Monday, April 28, 2008

Spiritomb Wannabe Bronzong



Nature: Sassy/ Relaxed


Evs: 252 HP / 152 Atk / 8 Def / 96 SpD also make sure to have a 0 IV in speed for optimum performance. Note: this Ev spread was made for the relaxed nature. If using Sassy, then simply reverse the Ev's for Def and SpD


Ability: Heatproof


Item: Leftovers


Moveset:
Imprison
Earthquake
Hypnosis/ Explosion
Gyroball


How to use (the way we intend it to work): This is another one of those "surprise!" movesets in general. The move imprison works so that as long has bronzong is on the field, any move in the movepool cannot be used against bronzong. So as you can see earthquake, gyroball, and hypnosis cannot be used against bronzong. This is very useful when used in combination with the ability Heatproof. I'm not saying that Earthquake is the only ground move ever going to be used, but never in all my time of battling on Wi-Fi have I ever seen another ground move ever used. Your goal here is just to simply outlast the opponent. With no weaknesses, it becomes much, much easier to do so. Gyroball should be your main attacking move for STAB but also Earthquake can be used for damage. Hypnosis can also be used as it is extremely useful as a support move. Putting stuff to sleep is a good way to continually annoy your opponent. Explosion is also an option as going out with a bang is always fun.


Counters: Just like with any Bronzong, Heatrans are your worst nightmare due to their high special attack, and earthpower. Other than that the only moves that can hit this for a supereffective and do reasonable damage are Magnitude and Dig. Is highly unlikely to be used as it takes two turns to use and is easily countered. Magnitude is too random and is outclassed by Earthquake so it is extremely rare. Earthpower is much more common than Magnitude or Dig, barring Heatran, out of everything else that can learn it, your worst fear is a Claydol or Probopass with a mere 70 or 75 base special attack. Even then, the standard Smogon Claydol is reccomended to have Earthquake instead. An Earthquake to the face from you should finish off the Probopass. A Skarmory could switch in and Roar you away. There isn't much you can do about that. But I guess Skarmory is really a counter to any Bronzong.


Overall: The fact that almost nothing can hit this for super effective damage is already pretty awesome. The oddness factor of this definetly leads to a surprise as what Bronzong doesn't have EQ?


~RVOK

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