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Originally Posted by Smarties-kun
Seriously, just because you can't use Cradily still doesn't mean it's bad, and there are plenty of people other than Samson who can use Cradily. Cradily is supposed to come in on something that can't do much damage to it (Blissey, for example) and set up. Once Cradily has Barrier up, few physical sweepers will be able to do much damage to it. Cradily isn't meant to do massive damage at once, it's supposed to slowly whittle down the opponent's HP while it sits there taking damage and shrugs it off with Recover. Cradily requires Sandstream support to reach its full potential, but in the right hands it can be pretty dangerous even without Hippowdown or Tyranitar starting up a Sandstorm.
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actually, without sword dance blissey wouldn't switch out of cradily at all. it would just paralyze it and continue to take it apart with seismic toss(with cradily's hp it's about a 4HKO). only way cradily beats blissey is with sword dance and rock slide. rockslide hardly hurts blissey who's just going to shrug it off, use softboiled when necessary, and continue messing up cradily. parahax happens more often than you think and when it happens that cradily can't use recover, it's a goner.
i would know how to use a cradily and cradily would only work on people who have limited battle experience, but it's not going to work against experienced battlers who know how to beat it all too well. my statement regarding samson wasn't that I don't know how to use it but it was more to the respect I have for samson with unconventional movesets. I can confidently say cradily would never work against me because I know how to beat it all too well.
cradily has 4 major weaknesses(ice, steel, fight, bug) 3 of which are all too common, and it lacks a retaliation move to force a switch when it's receiving a beating. It's only got resistance to electric and normal(resistance not immune, not even quarter damage). Everything else hits it for normal damage. If you truly hate skarm/bliss then you're better off carrying a magneton than trying to pull off cradily anyway.
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