For those of you who wondered why Cynthia's Garchomp could use two powerful Draco Meteors with no negative side effects
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For those of you who wondered why Cynthia's Garchomp could use two powerful Draco Meteors with no negative side effects
The anime is never consistent
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Still gets lowered to 60 Sp. attack. Stop trying to defend shitnime
>Sp Attack dropped two stages = cut in half
>Mega raised it again by approximately 1.5
So it was an especially shitty base ~60 Draco Meteor.
I guess the blame falls on Iris for not overpowering it with literally any physical Dragon attack.
what lunatic runs the meteors on a megachomp
You're a fricking idiot. Pokemon battles are a lot like mixed martial arts. I've noticed this similarity. In MMA, you MUST have a diverse style. The best trainers have diverse moves. Garchomp has Draco meteors because Cynthia is a good trainer.
In the anime Dracometeor is stupidly op. Tobias even says Ash's gible could've one shot his Darkrai if it's Draco meteor actually landed
>what lunatic runs the meteors on a megachomp
anime DM is probably THE strongest move, period, outside of cover legendaries signature moves
And physical/special split doesnt seem to exist in the anime - its just damage
>Ash with help can't stop a roar of time
>Cynthia stops a spatial rend on her own
Damn, Cynthia is gonna curbstomp Ash
Wasn't this like 12 years ago? Ash got better (and has already been leaked to meet Leon for his rematch, finally).
He doesn't age. Canonically it's probably been like a week in the anime
And yet he now has a 9 month old adopted brother. Time passes but not for Ash.
Oh, it's just a flashback? I thought it happened during journeys.
MegaChomp was always a better mixed attacker than BaseChomp. Because of the increased bulk and reduced speed it doesn't need to rely on speed natures
Fireblast has always been a dumb Smogon meme for Garchomp.
>minmax stats for physical
>there's not anything like a "physical Blissey/Chansey"
>weak to Ice 4x and Fairy 2x
>Dragon and Ground cover everything neutrally
>Earthquake is Earthquake
>not using Iron Head to work off the superior stat that hits both Ice and Fairy super effectively
I know some tard will say "buh 80BP < 110BP¡¡¡"
Still better from being on the good stat.
Mixed has been a meme ever since the physical-special split.
>Dragon and Ground cover everything neutrally
lol
>hits both Ice and Fairy super effectively
Iron Head is trash as the only OU relevant Ice types outspeed Megachomp and the only relevant Fairies get hit hard enough from Earthquake/Fire Fang/Stone Edge(when Sand Force boosted)
You really don't know what minmax means
rule 2 of megachomp
nobody expects a mixed/special megachomp
rule 1 is never use megachomp for anything but memes
yes 170 attack with chance of swords is cool, but it's just a ruse. 120 special attack against something that is not expected to take special hits hurts like a motherfricker, and garchomp's got a small but concise and very much functional special learnset.
and then they switch in their special wall and you unleash all of your 170 attack on it, which hurts like a motherfricker even uninvested.
This, megachomp hurts like a truck, even just using fireblast and d-meteor is enough to win a lot of matchups
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that's true but why the frick would you run special mega garchomp? it has 170 attack + swords dance so why not use that?
physical mega chomp copes to a ton of shit
mixed mega chomp blows through everything because it hits hard with both stats
well... you're not wrong... (damn it i got destroyed by people on Ganker)
it also runs stealth rock (took from smogon) for some reason
>it also runs stealth rock (took from smogon) for some reason
nothing wants to taunt or defog infront of chomp.
Think of it as 130 Attack but it gets maxed out Attack EVs for free.
To dab on ferrothorn trannies
>it has 170 attack + swords dance so why not use that?
Why use that over Life Orb Garchomp who hits just as hard, has better speed, and frees up a megaslot?
mega garchomp is better at mixed sets than regular garchomp:
> MegaChomp was always a better mixed attacker than BaseChomp. Because of the increased bulk and reduced speed it doesn't need to rely on speed natures
literally the only reason you would EVER run megachomp is for its mixed attacking capabilities.
about everyone
You're a VGCtard aren't you?
think of it like a fighting game where zoning and distance are required for moves.
Honestly, the weirdest part of the whole deal is that Iris does not have her own Draco Meteor.
She's a Draco Meteor Tutor in BW1.
>Meta context
What works in the anime is "whatever it takes for dramatic storytelling". Like, wasn't there a trainer who trained his Sandslash to not be weak to water in a series of dramatic flashbacks?
>Literal context for autistics who can only take things literally
The anime canon has a different set of mechanics from the video game canon. The odds are decent that mega evolving resets any stat changes.
the real answer is that CYNTHIAAAAAA's GARCHOMP is too cool for stat drops
>Keeps using Dragon Pulse off a 60 Sp. Atk stat instead of a physical attack move which is Haxorus' specialty (147 Atk)
>Is surprised when it hardly does anything to Megachomp
How did Iris become a champion?
yes, but garchomp's speed drops below that of haxorus
> Trying to attach game mechanics to anime.
You all are fricking moronic.
Then why did the anime's Hyper Beam have a cooldown.
moron.
Source?
Recently, Lance vs Diantha.
Are you moronic OP? This is not helping your argument.
She had a hidden white herb
and Ground cover everything neutrally
bro, your omgonbirds?
Not that anon, but on the physical side it does get poison jab and stone edge. And fire blast without investment was a viable answer to skarmory and ferrothorn, even on non mega sets
yeah, fire blast was always taken specifically for skarm, with the added bonus of sniping ferro.
anon doesn't know what the frick he's talking about.
A weakened Haxorus with 60 base sp attack used Dragon Pulse and people are crying about Cynthia using Draco Meteor.
Full attack with Outrage. Mega Garchomp shot into the sky. This was her chance. But Iris was too dumb.
> -2 0 SpA Garchomp-Mega Draco Meteor vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Haxorus: 218-260 (74.4 - 88.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
You Black folk are so fricking asinine it's infuriating. Of course even at -2 a supereffective move will deal big damage