Skrelp

[Punchshroom]

Squabbling aside, Skrelp is pretty cool. It's both strong and bulky, which means it'll definitely have a niche in LC. On top of that, it has room on its sets to run Toxic Spikes without having to sacrifice a precious moveslot because Water/Poison has really good coverage. This allows you to run something like Toxic Spikes / Water STAB / Sludge Bomb / coverage move of choice or additional Water STAB. With that last slot, Shadow Ball is probably better neutrally than Thunderbolt, as it allows you to nail Frillish as well as hit Ferroseed neutrally if you ever find yourself needing to finish it off. Thunderbolt would be nice for bulky Water-types, but I'm sure Adaptability Sludge Bomb does a good number to Staryu, and you can't hit Chinchou with Thunderbolt anyways.

Thunderbolt has the merit of hitting Tentacool and opposing Skrelp.

 

[SpinningB]

Thunderbolt has the merit of hitting Tentacool and opposing Skrelp.

Yes we know

Also guys I just edited the op to have a offensive support set tell me what you think

 

[Antar]

So this will probably surprises no one, but when I ran my usage stats scripts over a the partial month of November, Skrelp popped out in a very important way:

In Swirlix's moveset stats,

 +----------------------------------------+ 
 | Checks and Counters                    | 
 | Skrelp 59.589 (82.07±5.62)             |
 |	 (41.0% KOed / 41.1% switched out)| 
 +----------------------------------------+

THAT'S IT. So, *statistically speaking* the only reliable check/counter for Swirlix is Skrelp.

 

[SpinningB]

Wow that is amazing as swirlix is ond of the top threats in the meta right now

So this will probably surprises no one, but when I ran my usage stats scripts over a the partial month of November, Skrelp popped out in a very important way:

In Swirlix's moveset stats,

+----------------------------------------+
| Checks and Counters                    |
| Skrelp 59.589 (82.07±5.62)             |
| (41.0% KOed / 41.1% switched out)|
+----------------------------------------+

THAT'S IT. So, *statistically speaking* the only reliable check/counter for Swirlix is Skrelp.

 

[Expulso]

That's exactly why I run a specially defensive Skrelp; it can take a Psychic at +0 with Eviolite and reliably OHKO back.

 

[SpinningB]

Can i have the set so i can add it to the op if its any good?

That's exactly why I run a specially defensive Skrelp; it can take a Psychic at +0 with Eviolite and reliably OHKO back.

 

[Expulso]

Skrelp @ Eviolite
Ability: Poison Touch
Level: 5
Modest Nature
EVs: 36 HP / 36 Def / 196 SpA / 196 SpD / 44 Spe
- Sludge Wave
- Dragon Pulse
- Surf
- Thunderbolt

 

[midend]

Sludge wave allows you to hit chespin hard, while u cant hit it effectively with sludge bomb, shadow ball, thunderbolt and hydro pump

 

[Darkamber8828]

:'c

 

[Expulso]

| 573 | Chespin | 0.001% |

>less than 300 eligible LC mons
>one of the eligible ones is 573rd

 

[Darkamber8828]

wait what the fuck how did that happen

| 135 | Chespin | 0.57043% | 1104 | 1.119% | 912 | 1.138% |

musta used ou stats

shut up im dumb :c

 

[GlassGlaceon]

OU silly darkamber :] (pls dont stone me 4 that joke pls)

 

[midend]

...u get what i mean lol, sludge bomb > wave unless the team has some difficulty with uh, chespin