The "sweeping", standard Omastar. Can demolish UU teams, but kind of matches with Kingdra in OU as a mediocre Pokémon that is reliant on the weather. Get a Rain Dance in, fire away from your blasting high Special Attack, Ice Beaming Dragons and Grasses. In standard play, use Hidden Power Electric for Gyarados, as you will 2-3HKO Swampert anyway. In UU, Quagsire is more of a threat than Mantine is (it is used much more there), so use Hidden Power Grass for that. Lum Berry is to cure status, mainly Paralysis, which can ruin a sweep.
Defensive Omastar. Too bad its typing sucks so much. But, with some Defense and HP, it can survive a Dragon Danced or Choice Banded Salamence Earthquake in order to Ice Beam for the KO. In the same kind of Spiker category as Cloyster: it damages other Spikers and Spinners badly, but isn't any good as a physical wall, though Omastar is probably even worse. Thief is a cool suicide move, stealing Leftovers from Blissey, Suicune, Snorlax or Milotic can work in your advantage, and this Omastar can pair up with Tyranitar for a lot of Sand Stream damage. Toxic and Protect work with Leftovers. Protect can stall time for you to recover with Leftovers, and it can scout Choice Banders, since for the most part, only Earthquake is going to hurt Omastar from Choice Banders (and STAB Fighting moves), so this really eases up prediction. Other OptionsNot much to see here, Omastar doesn't get Rapid Spin, Explosion, or a good Attack stat to use the physical moves it gets, and still it doesn't get much of that. I suppose Toxic and Tickle can work for Spikes abuse, a very little bit. Haze cannot be used with Spikes, and that's a letdown. EVsFor the Rain Dancer, you need about max Speed for a stat of 198 so you beat everything used in standard play (Jolteon, Aerodactyl and everything below). In UU, you could do with less. 181 Speed (140 EVs) is a good target to shoot for, as you are faster than all but Electrode after a Rain Dance in UU. Then max out Special Attack, and put your leftover EVs in HP. The other set needs maximum HP, a bit of Special Attack, and the rest in Defense. You're not taking any Special hits anyway, or if you are, you are dead. OpinionSpikes are great, Special Attack and Defense are great, but in standard play you can't switch it into ANYTHING without being statused, Spiked, walled and / or up on vs. a Pokémon with Earthquake, a Grass or Fighting move, or Thunderbolt. Exceptions are Choice Banders, but still, that means Omastar would be your Choice Bander counter, while you could use something like Skarmory, or if you want to go unorthodox, Regirock or Rhydon. In UU, I suppose it is arguably tied with Gorebyss the best Rain Dancer, and it might get some Spikes in. The typing is what it hurts the most. CountersStandard play: Paralysis in general kills the Rain Dancer. Snorlax (with Earthquake), Blissey, other Waters like Starmie, Suicune, and Milotic can all take its hits easily and slowly kill it. Trace Porygon2 and Gardevoir of course rock the Swift Swimmer excellently if they have Thunderbolt. Dugtrio finishes you off at circa 60% when you are not under the effects of Swift Swim. Actually, any neutral Special Attack will OHKO or 2HKO Omastar. Any Pokémon with a Grass move will OHKO Omastar—not many of them like Ice Beam or boosted Hydro Pump / Surf though, so that's a plus. In UU, Quagsire is actually healed by your Surfs, so if Omastar doesn't have Hidden Power Grass, it can have some difficulty. Mantine stops it if it doesn't have Hidden Power Electric. Other Waters can usually survive it and Surf back for the KO, like Golduck. For the rest, most UU Pokémon will take a big beating from this. |
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