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[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: First Impression
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Flare Blitz / Wild Charge / Earthquake
item: Choice Band
ability: Protosynthesis
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
tera type: Bug / Fire
[SET COMMENTS]
- Written by: [[OreoSpeedruns, 597293]]
- Quality checked by: [[corvere, 306317], [Eledyr, 415367]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Adeleine, 517429]]
name: Choice Band
move 1: First Impression
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Close Combat
move 4: Flare Blitz / Wild Charge / Earthquake
item: Choice Band
ability: Protosynthesis
nature: Adamant
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
tera type: Bug / Fire
[SET COMMENTS]
- With a basically-unique priority move in First Impression, a strong U-turn, and other powerful moves like Close Combat and Flare Blitz, Slither Wing finds a niche as a revenge killer on offensive teams.
- Flare Blitz nails many of the tier’s Ghost-types, like Flutter Mane, Annihilape, and Gholdengo, and can get boosted to ludicrous power by Koraidon’s sun.
- Wild Charge can super effectively hit Water-types like Toxapex and Dondozo, clearing the way for threatening physical teammates like Koraidon. Wild Charge also trashes Pelipper, which can replace sun with rain, so this capability is excellent for sun teams.
- Earthquake super effectively hits Miraidon and Skeledirge, as well as hitting Toxapex with more power than Wild Charge. However, it has very little practical use outside of this.
- Tera Bug makes Slither Wing’s First Impression and U-turn even stronger, giving it an easier time cleaning after the opponent’s team has been weakened.
- Tera Fire turns Slither Wing’s Fairy weakness into a resistance and gives it not just an immunity to Will-O-Wisp, but also STAB on Flare Blitz.
- Slither Wing isn’t the bulkiest or fastest Pokemon in the world, so it’s best used on hyper offense teams, which appreciate its cleaning potential alongside Koraidon. However, it can also be used on bulky offense teams to check Great Tusk while also revenge killing Chien-Pao and weakened Koraidon and Miraidon.
- Slither Wing loves Koraidon’s sun activating Protosynthesis and boosting the power of Flare Blitz. Under sun, Tera Fire Flare Blitz always 2HKOes even Skeledirge.
- Slither Wing can pivot into Chi-Yu, which also loves Koraidon’s sun, and it threatens physical walls for Slither Wing to clean up late-game.
- Fairy-types like Flutter Mane and Terastallized Double Dance Miraidon are also problematic for Slither Wing, as they threaten to OHKO it with their Fairy-type STAB moves. Thus, Iron Treads pressuring Flutter Mane while countering Double Dance Miraidon is beneficial for Slither Wing. Iron Treads also spins away entry hazards, which Slither Wing particularly hates, given the frequent switching its Choice Band, First Impression, and revenge killer role require. It especially hates hazards once Terastallized, as it becomes weak to Stealth Rock.
- In addition to Iron Treads, Slither Wing loves hazard removers like Great Tusk and Corviknight, which provide a Koraidon check and Ground immunity, respectively, making them decent Pokemon to fall back on defensively.
- Written by: [[OreoSpeedruns, 597293]]
- Quality checked by: [[corvere, 306317], [Eledyr, 415367]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Adeleine, 517429]]
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