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Overview

Porygon-Z is the 1v1 tier's premier fast special attacker. It can run a variety of sets and cover almost every top threat with its Scarf, Specs, and Z-Move variants. It's good speed combined with it's blistering special attack lets it tear through the metagame with Adaptability or Download boosted Hyper Beams, Uproars, and BoltBeams.

Standard Scarf
Porygon-Z @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Uproar
- Trick
- Shadow Ball

Set Comments

Moves

*Hyper Beam is your easy-win button most games. It's got a massive base power and is a neutral KO on most pokemon. Even though it's got the downsides of 90% accuracy and a recharge turn afterward, this move is still your strongest STAB and best chance at victory versus most pokemon.
*Uproar is your secondary STAB move, with 90 base power and no recharge. It lets you 2hko things like Gyarados, and lets you bypass Substitute and avoid sleep from pokemon like Whimsicott, Jumpluff, and Smeargle.
*Trick shuts down a variety of walls that don't like being locked into a stat boosting or status move, such as Deoxys-Defense, Ferrothorn, or Mew. It also lets you beat FEAR.
*Shadow Ball exists to hit Ghost types and is your best answer to Mega Slowbro.
*Other options for coverage moves include Dark Pulse which has a nice flinch chance, Thunderbolt which is good vs water types but somewhat redundant as you already beat Mega Gyarados with Uproar, and Ice Beam for 4x Weaknesses like Dragonite (although Hyper Beam already nets the KO on Garchomp, Landorus, and Gliscor).

Set Details
*EVs simply max out speed and special attack, your two most important stats. Modest nature is generally preferred over Timid since you increase your chances at KOing bulky versions of Charizard X, Gyarados, and Mega Slowbro. Timid lets you outspeed (or speed tie) other Porygon-Z, though the damage drop often isn't worth it.

Usage Tips
*Bring Porygon-Z out when your opponent is lacking appropriate checks. If they don't have anything that can take a Hyper Beam, you're at an enormous advantage provided they don't outspeed.
*Porygon-Z can actually be used to bait out some medium-speed mons like Charizard by bluffing a Specs or Z-Crystal set.
*You have a ton of options for Porygon, so don't be afraid to change up your set frequently based on what people are currently running on the ladder.

Team Options
Porygon-Z generally pairs well with pokemon that can check its counters, which are Sturdy pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Sawk), spDef walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D), steel types (Magearna, Metagross) and faster scarfers (Kyurem-B, scarf Greninja). Sturdy pokemon are dealt with via Mold Breaker, making Kyurem-B and Mega Gyarados great partners. Specially defensive walls are taken out by strong physical mons, like Gyarados, Kyurem-B, Crustle, Metagross, or Mega Pinsir. Steels are taken out by Ground or Fire types like Charizard, Landorus, Donphan, or Heatran. Fast scarfs are defeated by things that can tank a hit, which is situational based on the scarfer, but generally bulky Mega Gyarados, Magearna, or Crustle can get the job done.

