M&M Physical Groundceus (QC 1/2)

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Physical Breaker (Arceus-Ground) @ Earth Plate
Ability: Multitype
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance / Swords Dance
- Gravity / Stone Edge
- Recover / Gravity

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Arceus-Ground can act as a terrifying physical breaker and cleaner. As a bulky Ground-type that can limit Volt Switch users, Arceus Ground can defensively answer some Pokemon such as Gouging Fire and Regieleki, while offering an offensive presence that has the power to lure in and OHKO common Pokemon like Blissey, Corviknight, Ho-Oh, and Galarian Slowking. Dragon Dance allows Arceus-Ground to boost it's Speed to pressure offense by outspeeding threats like Diancite Hoopa-Unbound, Absolite Iron Moth, and Regieleki at +1. Alternatively, Swords Dances can boost attack much quicker so that more defensive answers like Bulk Up Corviknight and Iron Defense Garganacl are easily dealt with. Access to Gravity limits all forms of counterplay through Flying-type immunities and the common Levitate transformational items such as Latiasite Magearna, Latiasite Solgaleo, Ho-Oh and Pinsirite Garganacl. However, requiring an extra turn of setup isn't always ideal, so options like Stone Edge, Flare Blitz and Recover can also be used. Arceus requires support from teammates that can get up entry hazards to help facilitate its breaking potential, making setters like Hisuian Samurott, Garganacl, and Hisuian Arcanine good partners. Additionally Arceus Ground struggles to break through Flying-types like Pinsirite Great Tusk and Sablenite Lugia that aren't weak to a Gravity Earthquake, meaning strong special attackers such as Latiasite Solgaleo, Lunala, and Red Orb Lugia offer good synergy. Physically defensive Water-types such as Milotic and Arceus-Water also pose a roadblock to Arceus-Ground sweeping so teammates such as Raging Bolt and Urshifu-Rapid-Strike that can threaten and chip down these Pokemon's HP make for good partners.


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[SET]
Physical Breaker(Arceus-Ground) @ Earth Plate
Ability: Multitype
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance / Swords Dance
- Gravity / Stone Edge
- Recover / Gravity

[SET COMMENTS]
Arceus Ground (again, Arceus-Ground, with hyphen. fix it everywhere pls) can act as a terrifying physical breaker and cleaner that offers a great surprise factor as a counterpart to the more common Calm Mind set (ehh I'd avoid referencing the other groundceus set. I'd rather you just remove this line). Acting as a bulky Ground-type that can limit Volt Switch users, Arceus Ground can defensively answer some Pokemon such as Gouging Fire and Regieleki. Offensively it has the power to lure in and OHKO common Pokemon like Blissey, Corviknight, Ho-Oh and Galarian Slowking. Earth Plate boosted STAB Earthquake hits like a truck and great choice of boosting options in (no need to explain stabs) Dragon Dance and Swords Dance allow Arceus Ground to boost either it's Speed to pressure offense (outspeeding foes like?) or it's Attack so much that Bulk Up answers like Corviknight are inefficient. Access to Gravity limits all forms of counterplay through Flying-type immunities and the common Levitate transformational items (give examples). However, requiring an extra turn of setup isn't always ideal, so options like Stone Edge, Flare Blitz and Recover can also be used. An Adamant nature with max Attack investment is desired to maximize breaking potential, 252 Speed Evs to at least speed tie with other neutral nature Arceus formes. (no need to explain max / max) Arceus requires support from teammates that can get up entry hazards to help facilitate its breaking potential, making setters like Hisuian Samurott, Garganacl, and Hisuian Arcanine good partners. Additionally Arceus Ground struggles to break through Flying-types like Pinsirite Great Tusk and Sablenite Lugia that aren't weak to a Gravity Earthquake, meaning strong special attackers such as Raging Bolt, Lunala and Solgaleo Latiasite Solgaleo, Lunala, and Raging Bolt offer good synergy. (can also talk about fat waters and their checks)

i feel like i plagiarized myself from the other arc ground writeup with the partners at the end lmao (i would never joke about plagiarizing)

also for ur next analyses, smogon uses Oxford / serial comma btw. meaning lists>2 need a comma before and. like:
x and y (no comma)
x, y, and z (comma before and)

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[SET]
Physical Breaker (Arceus-Ground) @ Earth Plate
Ability: Multitype
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance / Swords Dance
- Gravity / Stone Edge
- Recover / Gravity I don't think you really need coverage and gravity, and besides you really want recover

[SET COMMENTS]
Arceus-Ground can act as a terrifying physical breaker and cleaner. As a bulky Ground-type that can limit Volt Switch users, Arceus-Ground(AH) can defensively act as a soft check Since you're 0 bulk you're not really walling them, calling it a soft check seems more applicable answer some Pokemon such as Gouging Fire and Regieleki, while offering an offensive presence that has the power to lure in and OHKO common Pokemon special walls like Blissey, Corviknight, Ho-Oh, and Galarian Slowking. Dragon Dance allows Arceus-Ground to boost it's Speed to pressure offense by outspeeding threats like Diancite Hoopa-Unbound, Absolite Iron Moth Eternatus, Metagrossite Hisuian Samurott Eternatus Swapped examples to feature more relevant mons that can threaten Arceus more or less, if you object it's fine but this seemed more fitting, and Regieleki at +1. Alternatively, Swords Dances can boost attack Attack much quicker so that more defensive answers like Bulk Up Corviknight and Iron Defense Garganacl are easily dealt with. Access to Gravity limits all forms of counterplay through Flying-type immunities and the common Levitate transformational items such as Latiasite Magearna, Latiasite Solgaleo, Ho-Oh and Pinsirite Garganacl lets Arceus-Ground bypass Ground-immune pokemon such as Ho-Oh, Pinsirite Garganacl, Latiasite Solgaleo, and Magearna and hit them for supereffective damage. However, requiring an extra turn of setup isn't always ideal, so options like Stone Edge, Flare Blitz and Recover can also be used. Arceus-Ground requires support from teammates that can get up entry hazards to help facilitate its breaking potential, making setters like Hisuian Samurott, Garganacl, and Hisuian Arcanine good partners. Additionally Arceus-Ground(AH) struggles to break through Flying-types like Pinsirite Great Tusk and Sablenite Lugia that aren't weak to a Gravity Earthquake, meaning strong special attackers such as Latiasite Solgaleo, Lunala, and Red Orb Lugia offensive Eternatus, and Red Orb Raging Bolt When you say strong special attackers I think wallbreakers, so I like more offensive examples that can immediately threaten stuff, you could also specify Meteor Beam Lunala if you prefer that offer good synergy. Physically defensive Water-types such as Milotic and Arceus-Water also pose a roadblock to Arceus-Ground sweeping , (AC) so teammates such as Raging Bolt and Urshifu-Rapid-Strike that can threaten and chip down these Pokemon's HP make for good partners.

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