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Thanks for the reply! Deleted my previous comment because I forgot to add something.

This is just opinion BUT....for a dragon team with Dragonite as the lead pokemon, would Earthquake or Superpower be more beneficial to him? As I said in a previous post I have never played much competitively so I don't know the type of leads people come across.

The attack lead on smogon (http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/dragonite) has earthquake, but I was wondering if super power would help more against water pokemon that may be out front that can hit me with ice moves. Granted I know it says that my dragonite should run if he encounters pokemon with strong ice moves but my whole team is weak to it being dragon (except kingdra) so its not like i got much choice there. And actually...just looking at the weaknesses again, on the off chance that the lead poke is an ice, they are weak to super power.

So yeah, I guess I just need opinions really.
 
Superpower is 120 and earthquake is 100 though, unless im reading base wrong. Both are indeed neutral to water types though. Do people not really use ice pokemon much for starting? Well shoot I guess I do have fire blast. My gosh im an idiot...that would work against and ice poke >_O.
 
The base powers are different, but Superpower's effect of lowering stats is a problem. In answer to your question, no one really leads with Ice-Types very much, although they may well do if they know you are only using Dragons. You are better off with Earthquake, because it also hits Metagross, Jirachi, Infernape, Heatproof Bronzong and others for super-effective damage. It also means that you keep your stats intact.
 
Athenodoros said:
The base powers are different, but Superpower's effect of lowering stats is a problem. In answer to your question, no one really leads with Ice-Types very much, although they may well do if they know you are only using Dragons. You are better off with Earthquake, because it also hits Metagross, Jirachi, Infernape, Heatproof Bronzong and others for super-effective damage. It also means that you keep your stats intact.
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Yeah I was thinking about the whole "He's a dragon gym leader...GO ICE!" but because I was so focused on those 2 moves I forgot I had fire blast xD. But I didn't know about the other poke that earthquake was SE against. Thanks a lot both of you for the advice. A user on Gfaqs said something similar. EQ is it!

Edit to add: When something says it lowers a state by one "stage", just how much is that? 10 points?
 
Nikato said:
When something says it lowers a state by one "stage", just how much is that? 10 points?
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One stage is 1.5, so the stat total is divided by 1.5, so that particular stat is at 66.67% of its stat number.
2 Stages 2, 3 stages is 2.5 & so on until 6 stages which the number is 4.
 
Its_A_Random said:
One stage is 1.5, so the stat total is divided by 1.5, so that particular stat is at 66.67% of its stat number.
2 Stages 2, 3 stages is 2.5 & so on until 6 stages which the number is 4.
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Oh dang. I see, so very quickly super power loses its power. Dang. And its not a stab move either. It would be nice for a blissey though, but EQ would serve better over all i suppose.
 
A Pokemons working stat, used for calculations, is calculated by x*Stat, where Stat is the Stat it has without boosts and x is:

8/2 +6
7/2 +5
6/2 +4
5/2 +3
4/2 +2
3/2 +1
2/2 0
2/3 -1
2/4 -2
2/5 -3
2/6 -4
2/7 -5
2/8 -6

Where the number on the right is the number of stages the stat has been raised or lowered.

EDIT: Ninja'd. And remeber, Dragonite's unboosted Superpower + Extremespeed does not KO standard Blissey anyway. And also, you have a team of huge physical attackers, so Blissey probably wont be a problem.
 
Okay, so I want to assemble a OU or UU team and I was thinking that this type of strategy might work, but I’m really new to this and thought I should run it by some people before I created it. Anyway here’s the strategy:
A pokemon with great defenses will lead and then bar the opponent's pokemon from leaving by using scary face or similar. Then it will spam the opponent's pokemon with sand attack or other accuracy lowering move until the pokemon will basically miss every time. Then it will switch out. Then a pokemon will use spikes or similar, then switch out. A baton passer pokemon will raise incredibly high stats, then a mixed sweeper will obliterate the opponent's pokemon. If that mixed sweeper dies, then a pokemon using Roar or whilwind will weaken the rest of the pokemon, then another mixed sweeper will attack.
Baton pass will be used as needed.
I know pokemon with these movesets are limited, but ther are some that can fit the bill nicely.
Is this a good strategy? Or a very bad strategy?
 
Firstly you will want Mean Look, not Scray Face. Second, you want Baton Pass or else Mean Look stops working. In other words, you want Umbreon. What you have described is essentially a Baton Pass team for which there are articles on the main site. As for wheter it is good or not it is not particularly consistent and does frequently have problems against many teams but if you pull off your sweep it can be very satisfying.
 
Is the clock on the Pokéwalker set by the clock on your DS when you last synched the two? My steps for the day rolled back over to 0 at 11:00 PM, which leads me to believe that it hasn't been reset for DST.
 
Last question i'll post more then likely on my dragon team lol.

My flygon will be using a toxic stall smogon set (roost, toxic, earthquake, fireblast). I understand the use of earthquake...for pokemon that are resistant to toxic and fireblast, but i also have 3 other dragons on my team using earthquake as well. Should I switch EQ with a dragon move for a stab attack chance, pick a different move for diversity, or keep EQ? I was thinking maybe switching it with U-Turn to make him kind of an annoyance (come in, toxic, roost, punch things, then u turn out).

Thoughts? I know i've asked a lot of questions but you guys are the pro's here not me.

*edit: Looking at his moves, maybe if U-turn was acceptable maybe I could switch fireblast to one of his dragon stab moves, since really only a steel pokemon resists dragon moves.
 
The basic idea in a Flygon Staller set is to get as many things Toxic'd and dead as possible, so U-Turn will not really help, because you still need a turn in with an opponent to Toxic it. By contrast, Fire Blast and Earthquake are to deal with Steels, which can not be Poisoned, rather than to deal damage. For this reason, a Dragon STAB move is inadvisable, because it will be walled by the same Steels. As such, you would be well advised to keep the set the way it is, because it is unlikely that U-Turn will help, given the lack of a balanced team to absorb Super-Effective moves anyway.
 
It is used like a chained shiny in Platinum, so you will need to soft reset to get the Gyarados several times before you can be sure, but it does work.
 
Yes, but because it has to be shiny, its stats (or PID, if you know what that is) are worked out like a chained shiny.
 
I'm trying to load a picture on here. I click on the upload picture button and enter the URL but it shows up as a little blue question mark on the page after I save my post. It works if I right click and do open link in new tab but doesn't work on the actual Smogon page...does anyone know why this is or how to fix it?
 
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