1v1 Crustle [GP 1/1]

[Nick]

[SET]
Name: Shell Smash
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Rock Wrecker
move 3: Rock Blast
move 4: Counter / X-Scissor
Item: Mental Herb / Lum Berry
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
The combination of Sturdy and Mental Herb allows Crustle to safely set up against nearly any Pokemon without the threat of Taunt, Encore, or being OHKOed. Sturdy allows Crustle to live at least one hit from Pokemon such as Celesteela, Galarian Darmanitan, Volcanion, Volcarona, Kyurem, and non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and due to the immense power of Rock Wrecker, they will be OHKOed after a Shell Smash boost. Mental Herb allows Crustle to safely Shell Smash against Encore Aromatisse and Taunt users such as Whimsicott. Rock Blast is used to break past Substitute users such as Entei, Zapdos, or Whimsicott to avoid Rock Wrecker's recharge turn. For the fourth moveslot, Counter is often used to beat Choice item Dracovish, non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and some Zeraora sets. X-Scissor is occasionally used over Counter to beat Trick Cresselia and Zarude consistently. Lum Berry can be used to consistently beat Yawn Sylveon and can help in the Will-O-Wisp Volcanion matchup.

EVs
=============
Maximum Speed investment allows Crustle to outspeed most of the metagame after a Shell Smash, while maximum Attack gives it the best rolls to OHKO a non-Defense invested Porygon-Z. Mental Herb Crustle can also use a Jolly Nature with the same EVs to outspeed Electric Seed Tapu Koko after a Shell Smash and KO it with Rock Wrecker.

Usage Tips
=============
Crustle's main strategy is to utilize the combination of Sturdy and Shell Smash to set up without being OHKOed, and OHKO back with Rock Wrecker. Crustle can also use the combination of Shell Smash and Rock Blast to break past Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos or Entei. Against Pokemon such as Primarina or Sylveon, which can potentially run Custap Berry, you may want to Shell Smash twice to avoid clicking Rock Wrecker on Endure. It is important to note that due to Crustle's low Speed tier, it will not be able to outspeed Zeraora or Dragapult at +2 Speed.

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Rock Wrecker
move 2: Rock Blast
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Heavy Slam / X-Scissor / Counter
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Def
IVs: 29 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
With Choice Band, Crustle is able to OHKO Pokemon such as Porygon-Z without Reflect, Primarina, and offensive Azumarill. Rock Blast is used to break through Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos, Entei, and Volcarona, while Earthquake secures the Zeraora and Aegislash matchups. Choice Band Crustle has several options for the last move: Heavy Slam consistently beats Aromatisse and Sylveon, X-Scissor is used to beat Zarude and Trick Cresselia, and Counter beats Choice item attackers such as Dracovish, Urshifu-S, and Garchomp.

EVs
=============
232 HP and 24 Def EVs allow Crustle to survive Choice Band Haxorus's Outrage. 29 Speed IVs allow Crustle to underspeed Aegislash and OHKO its Blade Forme.

Usage Tips
=============
Choice Band Crustle is very straightforward; in nearly every matchup you should use the strongest move, whether it is Rock Wrecker, Heavy Slam, or Earthquake. The one exception to this is against Substitute Pokemon, where Rock Blast is better.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Another item option for Shell Smash Crustle is White Herb to safely set up against Breaking Swipe Regidrago, physically defensive Landorus-T, and fast Rock Tomb Dracovish. Make sure you are slower than Regidrago to have White Herb go into effect on Breaking Swipe's Attack drop and not on the Defense and Special Defense drops of Shell Smash. Solar Blade can be used on the Choice Band set to lure Pokemon such as Swampert, Gastrodon, and Quagsire.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Nick.see, 558869]]
- Quality checked by: [[Itchy, 518399], [Waylaid, 474883]]
- Grammar checked by: [[dex, 277988]]

 

[Itchy]

Nick.see please get this out of WIP soon or I may archive this

 

