[SET]
name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fiery Dance / Fire Blast
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Water / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Volcarona is one of the tier's most potent setup sweepers due to its unique combination of Quiver Dance, excellent Special Attack and Speed that are bolstered further by powerful STAB and coverage moves, useful defensive typing, and Flame Body. Its typing notably grants it key resistances to attacks like Weavile's Triple Axel, Rillaboom's Grassy Glide, and Enamorus's and Iron Valiant's Moonblast, and Flame Body can potentially ruin the former two in addition to priority from Kingambit and Dragonite and revenge killing attempts from Iron Boulder and Barraskewda. Fiery Dance's perfect accuracy, higher PP, and chance to let Volcarona snowball with a lucky Special Attack boost or two make it an especially threatening move late-game, while Fire Blast boasts enough immediate power to outright OHKO bulky Kingambit at +1 and always OHKOes physically defensive Gliscor at +1 after Stealth Rock. Bug Buzz is Volcarona's strongest attack against Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Roaring Moon and bypasses Kyurem's Substitute; Giga Drain, on the other hand, offers useful super effective coverage against threats like Great Tusk, Dondozo, and Primarina, and the recovery it provides can keep Volcarona healthy enough to continue sweeping late-game. Tera Blast greatly expands Volcarona's coverage depending on its Tera type of choice and makes Volcarona especially difficult to check due to its sheer unpredictability. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity to block Hatterene's Nuzzle, Clefable's Thunder Wave, and Raging Bolt's Thunderclap, and it allows Volcarona to OHKO threats like Iron Moth and Heatran outright, OHKO Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt after a Quiver Dance, and hit threats like Galarian Slowking and Toxapex super effectively. Tera Water still hits Fire-types like Cinderace and Heatran super effectively but also allows Volcarona to handle Great Tusk, Gliscor, opposing Volcarona, and Ting-Lu more effectively; it also provides a solid defensive typing that allows Volcarona to survive Barraskewda's rain-boosted Liquidation and, if it's healthy enough, Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel. Tera Fairy grants Volcarona a strong defensive typing with both a Dragon immunity and crucial coverage against Dragon-types like Dragapult, Raging Bolt, Walking Wake, and Dragonite while maintaining super effective coverage against Great Tusk and Zamazenta. However, Volcarona is among the best users of Terastallization in the tier and as such has immense versatility in its Tera options. Tera Dragon maintains important coverage against Dragon-types, notably also hitting Gouging Fire super effectively, while providing Volcarona with perfect neutral coverage alongside Giga Drain and resistances to Fire- and Water-type attacks; Tera Grass alongside both Bug Buzz and Giga Drain gives Volcarona a more favorable matchup against Water-types and makes Volcarona less-reliant on Terastallizing to sweep; Tera Psychic alongside Psychic fits well on Psychic Terrain teams as a means to break past Clodsire and Toxapex with ease; Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast hits Dragonite, Pelipper, and Gouging Fire super effectively and crucially OHKOes opposing Volcarona; Tera Bug allows Volcarona's Bug Buzz to 2HKO Ting-Lu the majority of the time with no prior boosts; lastly, Tera Fire is a situational option on sun teams to allow Volcarona's Fire Blast to reach high enough levels of power to outright OHKO Kyurem after a Quiver Dance while OHKOing Dragapult after a Quiver Dance and sun active and even outright 2HKOing Dondozo with a sun boost.
