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The most important thing to choose Crunch is the fact that there are much less pokemon that resist it and because of,STAB. But what about the 4th moveslot?
Crunch+Waterfall is resisted by only 9 viable OU pokemon, where Waterfall+Icefang is resisted by almost every water type and Waterfall+EQ by almost every grass type, gyarados and flying dragons
Waterfall + Crunch is obvious and the last moveslot leaves you with much options
Taunt
Really useful against Ferrothorn and such pokemon. As shown before a Crunch already does more,than EQ (iron barbs sucks tho) so Taunt reallly is,a nice choice
Substitute
The lack of leftovers really suck as you don't have any form of recovery. If you want to get healthy after a few subs you need (healing) wish support. I don't see very much advantages either, as versus offense, a DD already helps a lot and vs balance / stall Taunt is better
Ice Fang vs EQ vs Stone Edge
Ice Fang + the 2 STABs is only resisted by Azumarill, Keldeo and Greninja.
EQ has to worry about Chesnaught and Breloom.
Stone Edge is resisted by Keldeo, Breloom and Chesnaught
Just looked quickly at the type coverage tool and in OU
Weak to either Ice Fang, Crunch or Waterfall: 30
Weak to either Earthquake, Crunch or Waterfall: 24
Weak to either Stone,Edge, Waterfall or,Crunch: 24
Earthquake's much higher BP makes it much more useful than Ice,Fang. I don't see,a point in running Ice Fang as coverage anymore because with Crunch Earthquake provides much more offensive pressure
Stone Edge has kinda,the same coverage as EQ, but is less accurate. I can't think.of a mon that Waterfall+Crunch+EQ doesn't hit hard, but is hit hard by Stone Edge outside D-Nite
I understand why IcefT Fang was run in XY pretty often. I've actually seen Ice Fang surprisingly often to hit Dragonite and Chomp hard (more than payback and stone edge) but with the addition of Crunch, the moveslot that has to go is Ice Fang / Stone Edge
TL;DR
Earthquake > Stone Edge and Ice Fang
Taunt > Substitute
Crunch+Waterfall is resisted by only 9 viable OU pokemon, where Waterfall+Icefang is resisted by almost every water type and Waterfall+EQ by almost every grass type, gyarados and flying dragons
Waterfall + Crunch is obvious and the last moveslot leaves you with much options
Taunt
Really useful against Ferrothorn and such pokemon. As shown before a Crunch already does more,than EQ (iron barbs sucks tho) so Taunt reallly is,a nice choice
Substitute
The lack of leftovers really suck as you don't have any form of recovery. If you want to get healthy after a few subs you need (healing) wish support. I don't see very much advantages either, as versus offense, a DD already helps a lot and vs balance / stall Taunt is better
Ice Fang vs EQ vs Stone Edge
Ice Fang + the 2 STABs is only resisted by Azumarill, Keldeo and Greninja.
EQ has to worry about Chesnaught and Breloom.
Stone Edge is resisted by Keldeo, Breloom and Chesnaught
Just looked quickly at the type coverage tool and in OU
Weak to either Ice Fang, Crunch or Waterfall: 30
Weak to either Earthquake, Crunch or Waterfall: 24
Weak to either Stone,Edge, Waterfall or,Crunch: 24
Earthquake's much higher BP makes it much more useful than Ice,Fang. I don't see,a point in running Ice Fang as coverage anymore because with Crunch Earthquake provides much more offensive pressure
Stone Edge has kinda,the same coverage as EQ, but is less accurate. I can't think.of a mon that Waterfall+Crunch+EQ doesn't hit hard, but is hit hard by Stone Edge outside D-Nite
I understand why IcefT Fang was run in XY pretty often. I've actually seen Ice Fang surprisingly often to hit Dragonite and Chomp hard (more than payback and stone edge) but with the addition of Crunch, the moveslot that has to go is Ice Fang / Stone Edge
TL;DR
Earthquake > Stone Edge and Ice Fang
Taunt > Substitute
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