Is Swampert any good as a wall, i am thinking counter and mirror coat
Swampert makes a decent physical-defender with only one weakness (not physical) , ...If you desperately fear special attacks, you have two options... you can pray you will survive a grass-knot/energy-ball/hp grass (not looking good) and use mirror coat, or you can have an effective special-defender on your team that you can swap out to. The most common swapout is blissey, but if you're not a fan of overly-pink, you could go with the slightly darker pink slowking... even less pink, grumpig can handle moderate special-threats, and not pink at all, you can toss in hypno, who has the potential to really tick off your opponents if they were using sleep-powder(or something) when they expected a swapout.
Swampert's sexy hp and decent defenses are nice and all, making it a decent wobbuffet, but it has many more options... for example, if you really fear grass types, you could just as well use avalanche, killing most plants with swamperts nice attack-stat, while simultaneously having something to kill dragons and flyings with.
Stealth-rock is amazingly fun and handy, mainly because if you switch in swampert onto something that can't really hurt it, you've got a free-turn to stealth-rock as they switch, requiring little prediction at all in regards to what they have coming in. Waterfall finally gives her 110 base-attack stat a stab'd to hit other grounds with, as well as hitting many many types for neutral damage. (Ground is handy, but commonly countered, seeing as how earthquake is such a common move... especially on swampert.) That being said though, earthquake is usually on swampy for a reason. It hits many types for excellent damage... Ice/ground provides decent coverage, so if you really want to drop waterfall and just use avalanche/earthquake, that leaves you two spots open, of which, I'd reccomend stealth-rock, and if you really really want to, you could put mirror-coat or counter in that last spot.
Bleh, suddenly after re-reading that I feel nasty. Oh well.
Alright, my question:
What do ya'll think about the concept of using a bulk-up/wish gallade as a physical-attacking version of a CMbro... with slightly better coverage, but slightly weaker set-up-ability?
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