OU Defensive Gholdengo

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[SET]
name: Defensive
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a bulky spinblocker and powerful setup sweeper in long matches. Its bulk, typing, and access to reliable recovery give it multiple opportunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory, Corviknight, Galarian Slowking, and Clefable and make it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Hatterene, and Zamazenta. It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon after a Nasty Plot boost. 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-T; alternatively, 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor at the cost of losing a noticeable amount of bulk. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor, letting it setup on these Pokemon and more safely pivot into Rapid Spin users such as the aforementioned Great Tusk and Iron Treads. Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and more frequently pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory even after it has taken damage. Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastallization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses to gain a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better matchup against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boosts the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying lets it completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Tera Water is an alternative option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

Gholdengo fits quite well on bulky offense and balance teams as a spinblocker. Therefore, Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, as well as Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Landorus-T greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and ability to absorb status moves. Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene, and it can lure and weaken key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with Psyshock. Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor matchup against many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Darkrai, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure by dealing with Kingambit and Gouging Fire while simultaneously benefiting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyurem and Enamorus. Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with entry hazards. While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastallize. Therefore, hazard removal support from Great Tusk is beneficial.

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[SET]
name: Defensive Nasty Plot (this is just listed as a defensive set afaik)
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a powerful and bulky spinblocker on Balanced and Offensive teams. Its bulk, typing, and Recover (Could change this to "access to reliable recovery" as you mention how Recover helps Ghold a little later) give it multiple oppurtunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Corviknight, Amoonguss, Skarmory, and Clefable, and makes it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Latios, Iron Valiant, Hatterene, and Zamazenta. (Could move Latios to the end if you choose to list it here? Generally good to list these in order of relevance) It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot, while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an alterantive option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Ting-Lu, and Kingambit (Kingambit takes neutral damage from Gleam and it's actually weaker than MIR here, maybe Roaring Moon could instead be worth mentioning? Lu also takes more from MIR but it's not a bad list imo since it's still SE) after a Nasty Plot boost, while also not lowering Gholdengo's Special Attack stat after every subsequent use. 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-Therian. 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and avoid Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor. It can make use of the temporary protection Air Balloon gives it to setup on these Pokemon. (Worth noting that this also helps you spinblock more safely / comfortably vs Great Tusk) Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and allows Gholdengo to more frequently pivot into various Defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory and Amoonguss. (Balloon Ghold can still safely pivot into these, could add how this is relevant after Ghold has already taken a hit) Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastalization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses with Terastalization to grant it a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better match-up against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boost the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Tera Water is an alterantive option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

Entry Hazard setters greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, Skarmory, and Meowscarda, (Hazards Meow is no longer listed as a sample set) Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Glimmora, and Landorus-Therian, and Sticky Web setters such as Ribombee and Aranquanid (Araquanid is currently unranked on the OU VR) all pair well with Gholdengo. (One small comment is that some of these may pair better with offensive Ghold as they do fill the same role of hazard blocking - HO structures using webs / sash hazard leads will typically prefer a more offensive set) Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and immunity to status moves. (You could potentially rephrase this as ability to switch into / absorb status moves, this feels a little like dex info but it does have a crucial role on teams for this so I like its inclusion) Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene and Amoonguss, and can lure and KO key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with either Psyshock or Liquidation. (Liquidation Iron Valiant is also no longer listed as a sample set so it likely isn't worth noting as a Volcarona lure - could change it to say weaken instead of KO, as Val still functions to weaken both while also not straight up KOing Clod with Psyshock from above 60% though the chip is definitely helpful. Do note that this synergy is more applicable to offensive Gholdengo even if it does works here, as this set is more defensively oriented and so does not really take as much advantage of defensive checks being weakened or removed) Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor match-ups into many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Dragapult, (Dragapult is a fine inclusion but doesn't usually run setup and so doesn't exploit Gholdengo as much as it does on paper - will leave this up to you, but Darkrai may be a good mention here. Having a Pult answer is good for defensive Ghold though so it's fine to include where you talked about using Lu / Clod for this later) Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure from Kingambit and Gouging Fire, while simultaneously benefitting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyuren Kyurem and Enamorus. (This is good but note that these both run Earth Power so Ghold only checks them if it's Air Balloon) Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and can excentuate accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with Spikes. (Could change this to 'hazard support' instead of just spikes as both Lu and Clod often opt to run rocks) While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastalize. As such, anti-hazard support from Hatterene, Great Tusk, and Cinderace is beneficial. (Hazard control is only really necessary on Air Balloon Gholdengo and even then it's only applicable once it has balloon popped. Hatterene doesn't pair the most strongly with defensive Ghold as typically Ghold fits on teams attempting to stack their own hazards with setters that often let them up on both sides, while Cinderace does not fit on these builds as you don't ever really want to Court Change)

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Nice write-up, QC 1/2 when implemented!

