Sheer Cold, keep it? scrap it?

Started by Moltres Rider November 12th, 2011 3:03 PM
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Sheer Cold, keep it? scrap it?

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this poll is not meant for regarding Pokémon that have the mind reader + sheer cold combo


when your Pokémon has the opportunity to learn Sheer Cold... do you keep it (learn the move) because it is a one hit KO or do you scrap it (abandon learning the move) because it only has a 30 accuracy

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I voted "Keep it" because when I first time used that move on my Lapras I was like "What was that!?". Since that Sheer Cold have been one of my favourite Ice-type move. All OHKO moves (Sheer Cold, Quillotine, Fissure and Horn Drill) are unreliable but cool when you success. My record is 3 streak of Fissure.

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Sheer Cold is completely useless in competitive battling. (Aside from it being banned, it's never a reliable move and turns the metagame into cheap, luck-based crap)

Also keep in mind that OHKO moves only have 5 PP, therefore you can only rely for it to succeed 1 or 2 times. Plus, there are much better moves to use than OHKO moves. (Ice beam, Blizzard under hail...)


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Sheer Cold is completely useless in competitive battling. (Aside from it being banned, it's never a reliable move and turns the metagame into cheap, luck-based crap)

Also keep in mind that OHKO moves only have 5 PP, therefore you can only rely for it to succeed 1 or 2 times. Plus, there are much better moves to use than OHKO moves. (Ice beam, Blizzard under hail...)
Said everything, I however feels proud when it does work ^_^
But pretty much everywhere,other than the games they're banned,so there isn't much of a chance to use them

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It would've been nice if you mentioned the other OHKO moves too.

Anyway, I don't make my Pokemon learn Sheer Cold or other OHKO moves because they're too unreliable, even in-game.
Then just pretend he did. This applies to all OHKO moves, not just Sheer Cold, for variety's sake.
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I guess when I have space move space I let my Pokemon learn Sheer Cold though I scrap it once I have the possibility =)
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I skip OHKO moves unless the Pokemon has a really shallow movepool (read; 3rd gen Walrein). They're just too unreliable. Unless of course, an opponent in the Battle Frontier/Tower uses it on you. Then somehow it seems like its accuracy is more like 70:/

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Unless there's absolutely nothing else that a critter can learn in its place, I normally never OHKO moves to them. As has been mentioned previously: way too unreliable, too few HP etc. It certainly wouldn't be the end of the world if they were removed from the games, but I doubt it will happen, unfortunately.
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Ummmm I don't want some low PP will likely fail move. I'm an in game kinda dude. I pass on all OHKO moves.
This. I don't play competitive. I'm even more concerned with accuracy rather than power. For example, I prefer Flamethrower rather than Fire Blast.

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Articuno is the only Pokémon that can truly make use of Sheer Cold. With Mind Reader, Sheer Cold becomes a 2-turn set up of death against anything that can't KO it in-game, though it's easily predictable when fighting against another person, even if there's always a chance the Sheer Cold will hit the switch-out anyways. Articuno itself is in that ugly speed group between fast and slow though, and while it might have high special bulk and decent physical bulk, Ice/Flying is possibly the worst defensive typing in the game.
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I don't like that fact certain water types can learn it, It should be an Ice Type pokemon move only *Not Including Legendaries.*

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I don't like that fact certain water types can learn it, It should be an Ice Type pokemon move only *Not Including Legendaries.*
You do realise that basically all of the water types that learn Sheer Cold have the ice tpe as a seconday typing, right? :s Heck, the only pure water types that learn Sheer Cold are Kyogre and an event Suicune, and not only both of them legendaries, but one is only able to ever get the move is if it is from a specific event.

Moving on, it depends. If the Pokemon I am using is in need of another move, and a OHKO move comes up, then sure. I normally don't use them on my 'main' team though due to the ridiculously low accuracy. :\ So I'm just gonna put myself down as scap it. :)

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I skip all ohko moves because I don't like them, because it never hits oAo;
Exactly! They never hit when you want them to be, and always when you don't. i remember the first time I battled the Factory Head in Emerald. My Pokemon was ludicolo, and his was a Heracross I think. Just one more struggle + leech seed damaege i could have won that emblem, but no. A horn drill got me.

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