What if there wed no immunities, I.E. Any immunities were replaced with resistances.
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What are the reasons to use Latios over Latias and vice versa? Which one is generally better?
As the stats suggest, Latios is used as a sweeper, usually with Specs or Life Orb, while Latias is used for Defog support and it's nice defensive typing and stats.. Another reason to use Latias is Healing Wish. So which to use over the other depends on what you need: you may use Latios with defog if you need an offensive Pokemon as well and have only one slot left, while Latias is used solely as a special wall that can remove hazards and dish back some damage as well.MagikariplsOP said:
Latios is more of a sweeper and has higher power and speed but it cannot take hit, Latias is powerful like latios but really not that much however it can take hits.
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Where can I see the discussion that changed the BP Clause to allowing only 1 user of Baton Pass per team instead of 3?
What is considered a respectable Ladder Rating? 1500, 1700, 1900?
That same logic applies to most set up sweepers. Zard X + 1 DD after getting rid of water/fairy pokemon means GG most of the time. If you have no Ice/Water moves left Gliscor is going to rape your whole team without any boosts. That is where the skill comes in and you have to predict/bait people into doing what you want. If you leave a pokemon in that MM can set up on, then expect it to switch in...
It's hard to tell which I will be facing and have lost many levitators by guessing wrong. I don't want to build my strategy around one big guess. It's ok tho I am now running Gyarados even though I don't really like it :/
That same logic applies to most set up sweepers. Zard X + 1 DD after getting rid of water/fairy pokemon means GG most of the time. If you have no Ice/Water moves left Gliscor is going to rape your whole team without any boosts. That is where the skill comes in and you have to predict/bait people into doing what you want. If you leave a pokemon in that MM can set up on, then expect it to switch in...
It's hard to tell which I will be facing and have lost many levitators by guessing wrong. I don't want to build my strategy around one big guess. It's ok tho I am now running Gyarados even though I don't really like it :/
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If it's Mold Breaker, you'll see the message "Excadrill breaks the mold!" when it comes out. There's no prediction involved.
Whoops, forgot about that
Why is Stone Edge the standard on Modest Scarfed Heatran? Isn't Ancient Power the better option because it goes off the strong and invested special attack stat?
252 SpA Heatran Ancient Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Mega Charizard Y: 236-280 (79.4 - 94.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
0 Atk Heatran Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Mega Charizard Y: 324-384 (109 - 129.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
This is the main reason why SEdge is usually better Ancient Power.
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Huh, I guess I just ran the calc wrong. Thanks, Aragorn!
Edit: Actually:
252 SpA Heatran Ancient Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Mew: 66-78 (19.3 - 22.8%) -- possible 5HKO
0 Atk Heatran Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 66-78 (19.3 - 22.8%) -- possible 5HKO
252+ SpA Heatran Ancient Power vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Mew: 73-86 (21.4 - 25.2%) -- 0.1% chance to 4HKO
0- Atk Heatran Stone Edge vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Mew: 60-71 (17.5 - 20.8%) -- possible 5HKO
Yeah that's where the confusion happened.
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No, Sand Veil and Snow Cloak are both legal.
Is life orb on breloom viable? If so is the standard spore, bullet seed, rock tomb, Mach punch the best set to run with it?
It's viable, and that set can be used, although it's also possible to switch out a move for Swords Dance (generally Rock Tomb), to set up after Sporing a pokemon.
Hi,
it works great as stall breaker with this set
Mew @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP / 120 Spe / 136 SpD
Careful Nature
- Taunt
- Roost
- Knock Off
- Will-O-Wisp
Probably the Stallbreaker set with Will-O-Wisp/Knock Off/Taunt/Roost, with 152 Speed to outspeed Jolly Mega Heracross.
Why are Mega Heracross and Mega Medicham BL when their regular forms are OU?
It's just a dumb thing on the teambuilder that hasn't been fixed yet. At first I thought it was intentional, since their Mega stones are banned from UU, and so are BL. However, Gardevoirite is also banned from UU, and yet Mega Gardevoir is just OU, not BL. Basically don't pay any attention to it; they're supposed to be OU.
I would imagine that it's just something left over from when normal Hera and Medi were in the lower tiers since their stones were banned from lower tiers.
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Strategy Dex lists 3 sets for Thundurus in OU: Mixed Attacker, Nasty Plot and Prankster Attacker. Which one is generally the most effective?
Don't think about it that way, rather think about which one brings the most to your team.
Mixed is good for preventing Defog and smacking around things that would otherwise deal nicely with Thundurus, Nasty Plot is a sweeper, and Prankster is an attacker with a nice panic button in case something sets up on you.
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