Feb 4, 2015, 07:47 AM
Some of the benefit to this Arcanine is that it is not running a physical attacking build. A majority of the arcane being run now are built as physical, flare blitz, wild charge and the like. A good deal of the benefit comes from the surprise of a special attacker with wide hitting moves.
This was built with the current meta-game being taken into account. I don't know about you, but in my testing I saw one, maybe two, hitmontop in the dozens of battles on Showdown I had, and the fact that this is a VGC set, if you see a hitmontop it is a very easy solution--don't bring Arcanine. Super simple. Hitmontop was far more prominent in VGC14 than it is now.
You can find flaws with any poke, something is going to counter it, but that is what teammates are for in VGC, and the ability to select 4 out of 6.
And in response to the post about switching to the other support build, I know there is already a support set, which is why I didn't post a build that was the exact same! This is another option. That's the point. This Arcanine has its place, and primarily it is on an Intimidate team, with the ability to fit into a support niche for many teams that may need the opponent drop in SpA.
Please take the meta-game and battle format into account.
This was built with the current meta-game being taken into account. I don't know about you, but in my testing I saw one, maybe two, hitmontop in the dozens of battles on Showdown I had, and the fact that this is a VGC set, if you see a hitmontop it is a very easy solution--don't bring Arcanine. Super simple. Hitmontop was far more prominent in VGC14 than it is now.
You can find flaws with any poke, something is going to counter it, but that is what teammates are for in VGC, and the ability to select 4 out of 6.
And in response to the post about switching to the other support build, I know there is already a support set, which is why I didn't post a build that was the exact same! This is another option. That's the point. This Arcanine has its place, and primarily it is on an Intimidate team, with the ability to fit into a support niche for many teams that may need the opponent drop in SpA.
Please take the meta-game and battle format into account.
