Copyediting - Flower Girl :3 (Calm Mind Florges) [QC: 2/2] [GP: 0/1] (2024)

[SET]
name: Calm Mind
move 1: Calm Mind
move 2: Moonblast
move 3: Psychic Noise / Tera Blast / Wish
move 4: Synthesis
item: Heavy-Duty Boots (thoughts on leftovers? i've seen it on a common ladder team, it's better if reserved as just a setup sweeper, and less of a check to physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-W and Bombirdier, which it cannot even check that well anyways)
ability: Flower Veil
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 160 Def / 96 Spe
IVs: 0 Atk
tera type: Poison / Ground

[SET COMMENTS]
Florges is one of PU's best bulky setup sweepers thanks to its great defensive typing, wide variety of coverage and utility options, and stellar special bulk. Florges has a wide variety of options for its third moveslot; Psychic Noise is coverage for Poison-type Pokemon like Salazzle while also not allowing Specially Defensive walls like Gastrodon and Scream Tail (which Scream Tail set? Can't we just outboost and moonblast to win? Otherwise, we aren't gaining much on a well-predicted Psychic Noise that we wouldn't get from just CMing to full and spamming moonblast, and a better example should be used ) attempt to stall out Florges with their recovery. Tera Blast should be paired with Tera Ground and allows Florges to break through Poison- and Fire-types like Galarian Slowbro,

Coalossal (new example + relevancy), and Arcanine. Finally, Wish

offers Florges

extra PP for recovery to pair with Synthesis, and when Florges is used primarily as a wall rather than a win condition, then its better to provide Wish support than coverage (You can take this verbatim or rewrite to what you want, but ultimately we need to justify the difference as to why you would forfeit coverage for Wish. It's more than just supporting the team, it's actively giving up coverage to to support the team, which should be addressed. That, and the extra PP is a valid reason to include as well) The given EV spread allows Florges to obtain as much physical bulk as possible while also outspeeding Adamant Golurk as well as opposing walls such as Wo-Chien and Milotic.

When not running Tera Blast, Tera Poison is ideal for a strong defensive typing, allowing Florges to set up against Pokemon like Galarian Slowbro, opposing Florges (why the mirror? isn't it worse if you are now weak to Psychic Noise? and choice scarf just means you still lose to trick. Why not Bellibolt so you dodge Toxic?), and Salazzle. Tera Ground should be paired with Tera Blast and although it provides a worse defensive typing, it allows Florges to set up against Toxtricity as well as Pokemon like Kilowattrel and Coalossal (For Coalossal, what does Tera Ground give you defensively that Tera Poison doesn't? Also, Toxtricity's Boomburst is always stronger than Overdrive no matter the possible typings here, so you're really only maybe setting up on a set that runs Sludge Bomb, which is also a weak justification if any).

Florges finds itself on a variety of teams, but most commonly finds itself on bulky balance teams looking for a secondary wincon who can also function as a special wall or a wishpasser if need be (Good). Even with investment, Florges's physical bulk

is not good enough to set up against physical attackers like Paldean Tauros-F and Scyther, so physical walls like Bellibolt and Mudsdale make excellent partners. Likewise, in order for Florges to attempt a sweep without Tera Blast Ground, Fire- and Steel-types like Arcanine, Delphox, and Alolan Sandslash must be chipped or KOd. As such, Pokemon like Golurk, Inteleon, and Rotom-H make excellent partners. In turn, Florges can softcheck and threaten out their offensive checks like Zoroark, Choice Scarf Flamigo, and Goodra. Florges's ability to softcheck and threaten Dark- and Fighting-types like Grimmsnarl, Zoroark, Scrafty, and Hariyama makes the likes of Galarian Slowbro, Galarian Articuno, and ones own Scrafty amazing partners (it sounds like you're saying Florges is an amazing partner to "Galarian Slowbro, Galarian Articuno, and ones own Scrafty," but why are these three amazing partners to Florges? Remember we're first and foremost writing about the mon in the analysis and how to support it. If you want to keep this sentence as an "in return" line that's fine, but what are these three actively doing for Florg?). If Florges opts for Wish, the ability to wishpass is extremely

beneficial to offensive partners like Staraptor and Decidueye as well as partner walls lacking reliable recovery like Mudsdale, Houndstone, and Gligar. (See my last point. Maybe mention what the offensive partners are capable of to help make way for a CM sweep. We know why the phys walls are good already thanks to your second sentence, so that's fine just to list them)

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