Recent content by alejandrawrrr

I can't imagine why, unless it was a kneejerk reaction since Cotton Guard has never been viable in higher tiers as far as I can remember. But that's mainly due to distribution, it's never been in the hands of something with solid physical/mixed bulk, one of the best defensive typings in the game...

Altaria @ Altarianite Cloud Nine -> Pixillate EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def Impish Nature - Facade / Return (possibly Body Slam) - Dragon Dance - Cotton Guard - Roost Been running this set recently. Because many of Altaria's common checks I've run into are physical rather than special, it's...

Just adding on to what everyone's been saying, I hope I'm not over-selling Mence here, but if anyone doesn't think this thing is clearly Ubers, would you also support suspect testing Rayquaza in OU? Maybe there's something I'm not seeing but M-Mence is roughly as good (better in some ways) than...

I think I'd just mention (it's probably obvious) not to run Natural Cure if you're running Facade... I mean, unless you're afraid of paralysis, but I haven't run into that problem nearly as much as scald burns, willowisp or toxic.

I find Altaria extremely flexible depending on your playstyle and team's needs. Since I run mainly bulky offense, the set I run looks something like: Altaria @ Altarite Ability: Cloud Nine -> Pixilate Impish Nature EVs: 252 Def / 4 Atk / 252 Defense- Dragon Dance - Roost - Facade/Return/Body...

Testing this now. I tried 252/252+ in HP/SpA with lukewarm success, but I think given the pokemon Camerupt is meant to handle in this pair I might try going physically defensive like alexwolf mentioned a few pages back, that way it can survive an EQ from Adamant +1 M-Metagross and OHKO back with...

Heh, I might be one of those people you decimated if you ran this a few hours ago/last night. Either way, was unprepared and got mauled by 'Raptor/Talonflame/MegaMence/Magnezone and two other pokemon, once my M-Altaria and priority users were taken down by the other birds, my team just had...

Tested Camerupt a bunch of times, and while it has some potential when in safely, that typing is just too exploitable to be a serious threat in OU... It can certainly nuke plenty of things on the switch with Fire Blast/Earth Power, but it's a lot harder in practice with things like Greninja...

I'm curious as to what people think about Togekiss. I run a physically defensive set (252 HP/252 Def/4 SpD, Thunder Wave, Air Slash, Roost and Dazzling Gleam) and it does pretty damn well against M-Kang for one, withstanding any unboosted attack and crippling with T-Wave, then roosting off the...

Totally agreed with this and the post above that mentioned it going to fully evolved NU/RU/some UU pokemon that only had a generation or so of usability, or were simply never viable in the higher tiers. Mawile got Huge Power making it's BST effectively around 600 anyway IIRC, not to mention two...

Hmm... Keeping that in mind, do you guys think 88 HP/212 Atk/208 Spe the best set for a somewhat bulky Adamant CB set? That's the best one I've been able to come up with, reaching that 288 speed, while not sacrificing too much power (packing as much as positive base 110s).

To the people who've been testing Entei, which CB set seems to be most effective so far? Standard 252/252 Atk/Spd, or is there an important power/speed benchmark he can hit which allows him to invest more in bulk?