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JirachiCelebiMew · Dec 19th, 2012, 5:41:37 PM

Ok, I'll talk about my experience using Hail. It's fun, and frankly, Hail teams are just so rare. Weather itself is very rare. The main threats to my team are Fire-types, mostly Emboar and Charizard, as I can't switch anything on the latter (Except if the opponent goes for Superpower and I switch to Duosion) and Charizard just eats me up for breakfast, as my only counter is Stone Edge CB Sawk, which is frankly unreliable. So Scarf 'Zard takes me down real easily. Another counter to Hail is Pinsir, who is a really good anti-meta 'mon. Duosion can't do much to him, as +2 Pinsir can just spam X-Scissor and Close Combat for the win. BlizzSpamming is very fun, and especially destructive if the opponent has no Ice-resists. Specs Glaceon does a huge chunk to Alo with Blizzard, and can easily 2HKO.

One Pokemon that I really never saw but that scares me a lot is RD Gothorita. Goth has no problem freeing up a moveslot for RD. The Specially Defensive variant can easily switch into Snover, set-up RD, kill it, and hamper the opponent's team who probably relies on Hail to work.

I'll be laddering under the alt of Snowver.

Dec 19th, 2012, 5:41:37 PM	#104
JirachiCelebiMew Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 247 The Great Big Sea (Montreal)	Ok, I'll talk about my experience using Hail. It's fun, and frankly, Hail teams are just so rare. Weather itself is very rare. The main threats to my team are Fire-types, mostly Emboar and Charizard, as I can't switch anything on the latter (Except if the opponent goes for Superpower and I switch to Duosion) and Charizard just eats me up for breakfast, as my only counter is Stone Edge CB Sawk, which is frankly unreliable. So Scarf 'Zard takes me down real easily. Another counter to Hail is Pinsir, who is a really good anti-meta 'mon. Duosion can't do much to him, as +2 Pinsir can just spam X-Scissor and Close Combat for the win. BlizzSpamming is very fun, and especially destructive if the opponent has no Ice-resists. Specs Glaceon does a huge chunk to Alo with Blizzard, and can easily 2HKO. One Pokemon that I really never saw but that scares me a lot is RD Gothorita. Goth has no problem freeing up a moveslot for RD. The Specially Defensive variant can easily switch into Snover, set-up RD, kill it, and hamper the opponent's team who probably relies on Hail to work. I'll be laddering under the alt of Snowver. __________________ Shedinja sez: ''Enigma Berry sucks.'' Last edited by JirachiCelebiMew; Dec 19th, 2012 at 6:06:47 PM.