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[SET]
name: Wallbreaker
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power / Fire Spin
move 4: Tera Blast / Sludge Bomb / Taunt
item: Choice Specs / Heavy-Duty-Boots
tera type: Fairy / Ground
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 4 Def / 248 SpA / 252 Spe

Volcanion is a dangerous wallbreaker in the tier thanks to its monstrous Special Attack combined with its fantastic STAB moves. Its typing also allows it to function as an offensive Water-type able to threaten Grass-types such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon. Steam Eruption lets Volcanion pressure Pokemon switching in by threatening a burn. Earth Power allows Volcanion to hit Galarian Slowking, Raging Bolt, Water Absorb Clodsire, and opposing Volcanion super effectively. Tera Blast Fairy rounds out its coverage and allows Volcanion to hit Dragon-types such as Dragonite, Roaring Moon, and Dragapult. Alternatively, Sludge Bomb can be used to hit Primarina, Hatterene, and Clefable super effectively as well as OHKO Ogerpon-W. The bulk EVs allow Volcanion to survive +2 Weavile's Knock Off and Life Orb Darkrai's Dark Pulse after Stealth Rock. Taunt can be used instead on Heavy-Duty Boots variants to allow Volcanion to deny recovery attempts from defensive Pokemon such as Alomomola, Blissey, and Dondozo. Fire Spin + Taunt is an option to trap passive foes, particularly walls like Blissey and Alomomola, and rack up significant amounts of passive damage. Tera Ghost can be used alongside both Fire Spin and Taunt to give Volcanion an immunity to Seismic Toss and Body Press from Blissey and Zamazenta, respectively, allowing Volcanion to trap and beat them. Choice Specs lets Volcanion maximize its offensive prowess, most notably letting it guarantee a 2HKO Galarian Slowking and Dragapult with Steam Eruption and Earth Power, respectively. Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used over Choice Specs to grant Volcanion an immunity to entry hazards. Tera Ground grants Volcanion an immunity to Electric-type attacks from Pokemon such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt in addition to maximizing the power of Earth Power, allowing it to break through Galarian Slowking more easily.

Volcanion fits best on balance and bulky offense teams thanks to it providing teams a powerful wallbreaker. If running Choice Specs, Volcanion can have a tough time trying to get into battle due to it being weak to entry hazards, so pivots such as Zapdos, Galarian Slowking, and Corviknight can all provide safe switch-in opportunities for Volcanion to bypass this. Corviknight can also provide Defog support, allowing it to clear entry hazards for Volcanion to grab opportunities to switch in and wallbreak. In return, Volcanion can threaten Fire-types such as Cinderace, Heatran, and Moltres for Corviknight. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Landorus-T can help Volcanion overwhelm bulkier Pokemon such as Kyurem, Galarian Slowking, and Primarina. Volcanion also appreciates their ability to deal with Electric-types such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt in addition to Landorus-T's ability to pivot Volcanion in with U-turn. In return, Volcanion can handle Water-types such as Alomomola, Primarina, and Ogerpon-W for them while being able to switch in on Fire-types like Moltres and Heatran. Physical wallbreakers such as Weavile, Dragonite, and Kingambit are great partners, as they can handle special walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking. Weavile, Dragonite, and Kingambit can all bring strong priority to the table, allowing them to revenge kill faster threats such as Roaring Moon and Darkrai, In return, Volcanion can deal with physical walls such as Corviknight, Skarmory, and non-Terastallized Garganacl for them. Volcanion can get worn down quickly if it's not running Heavy-Duty Boots due to its weakness to Stealth Rock, so entry hazard control from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Great Tusk, and Hatterene can help alleviate this issue. Cinderace can also provide safe switch-in opportunites for Volcanion thanks to U-turn, while Great Tusk can also provide entry hazards for Volcanion; both Cinderace and Great Tusk benefit from Volcanion handling Water-types. Hatterene can also provide Healing Wish support, allowing Volcanion to have a second assault if it gets low on health, while also being able to provide paralysis support against faster Pokemon such as Darkrai and Iron Valiant. In return, Volcanion can check Steel-types such as Corviknight and Gholdengo for Hatterene.

