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![]() "My name is Darmanitan! I burn jungles even though I am a gorilla, rawr!" Quote:
name: Choice Scarf move 1: Flare Blitz move 2: Fire Punch move 3: Superpower / Rock Slide move 4: U-turn item: Choice Scarf ability: Sheer Force nature: Adamant evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS]
[SET] name: All-Out Attacker move 1: Flare Blitz move 2: Superpower move 3: Fire Punch move 4: U-turn / Rock Slide item: Life Orb ability: Sheer Force nature: Adamant / Jolly evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe [SET COMMENTS]
<li>LO Flare Blitz vs 0/0 (Multiscale) Dragonite: 30.95% - 36.53</li> <li>LO Flare Blitz vs 0/0 Kingdra: 34.36% - 40.54%</li> <li>LO Flare Blitz vs 252/252+ Jellicent: 43.06% - 50.74%</li> <li>LO Flare Blitz vs 252/0 Tyranitar: 43.56 - 51.73</li> <li>LO Flare Blitz vs 252/0 Starmie: 67.9% - 79.93%</li> </ul>
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Scarf plays differently from LO and CB, and frankly it's Darmanitan's best set. Remove Life Orb and Choice Band from the item row and re-name the set to Choice Scarf.
Replace Superpower / Hammer Arm with Fire Punch - the latter offers an amazing spam move mid- to late-game without the need of taking ridiculous recoil from Flare Blitz. You will be amazed at the many Pokemon that dies to Fire Punch, a STAB move further augmented by Sheer Force and Sun. Dugtrio is pretty much mandatory on Sun teams anyways, so Superpower is unnecessary on Darmanitan, who spams its STAB or U-turn more often than not. Rock Slide comes in handy when you want to revenge-kill Dragonite and Gyarados. Emphasize Dugtrio support on Choice Scarf set, since removing Heatran / TTar is paramount in allowing Darmanitan to liberally spam its ridiculous STAB moves. Superpower does see use on a separate All-out attacker set @ Life Orb, but again you want both Flare Blitz and Fire Punch, imo. In this case you would replace U-turn for Superpower, since Darmanitan does not need to switch out as often as choiced sets. |
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In fact, Darmanitan is so powerful that sun is not really necessary for its function. The reason why you need sun is largely that sun is not rain or sand - darmanitan really hates these weather conditions, especially rain. The fact that Flare Blitz then becomes such massive overkill is why I would make Fire Punch mandatory on every set (in addition to flare blitz). Darmanitan only needs coverage moves for Heatran and water types in the rain, really, so EQ, Superpower, or even Rock Slide is perfectly adequate on its own. Rock slide is handy, I suppose, for revenge killing gyarados and dragonite in unfavourable weather, but in sun flare blitz is adequate (71.29 - 84.25% to dragonite in the sun with SCARF - sufficient with SR for the most part, and if multiscale is up it's hopeless either way). You should probably slash those three moves together, and remove hammer arm. And please split the scarf set away from your current set.
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scarf set --> life orb (ac band) imo
scarf is obviously one of the more effective sets since its like victini except more powerful and with a few cool things like rock slide and superpower. life orb is just amazing because it can lure in heatran + tyranitar (huge cockblocks for sun teams) with flare blitz + life orb hiding recoil so you can nail superpower them. this means dugtrio support isn't as necessary, and this is why i don't think band deserves a set
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252+ Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Darmanitan Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Hippowdon: 247-292 (58.8 - 69.52%) -- guaranteed 2HKO 252+ Atk Life Orb Sheer Force Darmanitan Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 184+ Def Gliscor: 250-294 (70.62 - 83.05%) -- guaranteed 2HKO OMG thats a OHKO in sun. changed Quote:
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Gastrodon does not quadresist flare blitz, also has weak physical bulk so that
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On what tehy said: 252Atk Sheer Force Darmanitan (Neutral) Flare Blitz in Sun vs 252HP/0Def Storm Drain Gastrodon (Neutral): 64% - 76% (276 - 326 HP). Guaranteed 2HKO.
Scarf Flare Blitz against SpDef Gastrodon in the sun.
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Thanks, I changed the C&C.
Now, tell me if this is the ultimate viable gimmick in the history of pokemon or not. Presenting Zen Mode Darmanitan! Darmanitan @ Leftovers Trait: Zen Mode EVs: 184 Def / 164 SAtk / 160 SDef Nature: Sassy Flare Blitz | Psychic | Fire Blast | Grass Knot / U-Turn Pretty cool but it struggles with rain so sun support is manditory EDIT: I tested it it works well on a sun team but not against other teams Darmanitan-Z causing problems http://www.pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou11788482
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Your opponent played poorly, and had numerous opportunities to shut down Darmanitan-Z in the match (for instance Magnezone could have killed it with T-Bolt / Vaporeon could have killed it while fucking around with Wish etc etc). The set itself is bad and is getting a firm rejection from me.
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Talked to ginganinja, and we agreed to slash Superpower with Rock Slide, since the former does have its uses for hitting Terrakion / Tyranitar / Politoed / Heatran / etc outside of sun / on the switch.
