Torchic doesnt require extensive support. Its not like Amaura, where it is forced out by the top 2 pokemon. Its not Caterpie where it is outclassed in every way. Its not even Sewaddle, where its only slightly outcalssed. Yeah its fire typed. not the best type. Anything that Torchic might "need" such as dwebble getting rid of, or rocks might needing gone, is almost always covered by simple team structure. You dont go out of your way to put defog in so you can have torchic on your team. You dont go out oof your way to counter dwebble. Good teams have that anyway, or force the opponent with pressure to not set up. Torchic literally requires no "support" other than a pokemon to pass to. You can win games with a simple Meditite+ Torchic core.
Well considering I'm pretty sure I did the 1760 stats (or w/e the stats where at the time of making), they are reliable and not just some randoms throwing things together. Also take in mind that the playerbase is small to begin with, and honestly maybe 30-40 people ladder, as opposed to OU's 400+ (rough estimates not exacts).
ALSO take in mind that instead of picking and choosing what I calced I literally picked the strongest move with max SpA. If i didnt then its because I just made almost a 2 hour post that I didn;t want to proof read. Or if said pokemon doesnt always use that move or set, I did another calc to see what would happen with a weaker move, or a more bulky set. If you actually took the time to notice every single calc you would see that (especially in the fletchling, scraggy, and others calcs). As to the damage calculator being horrible, I would think that max attack dwebble would benefit your point, and the speed doesnt really matter either, as Torchic isnt attacking it ever, so bulk isnt noteworthy. I fail to see any point in that statement.
Except it does support the team. By itself. With minimal support. What dont you get that Torchic's sole role is to baton pass? it has no counters due to its nature. There is no single pokemon that you send in when you see it, like you would for like Pawniard (hint, timburr is a counter). You have moves, like Whirlwind or something, which isnt exactly common in the metagame.
The thing with the opponent switching out, is that it simply means that Torchic just got a free +1 speed, or even a +2/+1. which next turn you simply baton pass out. Meaning that still, Torchic did its job, in a reliable, efficient manner. I did say that Tirtouga and Slowpoke are bad examples quoting
Merritt's post and in my post, because of those exact reasons. Vullaby runs Whirlwind around 8% of the time. Even if you burn the reciever with Misdreavus, it might not be a physical attacker. You can still run something just for the speed boost, as I've seen random crap like Lileep done. This is beside the fact that Cursechik poops on all of those anyway, as it doesnt care about paralysis. Also, again, those pokemon are common. Meaning that often or not, teams will be already built around stopping them naturally. Theres nothing extra it really needs.
