Back To School

Back To School is a Wishiwashi created by EsCa(SO4)2. Abusing the powerful base stats of Wishiwashi-School at level 90, Back To School has an amazing combination of bulk and raw power. 375 SpA is downright monstrous even without a boosting item, and its defensive stats are fantastic. While it already stops being useful under 25% health, it is still hard to bring it into Solo forme with its massive bulk, great defensive typing, and the fact it will probably kill you when you try to do so. Utilizing strong special walls is often not enough to stop it, as it has access to some strong physical moves too, like Iron Tail for Tapu Nani? and U-Turn for Hierophant Green. Flip Turn and U-Turn also allow Back To School to play a devastatingly strong hit-and-run game. All in all, it is a fantastic mon with a fantastic matchup spread, especially considering the few hard checks it has don't like switching into it at all.
==Moves==
-Surf
-Hydro Pump
-Earthquake
-U-Turn
-Iron Tail
-Rest
-Ice Beam
-Flip Turn
==Usage Tips==
TBA
==Checks and Counters==
*Powerful Grass-types: While Grasses do not like taking an Ice Beam or, even worse, U-Turn, they can generally afford switching into Surf or Hydro Pump a couple times and deal heavy damage back. Treesarecool's Carnivine stands out as its Power Whip can cleanly OHKO Back To School. Grass coverage helps too, like Renfur's Melmetal which can hit it on the switch with Wood Hammer or Beelzebug whose Solar Beam can KO after a boost.
*Electric-types: While they can't safely switch in, Electric-types like memomiguel, Gently Weeping and Deinocheirus can all OHKO it with their strongest Electric STAB.
*Bulky Waters: Back To School lacks ways to deal immediate damage to opposing bulky waters, which it will often have to pivot out of with U-Turn or Flip Turn. Do note that Waters without recovery can lose in the long run as they generally lack ways to deal a lot of damage at once to Back To School too. Examples of bulky waters that can win are Giga Drain treesarecool's Lombre against variants without U-Turn and Freeze-Dry Boat.
*Very strong wallbreakers: The strongest neutral breakers like Kudamon's Noivern, cold turkey and Suicide Birb V2.0 are capable of 2HKOing the fish (or OHKOing with super effective moves), though Ice Beam can also OHKO Noivern and Birb.
Category:Water
Category:EsCa(SO4)2's mons
Category:A Rank
Category:Gen 7
Category:A+