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Blln · Apr 6th, 2008, 9:09:09 PM

like you mentioned in your possible replacements, Gengar might actually be a good idea over like Dugtrio or something, since you don't really have much that can afford to switch into Choice Banded fighting attacks except Suicune, who really needs to save its health for taking on stuff like Garchomp, so his immunities might help that out a bit, while still serving the same purpose of Blissey killing. The one reason that might not be the best idea is because it seems your team relies on duggy alot for taking out Ttar, but you can pretty much take him out with a combo of Garchomp, Heatran, Suicune, and wear him down over time with hail - or you can just leave Dugtrio and be fine, this just comes down to which threats do you want to cover best.

One other thing - what on earth is HP Bug for on Heatran. Fire Blast hits just about everything harder except like, Starmie/Slowbro. You should replace it with Dragon Pulse / HP Ice / HP Electric. Also, and this is more of a nitpick, there isn't really much benefit to running absolute max speed on Heatran considering you're still one point behind adamant scarfed Lucario / Roseraid etc, you could just cut down to 405 to beat Hera and stuff that just beats Hera, leaving you some extra EVs to throw into most likely attack (FYI you only need 232 to hit 405 with Timid + Scarf, netting you 24 extra EVs)

Apr 6th, 2008, 9:09:09 PM	#2
Blln Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 707 manhattan <--> stockholm	like you mentioned in your possible replacements, Gengar might actually be a good idea over like Dugtrio or something, since you don't really have much that can afford to switch into Choice Banded fighting attacks except Suicune, who really needs to save its health for taking on stuff like Garchomp, so his immunities might help that out a bit, while still serving the same purpose of Blissey killing. The one reason that might not be the best idea is because it seems your team relies on duggy alot for taking out Ttar, but you can pretty much take him out with a combo of Garchomp, Heatran, Suicune, and wear him down over time with hail - or you can just leave Dugtrio and be fine, this just comes down to which threats do you want to cover best. One other thing - what on earth is HP Bug for on Heatran. Fire Blast hits just about everything harder except like, Starmie/Slowbro. You should replace it with Dragon Pulse / HP Ice / HP Electric. Also, and this is more of a nitpick, there isn't really much benefit to running absolute max speed on Heatran considering you're still one point behind adamant scarfed Lucario / Roseraid etc, you could just cut down to 405 to beat Hera and stuff that just beats Hera, leaving you some extra EVs to throw into most likely attack (FYI you only need 232 to hit 405 with Timid + Scarf, netting you 24 extra EVs) Last edited by Blln; Apr 6th, 2008 at 9:16:18 PM.