Pokemon VGC 2015 Metagame Megathread

[Rogue]

(Jan 13, 2015, 04:43 PM)evilsabre Wrote:

(Jan 13, 2015, 04:18 PM)Rogue Wrote:

(Jan 13, 2015, 04:15 PM)evilsabre Wrote:

(Jan 13, 2015, 03:43 PM)Rogue Wrote: Am I the only one that feels like Mega Heracross is a little underrated?

Naitre and I have been in the lab and made a trick room team with one. We're currently climbing the showdown ladder quickly and are shooting for top 10 or so.
(we will do a RMT later on for those who are interested)

2HKO'ing every Cresselia/OHKO'ing  every M-Kang/and every time we see a rain team we just click bullet seed and win.

no your not i personally don't like him but he's got huge underrated power i mean 185 base attack you don't even need to invest in it and with a positive nature you'll still have more raw power than a max invested adamant landorus-T.....

admittedly the number of intimidates, will-o-wispers and the existence of gale wings talonflame are too hard for him to deal with + sylveon is also pretty bad for him this year.

You're right, thats why I brushed him off at first. But as soon as I paired him up in a trick room team while having support such as Heatran it's never a problem.

But that's also another reason on why you don't always bring your mega/favorite pokemon every match. Some times you wont need them/they wont be useful. Other times they'll make you pull a 4-0.

i'm just not sold that he's useful enough of the time to warrant him, vs 50% of teams he feels like dead weight because they carry talonflame and then a good 30% + carry sylveon atm then with landurous being everywhere you need to watch out for an intimidate. Not to mention with bisharp and aegisslash running free atm setting up trick rooms is not exactly an easy task this year

Last year, sure. But Talonflame can't touch Heatran :b Heatran takes our Sylveon, takes out bisharp and aegislash, and trick room is ridiculously easy to put up with Cresselia. I've set up trick room as someone doubled up with a sylveon and aegislash against my Cresselia before. Don't forget about Cress, it's like a guaranteed trick room.