National Dex Volcanion [DONE]

[adem]

[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Toxic / Sludge Wave
item: Choice Specs
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Volcanion is a terrifying wallbreaker on offensive teams, spouting amazing STAB moves and solid coverage options. Furthermore, its ability in Water Absorb and stellar defensive typing allow it to provide solid defensive utility on offense teams, as it can act as a soft check towards threats such as Ash-Greninja, Heatran, and Tapu Fini. However, Volcanion is fairly easy to pivot around due to all of its moves having common resistances or immunities, and it is overdependent on Toxic to break through its checks like Gastrodon and Mega Latias. These issues are compounded by Volcanion's awful longevity due to its crippling weakness to entry hazards. These factors mean that Volcanion faces severe competition from other, more effective wallbreakers such as Tapu Lele and Kartana. Steam Eruption is Volcanion's main STAB move, nailing even neutral targets such as Garchomp and Clefable for large amounts of damage. Flamethrower lets Volcanion hit common Water-resistant Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, and Serperior. Earth Power is Volcanion's coverage move of choice, letting it threaten Toxapex and Galarian Slowking. Toxic allows Volcanion to slowly whittle down would-be checks in Mega Latias, Slowking, and Gastrodon by badly poisoning them on the switch in. Sludge Wave can also be used as an option over Toxic to hit Tapu Fini extremely hard and deter it from switching in, as well as also being a solid midground against Grass-types, although it means that Volcanion can no longer punish Mega Latias and Gastrodon.

Volcanion fits best on offensively oriented teams that appreciate its short-term defensive capabilites and its terrifying wallbreaking prowess. Teammates such as Mega Scizor, Tapu Lele, and Arctozolt appreciate Volcanion's ability to pressure bulky Water- and Steel-types, such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, opposing Mega Scizor and Toxapex. These Pokemon baiting in Steel- and Water-types provides natural entry points for Volcanion to come in and act as a wallbreaker. Due to Volcanion's susceptibility to entry hazards, Pokemon such as Mega Diancie that can deflect it or good Defoggers such as Corviknight and Kartana make for solid partners. Pokemon that appreciate Volcanion taking the Water- and Fire-type attacks from Ash-Greninja and Heatran directed at them such as Landorus-T and Ferrothorn, respectively, are also good partners. Although Volcanion can pressure out slower Ground-types, faster ones often force it out instead, so Ground-immune Pokemon such as Corviknight and Landorus-T are excellent partners. Electric- immune Pokemon such as the aforementioned Landorus-T and Gliscor also work well due to Volcanion's tendency to be forced out by Electric-types. Lastly, due to Volcanion's inability to check the likes of Ash-Greninja and Heatran by itself, Dark- and Ground-resistant Pokemon, such as Gliscor and Tapu Koko work well with it to round off the defensive core.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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A bulkier set utilizing Substitute with Leftovers can be used to greatly ease prediction and completely shred common defensive cores made up of Corviknight, Toxapex, and Clefable, as well as nearly always forcing a KO by taking advantage of similar cores' passiveness to get up a Substitute. However, due to not being able to run Toxic, Volcanion is often left helpless against the likes of Mega Latias and Slowking, making Pursuit users such as Weavile mandatory alongside it. A Modest nature can also be used to increase breaking power; however, it means Volcanion misses out on outspeeding key foes such as Modest Heatran.

Checks and Counters
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**Bulky Dragon-types**: Mega Latias, Mega Latios, and Hydreigon can comfortably switch into Volcanion as they resist both of its STAB moves and can recover off any damage dealt; however, they are extremely crippled by Toxic and can often get overwhelmed easily from there.

**Bulky Water-types**: Gastrodon and Slowking are good checks to Volcanion, as they are immune to or take minor damage from Steam Eruption, as well as taking negligible damage from its other moves, and they can recover off the damage dealt; however, they are crippled by a well timed Toxic and can lose in the long term from there. Toxapex can pivot into Volcanion as it resists both of Volcanion's STAB moves and is immune to Toxic; however, Toxapex takes a hefty chunk from Earth Power and often cant consistently pivot into it. Tapu Fini resists both of Volcanion’s STAB options while also being immune to Toxic; however, due to its lack of consistent recovery, it is easily worn down and eventually can lose to Volcanion if it constantly has to switch into it.

