Acupressure for Double/Triple Battles

[vroomvroom918]

I doubt this team would be any good competitively, but it might be interesting to try in the Battle Subway or in a casual battle. I personally haven't tried it myself, but I'm going to start breeding/training to see if it really is any good. I don't have items for any of them either, this just came to me.

The basic idea here is to give a pokemon knowing Stored Power the ability Simple, and then spam it with Acupressure. If it works like it's supposed to, you end up with a pokemon that has 4x its normal stats (and 3x accuracy and evasion) and an attack with base power 860 (I think). Of course, opponents' stat-reducing moves could be an issue here, but they would have to be used early or else the ridiculous gain in effective attack power/speed could take them out before this could happen. And then there's Punishment... Which is most certainly the bane of this team. As well as Dragon Tail or anything like that.

1. Musharna
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP, 252 SpD, 4 Def
Nature: Calm (+SpD,-Atk)
- Stored Power
- Moonlight
- Calm Mind
- Psychic

This will be the pokemon to receive the ability Simple. The basic idea is to keep it alive until you really start pumping its stats, hence the defenses and Moonlight, and get a head start with Calm Mind (total +4 stat raises with Simple, 2 of which would be SpA). I guess you could use Psychic before Stored Power gets big, but that shouldn't take long.

2. Audino
Ability: Healer
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def, 4 SpD
Nature: Impish (+Def, -SpA)
- Simple Beam
- Heal Pulse
- Thunder Wave
- Return

This is the pokemon that will be giving Musharna Simple. That's all it's used for, you can switch it out once that's done (likely to Shuckle, the next one in the list). Once you're done Acupressure-ing, you could switch it in for support, or even leave it in the whole time until it dies in a triple battle, but that's probably not the greatest idea.

3. Shuckle
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 Def, 252 SpD, 4 HP
Nature: Impish (+Def, -SpA)
- Acupressure
- Guard Split
- Safeguard
- Knock Off

Shuckle can be used in two ways. You can just Acupressure over and over again, but he can also help Musharna another way. Guard Split and Safeguard can beef up Musharna and prevent any nasty status for a while. Knock Off is there to get rid of any annoying items your opponent might be holding too.

4. Medicham
Ability: Pure Power
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
- Acupressure
- Drain Punch
- Fire Punch
- Psych Up

Medicham has almost as much potential as Musharna, simply because of a chance combination of movepool and ability. With Pure Power and Psych Up, he could copy Musharna's (hopefully) ridiculous stats, and then you have two pokemon with grossly inflated stats, and because of Medicham's ability, one of them could have 8x the normal attack. And Drain Punch helps keep him alive, of course.

5. Dodrio
Ability: Early Bird
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Spe
Nature: Jolly (+Spe, -SpD)
- Acupressure
- Brave Bird
- Rest
- Thrash

These last two pokemon are basically only here because they have the move Acupressure. There's no really involved strategy here, they're just here. Their other three moves are designed so that they can sort of hold their own in case of Musharna's death.

6. Drapion
Ability: Battle Armor
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Def, 4 HP
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
- Acupressure
- Swords Dance
- Crunch
- Ice Fang

Again, pretty much only here because it's a pretty good pokemon that happens to know Acupressure.

Comments? Ideas? Both are appreciated. Let me know if there is any way to improve this, or if it's just total junk and a bad attempt at trying to utilize an otherwise unpredictable move

 

[Zacchaeus]

The thing about this is that Acupressure is totally unreliable. So while your opponent can be making steady progress in setting up with moves like Swords Dance, you could just be getting a bunch of unneeded accuracy boosts which puts you way behind and gives the momentum to your opponent

 

[vroomvroom918]

Yes, that is true, but regardless of the stat that is raised, one Accupressure increases the base power of Stored Power by 80 (or 40 if it picks a stat that's already at 4 levels). And plus, it will quit giving you the accuracy boosts after raising it twice, and then it's forced to move on to other stats, most of which will be useful to raise

 

[voodoo pimp]

But against any competent opponent, they're going to start targeting Musharna as soon as they see it get Simple. Unless the opponent is incapable of KOing it in two turns, it's not going to last long enough to get any boosts.

 

[vroomvroom918]

Yeah, this team does have its downfalls, I agree. Your best bet would be to spam Moonlight in the absence of SpA boosts (probably won't work as well against two or three opponents as it could against just one), and once your SpA does get boosted you could start thinking about attacking. The main issue with this team is its reliability, but at the same time, this might be the fastest way to max out the power of Stored Power.