[OVERVIEW]
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[SET]
name: Wallbreaker
move 1: Blizzard
move 2: Freeze-Dry
move 3: Ice Shard
move 4: Taunt / Aurora Veil
item: Icy Rock / Never-Melt Ice
ability: Snow Warning
nature: Timid / Naive
evs: 24 HP / 252 SpA / 232 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
By summoning hail, Vanilluxe can enable dangerous Slush Rush sweepers such as Arctovish and Alolan Sandslash. On its own, Vanilluxe can be quite a formidable wallbreaker that takes advantage of common Steelix teams, as such teams usually lack Ice-resistant Pokemon bar Water-types, which fall to Freeze-Dry. However, against teams with Steel-types such as Registeel, Metagross, and Bronzong, Vanilluxe will struggle to make significant progress. Its pure Ice typing leaves Vanilluxe without any defensive utility, which can make it hard to fit on teams and bring onto the field to wallbreak. -will (re)move
Freeze-Dry bypasses bulky Water-types like Milotic, Gastrodon, and Jellicent, along with offensive Water-types such as Sharpedo, Golisopod, and Starmie. Ice Shard helps with picking off foes on low HP. Taunt stops walls like Umbreon and Milotic from healing up or inflicting status upon Vanilluxe, while Aurora Veil can help your teammates set up more easily. Icy Rock maximizes hail turns for it and its teammates, while Never-Melt Ice boosts the power of all of its attacks, most notably snatching 2HKOs on Milotic and Steelix with Freeze-Dry and Blizzard, respectively. This makes Never-Melt Ice the preferred item if Vanilluxe chooses to be a standalone wallbreaker. A Timid nature with 232 Speed EVs allows Vanilluxe to outpace Timid Nidoqueen, as there are no relevant Pokemon it outspeeds with maximum Speed. The HP investment ensure it survives Golisopod's First Impression after Stealth Rock and, if Timid, the same for Noivern's Draco Meteor. If running a Naive nature, Vanilluxe should run an EV spread of 8 HP / 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 232 Spe and Never-Melt Ice to survive Golisopod's First Impression after Stealth Rock and KO Flygon after Stealth Rock and hail damage as well as better KO weakened foes generally.
Vanilluxe fits best on semi-hail teams, since Abomasnow and Aurorus support full hail teams better, so it should be partnered with either Arctovish or Alolan Sandslash. Together, they weaken each other's checks such as bulky Water- and Steel-types. Vanilluxe also prefers Ground-types such as Flygon, Nidoqueen, and Rhyperior, which take care of opposing Fire- and Steel-types, and Vanilluxe deals with bulky Water-types in return. Fire Blast Nidoqueen can help with Bronzong. Any entry hazard removers such as Flygon, Starmie, Xatu, and Crobat, along with partners that can bring it in safely, mitigate Vanilluxe's difficulty coming in as a pure Ice-type. Vanilluxe also appreciates bulkier Steel-types like Metagross and Registeel being whittled down; therefore, Spikes setters like Golisopod and Klefki work well with it. Calm Mind Raikou wears down special walls for Vanilluxe, and it can take advantage of Vanilluxe's hail with Weather Ball to surprise Grass- and Ground-types.
Checks and Counters
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**Steel-types (not named Steelix)**: freeze when?
**Specially Defensive Pokemon**: if no taunt, they recover forever until u freeze them ofc
[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[PowerOfMemes, 583607]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
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