momogeek2141 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 So have you guys had a combination of moves, items, or skills that make for an insane combination? Tell us. That said, I have one. Kingdra+scope lens+focus energy+draco meteor. Critical hits always, and they ignore the loss of sp. atk. A video if you want to see it in action. http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battlespotsingles-190302585 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elieson Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 He got lucky on that Attract not working. Also, I always thought Focus Energy ran out after one shot. I didn't know it lasted until switchout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Insanity Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Lol, that's not cheap at all. 1) You have to take the time to set up. 2) Kingdra isn't that fast. 3) The above is fixable with Agility, but that means more of 1. 4) Priority moves exist and Kingdra isn't particularly bulky. Oh, and crits were nerfed in gen VI, too. So. Yeah. Not that cheap. The opponent in that match was clearly horrible, too. Shadow Claw Salamence, double Protect Latios (or Protect on Latios, period. This isn't Doubles we're looking at), and Zebstrika (with Attract, nonetheless). Salamence and Latios both outspeed Kindgra normally, OHKO-ing with Draco Meteor or whatever dragon-type move they use. You want to see cheap? Look at Mega Rayquaza. Edited December 7, 2014 by Fruity Insanity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain_the_swordsman Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Yep, but for doubles. Team:Arcanine, Spinda, Meowstic, Audino (Mega),Togekiss, Physical attacker (Doesnt matter you can have one or not) Movesets: Audino :Heal Pulse,Toxic,Protect,Dazzling Gleam/Draining Kiss Arcanine:Close Combat, Heat Wave, Overheat, Morning Sun/ Extreme Speed Spinda:Skill Swap Meowstic:Thunder Wave, Reflect, Light Screen, Fake out Togekiss:Air Slash,Heat Wave Spinda needs the Abilty Contrary. Arcanine wants intimidate.Meowstic needs Prankster. Give Spinda a focus sash and give Arcanine leftovers. The strat: Spinda will skill swap abilties with Arcanine, Arcanine will use close combat.Since close combat lowers your defense and special defense, and we have contrary because of skill swap, we actually GAIN defense and special defense. This allows Arcanine to be a complete tank, and you can keep skill swapping until spinda dies, swapping the intimidate spinda got from Arcanine with your opponent's pokemon, allowing Arcanine to actually gain more attack as well. Keep spamming Close combat with Arcanine until he's at max defense and sp. defense.Once spinda dies, switch to meowstic, and use reflect and light screen so Arcanine will be more likely to survive. You can use fake out in the begining and start using parahax as well.If he gets really low on HP, use morning sun or switch meowstic to Mega Audino and start heal pulse Arcanine, or just use morning sun. Arcanine should start using overheat until he get s max special attack after he has max defense and sp. defense. Heat wave will speed up the time of the battle, since it could kill two at once. Make Audino toxic if you want too. I'll show an example of this later. Edit:K, got a battle with me doing it successfully. Here http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-190313473 Edited December 7, 2014 by BlazeX635 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinehollow Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 You could give a good Lickylicky with an Attack boosting nature Explosion and a Choice Band.You could use it as a last ditch effort,but otherwise I got no ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Insanity Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 You people are just posting gimmicks, really. >_> Nothing reliably cheap or broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djing Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Greninja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) FEAR counter and destiny bond gengar with a focus sash is good too Edited December 7, 2014 by Comet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydoggamer Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Using mega rayquaza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 sniper kingdra @ scope lens with focus energy is the standard set for kingdra this gen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 oh and critdra isn't that good for the reasons neal listed and this: 252+ SpA Sniper Kingdra Draco Meteor vs. 4 HP / 252 SpD Eviolite Chansey on a critical hit: 216-256 (33.6 - 39.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO not even that powerful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 kingdra's UU, though. posting a damage calc against eviolite chansey as "proof" that critdra "isn't that good" is like asserting that nidoking isn't that good because it's walled by chansey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflolxp54 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Mega Rayquaza got banned from the Uber tier and got placed to the Anything Goes tier (a complete FFA; the only rule is the endless battle clause). The only thing that I can think of that is cheaper is running hacked and illegal Pokemon ie. Shedinja with Sturdy ability with Mind Reader, Sheer Cold, Recycle and Agility and holding a Lum Berry -- nothing short of being hit by Taunt and entry hazards and forcing it to use Struggle (PP stalled or Taunted) can shut it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXa4BIereQI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Mir Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Mega Rayquaza got banned from the Uber tier and got placed to the Anything Goes tier (a complete FFA; the only rule is the endless battle clause). The only thing that I can think of that is cheaper is running hacked and illegal Pokemon ie. Shedinja with Sturdy ability with Mind Reader, Sheer Cold, Recycle and Agility and holding a Lum Berry -- nothing short of being hit by Taunt and entry hazards and forcing it to use Struggle (PP stalled or Taunted) can shut it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXa4BIereQI Weather damage sez haaaay. As does Mold Breaker. That aside, Mind Reader/Sheer Cold is what we call a gimmick. Edited December 7, 2014 by Levant Caprice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momogeek2141 Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Lol, that's not cheap at all. 1) You have to take the time to set up. 2) Kingdra isn't that fast. 3) The above is fixable with Agility, but that means more of 1. 