**Chip Damage**: Due to Volcanion's lack of recovery and susceptibility to all entry hazards, entry hazard chip racks up very quickly in the long term, especially considering Volcanion's crippling weakness to Stealth Rock. Furthermore, chip damage from sand and hail can also drastically cut into Volcanion's health. Its longevity also gets compounded due to being forced to switch into Pokemon such as Greninja.

**Chansey and Blissey**: Chansey and Blissey can infinitely switch into Volcanion without worry, heal off any damage done to them, and threaten back with a Seismic Toss or a Toxic. They can also absorb Toxics and remove the status with Natural Cure, leaving Volcanion unable to break through a healthy Blissey and Chansey.

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- Written by: [[adem, 529732]]
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[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Volcanion is a terrifying wallbreaker on offense offensive teams, spouting amazing STABs as well as solid coverage options. Furthermore, its ability in Water Absorb as well as its stellar defensive typing allow it to provide solid defensive utility on offense teams, as it can soft check threats such as Ash-Greninja, Heatran, and Tapu Fini. However, Volcanion is not without its flaws, as it is extremely susceptible to Stealth Rock, and its attacks can often be easily pivoted around. Furthermore, its overreliance on Toxic with good prediction to break most of its checks in conjunction with its terrible longevity compared to these Pokemon, oftentimes means it struggles to consistently break holes through teams, compared to other, more effective, wallbreakers such as Tapu Lele and Kartana. However, it is fairly easy to pivot around due to all its moves having common resistances or immunities, is over reliant on toxic to break through its checks like Gastrodon and Mega Latias, issues which are compounded by its awful longevity due to its crippling weakness to entry hazards. These factors mean that Volcanion faces severe competition from other, more effective wallbreakers such as Tapu Lele and Kartana. Steam Eruption is Volcanion’s main STAB move, nailing even neutral targets such as Garchomp and Clefable for large amounts of damage. Flamethrower lets Volcanion hit common Water-type resists such as Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, and Serperior. Earth Power is Volcanion’s coverage move of choice, letting it break threaten realistically u aren't breaking past them they will just swap out Toxapex and Galarian Slowking easily. Toxic allows Volcanion to slowly whittle down would-be checks in Mega Latias, Slowking, and Gastrodon.


Volcanion fits best on offensive teams that appreciate its short-term defensive capabilites as well as its terrifying wallbreaking prowess. Teammates such as Arctozolt, Tapu Lele, and Mega Scizor i think it's better to mention smth else here over msciz cuz the sentence is very clunky otherwise, its not needed tho appreciate its ability to pressure bulky Water- and Steel-types, such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, opposing Mega Scizor and Toxapex. Due to its susceptibility to Stealth Rock Entry Hazards, Pokemon such as Mega Diancie that can block it, or good Defoggers such as Corviknight and Kartana make for solid partners. Pokemon such as Landorus-T and Ferrothorn that appreciate Volcanion taking the Water- and Fire-type attacks from? directed at them, respectively, are also good partners. Lastly, due to Volcanions inability to check the likes of Ash-Greninja and Heatran by itself, Dark- and Ground-type resists work well with it to round off the defensive core, such as Landorus-T and Corviknight work well with it. Except these 2 don't check tran or gren

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

A bulkier set utilising Substitute with Leftovers can be used to greatly ease prediction and take advantage of common defensive pivots into it such as Toxapex and Tapu Fini, as well as provide much better defensive utility. However, due to not being able to run Toxic, it is often left helpless against the likes of Mega Latias and Slowking, making Pursuit users such as Weavile mandatory alongside it. Sludge Wave can also be used as an option over Toxic to hit Tapu Fini hard, although it means that Volcanion can no longer punish Mega Latias and Gastrodon. A Modest nature can also be used to increase breaking power, however it means Volcanion misses out on key speed tiers such as Modest Heatran.

