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Volcanion @ Assault Vest
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest / Quiet Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Heavy Slam / Sludge Bomb
[SET COMMENTS]
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Volcanion @ Assault Vest
Ability: Water Absorb
Tera Type: Grass
EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD
Modest / Quiet Nature
- Steam Eruption
- Heat Wave
- Earth Power
- Heavy Slam / Sludge Bomb
[SET COMMENTS]
- Steam Eruption is an incredible STAB move, with it's chance to burn allowing it to weaken physical attackers.
- Heat Wave provides a spread option that can bypass redirection to hit Pokemon like Kingambit and Rillaboom.
- Earth Power is the best coverage move for Volcanion, since it's the only option that allows it to hit Iron Hands and opposing Volcanion super effectively.
- Heavy Slam is exclusively meant as a weapon against Flutter Mane, which can survive Volcanion's other moves due to its extremely high Special Defense. Sludge Bomb, on the other hand, provides more general use as neutral damage, as well as providing a super effective option against Tera Grass Heatran and Armarouge. Heavy Slam can also be useful against Diancie, as the 4x super effective damage means that it has a chance to OHKO a specially defensive Diancie from full.
- Assault Vest, working in conjunction with its typing, makes Volcanion into an extremely powerful Specially defensive option that can survive hits from Chi-Yu, Gholdengo, and Flutter Mane.
- Tera Fairy provides Volcanion has no shared weaknesses with its base type, and provides a resistance to Dark and Fighting type moves, allow it to stay in on Kingambit's Kowtow Cleave.
- Volcanion functions best on bulkier archetypes such as semi-Trick Room or balance, where it takes advantage of its defenses to safely survive and trade favorably against some of the high powered special attackers in the tier, such as Chi Yu and Flutter Mane.
- Volcanion appreciates support from Rillaboom and Amoonguss, which can switch into Electric-type attacks and provide recovery to Volcanion, with Grassy Terrain and Pollen Puff, respectively. Volcanion also pairs well with Landorus-T, due to the latter resisting or being immune to Electric- and Ground-type attacks, and providing Intimidate, complementing Volcanion's natural bulk.
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