Pokémon Review: Sawk

After yesterday's review of Throh, I thought it'd be nice to please Sawk fans so here we go...

Like Throh, Sawk is one of the best Pokémon in NU, and possibly even the best Band/Scarf user in the tier. With base 125 attack, it's bound to be pretty good and STAB Close Combat is a very nice plus.
Unlike Throh, Sawk actually has a decent base speed of 85, which is infact one of the fastest in NU, and Choice Scarf just makes it better.
The biggest downfall about Sawk is it's predictable movepool, but it's still a great Pokemon.

As for abilities, I'd recommend always going with Sturdy, which stops 1-hit KOs when at full HP (and also makes the OHKO moves fail, but their banned competitively so yeah). And as for EVs, I would focus mainly on Attack & Speed if I were you.

Almost all Sawk use this set, I myself have never used or seen one without it:

Choice
Sawk @ Choice Scarf/Choice Band
252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Sturdy
Moveset: Close Combat, Stone Edge, Earthquake, Toxic/Reversal

In the TCG:
Card I am reviewing: Sawk - 59/98 - Emerging Powers

The Sawk card from Emerging Powers is just like Throh, but Sawk has a chance of doing 100 damage if your extremely lucky.
It's only move is called 'Five Fierce Chops' and costs a Fighting Energy and a Colorless Energy. Basically, you flip 5 coins and the move does 20 damage to your opponent times the number of heads, possibly doing 100 damage - While it seems a lot, the chances of getting 100 are so low I really wouldn't bother with it.

What I like about the card is that it has a cheap retreat cost of 1 Colorless Energy.
The worst part is, you can't attack during your next turn which is bad, honestly neither are that good, but if you need to use one of them in your deck, I would probably go with Throh due to Sawk not being able to attack next turn.


Link to card scan: http://pokebeach.com/scans/emerging-powers/59-sawk.jpg

That's about it on Sawk, see you next review! :)