Hello thots. I am the (in)famous HeavyMetalFairy – mainly known for my crazy theories and gimmicky strategies. Everyone pretty much knows my Smeargle for being a nightmare – mainly because 90% of the time my opponents allow me to set up Geomancy. But when the official first ever PJN tourney was announced, I knew Junglian’s would expect me to run my Geo-Smeargle set, so I figured… why not change its move pool up a bit – and run a full on Baton Pass team. Something I always wanted to do. I’ve been battling competitively since Gen 4, running Baton Pass Ninjask to help set up good physical sweepers that needed the speed – and as time passed with new moves & niche’s I discovered my buddy Smeargle.
So for the PJN tourney I studied upon a good baton pass chain, and figured out one that I could use. A lot of people may think you have no skill for running a full baton pass(BP) team, and may think it’s cheap, but teams are subjective so to each their own. Baton Passing allows me to max out a Pokémon’s potential and exploit the limits of a Pokemon. I’ve always been drawn to that notion. I love chain-sweeping. Unfortunately, in the PJN, I didn’t get a chance to show my full potential because I broke my game (wore down the gold contacts of it) which forced me to forfeit from the tourney since my game didn’t make it back in time. Now… let’s check out the team I used:
Team Overview
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Scolipede
Ability: Speed Boost (HA)
Held Item: Mental Herb
Nature: Timid
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Iron Defense
-Protect
-Substitute
-Baton Pass
Ninjask who? Scolipede, the monster, gets Ninjask’s job done much better now that it has Speed Boost (I don’t know what 5th gen was thinking giving it Quick Feet). Much better bulk, and can absorb toxic spikes if it has too. I usually lead off with Scolipede, specially when I’m expecting my opponent to lead off with Ferrothorn. There is nothing Ferro can do. Set up a substitute while it goes for the leech seed, then proceed to trying to get a +6 defense with 3 uses of Iron Defense. Someone wants to “Taunt” you? Laugh at them as Mental Herb washes the effect of Taunt away. It’s needed for all the Prankster users.
EV Spread: 240 HP / 80 Def / 188 Speed
1 protect and you will outspeed Max Jolly Garchomp.
Sylveon
Ability: Pixelate (HA)
Held Item: Leftovers
Nature: Calm
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Calm Mind
-Stored Power
-Hyper Voice
-Baton Pass
The two sweepers of my team are Sylveon and Espeon. If I see a lot of Dark types or dragon types on the opponent’s team then I’m forced to try to sweep with Sylveon. You’re ruined if Shedinja is on the opponent’s team though. Apart from that, Sylveon is immensely powerful. Specially with defense & speed boosts from scolipede to make Stored Power stronger.
EV Spread: 216 HP / 208 Def / 84 Speed
At a +2 speed you will outspeed anything slower than a base 112. You don’t want to catch these Hyper Voices though. The defensive investments whilst keeping a Calm nature allows it to take hits from both physical & special dishers.
Vaporeon
Ability: Water Absorb
Held Item: Leftovers/WacanBerry/RedCard
Nature: Bold
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Acid Armor
-Roar
-Substitute
-Baton Pass
Arguably Vaporeon & Scolipede are the best defense boosters in the current meta. Specially Vaporeon because it doesn’t have a 4x weakness to anything, and will eat a Gyro Ball from a Ferrothorn if you’re baton passing from Scolipede into Vaporeon. If your enemy tries to set up on you – with, per-say, Dragon Dance, Roar them away and scout them in to a Pokémon that will allow you to further set up.
EV Spread: 192 HP / 252 Def / 64 Speed
Just a monstrously bulky Pokémon. Can take on pretty much any physical hits from any Pokémon – specially couped with Defense boosts. More defense to pass = higher base power for Stored Power.
