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Full_Pokedex
03/09/24 1:59:44 PM
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It increases the damage of Electric moves by 1.5 for every charge you make, as well as a 1 stage boost to Special Defense. Can I make this a makeshift defensive move on a Pokemon with no Electric attacks?

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PokemonExpert44
03/09/24 2:00:26 PM
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No

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MC_BatCommander
03/09/24 2:02:49 PM
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Is there ever a situation where a single stage boost to special defense is really gonna come in handy

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GeminiDeus
03/09/24 2:10:00 PM
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If you're using it just for a Special Defense boost, you're better off using Light Screen.

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Arcanine2009
03/09/24 2:32:18 PM
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it's fine in game. Just not for PVP.

Not worth using it on non electric types.

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ellis123
03/09/24 2:37:37 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
Is there ever a situation where a single stage boost to special defense is really gonna come in handy
Yes, but not here. Calm Mind does the same and it becomes really apparent after playing with it for any length of time that some Pokemon get "bizarrely" tanky after just a single use. A good example is Reuniclus, whose high natural HP makes the first Calm Mind actually pretty problematic for the opponent if they don't have something physical to take it down.

For obvious reasons, however, Calm Mind is useful in this scenario because it also hits the SAtk side of things. If it was just SDef then it would still be utterly useless as just making Reuniclus more bulky isn't going to actually help things overall.

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