1. Tauros has 110 base Speed, tying with Gengar and Espeon. It doesn't need to paralyze things to outspeed them. Flinch haxing with anything not named Dunsparce or (kinda) Togetic usually doesn't get you anywhere.
Tauros @ Choice Band
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Return/Double Edge
- HP [Ghost] if you can get it. Otherwise Iron Tail
- Sleep Talk/Fire Blast
Eh. Standard. I know from too much experience that breeding for a specific Hidden Power is a pain in the ***. If you don't want to, just go with Iron Tail. It's not like Gengar's going to live through either one. Sleep Talk is to eat Milo's Hypnosis and Fire Blast is for Skarm, who's going to like coming in on your other 3 moves. If you don't have access to Ruby/Sapphire for Choice Band, just go with Leftovers I guess. Then you can go Substitute in the last slot too.
And @ the people above who suggested it, do enlighten me on how you'd get Swords Dance on a Tauros...
2. No. Well, I guess Nidoqueen can Counter better. But Counter on either one usually = fail. Either way, both the Nidos were banished to UU forever after they lost Lovely Kiss.
And Morning Sun/Moonlight. And the fact that before, they could effectively **** on both ends of the attack spectrum. Nowadays, you see Nidoqueen/king, chances are, it's gonna be carrying CB =/ Oh and Nidoqueen doesn't learn Megahorn.
3. If you have other methods of taking down bulky waters, then Surf/Ice Beam/Rest/Sleep Talk. If you don't, then Toxic will work, but the above is standard for bulky water sets, so the only waters you'll catch with Toxic are Milotic and the occasional Lanturn. Orrr if you wanna hax, Rest/Sleep Talk/Horn Drill/Sheer Cold. Lol. No one likes OHKOs though, and anything with Sturdy comes in easily. I've always liked Dewgong. It's fun to use. It has cool moves like Perish Song and Encore.
4. One of them... don't use both. Or are you debating which one to use? If it's ingame and you're too lazy to breed for HP [Fire] on Vileplume like I am, then I'd go with Houndoom. If you do happen to have a Vileplume with HP [Fire or Ice] with decent power, then go Plume, as it is the better Sunnybeamer thanks to Chlorophyll. For Plume, Sunny Day/Solarbeam/HP [Fire or Ice]/Sleep Powder. For Houndoom, Sunny Day/Solarbeam/Flamethrower/Crunch.
5. Good Rapidash set is kinda oxymoronic =/ Rapidash does suffer the same issue asa Tauros and just about every fire Pokemon in the game, but unfortunately Rapidash doesn't have Tauros's stats to remedy that. I guess you can run the Houndoom set I gave earlier with Hypnosis over Crunch... But a better option is Hypnosis/Overheat/Iron Tail/Hidden Power [Fighting or Rock]. Rapidash's craptacular movepool is extremely hard to remedy without Hidden Power, but if you really wanted to, I guess you can (lol) Double Kick.. Quick Attack can kill Reversalers too. I'm assuming you only have access to FRLG, but if you have XD, Rapidash gets Baton Pass, which opens some possibilities with Agility and Substitute.
