Monday, August 17, 2015

Emolga 2 stronk, nerf pls

The Pikachu Cup is approaching pretty quickly, and the Smogon ladder gives potential entrants the opportunity to try out their teams. And it seems like the combination this whole thing may revolve around is an Electivire + Emolga lead pairing. Tailwind with Emolga, and go buck wild with Electivire's Earthquake. It's kind of amusing how this is supposed to be all about Pikachu, and it's another useless Electric rodent that gets the spotlight. Maybe this is going to be the thing that finally makes the powers that be realize Pikachu sucks so badly it doesn't even get used in its own tournament?

Anyway, one potential counter to the aforementioned pairing is Luxray + Rotom. We all know Intimidate is all kinds of broken in doubles, so mini-Electivire is another Pokémon that should never be used that snags the spotlight from Pikachu here. -1 Electivire is a LOT easier to handle, and a nice trick Rotom has is Snatch, to steal the opponent's Tailwind. Other fun stuff includes Soak Lanturn paired with either a Discharge user to heal Lanturn or, my personal favorite, Mega Ampharos to bypass Lightning Rod and Motor Drive with Mold Breaker. Oh, and you know the rule of thumb that Hyper Beam sucks and it should never be used ever? Well, Heliolisk likes running both it and Hyper Voice. The weird part thing is, it makes sense, because the only immune Pokémon is Rotom-N, which no one will ever use, and the only resist is Magnezone (or Magneton if you really want to go that way for whatever reason).

I'm just looking forward to seeing all the crazy stuff that people will bring there. Pretty sure Endeavor Pikachu won't be a thing, though. Between the apparent dominance of Electivire and Emolga, and Ampharos being by far and away the most useful mega out of those eligible (all TWO of them), not to mention the other neat stuff I mentioned, a Light Ball will reasonably be the best we can hope for.

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  1. I think really, the Pokemiles would be the best thing to get. Ever since the release of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the Light Ball has been trivial to get. Not only can you just chain Pikachu in the Safari Zone to forcibly spawn Light Ball holding Pikachu, but a Light Ball can be found on the ground on the southern part of route 120. No HM's required, no catch, it's not even a hidden item. It's just sitting in plain sight for you to pick up.

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  2. For the purposes of this tourney...Yeah, Ampharos is more useful. You can just use Luxray for Intimidate instead of Manectric, but I doubt anything could fill the role of Mega Ampharos...

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    1. Fun fact: some people have had some success with regular Ampharos as well. Give it Plus and Magnetic Flux, and pair it with Minus Minun and/or Manectric, and watch sparks fly.

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    2. Magnetic Flux is such an obscure move I had to look it up to confirm what it actually did.

      For those who don't know, so you don't have to look it up, it boosts the Defence and Special Defence of all pokemon on your side of the field with the Plus or Minus ability by 1 stage.

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    3. Yep. And the best part is, Minun can pass those boosts too, on top of whatever Agilities and Nasty Plots it can set up. Manectric's a great recipient if your Ampharos is still alive, since then you can abuse Magnetic Flux even further.

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    4. It's funny, Nintendo made a tournament where a normally completely forgotten move gets some real good use. Now we just need a tournament with the right moves to make Rototiler a useful move.

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