Cress also works as a status absorber with Rest, Psycho Shift, Sleep Talk + Psychic/Ice Beam/HP whatever and a status orb. She can shift around sleep or burn physical attackers while still being an annoying wall. Obviously she has to be wary of all the bugs flying around. (small pun intended)
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Rarely Used (RU) Tier
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Going to re-post what I said in the Threat list thread, since I'll probably get a better response here than there.
@Master Win, Swift Swim Beartic is unreleased, so you're stuck with Snow Cloak. I havn't tried it in hail, but it could work with luck on your side.
It isn't? Darn, I was really hoping it was.... Well, snow cloak isn't so bad either, and with snover for auto hail I could see beartic trolling others with icicle drop after the miss. Beartic FTW!
Also I'm trying to make a decent RU team, but there are some weaknesses that I need to get by. I can't decide which pokemon I should use. I only use favourites. Here are the optional mons.
Beartic (chosen)
Druddigan
Quagsire
Cryogonal
Alakazam
Scolipede
Tauros
Miltank
gligar
Please help me.
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Beartic
Druddigon
Quagsire
Cryogonal
Alakazam
Scolipede
Tauros
Miltank
Gligar
Scolipede should never be left out. Its great in this tier. Great speed, decent attack, dual spikes and STAB Megahorn + Swords Dance. Its amazing. Everything else Xephyr said is good too.
Beartic has a lame movepool despite looking cool and he is just too slow as well. Cryogonal's defense is just horrid and its weak to SR but has rapid spin, wth gamefreak? Tauros has a meh movepool and its outclassed by other sheer force users. Druddigon is outclassed by other sheer force users as well despite having an interesting movepool. The fact that its slower than Bagon is just pathetic.
Miltank is actually a really good physical wall down here in RU. With all of the best fighters in OU/UU bar a few, he can absorb neutral physical hits painlessly, heal it off, cleric with heal bell, spread status, or even deal moderate damage.
How about Eviolite Metang?
or Eviolite Klang?
apparently everyone thinks that slapping an evolite stone on a pokemon makes it better. Well in this case thats actually true to an extent.
You would have to run a Hone Claws set on a Eviolite Metang if you were to run one. This would make your attack more or less the same as Metagross with 252 atk + adamant nature.
eviolite defensive metang sucks
Hone Claws =/= Defensive Metang
Cryogonal is actually a solid switch in to pretty much all bulky waters in RU besides Poliwrath. Rapid Spin is pretty hard to come by in RU, and it takes on most Stealth Rock layers quite easily as they are often weak to ice. (Claydol, Rhyperior, Gligar, etc.) It has reliable recovery, more opportunities to switch in more often than other Ice types do, because it is immune to ground, and has solid Speed and Special Attack. A defensive set of Toxic, Recover, Ice Beam, and Rapid Spin works, or you can take a more offensive route and replace Toxic with HP grass to take on Waters you'll often be switching in on, with this it can also be a solid Revenge killer due to it's base 105 speed, which out runs a lot of the tier.
Tauros is outclassed by other Sheer Force users? Like what exactly? Brivary? Which all it has to take advantage of it is Rock Slide? Druddigon as you said, is slower than Tauros. Tauros gets Wild Charge for waters, Stone Edge for Flyers and hits ghosts hard, Pursuit if you really want it, Rock Climb as Powerful STAB, or you can use Return, Zen Headbutt for and Fighting switch ins, and of course Earthquake, many of these moves also get a power boost from Sheer Force.
Beartic is my fav pokemon so i kinda want him on my team. Scolipede is a definite yes. Alakazam is a good special attacker and quagsire can absorb hits. My last two pokemons are going to probably be druddigan and or gligar/miltank. That should be a pretty solid team of attackers (with some bulk thrown in as well).
I didn't mean he was, but the fact that with Snover all your opponents moves have maximum 80% accuracy is good... although it never seems to work, oddly enough.
SubSD Beartic for Ubers...
Can't tell if troling, or are you one of those people who brings a Kyogre and 5 RU's with Swift Swim to an Uber's match? >.> (and believe me, they exist. In fact, its about 50% of the people on the Uber ladder on the PO server)
Putting snow cloak into hear with beartic, you have to remember that not all moves are 100% acurate. Stone edge for example gets brought down to 60 percent accuracy after hail is up. In a way, beartic can have some use on a hail team.... Now if only druddigan can be put to use. Druddigan has a lot of good abilities though. Mold breaker, sheer force, and rough skin.
Beartic is fucking worse then ursaring. Yeah I went there.
Beartic sucks as his ability relies on luck and even if he gets one he isn't going to sweep. Ursaing has better ablites, better movepool, better speed and atk, it's just better in general. Yea I will use a SR and Spikes and Tspikes weak pokemon that isn't better then ursaring! No just no beartic sucks, druddigan on the other hand has potential it can be defensive or offensive has good abilities to pick from a decent type coverage through Ground/Dragon/Dark/Fighting hone claws could work as well. It's a good pokemon but I feel like it will go RU
You just broke something inside of me dude.... Beartic actually has good stab. And better abilities EH.
Seriously cannot tell if trolling...
Here I was thinking Beartic for Ubers would get a few laughs but not so in the retardedly serious (or maybe seriously retarded) RU discussion thread...
He's too slow and weak to practically everything to be able to use his stab well, not to mention there are like 2 dragons in RU anyway. Anything Ground is likely to have a Rock move that would just murder Beartic.
Snow Cloak also isn't that great of an ability at all compared to something like Sheer Force or Mold Breaker. It's entirely based on luck and there is a great chance that it won't even help you in an entire match.
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