So I've seen Toxicroak being threatened getting a lot of love - why? CAP 5, at best, will be getting ground coverage to nail it with, while Toxicroak is always going to threaten CAP 5 with SE STAB Drain Punch, which recovers health to add insult to injury. And given CAP5's likely absolutely atrocious physical bulk (with the stats it needs to answer the Latis, it's going to have shit physical bulk), it's highly likely most toxicroak sets will actually threaten the OHKO. Both of our STABs are resisted as well.
To reiterate: there's no way in hell Toxicroak is anything other then a counter to CAP 5 - It threatens with SE stab that heals it, is only threatened by a coverage type CAP 5 would be getting for covering only it and Heatran (and it would very much like to run something else if it's only threatening two mons with a move that can give dangerous mons free switch ins.), and resists both of our STABs. CAP 5 beating Toxicroak will happen when it is a cold day in hell.
And preemptively since I know someone might think this: no we're not giving it psycho cut why the hell would it use non-stab'd psychic moves.
Edit: oh yeah and Gyarados wrecks our shit with Bounce I guess.
Last edited by nyttyn; Feb 24th, 2013 at 7:15:16 AM.
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