Hey there Smogonites!
The main aim of this is to point out the various styles of HO and what makes it a formidable play style as well as improving on it to make it even better. Now without further adieu...
Now i don't really have any experience in this style and as much as i'd like to,
my pc recently crashed and so its in the shop. Anyway from all the research i've been doing today its basically setting up screens and attempting a sweep after sweep after sweep.
Stathakis' theory was originally made for DPP so i dont know whether it works in BW and i haven't been able to test :(
Though i have come against some and from what i've seen they really caught me off-guard and i lost a bunch. Lemme state an example:
I send in my Skarmory to setup spikes then in comes Xatu which sets up screens and u-turns to Emboar and the next turn i switch to Landorus on the Flare Blitz and fire off a crit EQ, which doesn't kill! (Thanks to screens). Some turns later predicting the switch the Emboar sets up a Flame charge effectively outspeeding and killing Landorus. So what are your thoughts on this playstyle, how much has it changed from Stathakis' DPP style till now? Help from experienced HO players is greatly welcome!
The main aim of this is to point out the various styles of HO and what makes it a formidable play style as well as improving on it to make it even better. Now without further adieu...
Now i don't really have any experience in this style and as much as i'd like to,
my pc recently crashed and so its in the shop. Anyway from all the research i've been doing today its basically setting up screens and attempting a sweep after sweep after sweep.
Stathakis' theory was originally made for DPP so i dont know whether it works in BW and i haven't been able to test :(
Though i have come against some and from what i've seen they really caught me off-guard and i lost a bunch. Lemme state an example:
I send in my Skarmory to setup spikes then in comes Xatu which sets up screens and u-turns to Emboar and the next turn i switch to Landorus on the Flare Blitz and fire off a crit EQ, which doesn't kill! (Thanks to screens). Some turns later predicting the switch the Emboar sets up a Flame charge effectively outspeeding and killing Landorus. So what are your thoughts on this playstyle, how much has it changed from Stathakis' DPP style till now? Help from experienced HO players is greatly welcome!