Espeon
Ability: Magic Bounce (HA)
Held Item: Leftovers/RedCard
Nature: Calm
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Calm Mind
-Stored Power
-Substitute/Shadow Ball
-Baton Pass
Espeon, one my sweepers, is a Pokémon I toyed with (EV-wise) on this team. It’s fragile physically, and at the time Aegislash & Talonflame were running wild (I see them less and less used now), so I believe for the PJN tourney I might have maxed out its defense but I’m not too sure. I would sometimes run a unique set with max HP and Defense investment, but I think for this tourney I might have run something different (check EV spread below). Esp is pretty much the poke that I try to send all the baton pass boosts over into. STAB Stored Power is amazing, and I replaced Substitute over time with Shadow Ball so I can have a way of hitting Shedinja & Aegislash. Red Card is too catch an opponent off guard and force switch them out while you set up another Calm Mind. And if I manage to set up Ingrain for recovery with Smeargle, I no longer need to fear Whirlwind or Roar from Skarmory & friends so then I’ll use Sylveon as my sweeper. If you want to run a full baton pass team, try testing these two spreads depending on what you fear the most:
EV Spread: 200 HP / 252 Def / 56 Sp Def
or
EV Spread: 200 HP / 56 Def / 252 Sp Def (I use this one more)
Smeargle
Ability: Own Tempo
Held Item: Focus Sash
Nature: Timid
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Ingrain
-Quiver Dance
-Spore
-Baton Pass
Probably one of my top 5 favorite Pokémon of all time. Not only can it learn any move in the game, but it’s a fricken dog that paints with its tail. Can we get any more original than that? My more infamously known Smeargle runs Geomancy with a Power Herb, but this Smeargle I cherish as well – because it’s PERFECT for a full baton pass team. Ingrain is to make sure you can’t get roared or whirlwinded out (breaking your chain) and also for recovery. Spore your foe to sleep, set up a Quiver Dance and get the ball rolling.
EV Spread: 88 HP / 168 Def / 252 Speed
Mr. Mime
Ability: Soundproof
Held Item: Leftovers/Sitrus Berry
Nature: Calm
IVS: 31/0/31/31/31/31
Moveset:
-Calm Mind
-Encore
-Substitute
-Baton Pass
Perfect Pokemon for blocking sound moves (boom burst, roar, perish song, you name it). In the PJN tourney the first match I had was up against RioSpeedWagon, I lost miserably because I mispredicted his Mega Gengar using Perish Song (even forgot it could learn that) and trapped me with Shadow Tag ruining my chain. You have to be careful with your predictions when baton passing. 1 wrong move and you’re wrecked. I later replaced Mr. Mime with Zapdos (due to Talonflame & Pinsir) which I find works MUCH MUCH better. But I couldn’t swap out my Mime for Zapdos or else I would’ve been disqualified (we needed to keep same 6 through the whole tourney) – wish I had discovered Zapdos sooner. Mime still gets the job done, but it’s better to have another sweeper with my Sylveon & Espeon. Mime is great at locking poke’s in with Encore.
EV Spread: 252 HP / 240 Sp Def / 16 Speed
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Post-Tourney
I thought I would’ve done really well in the tourney if it wasn’t for my game having to under-go repair (which didn’t even happen at all, Nintendo sent me a completely new game). And I can’t wait until I re-build the same team again (minus mr. mime) … Just been busy with work and MM’ing and life in general. But once I get my team rolling again the community is in for some rage quits XD (mwahaha)…
Check out two battle video codes that I managed to save from the tourney to get a feel for how OP this team is:
Vs. Edgardo: G2ZG-WWWW-WWW8-NQZJ
Vs. Nathan: 3CGW-WWWW-WWW8-NR3N
The following video is not from the tourny, but is a demonstration of how great this team sweeps. 6-0 FTW! I’m surprised he didn’t rage quit:
Vs. Sergio: PYSG-WWWW-WWW9-ZTB5
Congrats to the winner of the tourney & everyone that participated. I had fun honestly. I thank you for reading this analysis of my PJN team and I hope you can face my next BP team in the future:
GUYS MY LAPTOP IS FIXED!!!!!!!!
Did you find out what was wrong with it?
Power supply
the jack was loose and the cable had lots of wear and tear but its all good now
grekbfecej kfhbh
SHINY SLOWPOKE!!!!
We both found shinies at the same time-ish 😀
Congrats! MM project?
Yup 😀
Honestly not a fan of the lavender berry color
i fell in love with the Pink dope then violently hated what it became
Slowbro on the half-shell?
more like that freaking annoying wall that sprays scalding hot water on me and lazes about
Turtle power!
5IV -Spe 😀
You know how we can change the backround battle theme in XY?
Do you think we’ll be able to do it again in ORAS?
Do you think we’ll also be able to change the design?
