Electabuzz (QC 0/3)

[athleteandy1]

[Overview]

-not very strong
-pretty fast
-like manectric, but suckier
-really physically frail
-okay specially defensive
-often outclassed by pokes like eelektross and raichu

[SET]
name: Special Choice
move 1: Thunderbolt
move 2: Hidden Power Ice
move 3: Focus Blast
move 4: Volt Switch
item: Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
ability: Vital Spirit
nature: Timid / Modest
evs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

-uses e-buzz's stronger attacking side
-tbolt is strongest move, and stab
-hp ice forms pseudo bolt-beam coverage
-focus blast rounds out coverage
-volt switch lets him switch out and deal some damage

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

-specs and scarf make him deal more damage
-timid goes with specs and modest goes with scarf
-vital spirit over static cuz no move is learned in 4th gen
-clears way for sweepers
-or can revenge kill bothersome sweeper-troublers
-either way, works with sweepers
-butterfree immunes ground and sweeps
-volbeat is a baller and passes tail glows to e-buzz or teammate and resists ground

[SET]
name: Choice Band
move 1: Wild Charge
move 2: Ice Punch
move 3: Fire Punch
move 4: Cross Chop / Volt Switch
item: Choice Band
ability: Vital Spirit
nature: Jolly
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[SET COMMENTS]

-perfect coverage
-decent atk stat
-wild charge is strong physical stab
-ice punch provides coverage
-fire punch provides more coverage
-cross chop provides minimal added coverage
-volt switch lets him switch out and deal a light hit

[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]

-jolly to outspeed most things
-evs make him strong and fast blah blah
-static cuz vital spirit is illegal with fire and ice punch
-band allows him to 2hko just about everything in the tier with right move
-breaks down a good chunk of the walls
-opens up for pokes like sawk or swellow or braviary or scolipede or THE ALL-MIGHTY LINOONE

[Other Options]

-works well on rain teams
-can even set it up himself
-use thunder then and prob not a fire move
-dynamicpunch too unreliable
-psychic has no real coverage
-charge beam on the mixed set maybe to grab a boost
-meditate with an all-out physical set is cool, but rarely finds time to set up
-gets quick attack to hit frail sweepers, but too not-strong
-signal beam in same boat as psychic
-lotta wall options, like: barrier, light screen, toxic, t-wave, and eviolite
-just doesn't have the defenses to pull it off though

[Checks and Counters]

-hard cuz has such impeccable coverage
-priority kills cuz so physically frail
-dugtrio traps and can sucker punch or eq for kill
-can't think of anything that can really switch in reliably time and time again

 

[Ice-eyes]

Why would you want to use Mixed? Its special movepool is good enough that it's so pointless weakening your STAB just to power up two sub-par coverage moves, one of which you can easily have a special equivalent of.

 

[breh]

vital spirit is legal with punches, punches are egg moves. don't use static.

never run modest/naughty. both are worse raichus; electabuzz's speed tier is unique and you should be using that.

IMO, CB/Mixed are both pretty bad. Special choice shouldn't be running scarf and should just go wtih specs; it needs the power.

 

[athleteandy1]

Will nix mixed and make static to vital spirit. Will wait to further decisions about cb

 

[tennisace]

Agreeing with previous posts, it should just be a Choice Specs set with LO in AC. It gets a pretty damn good special movepool and should be using that. The punches and Cross Chop aren't worth it. Just mention in AC that it gets them but why its not good to use them.

 

[jake]

lanturn is a pretty hard counter, should definitely be mentioned (..though it might go up in like four days so idk lol). i'm not really sold on the CB set either. OO mention is fine. also mention w/ vital spirit that you beat smeargle, since that's something of interest. i would also prefer timid by far, considering that there are tons of mons that modest misses out on (base 90s and up).

 

[Ice-eyes]

I guess it gets a stamp, idk if anyone else wants to weigh in on tennisace's earlier concerns.

 

[NatGeo]

Scarf can go before Specs at least IMO but that's preference

 

[tennisace]

Rejecting both stamps, reassigning this analysis since it hasn't been updated in like a month.