Remember how someone started a topic about Power Trick Shuckle?

Imagine... a double battle with something that knows Skill Swap... ridding Regigigas of its terrible ability that halves its attack and speed for the first five turns.

I never was fond of using 00bers, but just imagining that is funny, since Regigigas is kind of infamous for being terrible... then someone uses Skill Swap and your opponent is like

sort of like using skill swap with slaking, which is somewhat common, once traunt is gone, that thing is a monster

you think THATS scary? imagine if a spiritomb or a sableye could skill swap a shedinja...i know it's impossible but can you say unstoppable pokemon?

Wouldn't getting rid of the ability just stop it's stats from recovering?

I was under the impression that it's ability causes it to go in with huge stat reduction and recover 1 level every turn.

But that could have been entirely made up.

I don't have a Regigigas, but I'm pretty sure it just halves it, then after 5 turns restores it.

Every time you pull it out.

ah right right. I have no idea where I got the previous idea from.

A rather fiendish combo would be Slaking and Rampardos.

Rampardos' Mold Breaker shuts down all other abilites, including slakings Truant, allowing it to attack every turn. Nasty.

Nice combo serfin
Can a Shedinja be Traced?

yep, shedinjas' wonder guard can be traced. Problem is, the Trace ability will copy the ability of your opponent when he comes into battle, meaning the only way to trace wonder guard is to be fighting against a shedinja, and since it dies so easily no ever uses him anyway.

^Dayum. O_o As if you needed that much of a boost! XD

Wouldn't the eruption kill the cherrim?

Yeah... but even after the cherrim dies there will still be STAB, Carcoal, Full HP and Sunny day in effect, so it will still be pretty powerful

No, that is incorrect. Rampardos/Pinsir's ability, Mold Breaker, only breaks abilities for the opponent's Pokemon that prevent the user from hitting the opponent. For example, Rampardos could hit Azelf with Earthquake because Mold Breaker nullifies Levitate or Pinsir could use Guillotine to OHKO a Pokemon with Sturdy like Magnezone. But Mold Breaker does NOT turn off every Pokemon ability in the game.

No, it only affects the opponents.

Damn, AABM. I need to try that sometime. D; I wonder what Eruption's power would be then... The only bad thing is that if Abomasnow used something like Ice Beam (or maybe even Icy Wind) against Cherrim, you'd be pretty much left with charcoal and STAB, and possibly Sunny Day.

The Skill Swap with Shedinja sounds pretty awesome, but there is the fact that hardly anyone uses it. >_>

AABM's combo is good; but it's overkill only against those 2 pokemon. More often than not you're going to be facing an entirely different pair.

[quote="Frost"][quote="Sefrin"]A rather fiendish combo would be Slaking and Rampardos.

Rampardos' Mold Breaker shuts down all other abilites, including slakings Truant, allowing it to attack every turn. Nasty.[/quote]

[color=#00b2ee]No, that is incorrect. Rampardos/Pinsir's ability, Mold Breaker, only breaks abilities for the opponent's Pokemon that prevent the user from hitting the opponent. For example, Rampardos could hit Azelf with Earthquake because Mold Breaker nullifies Levitate or Pinsir could use Guillotine to OHKO a Pokemon with Sturdy like Magnezone. But Mold Breaker does NOT turn off every Pokemon ability in the game.[/color][/quote]

Both the game and the psydex state that Mold Breaker "Negates the opponents ability". This would indicate that the opponent no longer has an ability pf any kind as long as Rampardos remains in battle, which is why Earthquake would affect pokemon who would normally have levitate and why OHKO moves affect those who normally have Sturdy. Though you are correct in that mold Breaker only affects the opponent, so Slaking would still have Truant. Damn.

Technically, couldn't you skill swap a Shedinja that was on your team? Of course, this would only work in a double battle, and the pokemon with skill swap would have to have a HIGH Spd. in order to go first.

Not sure how this all works out so I'm just curious if anyone's done it before.

How would Slaking learn Skill Swap? The Psydex says neither Slakoth, Vigoroth or Slaking could learn it as a TM or an egg move. Is there another way it could learn it?

It'd be like Hell lol!

1. Charcoal and items like it are crap. A 10% boost is nothing.
2. You're depending on the opponents being 4x weak against Fire. What if they had a Rhyperior and Tyranitar?
3. Cherrim and Typhlosion are pretty bad in battle.
4. Helping hand is crap.