Lugruf

Is a weather dependant ability (Rain dish, hydration, leaf guard) banned if the team has absolutely no way of generating that weather? What if that ability is the only possible ability of a pokemon? (See Vaporeon for example)

Aerodactyl

If you're not going to breed, there's still some improvements you can do to your Aggron. Lets analyze the pokemon's stats and learnset. As we said before, Heavy Slam is Aggron's best Steel type STAB, hitting most pokemon with 100 or 120 power, which is awesome for a move with 100 accuracy, no drawbacks like recoil and 10 PP. Ancient Power is mediocre in many reasons. First, it's a special move, so it will use Aggron's mediocre special attack (60) instead of its attack stat, which is much higher (110). Besides, it has 5 PP, which is not desirable at all in story mode since you will have to fight many times before you heal your pokemon, and you'll run out of PP very easily. Finally, Ancient Power has 60 power, which is mediocre at best. If we look at Aggron's learnset, we can see that it learns both Rock Tomb and Rock Slide. They are both physical, so they will hit harder, and they have more than 5 PP (10 and 15 respectively). Rock Slide has higher power and hits both opponents in double battles, and Rock Tomb lowers the opponet's speed, allowing Aggron to outspeed it after one or two hits normally. You should seriously think about changing Ancient Power for one of these. Iron Defense is not a bad move, but it has a serious drawback. Suppose you are fighting a physical attacker and you get to use Iron Defense twice, getting a +4 in defense. It's great, you're immortal and you defeat the other mon easily. Okay, what if the next pokemon is a special attacker? Your Iron Defenses will be useless and you will be forced out losing all your setup. Besides, Aggron doesn't need more defense. With a base 180 defense you are able to defeat any physical attacker with no problem without any need for boosts. A more useful move for this slot would be Metal Burst + Sturdy, since Sturdy makes you able to survive any hit and Metal Burst will kill any pokemon afterwards. Finally, you should know that Normal and Dragon are awful types for coverage, so Dragon Claw and Strength make no sense at all. If you want a coverage move, Earthquake will be the best option when we get the TM. Another possible set for Aggron is running Autotomize or Rock Polish, which doubles your speed. Just remember that if you are running Autotomize you need to play Iron Head over Heavy Slam since Autotomize halves your weight, so Rock polish is prefered.

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Phantump

This is my advice, although it takes quite a bit of work if you are not used to breeding. Get a male Tyrunt from the event in 7th street, evolve it to Tyrantrum and teach it Head Smash at level 58. Then put that Tyrantrum with a female Aron in the daycare ccenter and wait for an egg. The Aron you will get from that egg will have Head Smash as an egg move. Then, either from the egg or by using ability capsules, get the ability Rock Head in Aron. Head Smash is a 150 power STAB that causes massive recoil damage, and Rock Head negates recoil. This means that with Rock Head, Head Smash is a 150 power STAB with no drawbacks. This will destroy anything that gets in your way. As an Steel type STAB, Heavy Slam is better than Iron Head or Iron Tail as Aggron is so heavy that it will hit almost everything with 100 or 120 power. If you're going to do the egg move thingy, it's a good idea to pass Stealth Rocks too, as Tyrunts learns them at level 15 and Aron can only get them via tutor or egg move. So, this would leave us with Head Smash, Heavy Slam and Stealth Rocks. There are many moves you could use for the fourth slot. Earthquake would be perfect, but we don't have the TM yet so that will have to wait. Metal Burst can be a good idea, but notice that this Aggron doesn't have Sturdy so you'll have to be careful with how much damage you can take, and never expose it to Focus Blast, Earth Power and Aura Sphere.

Are guts, marvel scale, toxic boost and flare boost allowed?

Trevenant

:[ Guess again Spine

We need to keep guessing wrong so I'll say Viri

Accelgor

Here I am. Come back Spine! This ain't over!

Micky's probably next

Spare some?

Nope. Spine will post again

Welcome to Reborn! I've actually seen you around in the forum but still, welcome. Take your welcome gift: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20828

Genesect

Seaking

Pachirisu and Musharna for me.

Welcome to Reborn! Take your welcome gift: http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20828

Farewell, Viri. This forum will definitely not be the same without you. We might have not talked much, because I'm not the best person at breaking the ice and talking to other people, but from the very beginning you standed out for me. Your sometimes close to pedantic eloquence, the fact that you opened a philosophy thread, your recommendations in the book thread... everything. Your puns with ICSW were able to make me laugh even in my worst days. You are also a good competitive pokemon player, and your advice ahs been valuable when improving my teams. In general, I admire you for what you've done in this community and I'll sure miss not having you around. Good luck with whatever you do, and may the Magnezone be with you.

I've never seen mde in this topic. Micky however is more likely to appear

Onix