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Originally Posted by Aquilae
Natural Gift is one-time and it uses up the berry, so at most you would be able to KO one pokemon. That is compounded by the fact that Natural Gift Belue Berry is a weak UnSTABed 80 Base Power move, meaning if it does hit neutral it wouldn't do much damage. Leaf Blade is more consistent on a whole.
Baton Pass > Natural Gift.
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Thing is though, with swords dance, it still hits fairly hard. Usually hard enough to make something easy enough to finish off with a leaf blade. I have to agree though, passing is a better option, but in all honesty, after my terrible experiences with a toxic only cradily against poison and steel types, and an umbreon with no attack moves, I like when something can fend for itself when it's all alone. Say you got a swords dance off, on a CB ground type using earthquake, you kill that, it's one on one, you both are on your last leg, and your opponent of all things tosses out a Charizard! Naturally, it quickly turns into a slaughterfest involving much pain and "grr 1/4 damage, if only I had some form of electric move." That's just me and my paranoia though. Charizard is faster anyway. Oh well, I'll do my thing, smart people do theirs.
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