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TMs you used and haven't regretted on?
Well for me, it'd be teaching my Swablu Ice Beam and my Charizard Dragon Claw ^^.
When my Swablu evolved into an Altaria, Ice Beam definately helped me dozens of times. As for my Charizards Dragon Claw, I didn't need to resolve using my other dragon/ice pokemon against Drake (the dragon trainer in the Elite Four). |
These are basically what I use TMs on:
Focus Punch - Gengar Dragon Claw - [email protected] Calm Mind - Mew/Celebi Roar - Suicune Toxic - Crobat Taunt - Gyarados Ice Beam - Swampert Light Screen - Zapdos Rain Dance - Kingdra/Ludicolo Thunderbolt - Gardevoir Thunder - Kyogre Earthquake - Salamence/Flygon Return - Snorlax Psychic - Electabuzz Shadow Ball - Metagross Brick Break - Salamence Sludge Bomb - Crobat Fire Blast - Salamence Aerial Ace - Salamence/Swellow Rest - Suicune/Snorlax The other I don't typically bother with. |
Yeah, I usally don't bother with TMs, for me there just good objects to find randomly and sell for a high price.
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TMs can transform an average Pokemon into a good Pokemon. Look at Crobat for example. Here is the best moveset it can have by only using moves it can learn:
Crobat @ Leftovers Trait: Inner Focus EVs: 80 HP / 252 Atk / 176 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Bite - Confuse Ray - Poison Fang - Wing Attack Decent moveset, but it doesn't have much staying power. Now let's use a few TMs: Crobat @ Choice Band Trait: Inner Focus EVs: 80 HP / 252 Atk / 176 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - Aerial Ace - Return / Steel Wing - Shadow Ball - Sludge Bomb With the 50% Atk increase from Choice Band, and its Spd that matches Jolteon and Aerodactyl, this moveset can cause some serious damage. Aerial Ace and Sludge Bomb are two solid STAB attacks, Shadow Ball takes down Alakazam on the switch, and Return or Steel Wing is pure preference. Great fast physical attacker. |
Sludge Bomb is a special attack dude... It won't do an amazing amount of damage.
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Man, I suck, see when I play pokemon games, I just go with my gut, without thinking about the stats, and what not. And all of you guys that I see on here are all professonal with the games. I'm not new, just weird.
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This is the Advance Generation area, dude. It'll be a Physical attack.
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In the Advanced Generation, Sludge Bomb is a Physical Attack due to it's poison type. In DPPt, Sludge Bomb became a special attack. |
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Just kidding. It's simple. Here are some pointers. -Physical attacks (like Aerial Ace and Mach Punch) utilize the Attack stat. This means, the higher your attack, the more damage done. -Special attacks (like Sludge Bomb and Psychic) utilize the Special Attack stat. These do more damage depending on your Special Attack, like I said with Physical attacks. -STAB means Special Type Attack Bonus. Don't bother remembering it if you don't want to. All it means is that if your Pokemon's type is the same as the move it uses, it gets a slight boost. -Be diverse with your moveset! Take this Swampert for example: Muddy Water Surf Water Gun Water Pulse Now compare it to this Swampert: Surf Ice Beam Earthquake Hammer Arm Sure, the first set lets you take out an army of fire pokemon. But the second set covers you against: Fire Ground Rock Grass(swampert's weakness) Dark Dragon Flying Steel Normal Electric Poison So that's 11 of the 16 types. Not bad for one Pokemon, eh? -Secondly, learn to utilize Stat Boosts. Boosting your defenses will give your pokemon more time left in the field. Boosting your Offenses gives your opponent less time. And remember that stat boosts remain until you switch. Also, look into Baton Passing. Have a Pokemon use a stat boost move, then use baton pass to pass the boosts to another pokemon. You can pass attack and defense boosts, subsitutes and (I think, don't quote me on this) future sight attacks. Wow, one hell of a response. |
Wait, this is the Advance Generation, not the DPPt Section! Sludge Bomb's still a Physical move!
Sorry about my typo. xD |
Fire Blast on charmander. Its trump card when flamethrower's not enough.
Same goes for brick break which once 1-hit ko blissey. |
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It varies from version to version, it would be useful in Generation 1 and 2 though but not really in generation 3. |
Blast Burn is even worse than Fire Blast. Not being to attack for a turn is never a good idea.
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Ah, yes. I stand corrected. Thank you.
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Not just Adamant Gengar, but Choice Band Adamant Gengar. Too many people see Gengar and think "OMG Special Sweeper! Gotta get my special sponge out." Focus Punch on the switch ftw.
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So you are thinking both Sp. Atk and Atk. Gengar? Epic. Good idea.
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No. Choice Band Gengar.
Gengar @ Choice Band Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd Lonely Nature (+Atk, -Def) - Explosion/Shadow Ball - Focus Punch - Sludge Bomb - Thunderbolt/Fire Punch This set gets its Atk in the high 300s. Bring it in to take out special wall and it can be used to take down Skarmory too. Generally, a big surprise to your opponent. I will also use the McGar set (Atk/SAtk version you alluded to) on occasion, just to mix things up: - Focus Punch - Giga Drain/Ice Punch - Substitute - Thunderbolt Sweeps teams once Sub is up. |
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Vaporeon - Ice Beam, Water Pulse, Surf
Pidgeot - Aerial Ace, Fly, Steel Wing Aerodactyl - Earthquake (and Double-Edge & Rock Slide from Move Tutors) Charizard - none Raichu - Shock Wave, Strength Clefable - Return, Softboiled, Psychic These are pretty much all the TM's I used for my whole LeafGreen team. Some of them probably seem ridiculous, but it works perfectly well ingame. My favorites would probably have to be Ice Beam on Vaporeon, Earthquake on Aerodactyl and Psychic on Clefable, because I needed a move that would take advantage of Clefable's hefty Special Attack stat and cover her weakness to Fighting-types. I'm terrible at movesets, but they work for me. |
The only criticism I would offer is to drop Water Pulse on Vaporeon. There is NEVER a time where you would use that instead of Surf. Use Substitute or Wish or Toxic or Protect or about 10 other moves that will actually benefit such a good Pokemon. I prefer Wish, but if your team is strictly in-game, you don't have to worry about it. Personally, I never use items during battle, just to make the game at least somewhat competitive.
Also, don't waste Aerial Ace on Pidgeot. Give that to Aerodactyl for a 2nd STAB move. Pidgeot is basically useless on your team, other than an HM Fly slave. |
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