Saturday, November 17, 2012

Audino, the Hearing Pokemon

I saw this image posted by a Facebook page named "Team Rocket" and after I finished laughing a few minutes later, I decided to look Audino up and see what I could make with him. Audino actually has the stats of a decent wall. So here's a build that plays up to that potential.

Fling
Sweet Kiss
Attract
Wish or Rest

EVs: 252 HP, 128 Defense, 128 Sp. Defense

Hold the Burn Orb, and use Fling the first turn in. Now the opponent is Burned, so he'll lose HP over time and have 50% less Attack. Sweet Kiss will Confuse the target, and Attract will infatuate it(assuming it's the opposite Gender). Wish or Rest is for healing, which one is up to you.

How to get this Audino?

(1) Breed a male Togetic that knows Sweet Kiss and Wish with a female Audino(both learned via level up). Aim for the Regenerator Ability, and a Sp. Attack-reducing Nature.
(2) Teach Attract and Fling(and Rest if you want that in stead of Wish) to Audino via their respective TMs. Attract can be taught to Audino via level up as well, at lv15.

It makes for a good stalling wall, confuse and infatuate so you don't get attacked often, and burning to weaken and drain your opponent's health. The only problem is that the Burn Orb goes away so it only really works against one target, and does not work against Fire-types at all. But even then, you can still fall back on the Confusion damage, or just stall like crazy until they Struggle, all of those attacks have a lot off PP. One substitution worth considering is swapping Attract for Covet, so that you can steal the target's item and Fling it at them for more damage(unless it's a berry, in which case hold on to it).

Questions, comments, etc.?

Brock Out.