 

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[SET]
name: Defensive Nasty Plot (this is just listed as a defensive set afaik)
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a powerful and bulky spinblocker on Balanced and Offensive teams. Its bulk, typing, and Recover (Could change this to "access to reliable recovery" as you mention how Recover helps Ghold a little later) give it multiple oppurtunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Corviknight, Amoonguss, Skarmory, and Clefable, and makes it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Latios, Iron Valiant, Hatterene, and Zamazenta. (Could move Latios to the end if you choose to list it here? Generally good to list these in order of relevance) It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot, while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an alterantive option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Ting-Lu, and Kingambit (Kingambit takes neutral damage from Gleam and it's actually weaker than MIR here, maybe Roaring Moon could instead be worth mentioning? Lu also takes more from MIR but it's not a bad list imo since it's still SE) after a Nasty Plot boost, while also not lowering Gholdengo's Special Attack stat after every subsequent use. 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-Therian. 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and avoid Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor. It can make use of the temporary protection Air Balloon gives it to setup on these Pokemon. (Worth noting that this also helps you spinblock more safely / comfortably vs Great Tusk) Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and allows Gholdengo to more frequently pivot into various Defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory and Amoonguss. (Balloon Ghold can still safely pivot into these, could add how this is relevant after Ghold has already taken a hit) Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastalization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses with Terastalization to grant it a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better match-up against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boost the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Tera Water is an alterantive option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

Entry Hazard setters greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, Skarmory, and Meowscarda, (Hazards Meow is no longer listed as a sample set) Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Glimmora, and Landorus-Therian, and Sticky Web setters such as Ribombee and Aranquanid (Araquanid is currently unranked on the OU VR) all pair well with Gholdengo. (One small comment is that some of these may pair better with offensive Ghold as they do fill the same role of hazard blocking - HO structures using webs / sash hazard leads will typically prefer a more offensive set) Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and immunity to status moves. (You could potentially rephrase this as ability to switch into / absorb status moves, this feels a little like dex info but it does have a crucial role on teams for this so I like its inclusion) Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene and Amoonguss, and can lure and KO key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with either Psyshock or Liquidation. (Liquidation Iron Valiant is also no longer listed as a sample set so it likely isn't worth noting as a Volcarona lure - could change it to say weaken instead of KO, as Val still functions to weaken both while also not straight up KOing Clod with Psyshock from above 60% though the chip is definitely helpful. Do note that this synergy is more applicable to offensive Gholdengo even if it does works here, as this set is more defensively oriented and so does not really take as much advantage of defensive checks being weakened or removed) Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor match-ups into many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Dragapult, (Dragapult is a fine inclusion but doesn't usually run setup and so doesn't exploit Gholdengo as much as it does on paper - will leave this up to you, but Darkrai may be a good mention here. Having a Pult answer is good for defensive Ghold though so it's fine to include where you talked about using Lu / Clod for this later) Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure from Kingambit and Gouging Fire, while simultaneously benefitting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyuren Kyurem and Enamorus. (This is good but note that these both run Earth Power so Ghold only checks them if it's Air Balloon) Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and can excentuate accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with Spikes. (Could change this to 'hazard support' instead of just spikes as both Lu and Clod often opt to run rocks) While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastalize. As such, anti-hazard support from Hatterene, Great Tusk, and Cinderace is beneficial. (Hazard control is only really necessary on Air Balloon Gholdengo and even then it's only applicable once it has balloon popped. Hatterene doesn't pair the most strongly with defensive Ghold as typically Ghold fits on teams attempting to stack their own hazards with setters that often let them up on both sides, while Cinderace does not fit on these builds as you don't ever really want to Court Change)

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Nice write-up, QC 1/2 when implemented!