Because it faces limited competition as a fast, specially offensive setup sweeper, Volcarona is quite easy to fit onto most hyper offense teams that operate at a similarly breakneck pace. Deoxys-S is an excellent teammate for Volcarona; it can serve as a fast dual screens setter or a fast and reliable entry hazard setter to support Volcarona's sweep, or it can function as a standalone offensive threat that can clean up late-game should Volcarona manage to wear down or even eliminate threats like Gholdengo and Kingambit. Other entry hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott and Glimmora can also provide entry hazard support to help Volcarona secure a KO against Dragapult, while other dual screens setters like Alolan Ninetales can support Volcarona by giving it more opportunities to safely set up a Quiver Dance or even giving it enough bulk to set up multiple Quiver Dances and decimate offensive teams. Volcarona forms a potent offensive core with various Dragon Dance sweepers, such as Roaring Moon, Gouging Fire, Kyurem, and Dragonite, which all appreciate Volcarona's ability to use physical walls like Skarmory as setup fodder while checking Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Enamorus. Roaring Moon forces out Galarian Slowking, which otherwise gives Tera Fairy variants a lot of trouble, and it can fall back on Tera Flying when Terastallizing Volcarona is not ideal; Gouging Fire and Volcarona can overwhelm their shared Fire-resistant checks like Primarina and Alomomola to wallbreak for one-another; Kyurem's powerful Ice STAB can handle opposing Dragon-types, allowing Volcarona to run different Tera types like Water and Ground; Dragonite's powerful Extreme Speed acts as insurance against revenge killers like Swift Swim Barraskewda and weakened Booster Energy Iron Boulder, and it especially appreciates Volcarona's ability to force Skarmory and Corviknight out so that it is no longer forced to run Fire Punch. Kingambit makes for a stellar teammate, as its immunity to both of Galarian Slowking's STAB moves complements Volcarona's ability to deter Fighting-types like Zamazenta, and its strong Sucker Punch acts as good insurance against Booster Energy Iron Boulder, which otherwise outspeeds Volcarona and effortlessly OHKOes it with Mighty Cleave. Lastly, Volcarona fits well on Psychic Terrain teams facilitated by Indeedee; although the prospect of a Tera Psychic and Terrain-boosted Psychic ripping through threats like Toxapex and Clodsire, which can completely counter many other Volcarona variants, is quite appealing, Volcarona still benefits from Psychic Terrain's protection against Kingambit's Sucker Punch and Dragonite's Extreme Speed regardless of Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Psychic Terrain also helps to further facilitate threats Volcarona already synergizes well with, such as Expanding Force Deoxys-S and Dragon Dance users like Roaring Moon and Gouging Fire.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/dreadfury.408271/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/kd458.633798/
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name: Offensive Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Fiery Dance / Fire Blast
move 3: Bug Buzz / Giga Drain
move 4: Tera Blast
item: Heavy-Duty Boots
tera type: Ground / Water / Fairy
ability: Flame Body
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
Volcarona is one of the tier's most potent setup sweepers due to its unique combination of Quiver Dance, excellent Special Attack and Speed that are bolstered further by powerful STAB and coverage moves, useful defensive typing, and Flame Body. Its typing notably grants it key resistances to attacks like Weavile's Triple Axel, Rillaboom's Grassy Glide, and Enamorus's and Iron Valiant's Moonblast, and Flame Body can potentially ruin the former two in addition to priority from Kingambit and Dragonite and revenge killing attempts from Iron Boulder and Barraskewda. Fiery Dance's perfect accuracy, higher PP, and chance to let Volcarona snowball with a lucky Special Attack boost or two make it an especially threatening move late-game, while Fire Blast boasts enough immediate power to outright OHKO bulky Kingambit at +1 and always OHKOes physically defensive Gliscor at +1 after Stealth Rock. Bug Buzz is Volcarona's strongest attack against Ting-Lu, Hisuian Samurott, and Roaring Moon and bypasses Kyurem's Substitute; Giga Drain, on the other hand, offers useful super effective coverage against threats like Great Tusk, Dondozo, and Primarina, and the recovery it provides can keep Volcarona healthy enough to continue sweeping late-game. Tera Blast greatly expands Volcarona's coverage depending on its Tera type of choice and makes Volcarona especially difficult to check due to its sheer unpredictability. Tera Ground grants Volcarona an Electric immunity to block Hatterene's Nuzzle, Clefable's Thunder Wave, and Raging Bolt's Thunderclap, and it allows Volcarona to OHKO threats like Iron Moth and Heatran outright, OHKO Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt after