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"Joseph William Dixon" <aa343@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, daramark wrote:
>> And Wow on all the Special moves it could learn. Solarbeam, Hyperbeam,
>> what other moves would you give Slaking, after looking at it's stats? I
>> don't suppose it learns Amnesia to cover it's less than stellar Special
>> Defence?
>
> It learns Amnesia at level 25 as Slakoth & Slaking, but since you're most
> likely going to be Vigoroth at that level (though since there're no decent
> moves as Vigoroth until Slash at level 31, you might keep Slakoth
> unevolved
> if you have the patience), heading over to the Move Tutor once you get
> Slaking is the usual way to go.
>
> Slaking's Special Defense (of 65) isn't great, but it's nothing to worry
> about since only Fighting is super-effective against Normal types and
> targets Defense (which is an excellent 100).
>
> The Special-based moves it can use are Faint Attack (level 19 as Slakoth
> or Slaking - in this case, though, it'd be no trouble to prevent Slakoth
> from evolving for that one level to get the move), Pursuit from breeding,
> and the TMs for Water Pulse, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Solarbeam, Thunderbolt,
> Thunder, Shock Wave, Flamethrower, and Fire Blast.
>
> Personally, though, I'd go with a moveset of:
>
> Hyper Beam (TM; use and charge while Truent)
> Earthquake (TM; Rock & Steel resist Normal, after all)
> Aerial Ace (TM; good against Fighters, if any exist that resist both
> Normal & Ground, but more important is that it can't miss
> unless you smack into a Protect or Detect)
> Slack Off (healing, level 13; better than Rest, despite not getting rid of
> status conditions - Rest knocks the Slaking out for 4 turns
> total [use, truant, sleep, truant])
>
>> And what do you think you would use to take Slaking out if you knew
>> someone was going to use one on you (I wouldn't tell anyone if I was
>> going to use one
)? Off hand, because it caused me so much grief to
>> get rid of it the first time I played, I think maybe Kingdra; Dragon
>> moves are about the only super effective moves on it.
>
> Dragon moves aren't super-effective against Normal, only Fighting.
> Fighting's the only realistic choice out of the non-Special attacks, since
> it's super-effective. On the other hand, if you've got something using
> Special move with STAB and a decent Special Attack, that'll help as well.
> [personally, Blaziken is great since it fits both types - just not against
> Norman's Slakings since they know Facade and will slaughter you if you
> accidentally Burn them
]
Rest takes 4 turns?!? What about the two turn moves getting rid of Truant?
And What I meant by Kingdra being a good choice against Slaking is that
Slaking doesn't learn any Dragon moves IIRC. And I still remember that
miserable thing beating me repeatedly (four times or something) until I went
and raised a Dragon of some sort to get rid of it.
Blaziken or maybe Breloom, though if the Slaking has Aerial Ace Breloom is a
goner. Medicham (does it learn anything Fighting?)? Boy there are a lot of
Fighting with a Special for a Second type. A long way from when there was
just the single type of Fighting.
daramark