Hydreigon is Gen 5’s pseudo-legendary (like Dragonite, Tyranitar, Salamence, Metagross, and Garchomp). Interestingly enough, it’s the first one to have a higher Sp.Atk than Atk (125 vs. 105). It’s certainly good and learns many moves on the physical and special side, but the one thing holding it back is it’s speed. It wishes it had just a bit more speed to be a really effective sweeper. (It’s sitting at 98 for speed)
In game though, you raise a Hydreigon pre-E4 and you’ll be more than ready for them. :tup:
Whew, end of the week, I’m about to hook myself up with black(although I still consider White superior to black because of more exclusives /reverse racism)…
My favorites from Silver(OG) are there including Houndour and Murkrow…
How do you find out your friend code? Although I’m not really ready to go online because I just started…
Also this game is pretty great, starts off slow and picks up fast…
At first, I kept trying to compare it to the old ones, and I felt this odd sense of longing for Team Rocket and dat 8 bit music:rofl:…
The moment this game sort of lets go of your hand, is the moment it starts the feel like the old games to me…
I like these abilities that the pokemon have, but I hate having to capture the same pokemon multiple times to get a good one…
Also does that grass-type(default @ the beginning) have a different ability that I could’ve randomly gotten…
With the ability that boosts grass moves when life isn’t very helpful because he is basically a glass cannon with no other merits because stat increases are pretty low…
Look in your Pal Pad for your Friend Code. You get it after the Dreamyard scenario after the 1st gym. And all the starters only have one ability you can start with, so you’re stuck with that, but once Dream World opens they all get another one if you find one there.
I like how the game takes you back to the old ones, too. You can draw a lot of comparisons between the new mons and ones from the early games.
For now, Drizzle and Drought are still legal by themselves, but the Drizzle+Swift Swim combo is still banned. Latios and Deoxys-S got a bunch of votes too and are now “on notice”, meaning if they both get majority votes next round, they’ll also be banned (but they’re still legal until that happens).
Yeah, pretty much. According to arguments I’ve read (I haven’t played competitively at all this gen), Speed Boost Blaziken in the sun is pretty much unstoppable. It’s two most reliable counters are Slowbro and Jellicent, and both are still 2HKO’d by Fire Blast if the sun’s out. It also didn’t help that banning Swift Swim+Drizzle compromised a good number of it’s checks.
Oddly enough, Blaze Blaziken is also banned even though it’s far from broken, but it’s Smogon’s policy to blanket ban all sets of a particular mon when it gets the axe. Some people are calling for a “complex” ban on just the DW Blaziken, but I don’t really know the site’s policy on that.
Well this is interesting. I didn’t realize it was Speed Boost Blaziken combined with Drought, should’ve been obvious. I think banning Blaze Blaziken is stupid, Smogon can never seem to settle things in a completely reasonable way. SRK rule set for great justice!
It amazes me that they will draw an artificial line in the sand, and say “Anything more powerful than this team is banned”
Anything that touches their damn sandstorm teams is automatically banned, it’s so sad. No matter how much you ban, something still ends up being the dominant strategy. It’s just mind boggling to me, I can’t really get behind it
Yeah, it’s funny how Infinite Sandstorm slowly rips and tears, and boost the speed of Excadrill to already ridiculous levels, but because there’s a few OU checks, and people like him and T-Tar, he gets a pass.