Thursday, February 12, 2015

The new face of ubers

Arceus @ Choice Specs
Multitype
Timid, 252 SA, 252 Spd, 4 HP
- Hyper Beam
- Blast Burn
- Hydro Cannon
- Roar of Time

Or at least it would be if Roar of Time was legal with Blast Burn and Hydro Cannon. You just know every six-year old would run that thing.

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    1. Coro Coro. They announced an Arceus Event which knows Blast Burn and Hydro Cannon as special moves.

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  2. Not Frenzy Plant? THIS IS RACEI- er, TYPEIS- uh, what would you call discriminating based on types?

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  3. Oh come on, there's gotta be Giga Impact on there somewhere for when your jerk friend uses their cheap Blissey. Besides, who would turn down the sweet, sweet 10% evasion boost from Bright Powder?

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  4. I'm wondering why they left Frenzy Plant off the set. If you're going to make a stupid moveset, you might as well go all the way.

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  5. I dont get why those 2 moves, anyway
    If its meant to reference Kyogre & Groudon, wouldn't Precipice Blades & Origin Pulse make more sense

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    1. Probably because giving two more good moves to Arceus is a terrible idea, and they know it.

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    2. Maybe that's true, but considering Primal Kyogre, Primal Groudon and Arceus all star in the next Japanese movie, it's still surprising they didn't go down that route. I also question whether Arceus would ever use those moves. Precipice Blades woudl fall into the same Earthquake/Precipice Blades argument Groudon has and for countering Groudon, Earth Power may be better since Groudon's special defence is weaker. As for Origin Pulse... how often is Water Arceus even used?

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    3. Change Earth Power to Earth Plate Judgement in that last post of mine.

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    4. Yeah, because Extreme Killer Arceus kind of has to hope it has a Swords Dance up and take advantage of its natural bulk. Or that Groudon's in the red...

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  6. If you want to run Water Arceus for some asinine reason, you should probably be going with Judgement over Origin Pulse. The latter would mostly be there for OTHER types.

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    1. Would Arceus ever use a Water type move anyway though? The only target I can think of it hitting in the Uber tier is Ho-oh, outside of that non-stab moves which aren't Super Effective generally aren't good in Ubers from my understanding.

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    2. Probably not, but it's still a damn good move regardless, and if there's no specific scenario right now that warrants using a Water move on Arceus, that might change in future generations. Ground wasn't very hot for an Arceus type less than six months ago, then here comes Primal Groudon and suddenly it's the second most popular type.

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  7. I really wish Hyper Beam was boosted to, like, 200 or 300 BP or something. Probably still not useful because its weakness is that it leaves you open to a direct counter.

    I love Hyper Beam, though. RBY SFX was boss.

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