NU Toxicroak (Choice Scarf) [QC 1/1] [GP 1/1] [Done]

[plznostep]

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Gunk Shot
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Rock Slide / Ice Punch
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
tera type: Fighting

[SET COMMENTS]
Toxicroak differentiates itself from other Choice Scarf users, such as Passimian, by virtue of its defensive utility, being immune to Water-type attacks and absorbing Toxic Spikes. It also doesn't Speed tie with other common Choice Scarf attackers, namely Passimian and Medicham. Close Combat and Gunk Shot can sweep through even remotely weakened teams, especially with a Tera-Fighting Close Combat. Gunk Shot hits Fairy-types that resist Close Combat such as Dachsbun, Florges, and Tera Fairy Drifblim. Earthquake threatens Poison-types such as Muk and Qwilifish. Rock Slide hits Pokemon such as Drifblim and Vespiquen, which may otherwise be troublesome for Toxicroak to deal with. Despite its low-Base Power, Ice Punch is a relatively safe midground option that lacks the type immunities Toxicroak's other moves have while hitting common checks like Sandaconda, Drifblim, and Scyther for decent damage.

Toxicroak struggles with Pokemon that are not threatened by its STAB combination, such as Rotom, Drifblim, and other physical walls such as Sandaconda. Powerful special attackers like Eelektross, Zoroark, and Pyroar can alleviate this issue.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[plznostep, 595639]]
- Quality checked by: [[Togkey, 400664]]
- Grammar checked by: [[Rabia, 336073]] [[Tea Guzzler, 577920]]

 

[plznostep]

should be ready for QC checks : )

 

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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Gunk Shot / Poison Jab Gunk is too good
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Rock Slide / Ice Punch
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
tera type: Fighting

[SET COMMENTS]

Toxicroak differentiates itself from other scarfers, such as Passimian, by virtue of its speed tier, outpacing notable scarfers such as Passimian and Medicham while also having a Water immunity allowing itself to switch in to Pokemon such as Vaporeon and Qwilfish. This also prevents Toxicroak from being revenge killed from some priority users such as Basculin and Bruxish. one and a half viable Aqua Jet users is not really relevant enough to mention this given most other Scarfers can shrug off an Aqua Jet anyway. Toxicroak's Poison typing also gives it a useful resistance to Fighting and U-turn a neutrality to Fairy it still can't really take Fairy-type attacks so again not worth mentioning while also giving it the ability to soak up absorbing Toxic Spikes, meaning unlike the aforementioned Fighting-types, Toxicroak does not have to worry about Toxic Spikes whittling it down throughout a game and can instead remove them fluff. Close Combat is Toxicroak's most consistent attacking move I wouldn't really call Close Combat consistent when many Pokemon run Tera Ghost and Fighting-type checks are common for other reasons anyway and is able to break though physically bulky Pokemon such as Dudunsparce. Dudunsparce would just Tera or switch out, Croak is more of a surprise sweeper than a sleaner. Tera Fighting boosts the power of this move even further and makes Toxicroak a great cleaner late game thanks to the sheer power provided. Close Combat and Gunk Shot are very high BP moves with little drawback that allow Toxicroak to sweep through even remotely weakened teams, especially with a Tera-boosted Close Combat. Gunk Shot is similarly powerful STAB which can hits Fairy-types that resist Close Combat such as Dachsbun and Tera Fairy Copperajah and Drifblim more examples are always better!. Poison Jab can be used instead for reliability, but its notably weaker then Gunk Shot. Earthquake is able to hits Poison-Types such as Muk and Qwilifish, who resist Toxicroak's STAB combination. Rock Slide is able to hit Pokemon such as Drifblim and Vespiquen, who may otherwise be troublesome for Toxicroak to deal with. Despite its low BP, Ice Punch can be used instead to prevent Pokemon such as Sandaconda from pivoting into you, however, Ice Punch does not threaten Oricorio, which can be troublesome due to giving Oricorio free turns to set up. is a relatively safe midground option as it lacks the type immunities Toxicroak's other moves have, while hitting common checks like Sandaconda, Drifblim, and Scyther for decent damage. Toxicroak struggles with Pokemon who are not threatened by Toxicroak's its STAB combination, such as Rotom and Drifblim and other physically bulky walls such as Sandaconda. Some notable partners that can alleviate this issue are Powerful Special attackers like Eelektross, Rotom Zoroark mentioned Zoroark due to its great synergy with Toxicroak regardless due to Illusion (you can add a sentence about that if you'd like) but Eelektross and Rotom fulfill pretty much the same role on teams so mentioning both is superfluous, Umbreon umbreon usually stalemates vs Drifblim and Sandaconda and gets Volted on by Rotom and Pyroar can alleviate this issue.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[plznostep, 595639]]
- Quality checked by: [[Togkey, 400664]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

I take issue with the overall structure of this analysis because although it is written very well, it overhypes Scarf Toxicroak when it's worse than its other Choice Scarf Fighting-type competition in every regard besides beating them in a 1v1 and having some bandaid role compression on teams that forget a TSpike Absorber or Water resist. Sorry for a lot of changes but this should be QC 1/1 when implemented. Please lmk if you have any questions

 

[plznostep]

implemented changes (realised by bias when using scarf toxicroak probably translated into writing LOL)
tagging GP Team for check.

