They're the same sets, though just with a few different moves. They all even have the same OU analysis that is labeled as "Shift Gear". Couldn't the Shift Gear set as a whole just have been ranked in S tier? I mean, you guys merged the Defog with the Shuca berry set for Koko so I don't see why the same couldn't be done for the Gear setMagearna is an S Rank threat, unlike Protean Gren which is in A Rank. We wanted to accurately portray Magearna's multitude of sets, whereas we didn't really feel like that was necessary for something like Protean Greninja. Offensive Protean Gren (ignoring scarf and sash) generally runs 4 attacks or 3 attacks + spikes and we felt dividing these by either physically based (low kick / gunk / beam or uturn / z dig / beam or hydro) and specially based (hp fire + hydro sets) was a good enough distinction.
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