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Get him back into playing league so you get the activity win imo
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Basically it is like Tangrowth except lacks Regenerator, on top of that it does have access to a much better SpD stat allowing it to effectively tank without the cost of an item as well as having a Poison STAB which means it would do better in a match-up against a grass-type like Amoonguss and even Tangrowth. As well it has usable speed for a sun sweeper and unlike Victrebell who is the main candidate it can set-up sun itself.
What is diance's best set? Also, would a Rock Polish set be viable?
Diancie's best set generally looks like this:
Diancie @ Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Heal Bell
- Stealth Rock / Earth Power
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
This is the best overall set for Diancie in that it can be used on bulky offense, balance, semistall, and full stall. Heal Bell is the main appeal of this set as Diancie can use it to provide cleric support on top of it walling Houndoom and being a fantastic check for Delphox, Fletchinder, and Exploud. Moonblast and Diamond Storm provide solid STAB options and Stealth Rock is pretty useful overall. If another teammate has Stealth Rock covered already, Diancie can use Earth Power to quickly chip down Mega Steelix. It can also use MonoCM and OTR, but those are restricted to certain team archtypes. Rock Polish isn't exactly terrible on Diancie, but Trick Room is usually just a more efficient way to fix Diancie's Speed to sweep offensively.
Thanks! I wasn't even aware Diance got heal bell. Now I'm thinking of some weird offensive cleric in OU...
Depends on if you're using Uxie as a Stealth Rocker and Memento user. If you're going to use Memento, you would want to have a set-up sweeper to go in afterwards, as the opponent would usually switch out, thus giving you a free turn to boost.
Regarding fat Uxie variants, Fighting-types make for p. good partners as they can pressure Dark-types. Uxie also needs some cleric support, so mola, aromatisse and togetic (the latter two resist dark yay (but the last one hates knock off woo)) are p. great too.
Regarding Memento variants (which I advise you just to run max hp and speed evs only), as Miyami stated, setup sweepers are p. great actually simply bc the Screen lettem take hits better, which in some cases give them an extra turn to boost / launch off a last attack. A good thing to note is that your biggest concern is flygon, as it can get rid of both Rocks and Screens with Defog. So Braviary (Defiant) and some faster Ice-types such as Glalie and Sneasel (not taking into account your opponent uses scarf defog flygon xp) can patch that up.
Why is Manectric A- and Jolteon B ? Because of Overheat ?
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Pretty much, Lightning Rod is also a bit more useful than Volt Absorb to since getting recovery on a super frail mon barely does anything
Manectric's best matchup is versus balance, while Jolteon's is versus offense, but Mane vs offense is much better than Jolt versus balance often is, there's better offense breakers than Jolt, and almost anything that stops Mane on balance is going to stop Jolt. Some of Jolteon's better matchups can force it out anyway (Scarf Emboar bluffing LO sucker, for example, forces out non-subpass Jolteon) which further limits its usefulness.
Actually yes, imo overheat/flamethrower on manectric plays a big role on the difference between jolteon and manectric. because its able to get a fire move, it has something against threats that walls jolteon such as mega steelix, bronzong, and escavalier, grass types like venusaur, amoongus, and the great mega abomasnow, you can even make mega glalie run for its money.
Why is drizzle and drought banned in everything uu and under? I think this would make for some cool teams. If it is however, too dominant, it can simply be banned. I've never understood this
It would make weather teams a dominant, spam-able, and overpowered role in the lower tiers.
Has this been tested? It would seem to make sense, as threats such as houndoom, venasaur and kingdra would be very strong. But with the nerfs to weather, we saw ou weather teams fall significantly, to the point of being unviable. Completely banning out weather makes sense given the dominance in bw. But if it hasn't been tested this seems to be a pretty poor excuse of a ban
Both abilities were legal when UU was first started in XY but quickly proved to be too powerful. Drizzle was banned in UU beta while Drought was banned in the first or second official stage of XY UU iirc. Since UU banned the abilities, it, by extension, means that the abilities are banned in every tier below UU.
Why are both Mega-Abomasnow and Sharpedo still considered manageable in XY, but in ORAS after their departure to UU and coming back to RU again after several months they are considered potentially broken? Is it because RU's former defensive pokemon like Cresselia and Doublade are no longer here, or are there other reasons? Thanks!
Well, there are a few things. The reasons you mentioned are notable, but in XY, special sharpedo wasn't really well known. Now that it's sharpedos best set is common, it's a lot more threatening.
The thing is that Special Sharpedo is opted for in the ORAS metagame due to Mega Steelix's presence (for reference Life Orb boosted Adamant Shark's waterfall does around 57% at most against Max HP Megalix while Hydro Pump has a chance to OHKO). Honestly without Mega Steelix around, the best answers to the Physical set left would be Tangrowth and Poliwrath, and even those get bopped by a specific coverage move (Tangrowth gets heavily dented by Poison Jab and Poliwrath by Zen Headbutt).
e: mola is also a pretty good stop to most shark variants anyway.
