Name: Gyarados
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Intimidade
Ability: Intimidade
- Waterfall
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Dance
- Stone Edge / Ice Fang
- Payback / Taunt / Dragon Tail
EVs: 252 Atk / 172 Spd / 86 SDef
- Payback / Taunt / Dragon Tail
EVs: 252 Atk / 172 Spd / 86 SDef
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SAtk)
Moves:
Waterfall is the best STAB and all around attack.
Dragon Dance to set up versus switches and attack first.
Stone Edge a bit coverage against Grass and Dragon, but shines versus Flying and Water resistent. Ice Fang is a good alternative but has lower base power.
Payback/Bite to cover Psychics that resist water like Starmie, Celebi and to a lesser extent Ghosts. I personally prefer Payback over Bite, as your opponent might be passing some speed boosts or have Choice Scarfed which will outrun this build with +1 speed (exº Ninjask passes to Starmie). Bite doesn't allow you to KO with 1 less hit comparing to a normal Payback.
Taunt is useful for stopping slower pokemons from using Stealth Rock, Spikes, stat boosts, healing. But in this case it's speacially good to stop PHazers trying to cut your sweep.
Dragon Tail is you knew Roar, that also happens to help versus sweeping Swords Dance Salamence, or predict a switch into an Electric user while stacking passive damage.
Other moves:
Payback/Bite to cover Psychics that resist water like Starmie, Celebi and to a lesser extent Ghosts. I personally prefer Payback over Bite, as your opponent might be passing some speed boosts or have Choice Scarfed which will outrun this build with +1 speed (exº Ninjask passes to Starmie). Bite doesn't allow you to KO with 1 less hit comparing to a normal Payback.
Taunt is useful for stopping slower pokemons from using Stealth Rock, Spikes, stat boosts, healing. But in this case it's speacially good to stop PHazers trying to cut your sweep.
Dragon Tail is you knew Roar, that also happens to help versus sweeping Swords Dance Salamence, or predict a switch into an Electric user while stacking passive damage.
Other moves:
Bounce also sees some play to let Leftovers recover and anything that switches to resist might get paralized, but I personally don't like 2 turn moves.
Sleep Talk is also a funny gimmick if you don't have a sleep absorver on your team.
EVs & Nature:
The major difference between Gyarados is it's stat distribution. With this Dragon Dancer build I focused on outspeeding jolly Starmie after a +1 speed from Dragon Dance and every pokemon around that speed. This is important since I manage to take the expected Thunderbolt while keeping the Atk at its max killing Starmie 1v1 and other fast threats.
Sleep Talk is also a funny gimmick if you don't have a sleep absorver on your team.
EVs & Nature:
The major difference between Gyarados is it's stat distribution. With this Dragon Dancer build I focused on outspeeding jolly Starmie after a +1 speed from Dragon Dance and every pokemon around that speed. This is important since I manage to take the expected Thunderbolt while keeping the Atk at its max killing Starmie 1v1 and other fast threats.
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