I really don’t like ORAS’s blocky texture. It just feels weird and well…that’s all I’ll say. I’m doing my best to not think about it, but…WHY DID THEY ADD THAT SILLY MINECRAFT ARROW?!?! It’s really distracting.
Still like ORAS though. So far, that’s one of my only complaints.
alright i’m going to go set up my laptop
i will miss the office Mac’s bigger screen
good luck
Here she Is (refresh)
I’m going to get going.
BLOCKS.
That’s always going to be on my mind now.
Thanks ORAS.
Not that blocks are a bad thing.
It’s just that in some things, they’re not used right.
ORAS is one of those things.
I’m not going to let the battle menu bring me down, because ORAS really are fantastic! Obviously, in my eyes, not perfect, but fantastic.
Now if we could just get a Lego Pokemon, like how Ben 10 Omniverse has a Lego Alien named Bloxx, then my Block Mania will be appeased.
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120830021939/ben10/images/a/ae/Bloxx_omniverse_official.png
They even had LEGO Ben 10 sets lol
ECHO echo
Ben 10 used to be the show!
Oh did you know the latest episode had a Pokemon reference?
Both a Magikarp and a gyarados!!!
The next season started already? Woo! Can’t wait to see it and that’s awesome!
I don’t watch Ben 10 anymore…I only liked the original one xD Alien Force was okay and I didn’t see the new one 😮 (i think ultimate alien and omniverse right?)
i think Porygon is a lego pokemon .
My MM 30 is Down to MM 8!!!
Time to Rehunt for Houndour 😀
I was so used to the office mac’s crummy screen everything on my Laptop seems super bright and lightly colored
not bold or thick…..
also the stupid power cord they gave me doesn’t even work!
thank god i have the original
So is there anyone who still hasn’t gotten their code? …or just me..?
Just you
:C I cri
I got one thanks to Liza, but they haven’t emailed me my code yet either.
I got my code… But I accidentally deleted it from my email… now I will never get my Code WHY! WHY! I was looking so forward to it…
Check the trash bin if your email has one, should be there!
my email doesn’t have one…
I have one extra code. First to reply gets it. GO!!
pls
Sure. If you ever get one, either give it away here or give it to a friend. We don’t want codes wasting away in inboxes.
Do you have a chatango?
gotcha, and i did have a chatango but i can’t quite remember it. Give me like 5 mins to see what i can do :3
No probs. 🙂
Alright i had to make another account, name is the same here (TheNintendoChip)
Thanks so much for this! 😀
Ok., Im getting on!
omg I missed the chance.. I just deleted mine -.-
Does anyone have an extra demo code they can give me… I messed up and now I don’t get my code at all…
If anyone has a code that they can spare, you would help me out a lot! I plan on recording it on my channel and would be more then happy to give you a shoutout or something of the matter
I would but Nintendo Chip got to it first. 🙁 Maybe if he ever gets his email he could give it off here, IDK.
If i get an email for mine (i signed up for it but i haven’t gotten it yet, so idk if i’m even getting another one), i’ll give it to you :3
Just keep checking back every now and again, i’m usually on from 3:00-8:30 weekdays & all day on weekends c:
I am so depressed now, I was looking so forward to this demo and now I can’t even play it…
Heavy purposely made the pokemon on his article non shiny to make us less jealous.
Hate to be negative but I just got done talking with PLDH.net. Gym Leader Rematches VERY unlikely. Data in Demo likely final. Why leave out Gym Leader Rematches but include the Elite Four and Wally with Rematches. It should of been in there. Level 5 Zigzagoon placeholders likely just to show unfinished Trainer data. All Trainers and matches in Data. Just not all teams have been fully programmed.
Look on the bright side, Elite four has EPIC REMATCHES and the battle frontier is confirmed to return!, as well as some potential for some Primals and new MEgas. don’t be negative, always look to the future
I doubt the Pokedex would just be the old Hoenn dex plus Gen 4 evolutions of old Pokemon in the old Hoenn dex.
I mean, why go from a whole lot of available Pokemon in XY to this?
Plus, didn’t GF say it would have a lot of Pokemon choices like XY?
I’m saying that the demo dumps give us an idea of what to expect but there is still things that are left out for the final game.
Lol.
Just wait til ORAS, we’ll find out then.
I’m taking whatever’s been leaked as consideration of what might or might not be in the game and what to expect. I’m not saying anything is confirmed or not confirmed until the official games are out and I see it for myself.
There are chances for everything.
So apparently ther is a chance of mega slaking, zangoose, and milotic.
Nintendo had a oras booth showing off megas, and those three were part of it 0.0
Mega Milotic you say? I NEED!!!
Not 100% confirmed though, take it with a grain of salt.
(I really want mega zangoose though)
I think they just put them in there to show off Hoenn Pokemon. After all, ORAS is Hoenn remakes!
Wait, then why would tjey have Lopunny, Audino, and Slowbro?
Exactly.
The Pokedex sure as hell ain’t final, so is everything else leaked.
Oh lol I thought it was a reply to another comment xD/
TO show off which Pokemon get ORAS Megas
And Seviper.
It’s happening, but not Ludicolo and Shiftry.
Looks like I’m not getting a demo code then 🙁
I’m sorry about that, tbh it gets boring after the first 4 times
No
I hope Gym Leader Rematches are in the game. If not, I will be VERY pissed off! Especially because the programmers went to all the trouble to give Wally and the Elite Four upgraded teams. Sadly, I think this is all the data. Game Freak are lazy asses that forgot to take out all the data because they think their fans are too incapable to find it. Think again! They also just forgot to finish some of the trainers at the time of this build and left them with Level 5 Zigzagoons. So yes, this is an early build of the game. But it is very well into development. Sorry but Gym Leader Rematches deconfirmed.
Keep in mind, that rematches are a special kind of flag in the game and tend to be hidden until you beat the story, on top of that we know that you rematch Wallace so ;D Stay hopeful
Wallace is just a special one time event most likely for when you arrive to the Battle Resort aka the Battle Maison shitter.
I wouldn’t be so negative. I know they return based on one important.
Dude, chill.
i have us code if you want it for demo
You’re making me annoyed again. Stop.
The leaks are giving us an idea of what to expect. This is not the full game.
Calm. Down.
I’m not saying anything is confirmed or not confirmed until I get the ACTUAL game and see it for myself.
You make a game as good as this then.
I’m just saying if all of this data is actually the final game, I will go to Game Freak’s office and complain. Because why of all things give E4 and Wally upgraded teams but NOT the fucking Gym Leaders! Who in the world thought that was actually a good idea?
This is likely to be the last time we will ever see the Hoenn Gym Leaders and they need to go out in style.
THIS IS NOT THE FINAL GAME. IT IS A DEMO!
STOP, OKAY?!
WE WON’T KNOW UNTIL THE ACTUAL FINAL GAMES ARE IN OUR HANDS AND WE PLAY THEM!
*Opens eyes*
You tell him!
GF and the rest of the world.
Just calm down, they haven’t been in any other game in a while, and they’re really not deconfirmed.
*Bows head in shame and realizes mistake*
Coding is hard. I know because I’ve been learning it. AND IM DOING BASIC JAVASCRIPT! My programs dont often go over 25 lines. And they do one simple thing. It takes me about 10-20 minutes to get a small funtion to work properly. Imagine a full game that takes so many different polygons and variables. Not to mention adding in megas, art, textures, and sounds! Making a game is not easy.
So dont call them lazy. If anyone makes a full fledged game, they are anything BUT lazy
ORASgoomy i have a us code if you want it
that hand..
https://i.imgur.com/k4QXSa1.png
3 way confirmed
I’m just an angry sailor at the moment. PLDH.net basically believes the demo data is the final game’s data or very close to it and that Gym Leader rematches are very unlikely. He’s the one that made me very angry and upset today. I took his story to heart and now seeing all of you again, I realize: It’s just a damn demo.
is ORASGoomy here?
Can I say something else?
The Pokedex didn’t have non-Hoenn Pokemon that get Megas in ORAS, like Lopunny and Audno.
That means it ain’t final.
So therefore, it means any information isn’t final yet and is just info on what to expect.
Wait until the actual game to effing complain about what is or isn’t in the game.
Peace.
hi
Hai.
I gotta go to my marching band practice, peace!
have fun
Additionally, let us not forget that hackers will discover new Megas that will be in the Final Gen VI Games.
Less we forget Mega Lati@s in XY?
Have fun in Band!
I think it’s best if I head out now. Got myself and everyone else worked up just because of something PLDH.net believes: “Gym Leaders Rematches unlikely”. I trust him & took his opinion as fact but he doesn’t have answers. No one does.