Barraskewda

Water

Barraskewda is the premier Swift Swim user on rain-based Water teams due to its blazing high Speed, allowing it to outspeed the entire metagame in rain, and ability to hit hard. Due to these traits, Barraskewda is useful in a plethora of matches, namely Electric and other matchups such as Dark, which it can take on by itself. This is backed by its great coverage moves in Close Combat, Psychic Fangs, and Crunch, allowing it to hit a multitude of different threats such as Kyurem, Amoonguss, and Slowking. Flip Turn grants rain teams with more pivoting, allowing the archetype to have a lot of momentum. However, Barraskewda has pretty poor defensive stats, meaning it can be easily revenge killed by faster threats outside of the rain such as Dragapult and common priority such as Bisharp's Sucker Punch and Mimikyu's Shadow Sneak.