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this crab rocks

[SET]
Name: Shell Smash
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Rock Wrecker
move 3: Rock Blast
move 4: Counter / X-Scissor
Item: Mental Herb / Lum Berry
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
The combination of Crustle’s ability, Sturdy, the item, and Mental Herb, and the powerful setup move, Rock Wrecker, wrecker is not about setup, just a strong move + you talk about it in the next sentence allows it to safely set up against nearly any Pokemon without the threat of being OHKOed, Taunted, or Encored. Sturdy will allow Crustle to live at least one hit from Pokemon such as Celesteela, Galarian Darmanitan-Galar, Volcanion, Volcarona, Kyurem and non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and due to the immense power of Rock Wrecker, comma they will be OHKOed after a Shell Smash boost. Mental Herb will allow Crustle to safely Shell Smash against an Aromatisse using Encore or other Taunt users mention at least one here. Rock Blast is used to break past stall mons Substitute users such as Entei, Zapdos, or Whimsicott which will try to substitute against you to avoid a Rock Wrecker's recharge turn. For the fourth moveslot, Counter is often used to beat a Choiced item Dracovish, a non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and some Zeraora sets. X-Scissor is occasionally run be used over Counter to beat Trick Cresselia and Zarude consistently. Lum Berry can be used to consistently beat Yawn Sylveon and can help in the Will-O-Wisp Spectrier matchup.

EVs
=============
Maximum Speed investment will give Crustle the best odds to outspeed a Spectrier or Tapu Koko. Maximum Attack will give Crustle the best rolls to OHKO a non-defense invested Porygon-Z.

Usage Tips
=============
The main idea is to set up with Shell Smash without worrying about getting OHKOed, and OHKO back with Rock Wrecker, or use Rock Blast to break past Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos or Entei. Against Pokemon such as Primarina or Sylveon which can potentially run Custap Berry, you may want to Shell Smash twice predicting their Endure. It is important to note that due to Crustle's low Speed tier, cm it will not be able to outspeed Zeraora or Dragapult at 2x speed. dwebble moment

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Another option for an item is running White Herb to safely set up against Breaking Swipe Regidrago, a very Physically Defensive Landorus-T, and fast Rock Tomb Dracovish. Make sure you are under speeding Regidrago to have White Herb go into effect for breaking swipe and not your Shell Smash. move this to the end, content is right, just not in the right place

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Rock Wrecker
move 2: Rock Blast
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Heavy Slam / X-Scissor / Counter
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Def

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
With o a Choice Band, cm Crustle is able to OHKO Pokemon such as Porygon-Z without Reflect, Primarina, and offensive Azumarill. Rock Blast will break through Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos, Entei, and Volcarona. Earthquake will secure the Zeraora and Aegislash matchup. Heavy Slam will consistently beat Aromatisse and Sylveon. pd (Custap Berry Sylveon will 50-50 Shell Smash Crustle.) you mention this in usage tips so :+1: X-Scissor is able to beat Zarude and Trick Cresselia, and Counter will beat Choiced attackers such as Dracovish, Urshifu-Single-Strike, Dracozolt, and more.

EVs
=============
Crustle's 232 HP and 24 Def EVS will guarantee that a Choice Banded Mold Breaker Haxorus will not OHKO you. There are 29 Speed IVs to underspeed Aegislash and OHKO the Blade Forme.

Usage Tips
=============
Choice Band Crustle is very straightforward, in nearly every matchup you will want to click the strongest move, whether it is Rock Wrecker, Heavy Slam, or Earthquake. The one exception to this is against Substitute Pokemon, in that case you will want to click Rock Blast.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
If you are not using Earthquake, you should remove the Brave Nature for Adamant and run Maximum Atk Maximum Spe EVS. (move this to the EVs section as an alternate spread) Solar Blade can be used to lure in Pokemon such as Swampert, Gastrodon, and Quagsire.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Nick.see, 558869 ]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1] add my username / id here, [username2, userid2], [username3, userid3]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]

This was pretty good, most of my edits were more towards grammar and less about actual content. Almost like you're on VR Council or smth...
1/2 when implemented

 

[Nick]

changes implemented ty itchy

 

[Waylaid]

red = remove, green = add, blue = note

[SET]

