This. You might as well use a Sub+3 attacks. Another thing you could consider is Smack Down. Allows you to dispatch troublesome pokemon like Skarmory and Bronzong.
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np: OU Suspect Testing Round 5 - Sandstorm (Excadrill/Thundurus Banned)
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This. You might as well use a Sub+3 attacks. Another thing you could consider is Smack Down. Allows you to dispatch troublesome pokemon like Skarmory and Bronzong.
Landorus has Base 125 Attack, and U-Turn is a modest but useful Base 70. Life Orb U-Turn sounds kinda good in theory.
Which I supported...
Movie Raikou was Rash, ExtremeSpeed / Weather Ball / Zap Cannon / Aura Sphere, shiny. The funny part is that Raikou was Rash only because DPPt shiny Wondercards had to have a fixed nature; this doesn't happen in BW anymore. If only they waited a couple months to distribute it...
Payback doesn't work on switch-ins anymore, so I doubt Analytic does.
...I mean, you weren't planning on making Starmie slow, were you ?__?
EDIT-- Eh, slowpoke'd.
Analytic only works if the pokemon with the ability goes last (even in doubles and triples). I was planning on testing out a trick room Starmie I saw someone posted a while back where it was a normally fast starmie that would use trick room for the team in a pinch and then power up it's own attacks. That was the idea behind the set and I was getting bored yesterday, so I thought, why not.
Besides, whether or not you'd want to use it is irrelevant. It's released, therefore it should be available in the Wifi tiers. We don't want even MORE people to believe that smogon is actually preventing you from using horrible pokemon, now do we?
Edit @ Pocket: After You Chlorophyll Lilligant with Specs Eruption Heatran in triples. DO IT NOW!
Besides, whether or not you'd want to use it is irrelevant. It's released, therefore it should be available in the Wifi tiers. We don't want even MORE people to believe that smogon is actually preventing you from using horrible pokemon, now do we?
Edit @ Pocket: After You Chlorophyll Lilligant with Specs Eruption Heatran in triples. DO IT NOW!
Thank you. It's been good for keeping momentum and denting things at the same time. I have yet to find anything more useful so far. In my experience, I never have the time to set up, and would rather hit something hard.
The problem with LO U-turns is that the recoil stacks with SR damage making Landbro lose unnecessary HP.
Man, what is it with all the scouts at the moment. Landorus, Hydreigon, Rotom-W, and Scizor are annoying separately, and I'm seeing them together all over the ladder -.- I also noticed that most non-weather teams have to resort to the same cores if they want to be able to take on weather teams. It is either Dragon+Water or FWG core. Espeon is also increasingly common. The ladder metagame is mostly focused on abusing specifics in my opinion i.e BP Gorebyss/Espeon, scout teams, HO teams, and then your standard weather teams. After laddering so much, I want to say that this is a very annoying tier. If something changes after this round, I hope its for the better.
EDIT: GG
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That's me :)
That's basically my old team minus OTR Reuniclus. Have you seen any? IMO it needs more use since it wrecks weather and only has like 4 safe switchins capable of threatening it.
If you're having issues with switching cores I've found sub bounce gyarados is pretty good at taking them out. I think it was BIHI who used it, but I got it from razza. Basically it punishes rotom for ditching thunderbolt. >:D.
Sub Bounce Gyara is pretty common now; idk who made it first. Anyway, I use it too and it's extremely effective, especially in rain. With Moxie, that thing is ridiculous; Sub against Rotom-W, KO the switch in next turn and get +1 with Moxie; rinse and repeat until you can decimate Rotom-W with Waterfall and sweep the whole team. It's annoying though when you think you've won, and then Rotom-W pulls out a random Thunder >_<
I think Donphan level 1 may be legal due Pomeg Glitch, but pokemon obtained only by with Pomeg Glitch should be illegal if there is no other way to get them.
Anyone who only runs Volt Switch on their rotom is a scrub.
And we have to consider the fact that Switcher teams fall pretty easily in practice, especially when Entry hazards is just one of their many problems.
Not if you have another pokemon who can also bring down Gyara. If you have both Excadrill and Rotom-W. R-W breaks the Sub, and Exca comes in to close things off. Done deal.
Yeah, you can't be prepared for everything. And Rotom-W can Volt Switch on both of those, which may not be a OHKO but will do a nice chunk.
Running only Volt Switch is extremely common nowadays. It's more useful overall, as you get switch advantage when the opponent brings in something like a Celebi / Latias to take on Rotom-W. It becomes very difficult to play against if your opponent has something like a CB Tyranitar to KO these switch-ins especially. Vaporeon isn't that common, so it's basically just Tentacruel and Jellicent; Tentacruel has no recovery and Jellicent can just be destroyed by CB Tyranitar if it runs enough speed.
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