Crunch or Payback for Scrafty for a Gen 8 playthrough?

Question

This is for a Sword playthrough team. If Scrafty outspeeds, Crunch is more powerful but if it doesn’t, Payback is better. And then there’s also the fact that Crunch has the chance to lower defense, although it’s low. What would be better?

Comments

What are the other 3 moves it knows?

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Drain Punch, Ice Punch, Rock Slide

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Payback might be better as it won't be outs speeding anything with its mediocre speed.

Answer 1

Go for Payback.
The only gym Pokemon that are slower then Scrafty are:

Milo's Gossifleur
Bea's Pangoro (Tie)
Bea's Machamp
Opal's Mawile
Gordie's Shuckle
Gordie's Coalossal
Pier's Scrafty
Rihan's Gigalith

And that's it! (I did also count Leon's team, but all of them were faster)
Only 8 Pokemon out of the 28 total Leauge Pokemon are slower, and using the moveset that you sent, 6 of them can be hit with super-effective damage. (Machamp, and Mawile are the 2 you can't hit)

Crunch's defense drop is good, but Payback is more worth it because of 100 base power dark STAB (Which turns it into a 150 base power move when the 1.5x is applied) .
So yeah, Payback's better for Scrafty

Comments

Shuckle is weak to rock slide

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but it has the defences to survive a few of them and its not STAB on Scrafty.