[OVERVIEW]
- quiver dance is best move to boost on the special side
- anti-metagame by nature and thus being one of the best late game sweepers
- really strong special attack and decent speed tier
- good and powerful dual stab with a good coverage
- speaking of coverage, it posseses all the moves to beat any would-be-check, and thus able to run effectively different variants
- hard to fit onto teams due to average defensive typing and crippling sr weakness
- quite frail on physical side
- due to these weakness, it usually has only one chance to sweep, but most of the time it'll only need a quiver dance to do so
[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fire Blast
move 3: Giga Drain / Bug Buzz
move 4: Hidden Power Ice / Hidden Power Ground
item: Passho Berry / Lum Berry
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- volcarona’s most threatening set due to unpredictable coverage and possible item, one of best late sweeper and easily devastates teams unless they pack specific checks for the variant
- quiver dance is the move that defines volcarona, boosting its special attack, special defense and speed, making it and amazing dangerous sweeper
- fire is best volcarona’s stab to abuse as it hits super effective or neutral common types like steel, ground or grass
- giga drain + hidden power ice is the most threatening variant of volcarona as is its overall the most effective combination, though is hard walled by heatran
- giga drain covers and hits super effective water and rock-types like keldeo, tyranitar, jellicent, terrakion or gastrodon, also it helps volcarona to keep it healthy and heal off sr damage
- hp ice covers dragon-types like garchomp, latios or dragonite
- bug buzz + hp ground is the other well known variant, but this one misses the super effective hit on some top threats and common pokemons like garchomp, keldeo, jellicent or dragonite
- bug buzz is a good 2nd stab and pairs well with fire blast, hitting neutrally or super effective most dragon and water-types like garchomp, latios, politoed, starmie or gastrodon
- hp ground hits super effective heatran, terrakion and tentacruel, in particular heatran which any other move can cover
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- passho berry is the best item overall as it lets volcarona to easily shrug off a water attack and having more opportunities to set up
- lum berry is classic on set up mons to deal with status like toxic or thunder wave, and in this helps to easily set up on jirachi or breloom for example which are some things you can capitalize on
- the ev spread and nature are straightforward as they maximize speed and special attack in order to take full advantage of volcarona's offensive capabilities
- a spread of 72 hp / 252 satk / 184 spe, timid still outspeed everything relevant at +1 and allows volcarona to survive a specs psyshock from latios and outrage from jolly garchomp at full health
- modest nature can be used for more power, like killing 0/4 keldeo at +1 93% of the time after sr and having a chance of killing latios after sr, but then is slower than scarf landorus-t and others pre-boost like jolly excadrill or adamant garchomp. Also bulkier spreads with modest are a option, like 144 hp / 252 satk / 112 spe, modest faster than jolly loom and everything at +2
- flamethrower and fiery dance are options over fire blast, flamethrower is in middle ground between power and accuracy, fiery dance gives you a 50% chance of getting other boost in satk but is very weak (like doesn’t ohko gliscor after sr); thought fire blast because it has a very good chance of ohko hippo after +1 and the more consistent power it brings is better for volcarona which has a case of all-in
- bug buzz + giga drain is another combination, dual stab + giga drain gives you the ability to hit super hard keldeo, tyranitar and jellicent all in one, but bug buzz overlaps a bit with giga drain, and the other combinations are overall better
- bug gem is a option, it allows volcarona to ohko gastrodon, garchomp, support tar, politoed and 2hko jellicent with the combination of fire blast + bug buzz at +1
- starmie is a really good partner and best overall spinner, it can check keld and tran for volca and weaken some waters plus spinning
- garchomp, landot or mamoswine are good sr that have good wise off synergy w/ volca
- uturn from things like scizor or landot are good partners as they attract steel-type mons that volca can take advantage of
- keldeo can make a good partner luring grass mons and wearing down waters like jellicent for volca
- scarf rachi is a very good partner as is a typically good glue set for off teams in which volca fits, and also packs healing wish which can gave volca a 2nd chance to sweep
- healing wish latias is another good partner being able to check keldeo and attracting steel-types for volca
- sun support is a option esp for the giga + hp ice variant as its benefits a lot of heatran gone, thanks to dugtrio, and powered fire blast, and basically this mon is why sun would still be a thing
[SET]
name: Rain Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Bug Buzz
move 3: Hurricane
move 4: Fire Blast / Hidden Power Ground
item: Leftovers / Lum Berry
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- rain variant of standard off qd, hurricane is a rlly strong attack and has good coverage with bug buzz
- quiver dance is self explanatory, this set up move is what volca a real threat
