National Dex Mega Garchomp

[Marnie]

[SET]
Swords Dance (Garchomp-Mega) @ Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Garchomp is a passable wallbreaker thanks to its its staggering Attack stat alongside Swords Dance, busting through bulky Pokemon like Garganacl, Hippowdon, and Toxapex. Its typing and solid natural bulk grant it it multiple setup opportunities, such as in the face of Volcarona, Mega Tyranitar, non-Toxic Heatran, and Zapdos. Scale Shot's multi-hit nature makes it effective against Dragonite and Substitute users like Kyurem and Seperior, as well as offensive teams supported by Cyclizar's Shed Tail. Most importantly, the Speed boost lets Mega Garchomp outpace would-be revenge killers like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Tapu Koko, and—if it decides not to Mega Evolve yet—Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, allowing it to potentially clean up late-game. Fire Fang hits Skarmory, Corviknight, Tangrowth, and cleanly OHKOes Ferrothorn at +2. Mega Garchomp works well on offensive teams, ranging from offense to hyper offense. Pivots like Tapu Koko, Dragapult, Tornadus-T, and Victini give Mega Garchomp easy entry, bringing it onto their switch-ins such as Clodsire, Toxapex, Heatran, and Skeledirge, respectively. Tapu Fini provides Misty Terrain to prevent Mega Garchomp from being crippled by the aforementioned walls—at the cost of weakening its Scale Shot, however—as well as a switch-in to Ice Shard users like Baxcalibur and Weavile that can revenge kill Mega Garchomp easily. Dual screens and Shed Tail support from Tapu Koko or Grimmsnarl and Cyclizar give Mega Garchomp more setup opportunities. Setup sweepers such as Volcarona, Iron Valiant, and Dragonite enjoy Mega Garchomp pressuring foes like Skeledirge and Toxapex. Special wallbreakers like the aforementioned Iron Valiant, Tapu Lele, and Dragapult help against physical walls such as Dondozo and Tera Water Skeledirge that Mega Garchomp struggles with; Tapu Lele's Psychic Terrain also prevents Mega Garchomp's sweep from being cut short by priority attacks from the likes of Weavile, Mega Lopunny, and Kingambit.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[2020 idm boomer, 385157], [Sulo, 528036]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Sulo, 528036]]

 

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[SET]
name: Swords Dance
(Garchomp-Mega) @ Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Garchomp is a passable wallbreaker in the metagame by making use of its staggering Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to bust through bulky Pokemon like Garganacl, Hippowdon and Toxapex. Its typing and solid natural bulk grants it multiple setup opportunities, such as in the face of Volcarona, Mega Tyranitar, and non-Toxic Heatran, (ac) and Landorus-T. Scale Shot's multi-hit nature makes it effective against Dragonite and Substitute users like Kyurem and Serperior could also mention offense supported by Shed Tail from Cyclizar. Most importantly, the Speed boost lets Mega Garchomp outpace would-be revenge killers like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Tapu Koko, and—if it decides not to Mega Evolve yet—Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, allowing it to potentially clean up late-game. Fire Fang hits Skarmory, Corviknight, Tangrowth, and cleanly OHKOes Ferrothorn at +2. I'd add a line here on the type of team composition(s) Garchomp fits best on, which segues into the next section on teammates. Offensive pivots like Tapu Koko, Dragapult, Tornadus-T, and Victini give Mega Garchomp easy entry, bringing it onto their switch-ins such as Clodsire, Toxapex, Heatran, and Skeledirge, respectively; Tapu Fini's Misty Terrain can be used instead to let Mega Garchomp safely switch into them straight away, at the cost of weakening its Scale Shot. Dual screens and Shed Tail support, such as from Tapu Koko/Grimmsnarl and Cyclizar, give Mega Garchomp more setup opportunities. Setup sweepers such as Volcarona, Iron Valiant, and Dragonite enjoy Mega Garchomp pressuring foes like Skeledirge and Toxapex. Noticed there is no section on mons that Chomp struggles with breaking, but I'd still drop a line on Dondozo—perhaps use one of the previous sections that mentions a mon Chomp synergizes well with that can assist in that matchup. Additionally, I would mention Ice Shard priority from Weavile/Bax as stuff that threatens Chomp regardless of speed boosts from Scale Shot.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[2020 idm boomer, 385157], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

QC 1/2, good work!

