physical and special attackers

Sheep · Oct 7, 2019

Do you tend to use physical or special attackers more in battle, or a mix or both?

I find myself naturally gravitating towards special attacking Pokémon and moves. Out of a party of six, at least four will be special-based, usually!

colours · Oct 7, 2019

mostly special attackers. i can't get enough of calm mind/tbolt/ice beam/shadow bolt/psychic/psyshock. @__@

although i'll have a few physical attackers just so my special attackers don't get walled.

Drayton · Oct 8, 2019

I use special attackers a lot there is really good stats boosting moves for special attackers like calm mind and quiver dance, I also mix physical if I cant break the special wall and despite just using sword dance most of the time while bulk up is useful for quite handful of mons.

Lysander · Oct 8, 2019

I usually use special attackers more often, probably because I like using Fire-types and most of them are special-based.

Psytew · Oct 10, 2019

I've always found that pretty interesting how most people tend to gravitate towards special attackers even though there are an equal amount of both, but I bet most people do since the physical types (pre-Gen IV but also just generally) have a lot of overlap between Fighting/Normal and Rock/Ground/Steel, not to mention the fact that half the regions hardly have respectable bug types.

Zeostar · Oct 10, 2019

Usually no preference.

For example Gyarados should be phsyical, but Surf typically comes earlier so it's getting stuck with a special move.

In game I prefer the move power more, unless the stat difference for phsyical and special is truly significant. For example I remember in gen 4 Alakazam tries to learn Psycho Cut, but that's definitely not going to be learned.

colours · Oct 11, 2019

Psytew said:
I've always found that pretty interesting how most people tend to gravitate towards special attackers even though there are an equal amount of both, but I bet most people do since the physical types (pre-Gen IV but also just generally) have a lot of overlap between Fighting/Normal and Rock/Ground/Steel, not to mention the fact that half the regions hardly have respectable bug types.

my thing is that i gravitate towards special attackers because iirc it's easier to just spam teach most things ice beam/t-bolt/(insert special attack here). and while it's possible that for physical attackers, the opposite may be true with swords dance, i personally found some of them a bit harder to work around somewhat while special attacker seem more or less similar

Percy · Oct 11, 2019

im more on the mixed side. it all depends on the type. if its fighting or dark, i usually go physical and if its fire or water, i'll go special.

alisaie · Oct 12, 2019

I gravitate towards special attackers to the point that I need to consciously tell myself that I need at least one physical attacker so I don't get completely walled by special walls haha.

PageEmp · Oct 12, 2019

For some reason most of the time my teams end up being heavily physical... I don't not want special attackers but for some reason there is usually more physical attackers on my teams.

My current nuzrun is different, though, I have 4 special attackers and 2 physical, and everyone is a user of special moves.

GGOD89 · Nov 4, 2019

I'm definitely a mix player, cuz u never know when the other team has a sp. def or def tank

physical and special attackers

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Sheep

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Drayton

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Lysander

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Psytew

Zeostar

colours

Percy

alisaie

PageEmp

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GGOD89