If you mean regular heracross, its perfectly viable. You can run a few different sets, but a Toxic Orb Swords Dance set is probably the best as it demolishes defensive builds.
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CB Guts variants are viable in beating M-Sable, and I think there was an AV set floating around at one point, but I'm not sure on that.
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Why Toxic Orb in particular? Guts negates the Burn drop, and you last longer with burn damage than toxic damage.
It's all up to preference, but Toxic takes less damage in 2 turns than burn, so if you're playing hit-and-run, it's a better way to go
There was a bit of discussion regarding that point in the analysis here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/toxic-orb-heracross-qc-3-3-gp-2-2.3529487/
I need a good partner for a MegaZam on my hyper offense team, any ideas?
Ah, I see. Swords Dance threw me off since that would imply wanting to stay in and abuse the boost against more than one defensive threat
definitely have some hard hitters that can break chansey such as diggersby, crawdaunt and keldeo. it also can't ohko latias so bisharp could be a great teammate. zam also needs a birdspam check or it will get fucked.
If I was to use HP fire on a max speed mega sceptile, what pokemon besides 31 iv max speed mega sceptile wouldn't mine be able to out speed?
You will lose the posibility of a speed tie with max speed mega bedrill also mega alakazam and mega aerodactyl are faster than mega sceptile but they will be faster even with 31 ivs
Base 150 Speed mons, such as Timid Mega Alakazam, Jolly Mega Beedrill and Jolly Mega Aerodactyl would outspeed a Mega Sceptile running Timid + HP Fire.
I'm having a tough time deciding on a moveset for mega sceptile. Is a physical attacking one viable at all? or is it better to stick with special?
Fully special or mixed is by far your best bet.
Assuming I went mixed, what ev spread would I use? Basically, how many attack evs should I use? Also what are the disadvantages of using a mixed set?
I'll be honest, I'm pretty tired and I don't think I'd explain it too well, but here is the completed dex analysis where there was a ton of discussion in regards to the sets chosen. http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sceptile.3523357/
Thank you for that. One more question. Is energy ball an optimal choice instead of leaf storm? Or is leaf storm an absolute must in your opinion?
Giga Drain>energy ball tbh, the recovery is great and 15 bp difference isn't huge. I would use leafstorm/gigadrain/d-pulse/eq.
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15 BP, but yeah :]
I disagree. Dual grass stab is a very poor choice considering how many common resists there are in the tier. Giga Drain should be used on the sub 3 attacks set (giga dpulse focus blast) while the all out Attacker set is best with leaf storm / dpulse / hp fire / EQ and focus blast or even protect can work in either of those slots.
Energy Ball can be useful over Leaf Storm on an all-out attacker set if you find balanced teams playing the ever so fun "playing around it" game. It's pretty frustrating the use Leaf Storm on Slowbro only for them to switch to Ferro, and then you become much easier to check at -2.
I was going to use protect on my set to get the free speed increase when mega scep isn't my lead.
The reason I am hesitant on leaf storm is because of the slim chance of missing, and the huge special attack drop. I ran calcs and saw that energy ball is a guaranteed OHKO against slowbro and megabro :/
The reason I am hesitant on leaf storm is because of the slim chance of missing, and the huge special attack drop. I ran calcs and saw that energy ball is a guaranteed OHKO against slowbro and megabro :/
Energy Ball is fine, Leaf Storm is primarily used for Revenge Killing and breaking down fatter mons a bit more easily that Giga and Energy Ball wouldn't be able to finish off. Your call really.
I was wondering, is specially defensive ferrothorn any viable in OU or is it completely outclassed by specially defensive celebi?
Is it possible to have both Rock Blast and Double Edge on a Heracross? They can't both be passed down at once from what I can glean from Bulbapedia.
Specially Defensive Ferrothorn is certainly viable, but it's not outclassed by Celebi, because it gets SR and Spikes.
It's best to go with more of a mixed wall approach with an EV spread of 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef with either a +Def nature or +SDef nature.
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