Random team.

Yeah...I attempted to battle a paralyzed milotic with my CBmence...which di about nothing lol. N00b idea by me, I payed.

Long story short, milotic is one of the best staus absorbers around.

EDIT: IMO of course :)
 
Samson said:
substitute PLUS life orb? i'm starting to feel bad for the rest of your pokes XD
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Yeah i know what your thinking, but it does actually work wonders, same reason why people sometimes put Life Orb , Swords Dance and Substitute on Garchomp. My Porygon-z kinda works like that.

If youre not a fan of recoil Cakekun you can always put Wise Specs or Leftovers on it i suppose.
 
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Name said:
Well, It's better suited as a sweeper than Thunder Wave XD Garchomp switches in by predicted Thunder Wave, then he obliterates you
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A choice Gallade phails by default since as a sweeper, Gallade is outclassed by Medicham. Gallade likes double status or Swords Dance.
 
Smarties-chan said:
A choice Gallade phails by default since as a sweeper, Gallade is outclassed by Medicham. Gallade likes double status or Swords Dance.
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Gallade acts like a ScarfCross :\ Really, it just has a more diverse moveset

Medicham has no real powerful STAB moves to use like Gallade's Close Combat, it has Hi Jump Kick which is like Aqua Tail :P

If you say Gallade fails at Scarf Sweeping, then your saying Heracross, Lucario fails at Scarf sweeping
 
The only bit of extra diversity Gallade gets is Leaf Blade, which isn't too great unless you really fear Swampert. The only real reason to use Gallade is status imo, since most of its fellow Fighting types have better offensive capabilities to begin with. Besides, why would you not like to take advantage of that massive Special Defense and awesome support movepool? Gallade isn't meant to be a pure attacker. Oh, and about your Garchomp comment, it won't be happy when you predict the switch and Will-o-Wisp it instead. Imo, choice items are a huge waste of Gallade's potential. It isn't completely horrible as a Choice attacker, but the only thing it truly excels at is crippling your opponent's sweepers.
 
Smarties-chan said:
The only bit of extra diversity Gallade gets is Leaf Blade, which isn't too great unless you really fear Swampert. The only real reason to use Gallade is status imo, since most of its fellow Fighting types have better offensive capabilities to begin with. Besides, why would you not like to take advantage of that massive Special Defense and awesome support movepool? Gallade isn't meant to be a pure attacker. Oh, and about your Garchomp comment, it won't be happy when you predict the switch and Will-o-Wisp it instead. Imo, choice items are a huge waste of Gallade's potential. It isn't completely horrible as a Choice attacker, but the only thing it truly excels at is crippling your opponent's sweepers.
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Gallade does NOT learn Will-o-Wisp at all. Gallade is a Heracross with more support moves. It also has Psycho Cut for Weezing, the ugliest Physical wall for my opinion. Leaf Blade should, like you said, ONLY be used if you don't have a Grass attack in your team. Choice Gallade can be easily used if you take down the opponents Physical Walls. After laying about 2 Thunder Waves and crippling the opponent's sweepers, what are you going to do when a Cleric comes out?

Since it's my opinion and your opinion, we'll keep it to ourselves :)
 
Gallade@ Expert Belt / Life Orb / Leftovers / Choice Band
Adamant
236hp/252atk/20spd
- Psycho Cut
- Close Combat
- Night Slash
- Hypnosis / Thunder Wave / Will-O-Wisp / Stone Edge

Standard


Gallade@Leftovers
nature: Adamant
evs: 236hp/200atk/52spdef/20spd
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Psycho Cut
- Stone Edge / Thunderpunch / Night Slash

Swords Dance sweep


Gallade@Leftovers
nature: Adamant
evs: 236hp/252atk/20spd
- Thunder Wave / Will-O-Wisp
- Hypnosis
- Close Combat
- Psycho Cut / Night Slash

double status

these give it 201 speed, what does this need to outrun thats important anyway ?

EDIT:Name, Gallade learns Will-o-wisp by "Stupid TM" aka we have to breed it onto it even though it is tm and cant learn it by the tm itself.
 
