Finishing Item Analysis

[Oglemi]

OK here are a few of my own, if someone could GP them that'd be awesome.

Apicot Berry (stole this from AG)

<p>Despite being part of the pinch Berry family, the Apicot Berry will only activate with the wrong effect at the worst moment possible. Like the other pinch Berries, the Apicot Berry requires the user's health to be well under 25%, which isn't exactly the best opportunity to boost your Pokemon's Special Defense. At this point, the user is in definite KO range, meaning that a Special Defense boost would be a wasted effort. Unless your Pokemon has some reliable way to recover health instantly, the Apicot Berry should never be an option over staple items such as Leftovers.</p>

Coba Berry

<p>The Coba Berry is a type-resist Berry that weakens the power of super effective Flying-type moves. While this may sound like a boon to certain Pokemon, particularly Breloom and Heracross, it becomes less so when it's made apparant that Flying-type moves are rarely seen in OU play. In most cases, the two aforementioned Pokemon will make much better use of other items, such as Toxic Orb for the former and Choice Scarf for the latter. What's more, the main use of Coba Berry is to ensure that both Pokemon survive a Flying-type attack to set up and then proceed to sweep, a strategy both Pokemon find very hard to accomplish even after the setup.</p>

Enigma Berry

<p>While the Enigma Berry sounds fantastic at a glance, being able to heal 25% after being struck by a super effective attack, in practice it is far too situational to see any use in competitive play. In most cases, your Pokemon will be hit by neutral attacks far more than super effective attacks, and as a good player, you should be avoiding situations where your Pokemon encounters a super effective attack in the first place. It should also be noted that the health gain happens after the Pokemon is hit, which means it must be at full health to ensure it doesn't faint from the attack and to make any kind of use out of this Berry.</p>

 

[zdrup15]

there you go

Apicot Berry (stole this from AG)

<p>Despite being part of the pinch Berry family, the Apicot Berry will only activate with the wrong effect at the worst moment possible. Like the other pinch Berries, the Apicot Berry requires the user's health to be well under 25%, which isn't exactly the best opportunity to boost your Pokemon's Special Defense. At this point, the user is in definite KO range, meaning that a Special Defense boost would be a wasted effort. Unless your Pokemon has some reliable way to recover health instantly, the Apicot Berry should never be an option over staple items such as Leftovers.</p>

Coba Berry

<p>The Coba Berry is a type-resist Berry that weakens the power of super effective Flying-type moves. While this may sound like a boon to certain Pokemon, particularly Breloom and Heracross, it becomes less so when it's made apparant that Flying-type moves are rarely seen in OU play. In most cases, the two aforementioned Pokemon will make much better use of other items, such as Toxic Orb for the former and Choice Scarf for the latter. What's more, the main use of Coba Berry is to ensure that both Pokemon survive a Flying-type attack to set up and then proceed to sweep, a strategy both Pokemon find very hard to accomplish even after having set-up the setup.</p>

Enigma Berry

<p>While the Enigma Berry sounds fantastic at a glance, being able to heal 25% after being struck by a super effective attack, in practice it is far too situational to see any use in competitive play. In most cases, your Pokemon will be hit by neutral attacks far more than super effective attacks, and as a good player, you should be avoiding situations where your Pokemon encounters a super effective attack in the first place. It should also be noted that the health gained gain happens after the Pokemon is hit, which means your Pokemon it must be at full health to ensure your Pokemon it doesn't faint from the attack and to make any kind of use out of this Berry.</p>

 

[Oglemi]

aight uploaded those, thanks zdrup

Here is the remaining list then since we're on a new page

Jaboca Berry
Kasib Berry
Kebia Berry
Lansat Berry
Mail
Metal Powder
Payapa Berry
Rowap Berry
Sitrus Berry
Tanga Berry

 

[Nix_Hex]

I shall get:
Kebia
Lansat
Mail
Tanga
Payapa
Rowap


and I believe elDino gets the rest so yeah...

edit: oops I already added Payapa and Kebia. I'll put them here for reference

Payapa Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The Payapa Berry is a type-resist berry that reduces the damage taken from super effective Psychic-type moves by 50%. Since Psychic-type moves are rather uncommon in a metagame infested with Steel- and Dark-types, Payapa berry will almost always be outclassed by another item. Toxicroak in particular might seem like a good candidate for a Payapa Berry, being 4x weak to Psychic, but due to its general frailty, it appreciates Leftovers to aid in its recovery in the rain, or an attack boosting item such as Choice Band, Choice Specs, or Life Orb to bolster its offenses.</p>

Kebia Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>The Kebia Berry is a type resist berry that reduces the damage taken from a super effective Poison-type move by 50%. With the prevalence of Steel-types and the overall awful coverage that Poison offers, offensive Poison-type moves rarely see any use. As such, the Kebia Berry is outclassed in almost every single manner.</p>

