10-07-2016, 09:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2016, 09:25 PM by Dragonstrike.)
Yeah, we get it. Inflagetah is fast and powerful, just like the other mons the Ninja Masters carry. But the fact that those Inflagetah come with both Flame Impact and Extreme Speed is annoying as heck, and makes EV training for speed unnecessarily hard. The priority moves will wear you down completely sooner or later, making extended use of the ninja's training battle exceedingly difficult. Instead of getting a reliable 30 EVs per battle with the exp share and pokerus, you have to use either the punching bag or the 60% encounter rate for Frynai in route 14's waters as the alternative speed training sources due to that unfortunate movepool selection.
There are two main options for making it a more reasonable and faster way to train that I can see.
1. Manually change the Inflagetahs' movesets in that battle so they don't have the priority attacks. At the moment, they just use their level up moves, of which they have none beyond their starting moves, including the deadly Acceleration boosted priority attacks. This would preserve the 15/30 EVs per battle you would gain (since Inflagetah and Archilles want to be weird and have 3 speed EV gains).
2. Change the pokemon the Speed Ninja Master uses. Viable options that have no priority of any kind at level 52 and a 2 Speed EV yield would be Floatzel, Terlard (Arena Trap could potentially be annoying though), Eshouten, S51-A, Jolteon, and Raffiti. I'd recommend using Jolteon or Floatzel, tbh, as they're both typically known for their speed and aren't overly threatening nor carry weird gimmicks. It's also notable that Jolteon base exp yield is right in the middle of Floatzel and Inflagetahs'.
Seeing either of these changes would greatly ease the difficulty of EV training in the Speed stat, which would be a positive change as a whole.
Note: I wrote this when I realized just how much those Inflagetah wore down my pokemon, and how often I had to go back to the pokemon center to heal. That speed training had gone beyond just mindless OTKs, and that's not a good thing for EV training.
There are two main options for making it a more reasonable and faster way to train that I can see.
1. Manually change the Inflagetahs' movesets in that battle so they don't have the priority attacks. At the moment, they just use their level up moves, of which they have none beyond their starting moves, including the deadly Acceleration boosted priority attacks. This would preserve the 15/30 EVs per battle you would gain (since Inflagetah and Archilles want to be weird and have 3 speed EV gains).
2. Change the pokemon the Speed Ninja Master uses. Viable options that have no priority of any kind at level 52 and a 2 Speed EV yield would be Floatzel, Terlard (Arena Trap could potentially be annoying though), Eshouten, S51-A, Jolteon, and Raffiti. I'd recommend using Jolteon or Floatzel, tbh, as they're both typically known for their speed and aren't overly threatening nor carry weird gimmicks. It's also notable that Jolteon base exp yield is right in the middle of Floatzel and Inflagetahs'.
Seeing either of these changes would greatly ease the difficulty of EV training in the Speed stat, which would be a positive change as a whole.
Note: I wrote this when I realized just how much those Inflagetah wore down my pokemon, and how often I had to go back to the pokemon center to heal. That speed training had gone beyond just mindless OTKs, and that's not a good thing for EV training.
