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  1. StairFall

    Resource ORAS RU Role Compendium

    I noticed Golbat is listed purely under defensive hazard control, and felt that its unique access to infiltrator, passable speed uninvested and poison typing merited it a mention under stallbreaker. Not only does it have access to taunt, reliable recovery, super fang and a toxic immunity (though...
  2. StairFall

    XY OU Naturally Gifted

    Unfortunately, Showdown says that soft boiled is not compatible with a move or ability on clefable. Seeing that I'm trying it with the moveset from the strategy dex, I can only assume that Soft Boiled is incompatible with Unaware. Is it worth using magic Guard Clefable, or is this pointless...
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    XY OU Naturally Gifted

    I appreciate the help. I'll likely turn it into a balanced team, as Natural Gift Talonflame is a must keep, as it's what I've currently gravitated towards. I've ran a lot of teams in XY, and NG Talon is one of the only offensive win conditions I haven't attempted before, so I'll be changing the...
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    XY OU Naturally Gifted

    Naturally Gifted: Featuring Natural Gift Talonflame Capping off the tail end of the XY meta just a few weeks before ORAS goes official, I've decided to base a team around one of the more niche sets of one of gen VI's most influential pokemon; Natural Gift Talonflame. The Team At a Glance...
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    Pokémon Garchomp

    Garchomp has no reliable recovery, very few worthwhile resistances, and a very shallow support movepool comprised of stealth rocks, dragon tail and toxic. Hell it doesn't even get taunt. Mega Garchomp loses his lefties, and his rough skin passive damage. You're best off exploiting rocky helmet...
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    Pokémon Hoopa

    Eh, I always make a point to never rely solely on speculation anyway (remember at the beginning of this gen when we thought Mega Mawile only had "a chance" at being OU?). Hoopa to me is looking like a worse Chandelure with only STAB psyshock to differentiate itself from it, but for all I know...
  7. StairFall

    Pokémon Volcanion

    Filler should be replaced with stone edge, it's the only thing that hits opposing Volcanion if you opt for hp ice. The last thing offensive Volcanion wants to do is be forced out or stalled out by defensive Volcanion.
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    Pokémon Heracross

    Something important to consider, Heracross with earthquake 2HKOes Specially defensive Doublade with rocks up (ok it's more like 91% chance to 2HKO but even switching in a second time with rocks up brings that to 100%). Doublade has been stall's new all encompassing answer to M-Gard/cham/cross...
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    Pokémon Magnezone

    Magneton has only 2 uses, scarf because you're faster or a practically nonexistent eviolite specially defensive set. Unless there are pokemon that commonly run max speed and have a speed stat in between 60 and 70 which the magnet bros would have a favourable match up against there's no reason to...
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    Data Two Type Move Combos Gen 6 (Coverage, Resistances)

    Funnily enough I forgot ground was immune to electric, not that lightning rod and volt absorb existed. Wow how'd I let that slip. I was on the fence about suggesting this, but after doing a lot of looking into the move I've come to the conclusion that the only pokemon who's a viable user of...
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    Pokémon Victini

    Why is Choice Scarf slashed on this set when your only attacking move is U-turn? All you can do is either U-turn or use a status move followed by hard switching out. Why is Victini not running V-create, even on a supporting set? I guess if you don't want to lower his defenses but if that's the...
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    Pokémon Excadrill

    Excadrill makes a decent choice user, whether it's band or scarf, because of his 4x stealth rock resistance. But when you're using sand force you're on a timer, and when 1 of your STABs is the poor offensive type steel, and the other is the immunity prone ground type, you'll be constantly...
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    Pokémon Heatran

    Yeah down to 60 bp, so ancient power and hp rock are exactly the same aside from the PP, only problem is you can't run hp rock and ice together, hence why ancient power is a choice. Nobody is seriously running AP because they're hoping for the stat boost.
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    Pokémon Heatran

    Stone Edge has the same PP as Ancient Power and a miss chance. The low PP isn't a large deal anyway, Heatran isn't going to be using any of his rock moves more than maybe twice a match. Any rock move on heatran isn't a main attacking move but a niche coverage move to hit Charizard-Y and...
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    Pokémon Excadrill

    Sand force is almost useless. It's a life orb boost that's on a timer and only applies to specific moves. It should only ever be used to pump up the offensive presence of AVdrill, or used in conjuction with life orb for maximum power. If you don't use life orb in conjuction with sand force then...
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    Pokémon Victini

    Well never mind then, assuming there aren't any significant threats that grass knot beats that energy ball doesn't just use the latter and trash everything. Assuming energy ball is the way to go for the set the only pokemon that can stop victini cold is the seldom seen Rotom-Heat, and he takes...
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    Pokémon Volcanion

    Which goes along with my entire point. If what you need on your team is "strong water type specs attacker which also beats Chansey" then you shouldn't be running Volcanion in the first place and you should run Keldeo. Purposely choosing an inefficient sacrificial set for Volcanion when another...
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    Pokémon Volcanion

    It seems largely unnecessary considering OU is full of mixed attackers that can dismantle Chansey without sacrificing themselves, why would you want to create a niche sacrificial lure rather than simply playing to the pokemon's strengths and letting 1 of the 5 other pokemon on your team handle...
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    Pokémon Volcanion

    A rule of thumb, don't hit Chansey with powerful recoil moves.
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    Pokémon Victini

    It's a very cool set, and definitely an efficient wallbreaker. I've been combing OU for counters to it and I think the only one that straight stomachs all 4 moves is rotom-W (and rotom-H I guess). 252+ Atk Victini V-create vs. 252 HP / 212+ Def Rotom-W: 95-112 (31.2 - 36.8%) -- 77.1% chance to...
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