I have been looking for a pokemon to pass wish to the rest of my team for awhile, and I was wondering what you think is the best pokemon for passing wish off to your team? Post the pokemon along with its moveset and why you like it/think it's the best.
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Best Wish Passer?
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It all depends on the team, but I like Jirachi and Vaporeon, because both have very good defensive capabilities, and Jirachi has a bunch of resistances to top it off.
Jirachi
Jirachi, Vaporeon and Togekiss are all good candidates. Vaporeon and Togekiss can both Baton Pass (and hopefully be slower than their opponents) and Jirachi can U-Turn.
According to Dragontamers defense tiers, Jirachi is the best overall at taking hits, with it's 100/100/100 defenses. You also have to look at weakness's though. Vaporeon is only weak to Electric and Grass, while Jirachi is weak to Ground and Fire, two very common attacking types. Togekiss is weak to Stealth Rock (25% just for switching in, eww) and is weak to electric, ice and rock, 3 very common attacking types.
According to Dragontamers defense tiers, Jirachi is the best overall at taking hits, with it's 100/100/100 defenses. You also have to look at weakness's though. Vaporeon is only weak to Electric and Grass, while Jirachi is weak to Ground and Fire, two very common attacking types. Togekiss is weak to Stealth Rock (25% just for switching in, eww) and is weak to electric, ice and rock, 3 very common attacking types.
Clefable can switch in easier than either of those. It also can do more than Wishpass
Clefable @ lefties
Bold 252 hp 252 defence
Magic Guard
- Wish
- Toxic
- Protect
- Something
Can wishpass and toxicstall.
Clefable @ lefties
Bold 252 hp 252 defence
Magic Guard
- Wish
- Toxic
- Protect
- Something
Can wishpass and toxicstall.
The problem is that Wishpassers generally carry Baton Pass, so that when they pass the Wish on, your Bulky Wishpasser (normally) takes the hit while the pokemon your healing comes in damage free to take full advantage of the 50% healing. Clefable can't learn Baton Pass or U-Turn, wich means you'll have to switch the pokemon you're healing directly into an attack and you risk them being KO'd before they have a chance to be healed by Wish.
Umbreon's a good passer. And that is pretty much all it can do. All the others mentioned work fine. It all just depends on your team.
Jirachi can.
Usually the ones that people consider are:
- Vaporeon
- Jirachi
- Clefable (in lower tiers)
- Blissey (good luck in getting one for Wi-Fi excluding PokeSav)
- Salamence (no seriously, Draco Meteor / Fire Blast / Wish / Protect or Roost really works well).
- Togekiss... but it's a tad bit debatable.
- Umbreon, but to me it sucks.
- Hypno (in lower tiers of course)
- Gardevoir / Gallade is iffy but can get the job done.
- Vaporeon
- Jirachi
- Clefable (in lower tiers)
- Blissey (good luck in getting one for Wi-Fi excluding PokeSav)
- Salamence (no seriously, Draco Meteor / Fire Blast / Wish / Protect or Roost really works well).
- Togekiss... but it's a tad bit debatable.
- Umbreon, but to me it sucks.
- Hypno (in lower tiers of course)
- Gardevoir / Gallade is iffy but can get the job done.
Vaporeon, Umbreon, Blissey and Jirachi are the best from what I have seen. Blissey for the stall team variants; Jirachi generally combined with u turn to pass to something like chomp or dugtrio.
Umbreon is a joke, I don't know why people still use it; Vaporeon is by far my favorite on the list. I used to use on my sandstream team in tandem with Gliscor and Heatran :) It was a pretty vicious combination.
Umbreon is a joke, I don't know why people still use it; Vaporeon is by far my favorite on the list. I used to use on my sandstream team in tandem with Gliscor and Heatran :) It was a pretty vicious combination.