You can run Excadrill if you have space, it's not hurt by rain since its OHKO'd by most water attacks anyways. Kabutops is your best other bet.
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Resource ORAS OU Simple Questions, Simple Answers (Read the OP First!)
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You can run Excadrill if you have space, it's not hurt by rain since its OHKO'd by most water attacks anyways. Kabutops is your best other bet.
well the water types (starmie tenta blastoise mega and kabutops) all benefit from rain. Excadrill and forretress benefit from rain cause its advantages to it (weaker fire moves) outweight the stronger water moves. Donphan is obviously also OU viable but it doesn't benefit as much from rain although it's not surviving water moves anyway while fire moves are weakened.
Just about every rapid spinner benefits from rain, lol.
Donphan is not really OU viable, neither is forretress. If you need hazard control on a rain team I would advise you to use Defog Zapdos, maybe with a physically defensive set and Thunder.
sometimes u want ur hazards to stay up though
Magnezone, how do I use this guy?
I FINALLY bred two with HP Fire.
One I plan on using Assault Vest, the other I don't know yet.
They're both Modest HP Fire.
The AV one I plan on using:
Magnezone @ Assault Vest
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 6 SpDef
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Charge Beam / Volt Switch (haven't decided)
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Perhaps the ol' Specs set is still good?
Magnezone @ Choice Specs
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SAtk / 172 HP / 84 Speed
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Fire]
I FINALLY bred two with HP Fire.
One I plan on using Assault Vest, the other I don't know yet.
They're both Modest HP Fire.
The AV one I plan on using:
Magnezone @ Assault Vest
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 6 SpDef
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Charge Beam / Volt Switch (haven't decided)
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Perhaps the ol' Specs set is still good?
Magnezone @ Choice Specs
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SAtk / 172 HP / 84 Speed
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Flash Cannon
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Do we know if the new pokemon ruby and sapphire games will have a mode WITHOUT team preview?
Gliscor uses a toxic orb instead of leftovers, and any poison type can use black sludge.
Assault Vest Mag is terrible.. Specs is pretty much the only one viable. Run a 252 spa/252 spe spread.
Which Pokemon has the most priority moves?
Off the top of my head, I think Lucario. But if your counting abilities, pretty much any Prankster (Whimsiscott may have the most IIRC)
At level 50, is there a difference between 30 IV and 31 IV?
If you fully invest in a stat, then there is a difference, but it does not really matter too much unless that stat is Speed
I shouldve specified at level 50 >_< 252/132/124 outspeeds megatar by 1 and 252 hp gives you 185..sound about right?
yea i think, right click on the number and click "copy link address", then:
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lol :)
Thanks a lot
I think the formula for level 50 is (EVs/8) + (IVs/2) has to equal a whole number to not waste any EVs because the game rounds down after adding. So if you're putting 252 EVs into the stat, then yes, there will be a 1 point difference. For example, 31 IVs and 252 EVs = 15.5 + 31.5 = 47, so nothing was wasted. But if you're at 30 IVs, then 30 IVs + 252 EVs = 15 + 31.5 = 46.5 rounded down = 46. In that case you could've taken 4 EVs from that stat (30/2 + 248/8 = 15 + 31 = 46) and put them into another stat with 31 IVs for an extra point.
i have two. might as well make use of both of them differently.
How does max speed (non mega) TTar benefits from jolly over adamant?
He outspeeds neutral 0 EV base 100s, so I guess he can hit 0 speed Mamoswine with superpower.
EDIT: Actually, scratch that. He can outspeed 0 speed Mamo with Adamant, too. I don't know that T-tar gets much benefit from Jolly over Adamant.
This allows a Tyranitar holding a Choice Scarf to outspeed fully invested positive-natured base 115s. This is mostly important for base 110s like Lati@s and Gengar, as well as base 111 Thundurus, but outspeeding Starmie and Raikou is still nice.
Edit: If not holding Scarf, then yeah Jolly is probably not worth the power drop.
Extremely hard. Basically impossible.
You get 2 IVs for free. Getting at least a third perfect IV is approximately a 12% chance. To get at least a third and fourth, the probability drops to half a percent. To get all six, the probability is less than 0.0001%. (i.e. literally one in a million)
To put this in perspective, statistically you'll find 244 shiny wild pokemon (without the shiny charm) before you find a 6IV Ditto in the friend safari.
Now combine that with the fact that ditto doesn't show up every encounter and the time it takes to go from one encounter to the next (not to mention IV checking) and you're gonna be there a looooooong time.
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