I'm kind of bad at posting but I think I found something pretty interesting and wanted to share. Sorry if the format is bad.
When I first started playing pokemon I made a TSS team and my favorite member in it was Regice. I was planning my first DP team, another TSS team, when I stumbled across something I hadn't seen on the boards. Regirock in a sandstorm has absolutely godly defenses.
Edited to include link: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/377.shtml
Regirock's Base stats are: 80, 100, 200, 50, 100, 50.
Edited to add moves:
Physical movepool:
stone edge
earthquake
arm hammer
focus punch
explosion
Support Moves
Stealth rocks
toxic
rest
sleep talk
psych up
thunder wave
So first thing to do is obviously max hp giving you 359 HP
Now without putting any other evs and neutral nature into him, his defenses are 436 def, 354 SpD. Now, its pretty obvious that Regirock would benefit most (at lesast number-wise) form a +Def nature so his defense jumps up to 479. Sp Def ev's are very important for regirock because each 4 gives a +1.5 instead of a +1. Regirock's attack also isn't bad (236 without evs) and gets a stabbed stone edge.
With that said I think the following would work pretty well
Regirock@leftovers
(252 HP, 128 Att, 128 Def)
(+Def, -Sp Att)
earthquake
stone edge
sleep talk
rest
Gives him 359 HP, 479 Def, 402 Sp Def. 268 Attack helps him do some damage.
Earthquake+stone edge for coversage. Rest-talking keeps it alive. Sleep talk also helps with the low pp of stone edge for this defensive oritened poke.
I'm sure that there are better ev spreads for regirock out there but I don't have time to do the calculations. If someone could take a look into how it fares against metagame threats, I'd appreciate it greatly.
When I first started playing pokemon I made a TSS team and my favorite member in it was Regice. I was planning my first DP team, another TSS team, when I stumbled across something I hadn't seen on the boards. Regirock in a sandstorm has absolutely godly defenses.
Edited to include link: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-dp/377.shtml
Regirock's Base stats are: 80, 100, 200, 50, 100, 50.
Edited to add moves:
Physical movepool:
stone edge
earthquake
arm hammer
focus punch
explosion
Support Moves
Stealth rocks
toxic
rest
sleep talk
psych up
thunder wave
So first thing to do is obviously max hp giving you 359 HP
Now without putting any other evs and neutral nature into him, his defenses are 436 def, 354 SpD. Now, its pretty obvious that Regirock would benefit most (at lesast number-wise) form a +Def nature so his defense jumps up to 479. Sp Def ev's are very important for regirock because each 4 gives a +1.5 instead of a +1. Regirock's attack also isn't bad (236 without evs) and gets a stabbed stone edge.
With that said I think the following would work pretty well
Regirock@leftovers
(252 HP, 128 Att, 128 Def)
(+Def, -Sp Att)
earthquake
stone edge
sleep talk
rest
Gives him 359 HP, 479 Def, 402 Sp Def. 268 Attack helps him do some damage.
Earthquake+stone edge for coversage. Rest-talking keeps it alive. Sleep talk also helps with the low pp of stone edge for this defensive oritened poke.
I'm sure that there are better ev spreads for regirock out there but I don't have time to do the calculations. If someone could take a look into how it fares against metagame threats, I'd appreciate it greatly.
