>>22151299This Manaphy set beats stall
Manaphy @ Leftovers
Ability: Hydration
EVs: 96 HP / 252 SpA / 160 Spe
Timid Nature
- Tail Glow
- Scald
- Psychic
- Rain Dance
It can take on chansey after boosting properly:
+6 252 SpA Manaphy Scald vs. 4 HP / 252 SpD Eviolite Chansey in Rain: 333-393 (51.8 - 61.2%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Psychic lets it OHKO Amoonguss/Venusaur after one Tail Glow, and even Unaware Clef has trouble taking this thing on with restricted recovery due to moonlight, plus having to deal with scald burns.
Obviously, you can run stuff like Gothitelle to trap a mon of your choice, then sweep with whatever it countered, but it's kinda dead weight outside of vs stall.
Currently Stall doesn't tend to run switch ins to Mega Sharpedo either, which can deal serious damage with Strong Jaw Crunch.
The best pokemon to beat stall changes because stall constantly tries to adapt to the metagame. It's really rare to have a pokemon that does well against stall and be commonly used/easy to put on a team because of this. Anyway, the most common stall team on the ladder right now is Chansey/Skarmory/Cresselia/Sableye/Quagsire/Gothitelle. Reverb has been using a pursuit band ttar + char y core to deal damage to chansey with pursuit then wreck the rest of the stall team with sun boosted fire attacks. Double dance char x does well against this stall team too, being able to lure in Quagsire, then deal big damage with outrage. To beat stall, rather than using a pokemon that tends to 6-0 it, such as the manaphy set earlier, you can wear it down with a bit of chip damage, so volt turn cores are good for this, unless they run a regenerator core.
Finally, the LO Taunt Gengar set used to have very little switch ins, and it can still put in work in weakening stall, but it isn't as good as it used to be, when people ran multiple psychics on the same team.
