Most OU & Threatening...MOVE?!?

Most OU and threatening move?

  • Earthquake

    Votes: 44 20.3%

  • Draco Meteor

    Votes: 97 44.7%

  • Overheat

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Eruption

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Water Spout

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Charge Beam

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Close Combat

    Votes: 30 13.8%

  • Outrage

    Votes: 25 11.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 20 9.2%
  • Total voters
    217

Yoko Rains

Hey everyone, yep, I bet you thought I was going to post just like the others "What's the most OU Pokemon?". Well, I'm going to ask what you think is the most threatening move out there! Vote on the poll if you don't feel like arguing with each other!
 
EDIT: screw what I said before; the most threating move in the game doesn't deal direct damage: Stealth Rock. stealth rock forces your flying pokemon to beware, and if you do have flying pokemon, it forces you to carry rapid spin support. Futhermore, you have to beware of ghosts trying to block your spinning attempts, so you need to also carry poke's to take care of those ghosts.
 
of the moves you listed i'd say earthquake but ice beam is also pretty over used and can do serious damage to quite a few popular pokemon.
 
Obviously, Draco Meteor as most threatening. An always-STABed move with almost no resistances, being the only type who resists it weak to Fire Blast, which all dragons learn? Way too overpowered.

And Earthquake is the most used since RBY (right?), although Ice Beam for the Dragons is already quintessencial for a long time. I'd say both, then.
 
Naturally I've gone for Draco Meteor, but I would have considered Outrage were it an option.

Dragon moves are so difficult to counter because:

- They are only resisted by Steel, but all Dragons usually carry a Fire or Ground attack to counter this.
- Dragon attacks are usually backed up by massive attacking stats like Dragonite's 403 Attack, or SpecsMences 525 SpA.
 
Yeah, I know different situations are different, etc, but...

I find myself always getting KO'ed by an Earthquake (in-game even before Wi-Fi). Whenever I see "Enemy used Earthquake", I think "Oh dear, time to die".

But Dragon moves aren't super effective against anything (except dragons lol).

And you can't deny seeing Earthquake in nearly every OU Pokemon's moveset. Examples are Charizard, Garchomp, Salamence, Dragonite, Electivire, Typhlosion (not OU), Regirock...so many..
 
Earthquake seems to appear on basically every physical sweeper that is able to learn it (at least a viable option)...so I picked that. Obviously it's difficult to pick a single move, but it's also difficult to deny how important of a move it is....nobody wants to build a team that has a number of pokemon weak to earthquake
 
^ True that. And though Draco Meteor isn't resisted by anything, it isn't super effective against anything (except other dragons).
 
Earthquake is useful, but I wouldn't define that as threatening. When measuring usefulness of a move, you have to take into account how effective it is - kinda like the whole tier power vs use argument.

And Earthquake certainly gets boned mechanic-wise: it has no extra effect besides hitting all these threatening Digging Leafons twice as hard, there's a special trait that makes stuff immune to it and it's on somewhat common Pokemon, and while its type coverage is nice, the fact that it has an immunity negates it.

Draco Meteor gets my vote. The only thing that comes close to it (Outrage) isn't on your list. Nothing is absolutely immune to it, and only one type resists it. That type happens to stereotypically have somewhat low SpDef.

The fact that a Pokemon with a gap of ~50 base between Attack and Special Attack (Garchomp) can use Draco Meteor effectively to hurt its counters kinda proves how unbalanced this move and Dragon in general is. The fact that Outrage is used despite it having such a huge drawback is also a sign.

Also Close Combat is pretty broken mechanic-wise imo. A sweeper-oriented move that is about flawless number-wise (I can't really think of anything with 120 power, 100% accuracy besides the recoil-carrying Double-Edge-like moves and things like Fire Blast), and then has a "negative" drawback that is hardly noticed when you are KOing stuff...
 
Mekkah said:
Earthquake is useful, but I wouldn't define that as threatening. When measuring usefulness of a move, you have to take into account how effective it is - kinda like the whole tier power vs use argument.

And Earthquake certainly gets boned mechanic-wise: it has no extra effect besides hitting all these threatening Digging Leafons twice as hard, there's a special trait that makes stuff immune to it and it's on somewhat common Pokemon, and while its type coverage is nice, the fact that it has an immunity negates it.

Draco Meteor gets my vote. The only thing that comes close to it (Outrage) isn't on your list. Nothing is absolutely immune to it, and only one type resists it. That type happens to stereotypically have somewhat low SpDef.

The fact that a Pokemon with a gap of ~50 base between Attack and Special Attack (Garchomp) can use Draco Meteor effectively to hurt its counters kinda proves how unbalanced this move and Dragon in general is. The fact that Outrage is used despite it having such a huge drawback is also a sign.

Also Close Combat is pretty broken mechanic-wise imo. A sweeper-oriented move that is about flawless number-wise (I can't really think of anything with 120 power, 100% accuracy besides the recoil-carrying Double-Edge-like moves and things like Fire Blast), and then has a "negative" drawback that is hardly noticed when you are KOing stuff...
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@ Mekkah, can you add some stuff to the poll? I completely forgot:

- Close Combat
- Outrage


Can you add those two with your mod powers?

And I still think Earthquake is most threatening, or at least just as much as Draco Meteor. =D
 
Consider it done. I took away all the Other votes though because some of them might have gone to the new options.
 
Draco Meteor, by far. Earthquake is amazing, but with so many immunites running around (Bronzong, Cresselia, Salamence, Azelf, Skarmory, Gliscor, Gyarados, just to name a few of the most common ones), it just isn't. . . Broken or overpowered. It's good. It gets good coverage and does great damage, but all those immunites really hurt it. DM is resisted by one type, which is inherently weak to fire except in a few rare cases, and all of those are weak to ground. Did I mention that it's insanely powerful and only misses 10% of the time?
 
stealth rocks is extremely threatening. When building a team you always have to think "is SR a threat/how do i deal with SR". The only other move on that list that forces the same question would be Draco Meteor.

PS: omfg rbygsc kid got a new sig finaly
 
Taunt...or Wish...Substitute but that isn't as effective this generation. Sorry I am weird.

EDIT: Baton Pass for sure.

Wait did you mean an attacking move?
 
Draco Meteor, for the reasons already listed.

I would have said Eruption / Water spout, but nothing really dangerous get them, so I honestly can't. I mean, if Heatran got eruption, It would be one of the most dangerous Scarfers, ever.
 
Explosion then o_0. I'm a rebel.

Otherwise outraging scarfchomps are scary and draco meteor is no joke.

No wait...Extremespeed. That has definetly got to be the best attack.
 
I'd say Close Combat. It is extremely powerful and can even 2HKO some of its counters (like Guts-boosted CB Adamant Heracross).

Oh, and read my sig.
 
Hey, I'm just asking out of curiosity BAM...

And as for Close Combat, I think that its only good on Infernape, since defenses don't really matter to him; he's going to to get 1HKO'ed either way.
 
I'd definitely say Earthquake is the most OU simply because everything can learn it...honestly, how does a Teddiursa learn it? Does it throw a gigantic tantrum or something?

P.S. Why is Charge Beam even on the poll, that's not threatening or OU at all. In fact, Cresselia's one of the only pokemon that bothers to use it...
 
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