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Behind that guy is an extension of Victory Road that opens up when you beat the Elite Four, where you have to assist a girl through the cave to Route 224, and she has an Arcanine. Route 224 is indeed on the other end of the cave, where there are even more trainers and grassy areas.

Why not. In if still possible. My server name's the same as here, usually with the tier I'm playing in brackets on the end.

No it doesn't. King's Rock only works with moves that don't already have an effect percentage, so it doesn't increase Air Slash's flinch rate.

Also, you only get the Super Rod after you've beaten the Elite Four. So unless you trade for a Feebas from someone, you're not going to be using one this early.

And Mamoswine, which was the Pokemon I was thinking of when I posted about the Ice/Ground combo.

Magnet Rise doesn't count because it's a) novelty and b) requires a turn to set it up, so it doesn't make a Pokemon Ice/Ground resistant. Bronzong, though, I did forget, making it and Shedinja the only two Ice/Ground resists. Which is fairly good.

Ice/Ground is actually the best type coverage, since it is resisted by Surskit and Shedinja only (and no-one in their right mind uses Surskit competitively so Shedinja is the only resister of Ice/Ground).

Togepi gets Tri-Attack from XD, so Togekiss does have access to special Normal STAB other than Hyper Beam, but it loses the ability to use Nasty Plot if you go with Tri-Attack. Thus: Togekiss @ Choice Glasses Serene Grace Modest/Timid nature - Tri-Attack - Air Slash - Aura Sphere - Grass Knot...

Dah, there's a set I forgot, a Stealth Rock set. Although to be honest, you could probably stick it over Rock Polish on that set, so I dunno if it's really necessary to post another set just for Rock Polish. Golem's movepool is of stuff that's fairly powerful, like Stone Edge and Explosion, but...

Haven't had one of these yet. GOLEM Rock/Ground typing HP: 80 Atk: 110 Def: 130 SpAtk: 55 SpDef: 65 Spd: 45 Traits: ROCK HEAD: No recoil damage STURDY: OHKOs fail Physical movepool: Rock Blast Rock Slide Stone Edge Double-edge Explosion Earthquake Focus Punch Gyro Ball Hammer Arm Flail...

There's another reason to use Switcheroo over Fling, which I mentioned in someone's RMT recently. While Fling deals a ~40BP move and burns the opponent, Switcheroo burns the opponent and also deprives them of their original item. Watch Blissey fall due to no Leftovers, or Suicune for that...

I would also prefer Sacred Fire over something on the Choice Specs set so as not to be walled by Blissey. But I'm not sure where =/ Also go Solarbeam over Giga Drain; the only thing you'll be using a Grass move on is Groudon who gives you instant Sunny Day anyway.

Items that you'd use for Switcheroo: Lagging Tail, Iron Orb, Flame Orb, Black Sludge, Choice items, Full Incense, Sticky Barb, Macho Brace. That's a fairly long list. Not many things want to be attacking later or last, and a Salamence holding a Lagging Tail is useless. Any non-Guts physical...

Oh, so it's not because of Calm Mind + Recover + a special move that is resisted by only one type + the defenses to abuse it? They're only uber because of Soul Dew? My mistake. For the record, there have been discussions about how Uber the Latis are with or without Soul Dew, and the jury's...

Might I ask how it's an inferior Salamence? It has a higher Atk, much better SpDef, has a vastly different movepool and has a much better physical STAB attack than Dragon Claw could ever hope to be. It also is incapable of using Dragon Dance (thank god, how broken would that be?), which also...

I agree with this. Everyone's been talking about how much stuff there is to counter this time around, since there are so many Pokemon that can be very real threats with little to no setup required. Allowing Double Team adds just one more thing that everyone has to be able to counter, and it just...

Yes, Vital Spirit and Insomnia will stop something from being slept by Dark Void. However, what gets these traits? Let's have a look: Vital Spirit: Vigoroth, Primeape, Delibird. Vigoroth is NFE and so is not counted. So you have Delibird and Primeape to switch into Darkrai. Delibird will die to...

I was using the NetBattle damage calculator, using STAB and the low HP trait checkboxes to simulate the Choice Specs effect. Obviously I was doing it wrong. Regardless, the point has been made: There is no way Kingdra is going to survive Draco Meteor from Salamence, and it can survive Dragon...

Kingdra will never survive a Choice Specs Draco Meteor from Salamence. Max HP and max SpDef with a +SpDef nature still takes 504-592 damage from said Draco Meteor, which ends up as 142-167%. Kingdra needs max HP and max Def with a +Def nature to even have a chance of surviving the Dragon Claw...

Are those random 4 Spd EVs to outspeed something, or did you just dump them there when they were left over after hitting the desired Atk/SpAtk/HP numbers?