Strategy Comments

Other Options

*Porygon-Z can also run a variety of other sets - it can utilize several variations of Scarf sets, as well as Choice Specs, Normalium Z, and even Electrium Z. Most of these sets revolve around taking a hit and boosting up or just straight KOing back, meaning that pokemon like Tapu Koko, Greninja, Mega Pinsir, and Kartana become threats since they outspeed you if you're not scarfed and can knock out even bulky Porygon-Z.
*Defensive Scarf Porygon-Z can beat Standard Gyarados, Charizard X/Y, and both Scarfed and Banded Kyurem-Black. 240 defense investment lets you tank any hit from Scarfed Kyurem, and 96 speed investment lets you outpace Modest Tapu Koko.
*Choice Specs Porygon-Z can invest either speed or bulk alongside special attack, and can act as a potent wallbreaker. However, you can no longer outspeed base 100 pokemon like Charizard.
*Normalium Z Porygon can boost all its stats with Z-Conversion (and if you want, you can also switch your typing to Ghost or Electric) before blowing an opponent away with the equivalent of a Scarf and Specs boost. It also has the option of using Breakneck Blitz -> Hyper Beam combo which can make quick work of lots of bulky pokemon. You have the freedom to invest in HP, but you also need to make sure you survive turn one so you can boost up in the first place.
*Electrium Z Porygon can use Thunder or Zap Cannon to power up its Gigavolt Havoc to monstrous levels. Since you're not locked into a choice item, you have the freedom to run Nasty Plot alongside Uproar/Hyper Beam/Hidden Power to boost your damage. 20 HP and 252 defense investment let you tank a Continental Crush -> Ice Shard combo from Donphan, a pokemon that you normally lose to.
*The combination of Choice Scarf + Shadow Ball + Conversion + Trick lets you defeat pokemon that normally hard counter you, such as Chansey, Meloetta, and any Hyper Beam/Giga Impact user that can normally survive your attacks. Against Chansey, you can Trick it your scarf and lock it into Seismic Toss before using Conversion to become a Ghost type, immune to Seismic Toss. Versus specs Meloetta and similar mons (choiced Terrakion, Slaking, Sawk, even other Porygon-Z) you can simply click Conversion turn one and become a Ghost type, then watch as your opponent blows all their Hyper Beam/Giga Impact/Close Combat PP against you and Struggles themselves to death.

Checks and Counters
*Every Sturdy Pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Golem, Sawk, Magnezone, Avalugg): All these pokemon can tank a hit from Porygon with at least 1hp, and KO it back while it's busy recharging it's Hyper Beam.
*Rock/Steel types (Mega Metagross, Magearna, Genesect, Jirachi, Celesteela, Rhyperior, Heatran): These guys all resist your Hyper Beam and have no problem taking a hit and one- or two-shotting you.
*Special walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D, Mega Venusaur, Assault Vest users): These pokemon can generally survive any of your attacks barring crits and whittle you down over time.
 
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Porygon-Z

Overview Porygon-Z is the 1v1 tier's premier fast special attacker. It can run a variety of sets and cover almost every top threat with its Scarf, Specs, and Z-Move variants. It's good speed combined with it's blistering special attack lets it tear through the metagame with Adaptability or Download boosted Hyper Beams, Uproars, and BoltBeams.

Standard Scarf
Porygon-Z @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Uproar
- Trick
- Shadow Ball

Set Comments

Moves

*Hyper Beam is your easy-win button most games. It's got a massive base power and is a neutral KO on most pokemon. Even though it's got the downsides of 90% accuracy and a recharge turn afterward, this move is still your strongest STAB and best chance at victory versus most pokemon.
*Uproar is your secondary STAB move, with 90 base power and no recharge. It lets you 2hko things like Gyarados, and lets you bypass Substitute and avoid sleep from pokemon like Whimsicott, Jumpluff, and Smeargle.
*Trick shuts down a variety of walls that don't like being locked into a stat boosting or status move, such as Deoxys-Defense, Ferrothorn, or Mew. It also lets you beat FEAR.
*Shadow Ball exists to hit Ghost types and is your best answer to Mega Slowbro.
*Other options for coverage moves include Dark Pulse which has a nice flinch chance, Thunderbolt which is good vs water types but somewhat redundant as you already beat Mega Gyarados with Uproar, and Ice Beam for 4x Weaknesses like Dragonite (although Hyper Beam already nets the KO on Garchomp, Landorus, and Gliscor).

Set Details
*EVs simply max out speed and special attack, your two most important stats. Modest nature is generally preferred over Timid since you increase your chances at KOing bulky versions of Charizard X, Gyarados, and Mega Slowbro. Timid lets you outspeed (or speed tie) other Porygon-Z, though the damage drop often isn't worth it.

