I was thinking about Doubles or Triples, so I didn't think about switching. In singles, you have Volt Switch which makes this better. From a casual stand point, sounds fun. From a competitive stand point, we have no idea what the Gen VII will be like so it's not worth talking about. (Also, I don't want this to become locked.)Well, there's no item to extend it right now beyond 5 turns. So, by the time you bring Raichu in, you blew a fifth of your time
Disclaimer: My experience with triples is mostly spamming Scarfed Eruption, MegaZard-Y's Heat Wave, and Screaming Solar Powered Lizard's Hyper Voice, but that got me to over 700 wins in the Mansion somehow. Rather you should take my word as stuff from Triples expert or Noob is up to you. (I do not recommend treating me as a Triples expert.)Hmm... but I don't know if there's any spread Electric attack that doesn't hurt teammates, aside of Discharge that does. Maybe if Tapu Koko could handle the heat from it's own friend and/or there's another good Lightning Rod or Motor Drive or Volt Absorb users that's not as frail as Jolteon, I can foresee a good alternative Triples team. Immunity against paralysis is great, although the third member will need Tailwind and still be threatened by Trick Room (ugh)....
... uhh, sorry, I often do Triples so this kind of intrigued me.
Other Disclaimer: This is Theory Crafting is for the Gen VII's Battle Mansion Equivalent. There might be some new moves or offensive Pokemon that would be worth mentioning if we knew about them, but until we do know more, I'm only planning with Tapu Koko, Psychic Riachu, and what's in Gen VI.
Offensive Spread Damage Electric Moves include Discharge, Electric Web, and Parabolic Charge. I can guess which one we'll use. Modest Mega Zard-Y and Modest Scarf Typhlosion can barley deal enough damage to KO most Pokemon, but Discharge should balance out to about the same power or more a bit more power when you apply the Power Boosting Items you can give the Electric Types. It might be good enough.
For Lightning Rod Pokemon that can use the Special Attack boost, there's Manectric, Riachu at the expense of using Psychic Riachu, the Zebra that's outclassed by the previous two Pokemon, and Mega-Sceptile. Manectic learns Flamethrower to take out the Grass Types that resist Discharge Spam, or if it's powerful enough that you can use a Power 70 Fire Type Move with it, Flame Burst to deal chip damage to the Pokemon next to it. I never thought I'd use that move, but it turns out that I might. Pure Electric Riachu gets Grass Knot, which surprisingly, has an okay Power of 60 against Dugtrio. You still get outspeed without speed boosts though. He might be worth using, but I want to use Psychic Riachu and the next option should make Prue Electric Riachu seem less tempting. Mega-Sceptile looks awesome. He's not only is immune to Electric, but his STABs hit Ground and Dragon Types. Unfortantly, he doesn't get any Special Spread Moves. (Togedemaru, the Electic/Steel Hedgehog Pika Clone and Fire/Ghost Marrowak gets an honorable mention because it has Lightning Rod, but we don't know if they're fast or powerful enough to be worth using. They probably aren't.)
Options that have Motor Drive include Electrivire, the Zebra that's outclassed by Vire, and a Squirrel. As much as I want a Squirrel to be good, your only good option is Vire, but you can't use his Psysical Attack for Electric Moves while it's next to a Pokemon with Lightning rod, so I don't think I'd use him.
Ground Types might sound tempting, but Ground STAB doesn't hit anything that resists Electric other than Electric itself and the only Spread Ground Moves ether hit teammates, or are signature moves.
One last thing I'd like to mention is Heliolisk's signature move, Electrify. Make a slower opponent's move an Electric one? OMG Yes! >:D
IMPORTANT EDIT: I did the math. This is only stronger than Sun Eruption/Heat Wave/Screaming Lizard Spam if Tapu Koku is Faster than Manectric and learns Discharge. (980 being Mega-Zard Y + Typhlosion's Effective Combined Power without counting the third Pokemon vs Electric Spam's Effective Power being 849 without counting Tapu Koko if you give Manctirc a Life Orb and Raichu a Choice Specs or 874 if you do vice versa.) As I said earlier, The Sun Spam was barely able to KO most threats, which means that if this is weaker, it's not going to 1 Turn KO almost everything. (The calcs were done using Pure Electric Riachu's Special Attack even though it's a safe bet that Psychic Riachu's Special Attack is higher.)
To make things worse, it's only stronger when everyone uses Discharge. Flash Fire isn't that bad with Sun Spam because the immunities won't immediately KO you.
The reason Electric Spam being weaker on Turn 1 is because Discharge sucks. If it was 100 Power like Heat Wave instead of 80, then Electric Spam would be stronger.
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