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Some more noms now that I'm at Olivia on UM:
Mawile: S rank. Unless the bulk magically falls off at some point in the game, I can't see how Mawile can be lower than S. Amazing typing, comes after Hala, comes with Intimidate. Early Sucker can fix speed issues and snag kills on Ghosts and...
I can agree with all of those points; however, I must have gotten lucky with my Eevees because I caught three of them while going through the game. Is it really 5% in USUM?
Wanted to chime in on things I've noticed while playing USUM. Note: I just arrived at Poni Island, team is around 48-49.
Exp Share/Rainbow Beans: I fed my team one rainbow bean each once I unlocked pelago, and I turned on exp share after Guzma 1 because my team was about 4 levels below his mons...
Decided to try my Sun team out with some minor changes. Endgame will at least have Decid/Muk/Gigalith/Vikavolt.
Totems haven't been too bad; the lack of constant summoning help makes them way easier in my opinion. Gumshoos was easy even without Hawlucha, and Water totem was a good surprise...
Let's talk about Meowstic and Nidoking.
Meowstic(F): - C Tier
Availability: Outside of the Parfum Palace. Fairly easy to acquire.
Stats: Average defensive stats, above average SpA and SpE.
Typing: Psychic isn't the great typing that it once was. Team Flare regularly carries dark types which...
I'd assume we aren't allowed to tier based on any wonder traded pokemon? I started my x game over and wondertraded to see what I could get, and got a Squirtle, Aron, and Goomy.
I actually used a Houndoom for a bit in my X game before I decided to restart. I wasn't too terribly impressed. I'd say C tier. It eventually gets some good moves but it is weak defensively, and its early movepool sucks, so you have to stick with Fire Fang/Beat Up. I'll try it again though and...
Hi there, long time lurker. I actually did my Y runthrough using Meowstic(F) and Nidoking. I'll post my reviews once I have my Y game in my hands again.
I'm playing through X right now and I plan on using Swirlix and Victreebel/Vileplume at the very least. Any other suggestions?
I see Shadow Ball, Grass Knot, and Snarl as viable options too. I'm not saying that 64/50/50 bulk or 55/60/70 bulk are good, that's my point. Raticate can't do SD if it dies easily and you get Flame Orb mid-game, so I fail to see why that's taken into consideration. My point was, that if Liepard...
If Purrloin/Liepard are in their own tier, Raticate has a lower BST than Liepard. On top of that, Liepard has an alright SpA stat, so if you really wanted to give it some special moves, it would be fine. The only thing that really holds Liepard back is that it doesn't learn a lot of dark type...
Name: Raticate - Purrloin tier
Availability: Early (Castelia)
Stats: Good speed, decent attack, but poor stats otherwise.
Typing: Normal
Movepool: Bad coverage. Mostly normal type moves and dark type moves. Poor defenses and HP means that most neutral attacks will do significant amounts of...