This frail bird seems a stupid option as Uber supporter, in a metagame full of Thunder and Ice Beam, but with the right support is surprisingly strong. Its giant supporting movepool allows a lot of sets, but has one main set
[SET]
Name: PranksTaunt
Move 1: Toxic / Thunder Wave
Move 2: Taunt
Move 3: Roost
Move 4: Night Shade
Item: Eviolite
Nature: Calm
Ability: Prankster
EV: 252 HP / 248 SpDef / 8 Spd
[Set Comments]
- Dragon Dancers or Calm Minders can set up vs a Taunt'ed Ferrothorn / Lugia
- Bad defensive stats, but Eviolite boosts them
- Great immunities (Psychic, Ground) and resistances (Grass, Ghost, Dark)
- Plenty of other options, thanks to its large, helpful supporting movepool
- During Roost, hasn't the Electric and Ice weakness
- Cripples easily many offensive and / or defensive threats, thanks to Taunt + Thunder Wave
[Other Options]
- Tailwind helps a lot slow sweepers, such as Groudon, Dialga, Giratina-O, Ho-Oh
- Night Shade is for doing some damage, and to kill weaked foes
- Perish Song avoids Baton Chains, but other than that is pretty useless
- Torment is useful, but is really situational
- Psycho Shift can pass burn, but passive damage is bad for a wall (outclassed by Sigilyph, though)
- Haze stops set-up sweepers that are trying to get boosts while poisoned
- Feather Dance + Toxic cripples Extremekiller, Bulk Up Palkia and such
- Sunny Day or Rain Dance can be used to set up your weather again
- Protect can rack up some Toxic damage
[Checks and Counters]
- Hates Thunder and Ice Beam
- Almost every Arceus form (especially Electric) can take Murkrow down
- Trick: every Choice Item (and Iron Ball) cripples it
- Whimsicott and Thundurus, with Prankster Taunt, stop him
- Mixed sweepers, such as Palkia, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Arceus can dispose of him
- Manaphy can easily set Tail Glows up and clean the Toxic damage with Hydratation-Rest
[Partners]
- Chansey, with Wish + Heal Bell, creates a great core that can stall out everything
- Its worst enemies are Dialga, Specs Kyogre and faster priority users, such as Giratina-O, Rayquaza or Scizor. Everyone can kill them is a great partner
- Baton Chains such as Amnesia Gorebyss help a lot, even if you will hardly switch
- Dialga of you own (much more if Tailwind was used) can defeat Rain Teams with Thunder + Dragon Pulse + Earth Power