Name: Shell Smash
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Rock Wrecker
move 3: Rock Blast
move 4: Counter / X-Scissor
Item: Mental Herb / Lum Berry
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
The combination of Crustle’s Sturdy and Mental Herb allows it to safely set up against nearly any Pokemon without the threat of being OHKOed, Taunted, or Encored. Sturdy will allows Crustle to live at least one hit from Pokemon such as Celesteela, Galarian Darmanitan, Volcanion, Volcarona, Kyurem and non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and due to the immense power of Rock Wrecker, they will be OHKOed after a Shell Smash boost. Mental Herb will allows Crustle to safely Shell Smash against an Aromatisse using Encore or other Taunt users such as Tapu KokoWhimsicott. Rock Blast is used to break past Substitute users such as Entei, Zapdos, or Whimsicott to avoid Rock Wrecker's recharge turn. For the fourth moveslot, Counter is often used to beat Choice item Dracovish, non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and some Zeraora sets. X-Scissor is occasionally used over Counter to beat Trick Cresselia and Zarude consistently. Lum Berry can be used to consistently beat Yawn Sylveon and can help in the Will-O-Wisp Spectrier Volcanion matchup. (really good paragraph overall, but I think GP would prolly get on your ass about the tense)

EVs
=============
MCrustle's maximum Speed investment will give Crustle the best odds to outspeed a Spectrier or Tapu Koko allows it to outspeed most of the metagame after a Shell Smash, while. M maximum attack will gives it Crustle the best rolls to OHKO a non-defense invested Porygon-Z. Mental Herb Crustle can also use a Jolly Nature with the same EV investment to outspeed Electric Seed Tapu Koko after a Shell Smash and KO it with Rock Wrecker. (seeing as spectrier and koko both creep specifically for Crustle, I don't see the point in mentioning "best odds" vs a pokemon that already beats you on purpose. also fixed up your tense)

Usage Tips
=============
The Crustle's main idea strategy is to utilize the combination of Sturdy and Shell Smash to Set up without being OHKOedset up with Shell Smash without worrying about getting OHKOed, and OHKO back with Rock Wrecker,. or use Crustle can also use the combination of Shell Smash and Rock Blast to break past Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos or Entei. Against Pokemon such as Primarina or Sylveon which can potentially run Custap Berry, you may want to Shell Smash twice predicting their to avoid clicking Rock Wrecker on their Endure. It is important to note that due to Crustle's low Speed tier it will not be able to outspeed Zeraora or Dragapult at 2x speed.

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Rock Wrecker
move 2: Rock Blast
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Heavy Slam / X-Scissor / Counter
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Def
IVs: 29 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
With Choice Band, Crustle is able to OHKO Pokemon such as Porygon-Z without Reflect, Primarina, and offensive Azumarill. Rock Blast will is used to break through Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos, Entei, and Volcarona., while Earthquake will secures the Zeraora and Aegislash matchups. Choice Band Crustle has several options for the last move: Heavy Slam will consistently beats Aromatisse and Sylveon., X-Scissor is used able to beat Zarude and Trick Cresselia, and Counter will beats physical Choiced attackers such as Dracovish, Urshifu-Single-Strike, and GarchompDracozolt, and more. (tense things+a quick critique: try not to say "and more" really in any scenario. if it's a relevant matchup we're not including then we can just include it, and if it's not a relevant matchup then we don't need to talk about it. Also, I removed dracozolt because it drops to eq and that's a better click anyway)

EVs
=============
Crustle's 232 HP and 24 Def EVsS will guarantee that a allow it to live a Choice Banded Mold Breaker Haxorus' Outragewill not OHKO you. There are 29 speed IVs to underspeed Aegislash and OHKO the Blade Forme. For Choice Band Crustle if you are not using Earthquake, you should remove the Brave Nature for Adamant and run Maximum Atk Maximum Spe EVS.(because eq isn't a slashed move, I don't think we really need to mention this last sentence. If you really wanna include it anyway just hmu on discord and I'll help you w/ grammar on it before implementing)

Usage Tips
=============
Choice Band Crustle is very straightforward, in nearly every matchup you will want to click the strongest move, whether it is Rock Wrecker, Heavy Slam, or Earthquake. The one exception to this is against Substitute Pokemon, in that case you will want to click which you should click Rock Blast against.



[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Another item option for Shell Smash Crustle is running White Herb to safely set up against Breaking Swipe Regidrago, a very Physically Defensive Landorus-T, and fast Rock Tomb Dracovish. Make sure you are under speeding slower than Regidrago to have White Herb go into effect for on the Attack drop due to bBreaking sSwipe and not your on the Defense and Special Defense drops due to your own Shell Smash. Solar Blade can be used on Choice Band to lure in Pokemon such as Swampert, Gastrodon, and Quagsire.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Nick.see, 558869 ]]
- Quality checked by: [[Itchy, 518399], [username2, userid2],
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]

very good analysis overall, ping me here or on discord once implemented and I'll edit in your 2/2


