Everyone knows about Our Lord and Savior Air Balloon Rotom-S. Which brings me to my first question. Why isn't Rotom-Frost called, say, Rotom-Refridge? Why can't Rotom-Fan get the F it deserves? WHY, GAME FREAK? Anyways, the exploits of this particular Rotom-F have been well-documented across the internet. Simply searching it quickly (in 0.28 seconds, according to Google), brings up thousands of results, of players who have innocently entered a Random Battle on Pokemon Showdown, and noticed that their Rotom-S has an Air Balloon, instead of something even remotely useful like an Oran Berry. Smogon, you're such a bunch of trolls. There's one benefit to Air Balloon, however. Even though you have Levitate, you get to stick it in Ground-type's faces that you're literally so immune to their attacks, you have a 4x immunity to them. Even Shedinja can't touch that. Smogon, I withdraw my earlier opinion about you. It was hastily conceived and is entirely untrue. Please teach me your ways.
Rotom-Fan @ Air Balloon
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Calm Nature
- Air Slash
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
The man...er...flying fan thing him(her? it?)self. Rotom-S makes Ground-types shiver in fear, at least until they hit him with Rock Slide/Stone Edge/Rock Blast/Rock Throw/Rock Wrecker/etc. He insures that even after you're hit with an attack, you're STILL immune to those pesky earthquakes. This particular Rotom-S is EV'd to insure that a Zapdos with 68 Special Attack EVs only has an 0.1% chance to 3hko with Thunderbolt. That's literally shrugging off Specs Rain Water Spouts from Kyogre, am I right? Air Slash manages to utterly destroy any Parasect you meet, except for that one time you miss with that 95% accuracy. If you're lucky, you might even flinch something. That's only if you pray to the Hax Goddess every day, attend church every Sunday, and shed all your worldly possessions, searching for that one flinch chance. What? If you give up your computer, you won't be able to actually use the flinch chance? Don't ask stupid questions.
Absol-Mega
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Taunt
- Knock Off
- Fire Blast
- Superpower
Say you're strolling along, Air Balloon Rotom-S out, when an apple falls from a tree and conks you right on the head. So inconvenient. Silly puns aside, the move Gravity is virtually the only way to make you lose your Ground immunity. In one fell swoop, it makes both Levitate and your Air Balloon worthless. You could argue that you could use an attack to break the Balloon and then use a move like Gastro Acid, Skill Swap, or Worry Seed, to get rid of Levitate, but then I'd argue by that time, Rotom-S would have already pulverized your team. I rest my case. Mega Absol is the only Pokemon, besides yet unreleased Mega Sableye (who likes sableye anyway? they're ugly). You can't Bounce while you're un-Mega Evolved, but once you are, no Gravities are going by you. You can bounce them back and then Taunt them so they can never do it ever again. Well, not until Taunt wears off. With Mega Absol on your team, Rotom-S is never going to have to fear Gravity. And neither will you.
Ninjask (M) @ Salac Berry
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Agility
- X-Scissor
- Night Slash
Gotta go fast, gotta go fast. Gotta go faster, faster, faster, faster, Sonic X! Wait a second, wrong show. Sonic and Ninjask here do share some similarities, though. One, they're fast. Two, they're both based off of animals. Three, ummm...yeah, I'll leave it at that. Ninjask here has two jobs: to be fast, and to be fast as fast as possible. Ninjask already has a base speed of 160; only Deoxys-S is faster than it. And, to be fair, Deoxys does cheat. Able to shift betwen the fastest, most offensive, and ... almost the most defensive pokemon with a simple examination of a boulder? smh. Still, though after one Speed Boost, Ninjask outspeeds basically everything ever known, except light. And even that's a close call. It's not after an Agility. After an Agility, Ninjask outspeeds the universe as we know it. Ninjask is so fast, it can travel back in time. Don't ask me how that works, though, ask Planck or Einstein or one of them.
