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Best Battle-Ready Pokemon?

GalladeIceMan

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    im not trying to sound like a teacher, but if you want to prove that there's a best pokemon, write a paragraph (at least four sentences) to back up your opinion.

    Your Brief Constructed Response should include:

    An opinion
    2 sentences to back up your opinion
    Closing Sentence

    I will grade these by a percentage and letter grade. Each part is worth 4 points. Happy writing!
     
    Salamence. Not only does it look, feel and have a great moveset, but its just damn cool. I mean c'mon, its the classic European dragon, what can be more intimidating than that? No matter how good or experianced a battler you are, you always break a sweat when you fight a Salamence.
     
    A perfect 100% Your score is a total of 16 out of 16. Nice details, it could be better if you explained it a little more, but its still a 100%.
     
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    Something that should go in Strategies & Movesets.

    -MOVED-
     
    O_O Quite a weird thread, but I think there is a clear winner here, though it is a really unfair question. I'll start with the best physical wall...no, best OVERALL wall.

    Skarmory.

    Skarmory has an astounding 140 base Defense, so obviously it can take most any physical attack. But one of its greatest assets is the ability to set up spikes and the roar at the opponenet to annoy them immensely. And the cool part is that since it fears madneton/magnezone, there are ways in each gen to destroy it. In both 3rd and 4th gen, you can set up a sub and roar it away while it breaks your sub. In strictly 3rd gen, I found it fun to run a Choice set with HP Ground to OHKO the little magnet. And 4th gen, shed shell allows you to escape :0

    As for its walling capabilities, it can wall about any physical attack. You might think that its base Def helps so much, but that isn't the key. Think about it like this...skarmory has a trcukload of resistances. It freely switches into earthquake and other commion physical attacks. Resists normal types as well. The only annoying physical attacks that could inflict harm were choice banded focus punches and rock slides from the likes of CBtar.

    Now, you may mention blissey, but skarm is so much cooler ;) I mean, whio likes blissey? (No offense to those who do BTW.) Also, Skarmbliss killers often focus a lot more on destroying the puffball. With a few adjustments, you can use this to your advantage and show the power of skarmory.

    So there you have it, Skarmory, the kewlest and strongest wall eva! lol
     
    Great! A perfect 100% 16 out of 16! A couple ways to get i better though. Great back up!
     
    There is no 'best' or 'worst' pokemon. Every Pokemon has their own specialties, their own strengths and weaknesses. It all falls down to what role a Pokemon should play. And even the 'best' pokemon put together does not make the best team. Each team, like every individual Pokemon, has their own weaknesses.

    For a Physical Sweeper, I would think that Heracross or Weavile are the best due to their high attack stat and their massive coverage. Heracross can be a real beast if it strikes first with a Choice Scarf while Weavile can have a field day with dragon types. I would say those two some of the strongest. But trust me there are many more.

    A Special Sweeper would be PorygonZ with a Choice Scarf. In my past experience, I've had many troublesome encounters with Scarfed PorygonZ. Its diverse when it uses Bolt-Beam and has a great Special Attack stat. When it strikes first, most pokemon tremble in its presence.

    A Physical Wall will have to be Skarmory, hands down. Its skyrocketing Defense stat along with its numerous and countless resistances can make it a beast. Not to mention it has access to Spikes and Whirlwind and Roost. It can be a troublesome combination of attacks.

    Special Wall will have to be Milotic or Regice. Milotic is pretty easy to figure out as it absorbs status conditions very well while still being able to inflict some decent damage. Regice on the other hand has a skyrocketing 200 Base Special Defense - with a Special Attack stat that can leave a large dent in most pokemon.

