How Purrloin Forced Pokemon to Change the Game
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Published 2022-05-25
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All Comments (21)
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I'm so angry that this is called "dive cat" when it clearly should've been called cat fishing
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Dude who discovered this had to be some sort of anime supervillain because this is just evil.
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I'm still mad about how they nerfed dark void. They made it so no one but darkrai can use it but also nerfed the accuracy. But darkrai has pretty much NEVER been allowed in vgc tournaments. So all this really did was make darkrai in singles ubers incredibly pathetic and use hypnosis instead of his signature move
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Don't forget the singles version, RoarCats. Since hazards see a lot more use in Singles due to the greater frequency of switching, getting Roar in a positive priority state was insanely busted, as you could just rake your opponent's entire team over stealth rocks and spikes while they were rendered entirely unable to act as being forcibly switched entirely cancels your turn if you had not yet moved, this being the reason Roar and related moves are negative priority to begin with.
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Purrloin was such a threat not only because of the Dive Cat strategy but because it was sitting like a normal cat, so they had to make it stand on two legs when Pokémon moved to 3D in X and Y
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"Dark Void is supposed to be Darkrai's signature move. But in VGC it's Smeargle's signature move." Truer words have never been spoken
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Prankster Assist is such a devastating combo that they would make Purrloin and Liepard borderline unkillable in gen 9 while taking advantage of Revival Blessing.
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I dont play competitive pokemon, but its still a lot of fun to hear about all the little tricks and strategies people have come up with over the years.
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the liepard and houndoom combo was so cool, it truly seems like the real life equivalent of ingo and emmet
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I'm starting to think that Game Feak has a vendetta against cat Pokemon
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Damn, I’m hyped that I’ve seen enough competitive Pokémon to see the strat emerge with the reveal of dive. I immediately thought “if only there was a way to guarantee that the dive moved second on the other turn…” and ofc there is, in the form of atrocious items I never knew existed
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Surf bypasses the semi-invulnerable turn of Dive and deals double damage to boot. Surf is also way more common in doubles for its spread damage compared to the overall dominance of Scald and Hydro Pump in singles. I think there's a high chance you'd run into it using this team, which really hurts its consistency.
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As soon as you mentioned the Lagging Tail, it immediately clicked and I thought "Oh God, this is scary"
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If Purrloin with Dive breaks the game then we're lucky that cats hate water, or they'd take over the world
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Liepard and Houndoom are probably my favorite pokemon, warms my heart to see them obliterate opponents
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I remember watching WeedleTwinneedle do this with a prankster Riolu in singles. They lead with a sturdy Skarmory and used fly, then used copycat to use fly. It was pretty hilarious
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I love hearing about strats like this. it's so cool how people come up with this, assist with prankster makes sense, but then to go for an invulnerability move and use lagging tail is genius.
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Strategies like these are always so interesting to me. A simple concept that's extremely easy to counter, 'n' yet is completely unbeatable if you're unprepared.
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This reminds me of the Normalium Z Nature Power Whimsicott team that saw some play in Gen 7. Nature Power was considered a status move that got priority improved by prankster, and had the typing of whatever terrain you used, with misty terrain it was moonblast, with grassy terrain energy ball, and thunderbolt with lightning terrain. Normalium Z allowed you to access powerful Z moves in three different typings at priority, making the whimsicott able to 100% pokemon like garchomp or tapu fini.
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Always love the cat pokemon for their tricky uses and adorable natures, like real cats. haha
