IMHO, about the abilities you have them backwards. I use shed skin with DD and DP (with Crunch and IP for coverage). And I think that to be able to get rid of a burn with SS is always so process. It lets me keep DD ing up and using DP to recover health. If you want I can give you my EV spread. Btw, I like your style ;)
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Smogon University PO Statistics — June 2011
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Huh. For me I run Bulk Up instead of Dragon Dance with Shed Skin. I tried DDScrafty with Moxie and frankly, it was pretty underwhelming. It just doesn't have awesome enough bulk to setup, and bulky sets just don't provide enough oomph into those attacks. :/
Clefable, Munchlax, Ferroseed, Steelix, err other steel types, yeah you lose against Steelix but you can still hurt it and then switch (naive 4 atk pika does 41.2% - 48.6% to 252/0 sassy Steelix, the standard spread), not much but it basically covers everything that can counter Pika, is Umbreon RU?, because it counts too
And yeah, even in RU Pikachu is not the best wall breaker ever but it's fucking Pikachu and there's a lot of people who will use it just for the sake of it
EDIT: oh yeah, forgot about Rotom-F, Focus punch covers it too :>
I still prefer the Lum Berry + Moxie DD set for Scrafty. Shed Skin is too random, and Lum + Moxie means he has a fairly easy time setting up and is hard to stop once he has. It's too bad that +1 Speed doesn't outspeed nearly enough.
Surprisingly, I've had solid results with Scrafty as a sweeper on a Baton Pass Team. Pass him a Gear Shift or a Shell Smash and he's incredibly hard to stop without a missed HJK (which generally only needs to be used once or twice per fight). If your opponent doesn't have decently strong priority, they'll struggle to kill it before it gets out of hand. I still run DD on it, though, so that it's a legitimate threat even when it doesn't get passed a boost.
Surprisingly, I've had solid results with Scrafty as a sweeper on a Baton Pass Team. Pass him a Gear Shift or a Shell Smash and he's incredibly hard to stop without a missed HJK (which generally only needs to be used once or twice per fight). If your opponent doesn't have decently strong priority, they'll struggle to kill it before it gets out of hand. I still run DD on it, though, so that it's a legitimate threat even when it doesn't get passed a boost.
Lum Moxie is good but has major issues with passive damage as it tries to set up, specifically it has no way to mitigate hazard or sandstorm damage, severely limiting its sweeping potential and priority immunity (as in not killed by them).
They're Pokemon not fit for battle, like a Ferrothorn with no moves at all. This happens a lot when people forget.
Yeah, R_D still hasn't sorted out the problems of the massive amount of trolls who use 5-people teams. >.>
EDIT: or those with no moves, whatever it works. damn ninjasks
EDIT: or those with no moves, whatever it works. damn ninjasks
Speaking of, I've seen a number of Ninjasks pop up on teams over the past few battles, often passing to Haxorus. I'm really beginning to hate baton pass this Gen, there are far too many cheep ways of winning with it, and all it takes is Espeon. I find myself wanting to run Brick Break on my CB Scizor now 9.9
Espeon is the key factor to all sorts of BP shenanigans: access to Dual Screens, decent stats, ability to use CM for special passing, only p-hazed by Dragon Tail, etc. It works extremely well with Ninjask's blistering Speed, with the bug passing immediately to Espeon to cock-block whatever Taunt or Spore might come its way to the poor unsuspecting victim. Worse still, Baton Pass iirc escapes Pursuit's trapping effect, allowing Espeon to stay relatively safe throughout the match.
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shed skin should be more standard on scrafty. Lets say you get to to 3 boost, and then you get thunder waved, or burned. Thats severely lowering how much potential a DD scrafty should have.
Can't wait for the NU tier whenever it comes out! While it won't be the same, playing on PO's NU gives you a feel for what's going on which is nice. Tired of running bulky Glaceon though as filler for Audino, seeing as how Audino will end up NU on Smogon that's what my original team had, but on PO Audino is RU (LU) so Glaceon is solid filler.
Here's hoping that Tornadus doesn't fall to UU because I REALLY don't want that thing anywhere near UU with it's priority Rain Dance
Here's hoping that Tornadus doesn't fall to UU because I REALLY don't want that thing anywhere near UU with it's priority Rain Dance
If Scrafty gets to +3 in the first place only Thundurus/Whimsicott can paralyse it without getting killed. :/
Personatly, my evil trouble making side is very disappointed that latias will not be uu
Nope, no July stats.
Will the tiers still update, or is that being put off a month?
I don't know how. Unless you were Dragon Dancing in front of shit like Conkeldurr or something, I don't know how it didn't work. It should primarily be used as a mid to end game sweeper when the bulkiest of bulky things on your opponent's team are weakened. It can almost always get up 1 DD with its natural bulk and then just go to town.
I'm not sure. I guess I prefer somewhat more of stallish boosting, hence BU suits my tastes.
252 SpAtk Choice Specs Politoed Focus Blast vs 252 HP/248 SpDef Scrafty: 65.87% - 77.84%
2 hits to KO (with Leftovers)
252 SpAtk Choice Specs Politoed Hydro Pump vs 252 HP/248 SpDef Scrafty: 49.4% - 58.38% ( IN DA RAIN )
2-3 hits to KO (with Leftovers)
so if you are trying to use focus blast, the chances of getting higher than 70% damage is 40% (factored in acc). and you can easily heal off anything under 70% with drain punch after +1. nt.
Your calcs are off.
Focus Blast has 120 base power, making it 240 with the Super Effective.
Hydro Pump has 120 base power as well, with 180 through STAB, and 270 through the Drizzle Boost.
Hydro Pump would be hitting harder than Focus Blast would be. Likewise, SpecsToed is Modest.
And if your Scrafty has that set, Drain Punch won't be hitting hard enough for you to live. And Specs Rotom-W hits harder than Politoed does. =/. The point is that Scrafty with no speed boosts isn't scary at all.
Focus Blast has 120 base power, making it 240 with the Super Effective.
Hydro Pump has 120 base power as well, with 180 through STAB, and 270 through the Drizzle Boost.
Hydro Pump would be hitting harder than Focus Blast would be. Likewise, SpecsToed is Modest.
And if your Scrafty has that set, Drain Punch won't be hitting hard enough for you to live. And Specs Rotom-W hits harder than Politoed does. =/. The point is that Scrafty with no speed boosts isn't scary at all.
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