Sorry for the delay but this is implemented

 

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[SET]
name: Defensive
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a powerful and bulky spinblocker on Balanced and Offensive teams. (you're better off talking about the types of teams it fits on as the first line in the second paragraph about teammates, then the first line here can talk about its role a bit more) Its bulk, typing, and access to reliable recovery give it multiple oppurtunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Corviknight, Amoonguss, Skarmory, and Clefable (cut amoon because sleep ban, also put skarm first bc it's far more relevant than others), and makes it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Hatterene, Zamazenta, and Latios. (latios isn't viable, cut this) It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot, while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an alterantive option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Ting-Lu, and Roaring Moon after a Nasty Plot boost, while also not lowering Gholdengo's Special Attack stat after every subsequent use. (mention gambit; gleam is best as a way to tera + hit gambit because you can beat it if they sucker on the tera turn. you can cut one of ther other examples to fit this but keep moon) 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-Therian. 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor. (but this comes at the cost of a lot more bulk) Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and avoid Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor. It can make use of the temporary protection Air Balloon gives it to setup on these Pokemon and more safely pivot into Rapid Spin users such as Great Tusk and Iron Treads. Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and allows Gholdengo to more frequently pivot into various Defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory and Amoonguss even after it has taken damage. (boots ghold just has a better overall mu vs hazard stack balance) Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastalization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses with Terastalization to grant it a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better match-up against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boost the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. (worth mentioning that the status immunity means you wall almost all gliscors / can set up on ruination lu; flying is nice into tusk but only just to drop it with a move bc ice spinner hurts) Tera Water is an alterantive option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

(the comment about what teams ghold fits on should go here - i'd say bulky offense over pure offense because offense would probably benefit more from the set with investment) Entry Hazard setters greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Glimmora, and Landorus-Therian, and Sticky Web setters such as Ribombee all pair well with Gholdengo. (not sure sure about glimm as a spiker or webs mentions here because you;d generally want an offensive set there) Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and ability to absorb status moves. Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene and Amoonguss, and can lure and weaken key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with with Psyshock. Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor match-ups into many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Darkrai, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure from Kingambit and Gouging Fire, while simultaneously benefitting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyurem and Enamorus. Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and can accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with entry hazards. While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastalize. As such, anti-hazard support (just say remova; i'd imagine anti hazards to be somethng like hatt) from Great Tusk is beneficial.

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[SET]
name: Defensive
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a bulky spinblocker and powerful boost setup sweeper in long-(RH)term matches. Its bulk, typing, and access to reliable recovery give it multiple opportunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory, Corviknight, Galarian Slowking,(AC) and Clefable,(RC) and makes make it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Hatterene, and Zamazenta. It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot,(RC) while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an alterantive option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon after a Nasty Plot boost,(RC) while also not lowering Gholdengo's Special Attack stat after every subsequent use. 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-Therian.(RP) Landorus-T;(ASC) alternatively,(AC) 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor,(RC) but comes at expense at the cost of losing a noticable noticeable amount of bulk. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and avoid Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor.(RP) It can make use of the temporary protection Air Balloon gives it to ,(AC) letting it setup on these Pokemon and more safely pivot into Rapid Spin users such as the aforementioned Great Tusk and Iron Treads. Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and allows Gholdengo to more frequently pivot into various Defensive defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory even after it has taken damage. Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastalization Terastallization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses with Terastalization to grant it gain a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better match-up matchup against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boost boosts the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying lets it completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Tera Water is an alternative option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

Gholdengo fits quite well on Bulky Offense bulky offense and Balance balance teams as a spinblocker. As such, Entry Hazard setters Therefore, Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, as well as Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Landorus-T greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, as well as Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Landorus-Therian all pair well with Gholdengo Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and ability to absorb status moves. Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene, and it can lure and weaken key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with with Psyshock. Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor match-ups into matchup against many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Darkrai, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure from by dealing with Kingambit and Gouging Fire,(RC) while simultaneously benefitting benefiting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyurem and Enamorus. Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and can accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with entry hazards. While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastalize Terastallize. As such Therefore, hazard removal support from Great Tusk is beneficial.

