Recent content by Pip the Puffin

Hi. Under the "Defensive Duck" entry for Porygon2, I noticed that: Possibly due to Salamence's departure, only two threats are now listed, not three. In the next paragraph: Heatran has already been mentioned in the first paragraph so perhaps mention of it should be confined to only the first...

^ Oh well, that's what I get for even considering something as defensive as Sharpedo. Still 4/10 isn't bad for what is seemingly a complete unknown. EDIT: Oh wait, it's 3/10 due to Roserade. Ignore me. ;-)

On the Drifblim Anti-Lead set, could I suggest an alternative to Hypnosis? I'm fairly sure it can learn Thunder Wave, which could prove more useful under certain circumstances. Thunder Wave does not suffer from poor accuracy and could help againt priority-users. On the subject of Anti-Leads...

In my opinion, Iron Tail is an absolutely horrible move. Basically, its Earthquake with dangerous accuracy. Dragon Rush is somewhat better because Dragon is a much better attacking type, but Steel! Steel is right up there with Poison and Normal as far as shitty offensive types go. Anyways...

Last bump. I'm not bumping this again.

I'm really impressed by the amount of responses this thread has had! Thanks guys! To summarise what has been said in this thread: Poison is a horrible offensive type, having only one SE, several resists, and one immunity. Defensively, the type does much better, although the weakness to Ground...

I tried Return on Kingdra. Substitute is just too useful. Return offers no SE hits at all, and Dragon and Water can cover everything just fine. I say forget about Return and stick with Substitute. It can block Thunder Waves and WoWs!

I am getting a bit annoyed with everyone saying that Skymin does not hit hard. It has 120 base Sp. Attack, nothing to sniff at. Generally, the defences aren't quite up to it. They aren't bad, they're just mediocreish. As stated before, Serene Grace is the only reason Skymin's any good. Grass...

Maybe this thread would go well in Contributions and Corrections, I really like it! Team support plays a vital part in this metagame and it is definitely far more fun to use Encore than Earthquake. Support moves add a lot of strategy to Pokemon.

I think Muk might be able to hold its own in OU. It makes a pretty good special wall and can use Curse to raise its defence. I also think Drapion is a bit underappreciated. Toxicroak is pretty cool too. Maybe Poison should be super effective against Water, like several people have suggested...

Sorry if someone has already said these: MIXED SLAKING @ Life Orb? Ability: Truant =( EVs: 252 Attack, 26 Sp. Attack, 232 Speed Hasty Nature - Return - Earthquake - Focus Punch - Fire Blast Fire Blast works off Slaking's respectable base 95 Sp. Attack and can take out physical walls with ease...

If Exploud can learn Shadow Ball: - Hyper Voice - Fire Blast - HP Fighting - Shadow Ball I hate Focus Blast's accuracy!

If you really think about it, Poison is very offensive outside of Pokemon. It is dangerous and can cause a rather painful death. Thinking like that, Poison should be Super Effective against more types, although there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that this will happen. There are a few...

bugmaniacbob's suggestion on Beedrill sounds very interesting, you should consider it. As for Exploud, how you tried this moveset? - Hyper Voice - Focus Blast - HP Ghost - Fire Blast/Surf Ghost + Fighting hits everything for neutral. If used in OU, people will assume this Poke is physical and...

Isn't Normal worse of an attacking type than Poison? Normal does not hit SE on anything, is resisted by Rock/Steel and has no affect on Ghosts? Poison has its resists but at least it can hit SE on some grass types such as Skymin, although I never defend Poison as an offensive type.