Honchkrow
Nature: Naive
Insomnia
@Focus Sash
Evs: 252atk, 252sp. atk, 6spd
-Sucker Punch
-Hidden Power [grass]/[fire]/[ice]/[electric]
-Drill Peck
-Whirlwind/Pursuit
There are a lot of possible leads out there, and they do a whole bunch of annoying things. My idea was to try to make a lead who could handle a wide breath of situations, and crush many of the common leads. The result is this . . . rather gimmicky . . . Honchkrow. It may look ridiculous, but it's unique abilities make it able to achieve quite a number of interesting things.
-Insomnia (valuable for any lead)
-Usable special and physical stats
-A dark type that makes it somewhat unaffraid of pursuits
These aspects of Honchkrow make it interestingly usable in handling a number of situations a starter might face. It's move pool also, is especially suited for causing a lot of trouble for many of the common lead pokes.
Gengar-- Can't hypnosis, and is in big trouble against an opponent who can 1hko it with sucker punch, or kill it with pursuit if it runs.
Starmie-- Is in the same position as gengar
Breeloom-- Gets 1hko'd with drill peck, doesn't know whether or not it's faster (and even if it is has its own sash and stays in, will get killed by sucker punch even after surviving the initial drill peck), and can't put it to sleep.
Yanmega-- Can't put it to sleep, and will get 1hko'd by drill peck
Ninjask-- Can get ko'd by drill peck, or be whirlwinded away
Heracross-- Yeah, there's no way it can win
Tangrowth-- Has to rely on paralyse haxing, but probably loses
Swellow-- If you pick whirlwind, just blow it out as it protects. Otherwise, honchkrow can drill peck, survive with focus sash, and then spam sucker punch.
Outside of these, there are still others that Honchkrow can defeat, but only with proper hidden power, and possible need of prediction.
Salamence and Garchomp will either be killed by Hidden Power Ice, and even if they live, can't beat sucker punch.
Swampert really hates hidden power grass
Hidden power fire can cause huge damage to steel leads
Hidden power electric gives some potential for dealing with gyara (though personally, I think that with intimidate, leftovers, and dragon dance thrown in the mix, it comes down to a matter of prediction between hidden powering twice or using sucker punch the second time.
With this ev spread, you can dish out a lot of damage from your attack stat that rivals heracross and your special attack stat that still breaks 300. The idea is to put all your faith on focus sash, because lets face it-- krow's defenses AND speed are pathetic . . . I decided they were so pathetic, I wouldn't rely on either. lol
In any case, this poke does need support from weather changers and rapid spinners because of its heavy dependance on focus sash . . . but you'd be suriprised at some of the ridiculous stuff it can pull off.
Well, there are some issue pokes here:
-Ambipom (ruined by fake out)
-Tyranitar
-Hippodon
-And of course, depending on the Hidden Power you picked, the others not covered could be potential problems.
I'll figure some damage calcs later, but anyway, this thing does make good kills fairly reliably, and is a lot of fun to play. Gimmicky, frail, and slow to boot, but fun . . .