[Finished] Corphish

Proposed Sets

Set 1: Dragon Dance
Ability: Adaptability
Nature: Adamant
Item: Leftovers
IV spread: 31/31/31/x/31/31
Hidden Power: Not Relevant
Egg Moves:
- Knock Off
- Superpower
- Aqua Jet
- Dragon Dance

Maybe adamant, since there's Aqua Jet to take care of speed situations? Idk, I've never used it.

Mademoiselle C wrote:

Maybe adamant, since there's Aqua Jet to take care of speed situations? Idk, I've never used it.

Normally that would be true. But most tend to replace Aqua Jet with Waterfall, which is a more damaging physical water type move.

B-b-but... What if I prefer Aqua Jet?

Crabhammer > Waterfall imo. But between Jolly and Adamant... it depends if you're going for Dragon Dance or Swords Dance + Aqua Jet. I'm not sure if either is technically "better"

Also it learns Knock off via level-up, but I'm not sure there's much worth replacing it with...

Mademoiselle C wrote:

B-b-but... What if I prefer Aqua Jet?

Well, i guess you're just our of luck

Magikarpus wrote:

Crabhammer > Waterfall imo. But between Jolly and Adamant... it depends if you're going for Dragon Dance or Swords Dance + Aqua Jet. I'm not sure if either is technically "better"

Also it learns Knock off via level-up, but I'm not sure there's much worth replacing it with...

Yes, Crabhammer is a better option. The only thing I can think of replacing Knock with is either Chip Away or Body Slam. But with adaptability having a STAB move is the best way to go.

Personally I agree with the moveset but because of it's lackluster speed the jolly won't be making a huge difference. Personally I'd run Adamant for more power!

dobinrules wrote:

Personally I agree with the moveset but because of it's lackluster speed the jolly won't be making a huge difference. Personally I'd run Adamant for more power!

Yay!

Mademoiselle C wrote:

dobinrules wrote:

Personally I agree with the moveset but because of it's lackluster speed the jolly won't be making a huge difference. Personally I'd run Adamant for more power!

Yay!

Ok. I guess dobin does have a point. An adamant nature would be better.

Well I'm going to have to totally disagree here. For the dragon dance set, Corphish can only reach 313 speed after 1 DD with an adamant nature, but up to 343 with a jolly nature. That means it outspeeds base 95s and 100s which is massive, one of the most populated speed tiers in the game.

Honestly I think DD is not viable without jolly, but adamant is better for everything else (choice band, SD)

I prefer SD over DD, too...

Who on earth is running Waterfall over Aqua Jet? You shouldn't be running Crawdaunt.

I used a Jolly Dragon Dancer once. Could not get it in to set up ever. I agree that you need Jolly on DD, but DD just isn't that great of a set. Pure Offense or SD is the way to go here. I agree that Dragon Dance is a good move, but it isn't good here.

I think we should put DD on there as a seed for someone who wants to run it and they can breed their own Jolly (Or we just use mine to distribute), but this one needs to be Adamant imo.

^I like this reasoning. This set looks good then. +1

I keep saying +1 but I'm too lazy to upvote people's posts

Alright, since nobody has commented about corphish I am going to start breeding.

Do you have the pokemon bred and finished up? To speed up the distribution process, we will be collecting the completed pokemon as they get finished, so let's coordinate the transfer of this pokemon over to me (or any cloner) at your nearest convenience. Thank you!