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Houndour is pretty obviously the right choice here, although y'all sleepin' on the dog even when he has a secondary ability of Early Bird (lol).
Houndour @ Life Orb
Ability: Early Bird / Flash Fire
Level: 5
EVs: 36 Atk / 196 SpA / 36 SpD / 236 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Fire Blast
- Dark Pulse
-...
See how unhappy you made him?
Mold Breaker Drilbur seems as strong as ever in my book. Berry Juice and Eviolite both do really different things for your time, and you can get away with Rock Slide + EQ so you are still having the opportunity to run SR if your team needs it. 17 speed is amazing...
From Corporal Levi
From Heysup
My question is a simple one: What is good creativity in Pokemon?
Because here's the thing: Skill Swap Spritzee and Payback Foongus and HP Poison Gothita fundamentally, are creative.
Simultaneously, nearly every vote that had a write up mentioned Gothita as...
So dear Shrug : a combo of busy-ness and the fact that quoting doesn't give you a notification it seems anymore has prevented me from getting to this as quickly as I would've liked, but I have finally formulated some thoughts on what I think is a great point you've made here. Apologies in...
If you rewind a few years, we were having this exact debate in Gen V. Just replace "Drifloon" with "Scraggy" and "Chinchou or Magnemite" with "Mienfoo or Croagunk." Compared to Scraggy's Dragon Dance + select damaging move strategy, Drifloon's strategy actually seems relatively complex, one that...
I've waited a few days and slept on this, but I really do need to get this off my chest: the flowchart cannot show something is broken. The flowchart is not based on anything in game nor is not a guide by which we are required make decisions. It was (and is) one person's illustration which...