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Everlasting game against a stall team testing The Lonely Dragon http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-389369830

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Who will enforce the law of Ducky kingdom if all ducks are dead? You have no power here Micky, the hill is mine.

Here it comes! The one and only One punch Bunny! The 654 attack rabbit! A Z U M A R I L L

Good evening fellow Rebornians. Today I decided to rediscover my love for Tankchomp and well, here I bring for you to admire in its full glory, The Lonely Dragon (AKA random afternoon with Durken). Copy-paste data Everything started with the Tankchomp and Assault Vest Metagross core proposed by Steffo in the core thread. Tankchomp: Cynthia (Garchomp) (F) @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Rough Skin EVs: 240 HP / 176 Def / 92 Spe Impish Nature - Earthquake - Dragon Tail - Fire Blast - Stealth Rock Well, we all know this guy. Rocky Helmet + Rough Skin punishes very hard contact (28% of max HP), can take quite a lot of damage and hits back pretty strong without any investment. Stealth Rocks are the best entry hazard and deal quite a lot of damage through the game, as well as punishing switches (I don't know why am I explaining rocks as if you didn't know the move). Dragon Tail phazes enemies to rake up stealth rock damage. It also avoids being setup bait as phazing a mon makes it lose all of its boosts. Earthquake is Garchomp's mainly stap and hits really hard, and Fire Blast basically 2HKOs bulky steel mons like Ferrothorn, Scizor or even fisically defensive Skarmory after stealth rock damage. Tankchomp works incredibly well against U-turn and Volt Switch teams as it's immune to the second and punished the first with a lot of damage. It's also a great switch in to M-Lopunny's and M-Medicham's Fake Out, and also punishes Rapid Spin heavily. AV Metagross: Metagross @ Assault Vest Ability: Clear Body EVs: 252 HP / 160 Atk / 96 SpD Adamant Nature - Meteor Mash - Ice Punch - Earthquake - Pursuit Assault Vest Metagross is an incredible tank. Hits really hard with its base 135 attack and some investment, and can take ice, dragon and fairy attacks for Garchomp, making them work together really well. Meteor Mash is Metagross' main STAB, and it completely demolishes fae, as well as some occasional rock type like Tyranitar. Ice Punch started as Bullet Punch, but we ended up changing it because Bullet Punch wasn't that necessary in the end and also because Metagross tends to lure all the x4 ice weaknesses (Garchomp, Landorus and Gliscor). Earthquake can hit steel and fire types, so it provides a good cover, and Pursuit lets Metagross trap and finish Lati@s, which are lured by Garchomp and Venusaur. The Lonely Dragon: The Lonely Dragon (Hydreigon) @ Choice Scarf Ability: Levitate EVs: 252 Atk / 100 SpA / 156 Spe Lonely Nature - Draco Meteor - Fire Blast - Superpower - U-turn We came across Hydreigon looking for a pokemon that would cover the Ghost, Dark and Ground type weaknesses for Metagross, and we ended up having an everlasting source of fun and laugh in this Choice Scarf Hydreigon. As well as performing the aforementioned task, 156 speed and a Choice Scarf make Hydreigon reach 406 speed, outspeeding even the 135 speed tier (M-Lopunny and M-Manectric). 252+ attack make superpower hit incredibly hard, getting OHKOs in Tyranitar, Bisharp and Excadrill as well as damaging heavily bulky mons like Heatran. Fire Blast let Hydreigon hit physically defensive steel types like Ferrothorn and Skarmory harder, as well as avoiding contact and stat drop, and (unlike Flamethrower) OHKOs all variants of Scizor. U-Turn lets us keep momentum when forcing switches as well as denting hard the opposing pokemon. We are planning on revising the spread and investing more on special attack, since when testing the team we found ourselves spamming Draco Meteor much more than Superpower. That would also let us 100% OHKO ferrothorn with Fire Blast, as well as having some chance (100% after Stealth Rocks) of OHKOing fisically defensive Skarmory, while still being able to OHKO Bisharp, Excadrill and offensive Tyranitar sets with Superpower. However, this would cause our Hydreigon to stop being The Lonely Dragon and well, The Mild Dragon doesn't really sound that well. Offensive spinner Starmie: Starmie @ Expert Belt Ability: Analytic EVs: 252 SpA / 16 SpD / 240 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Scald - Psyshock - Ice Beam - Rapid Spin This friend started originally as a bulky Starmie with Natural Cure that would act as a status absorber and spreader with Thunder Wave, as well as a way of removing enemy hazards without losing ours, since Hydreigon needed them to secure some OHKOs that otherwise would depend on a roll. However, the final addition of Chansey to the team, who could fulfill this status absorbing role much better, allowed Starmie to play a bit more offensively, with this Analytic Expert Belt set. The idea is to bring Starmie to a weakened target that can OHKO, and either finish it or force a switch and damage it very heavily with Analytic (and Expert Belt if predicted correctly), many times getting the 2HKO or another switch and more free damage. Sometimes, this switch forcing can be used to sneak in a free Rapid Spin and so remove the entry hazards the opponent has set on our field. It works really well with Hydreigon's U-Turn, as this (with 252+ attack) hits very hard and leaves some targets weakened enough for Starmie to do its job. 240 speed are enough to outspeed the 113 tier, and lets us have a bit more bulk as more speed is not necessary. The 115 speed tier in OU is basically Raikou and an occasional M-Absol, and you don't want to face any of them, so the posibility of making a speed tie is irrelevant, and the only pokemon with 114 speed is Swoobat which sincerelly I never expect to see in OU. Mega Venusaur: Edulbasur (Venusaur-Mega) (M) @ Venusaurite Ability: Chlorophyll EVs: 236 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 16 Spe Modest Nature - Giga Drain - Sludge Bomb - Knock Off - Leech Seed At this point, the team needed a check to fairy types and especially to Azumarill, and M-Venusaur was just the perfect candidate for the job. With it's flying and psychic weaknesses covered by Metagross, as well as having an amazing synergy with its pursuit by luring Lati@s, M-Venusaur had nothing to fear and much to offer to the team. Giga Drain and Sludge Bomb are the obvious stabs and hit incredibly hard with a full investment in special attack, providing a very solid answer to bulky water and fairy types. Leech seeds stalls Chansey, who can't help but notice how her HP is sipped each turn without being even able to touch Venusaur, and in general acts as a very useful way of turning fights in Venusaurs favour and forcing switches. Finally, Knock Off punishes switches by removing items and hits psychic types hard, which are frequent checks of M-Venusaur. 16 speed let M-Venusaur outspeed Belly Drum Azumarill and kill it with Giga Drain (85.7 - 101%, notice that after Belly Drum Azumarill will be at 75%) before it can even attack, unless it goes for Aqua Jet, which wont damage Venusaur much (36.7 - 43.4%). Besides, this damage will instantly be healed by Giga Drain. Counter Chansey: Nurse Joy (Chansey) @ Eviolite Ability: Natural Cure EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD Bold Nature - Soft-Boiled - Heal Bell - Toxic - Counter And finally here it is, loved by some, hated by most, the never ending special sponge of OU: Chansey! You all know this thing. It comes into special moves, feels some tickles, laughs at the attacker, poisons it and then stalls it to death while it gets healed forever. Heal Bell lets it act as a support for the team, removing status from teammates, which comes in really handy against burns, since there is no fire type mon to absorb Will-O-Wisps and 3 of the pokemon in the team use fisical attacks. You might be wondering why I'm running Counter over Seismic Toss in my fourth slot. I have two reason. First of all, Chansey tends to lure Knock Off users since it loses an important part of its bulk when it loses the Eviolite. A Counter on time can score a OHKO in a pokemon like Weavile or Landorus-Therian that may be cruacial for the team. My second reason is that this team lacks a solid answer to Sand Rush Excadrill, so a healthy Chansey can resist an Earthquake (45.5 - 53.4% from a 252+ attack Life Orb Excadrill) and kill back with Counter therefore stopping the sweep, providing that Excadrill lacks Swords Dance, which is the usual thing. So, this is the team. I consider this some sort of first draft since we made it today and it still needs some polishing. Any feedback you might have on the team, I'm sure it will be helpful for us in order to keep improving the team and therefore will be welcome. Hope you liked it and with your help we can improve it to make it be the best it can.

