Recent content by TheyCallMeAdolf

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You and FlamingVictini have convinced me to try leftovers, so that I will definitely use. As for the rest, honestly I don't like how weak it leaves the team to talonflame. I don't really see the point for trading a bish/weav weakness which I can play around for a bigger pursuit weakness, a...

Weavile is indeed a threat, especially with low kick. I understand the appeal of lefties, but I just love the chip damage rocky helmet provides so much. I'll definitely try both out, but I find being able to punish u-turn and weak physical attacks is nice. The damage is especially useful for...

proof of peak: http://imgur.com/4k5lZXv First I want to say that I realize this team is extremely similar aesthetically to a team made by Yuruuu a while back (around Christmas I think), but this was not intentional and I feel the mons themselves are different enough in both set and purpose to...

what else did you expect it to do? I really don't think you understand how big of a threat manaphy is to stall, especially now that stag is banned. Also, it can beat gengar since it can break a sub and isn't complete taunt-bait. Edit: Ninja'd

Latios gets ice beam so I have no idea why you would ever even consider running hp ice, and even ice beam is not a good coverage move on latios. You give landorus as an example of what it hits, which is completely and utterly obliterated by draco meteor. And yes, people use defog on latios: the...

Sorry, but since when are draco, d pulse, ice beam, iron tail, dazzling gleam, solar beam, hyper beam, or double edge things altaria runs??? And most of the moves you mentioned have the same typing and therefore contribute absolutely nothing to its coverage... fblast/flamethrower do the same...

Clefable beats venu if it twaves or calm minds on the switch; keldeo can at least scald burn it which is extremely annoying for venu. Either way, being walled by venu isn't the only critique of altaria. Its bulk is definitely fairly good between its stat/typing, but offensively its coverage is...

Team 2 abomasnow really is shit tho

ArchPhantom built a team with these mons a while ago: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/teambuilding-workshop-v2-closed-read-op-and-post-553.3542464/page-14#post-6362952

Gastrodon @ Leftovers Ability: Storm Drain EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD Relaxed Nature - Recover - Earthquake - Scald - Curse Talonflame @ Leftovers Ability: Gale Wings EVs: 248 HP / 236 SpD / 24 Spe Careful Nature - Brave Bird - Bulk Up - Will-O-Wisp - Roost Venusaur-Mega @ Venusaurite...

What's the best way to go about learning/playing ADV? I've recently grown interested in the tier, but the showdown ladder is obviously pretty dead and I'm not really sure how to go about learning/playing the tier. Are there casual tours? Somewhere where the ladder is decent and/or not dead? Or...

Just because something "usually" hits does not mean it's reliable. It is also more likely than not that you won't get burned by scald: that doesn't mean you should freely switch azumarill in on it. While 30% is not as likely as 70% it is still fairly likely and you are going to miss hurricane...

Should sap sipper azumarill be ranked? I'm aware that it isn't great or anything, but it is a legitimate set that has been seeing some usage recently (I think high impulse used it against cosine in olt, but idr), and acts as a pretty solid check to zard/ferro/serp/lati/keld. I'm not sure...