4) Priority moves exist and Kingdra isn't particularly bulky. Oh, and crits were nerfed in gen VI, too. So. Yeah. Not that cheap. The opponent in that match was clearly horrible, too. Shadow Claw Salamence, double Protect Latios (or Protect on Latios, period. This isn't Doubles we're looking at), and Zebstrika (with Attract, nonetheless). Salamence and Latios both outspeed Kindgra normally, OHKO-ing with Draco Meteor or whatever dragon-type move they use. You want to see cheap? Look at Mega Rayquaza. Mega Rayquaza blows everyone out of the water. Critdra is very good, but I have other pokemon as backup since I can't rely on it. And yeah, that opponent was awful. 1) The setup isn't worth it if it won't OHKO or the opponent is faster. If I'm facing an assault vest Empoleon, I'm better off switching. Otherwise Kingdra is reasonably bulky enough to survive 1 hit (unless its shadow claw salamence ) 2) I gave him full speed Ev's, Iv's, and a speed boosting nature. He's still pretty slow, but is faster than a lot of pokemon that way. 3) Agility sucks. 4) Kingdra is weak to Fairy and Dragon, the former whose only priority move is baby doll eyes, the latter which doesn't have any. He'll die only if the opponent is faster. BTW, the combo is also available with mega-salamence, minus sniper. Mega Rayquaza got banned from the Uber tier and got placed to the Anything Goes tier (a complete FFA; the only rule is the endless battle clause). The only thing that I can think of that is cheaper is running hacked and illegal Pokemon ie. Shedinja with Sturdy ability with Mind Reader, Sheer Cold, Recycle and Agility and holding a Lum Berry -- nothing short of being hit by Taunt and entry hazards and forcing it to use Struggle (PP stalled or Taunted) can shut it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXa4BIereQI That means 2 turns per attack. Remember that Shedinja has 1 hp. The opponent will switch to someone who can kill it easily. oh and critdra isn't that good for the reasons neal listed and this: 252+ SpA Sniper Kingdra Draco Meteor vs. 4 HP / 252 SpD Eviolite Chansey on a critical hit: 216-256 (33.6 - 39.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO not even that powerful Remember, you're talking about Chansey, who has a shitton of hp and SpD, and with an eviolite it's even greater. Chansey's wrecked by a physical move (fighting preferred.) This would also apply to snorlax, and empoleon like I said earlier. Talking about a different strategy, I remember the first time someone played the lv1 aron sweep on me. I was like WTF? It has many weaknesses though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruity Insanity Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Mega Rayquaza blows everyone out of the water. Critdra is very good, but I have other pokemon as backup since I can't rely on it. And yeah, that opponent was awful. 1) The setup isn't worth it if it won't OHKO or the opponent is faster. If I'm facing an assault vest Empoleon, I'm better off switching. Otherwise Kingdra is reasonably bulky enough to survive 1 hit (unless its shadow claw salamence ) 2) I gave him full speed Ev's, Iv's, and a speed boosting nature. He's still pretty slow, but is faster than a lot of pokemon that way. 3) Agility sucks. 4) Kingdra is weak to Fairy and Dragon, the former whose only priority move is baby doll eyes, the latter which doesn't have any. He'll die only if the opponent is faster. BTW, the combo is also available with mega-salamence, minus sniper. I'm not saying that Sniper Kingdra is bad. It's just not cheap because all of the downsides. The situations where you'll be able to successfully pull of everything you need to do to make it worth it are rare. Agility doesn't suck, and a lot of dragons naturally outspeed Kingdra. Pretty much all of the commonly used dragons outspeed Kingdra, in fact. Also, it can't be available to Mega Salamence, since Salamence kinda, I dunno, needs a Salamencite to evolve? Which means it can't hold a Scope Lens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Naut Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Mega Rayquaza got banned from the Uber tier and got placed to the Anything Goes tier (a complete FFA; the only rule is the endless battle clause). The only thing that I can think of that is cheaper is running hacked and illegal Pokemon ie. Shedinja with Sturdy ability with Mind Reader, Sheer Cold, Recycle and Agility and holding a Lum Berry -- nothing short of being hit by Taunt and entry hazards and forcing it to use Struggle (PP stalled or Taunted) can shut it down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXa4BIereQI Opponent withdrew [who cares] Opponent sent out Tyranitar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I'm not saying that Sniper Kingdra is bad. It's just not cheap because all of the downsides. The situations where you'll be able to successfully pull of everything you need to do to make it worth it are rare. sniper kingdra literally requires one turn to set up focus energy for a 100% critical hit rate... it's not cheap (kingdra is UU for a reason), but critdra is kingdra's flagship set this generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasori Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I'm not knowledgeable about the competetive scene enough to say if my little trick is cheap or not, but its pretty effective when I use it. Drifblim with unburden and a weakness policy can get pretty though once it is hit by a super effective attack. Double speed, sharply raised attacking stats and acrobat has given plenty of people some problem. Priority attacks solves their problem pretty well though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momogeek2141 Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Also, it can't be available to Mega Salamence, since Salamence kinda, I dunno, needs a Salamencite to evolve? Which means it can't hold a Scope Lens? Whoops, forgot about that. I guess only regular salamence then. I'm not knowledgeable about the competetive scene enough to say if my little trick is cheap or not, but its pretty effective when I use it. Drifblim with unburden and a weakness policy can get pretty though once it is hit by a super effective attack. Double speed, sharply raised attacking stats and acrobat has given plenty of people some problem. Priority attacks solves their problem pretty well though. The problem with that strategy is that you need to get hit by a super effective attack, which means going near death, which can then be taken advantage of with a priority move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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