Protect Zam
Zam (Alakazam) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Protect
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
Sick of those Choice Band Scizors putting your Life Orb Zam in a pickle? Well Protect solves that. Similar to Mystic Gar of last generation, Protect let's you scout whether that pesky Scizor is going to Bullet Punch or Pursuit. If he Pursuits, Scizor will take >70% from Focus Blast. When you can't find those opportunities for a free Sub, which is kinda hard with Zam, this set offers an alternate solution. It is also handy for scouting if Rotom-W, something Scizor is paired with, is scarfed or not. Basically this set benefits from having the power of Life Orb without the CB Scizor dilemma.
Tieing with Adamant Nite means nothing. If you come in on him, he gets a DD up, OHKOs you, or can Espeed you next turn. He comes in on you, you have a Sub and you can afford to be slower.UltiMario, I really don't see the point of running HP EVs on that set. Medicham is extremely frail and the ability to outrun Modest Heatran and tie with Adamant Dragonite is too good to pass up.
I should have mentioned the set needs SR support. I guess DNite can fuck you over if you don't outspeed it without SR up, but if SR is up, you're fine. Even if you DON'T get SR up, Ice Punch can still bring Dnite to its knees and usually forces an Outrage or Espeed, which is why I always run Scizor with this set.That's not quite true. If Dragonite comes in on you with multiscale intact, then you need to tie if you want a chance to 2HKO/OHKO with sub up (you have a chance to OHKO). There are also situations where you won't have a sub up too. I'd very much consider using a jolly nature on that set anyway. Timid Heatran is certainly relevant, for starters. Then there's adamant Gyarados, adamant Dragonite, Adamant Lucario, Adamant mamoswine, Modest rotom-w etc. Pretty much all of these guys can cripple/OHKO you, while you can also OHKO them (except Gyarados).
Also, you should take a look at my medicham analysis in C&C. Your set might very well make it onto an analysis.
edit: also put my first log with your set up there. So far it's looking good.
Adding sub to standard tests is what a lot of great new sets do anyways. Think Sub/DDnite, Sub/NP Thundurus, tyraniboah back in gen 3 and a LOT of others.All you did on the medicham set was send some evs from speed to hp and add substitute from his main set on smogon
Except Smogon doesn't even have an OU Analysis for Medicham, and has one LO Set on all of Smogon, designed for RU, which doesn't even play the same as this set?
Geeze.
Being creative has nothing to do with using gimmicky EV spreads, set or item or even moves.Set and evs were almost identical
That's just ridiculous. Is any pokemon with a Life Orb on it automatically not creative? The set has 2/3 moves different, different evs, and it's in a different tier. Sub + LO is highly unusual, and of course, unlike most of the sets in this thread, actually meets the second important criterion from the title: actually being good.
As in 2 or 3 different moves that most other sets don't normally run, depending on what set you're looking at.It's gimmicy and 2/3? Wher the fuck did you learn math? 1/4 is not 2/3 lolol
Probably a stall team if you are using Toxic Spikes. Although I really need a copy of Making Pokemon Teams for Dummies so I might be wrong.I absolutely suck at teambuilding though, so unless I get help with it, I wouldn't know the first thing to what to use as teammates for the defensive Roserade. :S