Latios

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HP: 80
Atk: 90
Def: 80
SAtk: 130
SDef: 110
Spe: 110

Abilities:
Levitate: Damage dealing Ground-type moves have no effect on this Pokémon. Cannot be trapped by Arena Trap ability. Takes no damage from Spikes.
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[B]Level-Up Moves[/B]
1 Psywave		
5 Heal Block	
10 Helping Hand
15 Safeguard		
20 DragonBreath	
25 Protect		
30 Refresh		
35 Luster Purge		
40 Zen Headbutt	
45 Recover		
50 Psycho Shift	
55 Dragon Dance	
60 Psychic		
65 Heal Pulse	
70 Telekinesis		
75 Power Split		
80 Dragon Pulse	
85 Memento

[B]TM/HMs Learned[/B]
TM01 Hone Claws
TM02 Dragon Claw
TM03 Psyshock		
TM04 Calm Mind	
TM05 Roar		
TM06 Toxic		
TM10 Hidden Power		
TM11 Sunny Day		
TM13 Ice Beam	
TM15 Hyper Beam	
TM16 Light Screen		
TM17 Protect	
TM18 Rain Dance		
TM19 Telekinesis	
TM20 Safeguard		
TM21 Frustration		
TM22 SolarBeam		
TM24 Thunderbolt		
TM25 Thunder		
TM26 Earthquake		
TM27 Return		
TM28 Psychic		
TM30 Shadow Ball		
TM32 Double Team	
TM33 Reflect		
TM37 Sandstorm	
TM40 Aerial Ace		
TM42 Facade
TM44 Rest		
TM45 Attract		
TM48 Round	
TM53 Energy Ball		
TM57 Charge Beam		
TM65 Shadow Claw	
TM67 Retaliate		
TM68 Giga Impact		
TM70 Flash		
TM73 Thunder Wave	
TM77 Psych Up		
TM78 Bulldoze		
TM85 Dream Eater
TM86 Grass Knot	
TM87 Swagger		
TM90 Substitute		
HM01 Cut		
HM02 Fly	
HM03 Surf		
HM05 Waterfall		
HM06 Dive	

[B]Egg Moves[/B]
N/A

[B]Pre-Evolution Moves[/B]
N/A

[B]Move Tutor Moves[/B]
Draco Meteor

[B]Other Gen IV Moves:[/B]
TM03 Water Pulse
TM34 Shock Wave
TM43 Secret Power
TM47 Steel Wing
TM51 Roost
TM58 Endure
TM78 Captivate
TM82 Sleep Talk
TM83 Natural Gift
HM05 DPPt: Defog
HM05 HGSS: Whirlpool

[B]Gen IV Tutor Moves[/B]
Magic Coat
Tailwind
Fury Cutter
Icy Wind
Last Resort
Mud-Slap
Outrage
Snore
Swift
Trick
Twister

GBU Singles Sets

Special Sweeper

Latios @ Life Orb / Expert Belt
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
- Hidden Power [Ground] / Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psyshock / Psychic
- Grass Knot / Thunderbolt / Recover / Substitute

  • With Latios' array of possible moves, it has a lot of sweeping opportunities.
  • Life Orb or Expert Belt are great items with Latios to make it even more powerful.


GBU Doubles Sets

Choice

Latios @ Choice Specs / Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk) / Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Shadow Ball / Trick
- Hidden Power [Ground] / Ice Beam

  • Latios serves as a tremendous sweeper with it's very high special attack and speed.
  • Latios has an array of moves and STAB choices to be the ultimate special sweeper.
  • With a Choice Scarf, it reaches a very high speed of 243 with a Modest Nature at Level 50 which makes a Choice Scarf a very viable option.
  • With Choice Specs, Latios becomes an outstanding Special Sweeper that can deal loads of damage. At Level 50, its speed reaches 178 and Special Attack, 273 with a Timid Nature at Level 50.
  • With its huge specially-based moveset options, Latios can have a ton of great niches in this metagame.

