Pokemon of the Week #60: Typhlosion - Page 2

**L007 is Cooler than Dylan** · 08-12-2007, 12:33 PM

Good. It's enough Dual Types tend to have bad weaknesses (Although Water/Dragon is nothing short of pure awesome).

Sarai and Samiel · 08-12-2007, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Marilink Factor

Selene, switching into something is a wonderful thing. Switch into a grass type, and you get a free Sunny Day turn while it switches out. They switch into a rock type? No problem, Solar Beam it! Switching out isn't a cowardly thing to do, it's a great tactic and you can use it to your advantage. Plus, it boosts Flamethrower at the same time.

And I know people will put non-STABed attacks on Pokemon that might cover Typhlosion, but the fact remains that if they have a Rock, ground, or Water type, chances are they will want the STAB and will send it out.

I'm not saying this strategy works all the time, like you seem to think I am.

Cowardly has **** all to do with it. It's inefficient is what. I always have enough type-variety in attacks on my 'mon that they can do appreciable unresisted damage to all but a few types- that way I don't need to eat time switching. Besides, I was talking on the assumption that your opponent could switch also- I've never discounted it as a tactic.

And I've always considered it better to do damage twice than to do it once with STAB and waste one turn, especially for moves with side-effects or when I'm expecting to KO my opponent's current fighter. No point in switching to a rock, ground, or water type if it's to knock out your Typhlosion and give you a chance to switch at no cost in turns to something with a move that'll take them out, natch?

**Cravdraa** · 08-16-2007, 07:09 PM

The fire type has one purpose in my book. Melting steel types. They're becoming more and more common, and a few of the often used ones are part psychic so that fighting types aren't effective against them. A couple of them either fly or levitate too, so ground isn't a sure bet either. That leaves fire types. Of course, now that bugs aren't totally useless anymore (about time) toasting them is an added bonus.

Still, taking out the steel type is fire's biggest advantage.

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