Tyranitar

Hidden abilities are just treated as normal abilities in Reborn's code.

That was quite stereotyped... Also I'm not independentist, but hey, I had a good laugh with this. 10/10

The first time I discovered pokemon it was through a classmate, who was playing fire red. At first I didn't like much the game. I was a huge platformer fan, after having played some amazing games as Kirby and the amazing mirror and Super Mario World 2. Pokemon looked too slow and boring, with no action and a turn based combat system. However, I ended up giving it a try and that year I got Pokemon Emerald for christmas. That was the beginning of everything. I realized the complexity and the strategy that laid behind that apparently boring turn based system, and once started I couldn't stop. I'll only say that I have more than 500 hours in that game. The fact that a friend had a link wire helped a lot, since trading and fighting my friends was one of the best things the game could offer.

Aipom

Howdy

Lapras

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

Empoleon

Happy birthday Cool Girl!

Since it looks like I'm not playing this week, if anyone wants to use my team, feel free to take it. It's in the Google drive document.

Ambipom

She won't come, dude. Accept it. Micky

Trapinch

What about me?

You must also think that it could have been a coincidence. Even if your chances of capturing are very high when a pokemon is low and asleep, there's still a chance of not capturing it. The same way you may flip a thousand coins and get heads a thousand times (which has a chance of 1 / 2^1000), there's a chance of the pokemon escaping from the ball all the time and you might just have bad luck.