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Furthermore, unlike other common Assault Vest users, Scizor's access to a scouting move in U-turn enables it to effectively fish for the opponent's switch-in after threatening something out and keep the momentum in your team's favor. It should also be noted that Magnezone, one of the most effective Scizor revenge killers, can't deal enough damage to prevent Scizor from smacking it with a powerful Superpower or even U-turning out of its magnetic field-even a Choice Specs-boosted Hidden Power Fire fails to OHKO. This is all Scizor needs to deal with the threats it commonly switches in against, such as Starmie, Gengar, Alakazam, Latias, Reuniclus, and Slowbro, and either Pursuit, Bullet Punch, or U-turn against them with relative comfort even Alakazam's Hidden Power Fire, which Alakazam could use in an attempt to revenge kill Scizor, only manages a reasonably comfortable 58% on average. You might initially think Scizor isn't even a respectable specially defensive tank to begin with, what with its rather low base 70 HP and 80 Special Defense, but when its HP and Special Defense are invested in and coupled with Assault Vest, Scizor reaches great defensive stats of 343 and 349, respectively. However, Scizor can easily make use of Assault Vest to make it an effective pivot against a number of special attackers. Scizor is commonly seen in a purely offensive role, able to cause headaches through either spamming Choice Band-boosted STAB U-turns or bolstering its Attack stat to impressive levels via Swords Dance and attempting to sweep. To top it all off, two of the most dominating Fairy-types in OU, Togekiss and Azumarill, are both hit hard with Thunderbolt, which also covers additional Water- and Flying-types, although Sludge Wave is a viable answer over it to drench Fairy-types in general. That dopey look on its face shouldn't give you a reason to chuckle at the sight of it either, as Goodra still packs quite a punch with its Draco Meteor and Fire Blast coming off of a base 110 Special Attack.

Furthermore, along with Goodra's high base 100 Attack (though uninvested) and Sap Sipper, it is great at absorbing sleep and Grass-type moves, giving it the opportunity to whip its foes with even stronger Dragon Tails.

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Due to its monstrous bulk, which allows it to be a prominent check to many of OU's special attackers, Barney's long-lost twin can take full advantage of the switches it typically forces to rack up entry hazard damage and potentially phaze in a Pokémon it still threatens.

A big difference between Goodra and other Assault Vest users is its ability to phaze, thanks to Dragon Tail. 'Goomy pls.' you might sneer, but this should be no surprise when you consider Goodra's whopping base 150 Special Defense, which reaches a gargantuan stat of a couple of points below 600 when equipped with an Assault Vest, as well as its decently high base 90 HP. Granted, it appears as though Goodra just got off the set of Dragon Tales, but despite this it's equipped with many qualities that make it an effective specially bulky pivot. This article puts Assault Vest in the spotlight and showcases some of the most prominent users of it in the OU metagame. This essentially means that this piece of clothing was not tailor-made to be used by walls such as Skarmory and Blissey, who heavily rely on non-damaging attacks to be effective, but instead was designed for Pokémon that fit tanking roles, or similar. However, this increase comes with an interesting cost: Any Pokémon equipped with an Assault Vest can no longer use non-damaging attacks. Upon dressing up your companions with this bulletproof vest, their Special Defense stat increases by half of their original stat, instantly making them that much better at handling special attackers. To say the least, Assault Vest provides battlers with a new means of styling their Pokémon quite literally, in fact.

The XY generation brought with it many interesting and unique additions to competitive battling, one of the most important of which is Assault Vest.

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