why don't you just use body press instead of night shade... you have a max defense build.
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Pokémon Runerigus
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why don't you just use body press instead of night shade... you have a max defense build.
When would ANY of this be useful???
Don't feed the idiot.
Mostly for flying and levitate pokemon, corviknight takes a good hit from it and it ignores stat boosts. I do understand why I would want body press but I already have that coverage on the team that I am currently running this runerigus on. Thank you though
in getting their abilities? with those stats?
electric type users could try to zap it forgetting that its ground typed?
a switching move combined with stealth rocks and a sandstorm is always a good day.
This does not help Runerigus in any way. Please stop filling threads with this crap.
don't say Corviknights Magic Armor would be that bad?
Hi. I'm new to Pokemon. I would like to use this as my main Pokemon for my team. However, I don't know who else would be good with it. I play 3 vs 3 locally with my friend. I don't know how to phrase this. Thanks for help.
hey Corwinmenden this subforum is for OU which is slightly different from 3v3, you can check out the subforum for 3v3 here if you want. As for your question I'm not sure what could be a good teammate for Runegrigus as I feel like teams in 3v3 are constructed pretty differently from the OU teams I'm used to making. Maybe asking in this thread (also in the 3v3 subforum) will be better off! Have a nice day and welcome to Smogon :)
I'm sorry if I posted without permission. Thanks for the link. Have a good one. :)
dont worry you're good :)
So I tried this on my team for a bit. Honestly, I don't think this thing is nearly as good as regular Cofagrigus. For a defensive pokemon, the ground typing doesn't really overlap great with the ghost typing. And now it is weak to G-Darm and all the crazy water STAB moves. It should be a great defensive wall in this meta but its typing makes it pretty vulnerable. Cofagrigus is much better able to take a wider variety of hits. And even though the attack focus on Runerigus seems like cool development in theory, the meta is already geared toward checking physical attackers and it also makes it more vulnerable to burn than its cousin.
The only two things I found I actually liked better for Runerigus were the electric immunity (including prevalent thunder wave) and access to Stealth Rock. The problem was the 3 added weaknesses made it very hard for it to survive long enough to do enough of anything. There were too many threats it just can't switch into, even with 3 immunities.
The only two things I found I actually liked better for Runerigus were the electric immunity (including prevalent thunder wave) and access to Stealth Rock. The problem was the 3 added weaknesses made it very hard for it to survive long enough to do enough of anything. There were too many threats it just can't switch into, even with 3 immunities.
I'm actually using Runerigus, testing it a lot with different build and attacks.
I'm not a pro but I'm playing it as +def-spd and boosted hp/def ev. After one use of iron guard, body press will kill almost everything not resistant, which makes him a deadly sweeper on trick room. The weakness are not a huge problem since phisical dmg will be meaningless after 1 iron guard.
The ability is wonderful, it could totally reverse a match and cover element weakness. I got hurt by a water attack, Runerigus took damage - THEN Runerigus stole Water Absorb from the enemy and then he got healed for the same damage - making that water attack useless and eventually a second one as well. As a plus, now Runerigus had an immunity over a weakness.
The ability is so good that you might wanna try a team with Runerigus hitting your teammate for the ability, that would be awesome and unpredictable.
I'm not a pro but I'm playing it as +def-spd and boosted hp/def ev. After one use of iron guard, body press will kill almost everything not resistant, which makes him a deadly sweeper on trick room. The weakness are not a huge problem since phisical dmg will be meaningless after 1 iron guard.
The ability is wonderful, it could totally reverse a match and cover element weakness. I got hurt by a water attack, Runerigus took damage - THEN Runerigus stole Water Absorb from the enemy and then he got healed for the same damage - making that water attack useless and eventually a second one as well. As a plus, now Runerigus had an immunity over a weakness.
The ability is so good that you might wanna try a team with Runerigus hitting your teammate for the ability, that would be awesome and unpredictable.
This is actually really interesting. It's also ironic since I already tried running a semi-Trick Room team with Runerigus and dropped it for not being good enough on defense to survive a lot of games. Admittedly, I never thought of combining Iron Defense + Body Press. Are you confirming that Body Press is indeed boosted by defensive buffs and not attack buffs? When I looked into it earlier, there did seem to be some confusion on whether or not it was boosted by defensive buffs, attack buffs, or neither.
Having said that, regular Cofragrigus can do the same Iron Defense + Body Press thing and it might make a better Trick Room threat since it could mix the physical Body Press with a special attack. I guess I'll have to test it.
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Wait, elaborate please. You got hit by a Water move, took damage, then Wandering Spirit activated and stole Water Absorb, and then Water Absorb instantly activated?
Considering this person just mentioned teammates at the end, perhaps they are referring to a double battle in which they got hit by the water type attack, got the ability, then got hit by another water type attack and got hp back. This is only a guess as I know for sure that it does not give you hp back right away when you get hit on cartridge at least.
Yes, thus gaving me back the damage I took. Imagine if the opponent had a choice item...
nope, it was on the single attack. Super effective water attack, got water absorb AND a good chunk of damage back
The damage calculators online fail with body press. it is indeed defence based, I'd say it straight uses defense instead of attack so you might wanna switch def and atk on calculators to see it's possible damage
Damage healed by water absorb is always 25%, it is not dependent on how much it normally would do.
i think Trick Room + 3 attacks could be fun. It would have to hold a mental herb for taunt, though.
I for one see his posts as meta-dimensional, high concept art that we are too primitive to comprehend, such as his ingenious idea, Outrage Rest-Talk Copperajah.
But enough about that. I have a general question about Runerigus.
In the past in Singles there has been cores with Cofag + Slaking. Since Runerigus is ostensibly superior to Cofag in utility with T Spikes and SR is there some way to set up some kind of gimmicky Runerigus + Slaking/Regigigas core? Wandering Spirit is a very useful ability potentially, and I was thinking where Runerigus has Eject Button, switches into Slaking who has Pursuit as to discourage the enemy from switching out so Slaking can get the ability. I'm just spitballing right now but I feel like this has the potential to be a really hilarious team in National dex OU.
I tried this and it was bad. The ground typing on Runerigus makes it nearly impossible for it to survive long enough to do anything against many of the top threats in the meta. It loses to G-Darm, Dracovish, and even is weak to the grass type moves that are meant check pokemon like Seismitoad, who in turn check Dracovish. My advice is to use regular Cofagrigus since it has a better typing.
I did this in doubles once on another account. I used Cofagrigus and Assault Vest Slaking. I had Furry Cutter on Slaking just so I could attack the Cofagrigus for minimal damage and get the Mummy ability. It made a rather hilarious anti-lead duo. But that was doubles. I never saw it in singles. As I said above, the biggest problem I have with Runerigus is it just has too many defensive weaknesses for this meta game right now. If you could find a way to make it work with regular Cofagrigus, that would probably be superior.
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