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Shaymin; Platinum Shaymin for OU?
Topic Started: Mar 27 2009, 12:56 AM (141 Views)
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I don't have a big problem with shaymin, its base 100 stats are impressive and its typing isn't bad either. Pre platinum and Skymin, Shaymin was not considered OU or never used because it had a limited movepool. The original Life Orb set being Seed Flare, Rest, Psychic, and Hidden Power. Now thanks to Platinum and its new sky forme it has gained air slash and earth power giving it invaluable coverage it never had pre platinum.

Celebi, another 100 base stat poke, is almost the same pokemon besides the movepool and worse typing. Psychic gives him pursuit weakness, something very prevalent in OU. Celebi's movepool is more diverse with Recovery over Synthesis, Calm mind, Baton pass, and perish song just to name a few. Celebi makes a better wall with instant recovery, but shaymin has better resistances than celebi being ghost, dark and poison (lol) but gains fighting and psychic resistances. Shaymin can still be used as a wall, full sweeper, or bulky sweeper with rest and natural cure. Anyone who has played Suspect with Manaphy knows its hard to OHKO and the same is said for Shaymin.

I don't mind Shaymin being UU, my team got around it although being weak. Its just with the base 100 stats, typing, and new movepool plus a 40% chance of a - 2 special defense drop. Some should consider using it for OU.

I thought Shaymin should be a suspect UU but then again i never played with crobat raikou etc.
I play Ubers and UU. Nothing special
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