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lol you can delete your own posts you know.
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Yes it has, and they are now banned on Shoddy.
by event moves you mean surf pikachu and spacial rend/roar of time darkrai right?
thats kind of dumb but oh well
thats kind of dumb but oh well
Well, at least our Shoddy server will allow them.
Is it alright to have more than one status effect on your team? E.g. My Wigglytuff has Thunder Wave for sweepers and my Altaria has toxic for walls, while my Mawile has Sing to incapacitate.
Sleep Clause is in effectm so, Sing is only really useful about once per battle for me. But three statuses isn't too useless, right?
Sleep Clause is in effectm so, Sing is only really useful about once per battle for me. But three statuses isn't too useless, right?
I don't like to mix and match status too much. One mispredict and you've waved a wall or something. I prefer a bit more synergy, but that's just my style of play.
There is a popular qwilfish i'm going to build. The moveset is taunt/rain dance/waterfall/explosion or something along those lines. Can anyone who uses this suggest the best EV spread? Full attack is a given, but have you found that you need any speed EVs?
There is a popular qwilfish i'm going to build. The moveset is taunt/rain dance/waterfall/explosion or something along those lines. Can anyone who uses this suggest the best EV spread? Full attack is a given, but have you found that you need any speed EVs?
Dragon Claw/Toxic/ Heal Bell/ Roost
Good moveset for my Altaria?
Good moveset for my Altaria?
Yep. If the rooster(lol) is slower, you're safe.
And +1 is 1.5x but remember to round down.
What is Substitute's "health" based off of? I know it's from the user's stats, but which ones?
The substitute has as much HP as 1/4 of the total HP of the pokemon that used it.
Example: If a pokemon with 404 HP made a sub, the sub would have 101 HP.
If the HP isn't divisible by 4, then the sub's health is still 1/4 of the user's total HP, but rounded down.
HP. One quarter, rounded down. Thus, if you had 401 HP, your Substitute would have 100 HP, and you'd be left at 301.
Substitute creates a sub that has 1/4 of the user's health, rounded down. This means its possible to set the HP to allow 4 subs to be created, assuming the user does not take further damage from another source.
For example, a Ninjask with 260 HP creates 65 HP Subs (260/4). It could create 3 subs assuming they were broken each time, each one reducing 65 HP of Ninjask's HP. The fourth would fail since it would take Ninjask to 0 HP. However, when the third sub is created Ninjask is left with exactly enough HP to activate a pinch berry, such as Salac, Petaya and Liechi.
If Ninjask had 261 HP, it could make a fourth sub (261/4 = 65.25, rounded down to 65), and be left with 1 HP afterwards. The third sub does not allow for the activation of a pinch berry in this case, but the fourth one does, since it would take Ninjask below 25% of its health (after 3 subs it will have just more than 25% of its health and therefore not activate a pinch berry).
Also remember that subs each have their own HP, so its possible for them to survive a hit if it would do less than their total, but each's subs HP cannot be restored in anyway. This is why 404 HP total is a significant number, since the Substitutes created from a Pokemon with 404 HP has 101 HP, and is therefore not taken out in one hit by a L100 Pokemon using Seismic Toss or Night Shade, since that does 100 damage. 101 - 100 = 1, so the sub will survive a hit and can be used to block a second hit (but will not survive)
For example, a Ninjask with 260 HP creates 65 HP Subs (260/4). It could create 3 subs assuming they were broken each time, each one reducing 65 HP of Ninjask's HP. The fourth would fail since it would take Ninjask to 0 HP. However, when the third sub is created Ninjask is left with exactly enough HP to activate a pinch berry, such as Salac, Petaya and Liechi.
If Ninjask had 261 HP, it could make a fourth sub (261/4 = 65.25, rounded down to 65), and be left with 1 HP afterwards. The third sub does not allow for the activation of a pinch berry in this case, but the fourth one does, since it would take Ninjask below 25% of its health (after 3 subs it will have just more than 25% of its health and therefore not activate a pinch berry).
Also remember that subs each have their own HP, so its possible for them to survive a hit if it would do less than their total, but each's subs HP cannot be restored in anyway. This is why 404 HP total is a significant number, since the Substitutes created from a Pokemon with 404 HP has 101 HP, and is therefore not taken out in one hit by a L100 Pokemon using Seismic Toss or Night Shade, since that does 100 damage. 101 - 100 = 1, so the sub will survive a hit and can be used to block a second hit (but will not survive)
Thanks Gemerl, LoZDestroyer, and Toothache. One more question (you all don't have to answer this one, lol), can the Substitutes be hit by an attack and it be Super Effective or Not Very Effective? If so, what are it's weaknesses and resistances?
The weaknesses and resistances are the same as the pokemon who is behind it.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I'd personally say Night Slash if you want a solid STAB move or Me First for some rare occasions.
Rock Smash. Sucker Punch is unneeded if Absol's scarfed and Rock Smash covers the Darks you would hit with X-Scissor. What's more you hit get to dent Steel-types switching in.
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