Okay, resident Feraligatr (over)user fanboy here. So before anyone posts sets to counter it, I'd rather get this clear. Considering it's the standard Mystic water set, if it's raining and it has grabbed a boost being whittled down to Torrent range, it'll just aqua jet past anything you throw at it. It's that brutal. It doesn't even need waterfall 9 times out of 10 in such a scenario and can OHKO anything that survives rainspam with Crunch+Superpower.
That being said, I'll not post any 'usual' counter as they all (almost) without exception fall to appropriate coverage or rain+torrent+mystic water boosted Spam + Coverage.
So, who can absolutely make life miserable for this rain monster at his home turf (
drizzle) in the worst case scenario (
boosted+torrent)?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you.
RainTankNite (Dragonite) @ Leftovers
Trait: Multiscale
EVs:
252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Hurricane
- Thunder
- Substitute
- Dragon Tail
It's simple
Code:
+2 252+ Atk Life Orb Torrent Feraligatr Waterfall vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Multiscale Dragonite: 126-148 (32.64 - 38.34%) -- 2.05% chance to 3HKO
That's not even a 3HKO 98% of the time.
Even disregarding multiscale, assuming rocks are up or you've taken a bit of prior damage
Code:
+2 252+ Atk Life Orb Torrent Feraligatr Waterfall vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Dragonite: 252-296 (65.28 - 76.68%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
so assuming you're at a reasonable health (+65-76%), you have little to fear from him, and all this assuming the absolute
worst-case scenario (i.e: you played like a fucking idiot)
Meanwhile
Code:
4 SpA Dragonite Thunder vs. 184 HP / 0 SpD Feraligatr: 204-240 (57.14 - 67.22%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Assuming worst case scenario (torrent activation) that's a dead Feraligatr right there, and even if it's not and has over 60%, then no worries
(it couldn't deal that much damage minus torrent anyways) it cannot 2HKO without torrent, so you can 2HKO it back, or you can always phaze it out, an option which always remains to you dealing ~25% damage which means it's crippled for the remaining match barring wish support (i.e more stupid play by you)
Standard sets anyways almost always use
Mystic water over LO (to avoid recoil on low health, which is where Gatr usually likes to Operate with the Torrent boost) so they won't be dealing that much damage to you anyways. All in all, this is the most complete counter there exists to this pokemon and is unfazed by absolutely all standard moveset options this pokemon can run, a feat no other
counter check in OU can claim. Well it has ice punch, but lol no one runs that, coverage being given up is too valuable