Luster Purge

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    Luster Purge, Latios's sig move, is slightly weaker than Psychic. But this may be a reason to use it. Latios is a special sweeper with only special attacks. How do you kill an SDer then? Psychic lowers SD 10% of the time. But before you have signifigantly lowered Blissey's SD, you are dead. Is there a better way? Yes. Luster Purge, by the third hit, will be stronger than Psychic. Luster Purge kills your enemy's SD at a 50% rate, killing them 5x faster than Psychic. And before you tell me to just not use ubers of switch Latios out for an ATKer, assume you are down to your last Pokemon. And uber-haters are stupid.
    Latios@Soul Dew
    Psychic/Luster Purge
    D Claw
    T/Bolt
    Surf
    And don't comment on the moveset. Just tell me the best move out of those five to use.
     
    recover and calm mind would let you win against everything not only blissey


    but, yes I have often used luster purge over psychic during uber battles, because if I don't know my opponents team I can't out predict them, and latios has decent speed to the luster purge damage + the SpDef down + the SE move I have generally results in a K.O.
     
    I actually thought i would be flamed without mercy for this post. Anyway, thank you for actually agreeing with me.
     
    lol i was thinking about flaming for a sec. Nothing harsh, just sarcasm. But husk's post says everything
     
    y psychic/luster purge in uberbattle, almost every uber is resistant to psychic
    latios@ souldew
    tbolt
    icebeam
    recover
    cm
     
    Makes me wish Bulk Up would actually matter in the Uber Metagame </random>
     
    The best moveset I've used for latios so far has to be
    latios@soul dew
    pychic
    dragon claw
    recover
    calm mind

    But, luster purge is starting to sound more like latios's sig move, so this moveset might be better then the one above

    latios@soul dew
    luster purge
    dragon claw
    recover
    calm mind

    And ya the 10% chance of pychic lowering happening is low! When i used my latios, pychic NEVER lowered the oppennents stat, so its either unlucky for me that pychic never lowered there stat or what your saying is true. :D :snea:
     
    Boltbeaming is generally better, as there are few that actually resist it. As for Dragon Claw, I give it credit on Lati@s for STAB and high sp. atk, but I gave my rant about it in another post that i might have to edit again. As for Luster Purge, anything that stays in against one of its psychic attacks is either stupid, resistant, immune, or can just take on Lati@s anyway. So I'd find Psychic much more useful.


    btw, Master, love ur sig.
     
    Umbreon = 1337. I neeed to rant about this
    *** Flies of to make a new thread
     
    it's funny becuase you all THINK that a proper Latios doesn't OHKO with Psychic anyway after all the CMs you use, and if it still doesn't OHKO, it'll do well over 50% so that lowering Sp.def is a ****ing waste.
     
    true. It also OHKOs with CM Boltbeaming iirc. Besides, in an uber metagame, I've seen Twave blissey put into use, and it completely ****s Calm Minding ubers. Just paralyze, maybe throw in a seismic toss or two, switch out to a Shadow Baller (CB Deoxys-f prolly, just watch out when it attacks on the switch).
     
    Metal Sound lowers Sharply(two stages)
     
    it still doesn't do **** to blissey. I've seen it happen with my own eyes. the Tunderbolt did like 15% before and 20-25% after.
     
    Well then something was wrong. I've used up to 2 Metal sounds from Maggie onto Blissey before, and tbolt did at least 40-50%
     
    aboslute max Sp.atk magneton Thunderbolt on standard Blissey after 2 Metal Sounds:

    Minimum Damage 36%
    Average Damage 39%
    Maximum Damage 42%

    then bliss would kill you with the 3rd seismic toss it was allowed and safely softboiled the damage away a bit later.

    not to mention max Sp.attack magneton is stupid anyway. it doesn't have the speed and defenses to back up the Sp.atk.
     
    Luster Purge isn't that great, IMO, since nearly everything resists it in the uber metagame, and well, that's where Latios should only be used.
    Also, Luster Purge has a low PP and most things have pressure in the uber metagame.

    Anyway, I'd suggest this set for Latios:

    Latios@Soul Dew
    Nature: Modest / Timid
    EVs: Enough speed for outspeeding max speed Kyogre and Groudon; 252 sp.attack and the rest should go in hp.
    Calm Mind
    Dragon Claw
    Recover
    Safeguard / HP Fire

    Safeguard stops t-wave Blissey, but HP Fire can also work, since Metagross is quite common in the uber metagame also. I'd rather recommend Safeguard on it though, 'cuz CM+Recover+Safeguard always beats Blissey 1 on 1.

    I hope this helps.
     
    Ham said:
    aboslute max Sp.atk magneton Thunderbolt on standard Blissey after 2 Metal Sounds:

    Minimum Damage 36%
    Average Damage 39%
    Maximum Damage 42%

    then bliss would kill you with the 3rd seismic toss it was allowed and safely softboiled the damage away a bit later.

    not to mention max Sp.attack magneton is stupid anyway. it doesn't have the speed and defenses to back up the Sp.atk.
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    It may not be the best at it, but it does its job at stuff like resisting boltbeam(to an extent) and making for an easy skarm KO. I'm not saying that's a valid reason to use it on every team, but it's not like it completely sucks like Delcatty or something
     
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