Doubles DPP Kingdra

[ryo yamada2001]

[SET]
name: Rain Sweeper
move 1: Muddy Water
move 2: Draco Meteor
move 3: Rain Dance / Hydro Pump
move 4: Protect
item: Life Orb
ability: Swift Swim
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

• In rain, Kingdra is capable of wiping unprepared teams with powerful rain-boosted Muddy Water. Kingdra stands out for its Dragon-typing, which makes Draco Meteor a powerful secondary STAB attack that nukes the Water-resistant Latios and Latias while doing neutral damage to other rain checks. Its typing leaves Kingdra weak only to opposing Dragon-type attacks, often making it hard to OHKO Kingdra despite its mediocre bulk. Kingdra only succeeds with dedicated rain support, as outside of rain it is too frail, too weak, and too slow to exploit the lack of viable Water resistances in the tier.
• A rain-boosted Muddy Water is capable of 2HKOing most of the unresisted metagame, picking up 2HKOs on bulky foes such as Rotom-H, Mew, and Metagross. Kingdra is hard to switch into, and Muddy Water's chance of causing accuracy drops reduces counterplay even more, but Muddy Water's own accuracy will sometimes cause key misses, which foes can take advantage of.
• Draco Meteor is a secondary STAB attack with which Kingdra can nuke common Water-resistant foes such as Latios and Latias and 2HKO the likes of Gyarados. It's also useful for nearly OHKOing the tier's frailer foes such as Raikou and Heracross and remains a powerful option outside of rain also. The Special Attack drop incurred by Draco Meteor often forces Kingdra off the field, as all of its attacks are significantly less threatening at -2, which can sap momentum from these rain teams that only get limited turns of rain to work with.
• As there is no permanent rain setter in the tier and Tyranitar's Sand Stream is highly disruptive, Kingdra can run Rain Dance to sustain itself and other Swift Swim teammates with additional turns to work with. Kingdra is not the best rain setter, as it is rather frail, so if a team has sufficient ways of setting up rain, Kingdra can also use Hydro Pump for a single-target Water-type nuke that outright OHKOes Rotom-H, Metagross, and Hitmontop and 2HKOes Mew, Latios, and Cresselia in rain.
• Kingdra requires dedicated rain support to be a threatening sweeper. Fast Rain Dance users such as Gengar and Raikou synergize particularly well, as the former is immune to Fake Out, so it sets up easier, and the latter can Thunder Water-types such as Gyarados and Empoleon. Hitmontop is another capable rain setter with its own Fake Out support. As rain teams are a dedicated archetype, it pays to have an additional Swift Swim user such as Ludicolo on the team, which also has Fake Out to create setup opportunities for the Rain Dance users. Tyranitar is a particular nuisance to rain teams, so Steel- or Fighting-types that can switch in and threaten significant damage, such as Jirachi or Hitmontop, do well to check it. Kingdra also works with additional fast, powerful hitters such as Latios or Choice Scarf Heracross, as their respective STAB attacks can overwhelm teams with their sheer offensive pressure and clean up opposing teams once Kingdra has done its damage.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bunnyy.192134/
Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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[qsns]

- TECHNICALLY ludi is in the same rank as kingdra now and this feels a little too subjective, i think you can just cut the first half of the first bullet's sentence. swift swim's on the set idt it needs to be mentioned

- remove last sentence of 2nd bullet since you mention "kingdra blows outside rain" in previous

- mention hitmontop as a partner with fake out and has rain dance

 

[DaAwesomeDude1]

Only thing I recommend is when you're talking about the fast hitters at the end, add a line about how they can also clean up the rest of the opponent's team after Kingdra has done its damage.


excellent work

 

[ryo yamada2001]

GP Team

 

[ken]

1/1 GP Team done
same colors

kingdra

[SET]
name: Rain Sweeper
move 1: Muddy Water
move 2: Draco Meteor
move 3: Rain Dance / Hydro Pump
move 4: Protect
item: Life Orb
ability: Swift Swim
nature: Modest
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

• In rain, Kingdra is capable of wiping unprepared teams with powerful rain boosted rain-boosted Muddy Waters. Kingdra stands out for its Dragon-typing, which makes Draco Meteor a powerful secondary STAB attack that nukes the Water-resistant Latios and Latias (rc) while doing neutral damage to other rain checks. Its typing leaves Kingdra weak only to opposing Dragon-type attacks, often making it hard to OHKO Kingdra despite its mediocre bulk. Kingdra only succeeds with dedicated rain support, as outside of rain it is too frail, too weak, and too slow to exploit the lack of viable Water-resists Water resistances in the tier.
• A rain boosted rain-boosted Muddy Water is capable of 2HKOing most of the unresisted metagame, picking up 2HKOs on bulky foes such as Rotom-H, Mew, and Metagross. Kingdra is hard to switch into, and Muddy Water's chance of causing accuracy drops reduces counterplay even more, but Muddy Water's own accuracy will sometimes cause key misses, (ac) which foes can take advantage of upon which foes can retaliate.
• Draco Meteor is a secondary STAB attack with which Kingdra can nuke common Water-resistant foes such as Latios and Latias (rc) and 2HKOing the likes of Gyarados. It's also useful for nearly OHKOing the tier's frailer foes such as Raikou and Heracross (rc) and remains a powerful option outside of rain also. The Special Attack drop incurred by Draco Meteor often forces Kingdra off the field, (ac) as all of its attacks are significantly less threatening at -2, which can sap momentum of from these rain teams that only get limited turns of rain to work with.
• As there is no permanent rain setter in the tier and Tyranitar's Sand Stream is highly disruptive, Kingdra can run Rain Dance to sustain itself and other Swift Swim teammates with additional turns to work with. Kingdra is not the best rain setter, (ac) as it is rather frail, so if a team has sufficient ways of setting up rain, Kingdra can also use Hydro Pump for a single-target Water-type nuke that outright OHKOes Rotom-H, Metagross, and Hitmontop (rc) and 2HKOes Mew, Latios, and Cresselia in rain.
• Kingdra requires dedicated rain support to be a threatening sweeper. Fast Rain Dance users such as Gengar and Raikou synergize particularly well, as the former is immune to Fake Out, (ac) so it sets up easier, (ac) and the latter can Thunder Water-types such as Gyarados and Empoleon. Hitmontop is another capable rain setter (rc) with its own Fake Out support. As rain teams are a dedicated archetype, it pays to have an additional Swift Swim user such as Ludicolo on the team, who which also has Fake Out to create setup opportunities for the Rain Dance users. Tyranitar is a particular nuisance to rain teams, so Steel- or Fighting-types that can switch in and threaten significant damage, such as Jirachi or Hitmontop, (ac) do well to check it. Kingdra also works with additional fast, powerful hitters such as Latios or Choice Scarf Heracross, as their respective STAB attacks can overwhelm teams with their sheer offensive pressure and clean up opposing teams once Kingdra has done its damage.

[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/bunnyy.192134/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/qsns.230771/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/daawesomedude1.228280/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/ken.594478/

 

[ryo yamada2001]

ken im so sorry for not understanding how commas work
this is ready for upload