Dragon Dance Gyarados [QC 0/2]

[MrAmbassador]

[SET]
Dragon Dance Sweeper (Gyarados) @ Gyaradosite
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Substitute / Taunt / Earthquake

[SET COMMENTS]
Dragon Dance Gyarados can exert a lot of pressure into many common threats in the meta when used correctly. It possesses tons of attributes that give it viability: Intimidate for reducing the damage output of the opponent, solid attack, setup potential with Dragon Dance, good STAB, and great coverage to hit opposing electric types with Earthquake. Upon Mega Evolution, Gyarados gains STAB on Crunch, which can pressure out threats such as Gholdengo, Latias, Latios, Pecharunt and other mons weak to dark. Mega Evolution also gives you the added bonus of Mold Breaker, this allows you to avoid damage from Rough Skin Garchomp, avoid healing against Water Absorb Ogerpon-W, and get more damage off onto Multiscale Dragonite. Gyarados has flexibility as it can be used as a lead or a late game sweeper. Catching strong physical attackers weak to water such as Ursaluna or Cinderace on the lead can be very promising as this can result in a switch by the opponent and a Dragon Dance for Gyarados. Gyarados does suffer from its crippling four times weakness to electric which can be a major liability at times. Although, Mega Evolution lets Gyarados only take two times damage from electric and Earthquake support can threaten massive damage onto common electric types such as Tapu Koko that would usually dismantle Gyarados. Substitute is also an option to keep Gyarados safe after a Dragon Dance make it harder to remove. Taunt is a niche option but still useful as it allows you to avoid Will-O-Wisp from slower mons which can completely cripple Gyarados. Taunt also helps to stop recovery on common mons such as Clefable or Blissey. Waterfall is extremely reliable STAB with the bonus to flinch the opponent which can give Gyarados yet another layer of protection against strong electric and rock stypes such as Zapdos and Gargancl which give it trouble. Gyarados is also deadly as a late game sweeper because of its potential to easily sweep with only one Dragon Dance. The speed Evs make it so you out-speed a large portion of the meta after one speed boost except for a few exceptionally fast mons. Gyarados can punish many things that resist water with ground and dark type moves which let Gyarados setup with Dragon Dance and chew through the rest of the meta.

[SET CREDITS]
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[MrAmbassador]

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[Sulo]

Hello,

Following discussion amongst the QC team, we're gonna have to QC reject this analysis. There are numerous errors here that make it express a lack of baseline metagame knowledge needed to write content for the tier, much less knowledge of how to use Mega Gyarados in general. To name a few:

which can pressure out threats such as Gholdengo,

Gholdengo is banned.

Mega Evolution also gives you the added bonus of Mold Breaker, this allows you to avoid damage from Rough Skin Garchomp,

Mold Breaker does not ignore Rough Skin, and if anything its main draw is ignoring Unaware from Dondozo and others, which was not mentioned at all.

And the structure in general contains numerous amounts of self-explanatory / outright incorrect info and no mentions of teammates whatsoever (e.g. Taunt is mentioned a move that targets Blissey, but Blissey loses entirely, Ogerpon-W is mentioned as something that can no longer beat Mega Gyarados because of Mold Breaker, but it was never doing that anyways because of Crunch, etc).

Keep in mind that you should only be writing content for tiers you have basic knowledge for; it would otherwise take a lot out of both parties (you as the writer and the QC team) to attempt to fix this from the ground up, and it would basically end up being someone else's work after the fact.

I will be locking and archiving this.