[OVERVIEW]
- Upside down Pokeball = win
- Massive Speed (base 140)
- Great for setting up a quick RD
- Good supportive movepool, and can abuse STAB Thunder in Rain
- Frail and not exactly powerful
- Poor offensive movepool (limited to Electric moves, Hidden Power and Signal Beam. Don't even think about explosion anymore)
[SET]
name: Rain Dance
move 1: Rain Dance
move 2: Taunt / Magic Coat
move 3: Thunder
move 4: Volt Switch / HP Water
item: Damp Rock
ability: Soundproof
nature: Timid
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpAtk / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
- Really gets the momentum going for Rain teams
- Rain Dance gives 7 turns of rain for Swift Swimmers, and lets Electrode abuse Thunder
- Taunt prevents setup, but Magic Coat can reflect nasty things. Riskier than Taunt, but has a greater payoff
- Thunder is a powerful STAB move it can use in the Rain
- Volt Switch lets you bring in a Rain sweeper, can scout
- HP Water Ground- types, since they're untouchable, and gains a boost in the Rain
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
- Soundproof lets it act as a great Yanmega check, being able to switch into the most common move of the most common set (Bug Buzz, SpcesLens)
- HP Ice is an option to hit Grass types and Flygon/Torterra hard, whereas HP Grass hits Gastrodon and Quagsire
- good partners MIGHT be Swift swimmers, but its your choice
- Ludicolo can come in on Ground attacks, Kingdra is the most powerful and dangerous, etc.
[Checks and Counters]
- Since it'll mainly be using Electric- type moves, Ground types are a given
- However, it's not Electrode you should be focusing on countering, but the Swift Swimmer coming in
- Really fast, so you'll need Scarfed Pokemon to outrun and KO the ball
[Other Options]
- Static is also a fine ability, with a 30% chance of paralyzing when using a contact move
- Signal Beam can destroy Celebi, and other 4x weaknesses like Shiftry, Exeggutor, Cacturne. The last three are really rare though
- Explosion was weak last gen, and is two times weaker now. Not really gonna scratch anything off 50 base Attack, but it lets a Rain sweeper get in for free
[Dream World]
- Aftermath is seriously cool, becasue when Electrode is KOd by a contact move, the opponent loses 25% of their HP.