Gallade (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 HP / 80 Atk / 176 SpA
Mild Nature
- Swift
- Aerial Ace
- Shock Wave
- Magical Leaf
Let's be fair, there are Pokemon that spam Double Team/Minimize/*insert annoying evasion/accuracy related move here* in every single Pokemon game ever released. If you haven't encountered them, that doesn't mean they're not there, because they are. Their evasion is that high, or your accuracy is that low. There's probably one behind you as we speak. But never fear, here comes Gallade to make sure they never trouble you again. Aerial Ace, Swift, Magical Leaf, and Shock Wave all have perfect accuracy. Not that 100% that most other moves have, these will never miss, period. Who needs other moves like Swords Dance and Close Combat when yours never miss? Eat your heart out, Focus Blast. Swift, in addition, hits both enemies in Double Battles! How amazing is that? You know you need this, and you need this now. Because it might already be too late.
Forretress @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Spikes
- Toxic Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Rapid Spin
Everyone knows Forretress likes his entry hazards. Yes, I know, Rapid Spin isn't an entry hazard, but no one Pokemon learns Spikes, Toxic Spikes, SR, and Sticky Web, so this is the best I could do. Even so, Rapid Spin is the next best thing, it's practically an entry hazard itself. Wherever you find them, you'll find Rapid Spin, am I right? This Forretress will stay in for billions upon billions of years, slowly setting up stealth rock, THEN spikes, and THEN toxic spikes. And then your opponent's going to waste all your effort with his Starmie or Excadrill or Zapdos or something. But if you think the redundancy ends there, you're mistaken! Forretress's ability, Sturdy, allows him to survive one attack, while at full health, that would KO him, with 1 HP remaining. Guess what the Focus Sash does? 8)
Togekiss @ Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
- Ominous Wind
- Ancient Power
- Silver Wind
- Soft-Boiled
You have not known true majesty until you have known this specific Togekiss. I'm going to cut to the chase here - Ominous Wind, Ancient Power, and Silver Wind each have a 10% chance of raising all of Togekiss's stats by one stage. However, they only have 5 PP each (8 in Showdown). So, you can't try forever for thsoe juicy stat increases. That's why you have 3 of them :D. Basically you send this thing out and spam those until you are UNTOUCHABLE WITH STAT INCREASES. Soft-Boiled is there for recovery, as unfortunately there is not a fourth move like these that Togekiss can learn. But that's not all. I said all these moves have a 10% chance of raising all stats? Never mind that. With Serene Grace, Togekiss's ability, the chance is doubled - to 20%. I can practically see your expressions of glee right now.
Rotom-S is finally ready to break out of Randbats and into the spotlight of competitive Pokemon, OU. And I doubt anyone's going to see him coming. Least of all those ****in ground types.
Rotom-Fan @ Air Balloon
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Calm Nature
- Air Slash
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
The man...er...flying fan thing him(her? it?)self. Rotom-S makes Ground-types shiver in fear, at least until they hit him with Rock Slide/Stone Edge/Rock Blast/Rock Throw/Rock Wrecker/etc. He insures that even after you're hit with an attack, you're STILL immune to those pesky earthquakes. This particular Rotom-S is EV'd to insure that a Zapdos with 68 Special Attack EVs only has an 0.1% chance to 3hko with Thunderbolt. That's literally shrugging off Specs Rain Water Spouts from Kyogre, am I right? Air Slash manages to utterly destroy any Parasect you meet, except for that one time you miss with that 95% accuracy. If you're lucky, you might even flinch something. That's only if you pray to the Hax Goddess every day, attend church every Sunday, and shed all your worldly possessions, searching for that one flinch chance. What? If you give up your computer, you won't be able to actually use the flinch chance? Don't ask stupid questions.
Absol-Mega
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Taunt
- Knock Off
- Fire Blast
- Superpower
Say you're strolling along, Air Balloon Rotom-S out, when an apple falls from a tree and conks you right on the head. So inconvenient. Silly puns aside, the move Gravity is virtually the only way to make you lose your Ground immunity. In one fell swoop, it makes both Levitate and your Air Balloon worthless. You could argue that you could use an attack to break the Balloon and then use a move like Gastro Acid, Skill Swap, or Worry Seed, to get rid of Levitate, but then I'd argue by that time, Rotom-S would have already pulverized your team. I rest my case. Mega Absol is the only Pokemon, besides yet unreleased Mega Sableye (who likes sableye anyway? they're ugly). You can't Bounce while you're un-Mega Evolved, but once you are, no Gravities are going by you. You can bounce them back and then Taunt them so they can never do it ever again. Well, not until Taunt wears off. With Mega Absol on your team, Rotom-S is never going to have to fear Gravity. And neither will you.
