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[HydreigonTheChild]

Wo-Chien @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Tablets of Ruin
Tera Type: Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 12 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Knock Off
- Foul Play
- Rest
- Sleep Talk

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I heard the tier wants garchomp anwers! wo chien is ur best friend...what better way to screw it over than to sit on it over and over.

I think garchomp is just... dumb. while garchomp presence is healthy for the tier i think SD chomp is just .. how do you put it. It is often able to BS its way through its checks... scale shot can hit 5 times sometimes and that can be a big difference such as

+2 252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 252 HP / 240+ Def Zapdos: 268-316 (69.7 - 82.2%) -- approx. 2HKO
+2 252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (5 hits) vs. 252 HP / 240+ Def Zapdos: 335-395 (87.2 - 102.8%) -- approx. 12.5% chance to OHKO

this means you can just kill pokemon that would otherwise be able to do smth to u and run with the game. for ex. slowking

+2 252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (4 hits) vs. 252 HP / 200 Def Slowking: 316-376 (80.2 - 95.4%) -- approx. 2HKO
+2 252 Atk Garchomp Scale Shot (5 hits) vs. 252 HP / 200 Def Slowking: 395-470 (100.2 - 119.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO

here u can scald to burn, teleport out, or future sight to chunk it a lot soon. But if you get 5 hits by it then you just die... i think this isnt really smth balanced. Like yeah its a 15% chance to hit 5 times but god forbid you do.... we didnt like moltres-g 20% chance to bs through checks last gen so idk what the diff is here with the scale shot

 

[udongirl]

Like yeah its a 15% chance to hit 5 times but god forbid you do.... we didnt like moltres-g 20% chance to bs through checks last gen so idk what the diff is here with the scale shot

5 times hit under loaded dice is 50 percent, not 15.

 

[HydreigonTheChild]

5 times hit under loaded dice is 50 percent, not 15.

do you have proof for that? to my knowledge it causes the minimum amount of hits to be 4... while 5 hits is still under the same 15% chance to happen

 

[ThatOneApple]

do you have proof for that? to my knowledge it causes the minimum amount of hits to be 4... while 5 hits is still under the same 15% chance to happen

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/scarlet-violet-battle-mechanics-research.3709545/post-9400247

According to this post from the battle mechanics research thread, if the rolled number of hits is below 4, it rerolls it to be either 4 or 5. This on top of the fact that the initial chances of 4-5 hits are the same means that loaded dice makes it a 50/50 chance to be 4 or 5 hits.

 

[Indigo Plateau]

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