Mantyke (0/3)

[Bagon]

Taken over from TCR

Overview
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- Very important resistance to fighting and immunity to ground
- Amazing special defense
- Has two great abilities
- Good offensive typing
- One of the best Sun counters
- Mediocre HP and Defense stat
- Low SpA stat
- Crippling 4x Electric Weakness
- SR weakness
- It's adorable

Rain Dance
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move 1: Hydro Pump
move 2: Rain Dance
move 3: Air Slash
move 4: Hidden Power Ground
ability: Swift Swim
item: Eviolite / Life Orb
evs: 76 HP / 36 Def / 200 SAtk / 196 Spd
nature: Modest

Moves
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-Setting up Rain Dance doubles your speed and boosts the power of Hydro Pump 1.5 times making it hit really hard even with Mantyke's average SpA stat
-Hydro Pump is your main STAB and nukes a huge portion of the metagame in rain
-Air Slash is an reliable option vs Fighting types and gets past Grass types.
-Hidden power Ground is really only there to pick off weakened Chinchou and Magnemite.

Set Details
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-Evs are used to maximize special attack and speed. The leftovers are dumped into bulk.
-Eviolite gives you good bulk to set up Rain Dance and you still hit really hard
-Life Orb makes it harder to set up rain but you will hit like a nuke once set up.
-Modest allows for a decent buffing of Mantyke's mediocre Special Attack stat.

Usage Tips
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· Make sure you have removed or weakened Chinchou and/or Magnemite and Sturdy users before you attempt a sweep since they will stop it cold.
· You can easily set up rain against ground and fighting types like Timburr ,Mienfoo and Drilbur.
· Is a nice fit on Bulky Offense and Balance and provides a nice ground immunity.

Team Options
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· Diglett can trap and kill Chinchou, Pawniard and Sturdy users.
· Ferroseed is a great teammate as it enjoys the protection of the rain, sets up hazards, and gets rid of Chinchou with Bullet Seed.
· Drilbur spins rocks away, outspeeds and kills Magnemite and Chinchou and has a good matchup vs Pawniard.

Other Options
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-A RestTalk set is a great option, being able to recover along with Sleep Talk to keep momentum.
-Scald or Surf can be run over Hydro Pump for accuracy.
-Ice Beam and Signal beam are other options for a more offensive set.
-Tailwind is an option for support.
-A decent physical movepool, albeit terrible attacking stat, is available with Earthquake, Waterfall, Rock Slide, and Aerial Ace or Acrobatics.


Checks & Counters
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**Electric-types**: Electric types such as Chinchou, Magnemite, and Elekid have a 4x type advantage on Mantyke.

**Sturdy users**: Sturdy users, such as Magnemite, Tirtouga, and Dwebble have no problem taking a hit and dealing back damage. In the case of Shell Smash sturdy users, they can always set up as long as there are no hazards and KO with a STAB Rock-type move.

**Water-Types**: Most water types take little damage from Mantyke, including Omanyte, Chinchou, and Tirtouga.

**Physical Attackers**: Hard hitting Physical attackers like Pawniard and Tirtouga can beat Mantyke easily by either Knocking off it's item or hitting with another STAB move in the case of Tirtouga.

 

[Bagon]

Ready for QC!

 

[Lord Alphose]

- No RestTalk? Not even in OO? RestTalk Mantyke is bae.

- Mantyke is used in LC as a special tank, when it's used. Water Absorb Eviolite is the most common.

- Team Options should mention Ferroseed and other things that also enjoy the protection of the rain.

- Right now, in team options, you have that Fletchling should be on this team to deal with Chinchou. Please goodness no don't do that.

- Obviously, Mantyke has more checks and counters than that, or it would be used so much more often. But more than two would be nice.

- Other Options has a physical set, even though Mantyke has a Attack stat of 20, only surpassing Hapiny as the worst physical attacker in LC.

Of course, I might just be an idiot after all.

Edit: Happy 200th post!!!

 

[Bagon]

That was mainly TCR's doing..I'll clean this up a bit. Thanks for pointing it out Alphose_Elric

 

[Good_Luck!]

Agility could be placed in OO (or even mentioned in the set) as it lasts longer than Rain Dance, it won't be stopped by Vulpix/Hippo/Snover switch-ins (they're rare, though) and works exactly the same as Rain Dance in tems of setting up. It also lets it run Water Absorb for easy switch-ins; the only let down in switching Rain Dance with Agility is the power loss in Hydro Pump.

- No RestTalk? Not even in OO? RestTalk Mantyke is bae.

I think OO is not enough, it should get its own set as even if it's countered by Chinchou, it can wall lots of Special Attackers, most importantly Cottonee.

 

[Lord Alphose]

most importantly Cottonee.

No. Almost all Cottonee run Encore. Which completely wrecks a RestTalk set.

 

[Goddess Briyella]

This original writer for this is banned. If someone else would like to take up this analysis, post saying so.

 

[slayerx725232]

Already doing the Mantine one, might as well snag the prevo Goddess Briyella

Edit: Briyella should totally edit this if I am allowed to take this over, to be entirely honest.

 

[Goddess Briyella]

Already doing the Mantine one, might as well snag the prevo Goddess Briyella

Edit: Briyella should totally edit this if I am allowed to take this over, to be entirely honest.

Post the new thread and I'll remove this one.