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i chosse salamance with its moxie abilitly.
qustion should i add a poke that learns some good fighting move to counter rock and ice, which is salamance weakness and what about adding Nidoking |
Platdude it would be BENEFICIAL if you explained how the sets work to new users rather than just throwing a bunch of mumbo jumbo at them like that. People aren't going to get better if they don't know HOW the sets work.
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i chosse Gastrodon and i was asking about ninoking cause forever on the link they posted ninoking as a possbly thearh and ninoking as a pretty good move pool and it can learn toxic spikes and what do u think about teaching metagross magnet rise, if i do that then metagross will have only one weakness then or maybe i can teach magnet rise to another poke in order to set up for metagross coming out
so far heres the new team metagross, salamnce, Gastrodon and what nature should Gastrodon have and forever id be really gratful if u can give me more chioces like that and what do u think of adding heracross |
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Oh, Hera is UU and can be useful, you're better off making it a revenge killer (with Choice Scarf) to kill the various psychic types in the tier than really allow it to set up though with SD. :( |
well i at least what to be able to cover all my bases and have as few as possible pokes with same weakness.i do like having at least pokes that can come out fast and hit hard
i was thinking maybe heracross for fighting and bug move and what about adding gengar so what do think the last three should be, as u can c im pretty bad at this. if i use heracross, what nature should i go for |
Question about EV Training with power items.
Hi everyone.
So I have read and know the basics of EV training and I have just set up my team with all pokemon in level 1, to train them in the desired EVs. As I don't have PokeRus, I used Macho Brace, and I was training my Snivy in his Speed Stat by defeating Basculins, which yield 2EVs in Speed. I totally forgot of how the Macho Brace reduces the speed, but I thought it was a temporary effect when battling only? I killed 4 Basculins to level up and I got only a 1raise in the Speed stat when the table appeared, what's happening? Shouldn't I have gotten (2*2)*4=16 EVs for killin the Basculins, which means ~+3 in Speeds ? I restarted the game and now my Snivy is in level 1 again (he was at level 13), however, can anyone clear this up for me? Will the same thing happen if I use the Power Anklet?? I'd appreciate any help... |
1. Your pokemon doesn't have to be level 1 for EV training. It can be any level. Even 100 (unless you do EV training in gen 4).
2. Macho brace reduces the speed only in battle. When you remove it, it returns to normal. 3. Since EVs are no longer added upon level up, you won't see any ridiculous gains like +14 anymore. The additional stat points are added as you train. Don't worry there. 4. Same thing will happen when you use power items. |
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My snivy's Speed went to 21 after leveling up and defeating those 4 Basculins, and I tried removing the Macho Brace, but it was still 21... And what do you mean by "EVs are no longer added upon level up, the additional stat points are added as you train."? Will I get the EVs that I lost here in another level-up or what? How will I know that? Thanks. |
Nahh. Back in gen 4, what happened was that when you EV, you don't get the additional stat points until you level. So you could cache EV points and when you level, you get something big like +10. Like I said about gen 5, stat points are automatically added on when you train. Basically, as soon as you get 4 EVs, the point gets added to your stats immediately. You won't see it when you level. The other thing is that at low levels, sometimes you won't see the EVs (at least, you didn't in gen 4, donno if it's still true for gen 5). You don't lose those stats when you remove the brace. Holding the brace in battle will cut your speed in half, but it won't reduce the STAT itself.
As for telling whether or not you EV'd correctly, the only way of doing that is by using an IV calculator and keeping track of your EVs, trading it to someone with an AR so they can check, or by uploading to pokecheck. |
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-Earth Power -Ice Beam -Thunderbolt -Flamethrower/Fire Blast Nature: Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Choice Scarf Ability: Sheer Force Gastrodon is a good choice, as Nica already said. It helps check rain teams with its Storm Drain ability and good bulk: -Earthquake/Earth Power -Ice Beam/Scald -Toxic -Recover Nature: Sassy/Calm EVs: 252 HP/4 SAtk/252 SDef Item: Leftovers Ability: Storm Drain Gengar works just fine in OU, thanks to its unpredictability: -Substitute -Disable/Pain Split/Hidden Power (Fire)/Thunderbolt -Shadow Ball -Focus Blast Nature: Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Black Sludge/Life Orb or -Shadow Ball -Focus Blast -Hidden Power (Fire) -Protect Nature: Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb |
I would actually like to get involved in the PC Hosted Battle Servers. However, currently.. I'm still in the process of trying to put together even an Entry Level Team, as far as EV training, and movesets.
This is as good a thread as any to ask this question, I suppose.. considering I can get input from people actively involved in the Battles: What are the different Tiers of the PC Battle Systems, and what are the details and specifics about each one? If there is a thread somewhere that already covers this, by all means.. please point me in that direction. Is it that obvious that I'm still trying to find where stuff that already exists is on these forums? Sorry to any who read my posts and are like, "OMG, wtf n00b? That's already covered!" I really do look for existing threads, and it might simply be that I'm not understanding the extent of the posts, simply based off of the topic thread title itself. But yeah.. any and all assistance would greatly be appreciated! |
what a good way to check substitue users
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-Shell Smash -Icicle Spear -Rock Blast -Hydro Pump/Razor Shell Nature: Naive/Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: White Herb Ability: Skill Link Technician Breloom can also check Sub users, thanks to Technician boosting Bullet Seed to acceptable levels: -Low Sweep -Mach Punch -Bullet Seed -Spore/Stone Edge Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Choice Band Ability: Technican or -Swords Dance -Bullet Seed -Mach Punch -Spore Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Lum Berry Ability: Technician or -Spore -Bullet Seed -Low Sweep/Force Palm -Stone Edge Nature: Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Choice Scarf Ability: Technican |
when i playing pokemon showdown, i was useing metagross, salamance, gastrodon, gengar, hitmon(with rapid spin, found the poke to be very useful with this move), exploud. i found this team to work pretty good, but it just seem to lacking a little, but overall i beat most other team with semi-ease
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Exploud doesn't cut it in OU. While it has a wide movepool, it doesn't pack enough of a punch to use it. That, and it's rather slow and a bit frail. |
i was usin absnow, that grass/ice poke, its quite i pain to deal with when it use leech seed and substitute
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so between breloom and clystorer, which is the better poke for my team and what would the last poke that u would recommend for my team
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do u think i drop hitmonchan in favor of Cloyster, cause cloyster can also learn rapid spin
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Here are a couple possible sets for Donphan and Starmie, should you choose them as your spinners: Donphan: -Earthquake -Rapid Spin -Stealth Rock/Head Smash/Stone Edge -Ice Shard Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 HP/252 Atk/4 Def Item: Leftovers Ability: Sturdy Starmie: -Hydro Pump/Surf -Ice Beam -Thunderbolt -Rapid Spin Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SAtk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Leftovers Ability: Natural Cure or -Scald -Psyshock/Ice Beam -Rapid Spin -Recover Nature: Timid EVs: 252 HP/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Leftovers Ability: Natural Cure |
then ill go with Donphan, cause i was thinkng of adding Cloyster to my team, as gastrogon isnt weak to eletricly, so it wont make to bad of a double weakness
so dose Donphan learn rapid spin or is that an egg move |
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