What is the best weather?

Which do you think is best?

  • Rain

    Votes: 10 66.7%

  • Sandstorm

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • Strong Sun

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Hail

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Total voters
    15
Mewtwomaster

Mewtwomaster

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What do you think is the best weather force? Vote for it! No Rayquazas allowed.

Rain is winning.

Articles on each weather:
Rain:
http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/bw_ou_rain
Sandstorm:
http://www.smogon.com/dp/articles/sandstorm_teams
Strong Sun:
http://www.smogon.com/bw/articles/ou_sun
Hail:
http://www.smogon.com/dp/articles/art_hail_stall
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

Hydro Cannon said:
Drizzle Politoed. Nuff said.
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Same here :D
And i like hydration acelegor
rest, double team, bug buzz, attract
and even better hydration lapras
confuse ray hydro pump protect..... forgot
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

Except for taunt lock. I'd watch out for that. Zoroark does a good job at hosing teams up! :)
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

Umm... Hail teams are VERY useful as well. Abomosnow with 100% blizzard accuracy with Dewgong and other stalling Pokemon is very useful, just too many counters
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

Hydro Cannon said:
Umm... Hail teams are VERY useful as well. Abomosnow with 100% blizzard accuracy with Dewgong and other stalling Pokemon is very useful, just too many counters
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random comment about hail?????
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

I think rain is the best weather, but sand is quite strong also with the unbanning of Garchomp despite it having to have Rough Skin as its ability.
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

King Arceus said:
I think rain is the best weather, but sand is quite strong also with the unbanning of Garchomp despite it having to have Rough Skin as its ability.
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Yeah I like sandstorm too, i like to use a fast garchomp to outspeed other garchomps, and i love gliscor. Not to mention the weather inducer is also a good attacker.
But for some reason i win a lot more with rain.
 
RE: What do you think is the best weather force?

The amount of tools rain has right now make it easily the best.

Even if you just scratch the surface, you've got Pokemon like Tornadus-T, Thundurus-T, regular Tornadus, Rotom-W, Starmie, Jirachi and Dragonite. All of these Pokemon are the front liners of rain based offense, and have the speed, coverage and offensive prowess to make teams tumble over.

Then you get into defensive roles and you find none other than Tentacruel and Ferrothorn. With Rain Dish, Tentacruel is INCREDIBLY resilient, especially if it inflicts a Scald burn. Ferrothorn is a bit tricky to use in BW2, but under rain it's also very tough to take down without a Fighting-type.

Then you get other support stuff like Genesect, Scizor and Dugtrio. Genesect works on close to every team, but it's especially solid on rain where it's sole weakness gets halved, and it can go for perfect accuracy Thunders. Scizor can also pick off weakened rain threats like Latios with a Pursuit or Bullet Punch, but it's kinda fallen a little bit due to Genesect existing. Both sun and sand, OU's other top weathers, happen to have a weather setter weak to Ground, meaning Dugtrio can trap them in battle and pick them off.

Heck, most of OU works on rain teams, except for like Ninetales and Tyranitar. Even new suspect Kyurem-B works on rain too.

I think Gastrodon's climb to fame (went from NU to OU in one tier change) is a big testament to the power rain has in the metagame.
 
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