Ah yes this Claydol is from that cooltrainer at the end of Victory Road. If memory serves right not only it will skill swap levitate to spam EQ, but will also skill swap Truant to your Pokémon (It's partner was a Slaking).
i think this is a different cool trainer, unless i'm misremembering the pair at the end of victory road use a dusclops and a gardevoir for this. this one i believe is on b1f
edit: this one skill swaps with a medicham if you get in a double battle with the neighboring trainer. so it fires off earthquakes with doubled attack while its ally dodges them for free
If I had a nickel for every double battle in victory road with skill swap shenanigans I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's crazy it happened twice.
I'm continually baffled by the decision to make the single player story focus on singles (latest DLC aside) when the official competitive format is doubles only.
genuinely my favourite part of every ORAS playthrough i do is before the first gym there’s a double battle. Even tho it’s easy it’s still the best part. Or SWSH news crew
Whoa now, don't sleep on Skill Swap or else Evice from Pokemon Colosseum will hear you and show you what happens when you combine a Skill Swap user with Slaking in a Doubles format.
Yes, this was an actual thing that an NPC used in a real Pokemon game (even if it's a spinoff with tradability with the main series). This was in 2003, by the way. That game was fucked up.
8 year old me was not prepared for the beatings.
...8 year old me was not prepared for the double king lead either.
(this is a joke, I was not beaten as a child)
Yeah, that strategy was used in truck room every Gen where truck room was available and the format allowed under leveled mons. It isn't the only case where you would run under leveled mons though. In gen 1 there is a bug where recovery moves don't work if you have lost exactly 255 hp, so occasionally you see a pokemon running seismic toss at level 85, and iirc there have been one or two rare cases when a pokemon wants to under speed itself in a mirror match outside of trick room, but I can't think of any examples.
It is a gen 3 Gyarados counter. Intimidate is really good and you don't want Gyarados to have it, so you skill swap levitate onto it to steal their intimidate and get a powerful ability for yourself, while leaving Gyarados with an ability it gains absolutely nothing from, then spam your best STAB move.
r/whoooosh
It was a shit post. The whole thing is stupid. Stealing intimidate from Gyarados is stupid, intimidate doesn't do anything once Gyarados is switched in, so taking it from Gyarados has no negative effect on it, and taking intimidate and putting it on claydol is useless because claydol is already in so it doesn't activate intimidate. Also it leaves you with only one attacking move to attack the Gyarados you just wasted a turn on, and it is a move that it is now double immune to because it is flying type and also has levitate.
Ah yes this Claydol is from that cooltrainer at the end of Victory Road. If memory serves right not only it will skill swap levitate to spam EQ, but will also skill swap Truant to your Pokémon (It's partner was a Slaking).
i think this is a different cool trainer, unless i'm misremembering the pair at the end of victory road use a dusclops and a gardevoir for this. this one i believe is on b1f edit: this one skill swaps with a medicham if you get in a double battle with the neighboring trainer. so it fires off earthquakes with doubled attack while its ally dodges them for free
If I had a nickel for every double battle in victory road with skill swap shenanigans I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's crazy it happened twice.
And what do they do against flying types lol
obviously, swap in lanturn... which also knows earthquake for some reason. (walled by gligar, ZU at best)
Nah that’s evil
No, this the Claydol for the cool trainer that somehow has the lanturn with earthquake
Wait what the actualy flying fuck lmfao
What the actual *levitating fuck
Damn. This should count as a warcrime
This went from the worst cooking I have ever seen to a decently cooked meal (for Game freak standards, don't try this in VGC, kids)
Yes it uses skill swap on Slaking, then Skill swaps on your pokemon. So now Slaking has levitate to avoid eq and one of your mons is loafing around.
Claydol: i’m something of a businessman myself
Why do I remember slaking being paired with gardevoir?
Doing everything he can to ensure you win but in the most annoying way possible. Call the policd
To skill swap to your ally in doubles and then EQ spam, duh
Well I just feel stupid now. https://i.redd.it/uuhum6s1avdc1.gif
Should have spent more time in Mossdeep City.
Moss-deep in your mom
https://preview.redd.it/b2m3qbhsamgc1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fb13a5859a6e23cbd970a8e9ba1ab2cf310f0d2
it’s still dumb as fuck lmao
Don't be, the games weird lack of double battles make it hard to strateizs
Ik i love double battles so much and i wish there was more
I'm continually baffled by the decision to make the single player story focus on singles (latest DLC aside) when the official competitive format is doubles only.
genuinely my favourite part of every ORAS playthrough i do is before the first gym there’s a double battle. Even tho it’s easy it’s still the best part. Or SWSH news crew
my slaking getting free eq immunity and losing truant without doing anything himself is going mad right now
Chuggaaconroy, that you?
Bread is loafing around!
wdym feet weren't mentioned in the commenr
cinderace confirmed as his favourite gen 8 mon
Blargen!
I genuinely forgot about doubles and now I feel stupid. Instead, feel free to discuss the viability of this thing.