- bug buzz is the primarly stab of choice in this case as is not affected by rain
- hurricane is a strong attack and bug + flying gives volc a good neutral coverage, hurricane hitting things like keldeo, terrakion, jellicent or dragonite
- fire blast is still your best choice to hit steel-types like skarmory or jirachi
- hp ground is a great alternative in last slot, as otherwise heatran walls u hard, and hits tenta harder
- hp water is another option but is significantly weaker vs heatran and reliant on rain, has some other uses like guaranteed ohko on terra and landot +1 and hits rarer checks like moltres
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- leftovers is the item of choice as it gives volca more survivability as it has good defensive typing to check some annoying mons for rain like ferrothorn or celebi
- lum berry has same uses as in the other set: shrugging off status and let you to capitalize and set up on mons like amoonguss or breloom
- the ev spread and nature are straightforward as they maximize speed and special attack in order to take full advantage of volcarona's offensive capabilities
- a spread of 72 hp / 252 satk / 184 spe, timid still outspeed everything relevant at +1 and allows volcarona to survive a specs psyshock from latios and outrage from jolly garchomp at full health
- modest nature can be used for more power, like the ability to 2hko jellicent after +1 w/ hurricane or ohko on spdef tran after sr w/ hp ground. but then is slower than scarf landorus-t and others pre-boost like jolly excadrill or adamant garchomp
- sub is a another option for the last slot, bug + flying is good enough coverage and invalidates teams that rely on status and wear it down to cripple volca, like making spdef tran a easy set up (unless it packs roar), amoonguss, thunder wave ferrothorn, breloom etc.
- politoed is obvious partner for this set to work
- spinners are a must, tentacruel benefits of rain and has good synergy such as checking tran. Starmie is another good option, it can beat a lot of easier jellicent thanks to be able to run thunder in rain
- landot can check some physical mons that threaten volca like chomp, terra or dragonite and set up rocks
- gyarados, feraligatr and azumarill are good partners they attract grass-types which volca can take advantage of, while being able to weaken some waters mons like gastrodon, rotomw or jellicent for volca and scaring
[SET]
name: Bulky Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fiery Dance
move 3: Bug Buzz
move 4: Roost
item: Leftovers
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 16 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- this set takes advantage of teams that rely on wearing down volca to beat it
- quiver dance is self explanatory, this set up move is what volca a real threat
- fiery dance is the 1st stab of choice in this case, the lack of spa investment and the more resilience of this set makes the 50% spa boost fiery dance packs very appealing
- bug buzz is the other move of choice, benifitting of stab and fire+bug having decent neutral coverage in most cases
- roost lets this set to last a lot more than off variant and thus be more resilient and difficult to take it down by wearing down
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- leftovers is the item of choice as lets volca to increase longevity
- the evs spread tries to maximize volcarona physical bulk which is the weaker side of it, 16 spe evs + timid lets volca to outspeed 70 base max and everything at +2
- lum berry is an alternative item as it lets volca to shrug off status once which is a very effective to deal with this set due to the lack of raw power
- spinners are a must, starmie is always a good partner checking heatran for example, and others like forretress can fit too as it checks some strong physical attackers and slow volt switch is a very good tool to bring volca save due to even if bulky volcarona does not like to take many hits
- checks for scarfers like landot and terrakion are needed and others like nite, landot can check them and set up rocks
- ways to deal with heatran are needed as this set is completely open to it
- rain checks for things like keldeo, politoed or tornadus are needed as even if bulky the still put iton timer and volca needs a lot of prior damage to beat them than other sets
- ninetales a good partner, as this set benefits a lot of sun, weakening water-types to easier set up a lot and heatran gone (thanks to dugtrio)
[OTHER OPTIONS]
- chesto rest
- subqd + stabs
- expert belt
- life orb
- sitrus berry
- roost + lefties on off qd
- psychic
- morning sun > roost on sun teams
[CHECKS AND COUNTERS]
- sr
- heatran (hp ground)
- gyarados can check any variant
- wearing it down by repeated hits + fast scarfers or rkillers like garchomp, keldeo and latios, alakazam, and esp scarf terrakion in sand is one of the best all around checks
- some water types: keldeo (giga drain or hurricane), jellicent (giga drain), tentacruel (hp ground)
- dragonite, garchomp and salamence (hp ice)
- chansey
- tyranitar (bug buzz), though support tar can take +1 bug buzz and ohko with rock stab
- tornadus (in rain can take +1 fire blast after sr)
- moltres (tho it has a big sr weakness too and rare)
- victini (tho rare mon)
- priority from azumarill and feraligatr (tho rare mons)
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also forgive me if so many mistakes, 1st analysis ever and english is not my mother language
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