Competitive Guide: M-Arbok

[Lord Windos]

The wiki gives you the extreme values of each pokemon's stats. For example, 31/252 Jolly Arbok-M would hit a maximal speed stat of 306 at level 100. But that's if you choose to invest fully in Speed. If you want to know a stat that's not the very maximum you can get you'll have to run this formula.


Let's see with your typical Choice Scarf Nucleon: Nucleon has a Speed Base Stat of 90 just like Arbok-M.
2*90 + 31 + 252/4 = 274
274*50 / 100 + 5 = 142
142*1.1 for a Timid Nature = 156
156*1.5 with Scarf = 234
234*0.66 after Petrify = 154 at level 50. When Max Speed Arbok-M hits 156 at level 50.

Or I just realized you could use Showdown if you want to know your final stats before applying modifiers.

As for the Constrictor Set, if it gets enough complaints from users, I'll remove it from my guide not to give a bad impression. I want to provide useful, helpful info, not cause any discord from making a trolling guide!

Causing discord? You give me too much credit ; Nah I was just trying to say this set'll have a difficult time doing what it's supposed to do, but I was in a hurry and worded my sentence in a way that made me sound rude. It happens sometimes, haha
Oh and, by any means please keep the unorthodox sets coming ; I like to see originality, but this particular one I'm just not too fond, is what I'm saying.

So investing in Maxiumum speed on the Offensive set is a pretty good idea, since it can outspeed Nucleon just baaaarely, and could potentially outspeed Lassiure and other 95-100 Base Speed Pokemon if its not holding a Scarf or has a Speed Boost from somewhere! So that investment does seem like a great idea! I didn't make a terrible assumption! Yay!

Now we know of at least another check to the green demon: Pursuit M-Arbok, since any Nucleon user will switch out from a speed drop! Either that, or get outspeed and hit by a Coil boosted STAB Pursuit, which, given its pitful DEF stat, will hurt it baaadly. It also has Sucker Punch if it switches in to counter it, which would usually mean they used Coiled to amp up its power even more! He he he...

I don't mind you comment about the Constrictor set, since I just made it up on a whim to see if it was possible to use Stockpile and Swallow to somewhat reliably recover from damage. Sometimes a set is just a plain bad idea, though *Shrugs*