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[Nick]

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[SET]

Name: Shell Smash
move 1: Shell Smash
move 2: Rock Wrecker
move 3: Rock Blast
move 4: Counter / X-Scissor
Item: Mental Herb / Lum Berry
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
The combination of Crustle’s Sturdy and Mental Herb allows itCrustle to safely set up against nearly any Pokemon without the threat of being OHKOed, Taunted, or Encore, and being OHKOed. Sturdy allows Crustle to live at least one hit from Pokemon such as Celesteela, Galarian Darmanitan, Volcanion, Volcarona, Kyurem, and non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and due to the immense power of Rock Wrecker, they will be OHKOed after a Shell Smash boost. Mental Herb allows Crustle to safely Shell Smash against an Aromatisse using Encore or otherEncore Aromatisse and Taunt users such as Whimsicott. Rock Blast is used to break past Substitute users such as Entei, Zapdos, or Whimsicott to avoid Rock Wrecker's recharge turn. For the fourth moveslot, Counter is often used to beat Choice item Dracovish, non-Mold Breaker Haxorus, and some Zeraora sets. X-Scissor is occasionally used over Counter to beat Trick Cresselia and Zarude consistently. Lum Berry can be used to consistently beat Yawn Sylveon and can help in the Will-O-Wisp Volcanion matchup.

EVs
=============
Crustle's mMaximum Speed investment allows itCrustle to outspeed most of the metagame after a Shell Smash, while maximum attack gives it the best rolls to OHKO a non-dDefense invested Porygon-Z. Mental Herb Crustle can also use a Jolly Nature with the same EV investment to outspeed Electric Seed Tapu Koko after a Shell Smash and KO it with Rock Wrecker.

Usage Tips
=============
Crustle's main strategy is to utilize the combination of Sturdy and Shell Smash to Sset up without being OHKOed, and OHKO back with Rock Wrecker. Crustle can also use the combination of Shell Smash and Rock Blast to break past Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos or Entei. Against Pokemon such as Primarina or Sylveon, (add comma) which can potentially run Custap Berry, you may want to Shell Smash twice to avoid clicking Rock Wrecker on their Endure. It is important to note that due to Crustle's low Speed tier, it will not be able to outspeed Zeraora or Dragapult at 2x s+2 Speed.

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Rock Wrecker
move 2: Rock Blast
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Heavy Slam / X-Scissor / Counter
item: Choice Band
ability: Sturdy
nature: Adamant
evs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Def
IVs: 29 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Set Description
=============
With Choice Band, Crustle is able to OHKO Pokemon such as Porygon-Z without Reflect, Primarina, and offensive Azumarill. Rock Blast is used to break through Substitute Pokemon like Zapdos, Entei, and Volcarona, while Earthquake secures the Zeraora and Aegislash matchups. Choice Band Crustle has several options for the last move: Heavy Slam consistently beats Aromatisse and Sylveon, X-Scissor is used to beat Zarude and Trick Cresselia, and Counter beats Choiced item attackers such as Dracovish, Urshifu-Single-Strike, and Garchomp.

EVs
=============
Crustle's 232 HP and 24 Def EVs allow it to live a Choice Banded Haxorus' Outrage. There are 29 speed IVsCrustle to survive Choice Band Haxorus's Outrage. 29 Speed IVs allow Crustle to underspeed Aegislash and OHKO theits Blade Forme.

Usage Tips
=============
Choice Band Crustle is very straightforward, in nearly every matchup you will want to click; in nearly every matchup you should use the strongest move, whether it is Rock Wrecker, Heavy Slam, or Earthquake. The one exception to this is against Substitute Pokemon, which you should click Rock Blast againstere Rock Blast is better.



[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============
Another item option for Shell Smash Crustle is running White Herb to safely set up against Breaking Swipe Regidrago, a very Physically Dphysically defensive Landorus-T, and fast Rock Tomb Dracovish. Make sure you are slower than Regidrago to have White Herb go into effect on the Attack drop due to Breaking Swipe's Attack drop and not on the Defense and Special Defense drops due to your ownof Shell Smash. Solar Blade can be used on the Choice Band set to lure in Pokemon such as Swampert, Gastrodon, and Quagsire.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Nick.see, 558869 ]]
- Quality checked by: [[Itchy, 518399], [Waylaid, 474883],
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1dex, 277988]]

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[Itchy]

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