<p>The best potential user of Kebia Berry is Ludicolo, due to Poison being one its only three weaknesses. In the Ubers metagame, Ludicolo could take advantage of its Rain Dish ability in conjunction with Kyogre's infinite rain for reliable recovery, while holding a Kebia Berry to allow Ludicolo to survive a Poison move that an opponent may try to throw at it. In fact, during VGC 2010, when Ludicolo became such a prevalent threat that players started using Poison-type moves against it, some players let their Ludicolo hold a Kebia Berry to help survive such moves.</p>

<p>Overall, a Pokemon such as Ludicolo would benefit more from Leftovers in most cases, making Kebia Berry a far inferior item.</p>

Rowap Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Rowap Berry is a one-time damaging item that deals 12.5% of the opponent's maximum HP when the holder is hit by a special attack. Although this sounds like a nice way to deal some residual damage to your opponent, you are much better off running Leftovers, while finding other ways to damage your opponent. The Rowap Berry's main flaw is that the holder must <em>survive</em> the opponent's attack for the berry to even activate, completely eliminating any sort of surprise value this item may offer.</p>

Mail
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Mail is one of the most forgotten items in Pokemon, only used in-game to send love letters to your significant other when trading your favorite Pokemon. Furthermore, the item was not implemented on Shoddy Battle, and its in-battle effect was largely unknown. However, the item may serve a purpose. The appeal of Mail is that it cannot be lost by any means, most notably by Trick (how would your darling love ever get that apology letter you owe her?) As such, a Pokemon who likes to avoid receiving debilitating items may opt to use Mail over standard items. One such Pokemon is Blissey. A common tactic to stopping Blissey is to cripple her with a Choice Scarf, locking her into a support move and rendering her useless for the rest of the match. Blissey holding Mail does not have to worry about gaining such a useless item. However, Blissey often finds herself needing the additional recovery given by Leftovers as to not rely on Softboiled or Wish the whole match. Furthermore, Mail has no actual functionality, making it an inferior item almost all the time.</p>

Lansat Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Lansat Berry is another member of the "pinch berry" family, which raises the holder's critical hit ratio by +2 when at 25% or less of its total HP. On paper, this sounds like a good idea, but it is often much better to outright attack with a boosting item than attempt to reach the point of Lansat Berry's activation. Furthermore, sweeping at 25% health is very risky.</p>

<p>However, one must not overlook the abilities Sniper and Gluttony. Sniper makes all critical hits do three times the normal damage when they land. This allows Kingdra and Octillery to hit incredibly hard with their power STAB moves. On the other hand, Linoone has the ability Gluttony, which will activate Lansat Berry when Linoone reaches 50% of its HP. This has tremendous synergy with Belly Drum, allowing Linoone to sweep with its incredibly powerful STAB ExtremeSpeed.</p>

<p>However, Kingdra usually appreciates a Chesto Berry or an attack boosting item, and would rather use Swift Swim in most cases. Octillery, on the other hand, appreciates the constant recovery from Leftovers, and its Suction Cups ability allows it to retain stat boosts gained from Baton Pass. Linoone needs all the Speed it can get when it is not using ExtremeSpeed, making Salac Berry the superior option.</p>

 

[elDino]

^ What he said.
I get:

Jaboca Berry

<p>Another berry that has almost no competitive use, the Jaboca Berry damages an opponent whenever the holder takes damage from a physical attack. This may have been a good item choice, but the fact of the matter is that it only deals out 1/8 of the opponents max HP in damage, which is very mediocre, considering it is one time use and using an attacking move is almost always the better option. Standard items such as Leftovers outclass this in almost every way possible.</p>

Kasib Berry

<p>This type-resist berry (one that reduces damage taken from Ghost-type attacks) is one of the lesser used type-resist berries, and for good reason. Not many Pokemon need to take reduced damage from Ghost-type attacks, as the only real user of Ghost moves in OU is Gengar, while in UU, Mismagius is the only real abuser. The Rotom formes may also use Shadow Ball, but nothing in particular needs to resist this, although it could be useful on Pokemon such as Alakazam and the like.</p>

Metal Powder

<p>An item that can only be used on Ditto, Metal Powder is particularly good on that certain Pokemon. Ditto needs time to use Transform, and Metal Powder may help it buy that time by boosting its defenses to respectable levels. However, Ditto is such a – let's face it – awful Pokemon, that Metal Powder should not really be seen in any tier bar NU. Ditto's defenses are still rather mediocre, and perhaps other items such as Leftovers should be used on Ditto, and that's only if you're going to use it.</p>

Sitrus Berry

<p>The Sitrus berry brings back memories of the Gym Leaders, where just as you had there Pokemon into KO range, it would activate and bring them out of it, allowing them to KO you afterwards. Fortunately, you won't have to experience any of that stress, as a Sitrus berry is often outclassed by more consistent items such as Leftovers, as Pokemon tend to switch around more, and Leftovers recovery often means more over time than the ever popular berries in-game.</p>

 

[Oglemi]

OK GPed and uploaded those guys, thanks a million! Though NixHex, I should have said to not upload anything unless someone has GPed it first. There were a couple of mistakes in both of the two you uploaded. But, no harm done.

