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That was most likely my little brother if you did hear someone through the DS, he was more excited than I was for this battle.

As for another battle, I would like to wait for when I do have a completely Ev'd team rather than the one I have now.

I'll PM you when I have the pokes.

I will also have to breed an Areodactyl then.

The best nature for a Chansey would be calm gentle careful or sassy, either way I will have to breed one so it will be a while.

Oh, since I lost how would you like a free pokemon? You may choose any from my shop except the 3 birds. You may choose 2 non-legends or one legend aside form the 3 birds.

I definitely choose the wrong pokemon that last battle. Congratulations on your victory, and yes your Hydreigon is a beast, hope I used that term correctly.

I decided to skip EVs for the last 2 pokemon I'm training.

True, oh just 10 more levels and I'll be ready.

Well we are going to have a flat battle so they'll all be lvl 50.

Ah I see, so what level are we going to battle at?

Just one more Pokemon, you ready? Oh and since you told me your team mine is Spititomb Milotic Areodactyl Lapras Charizard and Garchomp.

Also I was under the impression that we where only going to have level 55 pokemon, Hydreigon evolves at level 64, just pointing that out.

I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry. I got called in for a job and had no time to work on anything closely related to the computer. I haven't even finished training my pokemon yet. I truly truly apologize, if you still want I'll get started and we can battle later today hopefully.

When most people think of gen 5 they think of "wow this sweeper hits so hard" and the "power creep". Ferrothorn is a Pokemon who goes completely against this track of thought and is the polar opposite. Black and White didn't introduce many good defensive threats but Ferrothorn is hands down the greatest defensive addition and arguably the best Pokemon defensively in the game. It has resistances coming out of its rear end, a fantastic ability which punishes physical sweepers, stellar defensive stats and typing and a movepool to match with things like Thunderwave and Spikes. It is one of the few Pokemon who single handedly massacres most rain dance teams and will not go down unless its met with fire or fighting moves, even then it will not go down without a fight. If you don't pack super effective moves for this thorny Pokemon, chances are Ferrothorn is going to outstall and set up on your whole team. Even if you do have super effective hits you will most likely be met with Ferrothorn's partner in crime, Jellicent to take said hits. Take special note to counter both Ferrothorn and the combo it forms with Jellicent when building a team.

Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 48 Def / 208 SpD
Ivs: 0 Speed
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spe)
- Spikes
- Leech Seed / Stealth Rock
- Power Whip
- Gyro Ball / Thunderwave / Protect

This is THE set for Ferrothorn and the best thing it does. Anything ranging from DD Kingdra to Suicune and even Metagross and Haxorus isnt getting past this defensive behemoth. It can also choose to take hits from either side of the spectrum with ease additionally. The way it plays is rather simple, switch in on one of the many, many things that cannot hurt it, set up Spikes to punish switch ins, stall every things brains out with Leech Seed and counter many of the metagames top threats. Its no slouch offensively with its very good base 94 attack so Power Whip and especially Gyro Ball (due to base 20 speed) sting. Stealth Rock is an option though too when it cannot be added elsewhere on the team. Protect can be used to help stall and rack up Leech Seed damage whilst Thunderwave cripples sweepers.

Countering Ferrothorn isnt difficult really, what makes it deadly is the long list of which it can set up on. Rapid Spinners stop it doing its job which is to set up entry hazards. Forretress makes a decent counter as its one of the few things that can spin which doesn't fear it, though beware of Iron Barbs and Leech Seed as they will wear down Forry. Hitmontop can use Foresight to bypass spin blockers too and doesn't fear anything Ferrothorn can do and can also hit it with its fighting STAB. Bulky Grass types with Hidden Power Fire make good counters, like Celebi. Heatran and Magnezone are top of the list counters as they take near nothing from anything it does, the latter even traps it making it unable to escape. Conkeldurr and Machamp make it run for the hills as does any powerful fighting type such as Lucario, though Gyro Ball hurts the latter alot despite the resistance. Infernape is in a similar position too. Volcarona can use it as set up fodder as can Chandelure. Scizor makes a good counter too as it can U-Turn away from Leech Seeds and resists both of Ferrothorn's STAB movies and can either Swords Dance or just hit it with a CB SuperPower. Xatu and Espeon get a special mention as they turn all spiking efforts against you with their ability Magic Bounce and both immune to Leech Seed. Espeon is frailer so cant take hits but if it gets in it can maim Ferrothorn with Hidden Power Fire. Xatu can do the same but isnt as frail and can Roost and set up Reflect to make Ferrothorn useless against it.

You're welcome. |D

Gengar's faster though. There's also a fair chance Haxorus could've finished Tyrannitar without a swords dance, and believe me when I say that even with a beneficial nature and EVs, Vaporeon would've gotten one shotted. >.>

I totally ran the calculations through a damage calculator assuming Vaporeon had max defense with beneficial nature and was 31 in every IV and fully EV'd for defense and HP. He /still/ had almost no chance of surviving.

I also ran the same calculations for Tyrannitar. After that first Swords Dance my Haxorus was set up to sweep. |D Too bad I failed hardcore.

...Eeeh. if Gengar had slowed Hydreigon down Haxorus would've one shot both of them without question. <___>

I screwed myself over because my Haxorus had the wrong item. >.>
Accidently choiced myself into swords dance. Bah.

Meh.

Done. Coming back.

Okay, I just /froze/ when we got into the battle. I'm going to remove 3 items from some of my pokemon and we can try that again. @_@

You sure you want to go through with this? ^_^; I can remove some of their items...
I mean ,the level difference is fairly big.