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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:20:11 No.22262074 View View Reply Original Report

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What are some unorthadox strats you use that work?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:21:33 No.22262088 Report

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None. If they were effective, they'd be used more and not be unorthadox.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:23:20 No.22262108 Report

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>>22262088
>this is what smogoniggers actually believe

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:25:22 No.22262132 Report

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Sticky web galvantula/shuckle leading into Mega Ampharos w/ agility. Fun times I've had with this.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:32:21 No.22262232 Report

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I used a bulky physical Kingdra during BW2's tourney season. Apparently that's uncommon.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:42:15 No.22262351 Report

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It is shocking how many times Counter on my Gastrodon has really helped me.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:44:30 No.22262375 Report

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quick atack on arqueops is so unexpected

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:46:09 No.22262394 Report

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Raichu @ Brightpowder
Ability: Static
>Double team
>Agility
>Electro Ball
>Grass Knot

Mainly just because I like Raichu and enjoy using gimmicky strategies like high evasion.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:46:24 No.22262397 Report

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>>22262074
Feather Dance on mega Pidgeot

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:47:21 No.22262419 Report

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bad dreams darkrai plus level 1 endeavor aron in doubles

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:49:28 No.22262453 Report

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Protean skill swap kecleon

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:57:35 No.22262551 Report

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Focus Sash Scizor Baton Passing Agility to Mega Chomp. It's very flawed, but I've had plenty of full team sweeps. If the chance arises I'll pass a Swords Dance in addition to Agility

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 02:59:27 No.22262571 Report

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SubMind Swoobat

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:20:42 No.22262807 Report

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Ion Deluge/Electrify + Sceptile-M for Doubles

>Ion Deluge/Electrify turns Normal/Any move into Electric moves
>Sceptile carries Quick Guard
>Pachi/Heliolisk set it up
>Lightning Rod activates
>Sceptile-M is at +1, usually from Fake-outs

Works moderately well

Discharge tho

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:20:43 No.22262808 Report

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Maranga berry zapdos as a special wall

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:23:18 No.22262836 Report

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>>22262419
...Did I battle you yesterday?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:27:39 No.22262884 Report

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Klutzpunny switcheroo Assault Vest
>inb4 Switcheroo can't cause vest
That's what Klutz is for

>Send bunny out on incoming set up pokemon/wall/stallers
>switcheroo
>watch them struggle

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:33:05 No.22262933 Report

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>>22262884
I've seen a few replays with that. Shit's hilarious because very few of the opposing leads don't struggle.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:36:06 No.22262957 Report

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Focus Sash Weavile with Counter. It's not really effective for anything other than getting bullet punchers mad.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:50:00 No.22263113 Report

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>>22262933
>be playing against friend who likes to stall with Cofagrigous
>send out Lopunny
>friend laughs
>"You think your mega Lopunny can dent muh max defense max hp wall!?"
>next turn
>switcheroo
>Lopunny switched items with the opponent
>Cofagrigous obtained Assault Vest
>Cofagrigous can't use will-o-wisp
>Cofagrigous is out of usable moves
>Struggle as I cosmic power
>Friend curses me out over Game Chat

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:56:18 No.22263170 Report

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>>22262933
I wanna see

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:57:23 No.22263183 Report

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>>22262351
I used to use that strategy back in Gen 4. Maybe I'll have to dust off my male slug's Pokeball and give it another try?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:58:59 No.22263204 Report

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>>22262884
Goddamn that thing is ugly

40% !//v.13zk5M

40% !//v.13zk5M Mon 22 Dec 2014 03:59:20 No.22263209 Report

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Attract Milotic.

It helps massively in stall wars, as it is essentially Confused but without the damage, but doesn't wear off unless they switch out. Majority of popular Pokes are Male-tilted gender ratios too. Really, it'd work as well on anything that wants to stall, but it especially helps when trying to Scald burn or get a Recover in.

Have yet to find a move I want to replace it with.

Scald / Ice Beam / Attract / Recover

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:00:14 No.22263219 Report

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>>22263113
Nowadays I think Mega Bunny would just HJK it to kingdom come.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:00:48 No.22263226 Report

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I play with a team of eeveelutions. Works decently sometimes, but it's all about having fun.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:00:52 No.22263228 Report

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>>22263209
I've been thinking of using this to just fuck with the genies. It was a lot of fun back in Gen 2 before I knew competitive battling was a thing.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:02:00 No.22263243 Report

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>>22263219
>Mummy
Even with HJK, Mega Lopunny isn't taking out Cofagrigus in one hit. Which is all it's going to get.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:02:02 No.22263246 Report

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Agility/Thunder Wave/Icy Wind/Electro Ball Lanturn

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:04:58 No.22263281 Report

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>>22263226
Is losing consistently fun in your eyes?
I've tried each and every one of those things on different teams, and time and time again they prove to be dead weight. A whole team with just them would be a nightmare.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:05:07 No.22263284 Report

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I used to use physically defensive Shelgon in Gen V and it was surprisingly effective.

HP Ice Mienshao with just enough EVs to take out Gliscor. Used to work nicely in Gen V but now that they nerfed HP I aint OHKOing anytime soon.

