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This poke is awesome, it needs a good bump. This is a really well balanced psychic pokemon unlike all the others we've seen in competitive play recently (azelf, zam, cress...) it's a bulky offensive with awesome abilities to back up it's bulk. Magic Guard could work great on a hail team with...
I love this poke, I'm really curious to test it out and regenerate is broken as hell with it's massive HP. This will be a great check to a ton of the new powerful fighting pokemon released and I will definitely be fitting this on my teams /cresselia in the new metagame. Freakin' cute too lol
I have a celebi with good ivs and HP ice 60 something (if this even matters) and it's bold. It's already trained, 252 HP 216 Def and 40 Speed, the IVs is 31,xx,29,23,25,24 in order. I can't clone, sorry if this is an inconvenience.
Machamp (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Guts
EVs: 252 HP/16 Atk/232 Def/8 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Low Kick / Cross Chop / Close Combat
- Payback
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
For this machamp, revenge should be listed as an option since it has the ability to be powered up if machamp moves last or...
Rotom-A could just switch predicting your switch then what? More wasted moves as opposed to the possible paralysis on all his other counters through body slam. It would need stealth rock support and spin blocking support to be even somewhat viable as well as a pursuit user and celebi, and then...
You would stay in because he has rest+sleep talk. I will run a series of tests and be back to you with data that body slam is highly more viable than scary face.
Also you wouldn't be able to crunch rotom-A because you'd be switching into the will-o-wisp after the scary face off your machamp.
Scary face doesn't hinder bulky rotom-A at all, it actually makes it harder to faint seeing as your payback is now 100 BP (factoring in super effective) instead of 200, and in any situation with the other three counters you listed, they would be better off paralyzed 30% since they are immune to...
Machamp may not get t-wave, but he does get body slam which has poor coverage, but if you're looking to slow stuff down, that is your best bet seeing as scary face is nullified as the opponent switches out. Don't use patback either that's a bad idea alongside body slam. Consider Ice punch if...
Hypnosis is illegal with brave bird, just throwing that out there lol, the best moveset to run with this is
EVs: 252 HP / 4 def / 252 Spe
Nature: Jolly/Timid(also viable)
@Black Sludge
+Moveset+
-Super Fang
-Hypnosis
-Taunt
-Roost/U-turn
U-turn is a good escape move, and roost is...
Ok some suggestions for this set. Slap a choice scarf on it and drop swords dance for U turn or a utility move such as Bullet punch or roost to shrug off SR damage. It's an awesome set I've been testing it for a very long time and it proves to be successful since most people expect slower sets.
I have tested super fang on crobat on walrein and crobat and so far most of their switch-ins need to either be incapacitated by sleep or taunted so they don't just recovery the damage done by super fang. A good utility move would be knock off to help delete leftovers or black sludge recovery, so...