Usage Tips
*Bring Porygon-Z out when your opponent is lacking appropriate checks. If they don't have anything that can take a Hyper Beam, you're at an enormous advantage provided they don't outspeed.
*Porygon-Z can actually be used to bait out some medium-speed mons like Charizard by bluffing a Specs or Z-Crystal set.
*You have a ton of options for Porygon, so don't be afraid to change up your set frequently based on what people are currently running on the ladder.

Team Options
Porygon-Z generally pairs well with pokemon that can check its counters, which are Sturdy pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Sawk), spDef walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D), steel types (Magearna, Metagross) and faster scarfers (Kyurem-B, scarf Greninja). Sturdy pokemon are dealt with via Mold Breaker, making Kyurem-B and Mega Gyarados great partners. Specially defensive walls are taken out by strong physical mons, like Gyarados, Kyurem-B, Crustle, Metagross, or Mega Pinsir. Steels are taken out by Ground or Fire types like Charizard, Landorus, Donphan, or Heatran. Fast scarfs are defeated by things that can tank a hit, which is situational based on the scarfer, but generally bulky Mega Gyarados, Magearna, or Crustle can get the job done.

Strategy Comments

Other Options

*Porygon-Z can also run a variety of other sets - it can utilize several variations of Scarf sets, as well as Choice Specs, Normalium Z, and even Electrium Z. Most of these sets revolve around taking a hit and boosting up or just straight KOing back, meaning that pokemon like Tapu Koko, Greninja, Mega Pinsir, and Kartana become threats since they outspeed you if you're not scarfed and can knock out even bulky Porygon-Z.
*Defensive Scarf Porygon-Z can beat Standard Gyarados, Charizard X/Y, and both Scarfed and Banded Kyurem-Black. 240 defense investment lets you tank any hit from Scarfed Kyurem, and 96 speed investment lets you outpace Modest Tapu Koko.
*Choice Specs Porygon-Z can invest either speed or bulk alongside special attack, and can act as a potent wallbreaker. However, you can no longer outspeed base 100 pokemon like Charizard.
*Normalium Z Porygon can boost all its stats with Z-Conversion (and if you want, you can also switch your typing to Ghost or Electric) before blowing an opponent away with the equivalent of a Scarf and Specs boost. It also has the option of using Breakneck Blitz -> Hyper Beam combo which can make quick work of lots of bulky pokemon. You have the freedom to invest in HP, but you also need to make sure you survive turn one so you can boost up in the first place.
*Electrium Z Porygon can use Thunder or Zap Cannon to power up its Gigavolt Havoc to monstrous levels. Since you're not locked into a choice item, you have the freedom to run Nasty Plot alongside Uproar/Hyper Beam/Hidden Power to boost your damage. 20 HP and 252 defense investment let you tank a Continental Crush -> Ice Shard combo from Donphan, a pokemon that you normally lose to.
*The combination of Choice Scarf + Shadow Ball + Conversion + Trick lets you defeat pokemon that normally hard counter you, such as Chansey, Meloetta, and any Hyper Beam/Giga Impact user that can normally survive your attacks. Against Chansey, you can Trick it your scarf and lock it into Seismic Toss before using Conversion to become a Ghost type, immune to Seismic Toss. Versus specs Meloetta and similar mons (choiced Terrakion, Slaking, Sawk, even other Porygon-Z) you can simply click Conversion turn one and become a Ghost type, then watch as your opponent blows all their Hyper Beam/Giga Impact/Close Combat PP against you and Struggles themselves to death.

