Apr 30, 2015, 02:43 PM
(Apr 30, 2015, 01:29 PM)Marcusube Wrote: The first team has serious Ice and Fairy weaknesses. The team is purely hyper offensive and might struggle with more tanky based teams that have Pokemon such as Landorus-T, Ferrothorn, Scizor, Latios etc.Well, I only see an Ice weakness on Dragonite and Nidoking, to which I've made sure they have type coverage - Flamethrower on Nidoking and Superpower on Dragonite. For Fairy, I usually have Doublade and Nidoking to counter.
(Apr 30, 2015, 01:29 PM)Marcusube Wrote: I would advise running Protect on Absol and doing the EV spread to maximize speed and then use the remaining 256 between special attack and attack. Never take away points from Absol's speed for it is the only thing that makes it an effective glass cannon. You could run Justified over Pressure just so that when you switch to evade Dark moves, you get the attack boost. Superpower already checks what Fire Blast needs to so I recommend running either Ice Beam or Play Rough over it.Yeah, my Absol can be a lot better, it's just she's done great insofar. I would have to do some breeding to get Play Rough on one, but it would certainly give me more type coverage than Fire Blast, then I can just dump all into Physical Attack and Speed. The ability doesn't matter as Absol is my mega, and upon mega evolution she gets Magic Bounce.
(Apr 30, 2015, 01:29 PM)Marcusube Wrote: No reason to run speed investments on Kingdra especially if you aren't relying on Rain or Agility for speed. Draco Meteor is better than Dragon Pulse for it hits harder plus when it crits, the SpAtk drop is negated.Well, I prefer Dragon Pulse over Draco Meteor so it doesn't ruin her SpA stat. I mostly have her on my team because 1) I needed water type coverage, and 2) I fished up a shiny Horsea and it was so adorable I had to add her to my team.
(Apr 30, 2015, 01:29 PM)Marcusube Wrote: Why run a Sun sweeping Venusaur without the sun? It'd be better to just slap on a Mega stone and do a bulky build.MY POISON TEAM SUCKS, I AM FULLY AWARE OF THIS. Nedasaur and Glint (Venusaur and Crobat, respectively) are two pokémon I've had for years now, long before I ever thought of the competitive meta-game, so I can completely understand why they aren't good. Gengar was something I just threw together, and I'm not even sure if I'll keep him with this team. I like Haunter a whole lot more anyway, so I might do some sort of Eviolite build with him.
Black Sludge or Life Orb would be better on Gengar in this situation along with a Timid Nature.
Why not run U-turn on Crobat for switch priority?
Thank you a lot for your advice and insight. While I may win 3/5 games on Pokémon Showdown with this team (actually with the poison team it's more like 1/7) I'm completely aware I'm nowhere near being tournament nor VGC ready.
