Yeah i thought about the usefulness of psychic in ou which sadly isnt much... but it kills infernape and some other frail fighting types that my team seems to have problems with. But thats still a awesome idea becuase i didnt even know it learns charm lol!
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What is better on a VGC Rayquaza Adamant or Jolly?
The Set would be something along the line of this?
Rayquaza @ Focus Sash/Life Orb/Yache Berry
252 Attack - 252 Speed - 4 HP
Protect
Dragon Claw
ExtremeSpeed
EarthQuake
I definitely recommend Jolly, because it is critical that Rayqauaza outspeeds the base 90 speed group. Groudon can cause massive damage with Stone Edge, if not OHKO, while Dialga and Kyogre easily OHKO with Ice Beam or Dragon Pulse/Draco metoer. I have'nt done the calculations, but I don't think the power drop matters that much.
What is better on a VGC Rayquaza Adamant or Jolly?
The Set would be something along the line of this?
Rayquaza @ Focus Sash/Life Orb/Yache Berry
252 Attack - 252 Speed - 4 HP
Protect
Dragon Claw
ExtremeSpeed
EarthQuake
I was thinking Rayquaza has Base 150 Attack anyway so the 10% boost from Adamant isnt that important but the 10% from Jolly for speed would allow me to out speed most base 90s like Dialga and Kyogre that are not scarfed, as well as Giratina.
Sooo??
At least in my testing Jolly was far more effective than Adamant with that same moveset. Adamant Ray hit's so frigging hard, but that's all it ever gets. 1 Hit. Maybe. Plus it gets outsped by a lot of other common +Speed priority users that it could otherwise outspeed.
I personally always find it harder, but I'm not sure if the community as a whole has any collective opinion on the matter.
I too, have found the level 50 challenges a lot harder, it just feels like there's more of a chance for power imbalance for some reason.
They are not fixing any glitches on Shoddy Battle any more. All will be resolved in Shoddy Battle 2, where situations like this will result in a draw.
Yes, Deoxys-D has a lot more support options. That said, neither of them are really used (Deoxys-D in ubers or Cress in OU).
i had an idea for double battles and tried it in the battle tower and it didnt work and i cant figure out why. here's my idea
-put a choice band/specs on a poke with sleep talk and get your partner poke to be fast and use hypnosis ( i used crobat) on the choiced poke with sleep talk.
-now i thought if i kept using sleep talk, that would only count as one move ( be locked into sleep talk) and the extra power would be used as a sleep talk boost and would get the boost every time it attacks with a random attack. but i was still locked into sleep talk and this worked the first turn but every turn after that it failed.
is there some tidbit about the choice items im missing? thanks
-put a choice band/specs on a poke with sleep talk and get your partner poke to be fast and use hypnosis ( i used crobat) on the choiced poke with sleep talk.
-now i thought if i kept using sleep talk, that would only count as one move ( be locked into sleep talk) and the extra power would be used as a sleep talk boost and would get the boost every time it attacks with a random attack. but i was still locked into sleep talk and this worked the first turn but every turn after that it failed.
is there some tidbit about the choice items im missing? thanks
who would be favored in a battle between an all OU team vs (1 uber, 2 OU, 1 UU, and 2 NU) team? would the uber completely swing favor toward its respective team?
edit: multiple opinions welcome
edit: multiple opinions welcome
:justin2:
Not enough information. It would vary wildly depending on the Pokemon in the team. For example, if the Uber was Wynaut, it would offer very little advantage. Or if the Uber included team was Mono type and could be swept by a single one of your Pokemon or vice versa.
Not enough information. It would vary wildly depending on the Pokemon in the team. For example, if the Uber was Wynaut, it would offer very little advantage. Or if the Uber included team was Mono type and could be swept by a single one of your Pokemon or vice versa.
When you use Sleep Talk with a Choice item it will only work the first time, it will fail every time after that. This is a game mechanic to prevent loopholes like what you were trying from happening
A physically bulky Zapdos with Bold nature (+Def -Atk) should run 10 Atk IVs and 30 Def IVs to obtain a Base 70 HP Ice.
I have a question, and it would help me if a few people told me their opinion, sort of like in a poll. What move would you use if, in a OU game, your lead Roserade faced a lead Cloyster?
I agree with Lucalibur, Focus Sash Cloyster are more common from personal experience, and I'd rather get the sleep (or even sleep a switch-in) than Leaf Storm a Sasher and be 2HKOed through Ice Beam + Ice Shard or whatever.
How do you define "the best"? azelf/aero almost every time get rocks up, but if you want toxic spikes go for roserade, but there is really no best lead.
And this applys to almost everything else in your list except for speed(Ninjask) and attack(Rampardos).
I would suggest a standard team with a Grass/ Fire/ Water core.
Heatran (Lead), Gyarados (sweeper), Celebi (Cleric) will do fine.
As a tank I suggest something as a stall breaking Gliscor to deal with stall and offensive sweepers such as Tyranitar and Lucario.
Scarf Gengar can be used as you revenge killer (speed) and Machamp will make a fine physical attacker.
If you'd wish you can lead with Machamp (offensive lead set) and use Heatran (ShucaTran/ Leadtran) as you "secundary lead" to set up SR.
So to sum up you'll have a team like this:
Machamp (offensive lead/ physical attacker)
Heatran (SR / "secundary" lead)
Celebi (cleric)
Gyarados (sweeper)
Gengar (revenge killer/ speed)
Gliscor (stall breaker/ tank)