I commonly use protect to heal up health to take hits and stall, at the same time, substitute can't do that at all.
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Gliscor
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What is 236 Def meant to survive? If u have such a specific EV there should be a pretty major reason besides "I want more bulk" like say surviving a 2HKO from pokemon X's attack Y.
This, Protect essentially means you heal a Lot of the damage you just took allowing gliscor to last that much longer.
He probably means 236 defense evs, and to be honest you don't need to have an fantastic reason to run much speed on Gliscor. I personally run just enough speed to outspeed nuetral 252 Breloom and Politoed (240 speed, 56 speed evs), the only thing I lose from the standard set is outspeeding Jolly 252 Tyranitar (does not exist) and speed creep afterwards which I couldn't care less about.
Gilscor runs a fine Sub+Protect set, particularly with toxic spikes up.
Even though a good portion of the metagame is immune, as long as you can break excadrill's balloon and trap lati@s/skarm/ferrothorn, he can stall out basically the rest of the metagame.
Even though a good portion of the metagame is immune, as long as you can break excadrill's balloon and trap lati@s/skarm/ferrothorn, he can stall out basically the rest of the metagame.
That set is walled by thirteen members of OU (between 1/4 and 1/3 of the tier). Anything airborne walls that set, which usually means at least one and possibly more members of a team. Give anything a balloon and your Gliscor can't do anything to it.
Sorry if that sounded like stating the obvious, I was just trying to point out that I don't think that's the most effective use of Gliscor. It just seems like you're trying to do too much at the same time and ending up walled by too much for it to be viable, at least IMO.
if you use him in sandstorm, you CAN actually stall out some of those 13 pokes...
all but bronzong and skarmory.
16 turns for a poke to die, and you have 32 pps of sub and protect to work with. this changes if youre against latias with recover, of course, or a poke with leftovers.
the few pokemon that is stalled is scarf/specs/life orb rotom-w, life orb/expert belt/specs/scarf hydreigon, and life orb/specs latios.
all but bronzong and skarmory.
16 turns for a poke to die, and you have 32 pps of sub and protect to work with. this changes if youre against latias with recover, of course, or a poke with leftovers.
the few pokemon that is stalled is scarf/specs/life orb rotom-w, life orb/expert belt/specs/scarf hydreigon, and life orb/specs latios.
Gah.... So many different gliscor methods.... I think I'm just going to keep what I have. I'm too confused. Sorry.
I run a Swords Dance/Facade/EQ/Aerial Ace set to catch people off guard. Against better players, they tend to overpredict expecting taunt/Protect, allowing me to hit hard and fast. shits all over Conkledurr ;)
Just the set I've used in rotation with a protect/Toxic set.
Just the set I've used in rotation with a protect/Toxic set.
Taunt + EQ already shits all over Conkeldurr. There is really no reason to be running Aerial Ace over Taunt/Protect.
something flying or levitating will not only be immune to ur set, but also the toxic spikes. if anything give gliscor ice fang/acrobats/stone edge to hit the flyers.
Taunt would be better over AA
