Pokémon Volcanion

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Base Stats: 80 HP / 110 Atk / 120 Def / 130 SpA / 90 SpD / 70 Spe (600 total)
Ability: Water Absorb

Notable Moves
Earth Power
Earthquake
Flamethrower
Overheat
Sludge Bomb
Steam Eruption
Tera Blast
Taunt

Pros
- Fantastic breaker with perfect coverage for all Pokemon besides Baxcalibur, Walking Wake, and Dragonite, though the latter is terrified of burns.
- Steam Eruption makes it a nightmare to switch into, considering many physical attackers such as Kingambit tun into Fire types to avoid burns.
- Water Absorb and Fairy resistance lets switch into Choice-locked Walking Wake and Iron Valiant to fire off its moves.

Cons
- Low Speed means it can be tell revenge killed by most Pokemon that are faster.
- Choice Specs sets do tend to be a bit prediction reliant.

Terastalization potential

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Water removes the Stealth Rock weakness and turns Steam Eruption into the equivalent of dumping boiling water on a toddler.
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I really don’t see much other potential in Teras but Fairy let it be a better offensive check to Walking Wake.

Sample set

Wallbreaker:
Volcanion @ Choice Specs / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Steam Eruption
- Flamethrower
- Earth Power
- Sludge Bomb

Steam Eruption and Flamethrower hit most of the metagame super effectively. Earth Power lets it hit Toxapex and opposing Volcanion. Sludge Bomb is its way of hitting Rotom-W and Slowking while fishing for a Poison.
 
It has scald by the way so it could replace steam eruption if you don't like it's accuracy and pp :)
 
Please mention Tera Ground. Volcanion has Water Absorb for one of Ground's weaknesses, it grants an Electric immunity, turns the SR weakness into a resistance, and can do this.

252+ SpA Tera Ground Volcanion Earth Power vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Assault Vest Toxapex: 158-188 (52.1 - 62%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
 
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Tera Grass is worth mentioning to some degree because on paper having FWG STAB on one Pokemon is kinda useful if you're trying to wallbreak
 
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