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RE: Pokemon Sets With Potential - Black117 - Jun 4, 2015 As far as VGC sets are concerned, I think Rhyperior is probably one of the rising stars in the VGC scene, especially Trick Room variants. This series of regionals events in the US showed how powerful Rhyperior is as a Trick Room sweeper as well as handling most of the meta like Double Genie. Rhyperior has two great abilities to chose from and both have their advantages. Lighting Rod give Rhyperior utility as it can redirect Electric attacks like Thunder Wave and Thunder Bolt away from partners like Charizard Y or Salamence. Given how common Thundurus is Lighting Rod can pretty much protect Rhyperior partners from prankster Thunder Wave, practically shutting down the electric genie. Solid Rock is an interesting ability to run especially for Weakness Policy Rhyperior as it reduces the super effective damage by 25%. Rhyperior already has a ton of weaknesses so coupled with this ability, and a Weakness Policy, Rhyperior becomes a powerful Trick Room sweeper with STABs on two of the most used spread damages in Earthquake and Rock Slide. Rhyperior isn't even a slouch when it comes with attacks as it practically has one of the best movepools with access to the Elemental Punches, Megahorn, Crunch, Drill Run, Hammer Arm, etc. I honestly think the WP set slightly better since Rhyperior already threatens Electric Pokemon with its Ground/Rock STABS so I'll leave a sample Rhyperior set here. Bane (Rhyperior) (M) @ Weakness Policy Ability: Solid Rock Level: 50 EVs: 68 HP / 252 Atk / 188 SpD Adamant Nature IVs: 0 Spe – Rock Slide – Drill Run / Ice Punch / Hammer Arm – Earthquake – Protect RE: Pokemon Sets With Potential - beastmoose - Jun 4, 2015 (Jun 4, 2015, 01:12 AM)Black117 Wrote: As far as VGC sets are concerned, I think Rhyperior is probably one of the rising stars in the VGC scene, especially Trick Room variants. This series of regionals events in the US showed how powerful Rhyperior is as a Trick Room sweeper as well as handling most of the meta like Double Genie. Rhyperior has two great abilities to chose from and both have their advantages. Lighting Rod give Rhyperior utility as it can redirect Electric attacks like Thunder Wave and Thunder Bolt away from partners like Charizard Y or Salamence. Given how common Thundurus is Lighting Rod can pretty much protect Rhyperior partners from prankster Thunder Wave, practically shutting down the electric genie. Solid Rock is an interesting ability to run especially for Weakness Policy Rhyperior as it reduces the super effective damage by 25%. Rhyperior already has a ton of weaknesses so coupled with this ability, and a Weakness Policy, Rhyperior becomes a powerful Trick Room sweeper with STABs on two of the most used spread damages in Earthquake and Rock Slide. Rhyperior isn't even a slouch when it comes with attacks as it practically has one of the best movepools with access to the Elemental Punches, Megahorn, Crunch, Drill Run, Hammer Arm, etc. I honestly think the WP set slightly better since Rhyperior already threatens Electric Pokemon with its Ground/Rock STABS so I'll leave a sample Rhyperior set here. I saw that too! I didn't expect it to do that much work, but it did. Another one that I wasn't expecting was Clefairy. Witht the mix of eviolite and Freind Guard, putting it next to a Cresselia was a near unstoppable combination. If you want to look closer into Clefairy, Naitre did a writeup for it HERE. RE: Pokemon Sets With Potential - Marcusube - Jun 4, 2015 Espeon @ Leftovers Ability: Magic Bounce Level: 50 EVs: 4 HP / 20 Def / 236 SpA / 4 SpD / 244 Spe Timid Nature - Psychic - Detect - Skill Swap - Magic Room In terms of this years VGC, there has been an uprising of several new threats since the start of the Spring season. Mega Kangaskhan, Landorus-T, Sylveon, Amoonguss and all these other Pokemon have made their mark as the thorn in the sides of most amateur to advanced VGC players. What I was thinking was to use Espeon in VGC as a support Pokemon.
To finish it, the highlight of using Espeon was that Amoonguss can't spore it, Thundurus can't Thunder Wave it and nothing can Taunt it. That's right, Espeon's Magic Bounce ignores all status and just throws them back in your face What do you guys thing? RE: Pokemon Sets With Potential - beastmoose - Jun 5, 2015 (Jun 4, 2015, 11:52 PM)Marcusube Wrote: Espeon @ Leftovers I think this is really interesting, given that when you see an Espeon you automatically think offensive Life Orb or Scarf. This could be a nice turnabound on the opponent. I personally Have NEVER seen an Imprison team, so I would run Protect, only because it has more PP and Protect can be used a lot in stall situations. I really like the Magic Room flow, and this build might see some success in VGC! :D |