Should I use Swords Dance or Rock Polish on this Groudon in Ubers?
Physical Attacker Moveset for Primal Groudon
Rock Polisher (Groudon-Primal) @ Red OrbAbility: Desolate LandEVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Precipice Blades- Rock Polish- Fire Punch- Stone Edge
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Swords Dancer (Groudon-Primal) @ Red OrbAbility: Desolate LandEVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 SpeAdamant Nature- Precipice Blades- Swords Dance- Fire Punch- Stone Edge
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Fire Punch is a very niche and bad option. This is because Celesteela and Skarmory are very rare, and theinfamous EdgeQuake combois able to generally cover almost everything neutrally/super-effectively.
As Stone Edge / Rock Tomb + Precipice Blades spares two moveslot, you can fit in Swords Dance, Rock Polish or even Stealth Rock. What you’re using really depends on your team, though.
Swords Danceis used on a mixed of hazard setter + wallbreaker, as well as in mixed SD sets.
Swords Dance, when combined with Stealth Rock, allows this Primal Groudon variant to be both a utility entry hazard setter and a wallbreaker at the same time against Defog users such as support Arceus formes, Giratina, and Ho-Oh that would try to remove Stealth Rock.
Setting Stealth Rock on forced switches is ideal. It works out better if the opponent switches to a Defog user such as a support Arceus forme, Ho-Oh, or Giratina, as Primal Groudon can then reveal Swords Dance or Rock Tomb and surprise the opponent, likely putting them into an unfavorable situation where they have to decide between dealing with Primal Groudon and the Stealth Rock it can set.
Rock Polishis also used on the above mentioned mixed sets, when it needs to threaten offensive teams much more, as being able to outspeed eases up any matchup vs offensive teams.Dual Dancewith both SD RP is also a set with the EdgeQuake combo.
Rock Polish boosts Primal Groudon’s otherwise average Speed tier into an area that only faster boosting attackers can reach. This makes Rock Polish Primal Groudon very scary for opposing offensive teams.A boost from Swords Dance makes Primal Groudon very difficult to defensively check, leaving only the bulkiest physical walls such as Zygarde-C and Giratina able to stomach a boosted Precipice Blades.
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Tl;drit really depends on what your team needs, and also for the set you provided, you can use bothSwords Dance + Rock PolishakaDual DancePrimal-Groudon!
Groudon @ Red OrbAbility: DroughtEVs: 252 Atk / 100 SpD / 156 SpeAdamant Nature- Rock Polish- Swords Dance- Precipice Blades- Stone Edge
Hope I helped!
I think that Rock Polish would be better, as Primal Groudon already has a huge Attack stat whereas its speed is only mediocre. Assuming that this is a Fast Physical sweeper, extra speed will help it achieve that role.
If your setup will have the ev’s in speed as described in your question, by standarth the best option is the one with Rock polish, the one with swords dance will be better on a situation his innate speed will be enought to outspeed his oponents and his innate defensive atributes will be enought to withstand retaliation in case he isn’t fast enought. The two are better in their own regard, it will depend on your personal playstile.
If even so, you still have doubts,always go for the specialist over the generalist, so pick the one with rock polish if you can’t choose one, but if you can manage to understand in what each one will be better and how do that work with your personal playstile choose the one that will benefit most of your personal skills.
This is a question that is very difficult to have a proper answer because of that, the pokémon that is best for one person, maybe be not for other person, the same pokémon with a particular setup can be best for one person, but not for other person and so on, is never black and white, it always require analization and how it works with your personal playstyle, not the personal playstyle of other people.
