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arcanine moveset
Arcanine @ ?
Adamant 252 atk/252 spd/4 sp.atk -Flamethrower -Extremespeed -? -? flamethrower for skarm and other steels. what is the best item/moveset for this mixed arcanine bbl. thx |
fireblast is a better choice than flamethrower because of power and STAB
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Arcanine @ Life Orb
Adamant 252 atk/252 spd/4 hp -Flamethrower/Overheat/Fire Fang -Extremespeed -Thunder Fang - Crunch/Will-o-Wisp/Dragon Pulse |
Why would you wanna combine Atk and S.atk in his movesets? His Atk moves are pretty good. Well at least if you gonna use both Atk and S.atk, then make sure to balance the EV's and not leave S.atk with only 4 EV. Also, the Adamant nature isn't going to work that well if you intend on using its S.atk.
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Try this for an Atk set: Flare Blitz Extremespeed Crunch / Thunder Fang Roar Personally I wouldn't go with a S.atk set combination just for Dragon Pulse. |
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i want flamethrower > fire blast cause arcanine gets STAB and skarm/steels have high def so fire fang/flare blitz wont work well.
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Actually fire blast misses less than you guys are leading him to believe. After all, It does have 85% accuracy.
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Trust me, we speak from experience. There's nothing worst than losing a match cause your Fire Blast missed. It doesen't miss enough to be unuseable, not by no means, but it's risky.
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yeah. beleive it or not, but complete battles can be lost from one simple 95% accuracy Ice Fang missing, or a Rock Slide missing for that matter. it happens, and when it does, it definitely HURTS.
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Yeah but the good thing about rock slide and this happened to me quite a few times, is the opponent flinching ends the battle, for example, I was against a salamence and it was a tad faster than me and it used rock slide I flinched and that was the end of my salamence.
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well yeah, that's definitely a good thing. between rock slide and stone edge, there's not much of an option for better rock type moves.
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I think rock blast is also good to have on hand so that if you are against a ninjask, you can still kill them when they have a substitute.
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You didn't listen to what I said, against a ninjask with substitute, If you have anything else that can't get through it then prepare for a fully sped up, metagross or tyrannitar.
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Oh I heard. It failed me there, too. It hurt bad, that speedy, sub-protected Metagross.
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which is why on the first tur he subs you use rock blast and it hits, and it hits again, and.... oh wait its already taken out, hum what a surprise.
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I see what you are saying. I just can't get it to work.
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The main reason I say it is because I was on netbattle and I was setting up for a tyrannitar and was using double team with a substituted ninjask and the next thing I know they switch to armaldo so I'm thinking who cares, well that thing use rock blast and all the hard work I had done was gone.
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If all you're afraid of is Ninjask, don't bother with Rock Blast. Stick with Stone Edge/Rock Slide for your Rock move, and just use a hazer/phazer (Weezing's my personal fave Ninjask counter).
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Another counter I like is waiting until they use 4 substitutes and then switch out to tyrannitar and if they use max ev's and iv's in hp they should have 2 hp left sandstream takes them out.
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Risky tactic, in my opinion. Plenty of things faster than T-tar, and if you get a Sword Danced Silver Wind in the face, even from jask it'll hurt him.
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X-Scissor would do some major damage though.. |
I did get OHKO'd from a ninjask with silver wind(don't know if it had max sp.attk or what). But as long as you do it when all they have used is substitute then you can plan on them using swords dance or something like that.
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Don't mind me, I'm still getting used to the D/P changes, been stuck in RSE mode for the last few years (and I'm in the UK, so I won't get my hands on the games for another two weeks). You see my point though, dark weak to bug etc... yeah.
BTW, aren't we horribly off topic here? Arcanine moveset suggestions... |
yea... still contemplating the moveset
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Overheat Extremespeed Will-o-Wisp Roar That could work well. |
Yeah, if you don't come across dugtrio or gyarados.
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