Best Bulk Up Receivers

[Suburvia]

Wow, thanks everybody ^_^

Gallade, Hitmontop, and Snorlax all sound like great candidates for the receiving end. I'd only actually considered Hitmontop out of those, but wanted to try out a couple of others first. Gallade does sound especially appealing with such massive attack, good special defense, Wish, and that awesome movepool of his. Snorlax. . . Well, he seems obvious now that I think about it. Curselax minus curse plus another attacking move. Maybe I'll try those out. . .

T-Tar, Heracross, and Electivire all seem pretty appealing, too, for obvious reasons. Dragonite sounds nifty as well. Weavile seems like a good choice, and Lapras sounds interesting. I'll have to try all of these out =D

Thanks for the input so far, everybody. Keep it coming ^_^

 

[Aeroblacktyl]

See the issue with Cradily that despite it not being able to Roar'd out, it's still too slow and all. =[ It's attack isn't even boosted that great and it's one of the easier canidates for Weezing to burn. At least Gallade/Heracross/Electivire/Tyranitar outspeed Weezing and threaten without the boosts anyways. Just my opinion(obviously) though.

 

[Colonel M]

Octillery can work as a better candidate for Bulk Up as he has the stats AND the Speed to get a catch onto Weezing (it will require you to almost Max Attack however). That and Suction Cups make it even better. Hell you could actually play a facade with Sniper instead since usually Skarmory nor Swampert and friends won't really try to Whirlwind / Roar you out.

Another good candidate might be Exploud, but he really doesn't have the greatest defensive stats going for him. Soundproof is a good plus however.

If you don't mind the whole PHazing ordeal, then Electivire is a nice candidate. Another would probably be your typical Fighting type.

 

[umbarsc]

Wow, thanks everybody ^_^

Gallade, Hitmontop, and Snorlax all sound like great candidates for the receiving end. I'd only actually considered Hitmontop out of those, but wanted to try out a couple of others first. Gallade does sound especially appealing with such massive attack, good special defense, Wish, and that awesome movepool of his. Snorlax. . . Well, he seems obvious now that I think about it. Curselax minus curse plus another attacking move. Maybe I'll try those out. . .

T-Tar, Heracross, and Electivire all seem pretty appealing, too, for obvious reasons. Dragonite sounds nifty as well. Weavile seems like a good choice, and Lapras sounds interesting. I'll have to try all of these out =D

Thanks for the input so far, everybody. Keep it coming ^_^

You don't like the idea of Azumarill? It has an attack stat beat only by Base 140 and higher before any Bulk Ups are passed at all, is pretty bulky (100/80/80), and has a STAB priority move resisted only by two types.

Scizor is also an interesting option, has Technician-boosted Quick Attack, 100 Base Defense, and covers Floatzel's weaknesses rather well. Of course, Grass-types cover Floatzel's weaknesses PERFECTLY, but Tangrowth seems like the only one that would benefit from it, save possibly Breloom (which would actually work well with Mach Punch).

 

[Portugeez]

Exploud is actually a great candidate, now that you mencion it.
It has huge HP, so defensive boosts make it quite sturdy.

EDIT: Aqua Jet is resisted by Dragon, Water and Grass.

 

[umbarsc]

Exploud is actually a great candidate, now that you mencion it.
It has huge HP, so defensive boosts make it quite sturdy.

EDIT: Aqua Jet is resisted by Dragon, Water and Grass.

Oops. And since Azumarill doesn't get both Aqua Jet AND Ice Punch....

 

[Dragontamer]

You don't like the idea of Azumarill? It has an attack stat beat only by Base 140 and higher before any Bulk Ups are passed at all, is pretty bulky (100/80/80), and has a STAB priority move resisted only by two types.

Scizor is also an interesting option, has Technician-boosted Quick Attack, 100 Base Defense, and covers Floatzel's weaknesses rather well. Of course, Grass-types cover Floatzel's weaknesses PERFECTLY, but Tangrowth seems like the only one that would benefit from it, save possibly Breloom (which would actually work well with Mach Punch).

If it were to be a baton-pass team, I'd go with Leafeon, who can roar and swords dance. Not to mention, Leafeon is extremely bulky. After that, Ambipom can agility/nasty plot and taunt, and Return should be fine as its only attack.

Mr. Mime and Absol can Calm Mind, Baton Pass and Taunt, and Gliscor can taunt, agility, and swords dance.

So you can boost every single stat "safely", and you can boost every stat sharply and safely except for Sp. Def. Swords Dance + Taunt + BP == Gliscor, Swords Dance + Roar == Blazikin and Leafeon, Iron Defense + Taunt + BP == Mawile (lol, NU), Amnesia == Smeargle :-(. Nasty Plot + Taunt is Ambipom, and Agility is Ambipom or Gliscor.

Sorry, just a thought :-)

 

[Suburvia]

You don't like the idea of Azumarill? It has an attack stat beat only by Base 140 and higher before any Bulk Ups are passed at all, is pretty bulky (100/80/80), and has a STAB priority move resisted only by two types.

Scizor is also an interesting option, has Technician-boosted Quick Attack, 100 Base Defense, and covers Floatzel's weaknesses rather well. Of course, Grass-types cover Floatzel's weaknesses PERFECTLY, but Tangrowth seems like the only one that would benefit from it, save possibly Breloom (which would actually work well with Mach Punch).

Sorry, I had 20 or so posts to respond to.

I'm actually a big Azumarill fan. I usually run the CB set with Aqua Jet, Waterfall, Double Edge, and Focus Punch, and he's amazing. I really like this guy, but he's just too slow to sweep teams for my liking. Metagross outspeeds most everything aside from fast scarfers after one Agility, and he's bulkier with better defensive typing. I really like Azu, but I don't think I'd be passing Bulk Ups to him.