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[SET]
name: Defensive
Gholdengo @ Air Balloon / Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Good as Gold
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 Spe
Tera Type: Fairy / Flying
Bold Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Shadow Ball
- Recover
- Make It Rain / Dazzling Gleam

[SET COMMENTS]
Defensive Gholdengo can serve as a bulky spinblocker and powerful boost setup sweeper in long-(RH)term matches. Its bulk, typing, and access to reliable recovery give it multiple opportunities to pivot into various defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory, Corviknight, Galarian Slowking,(AC) and Clefable,(RC) and makes make it a more reliable check to key offensive Pokemon such as Iron Valiant, Hatterene, and Zamazenta. It can use its increased bulk to more safely set up a Nasty Plot,(RC) while sustaining itself with Recover. Gholdengo possesses near perfect coverage with its STAB attacks, making it very difficult to respond to. Dazzling Gleam is an alterantive option over Make It Rain, as it deals high damage to Dark-types such as Hisuian Samurott, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon after a Nasty Plot boost,(RC) while also not lowering Gholdengo's Special Attack stat after every subsequent use. 60 Speed EVs allow Gholdengo to outspeed Jolly Kingambit and Azumarill, as well as uninvested Landorus-Therian.(RP) Landorus-T;(ASC) alternatively,(AC) 92 Speed EVs can allow Gholdengo to also outspeed uninvested Gliscor,(RC) but comes at expense at the cost of losing a noticable noticeable amount of bulk. Air Balloon allows Gholdengo to avoid taking Spikes damage and avoid Ground-type attacks from prominent Pokemon such as Great Tusk and Gliscor.(RP) It can make use of the temporary protection Air Balloon gives it to ,(AC) letting it setup on these Pokemon and more safely pivot into Rapid Spin users such as the aforementioned Great Tusk and Iron Treads. Alternatively, Heavy-Duty Boots can be used to more reliably mitigate entry hazard damage and allows Gholdengo to more frequently pivot into various Defensive defensive Pokemon such as Skarmory even after it has taken damage. Gholdengo is a fantastic Terastalization Terastallization candidate in most matches, as it greatly benefits from neutralizing all of its weaknesses with Terastalization to grant it gain a crucial free turn to setup a Nasty Plot or heal itself with Recover. Tera Fairy gives Gholdengo a better match-up matchup against various Dark-types such as Roaring Moon, Weavile, and Meowscarada and boost boosts the power of Dazzling Gleam. Tera Flying lets it completely dominate Ground-types such as Great Tusk, Gliscor, and Ting-Lu. Tera Water is an alternative option, improving Gholdengo's matchups against Heatran, Cinderace, and Volcarona, as well as Water-types such as Barraskewda and Walking Wake.

Gholdengo fits quite well on Bulky Offense bulky offense and Balance balance teams as a spinblocker. As such, Entry Hazard setters Therefore, Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, as well as Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Landorus-T greatly appreciate Gholdengo's ability to block most forms of hazard removal. Spikes setters such as Ting-Lu, Gliscor, and Skarmory, as well as Stealth Rock setters such as Great Tusk, Garganacl, and Landorus-Therian all pair well with Gholdengo Offensive teammates also appreciate Gholdengo's presence due to its strong defensive profile and ability to absorb status moves. Kingambit in particular greatly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to block status moves and check Pokemon it struggles against such as Zamazenta and Iron Valiant and can capitalize on Gholdengo luring and weakening its other checks such as Great Tusk. Iron Valiant similarly benefits from Gholdengo's ability to check Hatterene, and it can lure and weaken key checks to Gholdengo such as Clodsire and Volcarona with with Psyshock. Gholdengo often struggles against offensive teams due to its poor match-ups into matchup against many key threats such as Volcarona, Gouging Fire, Darkrai, Kingambit, and Roaring Moon. Great Tusk and Dondozo can help alleviate pressure from by dealing with Kingambit and Gouging Fire,(RC) while simultaneously benefitting benefiting from Gholdengo's defensive profile against faster special attackers such as Kyurem and Enamorus. Ting-Lu and Clodsire can handle the special attackers that give Gholdengo trouble, such as Volcarona and Dragapult, and can accentuate Gholdengo's threat level with entry hazards. While Gholdengo is excellent at keeping entry hazards on the field, it can often struggle against opposing entry hazard setters such as Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Clodsire, particularly if it is unable to Terastalize Terastallize. As such Therefore, hazard removal support from Great Tusk is beneficial.

[SET CREDITS]
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