Volquag

**Volquag** is a fusion featured in the Fusion Evolution Under Used Pet Mod. It is a fusion of Volcanion and Quagsire.

## Overview

Volquag makes for an interesting pick in the metagame with its unique typing, movepool, and stat distribution enabling a variety of viable sets and approaches. Given its decent Special Attack, plethora of coverage options, and Steam Eruption, Volquag is most commonly used as a Water and Fire type hard-counter. Additionally, its passable defensive typing, overall bulk, and useful ability in Porous allow it to serve as a respectable offensive check to Pokemon like Xotalion, Tanette, and Snortine and even let it run bulkier sets featuring Toxic. However, Volquag has difficulty in dealing with Dragon-types such as Flygalge, Brontun. Its middling Speed tier and weaknesses to common attacking types in Rock, Ground, and Electric also open up opportunities for some of the tier's most potent wallbreakers in Mega Chomplim, Jelliswine, Yacian-Crowned and Lycanserker-Dusk to do big damage and for Pokemon like Noicity and Slowton to gain momentum with Volt Switch. Lastly, Volquag is vulnerable to all entry hazards, most importantly Stealth Rock, hurting its overall longevity and defensive utility if they are not cleared accordingly.

* Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, 31 IVs, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.

## Sample Sets

* Physical Wall

```
Volquag @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Porous
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Scald / Steam Eruption
- Will-o-Wisp / Toxic
- Haze / Flamethrower
- Recover

```

Created by: Bobsican and AquaticPanic

**Moves**

Scald functions as an spammable STAB option with a chance to burn the target, which deters physical attackers from switching in, however, running Scald may allow Grass and Dragon types from switching in more easily if Flamethrower isn't carried as well, Steam Eruption is an stronger but less reliable alternative if desired, Will-o-Wisp allows Volquag to reliably noticeably cripple attackers such as Kingtsar, Flamethrower acts as a secondary STAB option to get past Grass types such as Tanette, Haze allows Volquag to reset setup sweepers to let it wall more reliably, and Recover noticeably raises its longevity and reliability as a wall. Toxic works as an alternate status spreading option to give it an easier match-up against opposing Water-types.

**Set Details**

252 HP and Defense EVs maximize Toxalure's physical bulk and allow it to check strong physical attackers such as Kingtsar, Pigapult and Corveot. 4 SpD EVs allows Volquag to take slightly better special attacks. Heavy-Duty Boots ensures Volquag isn't bothered by hazards.

**Usage Tips**

Switch in Volquag whenever an offensive Water type such as Kingtsar comes in, then threaten it out with a burn. Will-o-Wisp ensures Volquag can immediately burn an opponent when it can't test its luck, or to ensure it can cripple something Scald wouldn't as much on the switch, such as Dragontler as well.
**Team Options**

Volquag is a strong pick for balance teams as a means of spreading status and checking Water-, Fire- and Steel-types. Fairy-types like Tanette, Grimmlurk, and Mega Silvino are great partners, checking Dragon-types, providing Heal Bell support, and Wish passing in the case of Silvino. Flygalge covers some of Volcanion's main weaknesses and takes advantage of its ability to threaten Steel-types and cripple bulky Water-types with Toxic. Cryogolem and Flygotine can remove entry hazards, making Volquag more reliable in accomplishing its role on a team. Choice Scarf Dongoro and Glidol share nice type synergy with Volquag. Its status spreading makes Volquag a decent partner to late-game sweepers and cleaners such as Noicity and Choice Scarf Miemie.

**Checks and Counters**

**Bulky Water types**: Snortine absorbs all the status Volquag can bring and perfectly walls it, although they stalemale beyond PP stalling. Toxalure walls Volquag, poisons it and then uses it as setup bait. Ferros chips away Volquag with either Leech Seed and/or Toxic while also laying hazards as it's rendered passive in its attemp to remove them, or otherwise trying to cripple it with a burn. Volquag can run Defog to remedy this match-up a bit, but it's forced out by every other hazard setter anyways.

**Dragon types**: Pigapult can setup on Volquag variants that lack Haze, Eternabat isn't strongly bothered by a burn and can threaten it out, Stoudrago has to be careful over a burn, but it can easily overwhelm Volquag offensively otherwise, Brontun heals more with Leftovers than what a burn does out of its ability, and so can beat it long-term, Flygalge can easily switch into Volquag without much thought and threaten it out with Sludge Bomb.

**Faster Offensive Pokémon**: Volquag is pretty slow, so attackers that can hit it super effectively such as Lycanserker-Dusk, Slowton, Noicity, Grousle, Pincurchitar and so on beat it 1v1.

## Changelog

* As of February 19, 2021, Volquag's base stat spread was changed as it was missing +9 BST from the general 40 that's added to fusions, and so its stats went from 90 / 97 / 55 / 79 / 121 / 109 / 111 / 55 / 79 / 121 / 109 / 97 / 55 / 79 / 121 / 109 / 83 / 65, to 90 / 97 / 114 (+3) / 100 (+3) / 86 (+3) / 65

* As of April 14, 2021, Volquag's ability was changed from having the original effect of Water Absorb + Damp (Thus letting it heal from Water and Explosive-kind moves, including the Aftermath effect in Rough Result) to having the effect of Water Absorb + Unaware.