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What UU pokemon are least common BUT have potential?
- Thread starter DM616
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You slime!
But I digress. Specs Manetric huh?
Besides Switcharoo, I would assume you would Manetric over Raikou because of overheat.
Pretty much. With Overheat/Flamethrower hitting Grass-types, Manectric can use HP Grass, which gives it much better coverage than Raikou. While it does get walled by Altaria without HP Ice (and still Chansey), it can use Switcheroo to cripple it (and Chansey).
True, but Manetric and Raichu aren't "Outright" novelties. They can be useful in their own right. Now a novelty is using something like mixed Milotic or something random like that.
That's not novelty, that's just a very bad idea. Milotic doesn't have decent attack or a good physical movepool to take advantage of it, and it's not like it'll help it against any of its counters.
Manectric will have to get a lot of game-changing surprise Switcheroos to justify the fact that Raikou undermines its existence statistically. I've considered Raichu, but its only decent stat is speed, which rests at a modest base 100.
If you want an Electric type that does a great deal of damage or, furthermore, sweeps, you might as well use Raikou. When using the others, just make sure their unique "advantages" are important enough of an asset to the entire team that would warrant using them over the best special sweeper in UU.
Manectric will have to get a lot of game-changing surprise Switcheroos to justify the fact that Raikou undermines its existence statistically. I've considered Raichu, but its only decent stat is speed, which rests at a modest base 100.
If you want an Electric type that does a great deal of damage or, furthermore, sweeps, you might as well use Raikou. When using the others, just make sure their unique "advantages" are important enough of an asset to the entire team that would warrant using them over the best special sweeper in UU.
To true. I myself wish Raichu was a bit faster. You can make good use of Raichu's sub punch set, something that isn't outclassed by Raikou at all.
(about the Milotic thing I mixed up novelty with just plain bad. It was more or less a joke.)
It could still work because many OU Pokemon have "little brothers" in UU, meaning a Pokemon with the same purpose and/or typing. For example, a Pokemon meant to counter Gyarados could counter Feraligatr, a Pokemon meant to counter Infernape could counter Blaziken, a Pokemon meant to counter Jolteon could counter Raikou, etc.
Tangrowth is perfect for heavy stall teams: Leech Seed/Giga Drain/Knock Off/Earthquake. Tangrowth takes physical hits, Chansey takes special hits. Leech Seed and Knock Off are also great for taking on almost ANY threat. You can't counter every pokemon, but a seeded pokemon with no item AND with a status (from your teammates) is gonna die ;D
But what if the Pokémon can only counter Gyarados because of its double Electric weakness? What if it can barely survive a hit, but outspeeds Gyarados and 2HKO's? Against Feraligatr, it barely survives the hit, but only hits Feraligatr once because of Aqua Jet.
What if the counter for Jolteon barely survives a hit and KO's back? If they could barely survive a hit from Jolteon's base 110 Special Attack, they wouldn't be able to survive the same hit from Raikou's base 115.
The "little brother" Pokémon may be outclassed by the OU Pokémon, but at the same time they're far from slightly weaker clones.
Nobody said Toxicroak? NP Toxicroak destroys everything once you send it in on a Milotic or any bulky water for that matter. Let it get one NP in, and its Sludge Bomb can OHKO so many pokemon including things like Mesprit. If it gets two (happens if the person makes the mistake of resting on Toxicroak as it NPs twice. Then it can OHKO Cresselia with a Sludge Bomb. When I first thought of using it I though, "It's going to be the weak link of the team." When I tried it, it ended up getting several kills per match. I fought some notable people here with it (PK Gaming and some others), and it was simply amazing. Too bad it's really underrated seeing how it can easily be overlooked with a simple look at its movepool and finding how it has to resort to Poison for an attacking type. It's not that bad.
Two sets on my fav. sweeper of my UU team: Clefable
Clefable @ Toxic Orb
Belly Drum
Facade
Fire Punch
Softboiled
and
Clefable @ Life Orb
Belly Drum
Double Edge
Fire Punch
Softboiled
The best thing about clefable is it's natural bulk and the ability magic guard. (No damage from LO or Toxic Orb)
The reason I add the Facade set is because Toxic Orb prevents you from being paralyzed which will end your sweep with clefable.
Clefable @ Toxic Orb
Belly Drum
Facade
Fire Punch
Softboiled
and
Clefable @ Life Orb
Belly Drum
Double Edge
Fire Punch
Softboiled
The best thing about clefable is it's natural bulk and the ability magic guard. (No damage from LO or Toxic Orb)
The reason I add the Facade set is because Toxic Orb prevents you from being paralyzed which will end your sweep with clefable.
I love this absolutely dominates stall could you post ev's?
Torterra
Rock Polish specifically
@life orb
Adamant
252 atk - 252 Speed
-RP
-Wood Hammer
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge/Crunch
Wrecks house, stab EQ and Wood hammer. When overgrow activates your nearly guaranteed a kill with wood hammer
Liechi berry is optional
Rock Polish specifically
@life orb
Adamant
252 atk - 252 Speed
-RP
-Wood Hammer
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge/Crunch
Wrecks house, stab EQ and Wood hammer. When overgrow activates your nearly guaranteed a kill with wood hammer
Liechi berry is optional