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All those new players of the game with Ruby will certainly and almost definitely throw this Pokemon into their team for the sheer "it's legendary" reason. So instead of us being on death's end due to frustruation reasons of explaining why solarbeam may not be so ubar on this thing, let's make an entry for it.
Groudon- {Ubar Legendary} Type: GROUND, not fire {202 or 386}
Note: Though considered to be a lot weaker than its counterpart Kyogre, it is still banned from most tournaments
Overused Reasons
-the legendary of Ruby
-unique ability "drought" which is ideal for all sunny day themed teams
-high physical sweepage power with good speed
-Kyogre counterpart (but didn't copy any of Kyogre's ubar-strength)
Stats:
-279 speed (or 301 with bonus) => It's base 90 speed
-base 150 atk
-base 100 sp.atk
-sp.def < def by 100 points
Moves:
-Earthquake (must have)
There is no reason why a Groudon doesn't have earthquake, EVs in atk or not. With STAB and a minimum attack power that's still above 300, it's a must have.
-Swords Dance {386 only}/Bulk Up
Swords dance can boost Groudon's superior attack up by a LOT, into a very deadly number of possibly 800+ in one round. Bulk up boosts lesser, but the threat remains along with a physical defense boost to an already formidable physical defense.
-Return/Frustruation
102 power normal elemental moves... need me to explain?
-Rock Slide {386 only}
The general move on all Ground types
-Brick break
Standard fighting move
-Fire Blast/Flamethrower/Overheat
Fire attack getting boosted by a free sunny day cannot possibly be that bad, especially since you got a sp.atk with base 100. Even if you take modest and no EV, the sunny day boost will make the fire attack pretty usable.
But do NOT take ERUPTION ever! Water Spout is used on Kyogre because of its mass slaughter ability with a high sp.atk, STAB and free rain dance. However, Eruption gets no STAB because Groudon is a GROUND TYPE AND NOT FIRE. Eruption doesn't get an inhuman stat to boost it up either as it's a special attack while Groudon's inhuman stat is physical instead.
-Solarbeam (NOT a must have)
And don't think that Solarbeam is a must have just because that there's free sunny day. While Solarbeam does give Groudon a very powerful grass attack to abuse, do take not that this is ran off of Groudon's sp.atk, unlike how Thunder goes along with Kyogre's high sp.atk. Groudon's Solarbeam without heavy sp.atk EV investment is very weak and is a waste of your time. Consider the fact that using Solarbeam on Groudon will pretty much force Groudon to have at least 200 EVs going into the sp.atk department if Groudon wants to use it well.
-Counter {386 only}
Massive hp and defense may come in handy for Counter.
-Rest (chesto)
A good way to regenerate some hp and knock off the will o wisp/toxic. Really helps physical tanking Groudons.
Strategy
Send out Groudon and blast away. You can either stats boost yourself up first before you attack, or just attack immediately. Groudon is by no chance helpless against the common tankers of Weezing, Skarmory or the Regi-trio, as most standard Groudon has mix sweeping ability.
You may want to consider Groudon as a lure. Groudon hooks out ice beamers rather easily, so you can work and choose a move strategically in advance waiting for a common ice beamer to come out.
Friends
Milotic and Blissey are by far the best friends of Groudon, as Groudon can desperately use a few ice beam blockers (but do take note that sunny day is messing up Milotic's surf.) Groundon functions as a physical or mix sweeper, so put it in a team along with other mixed/special sweepers to help out. Heal beller or wisher isn't a bad choice for a team with Groudon either, as a Pokemon with such high physical endurance deserves some healing support.
Enemies
-Exeggutor {386 only}
By far Groudon's worst nightmare. What can be worst than giving Eggy a free agility as well as free solarbeam powerup? Facing Eggy is a pain, and giving it a free never-ending sunny day is even worst. Groudon has a weak sp.def, and cannot possibly survive the incoming STAB solarbeam. You have to switch out to your special tanks to save yourself. Any other chlorophyll abusing Pokemon are just as dangerous (but Eggy is the most dangerous out of them all.)
-Houndoom/Entei {both 386 only}
You can quake it, and you'll definitely get an OHKO, if you live the incoming solarbeam, that is.
-Calmcune (Calm Minding Suicune) {386 only}
With a high endurance power, Suicune can use the time to powerup a calm mind, rest up and then knock you out with ice beam. New trainers must be aware that solarbeam from Groudon never OHKO Suicune regardless of type (and calm mind will further reduce solarbeam's power).
-Fast Sweepers
The fast special sweepers are a major problem for Groudon and its relatively low sp.def. Ice beam is also a very common move on a lot of Pokemon, so it'll be even more dangerous. A short list of the common ones are (without chlorophyllers)...
Jolteon, Deoxys FR, Deoxys RS, Mewtwo, Alakazam, Sceptile, Starmie, Raikou, Gengar, Jumpluff (sleep powder), Espeon, Zapdos, Flygon, Houndoom and Rayquaza.
Though Groudon has no physical weakness along with such a high defense, these Pokemon can still cause quite a threat to you. A short list of the common ones are (without chlorophyllers):
Aerodactyl, Crobat, Ninjask, Deoxys FR, Deoxys RS, Tauros, Swellow, Dugtrio, Gengar, Tauros, Scyther, Charizard, Dodrio, Mew, Slaking, Linoone, Breloom (Mach punch), Flygon, Salamence, Arcanine (extremespeed) and Rayquaza.
-Ice beam/Hidden Power Ice
Being a ground type, Groudon is just natural to be weak to ice beam (a very common move.) Sunny day helps out against surf to neutralize it, while grass attacks aren't too common except for sunnybeamers. Do take care against ice beamers as they'll most likely 2HKO or even OHKO you. Expect ice moves from Rayquaza, Dragonite, and any water/electric/ice types.
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