Also NixHex and elDino, Berry is always capitalized.

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Rowap Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Rowap Berry is a one-time damaging item that deals 12.5% to the opponent's maximum HP when the holder is hit by a special attack. Although this sounds like a nice way to deal some residual damage to your opponent, you are much better off running Leftovers, while finding other ways to damage your opponent. The Rowap Berry's main flaw is that the holder must <em>survive</em> the opponent's attack for the berry to even activate, completely eliminating any sort of surprise value this item may offer.</p>

Mail
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Mail is one of the most forgotten items in Pokemon, only used in-game to send love letters to your significant other when trading your favorite Pokemon. Furthermore, the item was not implemented on Shoddy Battle, and its in-battle effect was largely unknown. However, the item may serve a purpose. The appeal of Mail is that it cannot be lost by any means, most notably by Trick (how would your darling love ever get that apology letter you owe her?). As such, a Pokemon who likes to avoid receiving debilitating items may opt to use Mail over standard items. One such Pokemon is Blissey. A common tactic to defeating Blissey is to cripple her with a Choice Scarf, locking her into a support move and rendering her useless for the rest of the match. Blissey holding Mail does not have to worry about gaining such a useless item. However, Blissey often finds herself needing the additional recovery given by Leftovers as to not rely on Softboiled or Wish the whole match. Furthermore, Mail has no actual functionality, making it an inferior item almost all the time.</p>

Lansat Berry
<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>Lansat Berry is another member of the "pinch Berry" family, which raises the holder's critical hit ratio by +2 when at 25% or less of its total HP. On paper, this sounds like a good idea, but it is often much better to outright attack with a boosting item than attempt to reach the point of Lansat Berry's activation. Furthermore, sweeping at 25% health is very risky.</p>

<p>However, one must not overlook the abilities Sniper and Gluttony. Sniper makes all critical hits do three times the normal damage when they land. This allows Kingdra and Octillery to hit incredibly hard with their powerful STAB moves. On the other hand, Linoone has the ability Gluttony, which will activate Lansat Berry when Linoone reaches 50% of its HP. This has tremendous synergy with Belly Drum, allowing Linoone to sweep with its incredibly powerful STAB ExtremeSpeed.</p>

<p>However, Kingdra usually appreciates a Chesto Berry or an attack boosting item, and would rather use Swift Swim in most cases. Octillery, on the other hand, appreciates the constant recovery from Leftovers, and its Suction Cups ability allows it to retain stat boosts gained from Baton Pass. Linoone needs all the Speed it can get when it is not using ExtremeSpeed, making Salac Berry the superior option.</p>

Jaboca Berry

<p>Another Berry that has almost no competitive use, the Jaboca Berry damages an opponent whenever the holder takes damage from a physical attack. This may have been a good item choice, but the fact of the matter is that it only deals out 1/8 of the opponents max HP in damage, which is very mediocre, considering it is one time use and using an attacking move is almost always the better option. Standard items such as Leftovers outclass this in almost every way possible.</p>

Kasib Berry

<p>This type-resist Berry (one that reduces damage taken from Ghost-type attacks) is one of the lesser used type-resist Berries, and for good reason. Not many Pokemon need to take reduced damage from super effective Ghost-type attacks, as the only real user of Ghost moves in OU is Gengar, while in UU, Mismagius is the only real abuser. The Rotom formes may also use Shadow Ball, but nothing in particular needs to resist this, although it could be useful on Pokemon such as Alakazam and the like.</p>

Metal Powder

<p>An item that can only be used on Ditto, Metal Powder is particularly good on that certain Pokemon. Ditto needs time to use Transform, and Metal Powder may help it buy that time by boosting its defenses to respectable levels. However, Ditto is such a, let's face it, awful Pokemon, that Metal Powder should not really be seen in any tier bar NU. Ditto's defenses are still rather mediocre, and perhaps other items such as Leftovers should be used on Ditto, and that's only if you're going to use it.</p>

Sitrus Berry

<p>The Sitrus Berry brings back memories of the Gym Leaders, where just as you had there Pokemon into KO range, it would activate and bring them out of it, allowing them to KO you afterwards. Fortunately, you won't have to experience any of that stress, as a Sitrus Berry is often outclassed by more consistent items such as Leftovers, as Pokemon tend to switch around more, and Leftovers recovery often means more overall recovery over time than the ever popular Berries in-game.</p>