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2nd Gen Double Killing Espeon

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    • UK
    • Seen Jan 6, 2005
    Hey, mates! I just registered here and have been taking a look at your setup for this board. The Dog's Bollocks it is! Anyway, I have been thinking of this for the past days, and have thought it quite interesting and was wondering if you mates could take a look.

    I call it Double Killing Espeon.

    Now what this is is an Espeon that is made for taking care of annoying Double Teamers. Here is said Espeon:

    Espeon @Leftovers/Focus Band
    Psych Up
    Swagger
    Swift
    Morning Sun

    The setup is like this: As soon Espeon faces a Double Teamer, it throws out a Swagger. When opponent uses Double Team, you Psych Up and copy your opponent's Double Team to make Espeon harder to hit. Now Espeon is ready and Doubled up. If they do manage to hit Espeon, he can heal with Morning Sun. Notice that when Espeon uses Swagger, the opponents attack becomes greater, so Psyching Up will also give Espeon a higher attack as well as more evasiveness to make the pitiful Swift do some more damage. I've noticed that many Double Teamers don't have access to moves like Swift or Faint Attack, which gives Espeon an advantage, since he will be very hard to hit, if by some chance he does suffer, our little conceited cat (fox, thing or whatever it is) can heal itself with the sun's rays. If sad Espeon has Leftovers, he will become harder to kill. If eating like a pig constantly isn't your thing (look at Espeon's waistline...can s/he get any skinnier?!?!?) then you can give him the Focus Band and hope it hangs on.

    That being said, this is just an idea, but I think this rather risky moveset might work for the reasont that nobody really expects this thing to actually annoy in battle.
     
    Excellent idea my friend.
     
    Pretty good, but I doubt that a single double team will prevent you from being pwned by sweepers. And the more double teams they make, the harder it is for your psych up and swagger to be successful. Although the confusion should help, I really think someone would switch to a good, strong sweeper and OHKO you. Focus band, if it worked, would be great, but trying to fair against a sweeper is very risky.
    It's a great strategy, in theory, but against sweepers, it should take 2 turns MAX for them to kill you. Of course you could always switch then.
     
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