Dark_Azelf said:
Gallade@ Expert Belt / Life Orb / Leftovers / Choice Band
Adamant
236hp/252atk/20spd
- Psycho Cut
- Close Combat
- Night Slash
- Hypnosis / Thunder Wave / Will-O-Wisp / Stone Edge

Standard


Gallade@Leftovers
nature: Adamant
evs: 236hp/200atk/52spdef/20spd
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Psycho Cut
- Stone Edge / Thunderpunch / Night Slash

Swords Dance sweep


Gallade@Leftovers
nature: Adamant
evs: 236hp/252atk/20spd
- Thunder Wave / Will-O-Wisp
- Hypnosis
- Close Combat
- Psycho Cut / Night Slash

double status

these give it 201 speed, what does this need to outrun thats important anyway ?
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SWEEEPERZZZZ LIEK SALAMEENCE ADN METAGROOSS WITH 102 EV'S IN SPEEDZORZ lol]

EDIT: Learned by Breeding and not learned as a TM... LOL

Mistaken on that part
 
Name said:
Gallade does NOT learn Will-o-Wisp at all. Gallade is a Heracross with more support moves. It also has Psycho Cut for Weezing, the ugliest Physical wall for my opinion. Leaf Blade should, like you said, ONLY be used if you don't have a Grass attack in your team. Choice Gallade can be easily used if you take down the opponents Physical Walls. After laying about 2 Thunder Waves and crippling the opponent's sweepers, what are you going to do when a Cleric comes out?

Since it's my opinion and your opinion, we'll keep it to ourselves :)
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Medicham learns Psycho Cut too and hurts Weezing harder. Also, Will-o-Wisp has been on Ralts' egg move list since Ruby and Sapphire and is now also available in TM form so please explain how it's impossible to get a Gallade with Will-o-Wisp?
 
Smarties-chan said:
Medicham learns Psycho Cut too and hurts Weezing harder. Also, Will-o-Wisp has been on Ralts' egg move list since Ruby and Sapphire and is now also available in TM form so please explain how it's impossible to get a Gallade with Will-o-Wisp?
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Just the impossible has broken out of me, It DOESN'T learn it as a TM, but it learns it as a Breeding egg move... that is strange
 
Name said:
People send Metagross AT Gallade :P
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i meant why would you even send/ keep this in on a metagross

anyways if they send in metagross against you, predict and either status it or swords dance and nail it.


Smogon Community said:
If you want a Choice Scarf pokemon, Gallade is not what you are looking for. Just use Medicham, he does the job a lot better. Gallade is a pokemon that CAN take a hit or two and do a lot of damage in the process. Not only is it a hard pokemon to counter, it can cripple any counter with one of the many status moves it learns. Gallade is definitely not a pokemon you want to underestimate
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Well, that DOES mean that Medicham is better than both Scarf Lucario and Scarf Heracross >_> Pure Power makes Medicham's attack go even higher than Rampardos! XD

Nonetheless, I'm convinced, just the experience I never had with Gallade
 
And a Pokemon with Skill Swap comes in and has a good time on Medicham.At least if it swaps Steadfast,it won't do much good.
 
Just to mess it up so it can't do much harm against the rest of my team.
 
MewthreeXL said:
Just to mess it up so it can't do much harm against the rest of my team.
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yeah...I get that, but with choice sacrf, it'll probably OHKO your pokemon...unless it's like, skarmory, too bad it can't learn skill swap :/
 
Salamence@Lum Berry
Lonely
252 Spd/252 Atk/4 Sp atk
-Dragon claw
-Flamethrower
-Dragon Dance
-Earthquake

I think Flamethrower will be helpful than Fire Blast due to accuracy. Then again...I'm not sure if Fire Blast can kill Skarm with one attack.
 
Bleach and Sunshine said:
Salamence@Lum Berry
Lonely
252 Spd/252 Atk/4 Sp atk
-Dragon claw
-Flamethrower
-Dragon Dance
-Earthquake

I think Flamethrower will be helpful than Fire Blast due to accuracy. Then again...I'm not sure if Fire Blast can kill Skarm with one attack.
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I think Specsmence is the best.

Salamence @ Choice Specs
Trait: Intimidate
Modest Nature (+Special Attack -Attack)
- Hydro Pump
- Flamethrower
- Draco Meteor
- Dragon Pulse. Lum Berry look's novelty to me on Mence.
 
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