Zeraora

Electric

Zeraora serves as a much-needed physical wallbreaker for Electric, bringing ample useful coverage moves and benefiting its team in means no other Electric-type can. Close Combat allows Zeraora to make waves in the Normal matchup, which Electric typically struggles with, especially in taking down Chansey. In addition, its access to Knock Off is extremely useful in further taking down the Normal defensive core, as well as removing items like Leftovers from other Pokemon that are looking to switch into Zeraora such as Hippowdon. Its blazing Speed allows it to outspeed nearly the entire unboosted metagame, barring Pokemon like Mega Aerodactyl and Deoxys-S. It even can outspeed a few notable slower Choice Scarf users that threaten Electric such as Tapu Bulu. While Zeraora is Electric's go-to physical attacker, it still does face competition from the likes of Thundurus, which can very effectively remove conventional Zeraora checks such as Mega Venusaur and is overall very effective in the Poison matchup. To fill a similar role, Zeraora can also use a Flyinium Z set in order to remove Mega Venusaur and other bulky Grass-types, although that set lacks immediate power compared to its Choice Band sets. Zeraora's pure Electric typing leaves much to be desired, as it doesn't offer any unique beneficial secondary typing and leaves it very reliant on Plasma Fists as its strongest attack, except against foes weak to its coverage moves. Furthermore, its mediocre bulk means that it cannot easily switch into oncoming attacks except from Pokemon that do not threaten it at all, as it needs to remain healthy throughout the battle to continuously wallbreak.