What are the most important things to beat in the 100 base speed tier? I'm messing around with Manaphy but I'm torn between maxing speed and maxing HP. I find without EV investment in HP, she gets 2HKO'd by basically any attacker that's not relying completely on Water, Fire or Ice attackers (which is, like, nothing). I'm wondering if she really does need to have maxed speed or if she could split it to beat certain things, but since there's no OU analysis for her I'm having trouble figuring it out.
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That's what I thought. Thanks!
Jirachi, Mew, Zapdos, Salamence (Moxie/Scarf, omg) and Celebi are the ones I know has 100 speed and is also used atm on Showdown/PO.
No I'm just can't get it at this point and time. Please help me if anybody is interested
Thanks dude! :)
Max speed is probably the best way to go. It's very difficult to sweep with low speed, and Manaphy isn't quite bulky enough to rely on taking hits. However, if you're concerned with taking hits, you could max Speed and HP because the absurdly high level Tail Glow boosts Special Attack makes investment not the most necessary thing. You could also run Calm Mind, with or without Sub, if you wanted it to be a bulky boosting sweeper.
Yeah, I've been running calcs on +3 0 SpA attacks and been surprised to learn that there's basically no difference from +3 252 SpA - I haven't actually found anything yet that goes from a notable OHKO to 2HKO or 2HKO to 3HKO. Just goes to show how stupidly overpowered Tail Glow is.
No, it only has one good set http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/completed-chesnaught.3490573/
What are the plain and simple strongest spammable moves against neutral targets in OU? By "spammable" I mean there is not even one turn of set-up such as SD.
Some ideas on the physical side:
MegaMedicham HJK
CB Haxorus Outrage
CB Tyrantrum Head Smash
CB Crawdaunt Waterfall
etc
Some ideas on the special side:
Specs Ninetales Fire Blast
Specs Hydreigon Draco Meteor
MegaAlakazam Psychic
Specs Heatran Eruption
etc
The above are only ideas... I know I'm wrong but those are just things I thought of off the top of my head. Obviously band and specs will always be stronger than LO but a list of a few LO attackers would be nice to. Maybe someone has compiled a script or listed out these tiers in a thread somewhere before?
Some ideas on the physical side:
MegaMedicham HJK
CB Haxorus Outrage
CB Tyrantrum Head Smash
CB Crawdaunt Waterfall
etc
Some ideas on the special side:
Specs Ninetales Fire Blast
Specs Hydreigon Draco Meteor
MegaAlakazam Psychic
Specs Heatran Eruption
etc
The above are only ideas... I know I'm wrong but those are just things I thought of off the top of my head. Obviously band and specs will always be stronger than LO but a list of a few LO attackers would be nice to. Maybe someone has compiled a script or listed out these tiers in a thread somewhere before?
How many Speed IVs is typically recommended to run on Mega Mawile? I looked in the Mawile thread, but could not come up with a definitive answer.
Basically, I want to make sure I atleast outspeed common WoW'ers (barring Rotom) that may put 4 EV's into Speed.
Basically, I want to make sure I atleast outspeed common WoW'ers (barring Rotom) that may put 4 EV's into Speed.
A number of the moves you picked aren't really spammable per say, some of them have some serious drawbacks to them, like Haxorus' Outrage locking it in and Tyrantrum's Head Smash doing tons of recoil (until Rock Head is released, anyways), and you can't really spam Draco Meteor because of that Sp Attack drop.
Spammable for me means a move that you can toss out there if you aren't sure what to do with yourself.
I'm thinking more like
CB Azumarill Waterfall / Play Rough
Aegislash Shadow Ball
Scizor U-Turn
Char-Y Fire Blast
Mega-Kanga Return
Garchomp Earthquake
Greninja Hydro Pump
And so on.
^the only moves I would discount are things like hyper beam and explosion, otherwise pretty much everything is fair game. Obviously the strongest pokemon in the game have drawbacks such as speed or choice lock, but I'm seriously only questioning, what are the just straight up strongest moves+pokemon+ability+item combinations in the game (assuming a neutral hit)
with sticky web support it can setup 1 or 2 bulkups , i see no reason not to use and offensive set, he has access to swords dance
Looking for a Dragon as part of a sun team, and due to using Y-zard as my sun setter I'm dead set on using one that's not weak to stealth rock, hence taking Dnite out of the picture. The logical conclusion is to use Garchomp, but I've thought of an alternative: Choice scarf Flygon.
Sure, flygon is inferior in pretty much every way, but I was wondering if it's access to U-turn might just make it worth the power difference. Since my team is focused on being hyper offensive in the sun, momentum is important, hence I want to use a Voltturn core. I have Specs Heliolisk as a volt switch user, so I was thinking that Flygon is the way to go.
What do you guys think? Is it better to use Flygon over Garchomp in this case?
Sure, flygon is inferior in pretty much every way, but I was wondering if it's access to U-turn might just make it worth the power difference. Since my team is focused on being hyper offensive in the sun, momentum is important, hence I want to use a Voltturn core. I have Specs Heliolisk as a volt switch user, so I was thinking that Flygon is the way to go.
What do you guys think? Is it better to use Flygon over Garchomp in this case?
Where can the new and confirmed mechanics of critical hits be found ? Especially the change of crit rate and attacks like focus energy.
Serebii says that Krookodile is getting Me First as an egg move. Considering that would be his only priority move, is that a viable option for this croc?
Me First isn't priority, you need to outspeed for the move to work.
Oh weird, I didn't know that.
Not sure there's one post that lists them all, but the Mechanics Research thread and the Critical Hits thread should have all the mechanics somewhere in them. I think this is all the crit info:
+0: 6.25% chance
+1: 12.5% (I think. Odd that it would jump right after this.)
+2: 50%
+3: 100%
Things that give boosts:
+1: High crit moves, Super Luck, Scope Lens
+2: Focus Energy, Stick
Crit modifier: x1.5 damage
So Focus Energy+Scope Lens, Stick+a high crit move on Farfetch'd, and Super Luck+Scope Lens+a high crit move will always crit and give 50% bonus damage.
That's what I found on Serebii, but the difference between +1 and +2 was a little bit weird, so I wanted to be sure. Anyway, thanks for the answer.
Will you be able to move Gen 6 mons to BW2? As in, can I take my excadrill and port it to white 2 so I can teach it Stealth Rock?
What process do I need to go through to get a new Pokemon thread started here? I don't have sufficient privileges to post, apparently.
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