ban swagger 2014
Overview
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-spikes is good
-toxic to lure in defogers
-prankster t wave good for fast sweepers like xerneas
-can check yveltal very well
-good typing, bad stats
-taunt bait, but will move before taunt thanks to prankster
-no offensive presence
-weakness to ground-types who are also immune to t wave
-if you want to increase your chances of beating a better player when you don't know how to play, use foul play/swagger/twave/sub
Swa...Spiker
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name: Spikes
move 1: Spikes
move 2: Thunder Wave
move 3: Toxic
move 4: Play Rough
item: Leftovers
nature: Careful
evs: 252 Hp / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Moves
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Set Details
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Usage Tips
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Team Options
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Other Options
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Checks & Counters
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Overview
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-spikes is good
-toxic to lure in defogers
-prankster t wave good for fast sweepers like xerneas
-can check yveltal very well
-good typing, bad stats
-taunt bait, but will move before taunt thanks to prankster
-no offensive presence
-weakness to ground-types who are also immune to t wave
Swa...Spiker
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name: Spikes
move 1: Spikes
move 2: Thunder Wave
move 3: Toxic
move 4: Play Rough
item: Leftovers
nature: Careful
evs: 252 Hp / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Moves
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- Spikes are still good, you can punish Defog Arceus with Toxic.
- Thunder Wave = emergency stop to speedy mons like Xerneas, Blaziken, Mewtwo etc
- Toxic punishes defogers, grounds, ho-oh
- wip
Set Details
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- max sdef+hp makes you a little durable, takes on yveltal and xerneas quite well
- also good evs for support arc, who you annoy like hell
Usage Tips
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- attempt to get up lure in defogers and toxic them, and spike when given room
- toxic is very useful to throw out on many switches to mons like ho-oh, groudon etc
- switch on yveltal can be good, beware of taunt though
- generally, if your opponent has a speedy sweeper that you can stop, save klefki even if its low. prankster para comes in a handy a lot
- don't recklessly try to wall dragons, most can bust through you easily even if you are immune to their STAB
Team Options
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- lando-t lando-t lando-t
- ground immunes generally good, yveltal likes spikes to pressure arceus formes
- water resists, kyogre/palkia can pressure grounds and ho-oh p well
- mons that appreciate spikes: ekiller, lucario, blaziken etc
- gengar can remove defoger, but gengar fits on every goddamn team anyway
- generally builds appreciate prankster t wave so they don't have to carry extremely solid blaze/geoxern counters
Other Options
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- switcheroo scarf??????
sunny day to fucking troll kyogres ass when leading against it- recycle air balloon best groudon troll 2014
- screens
- SWAGGER+SUB
- hp fire for defog scizor
Checks & Counters
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- grounds are immune to t wave
- ho-oh
- p much everything that can hit it hard and doesn't mind toxic or t wave TOO much
- heatran
- sdef kyogre
- it's not really hard to counter, but toxic/t wave screws with a lot of mons making it quite annoying anyway
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