And I mentioned Scizor in my first post =/

Isn't Octillery's base speed 45? >_>

Exploud sounds interesting. Soundproof, fairly bulky, how's its movepool?

Not a BP team, although I've been thinking of making one for a while. . .

 

[Akayfortyseven]

Skarmory isn't coming into Floatzel, it's coming in after you either already Baton Pass it, after you've killed something, on an Earthquake, or as you're Baton Passing. Now the recipient is what I'd like to stop said Skarmory.

Aha, sorry I misinterpreted what you said about taunt then.

 

[Colonel M]

Yes, but to prove that 45 Speed isn't oh so bad, with some EV investment, you can still outpace Weezing and Skarmory. Simply put, a neutral nature Rhyperior with 252 Speed EVs can always pounce on Skarmory (and I think Cresselia with no Speed as well). So in other words, Octillery can still outspeed it.

Exploud's movepool is pretty interesting. It gets STAB Return and Hyper Voice (for special attack anyways), gets all punches (and fangs) and has a movepool that's pretty big (almost as big as, say, Lickilicky's). In other words, anything is possible.

 

[MajinNecro69]

Flareon would make a decent receiver of Bulk Up, since it's in desperate need of Defense. Although, it makes better use of an AgilityPasser.

 

[Suburvia]

Well, I still wouldn't trust Octillery to sweep more than two Poke's. They're bound to have an Infernape or something that can OHKO Octillery with ease while easily outspeeding it. Does it get Aqua Jet?

Exploud does sound pretty interesting. Maybe I'll try him out. However, Shoddy Battle's Official Server seems to be offline at the moment, so I can't test anything out =[

Flareon? Eh. . . Not in OU. It needs speed as well, like you said, and decent a physical movepool might help it out a little.

 

[umbarsc]

Sorry, I had 20 or so posts to respond to.

I'm actually a big Azumarill fan. I usually run the CB set with Aqua Jet, Waterfall, Double Edge, and Focus Punch, and he's amazing. I really like this guy, but he's just too slow to sweep teams for my liking. Metagross outspeeds most everything aside from fast scarfers after one Agility, and he's bulkier with better defensive typing. I really like Azu, but I don't think I'd be passing Bulk Ups to him.

And I mentioned Scizor in my first post =/

Isn't Octillery's base speed 45? >_>

Exploud sounds interesting. Soundproof, fairly bulky, how's its movepool?

Not a BP team, although I've been thinking of making one for a while. . .

Azumarill's speed isn't all that bad, you just have to invest 100 or so EVs to outspeed the walls you cannot kill with Aqua Jet. Most things fragile and faster are OHKO'd by Aqua Jet.

 

[Marix]

Gallade is a good on imo since he already has a very good sp def stat.

 

[Suburvia]

Azumarill's speed isn't all that bad, you just have to invest 100 or so EVs to outspeed the walls you cannot kill with Aqua Jet. Most things fragile and faster are OHKO'd by Aqua Jet.

Yes, but many things faster than Azumarill are not fragile. Meatgross usually has enough Speed EVs to outpace him, and even with a couple Bulk Ups, CB T-Punch will hurt the little water mouse. There's also the possibility of it running a special set with Grass Knot, which would make all of your Bulk Ups useless. Gyarados will have a hard time taking down Azumarill without a couple of DDs and Earthquake, but Intimidated Azumarill probably isn't doing a whole lot back. Don't expect to beat Starmie with Aqua Jet, and it'll proceed to T-Bolt you. Chomp might not be able to OHKO after a few Bulk Ups, and I'm not even sure if he'd survive the Aqua Jet, but he deserves a mention nonetheless. Celebi can Grass Knot you.

And then there's other things that carry priority moves, like SpecsLuke, SD Lucario, random stuff with Mach/Bullet Punch, and, well, Ice Shard doesn't do shit to Azumarill ;)

Look, I understand everything has counters, but I just don't like Azu's in this instance. Haven't you ever been frustrated because your opponent was too fast to kill and too strong to wall? There's nothing worse than losing to a DDDos because he outsped you by one point, or an Agiligross, or whatever, but that isn't going to happen with Azu; AJ is still surprisingly weak even when Neutral. I understand Azumarill's good, but I just don't think I'd use him in this instance.

 

[Mekkah]

Flareon would make a decent receiver of Bulk Up, since it's in desperate need of Defense. Although, it makes better use of an AgilityPasser.

Objection here since Flareon isn't decent. Its HP prevents it from tanking to the extent most other things can with Bulk Ups. Big weaknesses and slowness as well, yadda yadda.

 

[Colonel M]

Actually I was thinking of something (at least for my team anyways) of using Kristy and Rhyperior together (as Rhyperior can absorb the electric attack) and at least Rhyperior could use Rock Polish to back up its speed. Ah well, I thought it was playable because of those high defensive stats, but maybe I'm not looking at the picture big enough.

 

[ultimifier]

i said this earlier but no one mentioned it, which made me feel really sad :(

garchomp or salamence @yache berry.

speedy enough, and with 2 bulk ups and a yache berry, there are very, very few attacks in the game that or going to kill them. once a starmie, or something like that, comes in for a revenge kill, laugh at them as the yache berry cuts their damage in half and as you kill them back. once the fast ice beamer is out of the way it's clear sailing for a sweep

 

[Suburvia]

Rhyperior might work, but if he switches into a Grass Attack, say goodbye.

ultimifier, that would probably work, as Chomp is immune to electric and neutral to grass, while Mence 4x resists grass and is neutral to electric. Using them both on one team is always gonna be a little risky (even if that's not what you were suggesting, but I think it'd work), but I like the idea. 'Mence can DD once it comes in, and 'Chomp can SD. Hmm. . .