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This is a wild moveset

It's weird to see such an aggressive pokemon have a moveset have a defense move like Protect

Thanks for the tag. Gonna have to pay for that shitty bank app soon I'm running out of space in my boxes.

tremain07 posted...

It's weird to see such an aggressive pokemon have a moveset have a defense move like Protect

I've never understood the point of moves like Protect, it's a waste of a turn.

TyVulpine posted...

I've never understood the point of moves like Protect, it's a waste of a turn.

It gives a turn for leftovers recovery, helps scout out what the opponent is going to do or is able to do, stalls burn or poison damage, protects from multi target moves in doubles, there's lot of reasons to use protect.

TyVulpine posted...

I've never understood the point of moves like Protect, it's a waste of a turn.

Protect is for pokemon who have moves that can cause poison, confusion, attraction or some other hinderance, this gyarados in particular's gameplan seems to be to paralyze the opponent, then taunt them so they can't use a recovery move, now the opponent is stuck attacking for 3 or 2 turns while having to fight through Paralysis which could make them unable to attack at all for one turn, so the match could turn out like this

Gyarados uses Thunder Wave
Snorlax is Paralyzed
Snorlax uses Body Slam
Gyarados uses Taunt
Snorlax is paralyzed and can't move
Gyarados uses Waterfall
Snorlax uses Body Slam
The attack missed
Gyarados uses Protect
Snorlax uses Body Slam
Gyarados protected itself and takes no damage
Gyarados uses Waterfall
Critical Hit
Snorlax uses Body Slam
Snorlax is Paralyzed and can't move
Gyarados uses Waterfall
Snorlax fainted

Now that Snorlax could have had likely saved itself by using Rest and Snore or Sleep Talk but thanks to the Taunt and Thunder Wave Snorlax had less chances to inflict damage on Gyarados and thanks to Protect the few times Snorlax managed to get through Thunder Wave Gyarados was shielded from damage that may have taken it out.

That's the possible scenario in a one on one, in a two on two it's even worse because Gyarados's partner could be a pokemon that has moves that can hit the entire field for some major damage but Gyarados would be able to use Protect to not take any damage from that move like day Surf, that move hits the entire field and while Gyarados is a water type taking no damage is better than some damage.

A real nasty combo back in the day was Umberon's that had Mean Look, Toxic and Confuse Ray, get caught in that without a way to get out and you basically had to sit there while Umberon slowly wittled your pokemon down from the confusion and poison damage, even worse in 2 on 2 because it meant Umberon could replace it's one attack move with Attract meaning if you did manage to get through the confusion you still had to deal with the attraction or if they didn't want to gamble on gender they would give Umberon protect and basically make your pokemon kill itself from confusion and poison damage alone never touching it directly

TyVulpine posted...

I've never understood the point of moves like Protect, it's a waste of a turn.

In doubles, it is arguably the best move in the game

Got it. Thanks for the tag.

TyVulpine posted...

I've never understood the point of moves like Protect, it's a waste of a turn.

It's useful for setting up speed boost for baton pass

Thank you for this!

got a question. Im trying to get an entire living dex on home. All pretty simple except Im stuck on certain Pokemon like Jiraichi since you cant GTS for those.

I was told event redemptions are the best trades for things like that. Is this a qualifier? Or does it need to be way rarer

Afternoon bump

My favorite evolution line.

Too bad I traded in Scarlet.

Kinda weird moveset. I always have something aggressive like Dragon Dance and Earthquake with tera Ground.

Thanks for the heads up again!

Final bump