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[SET]
name: Wallbreaker
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Tera Blast / Sludge Bomb / Taunt
item: Choice Specs / Heavy-Duty-Boots
tera type: Fairy / Ground / Water / Fire (keep the latter 2 as text mentions)
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 4 Def / 248 SpA / 252 Spe

Volcanion is a dangerous wallbreaker in the tier thanks to its monstrous Special Attack stat combined with its fantastic STAB moves. It's typing also allows it to function as an offensive Water-type able to threaten Grass-types such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon. Its signature move Steam Eruption is also great as it lets Volcanion pressure Pokemon switching in with the threat of burn by threatening a burn. Earth Power allows Volcanion to hit Galarian Slowking, Raging Bolt, and most importantly, opposing Volcanion super effectively. Tera Blast Fairy rounds out its coverage and allows Volcanion to hit Dragon-types such as Dragonite, Roaring Moon, and Dragapult. Alternatively, Sludge Bomb can be used to hit Primarina and Clefable super effectively. The bulk EVs allow Volcanion to survive +2 Weavile's Knock Off and Life Orb Darkrai's Dark Pulse after Stealth Rock. An alternate EV spread of 116 HP / 252 SpA / 140 Spe can be used for more overall bulk with enough Speed to outpace uninvested Great Tusk, particularly for Heavy-Duty Boots variants. don't think this spread is common enough to mention, plus that speed tier is largely irrelevant, all tusks run speed, if you want bulky just go max hp/max spat Fire Spin + Taunt is an option on Heavy-Duty Boots variants to trap passive foes, particularly walls like Blissey, and rack up significant amounts of passive damage(potientially tweak this later) mention Tera Ghost here, as that typing gives it a Seismic Toss+Body Press immunity, making it better into Blissey, Glowking, and Zamazenta. Choice Specs lets Volcanion maximize its offensive prowess, most notably letting it 2HKO Galarian Slowking and Dragapult(do the same with this one too). Alternatively, Heavy Duty Boots can be used over Choice Specs to grant Volcanion an immunity to entry hazards. Add what Tera Ground does here. Tera Water maximizes the power of Steam Eruption, letting it potientially 2HKO Dondozo and Assault Vest Galarian Slowking while also giving it a neturality to Stealth Rock and Ground-type attacks. Alternatively, Tera Fire can be used to boost Flamethrower's power while give giving Volcanion a resistance to Grass-type attacks from Pokemon such as Rillaboom and Serperior as well a neutrality to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Zapdos

