Noctowl
[Overview]
- Good stats on paper but not so good in practice.
- Weak to common attacking types (Ice/Rock/Electric), Only neutral to fighting, but resists Grass and Bug which gives it options.
- Grass resist + Sleep immune = Good against common grasses.
- Good support movepool that gives it more viable options than last gen.
[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Roost
move 2: Whirlwind
move 3: Air Slash / Night Shade
move 4: Toxic / Reflect / Magic Coat
item: Leftovers
ability: Insomnia
nature: Calm
evs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SDef
[SET COMMENTS]
- Becomes very bulky on the special side with the given EVS.
- 248 HP Evs to allow 4 SR switchins
- Imsomnia makes it one of the very few mons that isn't royally screwed by sleep moves.
- Air Slash will still hit the things it can wall for decent damage. Night shade hits other things harder.
- Can act as a decent phazer for CMers that don't carry a super effective move eg Serperior with HP fire.
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Last move is flexible. Reflect lets it do well against things like Leafeon. Magic coat for turning back taunts and hazards. Can also use light screen, hypnosis or Protect.
- While the set is very bulky it must be careful of switching into HP Ice or Specs neutral moves.
- And EV spread of 252 HP / 120 SDef / 136 Spe lets it beat all variants of Specsgutor.
- This set has difficulty with some special threats and less difficulty with others. Partnering it with another bulky Pokemon such as Quagsire let them cover each other's weaknesses.
- Loves Rapid Spin support as it lets it beat some extra threats. Armaldo likes have grasses taken out and can spin for Noctowl.
- Tentacool can lay toxic spikes as well as rapid spin and as such makes a decent partner for noctowl.
[Other Options]
- Can try to run an offensive set thanks to Tinted Lens from Dream World but only gets Work Up to boosts it's offenses.
- Access to Psych Up, while gimmicky, can let it capitalise on CMers.
- Psycho Shift
- Swagger / Feather Dance
- Screens
[Checks and Counters]
- Anything physical can come in and KO.
- Super effective special moves can still wreck havok.
- Taunt
