Yeah against opponents tier 3 level or below,it gets more tricky in the tier 2 range,tier 1 or higher is out of the question.
Really cuz it was giving a Tier-1 caliber Pikachu (based on the Electivire feat) a tough time that too without him being Poisoned or Burned.
Snow Cloak ability ended when the sky cleared so it's still going to be vulnerable to attacks,a mid tier 2 like Ash's Bulbasaur isn't being KOed from just 2 attacks.And whether or not a pokemon is burned/poisoned doesn't always mean it would lose to a pokemon that can disappear.
Sure it does; however, the combined chip damage from Hail + Poison/Burn by that time would be considerable (over 60% if we used in game calculations though to low ball let’s say about half of the Pokémon’s health would be gone and remember this is not including any of Froslass’s offensive moves). I’ve already explained how Bulbasaur is far above mid t-2 due to the Brandon feat several times. In summation Dusclops survived 4 iterations of Leech Seed (LS) draining and 1 iteration of Leech Seed draining takes away 1/8th of the foe’s max health hence Dusclops lost 4 * 1/8 = 1/2 of its max health to LS; however, it still took a Solarbeam afterwards (not to mention a Razor Leaf prior) to finish Dusclops off meaning that Bulbasaur did
over half the work in defeating the Pokémon who was capable of beating BF Charizard (high t-1). Assume that Charizard being distracted allowed Shadow Punch to be a crit and hence deal twice the damage (this point applies to gens 2 - 5 and will be important later as well). Regardless of how much health Charizard was at, having over half health left prior to the Seismic Toss folly indicates that Brandon’s Dusclops was an incredibly strong Pokémon (easily t-1 and perhaps even on the upper end). I wonder if you can reason out why the above conclusion is true without me explaining it to you
. Being able to accomplish this in addition to then tying with another Pokémon of the strongest Frontier Brain (who started at full health and stamina) is indisputably worthy of placing him in Ash’s TOP 10 (he’d be 8 on my list above Heracross and Swellow).
It couldn't deal any damage because Paul used the move protect to avoid being damaged by Hydro Cannon,Pikachu is always going to be physically faster and more agile especially when it knows the move Quick Attack,Paul could have used protect whenever he wanted but decided not to,Electivire instead just blocked or countered the attack.But none of this is enough to put Pikachu vastly over Empoleon,especially if it's ability torrent is activated,more than likely Barry trained Empoleon in between it's battle with Pikachu in "Barry's Busting Out All Over" and "Casting a Paul on Barry" so it would be Pikachu=>Empoleon or Pikachu=Empoleon
Pikachu has beaten Empoleon on 2 separate occasions (Twin Leaf Fesitval). This in conjunction with how both performed agaisnt Electivire makes the probability that SL Paul Pikachu > Empoleon overwhelmingly high. Electivire got damaged by Quick Attack and Paul couldn’t do anything because he couldn’t react in-time since he couldn’t predict that Pikachu would climb the battlefield debris to get the “high ground”. Also lol you can’t just indefinitely spam Protect. SL Paul Pikachu is significantly stronger than Empoleon and by stronger I mean has a higher battle viabilty (a combination of every factor relevant in a battle) which is clear given Pikachu’s relatively superior performance agaisnt Electivire while in a weakened state. What I’m getting at is that the Pokémon who got Pikachu to this weakened state (Froslass) must be iimpressive in its own right and as I’ve already explained Froslass wasn’t able to tap into her true battle viability since she didn’t face a Poisoned/Burned opponent.
Having a tough time defeating it or having a tough time trying to get the ring?If this was a real battle instead of a pokeringer then it's Honchkrow winning hands down.
The Pokeringer battle makes it clear that Staraptor is capable of A) tankingseveral attacks from Honchkrow and B) causing significant damage with its own attacks meaning that Staraptor could certainly give Honchkrow a competitive match if this were a real battle, so even if Honchkrow is in fact stronger and would win such a battle, there’s an upper bound to how much better than Staraptor Honchkrow could have been (I hope that at least this point has sunk into your thick skull since I’m tiered of repeating myself).
Physically Froslass can't take that much damage so it would have to hurry up and sweep Grotle,I could only see it easily beating Turtwig.Froslass easily beating Maylene's 2 pokemon?Maybe.Froslass OHK Dragonite?No it doesn't have Super Luck or any moves that increase the critical hit ratio,ice beam only has a chance of freezing it's target so it's going to take more than 1 move to take it out and even that's a stretch since it's physically not that powerful.
Why would any of Grotle’s Grass Attacks deal anywhere near the same damage as SL Paul Pikachu’s Iron Tail (SE move) or Volt Tackle (strongest move)? Also Froslass is immune to Rock Climb hence that tactic is out of the question. I’d love to read how you think Grotle could put up any semblance of a good fight. What part of “Ghost is immune to Fighting” (hence severely limiting what Maylene’s Pokémon can do) do you not understand? Yeah Ice Beam is quadruple effective on Dragonite whereas a crit only increases the damage 2-fold, so unless Honchkrow has over twice the power of Froslass then nah Froslass is certainly capable of OHKing the Dragonite (this point isn’t even all that important since offensive power is only one factor contributing to overall battle viability and isn’t even necessarily the most important one).
Defeat 2 of Maylene's pokemon,KO Ash's Grotle twice,KO a Dragonite in one blow.
Read above.
Why not?It has the physical capabilities of doing so and easily got the job done in 90 percent of the battles it was in on screen so that implies that it can handle more than what was thrown in front of it.
Not being able to KO Staravia/Staraptor despite landing several hits and being signficnalty damaged by Staraptor’s attacks suggests otherwise. Also it’s never beaten a truly “good” Pokemon (t-2 or above).
This only further proves that Froslass is nowhere in the tier 2,not sure what Electivire has to do with this,it did what Froslass couldn't do and that's win.
Wow Electivire beat a Pokémon that was already fairly low in terms of both health and stamina (yet still managed to both damage and trade even blows with it) and that too only after having its ability activated, truly it deserves full credit for the KO (sarcasm). Also read above.
Because of type advantage or because you think Pikachu is ten times more powerful?
I don’t care if it was a type inverse match (giving Honchkrow the advantage); SL Paul Pikachu would still beat Honchkrow upper Low to lower Mid diff at best and Peakachu would absolutely annihilate that overrated crow.
