Waterfall or Liquidation on Scarf Swampert in VGC?

Question

I like to run scarf swampert on vgc since it has very good attack and with scarf it outspeeds very many Pokemon, but should I choose liquidation or waterfall?

Comments

What are your other moves?

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I don't think anyone knows the answer right now. You might want to wait a few weeks or a month for the metagame to settle down.

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I don't play VGC, but from general experience, defensive Swampert runs Flip Turn > Waterfall/Liquidation to pivot. You really won't be flinching anything with 60 base Speed, so Liquidation is probably the better pick for the higher base power

Answer 1

Waterfall. Waterfall and liquadation both have a secondary effect and both being a 20% chance. Liquidations is defence drop (-1) while waterfalls is flinching. Flinching is better. But waterfall have 5 less base power. (Which doesn't really matter...)

WATERFALLLLLLLlll...

Comments

How is flinching better than a defense drop?

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Bc flinching kinda just gives you a free turn