Checks and Counters
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**Bulky Dragon-types**: Both Mega Latias and Latios can comfortably switch into Volcanion as they resist both its STAB moves, and recover off any damage dealt; however, they both are extremely crippled by a Toxic and can often get overwhelemed easily from there. Mention drei here as smth that pivot in and annoy it

**Bulky Water-types**: Gastrodon and Slowking are hard good checks to Volcanion, as they are immune or take minor damage from Steam Eruption, as well as taking negligible damage from its other moves and can recover off the damage dealt; however, they are crippled by a well timed Toxic and can lose in the long term from there. The likes of Toxapex and Tapu Fini can also check Volcanion, although they can easily be overwhelmed by its coverage moves. Give these 2 their own sentences cuz they check volcanion differently

**Chip Damage**: Due to Volcanion’s lack of recovery and susceptibility to all forms of entry hazards, entry hazard chip racks up very quickly in the long term, especially considering Volcanion’s crippling weakness to Stealth Rock. Furthermore, chip from Sand and Hail damage can also drastically cut into its lifespan. Mention that is compunded cuz it has to switch in on stuff like gren

[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[adem, 529732]]
- Quality checked by: [[username1, userid1], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

Well done

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[pannu]

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[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Toxic
item: Choice Specs
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Choice Specs Volcanion is a terrifying wallbreaker on offensive teams, spouting amazing STABs as well as solid coverage options. Furthermore, its ability in Water Absorb, as well as its stellar defensive typing, nitpicky but "in tandem with" might sound better over "as well as" here? personally prefence thing, implement if you like it allow it to provide solid defensive utility on offense teams, as it can soft check threats such as Ash-Greninja, Heatran, and Tapu Fini. However, it is fairly easy to pivot around due to all its moves having common resistances or immunities, is over reliant on Toxic to break through its checks like Gastrodon and Mega Latias, issues which are compounded by its awful longevity due to its crippling weakness to entry hazards. These factors mean that Volcanion faces severe competition from other, more effective wallbreakers such as Tapu Lele and Kartana. Steam Eruption is Volcanion’s main STAB move, nailing even neutral targets such as Garchomp and Clefable for large amounts of damage. Flamethrower lets Volcanion hit common Water-type resists such as Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, and Serperior. Earth Power is Volcanion’s coverage move of choice, letting it threaten Toxapex and Galarian Slowking. Toxic allows Volcanion to slowly whittle down would-be checks in Mega Latias, Slowking, and Gastrodon. explain that you toxic these on the switch

Volcanion fits best on offensive teams that appreciate its short-term defensive capabilites as well as its terrifying wallbreaking prowess. Teammates such as Arctozolt, Tapu Lele, and Mega Scizor appreciate its ability to pressure bulky Water- and Steel-types, either move zolt to the end or put steel-types before water-types, you're making it seem like zolt has a field day when volc nukes the opposing fini, also mention how these pokemon baiting in the stee- and waters you mentioned is good for volc as it generates natural entry points for it such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, opposing Mega Scizor and Toxapex. Due to its susceptibility to entry hazards, Pokemon such as Mega Diancie that can block it, or good Defoggers such as Corviknight and Kartana make for solid partners. Pokemon such as Landorus-T and Ferrothorn that appreciate Volcanion taking the Water- and Fire-type attacks from Ash-Greninja and Heatran directed at them, respectively, are also good partners. Lastly, due to Volcanions inability to check the likes of Ash-Greninja and Heatran by itself, Dark- and Ground-type resists work well with it to round off the defensive core, such as Gliscor and Mega Diancie work well with it. elaborate on the weaknesses part, give ground weakness an entire sentence of its own and talk about electrics asw

