pokemaster649

Oh, it's not about replacing Cradily. I'm probably restarting a brand new team (which I don't have a whole lot of idea about yet). It might involve some pokemon from my spring team and some from my regionals team... maybe not. Who knows. There's still time to decide and test.

Also, my empoleon was holding Shuca, but should have used Chople, cuz fighting move was much more common. I just thought Shuca would be more useful facing sand teams, but funny thing, I had no problem with sand teams at all. Top & Landorus usually do their job. After Excadrill is gone (Top/Landorus get rid of those without much trouble since it can't do a lot to either of them), Empoleon is usually safe from earthquakes. If not, they have at most one more EQer, but they usually try to get rid of Landorus first because they don't have a water or ice move to easily dispose of Landorus ... or something like that. I dunno. I just know I won every battle against every team that had and used a Tyranitar in the battle.

O! Spring friendly! So, Cradily was supposed to be my main rain counter. VS rain, I'd have Crobat (to KO Ludicolo / Tailwind), Cradily, probably Empoleon, & somethin, but then rain teams with Toxicroak are pretty bad since Empoleon/Cradily are both weak to fighting. My last pokemon is usually Top for fake out/Intimidate/etc. for rain teams, but
Fake out, CC, Sucker Punch, Surf, Ice Beam, Energy Ball, HP Rock... none of those do much to croak.

That said, in our battle, my Hitmontop Fighting Gem CC'd your Latios for about half damage. I would imagine toxicroak would take around that much too depending on EVs. So maybe that's something to consider. So facing Toxicroak, I usually sort of "have" to bring in Landorus, but of course, Landorus will get killed in one hit vs a rain team, so, yeah, have to get the timing right. In Gasrodon's case, Toxicroak isn't a problem, but Ludicolo is.

Oh yes I am. But I probably will be using a different team.

Lol woops I vm'd myself again... hah. Nothing's really wrong with my regionals team (which I think is a stronger team than the one I used for Spring Friendly), but I sort of just want to try out other things.

Like... Empoleon was interesting in Spring Friendly. True, it has weakness to electric, fighting, and ground (hence why I didn't use against your team), but it can usually survive a non-STAB supereffective hit, and sometimes it can do its job very well and does ok in both rain or sand and isn't weak to any of Abomasnow's common moves.

Or like, Life Orb Inner Focus mixed Dragonite! :P Maybe mixed Salamence might be good too. Haven't tried that yet, but Draco Meteor followed by Extremespeed KOs a lot.

Cradily was interesting too. People are prepared for Gastrodon's storm drain, but for some reason some forget that Cradily has it as its dream world ability too. It's not bad, but too many weakness I guess. I don't think I'll use Cradily again, but it was useful sometimes.

gg. Thanks for the battles!

Inner Focus and ability to OHKO Hitmontop even after Intimidate is pretty good though, but yeah, I was thinking Zapdos is a better tailwind pokemon if I were to want to use tailwind.

Ok I'm going back in now. Probably last battle before I have to leave.

I'll go grab my Regionals Team... They're all over the place in my box though, will take a bit of time.

I really want to like Crobat because of its speed and immunity to fake out, but it's just too frail sometimes. I have taunt on it, but I find it largely useless because most of the time I'm taunting trick roomers which have psychic haha.

gg

If I have time, maybe we can try another one with my Regionals team too... I have to go by noon at the latest though

looks like it's working this time. Good luck!

I am back in.

Ok sure.

and then it says you failed to respond.

It says you're contacting me.

Yeah I see you.

yup done.

Ok yeah. Where do I go? :D I haven't battled on wifi since Pokemon Diamond other than the nintendo tournaments.

0046 4176 9385

Ok that should be good!

Sure, but later. I have to go somewhere today.

For Saturday (tomorrow)... I should be available sometime between 10am to 2pm PST.

Sunday I'm actually busy the whole day though (unless you want to schedule with me to battle before 9am PST...). Sorry about that.

Hey Man, sorry, I was busy finishing up a deadline for work. Didn't have time (til now, but it's like 11:15pm PST already).