Recent content by Alopex

Thinking of running AV on Camerupt, who seems to be a perfect candidate for it, to me... -Bulky, but not quite bulky enough. -Its number 1 fear is Water, which is mostly special attacks. -Has a great ability in Solid Rock to help that bulk -Neutral to Stealth Rocks -Can switch in with impunity...

They are all part Rock. Some are also part Steel, but all are part Rock. That's just GF's theme. They're... fossils... and fossils are just imprints on rocks, really. The only time they release a truly dangerous OU worthy fossil pokemon, they also gave it the third worst ability in the entire...

Whoops! Yeah, SpA definitely! Haha. Fixed that. Also, Wish and Calm Mind are great, but they are for very different roles than the one I was proposing. Mine is a tank with perfect coverage and self-healing. You could have Calm Mind and perfect coverage, but you would lose self-healing. You...

What about a special tank build? Sylveon @ Assault Vest Pixilate 252HP/252SpA/4SpD Modest - Draining Kiss - Hyper Voice - Shadow Ball - Psyshock With Draining Kiss, it can actually heal itself while still having the Assault Vest. Hyper Voice and Shadow Ball provide flawless neutral coverage...

This is the only post people should be responding to. This thread needs to stop derailing into a discussion about evasion in general, as I already made a thread about that ages ago and it got locked because it degenerated down to lunacy. If this thread is to stay open, it'll need to address...

A slight bit more than that, because if you're running a weather setter, they are going to have the weather extending item. So 8 turns of weather. Turn 1 - Weather set Turn 2 - Switch Turn 3 - Set Terrain That now leaves you with 5 turns of weather and 4 turns of terrain left to use. Not bad...

Slurpuff @ Weakness Policy Ability: Unburden EVs: ?? ?? Nature -Cotton Guard -Wish -Flamethrower -Play Rough Cotton Guard + Wish to help you deal with taking an SE attack, get a free Shell Smash, tear it up with mixed offenses and stupid high defenses. Thoughts? EV/Nature suggestions?

Any decently bulky Pokemon with Unburden needs to be considered here. Dnite is still the best overall user of it, but a Pokemon with Unburden will essentially get a Shell Smash without wasting a moveslot, and without the defensive hits. There is potential there. Drifblim, as has already been...

This guy nailed it. In fact, that should be the FINAL nail on the Hyper Beam coffin. It's not really a discussion worth continuing and I can guarantee you the mods will start deleting posts that still continue to vouch for Refrigerate Hyper Beam. Refrigerate Aurorus will ALWAYS be running Nature...

That certainly does sound scary. Since that set isn't listed on the site, I imagine this is a case of a set that worked really well in OU being terrible in Ubers post-ban, thus not being listed, but coming back now that Landorus is coming back to OU? Goodra replacing Dragonite in the core is...

-Swampert/Gastrodon should be able to handle Keldeo, Gastrodon perhaps a bit more due to Storm Drain and Recover. But since rain won't be as prevalent, Swampert could fare well against Keldeo too now. -I don't reckon Landorus will get past Avalugg even with SF. The numbers have already shown...

Personally, while the utility of Rapid Spin is great, I don't think it has a place on a Pokemon that is susceptible to ALL entry hazards and who depends so much on Sturdy. Instead, I think Avalugg, like any other Ice type ever, will need RS/Defog support rather than use it itself. It helps, too...

My question is, really, how predictable is Avalugg? Would Mirror Coat help account for that predictability, or would it just get in the way of his walling? Basically, at this point we all readily agree that Avalugg isn't going to be hanging around to take Special hits. With its typing, it...

The fact that this thing gets Hurricane is just ooooooooooozing with flavor and automatically makes Vivillon one of my favorite Pokemon of all time. I mean, it's the freaking Butterfly Effect!! I'm still holding out that Serebii's stats are a bit off, because a base speed of 100 would...

Ideally it'll mean that we'll get all the missing information a heck of a lot quicker. Egg moves, for example, might no longer take weeks to compile. Changes (BST or type) to unobtainable oldmons will be discerned before Pokebank comes out. Newmon BSTs will be discerned with pinpoint accuracy (I...