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

A bulkier set utilising Substitute with Leftovers can be used to greatly ease prediction and take advantage of common defensive pivots into it such as Toxapex and Tapu Fini, as well as provide much better defensive utility. you were like THE main advocate for this set, pay it some more lip service, talk about how it shreds corvpexclef cores However, due to not being able to run Toxic, it is often left helpless against the likes of Mega Latias and Slowking, making Pursuit users such as Weavile mandatory alongside it. Sludge Wave can also be used as an option over Toxic to hit Tapu Fini hard, i feel as mentioning how its a solid midground against grasses is worth although it means that Volcanion can no longer punish Mega Latias and Gastrodon. A Modest nature can also be used to increase breaking power, however it means Volcanion misses out on key speed tiers such as Modest Heatran.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Bulky Dragon-types**: Both Mega Latias and Latios, and Hydreigon, can comfortably switch into Volcanion as they resist both its STAB moves, and recover off any damage dealt; however, they both are extremely crippled by a Toxic and can often get overwhelemed easily from there.

**Bulky Water-types**: Gastrodon and Slowking are gopd gopd checks to Volcanion, as they are immune or take minor damage from Steam Eruption, as well as taking negligible damage from its other moves and can recover off the damage dealt; however, they are crippled by a well timed Toxic and can lose in the long term from there. Toxapex can pivot into Volcanion as it resists both of its STABs and is immune to Toxic, however it takes a hefty chunk from Earth Power and often cant constantly pivot into it. Tapu Fini also resist both of Volcanion’s STAB options while also being immune to Toxic, however due to its lack of consistent recovery, it is easily worn down and eventually can lose to it if it constantly has to switch into it.

**Chip Damage**: Due to Volcanion’s lack of recovery and susceptibility to all forms of entry hazards, entry hazard chip racks up very quickly in the long term, especially considering Volcanion’s crippling weakness to Stealth Rock. Furthermore, chip from Sand and Hail damage can also drastically cut into its lifespan. Its longevity also gets compounded due to being forced to switch into Pokemon such as Greninja.

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[CREDITS]
- Written by: [[adem, 529732]]
- Quality checked by: [[The Dragon Master, 521275], [username2, userid2]]
- Grammar checked by: [[username1, userid1]]

good asf, tho i am trynna see this implemented b4 stampin

 

[pannu]

Lastly, due to Volcanions inability to check the likes of Ash-Greninja and Heatran by itself, Dark- and Ground-type resists work well with it to round off the defensive core, such as Gliscor and Mega Diancie work well with it.

reword this sentence to feature a dark resist that can actually switch into gren or nuke the sentence entirely. move sludge from oo to slashed behind toxic

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[SET]
name: Choice Specs
move 1: Steam Eruption
move 2: Flamethrower
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Toxic / Sludge Wave
item: Choice Specs
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Timid
evs: 252 Spa / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

Choice Specs Volcanion is a terrifying wallbreaker on offensive teams, spouting amazing STABs as well as moves and solid coverage options. Furthermore, its ability in Water Absorb in tandem with its stellar defensive typing, allow it to provide solid defensive utility on offense teams, as it can act as a soft check towards threats such as Ash-Greninja, Heatran, and Tapu Fini. However, itVolcanion is fairly easy to pivot around due to all of its moves having common resistances or immunities, is over reliaand it is overdependent on Toxic to break through its checks like Gastrodon and Mega Latias, issues which are compounded by it. These issues are compounded by Volcanion's awful longevity due to its crippling weakness to entry hazards. These factors mean that Volcanion faces severe competition from other, more effective wallbreakers such as Tapu Lele and Kartana. Steam Eruption is Volcanion’'s main STAB move, nailing even neutral targets such as Garchomp and Clefable for large amounts of damage. Flamethrower lets Volcanion hit common Water-type resistsresistant Pokemon such as Ferrothorn, Amoonguss, and Serperior. Earth Power is Volcanion’'s coverage move of choice, letting it threaten Toxapex and Galarian Slowking. Toxic allows Volcanion to slowly whittle down would-be checks in Mega Latias, Slowking, and Gastrodon by badly poisoning them on the switch- in. Sludge Wave can also be used as an option over Toxic to hit Tapu Fini extremely hard and deter it from switching in, as well as also being a solid midground against Grass-types, although it means that Volcanion can no longer punish Mega Latias and Gastrodon.

