Introduction
Oricorio-s is a powerful game ending threat in the march metagame. With quiver dance, a powerful stab option in revelation dance, and a unique typing and ability, oricorio-s is a mon that every team must have an answer to lest they be immediately swept as soon as it hits the field.
Part I
With access to one of the most powerful setup moves in the game, quiver dance, oricorio-s can quickly snowball into a game ending threat if left unchecked. It's two stab options are generally all it needs to pull off a sweep, those being the ghost type revelation dance and either hurricane for it's immediate power, or air slash for it's much higher accuracy and 30% flinch chance. One very important detail about oricorio-s as a sweeper is the fact that it can win 1v1 against ditto, as it's ability, dancer, actually copies revelation dance as well. This means that hp invested oricorio-s can live a revelation dance from full health and proceed to ko ditto back with a mirrored revelation dance from dancer alongside its own follow-up hit.
Part II
Defensively, oricorio-s does offer some unique traits. Due to it's ghost typing, it can function as a spinblocker. Additionally, it has access to roost, allowing it to shrug off attacks from physical attackers and boost up in front of them. With hp and def investment, oricorio can become surprisingly difficult to kill with both special and physical attacks, even tanking super effective rock moves and recovering the damage the next turn with roost, removing it's flying typing to reduce the damage of the next hit. This can allow oricorio-s to set up in matchups that otherwise seem unfavorable, including against stone edge or ice punch swampert.
Part III
Oricorio-s is mainly held back by the omnipresence of regice. Regice completely walls oricorio-s and can even take advantage of it by copying it's quiver dance boosts with psych up. This means that oricorio cannot sweep until regice is either eliminated or chipped into very low health. Also, while oricorio-s beats ditto at full health, if it is chipped into range of its own revelation dance it can be revengekilled by ditto, opening ditto up for a countersweep. Oricorio is also vulnerable to cacturne, as it will have to play sucker punch mind games to avoid being ohkoed by either sucker punch or knock off.
Part IV
Oricorio-s sets are generally very straightforward. The standard set is 2 attacks, quiver dance, and roost. Hurricane and air slash are both viable options as flying type stab, each with their own advantages. Substitute is an option over roost for a more offensive set focused on coming in a single time and ending the game. As for items, the item oricorio-s chooses to run is not generally super impactful. Leftovers and heavy duty boots are common choices for general longevity. Colbur berry can by used to easily tank knock offs from multiple physical attackers including swampert, cacturne, and grafaiai, as well as mitigating the need to play sucker punch mindgames against cacturne. Life orb can be used to boost damage output on more offensive sets.
Written by Shifty