Just A Little Experiment -- Battle Tower

BidoofTheWise

Hey people! I decided that I am sick of hax taking down my team (I mean, come on, there's only so many critical hits that I can take before I'm driven insane). So I'm going to try a bit of a different team to see if it might work.

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Spiritomb @ Choice Scarf
Nature: Bold
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Hp, 124 Def, 132 Sp. Def

- Trick
- Grudge
- Protect
- Taunt

The typical TrickScarf Spiritomb. I'm pretty sure everybody gets the idea, but just in case, this Spiritomb essentially takes advantage of the AI's stubborness to not switch out by trapping it to a move by tricking the lead with the choice scarf. I can then use grudge to remove the PP of it's locked attack and lock it into a struggle. Taunt is there to help against status move users, which I think might be a problem for this team (I'm not sure yet, so far this is all ideas on paper). Either way, the PP is gone, struggle is up, and I then switch into...

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Ninjask @ Leftovers
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 176 HP / 252 Atk / 80 Spe

~ Substitute
~ Swords Dance
~ Baton Pass
~ X-Scissor

The typical moveset for Ninjask, but it sets up a great sweeper for my next guy. As soon as Spiritomb does its job, I switch to the ninjask. The ninjask, with 4 turns of setting up while the opponent struggles, can get up 4x a speed boost because of its ability and at least x2 damage with a swords dance (maybe even more if the struggle does not break the substitute). The X-Scissor is there if I can take out the next pokemon the opponent brings out with ninjask, giving me some breathing room for my last pokemon. When Ninjask's job is done, I plan on baton passing to . . .


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Drapion @ Life Orb
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Battle Armor
EVs: 252 Atk / 236 HP / 8 Sp Def / 12 Def

~ Crunch
~ Earthquake
~ Ice Fang
~ Poison Jab

Goodbye to my first choice, Kabutops, and say hello to Drapion. Drapion, though it has less attack than Kabutops, has better stats otherwise, more coverage, and an immunity. Drapion has the ability battle armor, which prevents critical hit hax. The OHKO hax is definitely something I'm worried about, but I'm praying that the above set with ninjask will have used SD enough to take anything out before they can use a OHKO. With the hax put out of the way, there is only the UU level stats. However, the speed is definitely fixed with the speed boosts, while even a single swords dance baton passed by ninjask will make drapion a force not to be underestimated. The EV spread I have is so that Drapion has the best attack, while having enough bulk to take a hit. The speed boosts will account for the lack of speed EVs.

Some final words...
Now, sure, I kind of combined a few strategies here, but I think it is an interesting idea that I have. What worries me the worst about this is that I am relying on a single offensive pokemon here. This just kind of popped into my head, I think that this is just an interesting idea to toy around with. Any thoughts?

Ex-Team Members
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Bye bye Kabutops. Drapion provided the same as Kabutops, but with better type coverage, resistances, and overall better stats.
 
Stone Edge should be changed to Rock Slide or something because you don't want to go up against a Pelipper, have Stone Edge miss and get OHKOed by HP Grass et al.
 
Because of his ability for battle armor (no more critical hit hax). Besides, he does have very good attack, and nice type coverage with those moves, so I'm not too worried. Really, the only thing that I don't like about Kabutops is his speed, but that is fixed with this team.
 
Why don't you use Drapion instead of Kabutops? Both have Battle Armor, except Drapion has less weaknesses, an immuntity, and has better stats in everything but attack.
 
Screw both of them and use Crawdaunt.

It has more attack, the far better Shell Armor skill, and can run the same exact set with STAB Crunch in slot #4.
 
Maybe possibly Aggron?

Solid Defense and sturdy. A sweet attack stat as well, and Jask makes up for the fail speed. I've seen much more OHKO hax than Critxax.
 
I think I plan on going with Drapion. I'm going to get myself an EV spread right now. As for the OHKO hax, I plan on fixing that just by making my poke lvl 49
 
I have to agree with the rest of the crowd, Drapion is the better solution. More resistances, an immunity, and doesn't have a weakness to the priority moves Mach Punch/Vacuum Wave. The latter should be enough reason to swap out because the last thing you would want is to go through all that trouble to set up to have your only attacker taken out by a priority move (although I question if an AI would have that priority move; better to be safe than sorry, right?). Drapion has a much better chance of surviving, and has a decent movepool to make the most out of it. (Perhaps Night Slash, EQ, Ice Fang and Cross Poison?)

Edit: Oops, haha, seems you got it figured out. Sorry!
 
BidoofTheWise said:
I think I plan on going with Drapion. I'm going to get myself an EV spread right now. As for the OHKO hax, I plan on fixing that just by making my poke lvl 49
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OHKO moves works on pokemon with a lower or equal level of the user so using a lv 49 Drapion is redundant since it will still get hit by OHKO moves. Drapion might as well be at lv 50 to have a slight increase of his stats.
 
The major problem is IF they switch, it null-voids your strategy. And then they can potentially set up to sweep you rather easily, having Drapion be pretty much the only Poke that can hold his own.

But if it all goes according to plan, that could be quite fearsome.
 
Delko said:
OHKO moves works on pokemon with a lower or equal level of the user so using a lv 49 Drapion is redundant since it will still get hit by OHKO moves. Drapion might as well be at lv 50 to have a slight increase of his stats.
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Whoops, I misread the move description. Oh well, I'll just ride on Drapion having good enough stat boosts to take everything out before they have a chance to OHKO
 
They don't switch unless they use Perish Song, the moves Baton Pass or U-Turn, or you hit them with a move that they have a Pokemon which resists it.

eg. you use Surf against a Blissey, they may switch to Vaporeon to abuse its ability.
 
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