Agh thats the moveset that stopped my Slaking from pwing the whole tournament, Itsuki was using a Dragonite, and everyone else was using something Slaking can OHKO/2HKO with Giga Impact@Ice-eyes: Perhaps we can hash something out this time to do next time.
Well, as the close combat tournament just ended, I am going to disclose the pokemon that I used in the tournament, and ended up winning it for me.
Blissey - Heart Mail (Earlier in the tournament was a chople berry)
Bold - Natural Cure - 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Toxic
Counter
Rest (Earlier in tournament was Softboiled)
Protect (Earlier in tournament was Seismic Toss)
This was an anti-typical strategies Blissey, with Mail to stop people from Tricking, Rest to stop toxic stall, Protect to scout, Counter for physical pokemon, and Toxic for special pokemon. After careful examination I decided that Mail, Rest, and Protect were more important then their replacements, as Chople just beats Infernape, a pokemon that I didn't expect to see much of with focus sash banned. Although I was a little worried about losing the instant recovery of softboiled, not losing to toxic ended up out weighing it's use in my opinion. And after a scare about mispredicting a mixed pokemon, I decided to use Protect instead of seismic toss, as I didn't expect to see many special steels or poison pokes in the tournament.
Posting for Itsuki:Heracross is unfortunately weak to Flying and neutral to Steel - it does badly against Flinch. Other than that, it looks pretty good.
What was that Dragonite set?
I think the PO people are planning on implementing a 1v1 tier on the beta server.
Dragonite @ Yache Berry
Quiet - Inner Focus
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Superpower
- ExtremeSpeed
I wanted something with Inner Focus to stop flinches. Dragonite was susceptible to Ice-type attacks so I used Yache Berry, ExtremeSpeed + attack picked off anything weak, and a mix set would prove hard to deal with against Counter/Mirror Coat strategies (which I had to deal with in my battle with badalcristiano and Ferrouswheel, I totally forgot about Counter and just went for it lol). Anyways it has proved me well. =]
Laugh even harder when it's a Wobba Mirror Match. Tickle each other to death and see who kills themselves from Struggle faster.Use Wobbafette. Lol hard.
I've been testing it in Pokemon Online (they got 1v1 tier now!) and what beats this is things that are meant to be sleeping (like something with Chesto or just something bulky enough that uses rest), things with Insomnia (Honchkrow), Abomasnow if it's faster (can't Endure because of Hail; Tyranitar and Hippowdon are both slower so it's not that much of a problem), things with priority, Alakazam (encore variation) and lucky 1-turn-sleeps.So this is an idea I had, I haven't tested it yet, but the design seems good.
Breloom @ custap berry
Jolly 252 attack 252 speed
Spore
Endure
Focus punch
Stone edge
If your opponent thinks they can OHKO Breloom, this throws them a curveball. Endure Spore can take out almost anything. Pokes with lum cause problems and pokes with access to a move that OHKOs and a priority (Dragonite with fire blast and espeed comes to mind). Otherwise you can sleep and destroy them. Any input/suggestions?
Very easily, Lum berry and a nice powerful flying type attack.How do you handle:
Breloom @ Toxic Orb Lv. 100 -- Poison Heal
Nature: Jolly - EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd (52.5 %)
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
Spore
Substitute
Toxic Orb prevents yawn from working, and Seed Bomb kills.