every time i see this thread on recently posted on, i sometimes have a few rounds on pokemon showdown
my team is greninja/gyarados[mega]/clefable/landorus I/talonflame/scarf excadrill
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Heh, Mega-Smeargle with Prankster would still auto-lose to Magic Bounce and a bunch of other Pokemon, especially since it would otherwise have to waste a slot on Taunt to still not be Taunt bait.
In order:
Magic Bounce is enough though and I was aware of the latter, even if I personally like Gastrodon better against Rotom-W.
Well, things just keep hitting harder and harder, so it’s to be expected, especially with Vaporeon being a first generation pokemon. Scald helps a significant amount though, especially since Vaporeon only ever wants to run one or two attacks anyway and it’s not like it was ever OHKO’ing things with Surf save for maybe Magcargo and Camerupt.
That may be so, but that would also require a) using Manectric as your sole Mega Pokemon and b) Thunderus-L not getting banned to Ubers. Didn’t you have opinions on both those things as well? [/not entirely rhetorical]
Oh, I concur. I was merely saying that it’s nice for it to be usable at all again, especially since before Foul Play kept getting screwed over by things hitting harder and harder but without the special attack (or, frankly, typing or ability) that Vaporeon had to occasionally scare things off. That’s it not utterly set-up bait or destroyed by Taunt anymore is a significant improvement even if Prankster Sableye tends to be better.
Yes, it’s a problem. Too bad there’s nothing around that dissuades flying types from switching in…
…Even though that same “nothing” is what makes Fire and Ice “terrible” defensive typings. (Though the current Ice would still be terrible even without SR everywhere. Fire actually has damn decent resistances just based on typing; it’s just that Earthquake is literally on nearly every team.)
Still doesn’t understand how playing through things and learning their weaknesses is less favored than banning everything that dares to show even a bit of power, but doesn’t want to start THAT convo again…
Mega Smeargle is just as “retarded” of an idea as Mega Kangaskhan is… Prankster Spore/Geomancy/Baton Pass/Sticky Web is almost Amnesia Mewtwo levels of broken. You’d get to play with it for about half a day before the German Koffing Society broke out the pitchforks and mobs.
The worst pokemon can the be the one you don’t attack with. Seriously prankster smeargle would get banned so fast… Moreso if the stats were changed enough for it.
Such a shame most of the eeveeloutions are one trick ponies… Err pokemon. Then again in a weird way it makes sense cause of how much eevee splits off into multiple evos