It is first and foremost a great check to Xerneas, with the amazing ability Inner Focus which prevents it from getting flinched by Fake Out and then it can proceed to Taunt Xerneas. It also has access to other great support moves such as Tailwind, Quick Guard which is very relevant with the usage of Prankster Pokemon such as Whimsicott and Liepard, and Super Fang, coupled with an amazing speed tier.
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Resource VGC 16: Ask a Simple Question, Get a Simple Answer
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Along with the other support options, Super Fang is very good when paired with primals, often letting them get two kos in the same turn.
The Lum set is also one of the best answers to a lead with a combination of Xerneas, Kangaskhan, and Smeargle.
Well, without the ability to participate in tournaments and earn Championship Points, you sadly do not have any way of qualifying for Worlds.
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RajiBaba, you can see the CP rankings here and if BSD stands for Battle Spot Doubles like I think it does than you have a bit of a misunderstanding. Two, actually. One, you don't get CP from Battle Spot and two there is currently no official VGC ladder ingame because Battle Spot Doubles is still VGC '15.
Sorry dude, you can't participate unless you manage to get to regionals in another country. I've been in the same boat in India for a while. The Asia regionals are all in the Malaysia/Singapore area. If you can get to a nationals there or in Europe and do well in some International Challenged (online tournaments which give CP), then you might be able to squeeze in through the Asia qualifiers, but its pretty tough/expensive if you don't live near actual events.
They usually announce online competitions a few weeks before.
You get no reward for being high up on the BSD ladder. It doesn't even follow the ruleset for VGC 16 at the moment.
Yes Precipice blades does less because it is a spread move. They could've been running a weird set.
I wouldn't say weird, they could've missed something like the partner using helping hand.
Do you have a replay? Also, are you sure that no Helping Hand was used, and that there were two Pokmon on the opposing field instead of one (which would remove the spread damage reduction)?
we don't really know, although it probably won't replace the regular Battle SPot Doubles ladder, we are hoping that it will be the special format sometime. Until we know anything else challenge is the only option
Would it be worth it to run HP Ground on P-Ogre to catch Groudon switch-ins or not?
252+ SpA Primal Kyogre Hidden Power Ground vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Primal Groudon: 106-126 (60.5 - 72%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252+ SpA Primal Kyogre Helping Hand Hidden Power Ground vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Primal Groudon: 158-186 (90.2 - 106.2%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO
252+ SpA Primal Kyogre Helping Hand Hidden Power Ground vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Primal Groudon: 156-184 (75.3 - 88.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Timid to actually outrun offensive Groudon which is the only one you remotely kill:
252 SpA Primal Kyogre Hidden Power Ground vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Primal Groudon: 96-114 (46.3 - 55%) -- 61.3% chance to 2HKO
Unless you have Super Fang, no. Even then, you require Modest and near max Sp. Atk.
Yeah...basically it isn't worth running a specific HP to not even ohko the one thing it was meant for without super-fang support and max SpA. Hell it doesn't consistently 2hko what it is supposed to hit.
Lesson of the day, don't go with hp ground.
Well the easiest way is to just use the pokemon you caught, bred, raised, etc on your own.
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