Ambipom [QC 1/3]

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[OVERVIEW]
- Ambipom is a threat to offensive teams due its strong Technician Fake Out, which is free damage and allows it freely 2HKO Pokemon such as Virizion and Houndoom with a follow up Return.
- Its access to Knock Off and coverage moves in Seed Bomb and Low Kick lets Ambipom annoy pivots found on bulkier teams such as Golbat, Seismitoad, and Steelix.
- Ambipom's Speed is very nice, but it is still prone to dangerous attackers such as Sceptile and Sneasel, as the latter is immune to Fake Out due to Inner Focus.
- Ambipom has poor bulk meaning it has limited switch-in opportunities and usually must 2HKO a Pokemon with Fake Out into an attack if it does not want be KOed back or take massive damage.
- Ambipom will be walled by something depending on what coverage move it drops. Without Seed Bomb, Low Kick, or Gunk Shot, Ambipom will fail to break Pokemon such as Rhydon, Steelix, and Aromatisse, respectively. Ambipom's average power also means it will be infinetly be walled by Pokemon such as Slowbro and Spiritomb.



[SET]
name: All-out Attacker
move 1: Fake Out
move 2: Return
move 3: Knock Off
move 4: Low Kick
item: Life Orb
ability: Technician
nature: Jolly
evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
Moves
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- Fake Out hits very hard due to the boost from Technician, and it lets Ambipom secure many 2HKOes on Pokemon such as Samurott and Xatu after Stealth Rock damage.
- Return is the preferred Normal-type STAB on Ambipom because of its higher accuracy over stronger alternatives such as Double Slap and Mega Kick.
- Knock Off prevents Ambipom from being walled by Ghost-types such as Rotom and Mismagius and its overall utility is great for removing items from Pokemon such as Golbat and Uxie.
- Low Kick is the preferred option to hit Steelix and the rare Ferroseed for solid damage.
- Seed Bomb is an option in last slot to take advantage of teams that use Seismitoad, Vaporeon, Slowking, and Rhydon as there defensive pivots. It also OHKOs Barbaracle and Gastrodon.
- Gunk Shot can be used as well to do massive damage to Aromatisse and Granbull while OHKOing Whimsicott and letting Ambipom revenge kill Rotom-C.



Set Details
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- max attack, max speed, jplly, to hit as hard and be as fast as possible
- life orb is best option to boost coverage moves. for example, kncok into seed bomb ko's rhydon. low kick 2hkoes steelix with a little prior damage on the switch
- technician boosts fake out and weaker low kick


Usage Tips
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- use fake out for free damage. then follow it up with a return or coverage move to finish off the mon
- must be played aggresively. predict rhydon and golbats for example and click knock. ambipom frail bulk means it wont get any favorable positions if it doesnt predict
- dont fake out full health sneasel due to inner focus
- use double switches or voltturn to bring it in. it should be switching into anything non ghost due to its pathetic bulk

Team Options
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- entry hazards by far because fake out forces a ton of switches. spikers like accelgor, qwilfish, omastar, and garbodor are good. rockers r mandatory of course. look at lix and rhydon.
- fits well with breakers that can break steelix and slowbro, the biggest roadblocks to standard seed bomb ambipom.
- houndoom, rotom, and sceptile take advantage of it. lures include zfight garbodor and brav for lix. mons that can pressure slowbro like life orb emboar, machamp, and zmove croak r nice too.


[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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- U-turn seems appealing to gain momentum, but Ambipom does not have the space to fit it on its set.
- Toxic allows Ambipom to lure in Slowbro and Uxie, but it it has very few applications outside of that.
- Finally, items such as Silk Scarf and Normalium Z can be used but Ambipom loses a ton of power on its coverage moves.


Checks and Counters
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**Faster Attackers**: sneasel inner focus can live after rocks, sceptile, accelgor, scarf emboar, etc r nice. watch out for fake out though
**Physical Walls**: steelix, rhydon, granbull, ferroseed, aroma, vileplume, slowbro. some can be taken out with coverage move so be careful.
**Priority**: mach punc from hitmonlee, bp from champ and medi does a chunk, absol sucker, etc. due to trash bulk
 
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Remove Machamp mentions, also a few other things:

Sneasel isn't immune to Fake Out, it's only immune to the flinching side effect. The actual attack still does huge amounts of damage, so I wouldn't consider Sneasel a big enough problem to mention it multiple times throughout the analysis.

Deslash Seed Bomb. Steelix is way too common to pass up on Low Kick and Rhydon is pretty rare by comparison.

Also you're missing that a big selling point to Ambipom is that its Fake Out is one of the strongest priority attacks in the tier, which is highly useful for revenge killing. Free chip damage isn't the only advantage to Fake Out, which you should touch on in the Overview and UT.

QC 1/3 Vertex
 
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