Sneasel
Sharp Claw Pokémon
Sneasel scales trees by punching its hooked claws into the bark. This Pokémon seeks out unguarded nests and steals eggs for food while the parents are away.
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Strategy Overview
With its blisteringly fast Speed and a deadly STAB combination, Sneasel carves a place for itself in ZU as a powerful wallbreaker and cleaner. STAB Knock Off makes Sneasel excellent at forcing progress, especially since the primary Knock Off absorber, Dipplin, fears its Ice-type attacks, and it outruns many already fast threats like Charizard, Shaymin, and Virizion. However, Sneasel's paper-thin defenses mean it crumples to most strong neutral attacks and, combined with its many weaknesses, give it near to no defensive utility outside of switching into Psychic-type attacks. Sneasel also can be left wanting in power and struggles to break past walls like Regirock and Orthworm. Choice Band sets don't have this problem but are vulnerable to entry hazards and very prediction reliant. Lastly, Sneasel is incredibly vulnerable to getting revenge killed by most Choice Scarf users in the tier, like Passimian, Sneasel-Hisui, and Typhlosion, as well as priority attacks such as Mach Punch from Hitmontop.
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Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc