Thursday, January 3, 2013

Shroomish, the Mushroom Pokemon

This is the one time it is okay to do shrooms, everyone.

Spore
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
Wake-Up Slap

EVs: 252 Attack, 128 Defense, 128 Sp. Defense(the important one is Attack, spread the rest as you please)

This is a build to utilize Breloom's astounding Attack stat of 130. Spore is a move that has 100 Accuracy and can put an enemy to Sleep. This lets you use Focus Punch, a powerful move that only lands if you are not hit by the enemy in that same turn. With STAB, it comes out to be 225 power. Wake-Up Slap gets a STAB, and if the enemy is Asleep, its power doubles, bringing its power to 180. Seed Bomb is there for a Grass STAB should you be fighting a Ghost-type, it will have 120 power. A good item to hold would be the Focus Sash.

How do we get this one? Well I'll tell you right now, it is a pain in the Arceus. But should be worth it.

A GENERATION IV GAME IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POKEMON!

(1) Raise a male Jigglypuff in a Gen IV game to lv 37 to teach it Wake-Up Slap.
(2) Teach that same Jigglypuff Focus Punch via its TM, still in Gen IV.
(3) Breed that Jigglypuff with a female Breloom to get a Shroomish with Focus Punch and Wake-Up Slap, and an Adamant Nature(or at least one that lowers Sp. Attack). Ability does not particularly matter in this case. DO NOT EVOLVE IT IN THE GEN IV GAME.
(4) Migrate the Shroomish Egg to a Gen V game, and level it up to lv 45 to teach it Spore(it will learn Seed Bomb along the way at lv 37). YOU CANNOT EVOLVE THE SHROOMISH UNTIL IT LEARNS SPORE.

I told you it was a pain in the ass. Especially if you breed for IVs. If you breed for IVs, try to get a Ditto with a max Attack IV, and breed a male Shroomish with Wake-Up Slap and Focus Punch with that Ditto.

Another thing worth noting is Dream World Breloom. It can have the Technician Ability, which increases a move with 60 base power or less by 50%. This would bring Wake-Up Slap to a power of 270, and given Breloom's Attack stat, that is a scary thing to face. If you are a greedy person who wants everything including IVs, moves, Nature, and a DW Ability, this is actually still possible, but a few things change. I'll just list the process here now. Skip over it if you are not greedy for such power.

(1) Breed a male Jigglypuff in Gen IV with a max Attack IV. This is easiest to accomplish in HG/SS due to the breeding mechanics mentioned in the IV section of this blog.
(2) Raise it to lv 37 to teach it Wake-Up Slap, still in Gen IV.
(3) Teach it Focus Punch through its TM, still in Gen IV.
(4) Migrate this Jigglypuff(male, max Attack IV, Focus Punch and Wake-Up Slap) to a Gen V game.
(5) Have a female Dream World Shroomish/Breloom.
(6) Have the male Jigglypuff you migrated hold the Power Bracer, and breed it with the female DW Shroomish/Breloom. If the Breloom has the Adamant Nature, have it hold the Everstone while it breeds to up the odds of the Egg having that Nature.
(7) The Egg will have a 60% chance of being hatched with the DW Ability(for Shroomish it reads Quick Feet, but when it evolves it will be Technician), and a 50% chance to have the Adamant Nature if you were lucky enough to have that at your disposal. This comes out to 30% of the Eggs coming out with the Attack IV, moves, Nature, and DW Ability. If not, you only have a 2.4% chance of getting one with the Adamant Nature(or 9.6% if aiming for any Sp. Attack-lowering Nature, and 21.6% if you include the neutral Natures). Not to crush your hopes and dreams or anything.
(8) Without evolving it, level the Shroomish up to lv 45 to teach it Spore and Seed Bomb.
(9) Thank Arceus you're finally done.

A fair warning, this build does not perform well against Flying, Bug, Poison, or Ghost-types, nor Pokemon with Vital Spirit or Early Bird as their Abilities. I do not advise leading with this Pokemon.

If you have any comments or questions, let me know! This is a link to how to get a DW Shroomish:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dream_Park_(Dream_World_area)

Brock out.

4 comments:

  1. I like this idea on Breloom ... can hardly wait to try it out! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  2. Same poster as above. :) I did a little homework for those of you who used up your Focus Punch TM already, or don't wish to use it. You can chain breed.
    Take a male Slakoth, evolve into Vigoroth and level to 49, when it learns Focus Punch. Do NOT let it it evolve into Slaking before this, or it will not learn it! Then breed this Vigoroth with a female Snubbull until you get a male that will know F. Punch. Now, breed this male Snubbull with F.Punch with a female Jigglypuff until you get a male, which you will raise to also learn Wake-Up-Slap. Then you are ready to Poke Transfer as described above.

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  3. Sigh ... nix that idea above. It all worked fine, until it was clear that the baby produced (igglybuff) would not learn Focus Punch.
    However, I did not have to breed the Jigglypuff that knew Wake-Up-Slap and Focus Punch while still in Gen IV. I went ahead and transfered it (Poke Save) to my White 2 game, where I had a DW female Shroomish waiting. It all worked fine from there. :)

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  4. How well has he worked for you? This is one I've been waiting to try with the DW Ability but no Shroomish comes up as female for me yet :/

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