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On to the Steel Titan.
On the support side of things Grimmsnarl with Screens and baby doll eyes is great. Umbreon is another great support for screech and such.
Azumarill is alright but i hesitate suggesting it because of the play rough bug.
Gholdengo is great for solo raiding with HP/Special attack EVs set up 3x metal sound and nasty plot and you can 1-shot with steel beam but in my experience it's 50/50 getting set up in time.
Huge power is negated by the Raid stat negation so keep in mind Azumarill has limited use after that
Either way, that's all good info, thank you.
Also note that the Metronome item can be very good in raids. It takes a couple turns to ramp up, but it quickly gives a bigger boost than anything else you can get from an item, and it's sometimes enough that you can just keep attacking when they clear your buffs. I don't use it on everything, mind, but it's very good.
EDIT: Also, this isn't usually necessary, I recommend having a Clear Amulet and a Covert Cloak on hand. If a pokemon like Umbreon is being a real pain in the ass with lowering your stats, slapping on a Clear Amulet will make quick work of that. Likewise with the Covert Cloak; it sometimes even breaks the AI a bit, so they wind up spamming Nuzzle every turn even though it can't paralyze you.
I can totally bring a Magikarp with only Splash, making the raid Ditto do absolutely nothing, but then I can do absolutely nothing. Which doesn't help much when the NPC allies are all doing chip damage. Particularly when they decide it's a great idea to bring a Sylveon to a Fairy-type raid and use nothing but Moonblast.
Maybe instead I should bring something with only defense-reducing skills and Helping Hand? Ditto could use those, but nothing else if he doesn't have attacking moves or a partner.
Can you not go online?
Online is often worse than offline, but it'd be hard to fuck up a Ditto raid where the host brings a Magikarp
edit:
Yup, fed a Revavroom some candies, and he took out a Fairy-type Ditto raid handily.
Yeah I can totally try online. I haven't done so yet, largely because my internet connection is far from great, but I am able to play various games online, so I can definitely give it a try.
This is moreso me wondering what the options are if I do wanna try a Ditto when I'm offline.
If you are the host, you can take your own ditto that doesn't have Imposter, the opposing ditto will transform into you and then be unable to transform again. And then you can transform into one of your allies.
Note that if you transform into an AI, they usually only have two attacking moves, and you are stuck with only 5PP for each.
Speaking of, I hear that Icicle Spear is a fun move to use with Baxcalibur, specifically when using the Loaded Dice item.
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So it would waste their turn at least, but don't think it causes an auto-win
That and the design on its abdomen is very clearly a ribcage. It's just a very good design!
Boo. Maybe Shell Smash then so they debuff their own defense for you. And cant attack of course.
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I go online to invite people to a cool raid I found, then whoops, raid's gone
An upside is you get an extra 6-star from it
It's stats are sufficient for normal play but yeah it's not going anywhere competitively. I used one in Shield because it's absolutely adorable.
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He's such a lil oddball for a dragon with a surprisingly gross signature attack.
Imagine fawning over it only to have it start gagging and then hurl a bunch of acidic apple juice on you.
I mean, they're also bones because, you know, its evolution, Clodsire, is an Iberian Ribbed Newt, which pops out its own ribs through its skin as a defense
Given Paldea is pokeSpain, it's very fitting and I appreciate it.
I had forgotten how fun it was to just watch people play competitively but one thing you run into a lot is people just using a lot of safe choices and teams start to blend together.
Which is not completely their fault though to be fair. I always maintain that Pokemon's number one problem is there are a huge amount of pokemon that are really held back by weak stats and it makes using them a self imposed handycap.
It would be cool to see a way to raise the base stat total for some pokemon in future games to help compensate for this. Everybody should be able to use their favorites and feel like they have some sort of chance instead of facing off against something that has almost 200% more stat points than it. That just seems like...poor balancing.
Oh that's neat! Also scary. Nature is scary. And now I understand why Clodsire has that attacking animation where it pops a set of spikes out of its back.
I like that they fit that real world inspiration together with the skull-and-crossbones mark in a way that makes sense for both angles.
Oh, yeah, Apple Acid sounds like a good raid move, doesn't it? It seems that the barrier that raid mons put up outright block purely-status moves, so having something that drops defenses on the back of an actual attack sounds like a nice thing to have.
This is why Espathra is very good in raids. Lumina Crash is 80 power and harshly lowers the opponent's special defense.
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And Nuzzle let's you paralyze through the shield
Also, Misty Terrain is really good against the Status spamming raid bosses
But don’t the raid mons eventually suppress your abilities?
You can hold the ability shield item to stop that
Snorunt Scatterbug and magneton
I'm trying to finish the Dex now for the charm so I can really start
Speaking of Orthworm...caught one right after that will probably be pretty useful in the Poison Star base.
Without fail, every single person locks in iron hands, miraidon or azumarill to get immediately OHKO by earthquake or poison jab.
Without fail. I can't even clear half of it's hp solo
Getting real tired of this shit.
Damn. Why would you bring those guys to a Ground/Poison type?
Some of these people need to try fighting a 6-star offline. They’d learn real fast that you need a diverse stable of types for these raids.
Running around the mountain, did manage to find a shiny Bergmite with a title (the reclusive) tho. Also a shiny sneasel but I'd be lying if I said I was ever actually going to use that one, going to straight into the trade fodder box.
I’m considering training a Gengar, but I just know this bird is packing a Dark move to kill him immediately. Maybe a Toxtricity?