hmm once paralysed, it is fragile when it comes to dealing with physical attacks.really no physical moves can hurt becasue his weakness are scarce
honestly i dont think 'the fastest sleep' makes up for the shitty accuracy. alakazam is the best lead imo, beats gengar and fires off fast twaves to help your late game sweepersgengar is the best it has the fastest sleep
I beg to differ? Hypnosis in Platinum has the same accuracy as it did in R/B/Y, and although usage went down, Hypnosis is still a viable sleep option, just as it was in R/B/Y. Voted Gengar, because of fast sleep, and high Special Attack (and technically Special Defense, too).honestly i dont think 'the fastest sleep' makes up for the shitty accuracy. alakazam is the best lead imo, beats gengar and fires off fast twaves to help your late game sweepers
I beg to differ? Hypnosis in Platinum has the same accuracy as it did in R/B/Y, and although usage went down, Hypnosis is still a viable sleep option, just as it was in R/B/Y. Voted Gengar, because of fast sleep, and high Special Attack (and technically Special Defense, too).
Considering I doubt you've ever face a gengar that stayed in on the first turn and that you've wasted every single one of those first turns on a chansey or another alakazam, either using psychic for no damage or thunderwave, giving them what they wanted, I wouldn't call it a good lead.Alakazam makes a good lead, as locopoke said. Kills Gar, the most common lead.
Can someone explain why 1st turn sleep is important so we could move on??????????Gengar is another good lead since you can put a pokémon to asleep on the game begins, and it's fast.
One disastrous RBY mistake, would be to allow your exeggutor to go to sleep before it has itself slept someone. Until it has done just that, it is one you should actively not allow to sleep. Once it has however, I'd agree it becomes an excellent sleep bait.Exeggutor is another good lead. Is the best pokémon to take sleeps since it's bulky and can do a lot of things early game (Paralyze stuff, Sleeps stuff, Explode on stuff, is a utility pokémon).
That's not what I said. 60% accuracy is good enough, because Sleep is a very useful status. With a Sleep inflicter that fast it's pretty good. It will beat most leads, and Alakazam's Psychic does only 61.92% - 73.07% damage to Gengar. But if you face an Alakazam lead, you can just switch to Snorlax anyway, and Gengar can sleep later. The only leads Gengar has real trouble with are Alakazam and possibly Jynx.just because hypnosis has the same accuracy in platinum as it does in rby doesn't mean it doesn't suck. 60% is horrible, 1 miss against a pokemon like alakazam can easily fuck you over, i dont like using hypnosis i'd rather use sleep powder with somebody like exeggutor
this, word for word, is exactly how I feel. The reason to use Gengar as a lead is because he's such an awesome sleep bait. Takes explosions like a champ and can even try to wake up again against a persian or surfing snorlax. The fact that gengar can use hypnosis himself is just icing.I like to lead with Gengar because so many people lead with sleep. Gengar is the best sleep absorber (because it's still useful since it can switch into Explosion), and is strong enough to take on most other leads. I agree with Vineon that you don't want to risk losing your sleeper (my main team has Sleep Powder Exeggutor, and I bring it out once I know what they're going to try and absorb sleep with so I sleep what I want).
That's a very bad idea.That's not what I said. 60% accuracy is good enough, because Sleep is a very useful status. With a Sleep inflicter that fast it's pretty good. It will beat most leads, and Alakazam's Psychic does only 61.92% - 73.07% damage to Gengar. But if you face an Alakazam lead, you can just switch to Snorlax anyway, and Gengar can sleep later. The only leads Gengar has real trouble with are Alakazam and possibly Jynx.