Volcanion fits best on offensively oriented teams that appreciate its short-term defensive capabilites as well asnd its terrifying wallbreaking prowess. Teammates such as Mega Scizor, Tapu Lele, and Arctozolt appreciate itVolcanion's ability to pressure bulky Water- and Steel-types, such as Corviknight, Ferrothorn, opposing Mega Scizor, and Toxapex. These Pokemon baiting in the Steel- and Water-types provides natural entry points for Volcanion to come in and wallbreak. Due to itact as a wallbreaker. Due to Volcanion's susceptibility to entry hazards, Pokemon such as Mega Diancie that can block it,deflect it or good Defoggers such as Corviknight and Kartana make for solid partners. Pokemon such as Landorus-T and Ferrothorn that appreciate Volcanion taking the Water- and Fire-type attacks from Ash-Greninja and Heatran directed at them such as Landorus-T and Ferrothorn, respectively, are also good partners. Although itVolcanion can pressure out slower Ground-types, faster ones often force it out instead, so Ground-type immunitiesimmune Pokemon such as Corviknight and Landorus-T are excellent partners. Electric-type immunitiesimmune Pokemon such as the aforementioned Landorus-T and Gliscor also work well due to Volcanion's tendency to be forced out by Electric-types. Lastly, due to Volcanion's inability to check the likes of Ash-Greninja and Heatran by itself, Dark- and Ground-type resists work well with it to round off the defensive coreresistant Pokemon, such as Gliscor and Tapu Koko, work well with it to round off the defensive core.

[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
=============

A bulkier set utiliszing Substitute with Leftovers can be used to greatly ease prediction and completely shred common Corviknight + Toxapex + Clefable defensive cores, and nearly always forces a killdefensive cores made up of Corviknight, Toxapex, and Clefable, as well as nearly always forcing a KO by taking advantage of similiar cores' passiveness to get up a sSubstitute. However, due to not being able to run Toxic, itVolcanion is often left helpless against the likes of Mega Latias and Slowking, making Pursuit users such as Weavile mandatory alongside it. A Modest nature can also be used to increase breaking power, however; however, it means Volcanion misses out on key speed tieroutspeeding key foes such as Modest Heatran.

Checks and Counters
===================

**Bulky Dragon-types**: Both Mega Latias, Megand Latios, and Hydreigon, can comfortably switch into Volcanion, as they resist both of its STAB moves, and can recover off any damage dealt; however, they both are extremely crippled by a Toxic and can often get overwhelemed easily from there.

**Bulky Water-types**: Gastrodon and Slowking are good checks to Volcanion, as they are immune to or take minor damage from Steam Eruption, as well as taking negligible damage from its other moves, and they can recover off the damage dealt; however, they are crippled by a well-timed Toxic and can lose in the long term from there. Toxapex can pivot into Volcanion, as it resists both of its STABs and is immune to Toxic, however itVolcanion's STAB moves and is immune to Toxic; however, Toxapex takes a hefty chunk from Earth Power and often cant consta't consistently pivot into it. Tapu Fini also resists both of Volcanion’s STAB options while also being immune to Toxic, however; however, due to its lack of consistent recovery, Tapu Finit is easily worn down and eventually can lose to itVolcanion if it constantly has to switch into it.

**Chip Damage**: Due to Volcanion’'s lack of recovery and susceptibility to all forms of entry hazards, entry hazard chip racks up very quickly in the long term, especially considering Volcanion’'s crippling weakness to Stealth Rock. Furthermore, chip from Sand and Hail damagedamage from sand and hail can also drastically cut into its lifespanVolcanion's health. Its longevity also gets compounded due to being forced to switch into Pokemon such as Greninja.

**Chansey and Blissey** These two special walls: Chansey and Blissey can infinitely switch into Volcanion without worry, and heal off any damage done to them, and threaten back with a Seismic Toss or a Toxic. They can also absorb Toxic’s and remove the status with Natural Cure, leaving Volcanion unable to break through a healthy Blissey and Chansey.

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