I've switched my missy's nasty plot to psychic to great effect today.
If your using a special set, why not use nasty plot as a reliable why of increasing SAtk?Looking into it, why not try a special sweeper? With Vacuum Wave, Dark Pulse, and even a fun bout with Acupressure, Seems like he might have a fun run as doing some good work taking out two or three pokemon. A choice scarf will for sure catch some off guard and be interesting.
Why not use Sludge Bomb? It gives you a reliable STAB for most situations, and Vacuum Wave is sufficient for most Steel types.Also ray jay's gimmick is hilarious; but i just find dry skin too good to pass up. I'm kind of interested to see how the special sweeper set turns up, so I'll probably be trying that out. something along the lines of NP vacuum wave Shadow Ball Focus blast. The biggest problem i see with the set is that Focus Blast.
On the whole i tend to forget about poison as an offensive attack cause of its really subpar coverage. Sludge bomb *is* the better idea tough, cause like you said, its a more reliable STAB; just saying why i went immediately to focus blast. Also, really sad/surprised Croa doesnt get Aurasphere :'(Why not use Sludge Bomb? It gives you a reliable STAB for most situations, and Vacuum Wave is sufficient for most Steel types.
As for me, I'm probably going to use Bulk Up Croagunk. I can see it being a good partner to MixKrow, as it deals with threats like Tirtouga and Lileep for Murkrow.
How can you post this? All I saw was you getting major hax at perfect times. Crit to take out mienfoo, Lileep get haxed on a switch that would have Ko porygon. Haxed to Ko Lileep. Things would have been way different if even just mienfoo was alive.this is why I love pory <3 Cracking a sand lileep wide open with foongus's help in only 102 turns! http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/lc4033040
Also, good teamates are poison or ghost types to handle its crippling fighting weakness
It has to be said, the popularity of sand really gives Croagunk trouble in this metagame with Hippo and Drilbur forcing it out all the time. However, Croagunk manages to check a large number of threats in the metagame to still be of value. It's the sort of pokemon that can be slapped on a team as a final mon if you haven't yet found a check to both x pokemon and y pokemon. (Usually shell smashers, other water types like chinchou and staryu, bulky normal types, lileep, scraggy etc...)What do you guys think? Do you think the metagame is friendly to Croagunk? I appreciate the discussion of possible other sets, but I want to hear your opinion's on Croagunk's placement in the current metagame. How effective is it really?