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You don't know how excited I am that Mawile is in the research group! I'll be using Mawile and Torkoal for sure, and I might add solrock in a later team.
Alt: Bodo
Wow. Nothing came in or out of OU. I think that means we found ourselves a balanced tier.
RU on the other hand took a big hit, loosing Sharpedo, Claydol, Honchkrow, and Durant, and UU gave them nothing back.
The kingler I have the most success with is the agility sweeper.
Agility
Crab Hammer
Rock Slide
X-Scissor (kingler does have a way to hit grass types that everyone is forgetting about)
He's a decent pokemon through and through. It's a shame rock slide is his only usable move that is boosted...
I don't like the sound of that because you'll have a specs set with 2 moves that don't work well with specs. I'd replace recover with flash cannon to take out rock types and opposing ice types. Maybe keep rapid spin because it looks like the only other special move it gets is solar beam...
So I have used a focus punching Mawile to amazing perfection. It's kind of gimmicky but it is working for me. Especially in NU when many people send out their magneton to trap me only to get focus punched in the face. I even user focus punching Mawile in ou and it has won me many battles. Don't...
Honchkrow is the biggest threat in ru by far. I dont quite think its broken because it is really frail but its unpredictabillity is huge. Accelgor is doing amazingly for me as well
I used a gimmicky blastoise set but a good one nonetheless. Max out special defense and the move pool is
Skull Bash
Rapid Spin
Toxic
Waterfall
I realize this set does absolutely no damage to ferroseed but Water/Normal is good coverage otherwise. Skull Bash boosts Blastoise's lower (but by no...
Ok so I got to thinking. When someone suggested he used the item metronome I laughed to myself but when I thought about it some more I came up with a set.
Kricketune
Jolly
Metronome
252 attack and speed, 4 evs in spec def i guess
- Sing
- Taunt
- Swords Dance
- Fury Cutter
To be honest this is...
I've played a few nu matches, on wifi regardless but here's what I've noticed
Offensive Threats- SIMIPOUR is a bitch!! 101 base speed is really trolly down here. She is the only water type in the game to get nasty plot besides slowbro/king but they are too slow to use it correctly. Simipour is...
We keep banning weather abusers instead of the actual weather.
Mananphy is less threatening without hydration
Blaziken is less threatening without the flare blitz boost (he might still be uber cuz of speed boost but the sun was a big help for him)
garchomp is less threatening when you can be...
Bisharp is a great pokemon. Like someone above mentioned it's probably the best counter bar virizion to take down ferro-cent.
I like to use
adamant
Life orb
Night Slash
Brick Break
Substitute
Thunder wave/ Swords Dance
I think middle cup should include broken little cup pokemon or uneffective standard pokemon. It'd be cool to see pokemon like Scyther, Farfetch'd, Delibird, Clamperl, Meditite in here
I would like to reserve victrebell, and i'd love to do accelgor, throh, scolipede, lilligant, galvantula, and carracosta if you consider them uu threats (which they easily can be)
My guess is Zapdos will be a ou again once lightning rod is released. I have no complaints about the tiering though. I'm very happy with it at the moment, and it'll be nice to finally play some uu. No more ferrothorn on every team! (Inb4 eviolite ferroseed takes over uu) I'm honestly a bit...
I use a choice scarfed mamoswine and rarely ever lets me down. Ice shard is no longer neccesary as icicle crash dominates. Mamoswine has enough speed to pull it off, and has good coverage alongside earthquake and stone edge. If you choose to run super power obviously thick fat is out of the...
This guy has access to a move introduced last generation, however last generation it was useless because only slow pokemon could learn it, but as one of the fastest pokemon in the game he has amazing potential with this move.
Me First copies the attack your opponent's attack and sends it back...
Everyone is familiar with the resto chesto combo. If you give exxxegcutor curse and rest then 2 fillers. Seed Bomb is better then wood hammer on defensive pokemon and then a final move. Natural Gift is not a great option with a lum berry because its a 60 base power flying move but zen headbutt...