Checks and Counters
*Every Sturdy Pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Golem, Sawk, Magnezone, Avalugg): All these pokemon can tank a hit from Porygon with at least 1hp, and KO it back while it's busy recharging it's Hyper Beam.
*Rock/Steel types (Mega Metagross, Magearna, Genesect, Jirachi, Celesteela, Rhyperior, Heatran): These guys all resist your Hyper Beam and have no problem taking a hit and one- or two-shotting you.
*Special walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D, Mega Venusaur, Assault Vest users): These pokemon can generally survive any of your attacks barring crits and whittle you down over time.
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QC 1/3 (me)
Porygon-Z
Overview
Porygon-Z is the 1v1 tier's premier fast special attacker. It can run a variety of sets and cover almost every top threat with its Scarf, Specs, and Z-Move variants. It's good speed combined with it's blistering special attack lets it tear through the metagame with Adaptability or Download boosted Hyper Beams, Uproars, and BoltBeams. 1v1 isnt a tier; imo just say "is 1v1's premier..."

this is missing a bunch of info; overview needs to mention both positives and negatives while generalizing its place in the meta.
* mention that normal doesnt hit anything super-effectively
* low defenses make it frail; cant live it if doesnt ohko
* download is mentioned here but no where else in the analysis
there are some other things that im missing that qc should be able to fill in


Standard Scarf
Porygon-Z @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Uproar
- Trick
- Shadow Ball

Set Comments

Moves

*Hyper Beam is your easy-win button most games. It's got a massive base power and is a neutral KO on most pokemon. Even though it's got the downsides of 90% accuracy and a recharge turn afterward, this move is still your strongest STAB and best chance at victory versus most pokemon.
*Uproar is your secondary STAB move, with 90 base power and no recharge. It lets you 2hko things like Mega Gyarados, and lets you bypass Substitute and avoid sleep from pokemon like Whimsicott, Jumpluff, and Smeargle. replace "you" with porygon-z; this goes for a lot of sentences. also remove whimsicott from sleep setters, whimsicott doesnt learn any sleep moves aside from grass whistle
*Trick shuts down a variety of walls that don't like being locked into a stat boosting or status move, such as Deoxys-Defense, Ferrothorn, or Mew. It also lets you beat FEAR. special mention chansey, since pz has no way to beat that thing otherwise and chansey hates being Tricked
*Shadow Ball exists to hit Ghost types and is your best answer to Mega Slowbro. examples of ghost types?
*Other options for coverage moves include Dark Pulse which has a nice flinch chance, Thunderbolt which is good vs water types but somewhat redundant as you already beat Mega Gyarados with Uproar, and Ice Beam for 4x Weaknesses like Dragonite (although Hyper Beam already nets the KO on Garchomp, Landorus, and Gliscor). notable examples of water types, since it seems to be completely useless
* ice beam is generally more reliable for those since accuracy can suck


Set Details
*EVs simply max out speed and special attack, your two most important stats. Modest nature is generally preferred over Timid since you increase your chances at KOing bulky versions of Charizard X, Gyarados, and Mega Slowbro. Timid lets you outspeed (or speed tie) other Porygon-Z, though the damage drop often isn't worth it. timid lets you outspeed scarf kyu-b which is huge

Usage Tips
*Bring Porygon-Z out when your opponent is lacking appropriate checks. If they don't have anything that can take a Hyper Beam, you're at an enormous advantage provided they don't outspeed.
*Porygon-Z can actually be used to bait out some medium-speed mons like Charizard by bluffing a Specs or Z-Crystal set.
*You have a ton of options for Porygon, so don't be afraid to change up your set frequently based on what people are currently running on the ladder. examples of options

Team Options
Porygon-Z generally pairs well with pokemon that can check its counters, which are Sturdy pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Sawk), spDef walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D), steel types (Magearna, Metagross) and faster scarfers (Kyurem-B, scarf Greninja). Sturdy pokemon are dealt with via Mold Breaker, making Kyurem-B and Mega Gyarados great partners. Specially defensive walls such as are taken out by strong physical Pokemon, like Gyarados, Kyurem-B, Crustle, Metagross, or Mega Pinsir. Steel-types are taken out by Ground or Fire types like Charizard, Landorus, Donphan, or Heatran. Fast scarfs are defeated by things that can tank a hit, which is situational based on the scarfer, but generally bulky Mega Gyarados, Magearna, or Crustle can get the job done. dont list all the pokemon that check/counter it; there's an entire section below for those. generally just name a few that other pokemon can check and list a few examples of pokemon that check pz.

