WHy would you heat crash into a great tusk
thank you. i've been saying boulder isn't broken since day one (actually, since hour one) and i'm bewildered by the sheer number of people who still think it is. i can see why people were scared of boulder at first—its coverage is kinda scary, it has physical rock stab that's not a meme, it's insanely fast with booster energy, it has swords dance, basically it's got a lot going for it. but it crumples to two of the best and most common priority moves in the meta, it's prone to just kinda dying to anything it doesn't ohko because its defensive typing is ass with another, stinkier ass on top of it, and every team has like 3 forms of speed control nowadays so +1 base 124 isn't the unstoppable terror it seems like it'd be when analyzed in a vacuum. iron boulder has managed to not be what we thought it'd be
It can fuck up your team, but to do that, you have to not only take out their priority users, but also severly weaken the opposing team. Its basically iron valiant with more speed, but worse defensive typing and less coverage. The speed thing doesn't really matter that much as you either are outspeeding everything on the opposing team or are outsped easily be their choice scarfer. That means that it is in my eyes it is an objectively worse iron valiant. Granted that is still an iron valiant, so it definetely isn't bad.
I’ve been using it and Iron Boulder is absolutely crazy. I think Roaring Moon is a larger issue now, but I can definitely see why people would say Iron Boulder is ban worthy, even if I don’t think it should be banned immediately.
I get the feeling that a single stat drop kind of stops Boulder in its tracks. First noticed it in VGC, and ig it's pretty true here.
How could eviolite fall off before it was even introduced in gen 5 ? It is decent on a few mons but the addition of boots makes most defensive Pokémon good with eviolite outclassed by there evolutions.
Runs 8 spa, no special attacks.
Dusclops wasn't even good in the end, just new players lol. also stop typing gliscor it's GLIGAR u frickin LOSER NERD DORK
that post was from like a week and a half ago, how did no one notice this
I personally love running heatran with air balloon and tera flying. If you don't want to commit your tera to heatran, you at the very least can come in on the usual mons. However, you can basically infinetely wall those mons if you decide to tera. I even run steel beam for insane damage that destroys mons that believe that they can beat the normal set. It may not be the best move, but doing the big numbers feels good.
I've never liked air balloon sets. Any stray hit and suddenly you're just kinda dead because heatran's defensive profile, while pretty good, isn't the greatest thing in the world.
Fair, that is why I decided to do tera flying, because you resist both fighting and are immune to ground moves. The funny thing is, if you can pop an opposing heatran's balloon, which is quite easy, you are immune to the two most common offensive moves they use. The reason why air balloon is used so much is because 1. Heatran without a ground weakness is probably the best pokemon ever, so even getting a temporary immunity is worth it and 2. The air balloon isn't meant to stick around. It's mainly used so heatran can trap other pokemon that it wouldn't normally trap like gliscor with earthquake as it's only offensive move.
I like this idea, but I modified your set a bit. Instead of doing CM stuff I went physical because like, if my attack is gonna be boosted anyway, why not just click physical moves? Still tera electric bc that goes hard tho. Really fucking funny to switch into an h-sam lead's ceaseless edge and immediately get boosted iron heads
I'm forever going to associate dual screens with grimmsnarl because of how that just ruined DLC2 ubers, but I will be running scizor if that shit becomes common in mid-low ladder. Scizor is just The Anti-Screens Guy™ because you either force that lead to burn tera (good for you) or you kill it before it gets both (or any in the case of grimmsnarl) screens (amazing for you).
i mean, i kinda guessed that from the fact that your username is "heatranator" and your profile pic is heatran and your location is listed as "stark mountain"
ok, never mind, that's not where i expected that sentence to go at all. but for the record, that's quite a smart idea. tera flying also helps heatran's matchup against spikes after the balloon is popped (just pray rocks aren't up), which is especially important for balloon sets since they can't run lefties to partially offset the damage. and turning a fighting weakness into a resistance is never a bad thing
Funnily enough, my favourite mon is actually magnezone. I do love heatran, but the name magnenator is horrible. Like heatran is in my top 5 favourite legendaries and top 20 overall, but still.
This was also a very popular thing to do with Gholdengo for a while, minus the Steel Beam bit, so the theory is sound. Tera Flying lets you pretty universally cover Volcarona still. I really like this idea and might steal it for myself. Heatran's got a lot of untapped potential in this metagame with a lot of Psychic and Dragon moves flying around.
