Syclant

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[OVERVIEW]
- Versatile and powerful offensive Pokemon that makes use of it's great speed and coverage to clean.
- Great speed tier that just jumps 120s and below, notable Kerfluffle, Serperior, Latios, and Keldeo.
- Good mixed offensive stats combined with a very wide movepool to act as a competent lead, Spike stacker, revenge killer, and cleaner.
- Ice, Ground, and Bug coverage hits the entire metagame for at least neutral damage, and allows Syclant to threaten out a variety of top threats such as Landorus-t, Zygarde, Colossoil, Tomohawk, and Mew.
- Mountaineer is Syclant's signature ability and helps negate Syclant's 4x Stealth Rock weakness, which makes Syclant one of the best U-turn abusers in the tier, as well as a competent Focus Sash user.
- Limited by how frail it is and it's poor defensive typing, as well as it's liability to faster revenge killers such as Greninja, Ash Greninja, Mega Manectric, and Tapu Koko.

[SET]
name: Offensive Attacker
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Earth Power
move 4: Taunt / Tail Glow
item: Life Orb / Icium Z / Groundium Z
ability: Mountaineer
nature: Naive
evs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Ice Beam is Syclant's most reliable STAB move, and importanly scores the OHKO on Landorus-t and Zygarde.
- U-turn allows Syclant to pivot in the early game to help soften up the opposing team before it can clean.
- Earth Power allows Syclant to break through Mollux, Magearna, and Heatran. Earthquake can be used over Earth Power if Taunt is opted over Tail Glow to better hit the above mentioned Pokemon.
- Taunt is useful all around to help keep hazards off the field, especially on switchins such as Ferrothorn and Arghonaut.
- Tail Glow can be used to allow Syclant to power through teams later in the match, and works especially well with both Z Crystals.

Set Details
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-Naive nature is preferred to allow Syclant to outspeed Kerfluffle while retaining damage output.
- Life Orb gives Syclant consistent damage and helps net kills on Pokemon that i'll calc for later.
- Iceium Z works well with Tail Glow by allowing Syclant to murder defensive mons at +3, notable [calcs later]
- Groundium Z also works well, and notable OHKOs Tapu Fini at +3.

Usage Tips
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- U-turn when your checks are alive and you predict a switch.
- Ice Beam and Earth Power later in the match when your checks are weakened.
- Taunt to help prevent hazards from going up or stop setup sweepers such as Gyarados from setting. Also good to use on defensive switchins to help ease your switchins to your wallbreakers.
- Tail Glow should be used on a predicted switch to break through Syclant's defensive checks or force a sack. Also a good option when relevant revenge killers and scarfers have been removed.

Team Options
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- Volt Turn teammates, notably Landorus-T, Tapu Koko, Mega Manectric, Magearna, and both Greninja formes. Greninja formes are especially relevant since they can set up Spikes for Syclant to take advantage of, and both Pokemon put a lot of pressure on common hazard removers in conjunction with Syclant.

[SET]
name: Offensive Spikes
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: U-turn
move 3: Spikes
move 4: Taunt / Earth Power
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
ability:
nature:
evs:

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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[SET]
name: Tail Glow
move 1: Ice Beam
move 2: Earth Power
move 3: Bug Buzz / U-turn
move 4: Tail Glow
item: Focus Sash
ability:
nature:
evs:

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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List some options for the Pokemon user that are plausible but not always recommended due to either being not consistent enough or too outclassed by other Pokemon in the metagame.

Checks and Counters
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**Insert Threat Here**: Describe why the Pokemon is a threat.

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