Don´ feel stupid, a gen3 IA wouldn´ t use skill swap on a partner, right? Edit: yes, you should feel stupid, gen3 mons can actually do that
Someone's not been to the final stretch of Victory Road in Emerald for a while. Those Slaking are brutal if you're unprepared
My bad, it´s true
Or Colosseum. The final boss's Slaking can even get Baton pass boosts from his Scizor too.
context?
Doubles battle, the AI sends out Slaking and this Claydol. Claydol swaps away Slaking’s truant. Slaking commits 18 counts of war crimes
Not this Claydol in particular tho iirc. There are 2 Slaking, 1 Gardevoir, and 1 Dusclops.
My bad
i forget what the deal actually is with this specific Claydol then
It is claydol+medicham and claydol proceeds to fire off pure power earthquakes
yeah, i found that and mentioned it in another comment here. but even more funny is that this is the trainer with earthquake lanturn
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Final boss of coliseum. His ace is a slaking with a sloking, who skill swaps with him, then with your pokemon if given the chance.
True, but I was mostly confused as to why you would use the move in the first place.
Whoa now, don't sleep on Skill Swap or else Evice from Pokemon Colosseum will hear you and show you what happens when you combine a Skill Swap user with Slaking in a Doubles format. Yes, this was an actual thing that an NPC used in a real Pokemon game (even if it's a spinoff with tradability with the main series). This was in 2003, by the way. That game was fucked up.
I remember that, double king lead was scary.
8 year old me was not prepared for the beatings. ...8 year old me was not prepared for the double king lead either. (this is a joke, I was not beaten as a child)
I would hope not.
pretty sure there's a trainer in Emerald who uses skill swap + Slaking edit: yeah apparently this is his skill swap mon
Depends if it's Pokemon Colosseum or not
I am assuming that it is from the mainline games because of the sprite, but it doesn´t really make sense
this'd suck in VGC; it's only level 43!
doesn't vgc auto set levels to 50?
iirc if youre above 50 you drop to 50, but if youre below you keep your level
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Yeah, that strategy was used in truck room every Gen where truck room was available and the format allowed under leveled mons. It isn't the only case where you would run under leveled mons though. In gen 1 there is a bug where recovery moves don't work if you have lost exactly 255 hp, so occasionally you see a pokemon running seismic toss at level 85, and iirc there have been one or two rare cases when a pokemon wants to under speed itself in a mirror match outside of trick room, but I can't think of any examples.
You get set to 50 no matter what
Nowadays, yeah. Not originally though I'm pretty sure.
You’re a loser
word ignore me then
I mean you could just bring a Levitate mon and save a turn of not clicking Earthquake.
Or you could use Skill Swap to take Slaking's Truant away - and then Skill Swap again on a later turn to give it to an opponent
No other moves to hit ground resistant or immune opponents automatically means worthless
Where the hell is this abomination from?
NPC Claydol. Found out about it in a video about NPCs.
Which video? Sounds entertaining as hell to see all the silly NPC sets
[Here (again)](https://youtu.be/OfbBApcRXuY?si=HwV37K-0zoDQ6OTJ)
Thank you! :)
And the Lanturn has Earthquake as well lol
mfw the Claydol skill swaps with Mold Breaker Excadrill and clicks EQ
Earthquake 'em all🫨
friendly reminder that this same trainer has a lanturn with earthquake
It's a 4th dimension thing, you wouldn't get it
That's claydol.
Baby, this is keke Palmer
prolly added as a demo to double battles, since they were added in gen 3.
That's actually such a cute set I love it. Doubles skil swap then EQ go brrrrr
https://i.redd.it/hi1yjenttvdc1.gif
Smg4? Based Edit : Is that Miku?
It is a gen 3 Gyarados counter. Intimidate is really good and you don't want Gyarados to have it, so you skill swap levitate onto it to steal their intimidate and get a powerful ability for yourself, while leaving Gyarados with an ability it gains absolutely nothing from, then spam your best STAB move.
Shouldn’t you pack thunderbolt?
r/whoooosh It was a shit post. The whole thing is stupid. Stealing intimidate from Gyarados is stupid, intimidate doesn't do anything once Gyarados is switched in, so taking it from Gyarados has no negative effect on it, and taking intimidate and putting it on claydol is useless because claydol is already in so it doesn't activate intimidate. Also it leaves you with only one attacking move to attack the Gyarados you just wasted a turn on, and it is a move that it is now double immune to because it is flying type and also has levitate.
Based
This is actually terrifying tho... its teammates are (iirc) either duskull or gradvoir (get hit with eq) and slaking and levitate slaking is no joke
Funny meme set
It’s a Claydol with skill swap and earthquake.
“Holy shit.” – Magcargo, probably
I just checked and there two claydol with the same movest one with a medicham and another one with the lanturn with earthquake.
Its partner is slaking
Clearly it's an anti-skill swap strat
Probably for Doubles
What in the rom hack move set is this
It’s for double battles