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sm.reth · May 25th, 2010, 3:56:14 PM

I whipped up a standard OU team but slapped Dragonite where Salamence usually stands. I've been running it with 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe (Naive) using Fire Blast / Draco Meteor / Earthquake / Outrage. The downside to this is that anything with 85 base speed or higher can outspeed and revenge kill, but I surprisingly haven't had it happen yet.

I also saw another user use a mixed Flygon as their stand-in Dragon (who I lost to due to a miss from Fire Blast and a SpD drop from Seed Flare in the same turn). Flygon on the other hand doesn't suffer from the lack of speed Dragonite has, but has worse stats in the other categories. Flygon also suffers from the lack of a setup move, which Dragonite can take advantage of.

I think it'll be interesting to see what people use to fill the "gap" that Salamence being gone left. Personally I'm going to love not having DDmence running around, since that's really the only thing my Scarfed Jirachi can't outspeed and take out (I could put in 252 speed EVs to risk the speed tie, but that's a 50% chance - not worth it).

May 25th, 2010, 3:56:14 PM	#8
sm.reth Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 5 Massachusetts	I whipped up a standard OU team but slapped Dragonite where Salamence usually stands. I've been running it with 16 Atk / 252 SpA / 240 Spe (Naive) using Fire Blast / Draco Meteor / Earthquake / Outrage. The downside to this is that anything with 85 base speed or higher can outspeed and revenge kill, but I surprisingly haven't had it happen yet. I also saw another user use a mixed Flygon as their stand-in Dragon (who I lost to due to a miss from Fire Blast and a SpD drop from Seed Flare in the same turn). Flygon on the other hand doesn't suffer from the lack of speed Dragonite has, but has worse stats in the other categories. Flygon also suffers from the lack of a setup move, which Dragonite can take advantage of. I think it'll be interesting to see what people use to fill the "gap" that Salamence being gone left. Personally I'm going to love not having DDmence running around, since that's really the only thing my Scarfed Jirachi can't outspeed and take out (I could put in 252 speed EVs to risk the speed tie, but that's a 50% chance - not worth it).