensive dusk mane as teammates as they deal with zacian. he would also like a defogger like lunala or mandibuzz so that Urshifu doesn't take damage hazard. Overall, with Urshifu's signature move "Wicked Blow" always getting a critical hit, paired with choice band, there is no physical wall in the ubers metagame who would like to take him on.

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[thebestneverrest]

Done and ready for QC

 

[Minority]

With Urshifu's signature move "Wicked Blow" always getting a critical hit, paired with choice band, there is no physical wall in the ubers meta game who would like to take him on. With Urshifu always getting a critical hit, he isn't scared of defense stat rises from the likes of cosmic power Eternatus, curse Quagsire, and iron defense Corviknight.

Very awkward to read the effect of Wicked Blow mentioned twice back to back in these two sentences, condense and revise please. I would even say that the first four sentences could be merged into a single cohesive statement; one that summarizes Urshifu's offensive merits and effectiveness as a wallbreaker.

It makes him faster than some other common choice scarfers like Galarian-Darmanitan, Dracovish and kyurem-white (If running Jolly). Choice scarf also lets Urshifu get to the faster pokemon that he can take out with Wicked Blow like Mewtwo.

This needs to be discussed more sufficiently. An analysis should give me an idea of what the concrete merits of Adamant vs. Jolly are, as in, Adamant needs to described critical offensive calcs, and Jolly needs to mention critical Speed benchmarks that are met. This analysis doesn't give me a good idea about either of these.

With Urshifu's incredible power and wall breaking powers, he loses to the most common S rank pokemon in the ubers meta game, Zacian.

I wouldn't mention VR like this in an analysis, since VRs are in a constant state of flux and frequently change. Instead you would state that Urshifu is checked by some of the most common / most potent Pokemon in Ubers such as (and then list them).

[/quote]Overall Urshifu can take on anything that comes his way, with the support of his teammates he wont have to do it alone.[/quote]Not really any new or insightful ideas being presented in this last statement, so remove.

Overall this analysis needs to give me a better indication of what Urshifu brings to a team and the style / archetypes of teams that it fits best on. There also needs to be more discussion on how it offensively synergies with other Pokemon (potential good teammates), and what type of support is needed for it to be an effective wallbreaker.