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Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:46:40 No.12183448 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12183651 >>12183715 >>12183736 >>12184539

Can we take a second to lament the cruel joke that is Crawdaunt?

First off, most pokemon with extremely high attack are hampered either by frailty like Sharpedo, or slowness like Scizor. Crawdaunt is slow /and/ frail, only redeemed by a slightly above average special attack stat which isnt good enough for mixed attacking.

Crawdaunt's DW ability is Adaptability. Making STAB moves 2x instead of 1.5x stronger. Crawdaunt gets STAB on aqua jet and sucker punch helping it bypass its middling speed and invest in hp/defence salvaging what little bulk it has.

OH WAIT, no aqua jet or sucker punch.

Fuck you Gamefreak

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:52:33 No.12183517 Report

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>Crawdaunt with Priority

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:53:27 No.12183529 Report

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Yeah, it pretty much just seems like a worse version of Sharpedo. The only good strategy I can figure out with it is to try and Dragon Dance for a speed boost and attempt a few KOs with adaptability boost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:55:33 No.12183556 Report

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Don't forget it is the Pokémon with the most experience at 100.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:57:06 No.12183576 Report

Quoted By: >>12183612

Can't it learn Dragon Dance?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 03:59:59 No.12183612 Report

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>>12183576
Still too slow, you're outsped and killed by anything with decent speed

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:03:26 No.12183651 Report

Quoted By: >>12183715 >>12183718

>>12183448
It's got a niche as the only dual-typed Adaptability abuser.

It has a great niche as a late game Dragon Dance sweeper, or did you forget that it gets one of the most enviable physical boosting moves?
Someone had used it on a rain to to great success [top of the OU ladder] a long while back to clean up his games.
Sure it requires team support, but it isn't power or effectiveness that it's lacking.

You know the actual cruel joke?

Kingler. Get's Sheer Force, with only Rock Slide to abuse with it. Doesn't even get Waterfall.
Can only boost with Sword Dance and Agility, while facing the same statistical problems Crawdaunt does; no Dragon Dance. Doesn't hit hard enough with Agility, never outspeeding anything with Sword Dance, not enough HP or bulk to get two boosts reliably, even on an advantageous switch-in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:06:22 No.12183687 Report

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You DO realize he is literally the only Dual type adaptability user?

Crawdaunt is fanfuckingtastic when you know when to use em, just because he doesnt have Aqua Jet, doesnt mean he cant do great things

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:09:34 No.12183715 Report

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>>12183651
>>12183448

Nigga's, Shedinja gets Final Gambit and Rotom Flying form exists, remember that

Kingler and Crawdaunt are monsters compared to that

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:10:05 No.12183718 Report

Quoted By: >>12183753 >>12183754

>>12183651
>late game dragon dance sweeper
Its too slow even at plus 1, has few set up opportunities because of it, and is just generally inferior to Dnite and Mence

Daedalus

Daedalus Thu 02 May 2013 04:12:55 No.12183736 Report

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>>12183448
I like using it under Trick Room. The only problem is predicting the right moment to bring it out. You're right though, with it being way to frail. I had to switch it with Swampert in my TR team.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:15:12 No.12183753 Report

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>>12183718
Nobody ever said it's a DDer like Dnit or Mence.

Proper team support [it loves paralysis] means you can take advantage of its stupidly power moves in Rain. Proper scouting and dealing of its counters means you don't even need it to be that fast either, since the things you want it to get past are generally slow walls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:15:13 No.12183754 Report

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>>12183718

Depends on what metagame your playing him with and technically its the chance you send him out on a Pokemon your opponent cant touch till they switch and then dragon dance

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 04:22:04 No.12183820 Report

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>>12183753
Its just so pathetically outclassed, the team support involved is more trouble than its worth. It needs anything faster than a 60 scarfer either removed or paralyzed, and proper set up opportunities which are rare in the incredibly offensive OU metagame.

For everything Crawdaunt can do, you have a Keldeo, Thundurus-T or Dnite that fucks shit up much easier with much less support.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 05:02:07 No.12184212 Report

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I fucking love Crawdaunt, he's a prime example of making a pokemon work with what it has. Which not a lot of people like to think about in OU

As for the DD sets, Adamant will bring you JUST under 95's base speed, where Jolly brings you to JUST over 105's base, which means if you get 2 off, you should be golden.

BUT even then, there's Brelooms and Napes all over the place, but that's what a synergistic team is made for. If done right, he can wreak havoc on anything that isn't Toxicroak. I'm not gonna do a bunch of damage clacs or anything, but he hits fucking hard. Adaptability only helps him kill faster now.

Although, even without a DD he can still bludgeon certain walls, even take'em out too. Even Ferrothorn will fall or at least barely survive a bit from a Superpower, boosted or not.

If you call a switch and obliterate something that's just as good in my book. Especially against a rain team with Crabhammer/Waterfall. And outside of having a few decent resists, such as Scizors BP, and Bronzong entirely, his Psychic immunity is the handiest thing that I run into most. You never know how many choiced psychic attacks there are, or how little Gyro Balls will really do until you bring him in and their momentum is just lost.

tldr; OP is a faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 05:20:42 No.12184370 Report

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>>12183820
those guys are in OU

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 05:39:49 No.12184539 Report

Quoted By: >>12184568

>>12183448
it's frail?
I never used one, I assumed it was defensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 May 2013 05:44:11 No.12184568 Report

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>>12184539
63/85/55 defenses. Frail as hell.

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