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Special Sweeper

Latios @ Life Orb / Dragon Gem
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP / 252 SpAtk / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse / Draco Meteor
- Shadow Ball / Hidden Power [Ground]
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Protect

  • A Life Orb Latios is perfect for a late game or early game sweeper.
  • With its very large movepool, there are numerous options to utilize its huge special attack and very good speed.
  • The Life Orb makes up for that lost power when given a Timid Nature and unlike the Specs or Scarf set, Latios can continue attacking with different moves to adjust to the situation at hand.
 
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also i think you should slash surf somewhere in there, as latios uses it greatly and can help it out in doubles vs the common users who get STAB off of heat wave, rock slide, and earthquake.
 
I've seen many people use hidden power fire, because latios is walled by mons like excadrill, and ferrathorn. Basically most steel pokemon.
 
I use two Latios sets in singles

Latios @ Choice Specs
- Draco Meteor
- Surf
- Dragon Pulse / Thunderbolt
- Trick

Latios @ Expert Belt / Life Orb
- Draco Meteor
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Grass Knot
- Psychic / Psyshock / Recover / Substitute

Latios enjoys the lack of Jirachi in this metagame, although it has to deal with Metagross being more common. The first set performs better against gimmicky teams, because a few can withstand Specs Draco Meteors or Dragon Pulses, while Trick messes up any random Sucker Punches (hi there, Mawile -__-). I prefer Dragon Pulse to Thunderbolt because of its reliability (and since locking into Thunderbolt where Ground sweepers are very common can easily spell your doom). The second set works best if you want to take out Latios' usual counters such as Scizor, Ferrothorn, Metagross and Tyranitar, but may have issues murdering things with Draco Meteor (i.e Zapdos, Rotom) if you go with EBelt, and loses out on the base 110 speedtie . I prefer Life Orb personally, but I already have the orb given to someone else, and Expert Belt is actually not a bad substitute. I haven't tested Substitute yet, but it seems nice in theory because Latios gets targeted by Sucker Punch a -lot- in my experience

Other than that, this should be self explanatory.
 
I would slash Trick onto the doubles Choices set. Trick can be pretty good for screwing up Cresselia and other supportors, steal Dusclops's Evolite and give it a Scarf and many other uses.
 
Dragon gem is a nice alternative to life orb or Choice Specs, and it doesn't leave you locked in like Choice Specs, allowing you to use Protect alongside Draco Meteor and other moves.
 
cosmicexplorer said:
Dragon gem is a nice alternative to life orb or Choice Specs, and it doesn't leave you locked in like Choice Specs, allowing you to use Protect alongside Draco Meteor and other moves.
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Agreed. Choice Specs isn't super-common in Double Battles, and is usually passed up for Life Orb or Dragon Gem.
 
i'm also curious as to why shadow ball on latios

i dont think it really gives it anymore benefit, and there are probably better move choices. (LIKE SURF!)

also i would slash psyshock before psychic, so it isn't totally special wall bait
 
muffinhead said:
latios loves having hp ground for metagross and heatran, and even chandelure in some cases.
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Yeah HP Ground is awesome, if I run Latios I usually run something like Dragon Pulse / HP Ground / Psyshock @ Life Orb / Haban Berry, and it is strong, very strong.

cosmicexplorer said:
Dragon gem is a nice alternative to life orb or Choice Specs, and it doesn't leave you locked in like Choice Specs, allowing you to use Protect alongside Draco Meteor and other moves.
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Yeah Dragon Gem makes Draco Meteor kill everything that doesn't resist it, and even some of those! Also makes Dragon Pulse great.

(yes I know I just seconded other people but they were good suggestions and I wanted re-iterate them so people would know how great HP Ground and Dragon Gem is!)
 
Don't forget the Singles Sweeping Latios =D

@Life Orb
Timid
EV's: 252 spatk, 252 spe, 4 def
Thunderbolt/Thunder
Dragon Pulse/Draco Meteor
Psyshock
Ice Beam/HP Fire

Psyshock OHKO's most Conkeldurr's (Well, I've seen a lot that invest in hp and special defense)
 
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