Strategy Comments

Other Options

*Porygon-Z can also run a variety of other sets - it can utilize several variations of Scarf sets, as well as Choice Specs, Normalium Z, and even Electrium Z. Most of these sets revolve around taking a hit and boosting up or just straight KOing back, meaning that pokemon like Tapu Koko, Greninja, Mega Pinsir, and Kartana become threats since they outspeed you if you're not scarfed and can knock out even bulky Porygon-Z.
*Defensive Scarf Porygon-Z can beat Standard Gyarados, Charizard X/Y, and both Scarfed and Banded Kyurem-Black. 240 defense investment lets you tank any hit from Scarfed Kyurem, and 96 speed investment lets you outpace Modest Tapu Koko.
*Choice Specs Porygon-Z can invest either speed or bulk alongside special attack, and can act as a potent wallbreaker. However, you can no longer outspeed base 100 pokemon like Charizard.
*Normalium Z Porygon can boost all its stats with Z-Conversion (and if you want, you can also switch your typing to Ghost or Electric) before blowing an opponent away with the equivalent of a Scarf and Specs boost. It also has the option of using Breakneck Blitz -> Hyper Beam combo which can make quick work of lots of bulky pokemon. You have the freedom to invest in HP, but you also need to make sure you survive turn one so you can boost up in the first place.
*Electrium Z Porygon can use Thunder or Zap Cannon to power up its Gigavolt Havoc to monstrous levels. Since you're not locked into a choice item, you have the freedom to run Nasty Plot alongside Uproar/Hyper Beam/Hidden Power to boost your damage. 20 HP and 252 defense investment let you tank a Continental Crush -> Ice Shard combo from Donphan, a pokemon that you normally lose to.
*The combination of Choice Scarf + Shadow Ball + Conversion + Trick lets you defeat pokemon that normally hard counter you, such as Chansey, Meloetta, and any Hyper Beam/Giga Impact user that can normally survive your attacks. Against Chansey, you can Trick it your scarf and lock it into Seismic Toss before using Conversion to become a Ghost type, immune to Seismic Toss. Versus specs Meloetta and similar mons (choiced Terrakion, Slaking, Sawk, even other Porygon-Z) you can simply click Conversion turn one and become a Ghost type, then watch as your opponent blows all their Hyper Beam/Giga Impact/Close Combat PP against you and Struggles themselves to death.

Checks and Counters
*Every Sturdy Pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Golem, Sawk, Magnezone, Avalugg): All these pokemon can tank a hit from Porygon with at least 1hp, and KO it back while it's busy recharging it's Hyper Beam.
*Rock/Steel types (Mega Metagross, Magearna, Genesect, Jirachi, Celesteela, Rhyperior, Heatran): These Pokemon all resist your Hyper Beam and have no problem taking a hit and one- or two-shotting you.
*Special walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D, Mega Venusaur, Assault Vest users): These pokemon can generally survive any of your attacks barring crits and whittle you down over time. dont list all the pokemon; just say "Sturdy Pokemon: Pokemon such as Crustle and Donphan..." (for all of them)
under special walls, pz can trick against chansey and AV users so those generally arent a problem
good analysis, but could use some rewording and is missing a bit of info

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Porygon-Z

Overview Porygon-Z is the 1v1 tier's premier fast special attacker. It can run a variety of sets and cover almost every top threat with its Scarf, Specs, and Z-Move variants. It's good speed combined with it's blistering special attack lets it tear through the metagame with Adaptability or Download boosted Hyper Beams, Uproars, and BoltBeams.

