Ludicolo (Uber Analysis)

[Megan_Fox]

Ludicolo

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[Overview]

• Excellent Kyogre Counter, 4x resistance to Water
• In the Rain, It gains additional health each turn with Rain Dish
• Has other unique resistences, can switch into Groudon safely due to resistance to Ground

[SET]
name: Support
move 1: Leech Seed
move 2: Protect
move 3: Grass Knot
move 4: Ice Beam / Toxic
item: Leftovers
nature: Calm
ability: Rain Dish
evs: 252 HP / 40 Def / 216 SpD

Set Comments:

• Leech Seed + Protect is very annoying, capable of Stalling out many opposing threats in addition to the Health obtained by Rain Dish
• Grass Knot hits many theats for hard damage including Groudon and Kyogre
• Ice Beam hits Rayquaza and other Dragons that resist Grass Knot

Additional Comments:

• Toxic can be used to Toxic Stall in addition to Leech Seed
• Toxic Spikes are a great idea in order to help Stalling and weaken targets
• EVs are to counter Kyogre as efficiently as possible

Teammates & Counters:

• Kyogre is a given as it provides Ludicolo with Rain Dish recovery
• Entry Hazards allow damage to rack up along with Leech Seed
• Scizor can U-Turn out while resisting Grass Knot and Ice Beam.
• Steel Types in general wall this set although they suffer from Leech Seed damage
• Calm Minders can take hits and set up (Mewtwo, Latias, Arceus)
• Zekrom can take an Ice Beam and easily KO with a CB Lightning Strike

[Team Options]

• Kyogre is a given as it provides Ludicolo with Rain Dish recovery
• Entry Hazards allow damage to rack up along with Leech Seed

[Optional Changes]

• An Offensive Set Life Orb and Swift Swim can be used
• Boiling Water can be used for Burn Chance and Water STAB

[Counters]

• Scizor can U-Turn out while resisting Grass Knot and Ice Beam.
• Steel Types in general wall this set although they suffer from Leech Seed damage
• Calm Minders can take hits and set up (Mewtwo, Latias, Arceus)
• Zekrom can take an Ice Beam and easily KO with a CB Lightning Strike

[Dream World]

• Ludicolo's Dream World ability is Own Tempo, which prevents confusion. This Ability is not very useful in comparision to Rain Dish and Swift Swim

 

[Rising_Dusk]

There were some spacing errors, but I fixed them. Is this not effective as a sweeper? I haven't actually tried rain sweeping, but I don't see why it wouldn't work at all outside of the greater prevalence of sandstorm.

Anyway, marked as done.

 

[jrrrrrrr]

Ludicolo is still a great Swift Swim sweeper in this gen. It is a real pain to deal with because of its great STAB coverage. It messes with a lot of the new multi-typed pokemon. EnergyBall/Surf/Ice Beam/filler is awesome, it is neutral to electric and grass, and can deal with water types that can screw with Rain teams. Ludicolo is still a top exploiter of rain, and I am honestly baffled by the fact that it isn't the first set listed (let alone completely omitted).

It also gets Swords Dance. That set was amazing in DPP UU, but I have yet to test it in BW. It may be worth a mention in the final analysis somewhere.

edit- Surf should also be an option over Grass Knot on the Support set. This will help it not be walled by Steel-types, and Water is a better attacking type overall than Grass is in every tier except Ubers.

 

[trickroom]

Ubers Ludicolo is taken over by comatthew6 in this link

This analysis is inactive and a Ubers moderator should take a look at this first.
The new analysis has 2 effective sets and is more complete.

 

[Colonel M]

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