Approved Entry Hazards in OU

[Albacore]

I'd like to write an article about entry hazards in OU. Since hazard-stacking is very popular in OU at the moment (particulaly Toxic Spikes, which was never really seen in Gen 6 OU until quite recently), and the metagame is arguably more hazard-centric than it's been since the early stages of XY, I think the timing is right.

There's already an article about this, but it's pretty outdated since it dates back from 5th gen, and I also wanted to talk about hazard removal as well as hazard setting, and some Pokemon that are used to either preserve hazards for teams, or protect teams from them
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Format would be this :

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Introduction

<intro here>

Hazard Setters

Stealth Rock

<paragraph about Garchomp>

<paragraph about Heatran>

<paragraph about Hippowdon>

<paragraph about Clefable>

<paragraph about Landorus-T>

<paragraph about Azelf>

Spikes

<paragraph about Skarmory>

<paragraph about Ferrothorn>

<paragraph about Klefki>

<paragraph about Chesnaught>

Toxic Spikes

<paragraph about Dragalge>

<paragraph about Scolipede>

<paragraph about Roserade>

Hazard Removers

Defoggers

<paragraph about Latios and Latias>

<paragraph about Mew>

<paragraph about Empoleon>

<paragraph about Zapdos>

Rapid Spinners

<paragraph about Starmie>

<paragraph about Excadrill>

<paragraph about Tentacruel>

Other hazard-related Pokemon

Magic Bouncers

<explaining what Magic Bounce has to do with hazards>

<paragraph about Mega Sableye>

<paragraph about Mega Diancie>

Defiant Abusers

<explaining what Defiant has to do with hazards>

<paragraph about Bisharp>

<paragraph about Thundurus>

Pursuit Trappers

<explaining what Pursuit trappers have to do with hazards>

<paragraph about Tyranitar>

<paragraph about Weavile>

Poison-types

<explaining what Poison-types have to do with hazards>

Conclusion

<conclusion here>

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This is a bit tricky to sort out since a few of them fill different roles at once (Tenatcruel is both a spinner and a TSpiker, Skarmory is a SRer, a Defogger and a Spiker), but I decided to label them under the role they're the most associated with nowadays, and mention the other stuff they can do too while explaining why they're more popular in a certain role.

 

[princessofmusic]

This looks good to me, but tagging Valmanway, Valentine, and trc just in case.

 

[Valmanway]

Yeah, it's got my approval as well.

 

[dave]

Albacore feel free to get this going whenever.