Volcanion fits best on balance teams and bulky offense teams thanks to it providing teams a powerful wallbreaker. If running Choice Specs Volcanion can have a tough time trying to get in battle due to its typing, so pivots such as Tornadus-T don't think Torn is common or good enough to mention using with Volcanion, Rotom-W wouldn't call Washtom a good teammate since there's too much overlap defensively between the 2 and Washtom doesn't have enough upsides to justify the pairing. I'd use more common pivots like Zapdos, Glowking, or even Iron Treads as examples, and Corviknight can all provide safe switch-in opportunities for Volcanion. Corviknight can also provide Defog support, allowing it to clear entry hazards for Volcanion to grab opportunities to switch in and wallbreak, while Rotom-W and Tornadus-T can check Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Landorus-T who can otherwise annoy Volcanion elaborate on how Corviknight benefits from partnering with Volcanion. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Landorus-T can help Volcanion overwhelm bulkier Pokemon such as Galarian Slowking and Primarina. Landorus-T can also help check Electric-types such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt with an Offensive set while also being able to pivot Volcanion in with U-turn you should specify how all of these mons love Volcanion's great matchups into waters and how Lando loves Volcanion being able to wall Moltres. Physical wallbreakers such as Weavile, Dragonite, and Scizor are great partners as they can handle special walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking. Weavile, Dragonite, and Scizor can all bring strong priority to the table, allowing them to handle faster threats such as Roaring Moon and Darkrai, while Scizor can also pivot Volcanion safely in with U-turn. In return, Volcanion can deal with physical walls such as Corviknight, Skarmory, and non-Tera'd Garganacl for them Tera Water Garganacl's actually one of the best checks to Volcanion due to resisting STABs+forcing chip with Salt Cure, should def be specified. Volcanion can get worn down quickly if its not running heavy-duty-boots due to its weakness to Stealth Rock, so entry hazard control from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Great Tusk, and Hatterene can help alleviate this issue. Cinderace can also provide safe switch in opportunites for Volcanion thanks to U-turn, while Great Tusk can also provide entry hazards for Volcanion. In return, Volcanion can switch into Water-types such as Primarina and Ogerpon-W for both. Hatterene can also provide Healing WIsh Wish (the i was accidentally capitalized, pointing it out now instead of just letting it get fixed by GP team because super subtle stuff like this can easily slip through the cracks) support, allowing Volcanion to have a second assault if it gets low on health, while also being able to provide paralysis support against faster Pokemon such as Darkrai and Iron Valiant. In return, Volcanion can check Steel-types such as Corviknight and Gholdengo for Hatterene.


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[SET]
name: Wallbreaker
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Tera Blast / Sludge Bomb / Taunt
item: Choice Specs / Heavy-Duty-Boots
tera type: Fairy / Ground
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 4 Def / 248 SpA / 252 Spe

Volcanion is a dangerous wallbreaker in the tier thanks to its monstrous Special Attack stat combined with its fantastic STAB moves. It's typing also allows it to function as an offensive Water-type able to threaten Grass-types such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon. Its signature move Steam Eruption is also great as it lets Volcanion pressure Pokemon switching in by threatening a burn. Earth Power allows Volcanion to hit Galarian Slowking, Raging Bolt, Water Absorb Clodsire, and most importantly as an RU pokemon you won't see that many mirror matches opposing Volcanion super effectively. Tera Blast Fairy rounds out its coverage and allows Volcanion to hit Dragon-types such as Dragonite, Roaring Moon, and Dragapult . Alternatively, Sludge Bomb can be used to hit Primarina, Hatterene and Clefable super effectively as well as OHKO Ogerpon-W. potentially important example as ogerpon-w can win the 1v1 at full health by living flamethrower 100% of the timeThe bulk EVs allow Volcanion to survive +2 Weavile's Knock Off and Life Orb Darkrai's Dark Pulse after Stealth Rock. Fire Spin + Taunt is it worth mentioning what moves to drop for Fire Spin since taunt is a slash and not just a mention? Could also discuss taunt without fire spin is an option on Heavy-Duty Boots variants to trap passive foes, particularly walls like Blissey and Alomomola, and rack up significant amounts of passive damage. Tera Ghost can be used alongside both Fire Spin and Taunt to give Volcanion an immunity to Seismic Toss and Body Press from Blissey and Zamazenta, respectively, allowing Volcanion to trap and beat them. Choice Specs lets Volcanion maximize its offensive prowess, most notably letting it guaranteed 2HKO Galarian Slowking and Dragapult with Steam Eruption or Earth Power I think it's worth emphasizing here that you can do it with steam even though it's resisted on dragapult and neutral on slowking. Alternatively, Heavy Duty Boots can be used over Choice Specs to grant Volcanion an immunity to entry hazards. Tera Ground grants Volcanion an immunity to Electric-type attacks from Pokemon such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt in addition maximizing the power of Earth Power, allowing it to break through Galarian Slowking more easily. Tera Water maximizes the power of Steam Eruption, letting it potientially 2HKO Dondozo and 2hko dondozo isn't a huge milestone when 3hko is enough to break the rest cycle. Assault Vest Galarian Slowking while also giving it a neturality to Stealth Rock and Ground-type attacks. Alternatively, Tera Fire can be used to boost Flamethrower's power while giving Volcanion a resistance to Grass-type attacks from Pokemon such as Rillaboom and Serperior as well a neutrality to Electric-type attacks from Raging Bolt and Zapdos counting all the mentions and alternatives there are 5 tera types mentioned here. Perhaps too many? Fairy / Ground feel the most important followed by ghost.

