Another decent use for Gastro Acid: Herbivore (Fuck Sap Sipper. I'm not calling it that.)
And yet another use: against Medicham and Azumarill if you somehow go against them in order to cripple Pure/Huge Power.Another decent use for Gastro Acid: Herbivore (Fuck Sap Sipper. I'm not calling it that.)
And yet another use: against Medicham and Azumarill if you somehow go against them in order to cripple Pure/Huge Power.
Yeah or you just OHKO them since Medicham is frail like fuck and Azumarill is weak to your stab ;)
Oddly +0 Leaf Storm can't ohko Medicham as it does 77.13-90.84% so sending Serperior directly in on him at full health/behind sub/carrying scarf would be painful.
How would that change with Gastro acid?
Yes. Contrary reverses stat changes (drops become boosts and vice versa). That's the reason why Contrary Serperior is seen with Leaf Storm.with the contrary ability.. say an opposing Pokemon uses sand-attack to lower accuracy, or a move with a secondary effect of lowering my defense.
would that actually.. raise them instead?
Serperior's movepool is so awful that coming up with a Coil set is pretty hard. Here's what I have in mind:Serperior@ Leftover/Expert Belt
EV's: 252 Speed/176 SpA/
Ability: Overgrow
Nature: Hasty
Coil
Leaf Tornado/Leaf Blade
Glare
HP Water/Ground
Sorry not good at the mixed set help with IV's
Actually I don't really see it as that hard; it has far fewer options, and thus less to choose from. :P I agree, if you're gonna run Coil on Serperior, this is pretty much the way to do it.Serperior's movepool is so awful that coming up with a Coil set is pretty hard. Here's what I have in mind:
-Coil
-Leaf Blade
-Dragon Tail
-Glare
Nature: Jolly
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe
Item: Leftovers/Life Orb
Ability: Overgrow
If anyone can suggest better moves, EVs and nature, go ahead.
Do Speed EVs help Serperior much if he's looking to spread paralysis with Glare/Coil/D. Tail? Dragon Tail's negative priority kinda defeats the purpose if you ask me.
As far as Hidden Power go, I ask myself "what is more likely to switch in and wall me? A steel type or a dragon?" Well, to me it feels like steels are a bit more common. Also, seeing how it's a rather steel+dragon-oriented metagame, the use of HP rock feels foolish.
A tweeked sub-seeder:
Serperior
Ability: Overgrow/Contrary
EV: Spe: 252 SpD: 252 Def: 4
Item: Leftovers
Substitute
Coil
Leech Seed
Dragon Tail
Dragon Tail as well as Leech Seed benefits from Coil in some way and the SpD is maxed 'caus we attempt to boost defense (right?). Speed is maxed in order to outspeed things (I haven't been doing any cals) and wimsicott can't touch you behind a sub. Dragon Tail anything you can't seed back to their balls.
Get rid of Contrary in the Abilities. With Contrary, Coil will LOWER your attack, defence, and accuracy.