Defensive Pivot Slowking [QC 0/2]

[SET]
Name: Slowking
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Chilly Reception
move 3: Surf
move 4: Slack Off
Item: Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP/ 200 Def/ 56 SpD
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
tera type: Fairy/Water

[SET COMMENTS]
Slowking’s natural bulk, good defensive typing, and access to Regenerator make it a solid defensive pivot in the metagame. Chilly Reception is a great pivot move that allows Slowking to bring in teammates safely. It has great synergy with Future Sight, allowing Slowking to bring in Pokemon such as Pawmot to punish would-be Future Sight absorbers, which tend to be either Dark-Types or Pokemon that do not like to take physical attacks, such as Tinkaton and Gastrodon. Heavy-Duty Boots is used to prevent Slowking from getting worn down by hazards. 0 Speed IVs allow Slowking to be as slow as possible, ensuring that Chilly Reception moves last. 56 Special Defense EVs with a Sassy nature allow Slowking to comfortably switch into foes such as Special Attacker Salamence and Noivern. Tera Fairy lets Slowking improve its matchups against Slither Wing, Tyranitar, and Sandy Shocks. Tera Water lets Slowking power up its Surf to better threaten targets like Slither Wing and Unaware Quagsire, and it removes its weakness to Bug- and Dark-type moves from Slither Wing and Bisharp.

Slowking fits on bulky offense and balance teams that value its ability to tank hits and safely pivot into strong wallbreakers. Pokemon like Gengar and Tyranitar appreciate the safe entry Slowking can provide with Chilly Reception, along with the pressure Future Sight can put on the opponent. Hippowdon forms a good defensive synergy with Slowking, able to act as a switch-in to strong physical attacks from Tyranitar and Slither Wing and Electric attacks from Sandy Shocks and Pawmot. Tinkaton is also a good partner, as it can switch into Gengar for Slowking.

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- Written by: [[Goro Yagami, 399122]]
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[SET]
Name: Slowking
move 1: Future Sight
move 2: Chilly Reception
move 3: Surf
move 4: Slack Off
Item: Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
Nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe

tera type: Fairy/Water

[SET]

Name: Defensive Pivot
move 1: Surf
move 2: Future Sight / Thunder Wave / Psychic
move 3: Slack Off
move 4: Chilly Reception
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
ability: Regenerator
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
ivs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe

tera type: Fairy / Water

Watch out for spacing in the tera types as there was no space between fairy/water. Add Thunder Wave and Psychics as slashes alongside Future Sight and explain why you would use them.

[SET COMMENTS]
Slowking’s natural bulk, good defensive typing, and access to Regenerator make it a solid defensive pivot in the metagame. Chilly Reception is a great pivot move that allows Slowking to bring in teammates safely. What Pokemon can it give free entry versus? What sort of teammates would appreciate this? It has great synergy with Future Sight, allowing Slowking to bring in Pokemon such as Pawmot to punish would-be Future Sight absorbers, which tend to be either Dark-Types or Pokemon that do not like to take physical attacks, Dark-types and special walls such as Tinkaton and Gastrodon. Heavy-Duty Boots is used to prevent Slowking from getting worn down by entry hazards. 0 Speed IVs allow Slowking to be as slow as possible, ensuring that Chilly Reception moves last. 56 Special Defense EVs with a Sassy nature allow Slowking to comfortably switch into foes such as Special Attacker Salamence and Noivern Mention that it avoids the 3HKO from mence hurricane, can also bring up2hko from hurricane into tera dragon draco too if you like. Tera Fairy lets Slowking improve its matchups against Slither Wing, Tyranitar, and Sandy Shocks. Tera Water lets Slowking power up its Surf to better threaten targets like Slither Wing and Unaware Quagsire, bring up jugulis as a mention too and it removes its weakness to Bug- and Dark-type moves from Slither Wing, Iron Jugulis, Gengar and Bisharp. for future analyses try not to type chart too much

Mention Thunder Wave and Psychic in set comments, what do they do for Slowking? Put focus on Paralysing Pokemon like Iron Jugulis and Salamence, and Psychic being able to punish Pokemon like Pawmot switching in immediately on you.


Slowking fits on bulky offense and balance teams that value its ability to tank hits and safely pivot into strong wallbreakers. Pokemon like Slither Wing, Gengar, and Tyranitar appreciate the safe entry Slowking can provide with Chilly Reception, along with the pressure Future Sight can put on the opponent. Give a couple of examples of Pokemon it can cause wear down against for these Pokemon, eg. Talonflame for Slither. Hippowdon forms a good defensive synergy with Slowking, able to act as a switch-in to strong physical attacks from Tyranitar and Slither Wing, and Electric attacks from Sandy Shocks, and Pawmot. Tinkaton is also a good partner, as it can switch into Gengar for Slowking. What in return can Slowking do for hippo and tink?

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[Goro Yagami, 399122]]
- Quality checked by: [[romanji, 524894], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

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Tera Fairy lets Slowking improve its matchups against Slither Wing, Tyranitar, and Sandy Shocks. Tera Water lets Slowking power up its Surf to better threaten targets like Slither Wing and Unaware Quagsire, and it removes its weakness to Bug- and Dark-type moves from Slither Wing and Bisharp.
While you implement the above QC check, just wanted to point out that this seems word for word copied from the on-site sample set for Slowking.

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I'm assuming since you are new to the C&C Section that here this was a simple misunderstanding of what you were allowed to copy from the Sample Set when writing this up, but I want to make it very clear that copy-pasting any writing done on site counts as plagiarism here, and you should be writing tera explanations from scratch from your own knowledge just like everything else in the analysis. In this scenario, these explanations are put on site to serve as an information tool in the mean-time before the analysis goes live, and we expect them to be rewritten alongside everything else thats written here.

I want to stress that plagiarism is taken extremely seriously in C&C, and you should absolutely read the following post on Plagiarism linked in the C&C Section. Offenses of this kind can incur anything up to a 3-point infraction. What we really just care about is that what is written is your own work and not someone elses.

We understand in situations like this that the information is either right or wrong so there's going to be a level of similarity, but cases like this where its been literally copy pasted from something else is not allowed. When you implement Romanji's QC check please rewrite the Tera section from your own words, and watch out for this in the future, as the only thing you should be copying is the sample set, nothing more.

If you have any questions feel free to PM me on here or Discord about them, and I hope this clears up any confusion. I'll also make sure the reservation index post links the above plagiarism post too incase this confusion occurs with anyone else in future. Have a good day.
 

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