Recent content by Surt

It has 435 BST, too much budget in mixed attacking stats and very few meaningful resistances. Could maybe see doubles use if you literally built your entire team around Violet paradox forms, but Torkoal seems considerably better.

What's your play v.s. GMax Lapras/Zacian cores? Specifically seeing a lot of weakness policy Lapras leads that beat Ttar if you rock blast them, freeze dry Dracovisk, GMax resonance Lando, freeze dry Quag and GMax resonance Moltres. I feel like you'd probably want to save Necrozma and your own...

Think I'll give that aegislash EV spread a shot. Being able to reliably OHKO m-gengar after SR is a pretty big perk and I think that that would help with shadow ball --> shadow sneak to kill things as they switch in as well. As far as the electric and dark weaknesses, the team generally doesn't...

So a club at my University is holding a tournament this Friday with their own ruleset. Games will be played on the actual Pokemon cartridge, so it's unlikely that people are going to have 5/6 IV pokes from gens 3-5 due to how much harder it was to IV breed back then. Over the past two times that...

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty effective change, I'll make that right away. Little bit more bulk never hurts. As for the second bit, I probably should have mentioned that soaking anything on dragonite is more of a desperate measures tactic. Generally rotom and aegislash are going to do that a...

Hey all, This is the current team that I've been playing as of late with some success. Of note is that it's an in-game team, meaning that it's pretty difficult for me to effectively get legendaries with decent stats. Very old tutor moves are also pretty much closed off to me. Naturally, don't...

Ice shard + icicle crash is actually totally bog standard. The second move lets hit put a big dent in slower pokemon that it doesn't need priority to outspeed. Freeze dry is a terrible option because it totally neuters mamoswine's ability to counter dragons that have set up. Furthermore, against...

Yeah good catch, my mistake, I actually have been running it bold, since impish makes no sense. How are you finding CM on it? Being able to skyrocket that special attack stat seems pretty worthwhile, but I do really like the ability to clear status off of my team. Burns are really awful on...

Thanks! I honestly don't have too many problems with Blissey or Hippowdon, as I can generally nab Blissey with pursuit, or even just set up on it with various Pokemon, depending on the set. As for Gliscor, it was giving me some problems, but the Clefable that I'm using seems to counter it pretty...

I've been experimenting with the following Clefable set as an alternative to my Togekiss as well, largely because the pure typing alleviates a lot of Togekiss's worrying weaknesses: Clefable @ Life Orb Ability: Magic Guard EVS: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SAtk Impish Nature Wish Aromatherapy Moon...

After a bit of experimentation on Showdown, this is the team that I'm currently using. Its crux is a composition full of pokemon which can simultaneously take quite a hit--even when the opponent is expecting a clean OHKO--and deal massive amounts of damage back in retaliation. It is partially a...

Alright, I'll made some changes and marked them in red. Assuming I'm using rock slide to keep volcarona among other things off my back on Ttar and losing ice beam, is my current EV spread okay? At any rate, thanks. I'll be testing the changes tonight.

Earthsunder This is my first Gen 5 RMT. Enjoy. At a glance: Summary: If I had to sum this team up as succinctly as possible, I would probably describe it as bulky sandstorm offense. It's built around sandstorm and entry hazards racking up damage while my pokemon put dents in...

Return is way better than strength. Strength is an awful move. Flareon has no moves and gets walled by all kinds of stuff. Fire/normal honestly has really bad coverage. I don't really see the point of custap berry on forretress. I'd use leftovers or shed shell if you're paranoid of trappers like...

I think this generation is going to be very weather-based, with sandstorm teams looking especially terrifying. For one thing, sunny day/rain dance teams need a pokemon to use the move, sandstorm is automatically set up by something with sand stream and lasts until someone else uses a weather...