Anty
let's drop
When building a rain team, i noticed that most rain sweepers are one sided, and carry similar move sets but maybe one extra coverage. I also noticed that most of them (maybe not keldeo) struggle to touch ferrothorn, who also looses its quad weakness in the rain.
Ludicolo @ Assault Vest
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 152 Spd / 252 SAtk / 104 HP
Modest Nature
- Fake Out
- Hydro Pump
- Giga Drain
- Focus Blast
After seeing that ludicolo has an ou niche with focus blast, why not bring it to doubles. It does need all of its original moves, fake out provides a lot of support, hydro pump is very strong in the rain, giga drain is a strong STAB and allows it to hit waters (another niche) and ice beam lets it hit grass. I chose to replace ice beam as it doesnt add that much.
With ice beam you hit harder (than other moves in your set, in rain):
amoongus (not even a 2hko without sitrus), garchomp, skymin, reg venusaur, trevenent
With focus blast:
Ferrothorn, kyurem-b (ice beam cannot break sub), ttar (in sand), weavile (lawl), bisharp (lawl), hydreigon.
Ice beam may seem more useful, and it can be on many occasions, but focus blast definately has a niche and can be worth using depending on how weak your team is to certain threats
Ludicolo @ Assault Vest
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 152 Spd / 252 SAtk / 104 HP
Modest Nature
- Fake Out
- Hydro Pump
- Giga Drain
- Focus Blast
After seeing that ludicolo has an ou niche with focus blast, why not bring it to doubles. It does need all of its original moves, fake out provides a lot of support, hydro pump is very strong in the rain, giga drain is a strong STAB and allows it to hit waters (another niche) and ice beam lets it hit grass. I chose to replace ice beam as it doesnt add that much.
With ice beam you hit harder (than other moves in your set, in rain):
amoongus (not even a 2hko without sitrus), garchomp, skymin, reg venusaur, trevenent
With focus blast:
Ferrothorn, kyurem-b (ice beam cannot break sub), ttar (in sand), weavile (lawl), bisharp (lawl), hydreigon.
Ice beam may seem more useful, and it can be on many occasions, but focus blast definately has a niche and can be worth using depending on how weak your team is to certain threats