Recent content by moore's law

Those points about torkoal work in theory. In practice: - Torkoal is a rocks weak spinner (it must hold heat rock, or the effective number of sun turns you get is halved) - the most effective hazard setters in the tiers are ground types + samurott (there is no shortage of good setters), so if...

Right, I recently found out that Clear Body blocks parting shot as well. You obviously can't switch Clear Body Dragapult in because it takes a shit ton from Hex and doesn't want to be poisoned + confused, since most Clear Body Pults are banded. Soundproof does as well, but I don't think anything...

Pecharunt has some uncompetitive elements with malignant chain + poison puppeteer hax, but I agree with everyone saying that it's not much worse than TWave or Static (it does get more chances to pull its shenanigans off because of its bulk, typing, recovery and Parting shot.) I think Ting-Lu got...

I actually think Hawlucha can be a bit of a trap in grassy terrain teams (compared to some of the risk free cheese we've seen this gen.) It pigeonholes you into an HO type structure, because it can only do its thing once and is tera reliant on coverage or can't break past stuff if it is running...

Right, but that is part of why blaziken is not that popular atm. It is a touch too slow and weak - life orb sets really hate the prevalance of hazards, but blaziken without life orb is really weak. Even with jolly, it can't outspeed boulder at +2 (scarf darkrai sets can't threaten blaziken, they...

I generally don't think it will be a good idea to try using flamethrower on blaziken. Overheat serves as a lure to destroy any physical walls, and the wall of calcs (no pun intended) tommytt22 has provided emphasizes that. 2HKOing great tusk isn't enough because you can't be sure if the opponent...

It's (extremely) early days, rain teams seem to now be using AV Archaludon to cover for electric/grass types, could try it out and see, seems to be tailor made for rain with its signature move.

Gouging fire sun is really fun, CB Proto Raging Fury/Heat Crash OHKOs or 2HKOs just about everything, especially with tera fire. I also like sun a lot more with the addition of Venusaur - a lot of sun teams previously were heavy on proto mons and stacked fairy weaknesses. I've been testing this...

Does Tera Shell have any offensive benefits? It seems odd that they mention that Terapagos' shell has the power of each type in the ability description. I was curious because Game Freak seem to love releasing broken abilities and items (especially this gen) for 'special' pokemon, like with the...

Does Tera Shell give STAB on all coverage moves? It seems strange that they mention that Terapagos' shell contains the power of each type in the ability flavor text... Edit: The Violet dex entry also mentions this "The shell is made of crystallized Terastal energy. When struck by a move, this...