Scarlet and Purple Pokémon: the strongest attack of the game that has already been prohibited in competitive

When we evaluate the power of a Pokémon, we must be attentive to all the details. Not only is it enough to look at their statistics or take a look at the power of movements and skills. When we deepen a little more, we can find true barbarities that Game Freak added to the game to tell us the origin of each of the creatures that populate the scarlet and purple Pokédex, but which are an aberration from a competitive point of view. A situation that has starred in the evolutionary chain of Brevard, introduced in the franchise at the beginning of this ninth generation.

The most powerful scarlet and purple Pokémon attack

Brevard evolves in Hound stone by reaching a level equal to or greater than 30 during the night. In doing so, learn a new movement. This is posthumous tribute, a physical blow of the ghost type that barely has 50 power points. To get an idea, this is just over half of the damage that can inflict the shadow ball movement, which has always been one of the most common among phantasma type Pokemon. However, scarlet and purple Pokémon developers went from the line creating a side effect for the attack-exclusive to Hound stone.

In an individual fight with six Pokémon, this attack can reach 300 power and become the most powerful in the franchise. Not even the dreaded Z or explosion movements can be compared to Hound stone unleashed power when he is the last living member of the team. However, it is not even necessary to reach so much: it is already a very considerable blow once just a couple of creatures have been weakened. The situation is reinforced if we take into account the statistics of the evolution of Brevard, whom we might have included in our best team to overcome the adventure.

In addition to lazy in a special attack that we are not going to use under any circumstances, Hound stone is weak due to its speed. However, it has a skill that solves all its problems. This is the already known Arena Impetus, which doubles the speed when we are under the effects of the climate of sand storm. In this way, in competitive there were even players who sacrificed their entire team to get Hound stone to fight under Colima, throwing the same attack on six consecutive occasions and winning the fight in a tremendously simple way.

The only Counter to this simple strategy is the use of the low coup attack, other priority movements or have a creature of the normal type in the team. However, it was not easy. Thanks to his high defenses, Hound stone is a quite resistant Pokémon with which almost no one was able to deal unless he prepared beforehand. Due to this circumstance, Smog on, the most important competitive individual fighting community, has decided to ban it. It is a preventive decision and perhaps in the future allow us to use it without this movement. However, until that moment some time has to spend.

Until now, Hound stone was the only legal Pokémon with posture tribute. We cannot say that it is worth banning a movement if there is only a Pokémon that learns it. The necessary proof that an attack must be prohibited is that many creatures are able to take advantage of it. It seems that with the launch of Pokémon Home there will be other creatures that will have access to posthumous tribute and will be quite strong. If this is true, we can revise the situation to ban OF's posthumous tribute to minimize damage and allow both to be played, they explained from Smog on referring to the possible arrival of tilt with this movement.

It should be noted that Smog on decisions are taken into account the entire community of competitive players of individual battles, but do not affect the official scarlet and purple Pokémon circuit. Therefore, you may want to add a normal type Pokemon to your team if you are going to play double fighting, where Hound stone is still tremendously strong. Additionally, Hounds tome can still be used in Uber, the category that includes legendary and other creatures of great power and in which there are hardly any norms. It is so powerful that he has to stick with Portion, Myrmidon or Melenaleteo.

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