[OVERVIEW]
Magmar finds a niche in RBY PU as a second Fire-type to be used alongside the omnipresent Arcanine. Magmar's biggest upside compared to other Fire-types is its diverse movepool. It's access to moves such as Psychic and Confuse Ray give it better matchups against foes such as Gastly and Seaking, and it is the only Fire-type not walled by the rare Omanyte. It also has Counter, forcing opposing Fire-types into mindgames on whether or not they should use a Normal- or Fire-type attack against it. This also makes Magmar much less predictable than the other Fire-types, as it is harder to guess what moves it is running.
Despite these upsides, Magmar should never be used as a replacement for Arcanine. Arcanine's access to Agility, as well as greater bulk and Attack outweigh the benefits that Magmar's movepool provides. Magmar also competes with Rapidash for a spot on a team as a second Fire-type. Although Rapidash has a much shallower movepool, Rapidash's higher Speed lets it crucially outspeed Fearow.
[SET]
name: Swagmar
move 1: Fire Blast / Psychic
move 2: Body Slam
move 3: Hyper Beam / Counter
move 4: Confuse Ray / Smokescreen
[SET COMMENTS]
Set Description
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Fire Blast is Magmar's primary STAB move, doing heavy damage to any non-resistant foe. Magmar's higher Special compared to Rapidash and Arcanine means that Fire Blast has a higher chance to 2HKO Fearow, as well as a higher chance to OHKO Scyther. Magmar can replace Fire Blast with Psychic, as Psychic hits many of PU's top threats&mdashNidoqueen, Fire-types, Water-types, and Gastly, for the same amount of damage as Fire Blast, while being 100% accurate and having a chance to drop the foe's Special. This does make Magmar much worse against Fearow and Scyther though. Body Slam lets Magmar spread paralysis on foes such as opposing Fire-types and Seaking, while Hyper Beam can be used to finish off these foes.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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Checks and Counters
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[CREDITS]
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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Magmar finds a niche in RBY PU as a second Fire-type to be used alongside the omnipresent Arcanine. Magmar's biggest upside compared to other Fire-types is its diverse movepool. It's access to moves such as Psychic and Confuse Ray give it better matchups against foes such as Gastly and Seaking, and it is the only Fire-type not walled by the rare Omanyte. It also has Counter, forcing opposing Fire-types into mindgames on whether or not they should use a Normal- or Fire-type attack against it. This also makes Magmar much less predictable than the other Fire-types, as it is harder to guess what moves it is running.
Despite these upsides, Magmar should never be used as a replacement for Arcanine. Arcanine's access to Agility, as well as greater bulk and Attack outweigh the benefits that Magmar's movepool provides. Magmar also competes with Rapidash for a spot on a team as a second Fire-type. Although Rapidash has a much shallower movepool, Rapidash's higher Speed lets it crucially outspeed Fearow.
- Outclassed by Arcanine, but can work alongside it
- Competition with rapidash for "second fire-type"
- Pros: Slightly higher special, diverse movepool
- Cons: Lower speed, notably misses the Fearow speed tier, no agility
- Go into detail about movepool
- Psychic hits most top-tiers for the same as blast but 100% acc
- Cray for seaking and gastly
- Counter for other fires
- Re-state that its a niche mon and should only ever be used alongside Arcanine
[SET]
name: Swagmar
move 1: Fire Blast / Psychic
move 2: Body Slam
move 3: Hyper Beam / Counter
move 4: Confuse Ray / Smokescreen
[SET COMMENTS]
Set Description
=========
Fire Blast is Magmar's primary STAB move, doing heavy damage to any non-resistant foe. Magmar's higher Special compared to Rapidash and Arcanine means that Fire Blast has a higher chance to 2HKO Fearow, as well as a higher chance to OHKO Scyther. Magmar can replace Fire Blast with Psychic, as Psychic hits many of PU's top threats&mdashNidoqueen, Fire-types, Water-types, and Gastly, for the same amount of damage as Fire Blast, while being 100% accurate and having a chance to drop the foe's Special. This does make Magmar much worse against Fearow and Scyther though. Body Slam lets Magmar spread paralysis on foes such as opposing Fire-types and Seaking, while Hyper Beam can be used to finish off these foes.
- Blast is big STAB
- Psy is more accurate and hits queen, fires, waters, and gastly for the same as blast
- Slam spreads para
- HB is big finisher move
- Counter for opposing fires, forces mindgames
- Cray/Smoke can help bail out of seaking mu, make it harder for seaking to set up, recude gast hypnosis acc
- Parafusion with cray/slam
- Specific role, should be used as a second fire-type on a team that needs slightly more insurance against seaking/gastly
- Grav is a good teammate since Grav switches into fearow, while mag isn't horrible into seaking
- Mons that appreciate magmar's gastly MU
- Para spreaders for parafusion
- Magmar can trade with grounds to enable magneton
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
Other Options
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- Blast + Psy on same set (talk to sabel about this)
- Submission
- Stoss
- Substitute
Checks and Counters
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- worse into fearow than other fires
- waters
- opposing fires, esp if no counter
- grounds
- hates para more than other fires cuz no agi
[CREDITS]
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Quality checked by:
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Grammar checked by:
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