Ninjask (M) @ Salac Berry
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Agility
- X-Scissor
- Night Slash
Gotta go fast, gotta go fast. Gotta go faster, faster, faster, faster, Sonic X! Wait a second, wrong show. Sonic and Ninjask here do share some similarities, though. One, they're fast. Two, they're both based off of animals. Three, ummm...yeah, I'll leave it at that. Ninjask here has two jobs: to be fast, and to be fast as fast as possible. Ninjask already has a base speed of 160; only Deoxys-S is faster than it. And, to be fair, Deoxys does cheat. Able to shift betwen the fastest, most offensive, and ... almost the most defensive pokemon with a simple examination of a boulder? smh. Still, though after one Speed Boost, Ninjask outspeeds basically everything ever known, except light. And even that's a close call. It's not after an Agility. After an Agility, Ninjask outspeeds the universe as we know it. Ninjask is so fast, it can travel back in time. Don't ask me how that works, though, ask Planck or Einstein or one of them.
Gallade (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 HP / 80 Atk / 176 SpA
Mild Nature
- Swift
- Aerial Ace
- Shock Wave
- Magical Leaf
Let's be fair, there are Pokemon that spam Double Team/Minimize/*insert annoying evasion/accuracy related move here* in every single Pokemon game ever released. If you haven't encountered them, that doesn't mean they're not there, because they are. Their evasion is that high, or your accuracy is that low. There's probably one behind you as we speak. But never fear, here comes Gallade to make sure they never trouble you again. Aerial Ace, Swift, Magical Leaf, and Shock Wave all have perfect accuracy. Not that 100% that most other moves have, these will never miss, period. Who needs other moves like Swords Dance and Close Combat when yours never miss? Eat your heart out, Focus Blast. Swift, in addition, hits both enemies in Double Battles! How amazing is that? You know you need this, and you need this now. Because it might already be too late.
Forretress @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Spikes
- Toxic Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Rapid Spin
Everyone knows Forretress likes his entry hazards. Yes, I know, Rapid Spin isn't an entry hazard, but no one Pokemon learns Spikes, Toxic Spikes, SR, and Sticky Web, so this is the best I could do. Even so, Rapid Spin is the next best thing, it's practically an entry hazard itself. Wherever you find them, you'll find Rapid Spin, am I right? This Forretress will stay in for billions upon billions of years, slowly setting up stealth rock, THEN spikes, and THEN toxic spikes. And then your opponent's going to waste all your effort with his Starmie or Excadrill or Zapdos or something. But if you think the redundancy ends there, you're mistaken! Forretress's ability, Sturdy, allows him to survive one attack, while at full health, that would KO him, with 1 HP remaining. Guess what the Focus Sash does? 8)
Togekiss @ Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature
- Ominous Wind
- Ancient Power
- Silver Wind
- Soft-Boiled
You have not known true majesty until you have known this specific Togekiss. I'm going to cut to the chase here - Ominous Wind, Ancient Power, and Silver Wind each have a 10% chance of raising all of Togekiss's stats by one stage. However, they only have 5 PP each (8 in Showdown). So, you can't try forever for thsoe juicy stat increases. That's why you have 3 of them :D. Basically you send this thing out and spam those until you are UNTOUCHABLE WITH STAT INCREASES. Soft-Boiled is there for recovery, as unfortunately there is not a fourth move like these that Togekiss can learn. But that's not all. I said all these moves have a 10% chance of raising all stats? Never mind that. With Serene Grace, Togekiss's ability, the chance is doubled - to 20%. I can practically see your expressions of glee right now.
Rotom-S is finally ready to break out of Randbats and into the spotlight of competitive Pokemon, OU. And I doubt anyone's going to see him coming. Least of all those ****in ground types.
