Shiny Crobat
Well-Known Member
This knowing you will pass immediately after the agility wich means skarm switching in on that turn is useless. Even if you NP the next turn skarm will not like any special attack and will run wich means you have another turn. And what part of your team is going to deal with bliss?I do not have any problems with skarm or bliss, unless I use batonpass, then skarmory will show up and roar me away. And a switch to skarmory isn't that bad idea if they see me using agility on a ambipom (probably meaning I will pass), it will either use roar on the receipent or take the u-turn, rendering my stat-ups useless. Thus if I would have passed to lucario, I get roared out. Passing to octillery compensates for that problem due to suctioncups.
But, of course, passing to a special attacker will get me walled by blissey. But in that case I can switch to scizor on the thunderwave (quick-attack set doesn't mind the paralyzes), use swordsdance on the switch (or if they are stupid on the S-toss), and gor for quick-attack or rocksmash if they stay in. Rocksmash is for the defencedrop against skarmory. The fighting move is only for blissey and the occasional snorlax, in wich case snorlax doesn't like defence drops, and it helps against skarm. A little loss in BP doesn't outweigh the benefits from the defencedrop.
Furthermore, I can always go back to the old way wich is only nullified by brelom. Against others I still have a chance at the least.
And brelom is used less then blissey.