Also change Jolly to Adamant on Scarf set. Since its scarfed its plenty fast already, and it wants as much Attack boost as it could get. AC mention Jolly so Darmanitan can outrun Scarf Rotom-W, +1 neutral base speed 100 mons like Volcarona, +1 Adamant Haxorus, and +1 Adamant Kyurem-Black. Overall, Adamant is the best nature, though. For All-Out Attacker, the move order should look like this: move 1: Flare Blitz move 2: Superpower move 3: Fire Punch move 4: Rock Slide / U-turn Remove Hammer Arm; it doesn't receive Sheer Force boost, and it lowers Darmanitan's decent Speed - there's nothing redeeming about it. AC mention Sunny Day, though, to aid in the weather war ;d EDIT: Obviously rejecting zen mode, since Darmanitan is better off spamming stupidly powerful Flare Blitz / Fire Punch anyways.
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you might want to expand more on checks, especially heatran. Maybe faster stuff that can switch in on a single Flare Blitz from a CB/LO outside of sun as well;stuff like Starmie and Lati@s.
Edit: Damn, that's quite a lot. I had thought it to be less, so sorry about that Last edited by tehy; Mar 12th, 2013 at 10:45:49 PM. |
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Also im not a fan of Substitute even in the AC of Darmanitan's All Out Attacker set. Darmanitan doesn't really have a massive movepool, but it has all the attacks it really wants, and Substitute doesn't help too much aside from "scouting a switch" I guess. Scouting the switch is all well and good but with Darmanitan, id honestly just screw the switch over with a Flare Blitz and have done with it. I also have a general aversion to Substitute on SR weak pokemon (Darmanitan doesn't have outstanding bulk or amazing resistances either I guess) especially one that takes so much recoil from Flare Blitz in the first place, heck, one of the best ways of dealing with Darmanitan is letting it kill itself with recoil, and Substitute really puts a timer on you. Other QC can weigh in and disagree with me here if they want, but personally I don't see a place for Substitute in AC>
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I really don't like the way the scarf set is going. First of all while fire punch is good, getting walled by heatran and tyranitar amongst others because you lack superpower is not. I always used darmanitan because it was not walled by these two unlike some other sun sweepers. Besides after its done flare blitzing it's usually going to be too weak to do any late game cleaning. Also I just hate U-turn on darmanitan. It's an extremely hazard weak pokemon and your doing very well if you can keep hazards off the field the whole match. Generally when you are lucky enough to get such a glass cannon onto the field you should be taking advantage of that opportunity and smashing stuff, not pussy footing around and scouting or "gaining momentum". Why bother when you have flare blitz and coverage options which will kill most switch ins.
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I don't think it sucks, I just don't think it's necessary but I'm definitely in the minority in my opinions on U-turn. There's no way QC will have it as anything but a main option.
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Slashed in Superpower with U-Turn
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Rock slide is pretty useless unless under rain, but +1 dragonite will extremespeed anyways and it won't KO. Volcarona is more than hard enough by sheer force flare blitz. Slash rock slide as second slash with fire punch if at all.
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I'm not too familiar with Darmanitan in OU, but from what I know from UU and from what I can theorymon, U-turn is pretty necessary on the Scarf set, so if Superpower / Earthquake are gonna get a slash, they should be with Rock Slide. After all, you'll be spamming Flare Blitz / Fire Punch lategame and U-turn early and midgame, so the coverage move of choice will only be used on very specific situations.
That said, to me, the set should look like this: name: Choice Scarf move 1: Flare Blitz move 2: Fire Punch move 3: U-turn (lowercase t) move 4: Rock Slide / Superpower (Earthquake in AC) item: Choice Scarf ability: Sheer Force nature: Adamant (Jolly in AC) evs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe Also, technically Flare Blitz's power is 156 after the SF boost, since it's a ~30% increase EDIT: The thing is, most stuff you'll wanna revenge with Rock Slide are hit hard enough by sun-boosted Flare Blitzes anyway, while you can't pass up the importance of U-turn against Heatran, Tyranitar, and Politoed—some of the best absorbers of Flare Blitz. Superpower definitely could be slashed for revenge killing purposes, just not with U-turn, imo. Last edited by Ernesto; Mar 13th, 2013 at 5:20:31 PM. |
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So I guess this is ready for QC checks EDIT: @Ernesto Hmmm, so you are disagreeing with King. Well, U-turn is still good, that is why it is slashed in. Rock Slide is too important for revenge killing and Superpower is good. I added U-Turn as primary and Superpower as secondary slash because they are both equally useful. Thanks for telling me. I was about to make Superpower the primary and u-turn the next one.
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rock slide's uses are limited. i'm up for moving it to ac, but for now just secondary slash it. superpower is far more important, so put superpower before rock slide on the scarf set pls. ac mention band since life orb + sheer force + superpower = luring common sun counters (think: tyranitar, heatran) without needing dugtrio. also put u-turn before rock slide as well on the all-out attacker set.
i'm rather concerned.. but i hope you surprise me.
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EDIT: QC check #2 plz. i updated everything and i am ready to write :)
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Anyone want to take over Darmanitan? I don't have time these days to finish it so I will only be reserving simple Revamps from now on like Xatu. :-)
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