Volcanion fits best on balance teams and bulky offense teams thanks to it providing teams a powerful wallbreaker. If running Choice Specs Volcanion can have a tough time trying to get in battle due to its typing, so pivots such as Zapdos, Galarian Slowking, and Corviknight can all provide safe switch-in opportunities for Volcanion explain this better - do you mean hazards? Lack of resistances? (it actually has some good ones like fairy bug ice fire + water immunity). Corviknight can also provide Defog support, allowing it to clear entry hazards for Volcanion to grab opportunities to switch in and wallbreak. In return, Volcanion can threaten Fire-types such as Cinderace, Heatran, and Moltres for Corviknight. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Landorus-T can help Volcanion overwhelm bulkier Pokemon such as Kyurem, Galarian Slowking and Primarina. Landorus-T can also help check Electric-types combine this with the previous sentence to clarify all ground types check these not just Landorus such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt with an Offensive set while also being able to pivot Volcanion in with U-turn. In return, Volcanion. In return, Volcanion can handle Water-types such as Alomomola, Primarina and Ogerpon-W for them as well as being able to wall Moltres lacking Hurricane or Roar for Landorus-T switch in on fire types like Moltres and Heatran expanded to include heatran + simplify. you should specify how all of these mons love Volcanion's great matchups into waters and how Lando loves Volcanion being able to wall Moltres. Physical wallbreakers such as Weavile, Dragonite, and Scizor Kingambit are great partners as they can handle special walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking. Weavile, Dragonite, and Scizor Kingambit can all bring strong priority to the table, allowing them to handle revenge kill faster threats such as Roaring Moon and Darkrai, while Scizor can also pivot Volcanion safely in with U-turn. Scizor isn't the most important partner as it's wallbreaking isnt great this gen. In return, Volcanion can deal with physical walls such as Corviknight, Skarmory, and non-Tera'd Garganacl for them. Volcanion can get worn down quickly if its not running heavy-duty-boots due to its weakness to Stealth Rock, so entry hazard control from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Great Tusk, and Hatterene can help alleviate this issue. Cinderace can also provide safe switch in opportunites for Volcanion thanks to U-turn, while Great Tusk can also provide entry hazards for Volcanion. In return, Volcanion can switch into Water-types such as Primarina and Ogerpon-W for both. repeat information from above, if you really want to mention it again just say something like "and benefit from Volcanion handling Water-types". Hatterene can also provide Healing Wish support, allowing Volcanion to have a second assault if it gets low on health, while also being able to provide paralysis support against faster Pokemon such as Darkrai and Iron Valiant. In return, Volcanion can check Steel-types such as Corviknight and Gholdengo for Hatterene.


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Taunt can be used instead to allow Volcanion to deny recovery attempts from defensive Pokemon such as Alomomola, Blissey, and Dondozo. Fire Spin + Taunt is an option on Heavy-Duty Boots variants
just move this thing about boots variants to the previous sentence and this is qc 2/2
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[SET]
name: Wallbreaker
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power / Fire Spin
move 4: Tera Blast / Sludge Bomb / Taunt
item: Choice Specs / Heavy-Duty-Boots
tera type: Fairy / Ground
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Modest
evs: 4 HP / 4 Def / 248 SpA / 252 Spe

