Omg, I said this once before and I'll say it again, IT'S BETTER TO ATTACK THAN WASTE TURNS DOING NO DAMAGE AT ALL TO YOUR FOE
Uh, what? It's called "setting up."
You got that? Bronzong with Heatproof is my personal strategy, Imprison + Earthquake already gives it protection from Ground moves, leaving it with no weaknesses and Heatproof covering Fire attacks
Okay, fine. still counters all Zam sets anyways, since it has the bulk to take those hits :/
Ninjasks carry X-Scissor, ring a bell? Alakazam Roar? rofl
you SWITCFH to a PHazer. then you sens in Zam and CM up :/ And agin, ninjask counters ALL ZAM SETS WITH X-SCIZZOR.
You can do heavy damage on Aerodactyl switch in's instead of wasting a turn on CM
Focus sash + crunch = dead Zam :/ in other words, you'd have to switch anyways :/
Spiritomb = Already Zam pwnage
and other Zam sets, AGAIN, are pwnt. It won't do crap to tomb anyyways...
See above on the Aerodactyl explanation
about what?
See above again..
See above again..
See above again..
Okay, how many times to I have to read it?
Heatran is daamged at least some instead of wasting a turn on CM
Yeah, they'd switch into psychic, take about 15%, and then make you switch...OH NO! 15%!
See above again..
You see? CM is a waste of turn IF YOU HAVE TO SWITCH!
And? you waste a turn, you wipe out the counter, you sweep the team! This is why I hate D/P...all the decent startegies of ADV were wiped out with focus sash and more quick attack moves than there are hyper beams.
Of course it has counters, what doesn't? Using CM Zam requires prediction. your examples were very concrete and made it so that Zam was bring used by somebody with no skill at all. what I mean is, who DOESN'T see those switch-ins coming? that's why you PREDICT what is going to happen so you can set up CM Zam to sweep.
It's like saying DD is a waste on gyara because it could be pummeling a poke with waterfall. To use CM zam, you're supposed to switch in to a favorable matchup, then immediately switch to you Zam counter counter (meaning that blissey is coming in to lol at you, so you switch to dugtrio immediately). with the counter out of the way, CM up, and then sweep.
In fact, I have my own example. I use Raikou, very similar to Zam, except slower and less powerful. I often get caught CMing the first turn and then bliss loling at me on the switch. Okay, and? I switch out, let the battle progress, and when the time is right, I send in raikou to sweep the team.
Same goes for Zam, only it is faster and more powerful.
I don't care if CM Zam is outclassed by certain sets, but it is in no way useless.
EDIT: Oh, CM Zam is very common with encore, to cause a switch and another turn to power up. you can't expect it to tank or anything, jirachi does that far better...
