SWF Create-a-Team 1: Initial Pokemon Discussion

[supermarth64]

Nope, Colin fixed Heart Swap now that Manaphy is on the OU ladder.

 

[KrazyGlue]

Any other suggestions?

Yeah :

"Stallnaphy"
Manaphy @ Damp Rock
Calm / Hydation
4 HP / 252 DEF / 252 SP.DEF
Rest
Rain dance
Toxic
Surf

A fun set where you throw toxic on the opponent and rest off their blows while they slowly die from poison. Sets up rain dance for 7 turns which activates hydration. Toxic takes 6 turns to kill, so you conveniently have one rain dance per foe. Biggest threats are TTar, Hippowdon, and Abomasnow as they can switch in on rest to change the weather and keep you asleep.

An alternate option is to switch damp rock to leftovers and rain dance to ice beam, energy ball, or grass knot. Same basic principle; you're just letting your other pokemon do the rain dancing. Or, of course, you could switch out surf for waterfall (and change the nature) to make this set physical.

 

[ss118]

So we have:

Tail Glow
Rain Support
Calm Mind
Toxic Stall
Heart Swap
Acid Armor

Anything else you guys want to discuss before I bother one of the cool mods to make a poll?

 

[Wave⁂]

Tail Glow + Rain Rest vs. Tail Glow + 3 attacks?

 

[UltiMario]

Tail Glow + Rain Rest isn't going to be effective enough IMO. Tail Glow needs to be for sweeping, not for getting Wallporeon'd

 

[Wave⁂]

I was actually just wondering about the Tail Glow and Calm Mind set's specifics.

 

[KrazyGlue]

Tail Glow + Rain Rest isn't going to be effective enough IMO. Tail Glow needs to be for sweeping, not for getting Wallporeon'd

The one benefit for rain rest on a tail glow set is that you can heal the damage you take while setting up. If you have 3 tail glows but only 10% health, someone just sends in a faster pokemon and has an easy KO or forced switch. However, I do see your point.

 

[ss118]

I posted the voting thread, for everyone's information.
So please let this die