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Melee Mewtwo · Nov 19th, 2012, 1:53:54 PM

I disagree Lady Alex about T Spikes being good. The main problem with them is that they work against you when you only have one layer up, which is fairly often as most players aren't going to sit back and let you set up something that will wreck their team. Out of the pokemon you listed: Tyranitar benefits from TSpikes to avoid a burn from your pursuit weak spin blocker. Hippowdon likes not worrying about a burn or Toxic poison so it will benefit from the single layer. Jellicent benefits from Toxic poison protection like Hippowdon and also won't have to worry about the Tentacruel packing Toxic. Terrakion, Garchomp, Breloom and Keldeo are pretty aggressive Pokemon so they shouldn't be letting poison bother them much (except SubCM Keldeo). Starmie, however, does fear TSpikes as Nat Cure prevents it from milking the temporary presence of the single layer.

Nov 19th, 2012, 1:53:54 PM	#144
Melee Mewtwo Dat Lugiass Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 645 France	I disagree Lady Alex about T Spikes being good. The main problem with them is that they work against you when you only have one layer up, which is fairly often as most players aren't going to sit back and let you set up something that will wreck their team. Out of the pokemon you listed: Tyranitar benefits from TSpikes to avoid a burn from your pursuit weak spin blocker. Hippowdon likes not worrying about a burn or Toxic poison so it will benefit from the single layer. Jellicent benefits from Toxic poison protection like Hippowdon and also won't have to worry about the Tentacruel packing Toxic. Terrakion, Garchomp, Breloom and Keldeo are pretty aggressive Pokemon so they shouldn't be letting poison bother them much (except SubCM Keldeo). Starmie, however, does fear TSpikes as Nat Cure prevents it from milking the temporary presence of the single layer.