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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (2022)

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This week for Surprise Trade, I will be trading Tatsugiri, and I have all three different variants of the Pokémon. I usually breed for 31 IVs in at least 4 or 5 stats, and I went with Timid for the Nature, as Tatsugiri's best stat is Special Attack, and it has a good Speed stat to put that to use. I wasn't sure about going with the Hidden Ability of Storm Drain, as its regular Ability of Commander only works in Double Battles when it has Dondozo as a teammate, and its form does affect Dondozo's signature move, the orange Tatsugiri is the Curly Form, this boosts Dondozo's Attack when it uses Order Up, the pink Tatsugiri is the Droopy Form, and this one boosts Dondozo's Defense, and the yellow Tatsugiri is the Stretchy Form, this one boosts Dondozo's Speed.
For Tatsugiri's Egg Moves, it learns Counter, Rapid Spin, and Baton Pass, and all of them require the Mirror Herb, Counter is learned from Riolu, Meditite, Scorbunny, and many other Pokémon, Baton Pass is a TM in this game, but for Pokémon that learn it through level up, examples include Eevee, Sentret, and Aipom, and it can get Rapid Spin from Pineco, Sandshrew, Bounsweet, and many other Pokémon.
Tatsugiri has Water Gun and Splash for starting moves, and for the rest of its level up moves, it can learn Harden, Helping Hand, Water Pulse, Soak, Taunt, Memento, Muddy Water, Nasty Plot, Mirror Coat, and Dragon Pulse.
Next are TMs, it learns Chilling Water, Icy Wind, Rain Dance, Dragon Dance, Substitute, Surf, Hydro Pump, Giga Impact, Outrage, Hyper Beam, Draco Meteor, Tera Blast, and Lunge, not many moves it can learn through TM.
While Tatsugiri is preferred in Double Battles, let's start with Single Battles. Not much point using it when Walking Wake exists, but at least Tatsugiri is more easily accessible, it can use Nasty Plot to boost its Special Attack and use Surf and Draco Meteor to get in some hard hits. The downside to Tatsugiri is that it has a hard time against Fairy-type Pokémon, which means it has to go with a Steel Tera Type with Tera Blast in order to deal with them. For Single Battles, Storm Drain is the Ability to go with on Tatsugiri, but you are better off using Gastrodon, which has better stats and can take hits better.
Then for Double Battles, which is where Tatsugiri is used more, and this is because its Ability of Commander has it enter the mouth of Dondozo and boosts all of its stats by two stages, but it comes at the cost of Dondozo not being able to switch out. For attacks, Tatsugiri usually has Muddy Water and Draco Meteor for its main moves, Icy Wind to decrease the Speed of opposing Pokémon, it can use other moves like Taunt and Helping Hand for utility. Choice Scarf is the preferred item, and there are some Tatsugiri sets that use the Toxic Orb so that when poisoned, that is the only way for Tatsugiri to faint when Dondozo is on the field, because normally, Tatsugiri cannot be targeted by opponents, and the downside to that is that Dondozo will be fighting by itself against two opponents. With the Toxic Orb and after Tatsugiri faints, another Pokémon can come in and team up with a boosted Dondozo, the best partner is Flamigo, which can copy Dondozo's stat boosts with Costar, or a teammate with Perish Song, like Murkrow or Scream Tail can use that to let Tatsugiri faint in three turns, and the Perish Song user can switch into Dondozo to give it the stat boost.
Tatsugiri is not worth using in Tera Raid Battles, because Walking Wake is the more better Water/Dragon-type Pokémon, specially against Pokémon with a Fire, Rock, or Ground Tera Type, as long as the Pokémon's base type isn't Fairy. While its typing is good when going through the game, Tatsugiri does get Water Pulse fairly early, and it can get Nasty Plot through level up, giving it some ways to do well in battle, I wouldn't say it is the best Pokémon to use when going through the game, but it can be a decent option, most of Tatsugiri's level up moves tend to be more focused around support, as its main role is the be Dondozo's teammate in Double Battles, and there is only one part of the game where you take part in Double Battles.

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