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NU Rain Dance (help!)
ok, so I made a NU team using Rain Dance, and it all seemd well and good, but when it came to testing, it lost EVERY match (and i've done at least 5 battles on Shoddy now)
ok, so I started with electrode, as that is the most obvious rain lead Electrode @ Damp Rock Hasty Soundproof 252 ATK, 48 SA, 208 Speed Rain Dance Thunder Taunt Explosion then, I chose Dewgong, as it's the standard NU Rain dancer... Dewgong @ Damp Rock Careful Hydration 252 HP, 4 DEF, 252 SD Aqua Jet Rain Dance Rest Encore After that, I went for Parasect, as it is also a good choice, being non water-type. Parasect @ Occa Berry Adamant Dry Skin 252 HP, 252 ATk, 4 SD X-Scizor Pursuit Seed Bomb Spore Then, I went for something to outspeed all other NU pokemon, and found Mantine (as in rain, mine is faster than electrode) Mantine @ Damp Rock Modest Swift Swim 168 HP, 232 SA, 108 Speed Rain Dance Surf Ice Beam Toxic I chose to have only 108 Speed EV's (as opposed to smogon's suggested 132) and move the rest into HP because the extra EV's in speed will not be needed if it is raining. It already outspeeds Electrode, which is the fastest NU pokemon, so I decided to give Mantine a bit more bulk... Then, I chose to use a Luvdisc Luvdisc @ Fail nah, I'm joking, I didn't use Luvdisc. I chose Probopass, as I needed a Stealth Rocker, and something to take out steel types Probopass @ Leftovers Calm Magnet Pull 252 HP, 168 DEF, 90 Speed Power Gem Flash Cannon Stealth Rock Toxic Finally, I chose Quagsire, as Water Absorb would be Highly effective, and so would Electric immunity, to counter other Rain Dance teams... Whiscash @ Leftovers Adamant Anticipation 4 HP, 252 ATK, 252 speed Dragon Dance Earthquake Stone Edge Waterfall gotta go! i'll edit this later! |
You have a major weakness to a LO medicham with ice punch and thunder punch. Replace parasect with a sandslash.
[email protected] 252HP/ 252 def/ 4 att impish nature rapid spin stealth rock Earthquake Stone edge On probopass replace SR with substitute. lastly, don't use yawn on quagsire, you already have toxic on 2 other pokemon so chances are that most of the opponents pokemon will have a status condition therefore yawn is useless. replace it with recover. |
thanks beaver, but I think Parasect may be a better choice due to Dry Skin
also, when I tried to put recover on Quagsire, it wasn't there! the shoddy server doesn't give Quagsire recover also, I'm now thinking of swapping Quagsire with your suggested Sandslash, that may work... what do people think of that??? |
don't replace quagsire with sandslash. Also since recover isn't in quagsire's movepool on shoddy, use curse instead.
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you think Quagsire is a better choice over sandslash?
It's just I want to keep Parasect, because not enough pokemon use Rain Dance in my team (only 3) also, What should I get rid of for Sandslash? and, my Final Question. the big old Whiscash/Quagsire/Gastrodon Debate, which do you think is the best choice on this team? |
Okay if you really think that parasect is a better choice then keep it. So that leaves the question of quagsire or sandslash, and the answer is quagsire becuase not only does it provide more offence it takes advantage of the rain with a powerful stab waterfall. so basically your quagsire will look like this.
[email protected] impish water absorb 252 HP/ 252 Def/ 4 att Waterfall stone edge curse earthquake Now, about your final question. You could use any of those pokemon on this team IMO, because essentially they are all capable of the same things. Bulky water, offensive wall, and stealth rock support, so honestly it's all preference. |
so you think Quagsire over Whiscash/Gastrodon?
also, if you suggest putting Sandslash in, what should I swap it with? |
The only person that sandslash can swap with is that parasect and you really want to keep it so, sandslash dosen't have a spot on this team. Besides, the rain works against him by powering up the enemy's water type moves. In the rain a floatzels aqua jet becomes a 2hko as apposed to the regular 3hko so therefore sandslash does not belong on this team.
Now about the gastro, whiscash, quagsire question: you can swap quagsire out for any of those 2 pokes becuase like i said before, they are all capable of doing the same thing, it is all about prefernce. TBH, a dd whiscash might be pretty good on this team. Maybe replace quagsire with him? |
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