They have Ice Body and Snow Cloak, though.
best counter to gyarados: air balloon dry skin helioptile
can’t be paralyzed, immune to water, can’t be hit by ground attacks until it gets attacked, gyarados only carries 1 move that would hurt it and helioptile has tbolt
gg gyara
If Heliolisk takes a hit on the switch in from a coverage move and the Gyarados knows EQ it’s usability as a counter drops and Gyarados gets a free DD to outspeed it when it comes back in. Depends on the set, but it can happen. Rotom W can come in on basically any set Gyarados can run (except if something is canceling its levitate) and force it to switch or die.
Well Aurorus has Freeze-Dry that his Water types for SE damage.
I remember Freeze Dry was a TCG move. Sounded cool.
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If it just got Water resist I would be happy.
Ice suffers the G1 effect where everything abosultely didn’t make sense. I guess it was because at that time most Ice types were part water anyway so they still reaped the benefits.
I personally would like Ice to resist both Dragon and Water, and Dragon to be supereffective against Steel, because dragons eat metal. Yes, that is my reasoning.
But I also want the PokeBank to have a feature – make it paid, whatever – that lets me edit IVs, EVs, hindering/beneficial stats, and moves from a pool of all possible moves (including egg moves) a specific Pokemon could have, and that ain’t happening.
Anywho, Pangoro. Iron Fist. Power Up Punch, Payback, Rest, Sleep Talk. Leftovers. Saw it on Smogon and have been using it myself. If I had said IV/EV editor I’d dial down Speed IV and put EVs into defenses. And avoid Fairy types like the plague.
Also, Tyrantrum. Fuck Rock/Dragon STAB; I think I’d like a set that’s just biting moves (thinking Crunch, Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Poison Fang) with an Assault Vest.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m talking about.
pangoro’s best move is parting shot
parting shot is like top 5 moves of all time but its distribution is looking like pancham/pangoro atm
Parting Shot is a very nice move. I’m hoping a few defensive pokes get it. I like that Pangoro has it, but his typing makes it harder to troll with.
Scouting Crobat would’ve been an awesome Parting Shot user.
parting shot with better distribution would make the game extremely terrible overall
As if Volt-Turn wasn’t annoying enough… No! Bad White Shadow. BAD!
Seriously, though. Fuck Volt-Turn… Fucking cowards. Stay in here and get this work.
Choice Scarf Pangoro, if he has U-Turn, fuck him he’s OP lol…
He’s the best scouter in the game because dark type moves have no immunity and he can use it on anyone…
I thought of a dope idea for berries.
How about berry baton pass?
Use Salac Berry for the damn near guaranteed pass?
it’ll work but you better use it with substitute
the only problem with it is you basically have to make sure your poke BPing the salac berry boost is low health, which means he’ll essentially become useless
i loved using my subsalac anger point tauros in gen IV, so much fun to sweep people when i got it off
I’m not saying I want everyone and their moms to have it, but at least a few useful pokes. lol.
Lapras gets Freeze Dry via breeding btw, so we don’t have to use that Ice/Rock abomination. Ok ok, maybe I’m being too harsh, but building a team around Aurorus’ plentiful weaknesses is just painful to contemplate.
pretty sure ice/rock is the worst defensive typing in the game
it does get snow warning
sub salac pass is too risky. no real reliable way to get off the salac that doesn’t involve probably dying or letting them setup pretty hard. the payoff isn’t always worth it either ; speed used to be everything but now you have to be able to deal with priority, and this gen also looks to head towards bulk. the biggest guys on the block are still aegislash blaziken and lucario because they can swords dance and outpace everything else. in the case of aegis and luc they can survive hits pretty well depending on what kind of hits.
luc can’t survive hits, he’s frailer than blaziken
Is there a general feel on Aurorus? Some people hate the typing others loved the design some. Apparently people see its going to be a spAtker with good def and at least has thunderboldt and icebeam?