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Almost Any Ability XY (Suspect Over: Weavile banned, Keldeo Stays)
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Hey guys! darkie, tennisace, and I will be live laddering in Almost Any Ability in just a few minutes at http://www.twitch.tv/smogonu if you wanna join us!
use one of these
maybe a Rest/Sleep Talk/Hydro Pump/Volt Switch max HP max Special Attack modest Rotom-W
Swift Swim Magnezone is really good on rain teams. One of rain offenses largest obstacles are the powerful priority users in the tier, since they can bypass their Swift Swim boosts entirely. Magnezone can negate this weakness, checking Dragonite, Weavile, Entei, Zygrade, Staraptor, and Braviary with a simple Thunder/Volt Switch/HP Ice/ Flash Cannon set under rain. Some other cool Swift Swimmers are Kingler and Crawdaunt, easily smashing stuff with rain boosted Crabhammers.
yes, yes, all of this- that was a good stream
If you really dislike Refirgerate Weavile or Aerilate Dnite catch one slipping with Illusion Aegislash... Kings Shield is a hell of a move. Plus Aegi has access to power trick, doesn't make too much of a difference but can give a hell of a boost to Shadow Sneak or your move of choice...
Wow that's pretty incredible luck..
Two incredibly fun sets I've been using to some success:
Heliolisk @ Air Ballon
Lightning Rod
252 Sp.Atk/252 Speed
Timid Nature
-Electrify
-Glare
-Thunderbolt
-Surf
This is so fun. Anything you outspeed, just spam electrify until you can OHKO. Glare allows you to electrify faster things.
Dusclops @ Eviolite
Normalize
252 HP/252 Def
Bold Nature
-Mean Look
-Skill Swap
-Seismic Toss
-Rest
Another really fun set. Trap 'em, give them normalize and laugh at their puny efforts to harm you.
Heliolisk @ Air Ballon
Lightning Rod
252 Sp.Atk/252 Speed
Timid Nature
-Electrify
-Glare
-Thunderbolt
-Surf
This is so fun. Anything you outspeed, just spam electrify until you can OHKO. Glare allows you to electrify faster things.
Dusclops @ Eviolite
Normalize
252 HP/252 Def
Bold Nature
-Mean Look
-Skill Swap
-Seismic Toss
-Rest
Another really fun set. Trap 'em, give them normalize and laugh at their puny efforts to harm you.
EDIT: Hah, 360 posts. Perfect :)
EDIT2: It was fun while it lasted :/
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A shell smash white herb unburden set is pretty darn cool.
Carracosta @ White Herb
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 108 Spd / 252 Atk / 148 HP
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Earthquake
- Knock Off/Crunch/Stone Edge/Rock Slide/IronHead
- Waterfall
This could also be ran as a mixed set. Although if you run a fully special set Omastar really is better for it.
Swap in on a pokemon that can't do much and set up a shell smash and watch Carracosta wreck havoc. Carracosta's biggest drawback always has been that it is commonly outsped by pokemon even after a shell smash. After one turn Carracosta gets x2 Attack, x2 Special Attack, x2 Speed, and then another x2 Speed from Unburden with white herb. Because of the white herb negating the stat drops and Carracosta insanely high defenses it soaks in various e-speeds and all priority (that isn't vacuum wave).
252+ Atk Choice Band Aerilate Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 148 HP / 0 Def Carracosta: 111-132 (34 - 40.4%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Carracosta resists both aerilaters, refrigeraters, regular e-speeders, and flying moves from gale wing abusers.
Carracosta @ White Herb
Ability: Unburden
EVs: 108 Spd / 252 Atk / 148 HP
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Earthquake
- Knock Off/Crunch/Stone Edge/Rock Slide/IronHead
- Waterfall
This could also be ran as a mixed set. Although if you run a fully special set Omastar really is better for it.
Swap in on a pokemon that can't do much and set up a shell smash and watch Carracosta wreck havoc. Carracosta's biggest drawback always has been that it is commonly outsped by pokemon even after a shell smash. After one turn Carracosta gets x2 Attack, x2 Special Attack, x2 Speed, and then another x2 Speed from Unburden with white herb. Because of the white herb negating the stat drops and Carracosta insanely high defenses it soaks in various e-speeds and all priority (that isn't vacuum wave).
252+ Atk Choice Band Aerilate Dragonite Extreme Speed vs. 148 HP / 0 Def Carracosta: 111-132 (34 - 40.4%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
Carracosta resists both aerilaters, refrigeraters, regular e-speeders, and flying moves from gale wing abusers.
Has anyone been able to try a Stockpile/Spitup Refirgerate Walrein or Dewgong? Wouldn't a 3x stockpiled Spitup be 450 Base Power with STAB?
with a final power of 585.
I already calculated STAB into the 450
refrigerate in addition to changing a moves type gives it a 1.3x boost. The more you know.
Didn't realize that!!
Mew @ Leftovers
Ability: Protean
EVs: 156 SAtk / 252 Spd / 100 Atk
Rash Nature
- Hone Claws
- Thunder
- Blizzard
- Sucker Punch
Been having a lot of fun with this set I came up with, hone claws to bring up the attack/accuracy and a stronger Bolt/Beam combo to catch people off guard.
Ability: Protean
EVs: 156 SAtk / 252 Spd / 100 Atk
Rash Nature
- Hone Claws
- Thunder
- Blizzard
- Sucker Punch
Been having a lot of fun with this set I came up with, hone claws to bring up the attack/accuracy and a stronger Bolt/Beam combo to catch people off guard.
You could run that exact same set with Work Up instead of Hone Claws, with Ice Beam and Thunderbolt replacing Blizzard and Thunder, and you would be dealing more damage with your special moves.
Protean Mew is fun. I ran an offensive Special set with Volt Switch/Frost Breath/Giga Drain/can't remember last move w/ Life Orb.
Quick post here to revive this thread with some announcements:
- Viability Rank up shortly
- Aerilate is now banned from all standard AAA play
Someone read the usage stats :V
Why only Aerilate?
It was arguably was the most broken, giving C/B rank stuff like Dragonite the power to become S rank and break the tier easily
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