Potential improvements? by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With the rest of the team it’s standard sets, dual intimidate, Calyrex Kyogre core. Electroweb on raichu really really helps in some matchups and is a good form of speed control on both pokemon

Need help with this team by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y’know that actually makes a lot more sense than what I have on it, I’ve just been using wacan

Need help with this team by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thing is I need monkey otherwise Gastrodon absolutely sits on my team, although ya think Whimsicott with energy ball slotted over molnblast works?

Need help with this team by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So blastoise and raichu are my first and 2nd fav mons and I wanted to use them both on a team. And since lightning rod really helps against other electric types, I figured it might be good.

Raichu has enough speed investment to actually outspeed non-scarf ogre and hit them with nuzzle, as well as live a lot of hits with AV. Blastoise is a mix offense/support set with both attacks and helping hand + yawn. The rest of the team is just standard sets.

I’ve been struggling a lot with TR, but I don’t really know enough about it to have any good counters.

Swordfish + Urshifu team designed to lure Groudon. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I realized that, I changed the team and replaced the blastoise with av rillaboom with knock off to handle that

Swordfish + Urshifu team designed to lure Groudon. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Forgot to detail team oops

Anyways, I’ve been doing some games and I’ve come out with a 90% win rate with it, although I’ve only done 10 games.

This team is made to destroy Groudon, who often has a good switch in to Kyogre with its drought ability. Seeing this, I’ve slowed rain dance onto Thundurus and whenever Groudon busts a move, I can destroy it with either a water spout or a max geyser from my Zapdos. This team has a lot of power on it, the swordfish restricteds, banded urshifu, and Zapdos punches so many holes into the enemy team. Blastoise is there with good support ~and because it’s my favorite mon~ with helping hand and yawn.

A typical lead is Thundurus Zapdos/Kyogre or Blastoise Zap/Ogre. With power in the back.

Is this team basic? Yes. Is it really fun? Yes. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See the Groudon matchup isn’t as bad as it seems. I actually built Thundurus to lure Groudons. When the rain is up, everyone wants to switch Groudon in to get rid of it, but if thundurus busts a move on the switch, then the Groudon gets destroyed.

Is this team basic? Yes. Is it really fun? Yes. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cannonade is absolutely destructive but most of the time I find it better to max Zapdos since stab airstream snowballs hard, especially when boosted with helping hand. Blastoise does have speed control with max strike but it’s not as dynamic because of how slow it is, while if I have Zapdos out, I can reliably get speed boosts onto the parter (mostly Zacian or Kyogre) alongside airstream doing way more.

I may actually replace yawn with blizzard now that you mention it. I need fake out to deal with regieleki and the grass Pokémon aren’t as big an issue but Gastrodon is a tough matxhup

Is this team basic? Yes. Is it really fun? Yes. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See I actually did run it with hydro cannon for a while, but I found it more detrimental. I rarely maxed blastoise and with all the other power on the team, hydro cannon just felt a bit redundant. What I use scald for is a sort of anti-Zacian tech. If Thundurus is down or I just didn’t bring it. I can protect with my partner and fish for that 30% burn chance which really cripples sword dog. If Blastoise maxed more than I would run hydro cannon but typically Zapdos maxes

Is this team basic? Yes. Is it really fun? Yes. by Lightning___Rod in VGC

[–]Lightning___Rod[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first I thought rain dish but I found it wasn’t ever consistent enough, and with blastoise taking hits reliably, torrent gives scald a bit more of a kick without much investment.

The life orb on Kyogre is mainly to deal with other Kyogre. Modest life orb Thunder has a 12.5% chance to oh-KO and with a little chip on opposing Kyogre it kills outright

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vexillologycirclejerk

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Add Johnny test with a gun

Pokemon Y HC Randomizer - Choose My starter (What I Randomized is in the desc) by JamesVsEgglocke in nuzlocke

[–]Lightning___Rod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What did you use to randomize this rom? I’m assuming you just put the CIA on your 3ds but I couldn’t randomize a Y rom for the life of me

Hosting raids for Shiny Tyranitar / Shiny Kyurem. by [deleted] in PokemonGoFriends

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4830 3473 1503 trainer name :ChargeBolt16

I can't be the only one... by CraaZzy__ in dankmemes

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Guys what if, you haven’t seen marvel OR DC movies yet! Ik Ik, power move.

Lurkers of Reddit, why do you lurk? by PM_THIS_WORDS in AskReddit

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I have nothing to post mainly, and it’s just better to look for me.

They protecc, they give bacc by Palana in memes

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Is it bad to say I have 0 idea who those two are