I guess in Gen VI the only really unconventional thing I used was specially defensive Moltres back when Mega Lucario was a thing. Actually saved my ass a good amount of times.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:05:12 No.22263285 Report

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Invest 100 EVs in every stat except attack and special attack, which get 110 or 0.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:07:09 No.22263303 Report

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>>22263281
I will admit they are not set for anything high in the ladder, but I don't lose constantly. In OU everyone tends to use OU Pokemon, so what I do is somewhat unpredictable and what they do is more predictable.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 04:14:05 No.22263367 Report

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>>22263183
Yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:19:34 No.22265312 Report

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>>22262074
>>>/r/showderp
Anything there is unorthodox. It sometimes works

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:29:13 No.22265432 Report

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>>22262074
Does Special flygon work as a sort of wall-breaker? Obviously nothing short of Mega Luke or Mewtwo is breaking Chansey without knock off or something, but I mean more like hitting past subs

I mean, its probably a terrible idea, but can it work?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:30:00 No.22265441 Report

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>>22262074
Hail and trick room

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:32:27 No.22265468 Report

Quoted By: >>22265531 >>22268441

>make unorthodox set
>one month later it's the mon's most common set
>take break from competitive because of final exams
>no longer popular

It was a good run. ;_;7

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:34:04 No.22265483 Report

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>>22262074

Mightyena @ Focus Sash
Max Speed + HP

Counter
Yawn
Sucker Punch
Foul Play

Used as a back up against a sweeper, revenge killer, and can put something to sleep by spamming Yawn until they stop switching out. No one ever sees counter coming from Mightyena either.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:39:02 No.22265531 Report

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>>22265468
Mind posting it? Inquiring minds wish to know

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 07:59:02 No.22265696 Report

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>>22262807

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 08:06:50 No.22265752 Report

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>2.5 gens later and nastypass celebi is finally mainstream

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:06:39 No.22268441 Report

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>>22265468
>tfw this happened to me with special mega luke
>tfw this happened to me with physical/mixed greninja
I got called a retard both times for using supposedly inferior sets and now I cant use them without being called a smogonfag

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:21:33 No.22268536 Report

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Skillswap contrary spinda and overheat Mega charizard y

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:24:35 No.22268561 Report

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>>22268536
That sounds like that would work effectively in 10% of battles at best.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:27:30 No.22268579 Report

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I run Night Shade on Sableye, but I'm not sure that's particularly unorthodox.
I also use Shedinja at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 16:27:59 No.22268582 Report

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>>22263113
The WoW would have still gone through. AssVest only stops you from choosing a status move, not from it going off

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 17:54:05 No.22269174 Report

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I often train up Pokemon without checking for build advice, and occasionally come up with something decent.

In X/Y I had an Altaria named Hoverpuff with cotton guard, roost, dragon breath, and flamethrower. When I went up against the resident tourney-level player among my group of friends, he admitted that Hoverpuff's moveset caught him off-guard in a way that bought me a short advantage instead of just causing him to shrug and still kick my ass.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 17:55:37 No.22269190 Report

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>>22263113
Good thinking. I'm guessing he didn't use will-o-wisp on the first turn, right?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 17:56:20 No.22269198 Report

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>>22268582
I love how many people in these threads describe strategies they wish they could use without ever actually trying to test them.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 18:12:37 No.22269326 Report

Quoted By: >>22274012 >>22279139

>>22262074
>unorthadox
>orthadox
>orthAdox
>A

How about you go back to school, you slimy Walrein-looking piece of shit!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Dec 2014 21:57:17 No.22271628 Report

Quoted By: >>22276732

special machamp

Joey 5000-2226-9502

Joey 5000-2226-9502 Tue 23 Dec 2014 01:14:47 No.22273926 Report

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Physically defensive Crobat. The ability to take stone edges and rock slides from opposing fighters is fantastic.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 01:18:30 No.22273977 Report

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Will O Wisp Infernape. It pisses people off, not because it burned something they didn't expect to get burned but because there's almost this unspoken agreement that nothing frail should use WoW.

Destroys pretty much every common switch-in to Infernape in OU besides the Latis. Lando-T, Azumarill, Gliscor thinking it has a free switch to activate its Toxic Orb, hilarious shit. Also a good way of scouting Clefable's Ability.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 01:20:36 No.22274003 Report

Quoted By: >>22276793 >>22277545

>>22262394

>I have no skill at competitive battling so I enjoy winning the only way I can: using RNG-reliant strategies like evasion and Baton Pass.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 01:21:30 No.22274012 Report

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>>22269326
it's not his fault he's an ignoranus

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 05:38:04 No.22276732 Report

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>>22271628
>Specs no guard fire blast/vacuum wave/hp ice/focus blast

My nigga

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 05:44:38 No.22276793 Report

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>>22274003
You sound mad, friend

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 05:54:47 No.22276869 Report

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Hyper offense.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 07:09:37 No.22277545 Report

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>>22274003
kek
I knew someone would reply like this eventually. Not everyone likes their battles to be hardcore and serious all the time. Stay mad smogonfag.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 11:26:30 No.22279139 Report

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>>22269326

Well im sorry for making a simple mistake

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Anonymous Tue 23 Dec 2014 12:06:04 No.22279310 Report

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>>22262074
My favorite is still Truant Durant/Skill Link whatever. People just dont see it coming and disregard switching out.

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