Excuse the weird title, but I just wanted to bring up the ability Rivalry. Its most common user is Haxorus, who also happens to have a massive 147 base Attack stat. It really helps to have something that makes this threat easier to deal with. Below is the description of Rivalry:
Rivalry raises the base power of a move by 25% if the foe and the user have the same gender, but reduces base power by 25% if the foe and the user have opposite genders.Yeah. You can make Haxorus easier to deal with just by switching genders. Since male's the default, just make all your Pokémon female and you'll take hits better from some Haxorus users. Most might just go with Mold Breaker, but there's no drawback to this and it prevents some notable KOs.
P.S. Sexist battlers need not apply.
Yeah, I always run Female Skarm now for mainly this reason, although on PO I've always just had all my Pokemon Female. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have come across annoying Attract teams, and going all-female where possible helps to prevent pointless losses against rare teams like that.
ReplyDeleteGender is an interesting mechanic in pokemon. I actually make my walls female and my sweepers male.
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