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Kartana @ Life Orb
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Leaf Blade
- Sacred Sword
- Knock Off
Kartana can cause huge headaches for this core, enjoying the fact Lando T and Ferro are both opting for SP Def investment. Kartana can simply...
Here is a team I built around 6 months ago. I have shared this team with a few people in the showdown OU room. (Forgive my lack of knowledge on how to show the sprites. I rarely post on the forums.)
https://pokepast.es/5f9b402789ec2af7
I call it "Spike Stacking Volcarona Bulky Offense"...
Why is Volcarona still A-? There were some strong arguments made for why it should never have dropped to A- and I believe they deserve a rebuttal. Volcarona's checks are very easy to wear down over the course of a battle and it also offers effective defensive utility which is why I believe it...
This is a really good stall team! I used it a lot lately and I don't think I even lost a battle!
One thing I was wondering about though is if you would consider replacing slowking for gastrodon? It gives an electric immunity and it can still beat heatran. It also eases the match up against...
You really need to lurk more dude. You are polluting the thread with uninformed opinions.
I support Slowking to drop to A+. It can be very difficult for archetypes using Slowking to deal with electrics, Pult, grass spam and dark spam and therefore forces these builds to be too linear for an S...
You are better off running hurricane because it has more damage output over time once accuracy is taken into account.
Average bp for hurricane = 110×0.7 = 0.77
Average bp for air slash = 75×0.95 = 0.7125
Finchinator is the slowest VR updater there has been but at least he consistently gets it done and does a good job with it.
I nominate Cinderace for S rank. Imo cinderace has been S rank for at least a couple of months now. It is not as good as it was before the new DLC though because it has...
Don't worry man. Urshifu will be getting the ban hammer for sure. There are no safe switch ins besides buzzwole (which is terrible), it has a solid speed tier and can threaten offense with stab sucker punch off 130 base attack. Bulk up variants can destroy counterplay to the banded variants...
Hi there, I really like this team. Would you consider swapping out moltress for zapdos now that mosa is banned? Obviously zapdos doesn't deal with magearna but it does give the team a much needed flying resist.
Unaware clefable is not really better at dealing with hydreigon because it can't switch into flash cannon if rocks are up.
252 SpA Life Orb Hydreigon Flash Cannon vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Clefable: 172-203 (43.6 - 51.5%) -- 62.9% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock and Leftovers recovery
252 SpA...