 

[Tea Guzzler]

AMGP, implement as desired but needs official verification
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[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Gunk Shot
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Rock Slide / Ice Punch
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
tera type: Fighting

[SET COMMENTS] removed space
Toxicroak differentiates itself from other scarfers Choice Scarf users, such as Passimian, by virtue of its Speed capital S tier, outpacing notable scarfers Choice Scarf users such as Passimian and Medicham while also having a Water immunity allowing itself to switch in to Pokemon such as Vaporeon and Qwilfish. Toxicroak's Poison typing also gives it a useful resistance to Fighting and U-turn while also absorbing Toxic Spikes. Close Combat and Gunk Shot are very high BP moves with little drawback that allow Toxicroak to can sweep through even remotely weakened teams, especially with a Tera-boosted Tera Fighting Close Combat. Gunk Shot can hit Fairy-types that resist Close Combat such as Dachsbun, Tera Fairy Copperajah, and Drifblim. Earthquake hits Poison Types Poison-types such as Muk and Qwilifish, who resist Toxicroak's STAB combination. second bit of this sentence doesn't seem necessary as it sounds like you're just reading the type chart Rock Slide is able to hits Pokemon such as Drifblim and Vespiquen, who may otherwise be troublesome for Toxicroak to deal with. Despite it's (remove apostrophe) low Base Power capital B and P, Ice Punch is a relatively safe midground option as it lacks the type immunities Toxicroak's other moves have, (remove comma) while hitting common checks like Sandaconda, Drifblim, and Scyther for decent damage. Toxicroak struggles with Pokemon who are not threatened by its STAB combination, such as Rotom, add comma and Drifblim, add comma and other physically bulky walls such as Sandaconda. Powerful special lowercase s attackers like Eelektross, Zoroark, and Pyroar can alleviate this issue.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[plznostep, 595639]]
- Quality checked by: [[Togkey, 400664]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

 

[Rabia]

tea guzzler: add remove comment
me: add remove comments

gp

[SET]
name: Choice Scarf
move 1: Close Combat
move 2: Gunk Shot
move 3: Earthquake
move 4: Rock Slide / Ice Punch
item: Choice Scarf
ability: Dry Skin
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
tera type: Fighting

[SET COMMENTS] removed space
Toxicroak differentiates itself from other scarfers Choice Scarf users, such as Passimian, by virtue of its speed tier, outpacing notable scarfers such as Passimian and Medicham while also having a Water immunity allowing itself to switch in to Pokemon such as Vaporeon and Qwilfish. Toxicroak's Poison typing also gives it a useful resistance to Fighting and U-turn while also absorbing Toxic Spikes its defensive utility, being immune to Water-type attacks and absorbing Toxic Spikes. It also doesn't Speed tie with other common Choice Scarf attackers, namely Passimian and Medicham. (imo this is the order of priority wrt what is significant about scarf croak) Close Combat and Gunk Shot are very high BP moves with little drawback that allow Toxicroak to can sweep through even remotely weakened teams, especially with a Tera-boosted Tera Fighting Close Combat. Gunk Shot can hit hits Fairy-types that resist Close Combat such as Dachsbun, Tera Fairy Copperajah Florges, and Tera Fairy Drifblim. Earthquake hits Poison Types Poison-types such as Muk and Qwilifish, who resist Toxicroak's STAB combination Qwilfish. Rock Slide is able to hits Pokemon such as Drifblim and Vespiquen, who which may otherwise be troublesome for Toxicroak to deal with. Despite it's (remove apostrophe) low-Base(add hyphen) Power capital B and P, Ice Punch is a relatively safe midground option as it that lacks the type immunities Toxicroak's other moves have, (remove comma) while hitting common checks like Sandaconda, Drifblim, and Scyther for decent damage.

Toxicroak struggles with Pokemon who that are not threatened by its STAB combination, such as Rotom, add comma and Drifblim, add comma and other physically bulky physical walls such as Sandaconda. Powerful special lowercase s attackers like Eelektross, Zoroark, and Pyroar can alleviate this issue.

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[plznostep, 595639]]
- Quality checked by: [[Togkey, 400664]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

add both me and tea guzzler to the gp checked bit, gp 1/1 when done Tea Guzzler lmk if u have any extra questions about edits i made

 

[plznostep]

done, should be ready to upload :)