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EBeast · Sep 6th, 2012, 9:13:45 PM

Because Rampardos was mentioned in the previous post and I was told to post my set, here it is!

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<@FLCL>	special ramp best wallbreaker
<%Annoyer>	amazing lure

Rampardos

@ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
Rash Nature (+SpA, -SpD)
-Head Smash
-Fire Blast
-Thunderbolt
-Focus Blast / Ice Beam

There are two things that come to someone's mind as soon as they see this set, "Special Rampardos WTF" and "It gets those attacks?" The best way to explain is that with its new Sheer Force ability it can turn its mediocre base 65 Special Attack into a new-found source of power to abuse those great special attacks that it gets. With Sheer Force Rampardos's special attacks are essentially coming off a base 99 Special Attack stat, with the added benefit of not taking recoil from Life Orb. With Fire Blast and Thunderbolt Rampardos is capable of easily OHKOing the annoying Amoonguss + Alomomola core with only the help of Stealth Rock, while having Focus Blast to hit Probopass, Regirock, and Miltank or Ice Beam for Golurk, Fraxure, and Shelgon. what separates Rampardos from other special attackers capable of the same feat such as Eelektross and LumRest Exeggutor is its massive base 165 Attack and Head Smash. Even without any investment Rampardos still has more attack than a max Attack Adamant Zangoose, and with access to a STAB base 150 attack it can easily destroy any special walls that would trouble Eelektross and Exeggutor. Regice, Flareon, Altaria or Lickilicky want to come in to deal with special Ramp? Nope, Head Smash. This move massacres Regice and Flareon, while OHKOing standard Lickilicky after it switches into any attack.

The main problem with this is that the recoil from Head Smash and Life Orb can rack up fast. Even so, Rampardos makes up for this by having a very nice HP stat and not take Life Orb recoil from its other attacks thanks to Sheer Force. There is only 1 commonly used Pokemon capable of switching into Rampardos safely after Stealth Rock, Gurdurr. Sadly for Gurdurr, only its Specially Defensive set can switch in comfortably, but the more offensive set can just threaten Rampardos out with Mach Punch after Fire Blast does about half. Because Gurdurr is such as pain a partner for Rampardos to put a stop to it is Musharna. Musharna stops Gurdurr cold and can set up Calm Mind all day to beat down all the shreds that Rampardos might have left. While Golurk might seem like a reasonable choice to switch into Rampardos if lacking Ice Beam, the 172 HP set is actually getting 2HKOed by Head Smash + Fire Blast. Eviolite Fraxure as well gets cleanly OHKOed by Head Smash and these two situations are the reason that Ice Beam is slashed after Focus Blast. Even so, it's still usable if your team cares more about beating Shelgon or having a more accurate move to beat Altaria and Amoonguss.

Sep 6th, 2012, 9:13:45 PM	#135
EBeast she's probably sexting nprtprt Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 749	Because Rampardos was mentioned in the previous post and I was told to post my set, here it is! Code: <@FLCL> special ramp best wallbreaker <%Annoyer> amazing lure Rampardos @ Life Orb Trait: Sheer Force Rash Nature (+SpA, -SpD) -Head Smash -Fire Blast -Thunderbolt -Focus Blast / Ice Beam There are two things that come to someone's mind as soon as they see this set, "Special Rampardos WTF" and "It gets those attacks?" The best way to explain is that with its new Sheer Force ability it can turn its mediocre base 65 Special Attack into a new-found source of power to abuse those great special attacks that it gets. With Sheer Force Rampardos's special attacks are essentially coming off a base 99 Special Attack stat, with the added benefit of not taking recoil from Life Orb. With Fire Blast and Thunderbolt Rampardos is capable of easily OHKOing the annoying Amoonguss + Alomomola core with only the help of Stealth Rock, while having Focus Blast to hit Probopass, Regirock, and Miltank or Ice Beam for Golurk, Fraxure, and Shelgon. what separates Rampardos from other special attackers capable of the same feat such as Eelektross and LumRest Exeggutor is its massive base 165 Attack and Head Smash. Even without any investment Rampardos still has more attack than a max Attack Adamant Zangoose, and with access to a STAB base 150 attack it can easily destroy any special walls that would trouble Eelektross and Exeggutor. Regice, Flareon, Altaria or Lickilicky want to come in to deal with special Ramp? Nope, Head Smash. This move massacres Regice and Flareon, while OHKOing standard Lickilicky after it switches into any attack. The main problem with this is that the recoil from Head Smash and Life Orb can rack up fast. Even so, Rampardos makes up for this by having a very nice HP stat and not take Life Orb recoil from its other attacks thanks to Sheer Force. There is only 1 commonly used Pokemon capable of switching into Rampardos safely after Stealth Rock, Gurdurr. Sadly for Gurdurr, only its Specially Defensive set can switch in comfortably, but the more offensive set can just threaten Rampardos out with Mach Punch after Fire Blast does about half. Because Gurdurr is such as pain a partner for Rampardos to put a stop to it is Musharna. Musharna stops Gurdurr cold and can set up Calm Mind all day to beat down all the shreds that Rampardos might have left. While Golurk might seem like a reasonable choice to switch into Rampardos if lacking Ice Beam, the 172 HP set is actually getting 2HKOed by Head Smash + Fire Blast. Eviolite Fraxure as well gets cleanly OHKOed by Head Smash and these two situations are the reason that Ice Beam is slashed after Focus Blast. Even so, it's still usable if your team cares more about beating Shelgon or having a more accurate move to beat Altaria and Amoonguss.