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Old Sep 14th, 2010, 12:27:29 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by Fat ssbbm View Post
The main problem I see with this team is its weakness to NP Ape. It OHKOes everything on your team bar Gyarados, and if your Gyarados is weakened already, then you pretty much have to rely on trying to wear it down using LO Recoil + Sandstorm.
To remedy this, I recommend running 160 SpD EVs on Gyarados. This allows it to survive a NP Boosted Fire Blast after 2 SR switch-ins and 1 turn of leftover recovery. Admittedly, though, Gyarados is used on your team to check a bunch of physical offensive threats.
All in all, very nice team.
Nasty Plot Ape is dangerous, but the good thing about it is that it can't have every move to beat me. It suffers from the four move slot syndrome. It needs Stealth Rock on the field and Grass Knot to realistically beat Gyarados. It needs Vacuum Wave to beat Tyranitar and Close Combat to beat Blissey. Since they all run Fire Blast, it will be missing something.
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