 

[Sulo]

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[SET]
Swords Dance (Garchomp-Mega) @ Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Garchomp is a passable wallbreaker in the metagame by making use of its staggering Attack stat alongside Swords Dance to bust through bulky Pokemon like Garganacl, Hippowdon, and Toxapex. Its typing and solid natural bulk grants it multiple setup opportunities, such as in the face of Volcarona, Mega Tyranitar, non-Toxic Heatran, and Landorus-T. lots of landos r toxic rn so id maybe replace Scale Shot's multi-hit nature makes it effective against Dragonite and Substitute users like Kyurem, Serperior, and offensive teams supported by Cyclizar's Shed Tail. Most importantly, the Speed boost lets Mega Garchomp outpace would-be revenge killers like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Tapu Koko, and—if it decides not to Mega Evolve yet—Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, allowing it to potentially clean up late-game. Fire Fang hits Skarmory, Corviknight, Tangrowth, and cleanly OHKOes Ferrothorn at +2. Mega Garchomp works well on offensive teams, ranging from offense to hyper offense. Pivots like Tapu Koko, Dragapult, Tornadus-T, and Victini give Mega Garchomp easy entry, bringing it onto their switch-ins such as Clodsire, Toxapex, Heatran, and Skeledirge, respectively. Tapu Fini provides Misty Terrain to prevent Mega Garchomp from being crippled by the aforementioned walls—at the cost of weakening its Scale Shot, however—as well as a switch-in to Ice Shard users like Baxcalibur and Weavile that can revenge kill Mega Garchomp easily. Dual screens and Shed Tail support, such as from Tapu Koko or Grimmsnarl and Cyclizar, give Mega Garchomp more setup opportunities. Setup sweepers such as Volcarona, Iron Valiant, and Dragonite enjoy Mega Garchomp pressuring foes like Skeledirge and Toxapex. Special wallbreakers like the aforementioned Iron Valiant, Tapu Lele, and Dragapult help against physical walls such as Dondozo and Tera Water Skeledirge that Mega Garchomp struggle with; Tapu Lele's Psychic Terrain also prevents Mega Garchomp's sweep from being cut short by priority attacks from the likes of Weavile, Mega Lopunny, and Kingambit.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[2020 idm boomer, 385157], [Sulo, 528036]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

excellent job, 2/2!

 

[Marnie]

*chomps*
GP Team

 

[Sulo]

GP 1/1

i'd go chomper here

[SET]
Swords Dance (Garchomp-Mega) @ Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Scale Shot
- Fire Fang

[SET COMMENTS]
Mega Garchomp is a passable wallbreaker thanks to its in the metagame by making use of its staggering Attack stat alongside Swords Dance, (ac) busting to bust through bulky Pokemon like Garganacl, Hippowdon, and Toxapex. Its typing and solid natural bulk grant it grants it multiple setup opportunities, such as in the face of Volcarona, Mega Tyranitar, non-Toxic Heatran, and Zapdos. Scale Shot's multi-hit nature makes it effective against Dragonite and Substitute users like Kyurem and Seperior, as well as , Serperior, and offensive teams supported by Cyclizar's Shed Tail. Most importantly, the Speed boost lets Mega Garchomp outpace would-be revenge killers like Dragapult, Iron Valiant, Tapu Koko, and—if it decides not to Mega Evolve yet—Choice Scarf Tapu Lele, allowing it to potentially clean up late-game. Fire Fang hits Skarmory, Corviknight, Tangrowth, and cleanly OHKOes Ferrothorn at +2. Mega Garchomp works well on offensive teams, ranging from offense to hyper offense. Pivots like Tapu Koko, Dragapult, Tornadus-T, and Victini give Mega Garchomp easy entry, bringing it onto their switch-ins such as Clodsire, Toxapex, Heatran, and Skeledirge, respectively. Tapu Fini provides Misty Terrain to prevent Mega Garchomp from being crippled by the aforementioned walls—at the cost of weakening its Scale Shot, however—as well as a switch-in to Ice Shard users like Baxcalibur and Weavile that can revenge kill Mega Garchomp easily. Dual screens and Shed Tail support (rc) such as from Tapu Koko or Grimmsnarl and Cyclizar (rc) give Mega Garchomp more setup opportunities. Setup sweepers such as Volcarona, Iron Valiant, and Dragonite enjoy Mega Garchomp pressuring foes like Skeledirge and Toxapex. Special wallbreakers like the aforementioned Iron Valiant, Tapu Lele, and Dragapult help against physical walls such as Dondozo and Tera Water Skeledirge that Mega Garchomp struggles struggle with; Tapu Lele's Psychic Terrain also prevents Mega Garchomp's sweep from being cut short by priority attacks from the likes of Weavile, Mega Lopunny, and Kingambit.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[royalfluxh, 493260]]
- Quality checked by: [[2020 idm boomer, 385157], [Sulo, 528036]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Sulo, 528036]]

GP Team done