Competitive Battle Team ; Pt. II: Toxicroak
Links: Pretext ; Pt.I
Look... I promise my choices will get better, but I needed to meet my poison quota.
My choices for Toxicroak follow very closely to my choices for Scolipede, because they’re both Attack oriented, poison pokémon. They also share very similar stats, good Attack, bad Defense. Toxicroak is not as bad with Sp. Defense, which is comforting because honestly one attack via Psychic by a Psychic type, IV bred, pokémon (4x effective because of Poison/Fighting typing) and Toxicroak is dead, no questions asked- hence my choice of Anticipation as his ability.
I wasn’t going for 6 perfect IVs on this one, but got lucky. For reference, I was going to forsake Toxicroak’s Sp. Attack, which is why I chose Careful nature again. Forsake Sp. Attack and uplift Sp. Defense.
Again, I didn’t go for the Hidden Ability on this one, but I did do some studying on how to do that and woo... it seriously adds an entire NEW layer of complication that’s hard to cut down on, so you really need to WANT that Hidden Ability, which, I think, certainly adds value to your pokémon when all’s said and done.
As far as EV training goes, my current proposition is similar again to Scolipede, but this time I’m choosing to max out Speed and Sp. Defense, while boosting Attack.
Toxicroak was hatched with the ability Dry Skin, but I didn’t like the idea of having a pokémon low in the defense department AND weak to Fire Type, so I used another Ability Capsule to change it to Anticipation. Dry Skin, for those of you who don’t know, replenishes HP when hit with Water Type moves and replenishes HP by 1/8th total HP, every turn in rain. However, if it’s sunny, it works the opposite, depleting 1/8th total HP every turn, and weakening your pokémon to fire type moves.
I don’t have any names lined up for Toxicroak, but like I said, I wanna nickname all of this party.
This next party member is going to take me a LOT longer, because my starting parent is very ... poor, competitively, and it takes TWICE as long to hatch as Toxicroak. So... might be a bit. We’ll see! I’m getting close. I’ll keep you posted!
