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On Shuckle

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Daikirai

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Has anyone else noticed the potential for shuckle to switch its beast defense with its attack? If it did, it could have over 600 attack power, and even with its low speed a surprise earthquake could do some decisive damage at the right moment.
 
I made a double battle Team based on that, it's not perfect though.
Turn 1 goes
Bronzong -Trick Room
Shuckle -Power Trick
Trick Room makes Shuckle the fastest hitting first. Power Trick switches attack and defense.
Turn 2 goes
Shuckle -Earthquake
Bronzong-Haven't thought of this part yet...

but yeah. Best Case Scenario, I win in four turns. Most people don't think I can though =/
 
Daikirai said:
(First post)


Has anyone else noticed the potential for shuckle to switch its beast defense with its attack? If it did, it could have over 600 attack power, and even with its low speed a surprise earthquake could do some decisive damage at the right moment.
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Shuckle can do that with Power Trick, but it will still suck.
 
Skylink said:
I made a double battle Team based on that, it's not perfect though.
Turn 1 goes
Bronzong -Trick Room
Shuckle -Power Trick
Trick Room makes Shuckle the fastest hitting first. Power Trick switches attack and defense.
Turn 2 goes
Shuckle -Earthquake
Bronzong-Haven't thought of this part yet...

but yeah. Best Case Scenario, I win in four turns. Most people don't think I can though =/
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Shuckle has to survive the first turn in order for that to feasibly work. Zong and Shuckle would need to be slower than your opponent really.
 
There's no fully evolved pokemon slower than Shuckle, iirc. But yes, surviving the first turn is the current problem. I'm trying to find something that can have power trick, an electric attack,a rock/fire/steel/fighting attack, and then another STAB Move most likely.

It's nigh impossible...

Edit: lol found ;121;
 
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Skylink said:
I made a double battle Team based on that, it's not perfect though.
Turn 1 goes
Bronzong -Trick Room
Shuckle -Power Trick
Trick Room makes Shuckle the fastest hitting first. Power Trick switches attack and defense.
Turn 2 goes
Shuckle -Earthquake
Bronzong-Haven't thought of this part yet...

but yeah. Best Case Scenario, I win in four turns. Most people don't think I can though =/
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any QA-type move sort of screws over this strategy, and given the fact that there are alot of new ones in D/P, with Sucker Punch and Shadow Sneak looking to be on alot of teams. It should work on teams that don't have it, but that's sort of a gamble. Oh well, as long as you don't build your entire team around shuckle you should be fine.
 
Shuckle has awesome defenses, but every other stat is the lowest in the game, including HP, which doesn't make it competitive enough to use, but likely it would struggle to survive the first turn.
 
Shuckle a turtle? Nope.

Flyers and (especially) Levitaters laugh at Shuckle. The vibrations caused by that noise kills Shuckle. Every Poke laughs if Bronzong goes down before it can set up.

I'm not gonna say it wouldn't be fun to play Shuckle and you should definately go ahead and try it out, but just don't go thinking it's going to be gamebreaking.
 
One of my very first posts was about Shuckle, although I was endeavouring to discover what was so good about this trick when Shuckle gets killed when you breathe on it. In 2v2, there's too much stuff that hits everyone and WILL kill Shucky to rely on Follow Me.
 
I love shuckle, Im sure a way can be found. Monster defense turned into monster offense, nothing could stand it its way!!!!.....im sure there is something that could....but sounds better if you say nothing!
 
Skylink said:
I made a double battle Team based on that, it's not perfect though.
Turn 1 goes
Bronzong -Trick Room
Shuckle -Power Trick
Trick Room makes Shuckle the fastest hitting first. Power Trick switches attack and defense.
Turn 2 goes
Shuckle -Earthquake
Bronzong-Haven't thought of this part yet...

but yeah. Best Case Scenario, I win in four turns. Most people don't think I can though =/
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I also have a team like this with a similar stradegy, except that I have my Shuckle set up a Sub. first
 
attacked_by_a_Cuisinart said:
So just put a Focus Strip on Bronzong, he can't be OHKOed anyway. Then you can bring out Clefable and spam Follow Me.
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This is in 2v2?
Infernape used Flare Blitz on Bronzong!
It's super effective!
Bronzong hung on with Focus Strip!
Infernape is hurt by recoil!
Other Pokemon uses just about any other attack on Bronzong!
Bronzong fainted!
Shuckle used Power Trick!

Two hit KO laughs at Focus Strip.

And then Clefable says hello to Close Combat Infernape.
 
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