For a moment I thought you were advertising a phone company.
Hah! That's funny! XD.
For a moment I thought you were advertising a phone company.
They should call this strategy "Hollywood"
Because they make movies about giant monkeys and mummies in Hollywood.
Well, if you're going to use it, use it with Escape Button.
They should call this strategy "poor farfetched (farfetch'd?) idea"...
Really if you see a person with a desukan and a slaking on team preview, it's rather obvious what's up. And hell Slaking isn't really the best poke with only 3 movesets and the need to waste a turn.
Say I have my bandtar out. You switch in Desukan; it lives with a sliver (or dies, doesn't matter) and you switch to slaking. At this point you're either OHKOed by crunch (if you use pursuit or return) or maybe KO with earthquake and waste a turn.
It's a bad strategy.
Let me map out what I meant for you.
Tyranitar used Crunch!
It's super effective!
Tyranitar acquired Mummy!
Desukan used its Escape Button! (Or Desukan fainted!)
P2 switched in Slaking!
Slaking used Pursuit (or Slaking used EQ... and has to keep its shitty ability for the whole match if desukan was koed)!
Tyranitar lost a very small amount of its health (or if you use EQ probably most/all of it) but was not KOed!
Tyranitar used crunch!
Slaking lost shittons of health or was KOed!
You just wasted 2 pokemon for a crappy strategy!
Plus there's also some pokes that just take little from whatever you do... nattorei for example will laugh at your attempts to damage it with your weakling unSTABed EQ and leech seed.
Life Orb Technician Breloom Mach Punch: 57.6-68.03% (Mummy and Bulk Up will turn Mach Punch into pittance damage and Frustration ohkos)
Choice Band Scizor Bullet Punch: 32.88-39%
Defensive Verizion Sacred Sword: 36.73-43.54%
Life Orb Max Attack Verizion Close Combat: 80.73-95.69% (Frustration kills back)
Choice Band Adamant Tyranitar Crunch: 44.9-53.06%
Adamant Life Orb Lucario Close Combat vrs +1 Slaking: 68.03-80.27% (+1 Frustration deals 75.8-89.68% so it could actually win with 3 layers of Spikes)
Timid Life Orb Shaymin-S Air Slash: 40.36-47.62%
Timid Life Orb Shaymin-S Seed Flare: 64.170-75.4%
Life Orb Darkrai's Dark Pulse (Focus Blast ohko 58.97% time):46.49-55.1%
Modest Choice Specs Latios Draco Meteor: Ohko
Modest Choice Specs Latios Surf: 45.58-53.74%
Modest Choice Specs Latios Dragon Pulse: 64.85-76.42%
Modest Choice Scarf Shandera Overheat: 73.7-87.07% (any fire move 2 hit koes)
Timid Life Orb Gengar Focus Blast: 90.7-107.3% (41.03% ohko)
Guts Boosted Max attack Roopushin Mach Punch: 46.71-55.78%
Guts Boosted Max attack Roopushin Drain Punch vrs +1 Slaking: 58.5-69.39% (if Slaking got Bulk Up boost, Roopushin will lose)
I reiterate...Wow. This is ridiculous. I didn't know Slaking was so bulky (Truant never helped obviously) but with Bulk Up/Slack Off...
+2 Frustration 2 hit koes Tyranitar, Brongzong, Special Defensive Forretress, and pretty much everyone else not immune. +1 Pursuit manages to kill Shandera with Stealth Rock which is important since Shandera can 2 hit ko Slaking. Really bulky Desukan might be a problem since you only have a weak Pursuit but as long as they don't start throwing Disable or Power Share around, +4 Pursuit will 2 hit ko.
Wait, is this Slaking with or without investment in defense/special defense/hp because a 65 SpD sucks
Well 150 base hp goes a long way to fixing that...
Yeah, this seems like a workable strategy, it just has a major problem when it comes down to slaking having only 4 moveslots for return, pursuit, slack off, bulkup, earthquake and firepunch aswell as whether or not its worth it. This set would give you a truantless slaking with 460 base attack when maxed. Instead of having to use desukan and using an unreliable strategy, you could just use a sd garchomp which would reach 718 attack when jolly.
Why Frustration?
1) Not a lot of Pokemon run Return to begin with.And what's to stop the opponent from anticipating people using Frustration over Return and draining his Ditto's Happiness?
Or see people discussing it here.3) No one will ever think of that or even have it cross their subconscious until it happens to them.
Uh...1) Not a lot of Pokemon run Return to begin with.
2) You lose to people running Return (the majority of them).
3) No one will ever think of that or even have it cross their subconscious until it happens to them.
Idk, about that Mummy strategy. Even if we suppose it works, I doubt Slaking would be that useful even without Truant. His Speed isn't as good as it was last gen, his STAB was never good, and his Special Defense is still as shitty as ever. Plus, I'm starting to get wary of any physical sweeper that can't at least cause massive damage to Skarm or Hippowdon after one turn of setup. Plus, mandatory Pursuit? Come on.
In a metagame where you're allowed to use the likes of Darkrai, Shaymin, and Deoxys, do you really want to waste your time on this guy? After all of that gimmick fun has worn off, you'll have to submit to the fact that Slaking is terrible and always will be.
A strong special attack like Draco Meteor or something will put Slaking out early. My point is that this gen, we have Pokemon who are just as powerful, if not more (better STABIf it works, it can be pretty fun. While his speed is meh without investment, he still outruns the slow things and is insanely bulky. That is wrong to say his stab isn't good because it hits everything but Steel and Ghost really hard and he can do massive damage to Hippowdon with +1 Frustration (2 hit ko), it's just you want him and Skarmory gone because you don't want to be Roared out making him get back Truant when he comes again.
It is a fun strategy that is fun to beat people with. I don't see why you wouldn't use him with Darkrai, Shaymin, and Deoxys considering those are all special attackers and Slaking's physical. Unlkess you mean them hitting him. Yes, they hit Slaking hard. But unless they're using Focus Blast, Slaking can survive to kill back. Terakion is the only physical attacking poke who doesn't care about +1 Slaking and kill with a physical move back.
The only reason Slaking is terrible is because of Truant. If he had anything else, he would have been OU-Borderline Uber-Uber and you have to resort to some tricky things to use him in singles to stop Protect/Substitute/Prediction from ruining you.
Those guys are, for the most part, terrible, and Ditto wouldn't really want to copy them anyway. In the Standard metagame, Return is rarely seen because most of the Pokemon in it have decent enough movepools to where they wouldn't have to resort to such a drastic coverage measure.1.) What? Return is an obligatory coverage move for so many different Pokémon, many Water-types for one such as Kingler and Floatzel. And for most, it's the most reliable STAB they have in their arsenal, such as Slaking, Regigigas, Staraptor, Zangoose, Tauros, Stantler, Kecleon, Exploud, and Licki; there's probably a few more, but you get the point, and this is only 4th Gen.