Recent content by Xaif

No Pokemon has an ability that makes it immune to all status, one or two, but not all. A Lum Berry achieves this, even against secondary status. Plus Natural Gift allows for 80BP physical moves instead of 70BP special moves from Hidden Power. While a Life Orb would make HP more powerful, the...

The ability would be brilliant if it told you a random move. Well not brilliant, but much better.

Magic Coat does you no good against attacks, which is the main issue, anything that switches in will no doubt be faster and kill you before your recovery options have a chance to take effect. Subs protect from status so you'll have one aspect of Magic Coat covered.

You'll never get a chance to attack as he's slow as hell with a lot of weaknesses, if you want any chance at all you'll have to run substitute. Although Giga Drain is interesting given its boost.

It's a cool new ability, but unfortunately the fact it is illegal with Trick means it's useless to me. I'll be sticking with my existing Jynx set, so I'm disappointed it didn't gain anything move wise or even an evolution =( Lead Jynx @ Choice Scarf 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 6 SpD Modest Forewarn...

I disagree, on a stand alone basis Snow Warning is actually crap as all you get is 100% accurate Blizzards. It's not like Tyrannitar where he gets an instant SpD boost. Snow Warning is a team ability and as many have pointed out, hail is the worst weather condition supporting only one type...

The main point is most definitely to burn things, because if it was all about power you'd choose Flamethrower or the many other special reliable fire moves instead. In Purgatory you take Flamethrower and trade of a lot of accuracy for a massive jump in burn rate.

Issue with Victini is that being a sweeper ( I haven't been following its thread or anything, but it can hardly be defensive given its typing ) its main priority isn't to burn the opponent. It's to deal damage, and do so reliably. Even with a 10% accuracy increase it doesn't meet that threshold.

It'll never be used, you need the Pokemon to have access to Gravity and be bulky for it to be even remotely considered, of which none of the above do. If you do consider it, you'd may as well go the whole way and slap on a 1HKO move instead.

I agree with there being very little reason to have Dark over Ghost for HP. The only differences they have is Fighting's resistance to Dark and Normal's immunity to Ghost. Though no one is going to be switching in a Normal type on a Fighting type like this, so having neutral coverage against...

Recycling is a waste of time as using the same move twice in a row gives you effectively 200% power with only one move slot. Using a move with the Gem then Recycling it gives you 150% power over two turns with two move slots.

So long as it doesn't switch in on a Surf or Boiling Water, Houndoom is a good counter.

I agree with the Choice issue, at 50% you trade off a lot for one attack to be boosted, let alone you don't really decide when you use it - it could be wasted on a target in which the power boost isn't needed. If you're going for raw power surely Choice is better as the usage is infinite. If...

According to Serebii over 100 Pokemon have over 319 maximum speed so there's plenty of selection. Of course Cloyster could have Ice Shard, but then it has to sacrifice rock or water coverage. If anything it shows Cloyster can't cover everything at once, and so is more than counterable =)

As I said on the previous page anything scarfed with 319 speed can outspeed Cloyster after a Shell Break. Any special attack will pretty much kill it. Or any SE physical attack.