Breloom

Fighting

With powerful priority in Technician-boosted Mach Punch, high Attack, and Spore, Breloom finds its way onto most Fighting teams. Technician greatly boosts the power of moves with a Base Power of 60 or less, such as Bullet Seed, Mach Punch, and Rock Tomb, all of which Breloom uses. It also has near-perfect neutral coverage with those attacks, enabling it to deal significant damage to most Pokemon. Spore has perfect accuracy and cripples threats by putting them to sleep, effectively removing them from the battle until they wake up. In addition, Breloom's Grass typing makes it a great wincon against Water teams, and it can deal with annoying bulky Water-types like Slowbro and Tapu Fini. It can also choose to use Swords Dance to sweep weakened teams late-game. Although Breloom has a poor Speed stat, it has powerful priority in Mach Punch to make up for it. However, it is still unable to beat foes that resist Mach Punch, like Gyarados. It also has low defenses, and its defensive typing hinders Fighting teams more than it helps, as it offers no useful resistances and exacerbates weaknesses.

Grass

Breloom is a strong physical attacker for Grass with access to a great ability in Technician combined with a very high Attack stat and a good offensive typing. Breloom has a potent movepool to make use of Technician: Mach Punch provides a strong priority attack for Grass teams, Rock Tomb offers valuable coverage for Fire-, Flying-, and Bug-types, and Bullet Seed is a powerful wallbreaking option, especially with Grassy Terrain support. Furthermore, with Swords Dance, Breloom is capable of cleaning weakened teams with Mach Punch late-game. Breloom also has excellent utility in Spore, which can cripple a Pokemon by putting it to sleep, offering Grass a semi-reliable method of forcing out threats, checking dangerous sweepers, and creating opportunities to set up with Swords Dance. However, Breloom is frail and has an exploitable defensive typing with weaknesses to common Ice-, Fire-, Flying-, Poison-, Psychic-, and Fairy-type attacks, making it easy to revenge kill. Breloom is also slow and very reliant on Mach Punch to threaten fast offensive threats.