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celever · Mar 10th, 2013, 2:40:22 PM

Mr. Muscle (Machoke) @ Eviolite
Trait: No Guard
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- DynamicPunch
- Bulk Up
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

No, the nickname is not compulsory, but copy and pasted from my main NU team is ResTalk Machoke, and it works better than you think. For a wall, the opponent being confused is always nice, but you usually don't want to give up a spot for confuse ray. As such, I have dynamic punch to deal massive damage and confusion. "But dynamic punch has really low PP! You can't have that on a wall" Oftentimes Machoke will end up asleep from rest, and sleep talk takes off from sleep talk's PP and not from the move it chooses. With pretty nice bulk, it can actually completely wreck teams with some helpful sleep talk hax - no confusion needed. The only problem is the occasional struggle wars as well as the psychic oriented tier, however once you get rid of the psychic types you can bring machoke in as a sort of late-game sweepr which replaces the momentum you created with complete wreckage. Fair trade in my opinion.

Mar 10th, 2013, 2:40:22 PM	#108
celever Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 1,074 I HATE COD	Mr. Muscle (Machoke) @ Eviolite Trait: No Guard EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef Adamant Nature - DynamicPunch - Bulk Up - Rest - Sleep Talk No, the nickname is not compulsory, but copy and pasted from my main NU team is ResTalk Machoke, and it works better than you think. For a wall, the opponent being confused is always nice, but you usually don't want to give up a spot for confuse ray. As such, I have dynamic punch to deal massive damage and confusion. "But dynamic punch has really low PP! You can't have that on a wall" Oftentimes Machoke will end up asleep from rest, and sleep talk takes off from sleep talk's PP and not from the move it chooses. With pretty nice bulk, it can actually completely wreck teams with some helpful sleep talk hax - no confusion needed. The only problem is the occasional struggle wars as well as the psychic oriented tier, however once you get rid of the psychic types you can bring machoke in as a sort of late-game sweepr which replaces the momentum you created with complete wreckage. Fair trade in my opinion.