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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:02 pm

Ludicolo (#272)
UU Tier

Art:
Wow, probably the most original idea for a pokemon. What happens when a kappa meets a mexican dancer... with a pineapple on it's head.
Probably the most WTF evolution I can recall. And I can't really tell it's a grass/water type unlike it's pre-evolutions.
7/10

Casual:
Lotad is commonly found early (unique to Sapphire), it's a fairly weak pokemon, with Astonish (30 power), Absorb (20 power) and Megadrain (40 power) until Bubblebeam at level 25.

It's got some nice typings, only weak to Flying, Poison, and Bug. And it also learns a lot of HMs.
7/10

Competitive:
Now, this gets to the interesting part. Ludicolo is one of those pokemon that I think deserves a spot in OU if not for common Pokemon that lock it down.

Ludicolo must use rain dance or be in a rain dance team, there are 2 common builds you can go as Ludicolo,
- With Swift Swim, you can go for a sweep using it's respectable S.Atk and it's big move pool.
- With Rain Dish, you can try to tank with leech seed and leftovers.

I've used Ludicolo many times on my UU team. And I still haven't decided which I prefer.

Like I said before, I think Ludicolo could work in a OU team if not for Scizor. Oh that damn bug is the bane of my existance, Bug Bite or U Turn simply annihilated my Ludicolo any time they met. (I'm sure there are others, but SCIZOR pissed me off the most) Oh, and it's stats are pretty bulky, decent HP with good SpD
7.0/10

7.0/10 (Probably biased, I like Ludicolo)

Previous Pokemon:

Staraptor (#39 cool - 8.3/10 (10 Votes)
Starmie (#121) - 7.6/10 (8 Votes)
Electivire (#466) - 7.3/10 (9 Votes)
Charizard (#006) - 7.3/10 (12 Votes)
Leafeon (#470) - 7.2/10 (5 Votes)
Tyranitar (#24 cool - 7.1/10 (14 Votes)
Sharpedo (#319) - 7.0/10 (12 Votes)
Ninetales (#03 cool - 6.7/10 (9 Votes)
Rampardos (#409) - 6.6/10 (13 Votes)
Nidoqueen (#031) - 5.9/10 (17 Votes)
Shuckle (#213) - 5.7/10 (7 Votes)
Solrock (#33 cool - 5.1/10 (9 Votes)
Hitmontop (#237) - 5.0/10 (7 Votes)
Swalot (#317) - 3.7/10 (3 Votes)
Slaking (#289) - 3.5/10 (8 Votes)

Ninetales starts off at [6.7] (Someone voted a 1 D: )

T-Tar drops down by [0.3] to [7.1]
Rampardos gets CRIT, going down by [0.7] to [6.6]
Starmie goes up [0.3] to [7.6]
Leafeon goes up [0.2] to [7.2]
Sharpedo goes up by [0.2] to [7.0]
Shuckle goes up by [0.7] to [5.7]

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Thanks to everyone commenting on the Pokemon, learning a lot.

And I'm going to try to reduce the spam for previous pokemon. Rawr

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:41 am

Ludicolo is a unique pokemon. With the typing of Grass/Water it does make it only have 3 weakness. With water covering the fire and ice weakness that grass has and grass covers the electric weakness that water has. There is though 3 very good bug types in the OU tier that prevent it from getting there on typing. They are Heracross, Ninjask, and Scizor. There are a few good flying types as well in OU but only 2 or 3 even have moves for they flying subtype that is useful. There is only one poison type in OU and that's Tentacruel. That pokemon laughs at Ludicolo's movepool.

For ablities Ludicolo have both involving rain. Ludicolo will be more at home in a rain dance team. It will be great for covering your water types along with something like Kingdra if running a rain dance team.

Ludicolo isn't lacking in the movepool department. I can be a nice threat to things, but it shines at it's best in rain.

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:58 am

Stab Surf with rain making it even more powerful, Grass Knot just in case... and it also learns Ice Beam... that is the most scary pokémon to any ground team.

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:10 am

Ludicolo is a nice Pokemon. Haven't used mine or been against one, but I like it. Also, I must ask, how do you choose your Pokemon for the day? Random number generator? Or do you just pick one?

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:49 am

Yup, Random Number Generator, and I'm picking last evolutions just to compare.

I might do non-fully evolved pokemon if they change a lot between evolutions. Think Vigoroth and Slaking.

If anyone wants to pick the next days, just post it :]

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I forgot Heracross *shakes fist*

Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:19 pm

MOTHER ******** SNORLAX

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:42 pm

I've always loved Ludicolo- it's a wonderful, quirky, flexible Pokémon that can stall, sweep, set up, or annoy. With a status or annoyance set (For instance: Leech Seed, Rain Dance, Toxic, Surf), you can force the opponent out, or heal yourself up to three times (Leftovers, Rain Dish, Leech Seed) per turn while inflicting some remarkable residual damage. It's bulky enough to stay alive during all that, and still attack in the meantime.

Adversely, it's a great Pokémon for running sweeps with Rain Dance, with its Speed going high enough to outrun Weavile with no problems. With access to Ice Beam, it has no problem tearing apart its Flying weakness, given that it has Rain support for speed. I personally run HP Fire to take out Heracross, Scizor, Sceptile, Weavile, Ninjask, and Lucario- Pokémon that frequently consider themselves safe from Ludicolo's movepool. Tentacruel is- and will always be- the Anti-Ludicolo weapon.

All in all, it's a great and flexible Pokémon, as long as you know what niche it's supposed to fill. Nothing ruins a Ludicolo like trying to run a support set as if it's a sweeper.

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