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CM Hatterene, Specs Valiant, Annihilape, Taunt, and Haze to name some. It is a bit Tera dependent as you see it run Water, Flying, Steel, Grass, Flying, and even Fairy here and there. The key is upkeep of pressure or having a concrete gameplan for it!
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CM Hatterene? Doesn't Hatt get affected by salt cure?
draining kiss healing outdamages with just 1 cm, yea, and body press does 0 if you dont tera. it's a virtual counter in 1v1 and at worst forces it out with minimal net chip
Is there a good app or site for calcs while mobile?
Anyone correct me if I'm wrong but I think your best option for mobile stuff is still the Pokémon Showdown Calculator
I'm not advertising this app: App Store (Damage Calc) (Not associated with Smogon) - It works okay, if you really need a mobile GUI I think this isn't a bad option, it's only for iPhones.
Not an absolute need
Yes
Taunt + Bulk up is a rather redundant set when Quaquaval can take advantage of a free turn to click Swords Dance. There are only 2 current sets I know of, which is SD 3a, and CB.
Quaquaval @ Leftovers
Ability: Moxie
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 52 HP / 252 Atk / 204 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Swords Dance
- Aqua Step
- Close Combat
- Ice Spinner
No idea what the spread is for, got it from one of my boys. But it hits 282, a healthy speed against specific Rotom-Wash and Garchomp spreads. But you'd have to ask someone else for an explanation.
Quaquaval @ Choice Band
Ability: Moxie
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Aqua Step
- Close Combat
- Ice Spinner
- Wave Crash
Never, freeze isn't as easy to apply as sleep is. Spore and Hypnosis are really easy to use and almost every move that freezes has it at a 10% chance, even then, there are moves that break out of freeze, not sleep.
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thank god you guys are on the same page lol
Dragonite @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Extreme Speed
- Earthquake
- Ice Spinner / Roost / Fire Punch
This is the most common one I see (Offensively), bulky sets can look like (Meant to outspeed base 100 Speed after 1 DD):
Dragonite @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Multiscale
Tera Type: Normal
EVs: 160 HP / 252 Atk / 96 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Extreme Speed
- Earthquake
- Dragon Dance
- Roost
This question is tied to singles but also vgc. When would you want to use trick room and when would you want to use tailwind? For example, i am building a team of salazzle, appleton, pawmot, kingsgambit, gastrodon, and drifblim. I am not sure which move to use on drifblim, tailwind or trick room. I do mostly have slow pokemon, but trickroom would screw over salazzle and pawmot right? Tailwind benifits everyone but not as much for my very slow pokemon like king and appleton.
I am just wondering how does one decide which would be better?
I am just wondering how does one decide which would be better?
Whats my counterplay against Glimm/Ghold teams?
Idk about VGC but in singles the answer is usually neither
Neither are good for singles? I would think at least tailwind would be nice
I'll ignore any topic of VGC, considering this is OU.
Trick Room has a history of being a niche tactic in singles, it can work on some ladders, but in a bo3, it's unlikely that it will be a viable option against an opponent. If you are to use Trick Room, what you want is at least 2 setters, 2 viable setters, and then like 4 wallbreakers / setup sweepers. Cresselia, Hatterene, Porygon2 and Slowbro have a history of being very good setters, but of course some of these are currently unreleased or not in gen 9, so it seems that this already niche strategy, is nowhere near any form of viability. But ideally, you want slower mons for trick room.
As for Tailwind, it has never been a viable strategy, let alone niche in fact. There are nowhere near the amount of Pokemon available to take advantage of Tailwind as there are Trick Room. In addition to this, Tailwind increases speed by +2, Trick Room just reverses turn order based on the priority bracket, which is then based on speed.
To counter Hazard Stack teams, your own team doesn't want go be too hazard weak itself. Boots Skeledirge with a bulky hazard removal such as Corviknight or Rotom Wash. However because of Gholdengo, something a bit more threatening to it such as Iron Tusk or Iron Treads would bare against it more nicely. Otherwise, fast breakers such as Pult, Scarf Chi-Yu and Gholdengo can fake advantage of the setup sweepers on the team. Similarly, Specs Chi-Yu and Swords Dance Chien-Pao.
Thanks for the advice for OU. I generally was curious about the moves for both formats. Im actually not sure where to ask vgc questions here, as when i go to the vgc forums i dont see a simple questions just analysis posts.
That is interesting about how you want multiple setters in a team for ou, but makes sense. Now that drifblim gets trick room though could it be useable in ou with it, or just too fast? I like the idea of trick room and flare orb for a big boost in damage, with strength sap for healing, then shadow ball and coverage like calm mind or thunderbolt or icy win(but that may not pair well with trickroom. Maybe trick to pass the flame orb)