Psychic or dark?

Started by mystical trainer July 24th, 2005 4:28 PM
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phychic or dark

Sithre

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Posted April 9th, 2006
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Seeing as Dark pokemon haven't matured as much as Psychic, im gonna have to go with our genius kinetics. Dark pokemon don't have enough techniques and haven't gotten any really good oens yet. I mean Beat up is fun to use and Crunch is too., but they arn't enough to make a soly dark pokemon powerful...


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it depends if you want to use power or skill. psychics are typically OUbers and DArks UUbers. I typically like UUbers so i like dark types. There should be more damaging moves like crunch. maybe a hyper beam for dark types?
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I'm all with the darkness and stuff, but in the game, as Sithre said, their techniques aren't as vast or powerful as darkness, although a dark-type pokemon is the only one that is immune to psychic. Plus, my favorite pokemon is psychic: Espeon ^^
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Yeah. Dark for me too. *huggles Sneasel, Absol, and Mightyena* Although I'm not really sure why they're weak against bug-type attacks oO. Oh well, they can pwn psychic and ghost types!
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Age 34
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Seen August 13th, 2009
Posted August 8th, 2008
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Espy is awesome. Umbry cannot compare to Espy. Espy kills almost everybody with ease using Psychic. Some Umbry cannot deal any kind of damage at all(Chaos Umbreon), and others require Poison and Confuse to do anything(Trapping toxifusion Umbreon). The one I use, e4 Umbry, uses Faint Attack, so it can at least do something, but with its weak SA, it does little. E4 Umbry still uses C Ray and Toxic to do the majority of its damage.
Teams consisting of all sweepers can win some battles, while teams of all defenders never win at all.

Absol, Sneasel, and Shiftry are the only good Dark types. But Psychic has more weapons in its arsenal. Alakazam, Gardevoir, Mewtwo, Lugia, Deoxys, Espy, Hypno, and Slowbro.
Zam, Gardevoir, Espy, and the 00bers are attackers, while Slowbro and Hypno have resistance to one of the most prominent weaknesses of Psychics--low DEF.


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Espy is awesome. Umbry cannot compare to Espy. Espy kills almost everybody with ease using Psychic. Some Umbry cannot deal any kind of damage at all(Chaos Umbreon), and others require Poison and Confuse to do anything(Trapping toxifusion Umbreon). The one I use, e4 Umbry, uses Faint Attack, so it can at least do something, but with its weak SA, it does little. E4 Umbry still uses C Ray and Toxic to do the majority of its damage.
Teams consisting of all sweepers can win some battles, while teams of all defenders never win at all.

Absol, Sneasel, and Shiftry are the only good Dark types. But Psychic has more weapons in its arsenal. Alakazam, Gardevoir, Mewtwo, Lugia, Deoxys, Espy, Hypno, and Slowbro.
Zam, Gardevoir, Espy, and the 00bers are attackers, while Slowbro and Hypno have resistance to one of the most prominent weaknesses of Psychics--low DEF.
*Cough* Tyranitar and Houndoom, anyone?

Anyways, while I like most dark types (with the exception of anyone not a dog/fox or dinosaur), Psychics tend to have an advantage. What use is an immunity to Psychic if you can't take out the enemy? Not to mention that Psychics normally have such a high Special Attack that they could defeat a lot of Dark-types in two or three hits. Not to mention that Calm Mind bolsters their special defense even more. And let's not forget, a lot of Psychics come equipped with a recovery move, such as... Recover... and Morning Sun.

Because most dark types have higher attacks than special attacks, they rely more on Shadow Ball than whatever pathetic Dark Attack they have available. (Though STAB 90 Faint Attack > 80 Shadow Ball, Attack of 300 > Sp. Atk of 240). Most Psychics also have weaker defenses, so Shadow Ball ends up doing more damage. But guess what? Shadow Ball's ghost, not dark. So Dark loses.
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