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Pokémon X and Y/Species Strategies (Generation III Families) (edit)
Revision as of 14:35, 26 March 2016
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Tropius is not a very notable Pokemon, with its main traits being its uncommon Grass/Flying type combination as well as its ability to use Harvest to recycle its held berries. None of Tropius's stats are particularly outstanding, though it is slightly better at sponging attacks than dishing them out. Hence, when Tropius is used at all, it is usually played to maximize its longevity while wearing down the foe bit by bit. It has an impressive movepool consisting of a variety of attacks, boosting moves and utility moves, but it's simply held back by its overall mediocre stats. Tropius's Grass/Flying typing doesn't do it any favors, as it provides few useful resistances but plenty of weaknesses, including a terrible double weakness to Ice. | |||
Tropius is most often seen using a combination of Substitute and Leech Seed, setting up a Substitute to protect from attacks and status, then using Leech Seed to wear down the opponent. This is often used in conjunction with Harvest and a Sitrus Berry for extra sources of healing so that Tropius stays alive as long as it can. Giga Drain and Energy Ball are fairly strong STAB attacks, while Air Slash has a high flinch chance if Tropius is ever faster than its foe. Toxic is an extra source of chip damage on top of Leech Seed, while Protect can be used to stall for turns. Roost and Synthesis let it recover even more health at the cost of making it more passive. Outside of these few moves, Tropius has plenty of options that it simply can't use effectively due to the myriad of better Pokemon that learn them. For attacks, there's Leaf Blade, Leaf Storm, Earthquake, Dragon Pulse and Outrage. For status moves, it has Tailwind, Whirlwind, Defog, Swagger, Safeguard, Growth, Swords Dance and Dragon Dance. | |||
==Chingling and Chimecho== | ==Chingling and Chimecho== | ||