What prominent threats will outspeed Choice Scarf Terrakion if he decides to run an Adamant nature over a Jolly nature? Is an Adamant nature advised, or is Jolly superior?
It was because of the way EVing worked in Gen 4 and the fact Arceus came at level 100. Back then you could only get EVs by gaining experience with the exception of items like HP up, Protein, etc. However, these items could only boost a stat to 100 before they stopped working. The EV system changed in BW where even level 100 Pokemon could gain EVs as they were instantly applied after battle and were no longer linked to gaining experience points.
the Azure Flute aka Heavenly Pipe has not been released, so that method is unavailable. Arceus has only been released at lvl 100 via several events
how does a core of kyogre dialga gliscor darkrai sound
full team has scarfsect and kabu w/ it.
Okay, how do you beat the Swagger-mon strategy? It seems like it should be a non-issue, but I keep running into a guy who has a Deo-S/Liepard/Sabeyle/Tentacruel
My team is Xatu/ScarfSect/Groudon/Latias/Giratina-O/Ho-Oh. It's incredibly embarassing --he'll just get rocks up and proceed to sweep with Liepard. You can't set up Ekiller cause Sabelye will just burn it. You can't set up anything else because Liepard will Encore it. Also they just need to get lucky twice with swagger and its gg...I don't even know.
The Swagger users conveniently learn a move known as foul play... they also get priority substitutes and Thunder Wave/Will-O-Wisp.Honestly, swagger is only a problem if your team can't handle hazards. Confusion wears off by switching out and it's only a 50% chance of messing with your mon.
It should be a non issue. Run a forretress with toxic instead of xatu, and toxic the sableye when comes into switch. Xatu isnt very good in ubers.
Honestly, swagger is only a problem if your team can't handle hazards. Confusion wears off by switching out and it's only a 50% chance of messing with your mon.
I find that Xatu works better than Forry in a lot of instances since it's so hard to spin in Ubers and Ho-Oh is so important to my team that I can't afford the time needed to wear blockers down with Toxic. Plus Forry can't even touch Gira-A. The only mon Reflect Xatu can't stop getting rocks up is Dialga and LO Deo-S with Shadow Ball. (Deo-A is beaten with smart Genesect play)
But you're right, Foretress would help a lot in this situation.
As the user after me said, Swaggermons learn Foul Play. Typical play:
You kill Deo-S (with Genesect, say, and switch in Ho-Oh) In comes Liepard. It Swaggers you, and you can't hit it. It Subs up the next turn, and keeps subbing until you don't hit. Then it uses Foul Play. If you switch out (to Ho-Oh, say) it will Swagger you again from behind a Sub.
Now, it's going to Foul Play anyway and even if you switch, the switch in is going to take a bunch of damage. You can't just keep switching forever, even if hazards aren't up.
Of course, this relies on them getting lucky with the first confusion hax, but if they do the strategy is very difficult to stop.
Although Forretress does discourage the usage of entry hazards while it's in play, it very rarely provides "pressure", seeing as it has rather mediocre offensive stats and is rarely used in an offensive manner. Also, Deoxys-S, Deoxys-A, Dialga, and Groudon all have moves commonly used to effectively beat Forretress, namely Fire Punch, Hidden Power Fire, Fire Blast, and Fire Punch/Fire Blast/Overheat, in that order.