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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:13:18 No.22897892 View View Reply Original Report

I'm looking for a good discharge buddy for doubles. the Sceptile will probably be
Timid 252spd 252spa
energy ball, dragon pulse, focus blast, and protect

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:14:50 No.22897903 Report

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Rotom-W

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:15:48 No.22897909 Report

Quoted By: >>22897914

This is a pretty noob strategy, but I guess physically defensive zapdos

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:17:23 No.22897914 Report

Quoted By: >>22897935

>>22897909
Doesnt mean it wont work if your GUD

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:19:57 No.22897935 Report

Quoted By: >>22897984

>>22897914
No, it won't work because you're crippling a Pokémon just to boost another.

And I'm pretty sure Surf and Storm Drain have much better options.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:25:56 No.22897984 Report

Quoted By: >>22898027 >>22898087

>>22897935
>crippling

the fuck is wrong with discharge? double damage is great and is 120 bp move with stab. Creates easy sweeps

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:30:05 No.22898027 Report

Quoted By: >>22898098

>>22897984
The fuck is wrong with it? It's a fucking 80bp move that some top threats in OU are immune to.

You're an idiot if you run Discharge over Thunderbolt or sacrifice coverage for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:36:19 No.22898087 Report

Quoted By: >>22898119

>>22897984
It's actually equivalent to 90 bp with stab, and the fact that you didn't know that only drives home the point that it's a noob strategy.

1) M Sceptile is absolute garbage in doubles. Especially the build in the OP. Fucking energy ball? Even then, Leaf Storm is resisted or shrugged off by almost any non-rain team.
2) Against anyone with half a brain, your sceptile will be dead before it can go to +2. It cannot tank hits, and Discharge+LS won't kill many things. Sun teams and TR teams, the two most common doubles archetypes, will absolutely dismantle you before you can set up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:37:08 No.22898098 Report

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>>22898027
I haven't made a lightning rod team yet myself but when I do I'm gonna use M-Sceptile and a bulky Zapdos just like your ass suggested.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:40:14 No.22898119 Report

Quoted By: >>22898126 >>22898142

>>22898087
If its 80 bp then its doing 120 with stab smart ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:41:35 No.22898126 Report

Quoted By: >>22898180

>>22898119
Discharge is a spread move, donut

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:43:19 No.22898142 Report

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>>22898119
On a bulky Zapdos? Try 50bp.

You will lose your Sceptile becuse no one will give a flying shit about your Zapdos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:44:40 No.22898154 Report

Quoted By: >>22898186

I've seen it best used with Scarf Thundurus-T since you can get the SpA boost on the same turn

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:45:35 No.22898159 Report

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op your set is shit but i'm looking at mega sceptile.

after some VERY brief testing on showdown, i found it's great next to gyarados, is good to deal with le speed control man. I'd reccomend having a chomp if you are going to try discharge. Dischargequake is good hyper offense and alows a switch in. fake out also is annoying so i like whimsicott with encore and helping hand, and taunt

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:48:34 No.22898180 Report

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>>22898126
Huh. Didnt know about spread move 25 percent damage reduction before. I am a donut.

OP do what ever you want. I'll stick with sand.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:48:45 No.22898183 Report

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The best Discharge user is M-Manetric.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:48:53 No.22898186 Report

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>>22898154
>scarf thundurus-t
>in doubles
>locking itself into discharge

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:51:07 No.22898199 Report

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Shitptile will never be good. Just face it.

Even Pidgeot has ascended higher.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 04:51:43 No.22898204 Report

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Discharge+mscept is not very good because discharge is spread so it's a 60 bp move and it's also unusable when you aren't next to scept or a ground type because you have a 30% chance of gimping your own mon with paralysis. Also m-scept is overall much better in OU singles than in doubles/VGC due to its lack of spread and extreme suceptability to common scarf mons and priority. You don't know what you're doing kiddo

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 05:06:39 No.22898315 Report

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Yeah OP this isn't a very good strategy. Stevie Wonder on a ninja battleship in the middle of the sea at midnight could see this coming, and Mega Sceptile is very susceptible to damage.

If you're going for spread attack damage or pokemon feeding off of each other, try to maintain the efficiency that DisQuake cores do.

>Pokemon involved are capable on their own and with other teammates
>Massive damage, even if the opponent sees it coming
>No leech/host relationship
>Auxiliary attacks for Wide Guard carriers like Aegislash
>Good type coverage

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 05:12:34 No.22898384 Report

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If you could get a partner, Mega Ampharus is pretty bulky and a decent Discharge user.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2015 05:32:05 No.22898532 Report

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>>22897892
Scarf Thundurus, faggot

Also there's a VGC General you shitlord

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