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HART4FLOON · Nov 6th, 2011, 12:01:07 PM

Victreebel

[Overview]
- strongest sun sweeper in RU (other than lilligant on special side but i digress lol)
- great boosting moves in growth and swords dance
- access to sleep powder to incapacitate counters
- unfortunately, requires sun to be useful and lack of permanent sun hurts it

[SET]
name: Sun Sweeper (Mixed)
move 1: Growth
move 2: Leaf Blade / Power Whip
move 3: Weather Ball / Hidden Power Fire
move 4: Sludge Bomb / Sleep Powder
item: Life Orb
ability: Chlorophyll
nature: Mild
evs: 92 Atk / 252 SpA / 164 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]
- grass + fire + poison hits everything neutrally iirc
- power whip is illegal with weather ball, so you have to use hp fire with it
- outspeeds up to scarf adamant primeape

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- sleep powder if you dgaf about fire types
- hazard support helps with ko's on tricky foes that are borderline 2HKO'ed and such
- sun is pretty much mandatory since victreebel lacks the bulk and speed to do much without it

[Other Options]
- swords dance but generally inferior to growth; ability to ko stuff like uxie though is nice
- pure special set but ability to beat
- return, synthesis, encore, hp rock

[Checks and Counters]
- though it's very scary after a boost, nabbing that boost will not happen as long as you keep up offensive pressure
- if it does boost up, any strong pokemon that can take a hit can be considered a counter
- fire types beat victreebel lacking sludge bomb
- priority can kill a weakened victreebel

[Dream World]
- gluttony is worse than chlorophyll
- don't use it lol

Nov 6th, 2011, 12:01:07 PM	#1
HART4FLOON Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 273	Victreebel (QC 0/3) Victreebel [Overview] - strongest sun sweeper in RU (other than lilligant on special side but i digress lol) - great boosting moves in growth and swords dance - access to sleep powder to incapacitate counters - unfortunately, requires sun to be useful and lack of permanent sun hurts it [SET] name: Sun Sweeper (Mixed) move 1: Growth move 2: Leaf Blade / Power Whip move 3: Weather Ball / Hidden Power Fire move 4: Sludge Bomb / Sleep Powder item: Life Orb ability: Chlorophyll nature: Mild evs: 92 Atk / 252 SpA / 164 Spe [SET COMMENTS] - grass + fire + poison hits everything neutrally iirc - power whip is illegal with weather ball, so you have to use hp fire with it - outspeeds up to scarf adamant primeape [ADDITIONAL COMMENTS] - sleep powder if you dgaf about fire types - hazard support helps with ko's on tricky foes that are borderline 2HKO'ed and such - sun is pretty much mandatory since victreebel lacks the bulk and speed to do much without it [Other Options] - swords dance but generally inferior to growth; ability to ko stuff like uxie though is nice - pure special set but ability to beat - return, synthesis, encore, hp rock [Checks and Counters] - though it's very scary after a boost, nabbing that boost will not happen as long as you keep up offensive pressure - if it does boost up, any strong pokemon that can take a hit can be considered a counter - fire types beat victreebel lacking sludge bomb - priority can kill a weakened victreebel [Dream World] - gluttony is worse than chlorophyll - don't use it lol __________________ [QUOTE=New World Order;3943789] - Celebi is a penis, Tyranitar, Jirachi, and Scizor can take it[endQUOTE] oh baby Last edited by HART4FLOON; Nov 6th, 2011 at 5:10:33 PM.