    Edit: Anti... you and your Blisseyness. too bad me and Blissey were married. =x i just don't like that big ;pink whore
     
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    I wouldn't say milo since my specsa Pory Z 2HKOs it :0 lol

    But your first paragraph really is true. And I can't believe you didn't say Blissey. CBed of course ;)

    EDIT: But seriously, Blissey is the king queen of special walls...most OU pokemon ever you know :0
     
    Best Physical Wall- Skarmory;First off, it has a type combo of Steel/Flying, allowing only two weaknesses to get through. Secondly, it has a massive defense and hp, making it a good Physical sweeper counter, I've seen one take a Waterfall from a 4 DD Dos before =_=... Finally, it can work good setting up Spikes and SR, combined with its massive defenses, Skarm can be the ultimate physical wall.

    Best Dual Tank- Cress; Hands down, Cress rules as a SPWall. There's the max 444hp and her massive defense and spdefense which allow her to take a CB Hera's Megahorn and survive. Next... MOONLIGHT! Moonlight is Cress's healing move which makes her a pain to kill. Next, we get onto her attacking pool, Cress gets a BoltBeam combo with Charge Beam and Ice Beam, plus, Shadow Ball and Hidden Power are in her movepool for good usage. Cress is in my opinion, the BEST, OU Dual Tank out there.
     
    For the record, Skarm does not have good HP at all :0

    EDIT: I think the base is around 65 or something :0
     
    Gengar. Astounding 110 speed and massive 130 special attack back up this claim. Not to mention its diverse and unique movepool, so much that you can't grasp the full potential of all of its moves unless you sacrifice something for its place. There is no real "counter" to Gengar unless you know beforehand, and by then, it's already too late. The Specs set is expecially scary, with only Blissey (2HKOed by FB, but 70% acc. is....) and special based Spiritomb (2HKOed by Shadow Ball if the damage generater hits the max.). It can pull of an old Adv. SubPunch set, or McIceGar to beat Blissey and Tyranitar 100% of the time. It also has the asset of using Counter, Explosion, and Destiny Bond effectively. It pulls off the fastest PerishTrap in the game. It can double-status with Will-O-Wisp and Toxic. It's one of the fastest Hypnotizers in the game too. It can completely run over its "supposed" counters with ease if used in the correct hands.


    There you have it, folks, the best sweeper.
     
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    Hypno can counter gengar if you make is specifically to counter it-insomnia FTW! But yeah, you're right. Though it has 110 base speed, not 115. Sad though :(

    And I'd agree, Gengar is D/P's most powerful sweeper. Though if TTar is running a sweeping set I'd say it nudges it simply because it can also take any hit except fighting attacks :(
     
    Aw man, someone did Cresselia..I find it to be superior to Bliss because I can't use Skarm against TauntriDos X_x

    Spiritomb-One of the best tanks ever.
    It has no weaknesses. AT ALL. It rapes pretty much those evil sp attacks who can actually damage Blissey.(Azelf goes boom,Zam can FB on the switch..)Spiritomb can also stop almost all physical attacks by WoWing them. The ability to survive SpecsMence is great as well.
     
    The big downside to spiritomb is the lack of resistances. Though if you can survive specsmence, you are awesome. End. ;)
     
    I think he means "not very effective" thats a resistance. What your talking about is an immunity. Is spiritomb technically a legionary? Or along the lines of Snorlax in Red/Blue/Yellow and Sudowoodo in G/S/C? Oops, ADD moment
     
    I said resistancves, not immunities ;) though you could catagorize them the same way I guess. But it hurts its walling ability a bit IMO. Just the overall fact that all attacks hit it for normal damage except those already mentioned. So yeah.
     
    Azonic 81% Not a concluding sentence
    ShadowAzelf 100% Nice You could do better, but everything could be better-Great support
    flamehaze94 100% Great backing up your detail
    Shiraishi 81% You didn't have a concluding sentence
     
    Wobbuffet-

    The cheapest Pokemon of all time. It will Counter or Mirror coat you, Encore your moves, and Bond you to it's doom. It's mass HP means it can 1 hit KO you with Counter or Mirror Coat.

    Closing Comments:

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB
     
    An 81% Mega Mushroom. You didn't have a good closing sentence. noob isn't a closing sentence.
     
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