Overview
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SET NAME
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name: Mixed Scarf
move 1: Water Spout
move 2: Scald / Ice Beam
move 3: Fire Blast
move 4: Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb
ability: Sniper
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 236 SpA / 236 Spe
nature: Rash
Moves
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SET NAME
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name: Special Choice
move 1: Water Spout
move 2: Fire Blast
move 3: Scald / Ice Beam
move 4: Hidden Power Grass
ability: Sniper
item: Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
evs: 236 SpA/236 Spe
nature: Timid/Modest
Moves
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Set Details
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Other Options
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**Other Scarfers**: Other pokemon with Choice Scarf can outspeed and kill Remoraid before it gets a chance to land Water Spout. They also disrupt the Choice items.
**Status**: Remoraid finds itself utterly helpless after being paralyzed, as many attackers outspeed and OHKO it.
**Substitute**: If a slower pokemon can survive one of Remoraid's attacks and get up a substitute, it can survive whatever Remoraid throws at it next and kill it. Due to Remoraid's terrible 35/35/35 defenses, not much will fail to 2HKO it.
**Faster Pokemon**: Without a Choice Scarf, Remoraid has an outspeedable 65 base Speed, and due to its awful defenses will usually take quite a bit of damage.
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- Excellent STAB moves and a very deep coverage movepool
- Workable offenses and Speed
- Excellent capabilities with Choice items
- Can function as both a special and physical attacker, as well as working with a mixed set
- Poor defenses make it very easy to eliminate
- No way to counter speedier opponents (outside of Choice Scarf), which, though few and far between, hurt Remoraid significantly
- Clunky base stats ending in 5 waste some EVs
SET NAME
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name: Mixed Scarf
move 1: Water Spout
move 2: Scald / Ice Beam
move 3: Fire Blast
move 4: Bullet Seed / Seed Bomb
ability: Sniper
item: Choice Scarf
evs: 236 SpA / 236 Spe
nature: Rash
Moves
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- Water Spout is the most effective Water-type attack in the game (when Remoraid is at full health) and should always be used for huge damage.
- Seed Bomb and Bullet Seed both provide excellent coverage and good damage with Remoraid's base 65 Attack. Only use Seed Bomb for reliability on Chinchou and Staryu.
- Scald is a reliable, threatening Water-type option, especially if Remoraid is weakened. Ice Beam is a very good coverage move and another option to hit Lileep and Flying-types. It is also a very powerful move.
- Fire Blast hits for great coverage on Steel- and Grass-types, and has a high base power to boot.
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- The EVs give Remoraid boosts to both offensive stats and Speed, allowing it to outspeed and OHKO or 2HKO the majority of non-defensive pokemon in the tier.
- Sniper was nerfed this generation with the rest of critical-related attacks, but it still allows certain OHKOs that are impossible without it.
- The Rash nature increases Special Attack even further than the EV spread, and it comes at no real cost to Remoraid, because it generally can't survive powerful special attacks anyway.
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- Remoraid is best used as a Choice sweeper, due to its high offenses and good coverage.
- Any team requiring a powerful and fast mixed attacker would do well to consider this variant of Remoraid, as it has all of those qualities.
- Remoraid's team still needs to support it.
- Powerful walls are necessary to tank hits meant for Remoraid, because it is excruciatingly frail and has little in the way of recovery.
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- As stated, walls help Remoraid out by taking hits that would kill the Jet Pokemon.
- A Baton Pass could help Remoraid if it boosted Remoraid's defenses to allow it to stay in through the first hit of a 2HKO.
- Remoraid's two weaknesses, Electric and Grass, are covered by Fire and Ground, so it is well-supported by these two types.
- Wish allows Remoraid to hit hard with Water Spout after being damaged, so it can be very helpful. This is especially true late in battle.
SET NAME
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name: Special Choice
move 1: Water Spout
move 2: Fire Blast
move 3: Scald / Ice Beam
move 4: Hidden Power Grass
ability: Sniper
item: Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
evs: 236 SpA/236 Spe
nature: Timid/Modest
Moves
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- Hydro Pump hits opponents for massive damage and is Remoraid's most effective and most powerful reliable STAB.
- Fire Blast offers fantastic coverage and great power, as well as offering a good chance to burn.
- Scald is a more reliable move than Hydro Pump, and has the great side-effect of a common burn.
- Ice Beam is again a great coverage attack.
- Hidden Power Grass, though it was nerfed this gen, still provides good coverage on many types, not least Water-types which block the entire set.
Set Details
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- This EV spread maximizes Remoraid's speed and offensive capability. Unfortunately, the complex Level 5 EV system forces the sacrifice of 36 EVs.
- Sniper is used over Hustle because of the lack of physical attacks on this set, making it a liability rather than an asset.
- The choice of item changes this set's purpose almost entirely. A Choice Scarf allows Remoraid to outspeed and cripple most of the unboosted metagame, and Choice Specs enable it to land the OHKO on almost everything that doesn't resist its attacks.
- A Timid nature helps the pokemon to gain Speed, especially with Choice Specs, and Modest can be used for greater power, especially potent with the Choice Scarf.
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- This all-out offensive set can be used to sweep and to finish most opponents.
- It also functions well as a revenge killer.
- Remoraid is a tough pokemon to use, because of its fragility. A bulkier pokemon could also be used, but very few can hit as hard as Remoraid.
- Wish is as helpful to this set as it is to the other, because this set is even more reliant on Water Spout.
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- A physical attacker like Murkrow complements this set very well, because it hits the special walls Remoraid despises easily.
- Paralysis support helps Remoraid with Specs to outspeed and kill many pokemon that outspeed it naturally.
- Any Baton Pass boosts to Special Attacks are appreciated by Remoraid, as they allow Hidden Power Ground and Surf to deal more damage, not to mention Hyper Beam.
- An ally capable of Taunt helps Remoraid avoid being afflicted with status itself.
- Sticky Web is an effective support move, especially for Choice Specs because Remoraid won't be outspeeding as many enemies as it does with Choice Scarf.
Other Options
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- Remoraid's good Speed allows it to work as a lead, but this makes Remoraid eschew some offensive power.
- A Life Orb set could be used, as it allows Remoraid to attack without being Choice-locked.
- Ice Beam is an option on either set, but it isn't nearly as effective in LC as it is in OU due to the paucity of Dragons.
- Signal Beam is another coverage option with a confusion chance.
- Thunder Wave is a good move to cripple enemies on a non-Choice set.
- Scope Lens, coupled with a use of Focus Energy, gives Remoraid a 100% chance to land a critical hit. If it can survive at full HP for one turn, it can then launch a 2.25x Water Spout, which OHKOs most of the metagame. However, Hydro Pump shoul be used most of the time for greater reliability.
- Hidden Power Fighting can be used in lieu of another move on the special set for coverage.
- A purely physical Band/Scarf set can also work, but eliminates Remoraid's usage of its best move: Water Spout.
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**Other Scarfers**: Other pokemon with Choice Scarf can outspeed and kill Remoraid before it gets a chance to land Water Spout. They also disrupt the Choice items.
**Status**: Remoraid finds itself utterly helpless after being paralyzed, as many attackers outspeed and OHKO it.
**Substitute**: If a slower pokemon can survive one of Remoraid's attacks and get up a substitute, it can survive whatever Remoraid throws at it next and kill it. Due to Remoraid's terrible 35/35/35 defenses, not much will fail to 2HKO it.
**Faster Pokemon**: Without a Choice Scarf, Remoraid has an outspeedable 65 base Speed, and due to its awful defenses will usually take quite a bit of damage.
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