Simple Q&A Thread

[sims796]

Seriously sims that team handle water attacks well with Vileplume and Gyarados, just watch out for Ice Beam and HP electric.I know, but Rain Dance only helps Gya, so that seems pointless. Althoug, it seems like fun...

Really though sandstorm makes Raichu practically uselsss so I'd seriously out a Life Orb on that thing. It'll OHKO Swampert anyways (I think...)Maybe. I'll consider it. I'm used to abusing Focus for a cheap Nasty Plotting KO.

either way, nothing is really capable of taking gods in sandstorms, especially Regirock. Regirock = ggDamn

But oh well it's fairly solid but aagain watch out for Garchomp (the SD kinds, you eat Scarfchomp).I want to work in a PHazer.

Also Cradily is really easily stalled and you could pull that off easily in all honesty.True. In retrospect, he always had one poke that I forgot about. So I shouldn't try to force the weather to a relative Rain Dance?

Nasty Plot should be Scheme. That sounds cool.

 

[Anti]

Yeah they really lost cool points calling it Nasty Plot :/

Honestly outpredicting stuff like Garchomp doesn't work since it can just raise its attack even higher so yeah.

A PHazer or hazer would help more. I mean, doesn't Noctowl learn Whirlwind?

Cradily is easy to stall even in a sandstorm. If you remember my old stall team, Penguin's last hope when he battled me was to Stockpile and kill me. Seriously I just didn't even bother attacking it and just stalled it out.

Cradily can wall like a champ, but it's a mediocre staller without Toxic.

In that respect Vileplume will kill it easily. Even STAB Rock Slide does little to Vileplume and it's immune to Toxic and double resist energy Ball. forretress will be even better since you can spike the filed while it can do nothing in return.

So really Noctowl would be cool but it does die to Garchomp and physical attackers so hmm...this is tricky. Can Torterra Roar?

As for Focus Sash TTar and Hippo are so common that it makes it useless in many cases.

 

[sims796]

Well, I can always try to force it out for a Sleep, and wither it's offense with repeated Intimidate, but now I'm pulling things out of my arse.

Wait, what item does SD Chomp usually run with? Not Focus Sash, right?

 

[Lumine]

Life Orb or Leftovers I used to run one with Life Orb, worked alright or why not run Substitute with Lefties?

 

[sims796]

Life Orb or Leftovers I used to run one with Life Orb, worked alright or why not run Substitute with Lefties?

Well, then it's even easier to take out a (an?) SD Garchomp, then. Flygon will go first for a Draco Meteor, which is more or less an OHKO. Unless it uses Substitute.

 

[Lumine]

How often do you see Flygon these days anyway XD, if you fear being OHKO'ed by that silly looking dragonfly then might as well run a Scarf Chomp.

 

[sims796]

How often do you see Flygon these days anyway XD, if you fear being OHKO'ed by that silly looking dragonfly then might as well run a Scarf Chomp.

No no, I"M Flygon, and I have a SD Chomp weakness :P

 

[Lumine]

Well Mr Pimp Cane you might aswell run Scarf Flygon then XD (did some damage calculation 120 EVs in Sp Atk is all you need to ensure a OHKO on Garchomp with Draco Meteor)

 

[sims796]

Well Mr Pimp Cane you might aswell run Scarf Flygon then XD (did some damage calculation 120 EVs in Sp Atk is all you need to ensure a OHKO on Garchomp with Draco Meteor)

I needed to read this. I run (or ran) only 100 SP.DEF & 156 SPD EV's on Flygon, simply cause I was too lazy to change it. I'll fix it now.

 

[Lumine]

Wait before jumping into any conclusions what kind of Flygon are you planning to run? Scarf? Band? Orb?

 

[sims796]

Scarf. I've ran it for a good while, so I''m used to it.

ScarfGon
Nature:Naughty
Draco Meteor
EQ
U-Turn
STONE EDGE!!!!
EV:252 ATK 120 SP.ATK 136 SPD

Mind you, he has 26 SP.ATK EVs.

He just kills dragons like there's no freakin tommorrow. He does very well thus far, but if he can drop that jerk SD Chomp, all the better.

 

[Lumine]

Then Draco Meteor will OHKO Garchomp 74.4% of the time with this damage calculation (from your set)

Damage: 327 - 384
Damage: 90.58% - 106.37%

Have Stealth/spike support to ensure a OHKO :laugh:

 

[sims796]

BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks, Mariomine, this puts my mind at ease.

 

[Xairmo]

Whats a good set for a jolly DDtar?

 

[Dark Azelf]

Whats a good set for a jolly DDtar?

Tyranitar@Leftovers / Life Orb
252 ATT / 252 SPEED /6 HP
Jolly Nature
- Taunt / Stone Edge / Ice beam
- Earthquake
- Crunch
- Dragon Dance

This is perhaps my favourite sweeper.

Taunt in that first slot stops you getting statused, whirlwinded /Roared and lets you DD even more. Stone Edge grants more coverage and gets STAB. Bulky Ground types are this sets biggest problems, Ice Beam is a worthwhile option because it OHKO'S Gliscor, Garchomp, 2hkos Donphan, Hippowdon etc BUT ONLY with a Life Orb

Crunch and Earthquake have awesome coverage, dont worry about getting walled by skarmory, if you taunt it, it cant do squat to you, you then use it as set up fodder, DD UP,and Crunch it to death, which will wreck it after a short time, ive done it plenty of times to people who think Skarm is a counter.

Dragon Dance is self explanatory.


Max speed evs allow you to outspeed max speed Infernape, Gengar, Azelf, Starmie, Raikou after a single dragon dance, i think it actually only puts you just short of Alakazam Sceptile and Dugtrio o_O around the 366 mark.

 

[brandon tautou]

okay so this might be long but it's hard to explain:

let's say that im trying to ev my level 1 mr. mime in sp. def so i take him out to battle some tentacool's (he does have a macho brace). but these tentacool's are like level 28-32 and i dont want him to die since he is my lead pokemon, so i switch in my higher level pokes to just faint the tentacool...my question is this:

does my mr. mime still give ev points for being in the battle?

 

[airconditioning]

Yep, Mr. Mime gets the regular amount of EVs. So does the Pokemon you switch in, too. :P

 

[Chonlel48]

I got another question.

I finished EV Training a Blissey, and it's at a healthy and powerful level 40. Now... Where would the best place to "lvl train" it? Does it mooch off of my Medicham, or does it have its own little awesome training spot perfect for a Blissey?

I'd rather avoid having it mooch off my Medicham, Empoleon, or whatever I'm training at the time, for the sake of faster level gains... but is it just plain faster to do that?

Chon

 

[Anti]

You mean training it to grow to level 100? Well, Wifi sets the level to 100 automatically so it's a waste of time. If you insist on training Blissey, just mow down the Elite four.

 

[Chonlel48]

You mean training it to grow to level 100? Well, Wifi sets the level to 100 automatically so it's a waste of time. If you insist on training Blissey, just mow down the Elite four.

Wait, Wi-Fi just sets it to lvl 100? I did not know that.

Its EV spread is factored in, right? I just need to make sure of that before I embark on EV Training another poke for Competitive Battling for being completely certain...