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So I reset it and haven't gotten anything much better lol. Decided to stick with a 7 / 29 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 19 since I expected to use two caps anyway. (I currently have 29 and only use them on unbreedable Pokemon or shinies.) Thanks!
No. Z-Crystals aren't consumed and can't be knocked off or tricked.
Official Ladder Tournament. You can read about it in the previous signups thread: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogons-official-ladder-tournament-iii-cycle-1-signups.3578339/
december usage statistics & uu banlist. for more information on UU beta, you can check out the UU subforum that just launched here.
Zygarde with Power Construct is banned. This in mind, Zygarde-50% in OU didn't really get anything much.
Zygarde-50% got Thousand Arrows. That is HUGE. It's much better than it was before.
True, fair enough.
I have a random shiny Krookodile, but its Adamant with Moxie which is obviously a really dumb combination. Is there anything that could be done with this, or did I just get really unlucky?
Adamant with Moxie isn't really bad. You can just give it a choice scarf and do some shenanigans with that. The added power from Adamant Nature can catch certain threats off guard as well.
It hits Ground-resists like Tapu Bulu, Tangrowth and opposing Lando-T very hard. Even 252/252+ Rotom-W dies to +2 SSS after Rocks.
+1 252+ Atk Landorus-T Brave Bird (175 BP) vs. 252 HP / 216+ Def Landorus-T: 405-477 (106 - 124.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 252+ Atk Landorus-T Brave Bird(175 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Rotom-W: 233-274 (76.6 - 90.1%) -- 25% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
252+ Atk Landorus-T Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Tapu Bulu: 602-710 (175 - 206.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
+2 252+ Atk Landorus-T Brave Bird(175 BP) vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Rotom-W: 233-274 (76.6 - 90.1%) -- 25% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
252+ Atk Landorus-T Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Tapu Bulu: 602-710 (175 - 206.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Is it possible to make successful HO teams in this metagame with the presence of Pheromosa? If so, how do HO teams bypass Pheromosa?
I ran into some weird Fly/EQ/Double Dance/Flynium Z lando-t set on the ladder, I was unprepared for it and I got swept, Is it a good set?
I ran into some weird Fly/EQ/Double Dance/Flynium Z lando-t set on the ladder, I was unprepared for it and I got swept, Is it a good set?
r_palmer
Banned deucer.
HO are 80% of the teams on ladder, so... yeah. Some checkmarks to look at are: VoltTurn, Lele for anti-priority, A-Ninetales for double Screens, Sash leads like Azelf, Chomp or most popular Mamoswine because it's insane on the offense too, etc.
A-Ninetales is defeated easily by pheromosa? Sash Leads are leads and won't be able to deal with it?, mamoswine is easily defeated if the opp packs a tapu lele or something and even if there's no tapu lele, pheromosa will be able to survive an ice shard.., tapu lele will get defeated by a u-turn + poison jab, etcetra
Nothing of these clarifies how HO teams bypasses phero.....
And I don't think that HO teams are 80% of the ladder (Do you have any proof for that?), and even if they are, that doesn't mean they are good
Nothing of these clarifies how HO teams bypasses phero.....
And I don't think that HO teams are 80% of the ladder (Do you have any proof for that?), and even if they are, that doesn't mean they are good
r_palmer
Banned deucer.
Those weren't listed as means to defeat phero, but just generally what to look at in building HO atm, mb. If you really wanna check it instead of just using it yourself and powering through stuff, which is the point of HO, splashing a Rocky Helmet Toxapex won't hurt, or RK it with something scarfed because most Phero's run LO
Oh sorry, I misunderstood, thanks
If you got it in ORAS or XY, you can tutor snatch onto it. Z snatch gives you +2 speed AND steals some of the opponent's moves (recover, swords dance, etc.). Really cool set.
Generally it's Swords Dance + Agility. It means one move giving +2 in Att/SpA and one move giving +2 in Speed in the same set.
r_palmer
Banned deucer.
I'd suggest you should run a normal 4-attack set on Metagross. It gets its speed instantly when mega evolving now, and it's already sitting in a solid speed tier.
Regardless of which set you run on m-meta, Pokemon that go well with Tapu Lele and M-Meta are generally:
- Slow U-Turn to bring in M-Meta safely.
- VoltTurn in general, because it's broken
- Basically anything that hits as hard as fast as possible, because the standard way of dealing with those is usually priority, which Lele stops completely.
- A wallbreaker if you didn't already tune Lele towards it