How are some ways Kyogre can beat Groudon or Tyranitar in terms of getting weather up on the first turn?
Okay besides iron ball and lagging tail, are there any other ways? Also would it be a good or bad idea to keep Kyogre in the third/fourth slot and then switch in after all the Pokemon are sent out?iron ball ;)
That is usually the idea, since Kyogre isn't really as reliable with Iron Ball IMO as Groudon on T-Tar.Okay besides iron ball and lagging tail, are there any other ways? Also would it be a good or bad idea to keep Kyogre in the third/fourth slot and then switch in after all the Pokemon are sent out?
Bring 6, use 4.Do we have any idea of whether it will be bring 4 use 4 or bring 6, see their 6, and choose 4? What was it last year?
Tyranitar in OU and Abomasnow in Ubers are probably your best options. In doubles, I heard people bitching about Abomasnow+Mewtwo combo, so I'd definitely give that a go in VGC or ubers. Tyranitar tends to counter weather well in OU as it really can't be stopped from coming in multiple times to screw you up.What is a good way to counter rain/other weather teams. Bring a weather of your own?
Im pretty sure he meant VGC because this part of the forum is a VGC forum -_-Tyranitar in OU and Abomasnow in Ubers are probably your best options. In doubles, I heard people bitching about Abomasnow+Mewtwo combo, so I'd definitely give that a go in VGC or ubers. Tyranitar tends to counter weather well in OU as it really can't be stopped from coming in multiple times to screw you up.
Of course priority rapes weather teams (usually rain has trouble with it) and something like toxicroak might help against rain especially.
To counter sun, simply use a fire pokemon yourself. Fire pokemon tend to wall sunny day sweepers exceptionally well as solarbeam+fire move are resisted by them all except rejects like macargo.
The last option is to use Rayquaza or Golduck(lol) to nullify weather. Ray tends to die fast in ubers, so I don't know how long that'll last.
Tell him to put Kyogre in the back and have another Poke out front with Ludi. if your opponent leads with kyogre, the ludi wins, if groudon is out, switch to kyogre or deal with groudon by some other means (grass knot/energy ball etc). Sometimes running a fire lead like Infernape can help counter those sunny day leads like Groudon since it has a really powerful Heat Wave.For the Kyogre question, my friend, is starting his team with Kyorge and Ludicolo. He has had problems setting up rain, and he just went screw it, and ran Rain Dance on his Ludicolo. I'm not sure how it's doing for him, but I think it seems to work for him.
You will not get banned for having clones. Last year everyone used the Shiny Metagross BlakChrome it seems like. Also about Abomasnow, heat wave will almost definately kill it with 4x damage, but there is no way the Zapdos will kill it with Thunder, even with a crit and stab.This may be falling under the hack check rule, but do their hack checks identify and ban cloned Pokemon such as the aforementioned good Smogon redis?
Also, opinions on Zapdos with STAB Thunder and Heat Wave to take down Abomasnow?