Agirudaa
Agirudaa is the fastest of all of the 5th Generation Pokemon. Because of that, I suspect he will have a niche role in the metagame, but an important one nonetheless. This thread is dedicated to the discussion of the Pokemon competitively, not whether it will or will not be banned. Keep that in mind.
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[B]#617 Agirudaa[/B]
Typing: Bug
Ability 1:
Hydration
Heals status effects in rain.
Ability 2:
Sticky Hold
This Pokémon's item cannot be removed.
Ability 3: (Dream World)
Unburden
Speed increases when an item is used or lost.
HP: 60
Atk: 70
Def: 40
SpA: 100
SpD: 60
Spe: 145
[B]Pre-Evo Moves:[/B]
Lv4: Acid
Lv8: Bide
Lv13: Curse
Lv25: Yawn
Lv32: Acid Armor
Lv37: Giga Drain
Lv40: Body Slam
Lv52: Guard Swap
[B]Level-Up Moves:[/B]
Lv1: Leech Life
Lv1: Acid Bomb
Lv1: Double Team
Lv1: Quick Attack
Lv4: Acid Bomb
Lv8: Double Team
Lv13: Quick Attack
Lv16: Bug Resistance
Lv20: Mega Drain
Lv25: Swift
Lv28: Me First
Lv32: Agility
Lv37: Giga Drain
Lv40: U-turn
Lv44: Bug Buzz
Lv49: Recover
Lv52: Power Swap
Lv56: Desperation
Acid Bomb: Special Poison PP: 20 / Power: 40 / Accuracy: 100
Sharply lowers Special Defense.
Desperation: Special Fighting PP: 5 / Power: --- / Accuracy: 100
KOs the user and deals damage to the opponent equal to the HP it lost.
[B]TM Moves:[/B]
TM06 - Toxic
TM09 - Venom Shock
TM10 - Hidden Power
TM15 - Hyper Beam
TM17 - Protect
TM18 - Rain Dance
TM21 - Frustration
TM27 - Return
TM32 - Double Team
TM36 - Sludge Bomb
TM37 - Sandstorm
TM42 - Facade
TM44 - Rest
TM45 - Attract
TM48 - Troll
TM52 - Focus Blast
TM53 - Energy Ball
TM68 - Giga Impact
TM76 - Bug Resistance
TM87 - Swagger
TM89 - U-Turn
TM90 - Substitute
Troll: Special Normal PP: 15 / Power: 60 / Accuracy: 100
Raises Base Power the more Pokemon you have with the attack.
[B]Egg Moves:[/B]
Endure
Baton Pass
Double-Edge
Encore
Guard Share
Mind Reader
Mud-Slap
Spikes
Feint
Pursuit
Guard Share: Other Psychic PP: 10 / Power: --- / Accuracy: ---
Averages the user's and target's Defense and Special Defense.- Access to Spikes and Recover
Yeah, let's go ahead and get this out of the way. Short of Deoxys, this is the fastest Pokemon in the game with Spikes. Unfortunately, he doesn't pick up Taunt and Encore from egg moves is illegal with Spikes, but still. What Agirudaa does have going for it, however, is that it learns Recover and Spikes together. This means that with sufficient specific defensive investment, maybe he can be a reliable Spikes setup Pokemon. - Base 145 Speed and base 100 Special Attack
So next, let's look at his Speed and his Special Attack stat. Agirudaa also gets U-turn, which is handy. That Special Attack might seem underwhelming, but you need to remember that Starmie has the same in that regard, and we all know how powerful Starmie is. However, Agirudaa has substantially worse coverage than Starmie, so I doubt he'll be attempting a sweep very often. He might only attempt to clean up if absolutely necessary and numerous specific conditions are met. - Access to Desperation
This is the new move that functions as a raw HP self-KO move. Agirudaa can use this with some HP investment and Recover to possibly score a KO against specific Pokemon. Agirudaa's low HP stat and susceptibility to Stealth Rock make this not very promising, though. - Access to Baton Pass
Nothing really exciting here, but at least he can Baton Pass Agility boosts. After an Agility and with some Speed EV investment, Agirudaa pretty much outpaces everything around. That might be handy in some circumstances.
Agirudaa @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sticky Hold
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Nature: Timid (+SpA, -Atk)
~ Spikes
~ U-turn
~ Bug Buzz
~ Focus Blast / Giga Drain
This is pretty much "the" set: a suicide lead. Spikes are great to set up when you can, and U-turn is to get out of dodge when you're not matched up well. (Pretty common) Bug Buzz is STAB and will actually let you beat Azelf leads. Focus Blast is shaky in its accuracy, but at least gives you a chance at besting Aerodactyl, Heatran, Tyranitar, and other such leads. Giga Drain, on the other hand, is reliable and your best coverage move against Water-types like Swampert. Sticky Hold is the ability of choice so that you can't be Tricked Choice items to lock you into something malicious. An alteration of this set might work outside of the lead position, but with those defenses, no immunities, and a vulnerability to Stealth Rock, that will pretty much always fail miserably.
So, what do you all think about him? Is he worth trying out with his amazing Speed, but otherwise mediocre movepool and awful defenses? Is he worth the support later in the game?