Standard Scarf
Porygon-Z @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Beam
- Uproar
- Trick
- Shadow Ball

Set Comments

Moves

*Hyper Beam is your easy-win button most games. It's got a massive base power and is a neutral KO on most pokemon. Even though it's got the downsides of 90% accuracy and a recharge turn afterward, this move is still your strongest STAB and best chance at victory versus most pokemon.
*Uproar is your secondary STAB move, with 90 base power and no recharge. It lets you 2hko things like Gyarados, and lets you bypass Substitute and avoid sleep from pokemon like Whimsicott, Jumpluff, and Smeargle.
*Trick shuts down a variety of walls that don't like being locked into a stat boosting or status move, such as Deoxys-Defense, Ferrothorn, or Mew. It also lets you beat FEAR.
*Shadow Ball exists to hit Ghost types and is your best answer to Mega Slowbro.
*Other options for coverage moves include Dark Pulse which has a nice flinch chance, Thunderbolt which is good vs water types but somewhat redundant as you already beat Mega Gyarados with Uproar, and Ice Beam for 4x Weaknesses like Dragonite (although Hyper Beam already nets the KO on Garchomp, Landorus, and Gliscor).

Set Details
*EVs simply max out speed and special attack, your two most important stats. Modest nature is generally preferred over Timid since you increase your chances at KOing bulky versions of Charizard X, Gyarados, and Mega Slowbro. Timid lets you outspeed (or speed tie) other Porygon-Z, though the damage drop often isn't worth it.

Usage Tips
*Bring Porygon-Z out when your opponent is lacking appropriate checks. If they don't have anything that can take a Hyper Beam, you're at an enormous advantage provided they don't outspeed.
*Porygon-Z can actually be used to bait out some medium-speed mons like Charizard by bluffing a Specs or Z-Crystal set.
*You have a ton of options for Porygon, so don't be afraid to change up your set frequently based on what people are currently running on the ladder.

Team Options
Porygon-Z generally pairs well with pokemon that can check its counters, which are Sturdy pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Sawk), spDef walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D), steel types (Magearna, Metagross) and faster scarfers (Kyurem-B, scarf Greninja). Sturdy pokemon are dealt with via Mold Breaker, making Kyurem-B and Mega Gyarados great partners. Specially defensive walls are taken out by strong physical mons, like Gyarados, Kyurem-B, Crustle, Metagross, or Mega Pinsir. Steels are taken out by Ground or Fire types like Charizard, Landorus, Donphan, or Heatran. Fast scarfs are defeated by things that can tank a hit, which is situational based on the scarfer, but generally bulky Mega Gyarados, Magearna, or Crustle can get the job done.

Strategy Comments

Other Options

*Porygon-Z can also run a variety of other sets - it can utilize several variations of Scarf sets, as well as Choice Specs, Normalium Z, and even Electrium Z. Most of these sets revolve around taking a hit and boosting up or just straight KOing back, meaning that pokemon like Tapu Koko, Greninja, Mega Pinsir, and Kartana become threats since they outspeed you if you're not scarfed and can knock out even bulky Porygon-Z.
*Defensive Scarf Porygon-Z can beat Standard Gyarados, Charizard X/Y, and both Scarfed and Banded Kyurem-Black. 240 defense investment lets you tank any hit from Scarfed Kyurem, and 96 speed investment lets you outpace Modest Tapu Koko.
*Choice Specs Porygon-Z can invest either speed or bulk alongside special attack, and can act as a potent wallbreaker. However, you can no longer outspeed base 100 pokemon like Charizard.
*Normalium Z Porygon can boost all its stats with Z-Conversion (and if you want, you can also switch your typing to Ghost or Electric) before blowing an opponent away with the equivalent of a Scarf and Specs boost. It also has the option of using Breakneck Blitz -> Hyper Beam combo which can make quick work of lots of bulky pokemon. You have the freedom to invest in HP, but you also need to make sure you survive turn one so you can boost up in the first place.
*Electrium Z Porygon can use Thunder or Zap Cannon to power up its Gigavolt Havoc to monstrous levels. Since you're not locked into a choice item, you have the freedom to run Nasty Plot alongside Uproar/Hyper Beam/Hidden Power to boost your damage. 20 HP and 252 defense investment let you tank a Continental Crush -> Ice Shard combo from Donphan, a pokemon that you normally lose to.
*The combination of Choice Scarf + Shadow Ball + Conversion + Trick lets you defeat pokemon that normally hard counter you, such as Chansey, Meloetta, and any Hyper Beam/Giga Impact user that can normally survive your attacks. Against Chansey, you can Trick it your scarf and lock it into Seismic Toss before using Conversion to become a Ghost type, immune to Seismic Toss. Versus specs Meloetta and similar mons (choiced Terrakion, Slaking, Sawk, even other Porygon-Z) you can simply click Conversion turn one and become a Ghost type, then watch as your opponent blows all their Hyper Beam/Giga Impact/Close Combat PP against you and Struggles themselves to death.

