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Kannon · Oct 5th, 2010, 9:09:41 PM

Choice Band in general is pretty outclassed by Life Orb, as the difference between x1.3 and x1.5 is very slight in LC, but the ability to actually change moves isn't.

On another note:

Skitty @ Life Orb
Jolly Nature
236 Atk / 196 Spe / 76 SpD
~ Fake Out
~ Sucker Punch
~ Return
~ Thunder Wave

While this may look like a regular skitty set, Thunder Wave works very well on it. Sure, you can't dry pass out of ghosts, but ghost are fairly easy to predict and switch a counter into. What Skitty gains in Normalize Thunder Wave is the ability to disable most pokemon that would see skitty as a set up opportunity. While Skitty requires heavy prediction, and this set is no different, the rewards are far more than that of the regular skitty set, and I feel that this is worth trying out on it's own.

Oct 5th, 2010, 9:09:41 PM	#129
Kannon Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 344	Choice Band in general is pretty outclassed by Life Orb, as the difference between x1.3 and x1.5 is very slight in LC, but the ability to actually change moves isn't. On another note: Skitty @ Life Orb Jolly Nature 236 Atk / 196 Spe / 76 SpD ~ Fake Out ~ Sucker Punch ~ Return ~ Thunder Wave While this may look like a regular skitty set, Thunder Wave works very well on it. Sure, you can't dry pass out of ghosts, but ghost are fairly easy to predict and switch a counter into. What Skitty gains in Normalize Thunder Wave is the ability to disable most pokemon that would see skitty as a set up opportunity. While Skitty requires heavy prediction, and this set is no different, the rewards are far more than that of the regular skitty set, and I feel that this is worth trying out on it's own.