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whats better in competitive battling. 300 hp or 301? basically is it better to have even or odd number of hp? cuz i heard for substitution odd is better but what about overall?
 
whats better in competitive battling. 300 hp or 301? basically is it better to have even or odd number of hp? cuz i heard for substitution odd is better but what about overall?

It depends on what you are going for. If you want a Sub<pinch berry> Set, then you want one that is divisible my four, if you want a SubSeeder/SubStall set, you want an HP amount that isn't divisible by four. (I might have got those mixed up) Also, there are sets that run 404 HP (Making 101 HP subs), so that a Blissey S-Toss doesn't break it in 1 Toss, allowing additional attacks.
 
1) If I want to run Dual Screen Deoxys-S should I use Reflect/Light Screen/SR/Shadow Ball?

2) If I want to lead with Dual Screen Mewtwo, should I use Reflect/Light Screen/Taunt/Shadow Ball with Lum Berry?

3) What move is more important for sweeping Mewtwo in general-Thunder or Shadow Ball?

4) Should the WOW/StallTwo sets use an attacking move, and if so, which one?

5) Is Agiligross effective in Ubers?
 
I get that probably belongs in the shoddy forum but I'm getting a bit impatient. No one ever answers my questions there and I haven't been able to play shoddy in months for one reason or another.

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It depends on what you are going for. If you want a Sub<pinch berry> Set, then you want one that is divisible my four, if you want a SubSeeder/SubStall set, you want an HP amount that isn't divisible by four. (I might have got those mixed up) Also, there are sets that run 404 HP (Making 101 HP subs), so that a Blissey S-Toss doesn't break it in 1 Toss, allowing additional attacks.
what about if ur not doing a sub set. just in general?
 
what about if ur not doing a sub set. just in general?
Then it really dosen't matter that much, unless that one HP is going to let you survive something you are worried about 100% of the time that might have a small chance to kill you if you didn't. It usually only matters for Substitute tricks and sometimes life orb and such. In general, it dosn't make a diffrence.
 
Then it really dosen't matter that much, unless that one HP is going to let you survive something you are worried about 100% of the time that might have a small chance to kill you if you didn't. It usually only matters for Substitute tricks and sometimes life orb and such. In general, it dosn't make a diffrence.

Also, with 301, if you have Life Orb or a weak to SR you can get hit by them 10 or 4 times respectively and still survive with 1 HP as long as you don't take any other residual damage.
 
I don't think it does because I just calculated the standard gengar set with smogon's damage calculator (with the life orb; SpA:182 at level 50, max ivs.) and with serebii.net's iv calculator and it's still saying 182 special attack (level 50, max ivs).

Edit: Life Orb increases the Atk/SpA by 1.1 right?
 
I don't think it does because I just calculated the standard gengar set with smogon's damage calculator (with the life orb; SpA:182 at level 50, max ivs.) and with serebii.net's iv calculator and it's still saying 182 special attack (level 50, max ivs).

Edit: Life Orb increases the Atk/SpA by 1.1 right?

Life Orb increases damage, not stats, and I believe that it's by 1.3.
 
when people say they're doing "damage calculations" during a wi-fi battle.. how are they calculating damage so fast and what methods are they using?
 
1) If I want to run Dual Screen Deoxys-S should I use Reflect/Light Screen/SR/Shadow Ball?

2) If I want to lead with Dual Screen Mewtwo, should I use Reflect/Light Screen/Taunt/Shadow Ball with Lum Berry?

3) What move is more important for sweeping Mewtwo in general-Thunder or Shadow Ball?

4) Should the WOW/StallTwo sets use an attacking move, and if so, which one?

5) Is Agiligross effective in Ubers?

Anyone?
 
Could a sweeper Cresselia moveset work with Charge Beam, Grass Knot, Ice Beam, and Moonlight? Would Psychic be better than Grass Knot--how effective would said Grassknot be on Tyranitar?
 
No, Cress isn't a sweeper in OU. In UU it was possible to run a sweeping Cress, but with Scizor, Tryranitar, Gengar and Rotom in OU it's almost impossible for Cress to set up.
 
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