a Quiver Dance, and hit threats like Galarian Slowking and Toxapex super effectively. Tera Water still hits Fire-types like Cinderace and Heatran super effectively but also allows Volcarona to handle Great Tusk, Gliscor, opposing Volcarona, and Ting-Lu more effectively; it also provides a solid defensive typing that allows Volcarona to survive Barraskewda's rain-boosted Liquidation and, if it's healthy enough, Ogerpon-W's Ivy Cudgel. Tera Fairy grants Volcarona a strong defensive typing with both a Dragon immunity and crucial coverage against Dragon-types like Dragapult, Raging Bolt, Walking Wake, and Dragonite while maintaining super effective coverage against Great Tusk and Zamazenta. However, Volcarona is among the best users of Terastallization in the tier and as such has immense versatility in its Tera options. Tera Dragon maintains important coverage against Dragon-types, notably also hitting Gouging Fire super effectively, while providing Volcarona with perfect neutral coverage alongside Giga Drain and resistances to Fire- and Water-type attacks; Tera Grass alongside both Bug Buzz and Giga Drain gives Volcarona a more favorable matchup against Water-types and makes Volcarona less-reliant on Terastallizing to sweep; Tera Psychic alongside Psychic fits well on Psychic Terrain teams as a means to break past Clodsire and Toxapex with ease; Tera Rock alongside Tera Blast hits Dragonite, Pelipper, and Gouging Fire super effectively and crucially OHKOes opposing Volcarona; Tera Bug allows Volcarona's Bug Buzz to 2HKO Ting-Lu the majority of the time with no prior boosts; lastly, Tera Fire is a situational option on sun teams to allow Volcarona's Fire Blast to reach high enough levels of power to outright OHKO Kyurem after a Quiver Dance while OHKOing Dragapult after a Quiver Dance and sun active and even outright 2HKOing Dondozo with a sun boost.
Because it faces limited competition as a fast, specially offensive setup sweeper, Volcarona is quite easy to fit onto most hyper offense teams that operate at a similarly breakneck pace. Deoxys-S is an excellent teammate for Volcarona; it can serve as a fast dual screens setter or a fast and reliable entry hazard setter to support Volcarona's sweep, or it can function as a standalone offensive threat that can clean up late-game should Volcarona manage to wear down or even eliminate threats like Gholdengo and Kingambit. Other entry hazard setters like Hisuian Samurott and Glimmora can also provide entry hazard support to help Volcarona secure a KO against Dragapult, while other dual screens setters like Alolan Ninetales can support Volcarona by giving it more opportunities to safely set up a Quiver Dance or even giving it enough bulk to set up multiple Quiver Dances and decimate offensive teams. Volcarona forms a potent offensive core with various Dragon Dance sweepers, such as Roaring Moon, Gouging Fire, Kyurem, and Dragonite, which all appreciate Volcarona's ability to use physical walls like Skarmory as setup fodder while checking Fairy-types like Iron Valiant and Enamorus. Roaring Moon forces out Galarian Slowking, which otherwise gives Tera Fairy variants a lot of trouble, and it can fall back on Tera Flying when Terastallizing Volcarona is not ideal; Gouging Fire and Volcarona can overwhelm their shared Fire-resistant checks like Primarina and Alomomola to wallbreak for one-another; Kyurem's powerful Ice STAB can handle opposing Dragon-types, allowing Volcarona to run different Tera types like Water and Ground; Dragonite's powerful Extreme Speed acts as insurance against revenge killers like Swift Swim Barraskewda and weakened Booster Energy Iron Boulder, and it especially appreciates Volcarona's ability to force Skarmory and Corviknight out so that it is no longer forced to run Fire Punch. Kingambit makes for a stellar teammate, as its immunity to both of Galarian Slowking's STAB moves complements Volcarona's ability to deter Fighting-types like Zamazenta, and its strong Sucker Punch acts as good insurance against Booster Energy Iron Boulder, which otherwise outspeeds Volcarona and effortlessly OHKOes it with Mighty Cleave. Lastly, Volcarona fits well on Psychic Terrain teams facilitated by Indeedee; although the prospect of a Tera Psychic and Terrain-boosted Psychic ripping through threats like Toxapex and Clodsire, which can completely counter many other Volcarona variants, is quite appealing, Volcarona still benefits from Psychic Terrain's protection against Kingambit's Sucker Punch and Dragonite's Extreme Speed regardless of Volcarona's Tera type of choice. Psychic Terrain also helps to further facilitate threats Volcarona already synergizes well with, such as Expanding Force Deoxys-S and Dragon Dance users like Roaring Moon and Gouging Fire.
[SET CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/dreadfury.408271/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/kd458.633798/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/zastra.558636/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/tea-guzzler.577920/
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