Volcanion is a dangerous wallbreaker in the tier thanks to its monstrous Special Attack stat combined with its fantastic STAB moves. It's Its typing also allows it to function as an offensive Water-type able to threaten Grass-types such as Rillaboom and Ogerpon. Its signature move Steam Eruption lets Volcanion pressure Pokemon switching in by threatening a burn. Earth Power allows Volcanion to hit Galarian Slowking, Raging Bolt, Water Absorb Clodsire, and opposing Volcanion super effectively. Tera Blast Fairy rounds out its coverage and allows Volcanion to hit Dragon-types such as Dragonite, Roaring Moon, and Dragapult. Alternatively, Sludge Bomb can be used to hit Primarina, Hatterene, (AC) and Clefable super effectively as well as OHKO Ogerpon-W. The bulk EVs allow Volcanion to survive +2 Weavile's Knock Off and Life Orb Darkrai's Dark Pulse after Stealth Rock. Taunt can be used instead on Heavy-Duty Boots variants to allow Volcanion to deny recovery attempts from defensive Pokemon such as Alomomola, Blissey, and Dondozo. Fire Spin + Taunt is an option to trap passive foes, particularly walls like Blissey and Alomomola, and rack up significant amounts of passive damage. Tera Ghost can be used alongside both Fire Spin and Taunt to give Volcanion an immunity to Seismic Toss and Body Press from Blissey and Zamazenta, respectively, allowing Volcanion to trap and beat them. Choice Specs lets Volcanion maximize its offensive prowess, most notably letting it guaranteed guarantee a 2HKO Galarian Slowking and Dragapult with Steam Eruption or and Earth Power, (AC) respectively. Alternatively, Heavy Duty Heavy-Duty Boots can be used over Choice Specs to grant Volcanion an immunity to entry hazards. Tera Ground grants Volcanion an immunity to Electric-type attacks from Pokemon such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt in addition to maximizing the power of Earth Power, allowing it to break through Galarian Slowking more easily.

Volcanion fits best on balance teams and bulky offense teams thanks to it providing teams a powerful wallbreaker. If running Choice Specs, (AC) Volcanion can have a tough time trying to get in into battle due to it being weak to entry hazards, so pivots such as Zapdos, Galarian Slowking, and Corviknight can all provide safe switch-in opportunities for Volcanion to bypass this. Corviknight can also provide Defog support, allowing it to clear entry hazards for Volcanion to grab opportunities to switch in and wallbreak. In return, Volcanion can threaten Fire-types such as Cinderace, Heatran, and Moltres for Corviknight. Entry hazard support from Pokemon such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Landorus-T can help Volcanion overwhelm bulkier Pokemon such as Kyurem, Galarian Slowking, (AC) and Primarina. Volcanion also appreciates their ability to deal with Electric-types such as Zapdos and Raging Bolt in addition to Landorus-T's ability to pivot Volcanion in with U-turn. In return, Volcanion can handle Water-types such as Alomomola, Primarina, (AC) and Ogerpon-W for them as well as while being able to switch in on fire types Fire-types like Moltres and Heatran. Physical wallbreakers such as Weavile, Dragonite, and Kingambit are great partners, (AC) as they can handle special walls such as Blissey and Galarian Slowking. Weavile, Dragonite, and Kingambit can all bring strong priority to the table, allowing them to revenge kill faster threats such as Roaring Moon and Darkrai, In return, Volcanion can deal with physical walls such as Corviknight, Skarmory, and non-Tera'd non-Terastallized Garganacl for them. Volcanion can get worn down quickly if its it's not running heavy-duty-boots Heavy-Duty Boots due to its weakness to Stealth Rock, so entry hazard control from Pokemon such as Cinderace, Great Tusk, and Hatterene can help alleviate this issue. Cinderace can also provide safe switch in switch-in opportunites for Volcanion thanks to U-turn, while Great Tusk can also provide entry hazards for Volcanion; both Cinderace and Great Tusk benefit from Volcanion handling Water-types. Hatterene can also provide Healing Wish support, allowing Volcanion to have a second assault if it gets low on health, while also being able to provide paralysis support against faster Pokemon such as Darkrai and Iron Valiant. In return, Volcanion can check Steel-types such as Corviknight and Gholdengo for Hatterene.

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