Copyediting Urshifu-S (GP 0/1)

[Choruto]

[SET]
Urshifu @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unseen Fist
Level: 50
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wicked Blow
- Sucker Punch
- Close Combat
- Detect

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu-S is used as a generally strong attacker, its Wicked Blow's deal massive damage to much of the metagame with Unseen Fist and ignores Attack drops minimizing counterplay. Its use cases are pretty flexible, as its kit does not need much support and is mainly used to enhance a teams offensive pressure. With Tera Dark, Urshifu-S is capable of OHKOing Pokemon such as both Calyrex formes and Flutter Mane as well as bringing most other targets to red health. Focus Sash helps Urshifu-S remedy its poor defensive typing, while Sucker Punch is able to somewhat bypass Urshifu-S's middling Speed tier.

Urshifu-S functions well on many teams, however those with strong Speed control are where Urshifu-S shines, particularly Trick Room compositions with Calyrex-I which appreciate the immediate pressure as well as Trick Room letting Urshifu-S outspeed threats such as Flutter Mane and Zamazenta-C. Additionally, Unseen Fist ignoring Protect means stalling Trick Room with it is much more risky. Speaking of which, Urshifu-S struggles against Pokemon which resist Wicked Blow, as they nullify its entire role. Additionally, many of these threats also outspeed and hit for Super Effective, such as the aforementioned Zamazenta and opposing Urshifu-R. However, Amoonguss, Raging Bolt, and other partners are able to somewhat make up for these weaknesses. Many Pokemon also run Tera Fairy such as Raging Bolt and Calyrex-S, indirectly also reducing Urshifu-S's value into compositions running the type as it struggles to break through.

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[LovelyLuna]

Good work, gave a lot of thoughts but implement the following and it can be marked as QC 1/2!

Add, Remove, Highlight, Comment.

Worse Chien-Pao

[SET]
Urshifu @ Focus Sash (Set name.)
Ability: Unseen Fist
Level: 50
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wicked Blow
- Sucker Punch
- Close Combat
- Detect

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu-S is used as a generally strong attacker, its Wicked Blow's deal massive damage to much of the metagame with Unseen Fist and Critical Hit ignoring ignores (Worded like dex info, consider mentioning Intimidate in particular to make it more metagame related but up to you.) Attack drops minimizing counterplay. Its use cases are pretty flexible, as its kit does not need much support and is mainly used to enhance a teams offensive pressure. With Tera Dark, Urshifu-S is capable of OHKOing even bulky (252 hp Tornadus, uninvested Peli and Ogerpon aren't exactly bulky.) targets such as Tornadus, Pelipper (Is there something else you could mention here? Pelipper either invests in bulk or runs Focus Sash so Urshifu-S won't be OHKOing it.), and the various Ogerpon formes, bringing most other targets to red health. Focus Sash helps Urshifu-S remedy its poor defensive typing, while Sucker Punch is able to somewhat bypass Urshifu-S's middling Speed tier. (These are a bit out of order, Moves -> Item -> Tera is what should be done.)

Urshifu-S functions well on many teams, however those with strong Speed control are where Urshifu-S shines, particularly Trick Room compositions which appreciate the immediate pressure as well as Trick Room letting Urshifu-S outspeed threats such as Flutter Mane and Zamazenta. (One of the biggest things you're missing here is Unseen Fist minimizing how many Trick Room turns they can stall through Protect. Probably why so many look to Urshifu. Bringing up examples of Trick Room setters would also help make this section more about Urshifu-S as a Pokemon.) Speaking of which, Urshifu-S struggles against Pokemon which resist Wicked Blow, as they nullify its entire role. Additionally, many of these threats also outspeed and hit for Super Effective, such as the aformentioned Zamazenta and opposing Urshifu-R. (Bring up common partners that take on Zama and Shifu, think Amoonguss, Raging Bolt, and maybe even Gholdengo.)

[SET CREDITS]
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[SoulboyVGC]

Put a lot of comments here so I'd like to recheck, ask any questions on disc.

QC Experiment 005

[SET]
Urshifu @ Focus Sash
Ability: Unseen Fist
Level: 50
Tera Type: Dark
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Wicked Blow
- Sucker Punch
- Close Combat
- Detect

[SET COMMENTS]
Urshifu-S is used as a generally strong attacker, its Wicked Blow's deals massive damage to much of the metagame with Unseen Fist and ignores Attack drops minimizing counterplay. Its use cases are pretty flexible, as its kit does not need much support and is mainly used to enhance a teams offensive pressure. With Tera Dark, Urshifu-S is capable of OHKOing Pokemon such as Tornadus 252+ Atk Tera-Dark Urshifu-Single Strike Wicked Blow vs. 252 HP / 124+ Def Tornadus on a critical hit: 146-174 (78.4 - 93.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO, this is our dex spread so not even taking that out feels bad, Flutter Mane, and the various Ogerpon-W formes 252+ Atk Tera-Dark Urshifu-Single Strike Wicked Blow vs. 204 HP / 4 Def Ogerpon-Wellspring on a critical hit: 162-192 (89.5 - 106%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO, this is also a dex spread , bringing most other targets to red health. Focus Sash helps Urshifu-S remedy its poor defensive typing, while Sucker Punch is able to somewhat bypass Urshifu-S's middling Speed tier. Not mentioning the ability to force Caly-S's tera feels like a huge missed opportunity, could be worth adding.

Urshifu-S functions well on many teams, however those with strong Speed control are where Urshifu-S shines, particularly Trick Room compositions with Calyrex-I which appreciate the immediate pressure as well as Trick Room letting Urshifu-S outspeed threats such as Flutter Mane and Zamazenta what does outspeeding zama do? you mention zama as a counter later. CC 2hkos ig but something else may fit better here. Up to you.. Additionally, Unseen Fist ignoring Protect means stalling Trick Room with it is much more risky. Speaking of which, Urshifu-S struggles against Pokemon which resist Wicked Blow, as they nullify its entire role. Additionally, many of these threats also outspeed and hit for Super Effective, such as the aforementioned Zamazenta-C and opposing Urshifu-R. However, Amoonguss, Raging Bolt, and other partners are able to somewhat make up for these weaknesses. Is tera fairy flutter not a weakness or yk, any tera fairy mon in general? Feel like it's important to mention as tera fairy is one of the most common ways to stifle urshifu.
[SET CREDITS]
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[SoulboyVGC]

Mark as qc 2/2

 

[Choruto]

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