>>45574029>Hmmm...should I run physical Swampert to take advantage of his ground stab or special Swampert to take advantage of his water stab?Didn't happen. People ran max bulk and ran hydro pump to make up for the lack of investment. Ice beam did its job with no investment as well.
>While Metagross is a physical attacker, I could invest some into its special attack to make its psychic stab useful.Special Metagross without grass knot is fucking terrible. Your set is bad and you should feel bad.
>*thinks* Should I set up light screen to cover my pokemon"s fire weakness or reflect to cover my pokemon's fighting weakness?Are you implying that pre split light screen was good outside gen 1? If you actually played gen 3, then you'd know why reflect is so much better than light screen. Also enjoy those brick breaks
>while gyarados is powerful, it's power is checked by the fact that it can't reliably use its stabWaterfall wouldn't push him over the top when Zapdos, a hard counter to Gyarados lacking a powerful coverage move like stone edge, is already top 3 in usage. Remember that Gyarados does not learn rock slide. Not even gen 4 Gyarados liked dealing with Zapdos. Having to slot in stone miss over ice fang or bounce sucks dick.
>sure my mix attacker has low defense and speed, but it has the option of utilizing any coverage move regardless of its type.You're forgetting that gen 3 didn't have that absurd power and speed creep. Those slow frail mixed attackers weren't really all that frail.
>What? You didn't realize that ghost being physical was done because licks and sneaks is how ghosts interact with the physical world?You had the opportunity to bring up Gengar, a pokemon that didn't need a STAB to be top tier, and you didn't. You blew it.
Also most basic sets still ran 252/252 (or 248 HP depending if even or odd max hp) in gen 3. Complex sets fit the needs of the individual, not the metagame as a whole. Kill yourself, fraud.
