09-28-2016, 08:30 PM
(09-27-2016, 09:16 PM)Lord Windos Wrote:(09-27-2016, 09:09 PM)Dragonstrike Wrote: I'd like to point out something about Defiant that can turn Beliaddon into a complete monster:
The existence of Sticky Web.
While niche, it's very much worth noting, as Beliaddon doesn't care too much about its speed outside of a choice scarf set, and free +2 attack every time it switches in is absolutely devastating. There are enough really fast, grounded threats in Uranium to make Sticky Web a viable hazard when the opponent isn't running it, particularly since Seikamater is easily the best Sticky Web setter out of all the available ones in Uranium, and the Pokemon series as a whole so far if I may be so bold to claim that. The queen is able to learn it via tutor according to the wiki. Theoretically, the Cubbug line (Cubbug learns it at level 30) might also be able to breed it onto the elemental bugs since they're all in the bug egg group.
If Sticky Web appears often enough on teams, Defiant Beliaddon will run rampant to have a way to exploit the hazard once it's been laid. It's even scarier because it also happens to be the easiest hazard to null the usefulness of, since all you have to do to even the playing field again is lay a Sticky Web of your own.
Bloody hell, that's just awful! Anyway you slice it, Beliaddon only going to get better with time. Defog and Sticky Web become common enough? Beliaddon is going to have a great time. Even if it does not run Defiant, when and if Nucleon and reliable hazard removers enter the fray, thing will become a whole lot more interesting for it, that is for certain.
Any other things that might increase the effectiveness of this demon?
The day Assault Vest is released?
Tailwind support maybe? (Not sure how many mons have this move).