Checks and Counters
*Every Sturdy Pokemon (Crustle, Donphan, Golem, Sawk, Magnezone, Avalugg): All these pokemon can tank a hit from Porygon with at least 1hp, and KO it back while it's busy recharging it's Hyper Beam.
*Rock/Steel types (Mega Metagross, Magearna, Genesect, Jirachi, Celesteela, Rhyperior, Heatran): These guys all resist your Hyper Beam and have no problem taking a hit and one- or two-shotting you.
*Special walls (Chansey, Deoxys-D, Mega Venusaur, Assault Vest users): These pokemon can generally survive any of your attacks barring crits and whittle you down over time.
Overview
Does anyone even use Download? Mention its weak defenses. Mention its unpredictability. It can run a variety of coverage moves and items. I'd mention something about normal-type being a pretty good attacking type. Mention that it's adaptability in combination with its high special attack and the fact that it gets STAB Hyper Beam that makes it so strong.

Set Comments

Moves
*P-Z is faster than Smeargle and Jumpluff with Scarf, which is the set you're talking about. Uproar is good vs Whimsicott because it bypasses sub, not because it prevents sleep. You're going to use Uproar vs Whimsicott whether they try to use Grasswhistle or not. Mention that it prevents Rest.
*"walls that don't like being locked into a stat boosting or status move" I would just say "one move". It's good to lock them into one move no matter what move it is. Also, Chansey is a big pokemon you beat with Trick.
*So many Slowbros are Rest now that Uproar is your best option. Shadow Ball is a 3hko against Calm Slowbro.
*Pretty sure other move options go in other options.
Set Details

Usage Tips
*"Bring Porygon-Z out when your opponent is lacking appropriate checks." Isn't this true of literally every pokemon in the game?
*You should expand this. Vs what teams, what pokemon do you want to use Porygon-Z. When do you Uproar, when do you Trick?

Team Options
*This kind of reads like a list of pokemon. Maybe cut back on the amount of examples. Try to talk about kinds of pokemon or the niche that you're looking to fill with Porygon-Z. Why use Porygon-Z over some other pokemon? What kinds of teams benefit from Porygon-Z?

Strategy Comments
Other Options

*"Choice Specs Porygon-Z can invest either speed or bulk alongside special attack, and can act as a potent wallbreaker. However, you can no longer outspeed base 100 pokemon like Charizard." What pokemon does this beat that Scarf does not? Why use this set? This is Porygon's 2nd best set and the source of its versatility. You can trade speed for power on any team that needs it. Or just counter-team people.
* Pretty sure there's no point in not changing your type if you're going to use Conversion.
* The Scarf Conversion set is so niche is probably not worth mentioning. If you're Modest you beat Chansey with just Trick if they're only max hp, which most are.


Checks and Counters
*All the fighting types in 1v1 beat Porygon-Z, except Buzzwole. Hitmonlee, Sawk, Breloom, Conkeldurr.
*Really bulky pokemon can beat Porygon-Z depending on the set like Primarina, Dragonite, and defensively invested Kyurem-Black.

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