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Old September 25th, 2008 (4:57 AM). Edited September 25th, 2008 by wolf.
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I allways liked glaceon and alakazam. Gengar is pretty good, too. I love porygon-z's looks (cool)...
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You mean Porygon Z?

Glaceon and gengar are my favorite Sweepers.

Btw, anyone have any good movesets for them?
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Old September 25th, 2008 (5:04 AM).
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Gengar is good with focus blast and holding a wide lens to increase accuracy. Glaceon would be very with hail and with his snow cloak ability.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (5:05 AM).
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Glaceon'd be great on a Hail Team.

Gengar with Focus Blast....

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Old September 25th, 2008 (5:07 AM).
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Gengar can be good with a sludge bomb with its stab... Glaceon goes good with water pulse against fire types that might destroy it.
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Still, Gengar with Focus Blast...That sounds a little off...
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Gengar can be really good with it. Wide lens helps the accuracy of it, too. It is a good combo for special sweepers.

Ops, sorry I said porygon-x instead of porygon-z.

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Porygon-X that'd be cool, a mutant pokemon.

Anyway, I heard Gardevoir can be a good SS
How would this be so?
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Old September 25th, 2008 (5:18 AM).
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Well... It does have decent special attacks, like dark pulse and other special attacks. It is not my fav of special attackers. Let me think...
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I find it weird that we're like the only 2 people on PC now.

and Gallade, what would he be best suited as?
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Yeah, I don't one the pc anymore ethier... Anyways, Gallade would be good with maybe leaf blade, night slash, or psycho cut. Give him a scope lens which will raise his critical hit ratio and the moves already have high ratios.
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Absol with Super Luck and Night Slash with Scopes Lens = Pure ownage.

Yeah, I use that kind of strategy.
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Honckrow can also do exact same, too. I did before with a battle against my friend, pretty much beat him to a pulp.
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honchkrow's hideous though.

Anyway, we'll dicusss this later; I have to go to 2nd period.
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Yeah, but give him a good nature and good evs he can be decent. Ok see ya.
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Gengar, always on my team, love the bastard.
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Old September 25th, 2008 (7:53 AM). Edited September 25th, 2008 by wolf.
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He is cool. Great and useful.

Everyone seems to like gengar. Cool.

Is anyone going to post? If so I will stop checking in this thread.
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I have to say Gengar, Magmortar, Alakazam and Porygon-Z are my current favourites.
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Porygon Z and Gengar

Ooh and if we're counting Ubers...Soul Dew Latios and Deoxys A
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I don't know but Gengar is the one I favour the most. I think It's bacause of It's darkness and I like dark colours, also It's very useful in game if you know how to use it.
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Gengar, because he's old-school and really cool looking.
Porygon-Z, because he's incredibly powerful and looks like a Porygon 2 on crack.
Heatran, because he worked well in my old Sandstorm team. Plus he's extremely cool.
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I never heard of Glaceon being a SS...is it in UU?
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Gengar.
Out of pure chance, my Gengar ended up having the same moveset as Marriland's :F
As well as the Petaya Berry.
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Gengar.
Out of pure chance, my Gengar ended up having the same moveset as Marriland's :F
As well as the Petaya Berry.
Wow, another Marriland n00b


and Dunder; I was asking Glaceon was SS;

I'm not sure this dude even knows what SS is
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Yeah, I don't one the pc anymore ethier... Anyways, Gallade would be good with maybe leaf blade, night slash, or psycho cut. Give him a scope lens which will raise his critical hit ratio and the moves already have high ratios.
Psycho Cut, Night Slash, Leaf Blade...
Do any of those moves fall in the "Special" category? No. Now tell me, how on earth can a Pokemon with all physical moves specially sweep.
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Absol with Super Luck and Night Slash with Scopes Lens = Pure ownage.
Same as the comment above. Night Slash is not a move that falls under the "special" category. How on earth can it specially sweep?
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Honckrow can also do exact same, too. I did before with a battle against my friend, pretty much beat him to a pulp.
Basically the same as Absol. Oh, and they're not special sweepers.
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Glaceon and gengar are my favorite Sweepers.
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Glaceon would be very with hail and with his snow cloak ability.
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Glaceon'd be great on a Hail Team.
My god, how in the world is Glaceon a special sweeper? Does a Pokemon with a 65 speed stat seem like a special sweeper to you? Sure, it may have a great special attack stat, but the special attack stat alone does not make a Pokemon a sweeper. Speed stat is also a main issue. It almost always has to have a good speed stat.


Special Sweeper - A Pokemon who can deal a good amount of damage through the use of moves under the "special" category. Special Sweepers almost always have a high speed stat (if not, a move that boosts its speed stat). Most good special sweepers would have a move in its moveset that boosts its special attack, such as Calm Mind or Nasty Plot. A special sweeper is hard to wall because of the massive damage that it can inflict, and the high speed that is hard to outrun.

Glaceon, Gallade, Honchkrow, Absol... none of them fall under this category.
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My personal favorite special sweeper happens to be Gorebyss. Now, it may have a low speed stat but it does have Swift Swim. When used in the rain, it outspeeds almost everything and inflicts a great deal of damage through a STAB + Rain boosted Surf / Hydropump. Even through a not-very-effective attack, Gorebyss still gets a good deal of damage through. Gorebyss is also coupled with a very nice Defense stat, which enables it to switch into some rampaging physical attacker with ease. Gorebyss really hasn’t been seen in the standard competitive battle field because it is of the UU tier. However, I use Gorebyss on my UU rain dance team and it has won me battles in even the Smogon OU ladder. Gorebyss’s filler moves of Hidden Power [ELECTRIC] and Icebeam allow it to hit almost every Pokemon for neutral damage.
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