Bah, Chesnaught is kinda tough to run a LS set with. His typing does him no favors.
Just wanted to re-iterate what a ridiculously good ability Protean is.
Use Grass Knot, become immune to Spore/Leech Seed/etc, whilst becoming resistant to your typical weakness then STAB U-Turn or Ice Beam their asses. Toss some Spikes, laugh as Electric types can’t T-Wave/Bolt you…
I once said Greninja was Water-type Infernape-- No, it’s BETTER than Infernape.
Do you have a protean Froakie? I just have the regular edition.
greninja is gonna be awesome
shadow sneak to remove your mach punch weakness
spikes to remove you electric weakness
get STAB on every Hidden power (effectively giving you an unstabbed t-bolt like move but in every type)
fuck that, STAB on everything
sets up both spikes and toxic spikes
can deal with anti-spinners quite well
fast as fuck
multi-hitting priority move
fucking slick as hell
greninja came here to fuck shit up
I have one, but haven’t done any serious breeding with it(it has a Serious nature, and I don’t have any good Dittos atm)…
My Greninja observations have come from some matches I’ve seen of it in action. That base speed gives it a lot preemptive ability to stop typical attempts to beat it. You basically need to outspeed it(Jolteon, anything else with base 123 speed or higher), or rely on straight brute force. Sticky Web Galvantula could be a problem for it, as well.
I finished training a Greninja yesterday… Here’s my set up:
Greninja @ Life Orb/Wise Glasses
Ability: Protean
Nature: Timid
4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Scald
Grass Knot
Ice Beam
U-Turn
This thing has too many options for me to decide on a single optimal set up. I didn’t even know it got Shadow Sneak lol…
Feel free to post matches, I’m bored today.
Aw these were local matches. There’s a few players in my area that have regular poke battles.
I haven’t seen any good youtube matches with Greninja in it yet…
Phantom, you’re the video dude- Where da gangstas at?
I’ll see what I can find… I don’t think people are really using Greninja yet, though. The only people I’ve seen use it so far are @Ninjanuity and @The Martian, and the latter doesn’t even play competitively.
I’m breeding Froakies right now actually. After I finish EVing this Combuskin again (screwed up on it), I’m gonna hunt down a Flash Fire mon and get serious.
Here’s something… This guy’s running a Torrent Greninja, though.
No rush though, but when you’re able to make one, may I have one?
@Phantom- An option you have over Life Orb could be Expert Belt, since you’ll be getting STAB on everything and have a gamut of Super-Effective coverage, the E. Belt would give you more staying power.
So you have a protean Froakie?
Yeah, I got lucky and found out my sister’s zone has them.
Would you care to send one in my direction? I honestly have nothing of equal worth to offer though :sad:
Hopefully SuperKing is still around to provide me with specific Pokemon complete with EVs, items, moves, and if they’re shiny or not
Oh, I see… I was thinking about something that boosts the power of STAB moves. Idk if an item like that even exists
Couple more battles here:
http://youtu.be/JTF38ICe4dU
@Ninjanuity vs shofu!!!
Why you gotta do my boy like that? This is the same way I got bodied lol… Good stuff :tup:
Sure, I got a couple I was gonna release I could throw you. I’m online right now. Think I have to add you, so give me a few.