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if you want to gameplan around lategame raikou you have to account for this massive dugtrio weakness somehow. you can simply use p2 to countertrap dug after it dugs something that's not raikou, or...
i am but a humble adv ladder gremlin at this point so my stakes in this are not as great as frequent tournament players, but i think it's uncontroversial to say that at bare minimum drypass ought to remain intact no matter what
i dont have any swoon-worthy sell for this viewpoint beyond the...
there's usually at least a spdef rachi or blissey out of necessity. the closest thing there is to a levitating true special sponge is spdef zapdos, but it really can't properly replicate what more traditional options offer---especially on superman where it's often burdened with shoring up your...
mc meg man covered everything but i figured i may as throw in this fun ludicolo joltspikes team i made awhile ago that did pretty well on ladder:
:skarmory: :gengar: :jolteon: :tyranitar: :swampert: :ludicolo:
traditionally speaking the 5 aside from ludicolo here are pretty standard...
skarm without drill peck is ungood vs loom hera refresh dol etc
skarm without toxic is ungood vs recover mie and the slew of other scenarios you described
skarm without protect is ungood in that it goes from being a nigh unkillable brick shithouse of a pokemon w/ tect to being a surprising...
can someone explain what mr. registeel's niche is? why would you use this thing over wishtect rachi exactly? is it his handsome bendy arms, perhaps? i dont really understand this thing's incline
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not claiming any of these as my own original creations, just wanted to share some weirder/lesser used sets i've messed around with on ladder that i ended up liking
:celebi:
Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 248 HP / 36 Def / 40 SpA / 152 SpD / 32 Spe
Calm Nature
IVs: 2 Atk / 30 SpA...
[BIG] Altina vs Pheo' [SHA] - the tellius enthusiast had a really deep CI run and had a great classic so it's hard to predict against him
[TIG] Teclis vs M Dragon [RUI] - not very confident in this guess but m dragon has probably built every viable six in adv before so that should count for...
imo the latter (just use more overall resilient pokes). your team has to be pretty slow to make decent use of cleric support, and that moveslot on celebi/blissey/etc comes with a hefty bit of opportunity cost because of how good those mons' movepools are. generally your team will have something...
this sounds like an argument for mew's unbanning if anything.
though, i'm not entirely sure how flexible mew would be as a superglue, at least defensively, given that it's a spikes vulnerable, not sand immune, pursuit-weak mono-psychic type (not the best mono typing defensively); more offensive...