Bisharp

Bisharp is one of UU's most capable sweepers and wallbreakers thanks to its solid offensive typing, access to Swords Dance, and excellent Attack stat. Its access to a powerful STAB Sucker Punch allows it to pick off weakened threats while deterring foes' attempts to revenge kill it, limiting some of its offensive counterplay. Bisharp can also muscle through large portions of the defensive metagame thanks to its powerful STAB moves in Knock Off and Iron Head, as well as its ability to use Black Hole Eclipse to take on some of its would-be defensive checks like Hippowdon, Mega Aggron, and Gligar. Furthermore, its ability Defiant allows it to discourage the use of Defog from common entry hazard removers such as Hydreigon and Empoleon. With its unique set of resistances, Bisharp can also pull off an Assault Vest set capable of tanking hits from and Pursuit trapping prominent special attackers like Latias, Celebi, and Nihilego. However, Bisharp's offensive prowess is slightly held back by its defensive drawbacks, such as its middling overall bulk, which prevents it from checking foes like Hydreigon, Latias, and Togekiss as reliably as it'd like to if not running Assault Vest. This is further compounded by the disadvantages of its typing, which include a huge weakness to the tier's several Fighting-types, like Infernape and Cobalion, and weaknesses to other common types in Fire and Ground. Because of its poor Speed, Bisharp can also tend to overrely on Sucker Punch, which, due to the attack's poor reliability, requires that Bisharp predicts carefully when using it so as not to allow foes like Gengar and Moltres to take advantage of it by using Substitute or restoring health, respectively.