Originally Posted by
DeafOrangutan91
Haha, yeah Spartan, well, he was a good idea on paper, a pokemon that can only counter attacks, not attack himself, but he ended up being too OP. First of all, remember that he has the third most HP in the entire game, behind Chansey and Blissey, and ok defense which allows him to take a ton of damage before going down. He has this ability called Shadow Tag, which makes it so opponents cannot retreat from battle. He then has a move called encore, which makes them repeat whatever attack they used last the next 5 times. You just encore their attack, know if it's physical or special (generally if you touch them in the attack it's physical and if you don't it's special-tackle is physical and thundershock is special), then use mirror coat or counter accordingly. That allows you to return double the damage taken by the move you've trapped your opponent into using. Finally, give Wobbuffet wish so he can heal himself and he's the most powerful pokemon ever created. When he was first given shadow tag in ruby and saphire, he was too strong even for Uber play. He had no counter at all, and the only pokemon which could win even a small amount of the time was a Dugtrio which knows toxic. Dugtrio has arena trap and could just use toxic like 20 turns in a row to kill wobbuffet. I remember a friend who thought wobbuffet was balanced, so to show him, I let him use Rayquaza, Deoxys, Mewtwo, Ho-oh, Lugia, and Kyogre (you generally want either kyogre or groudon in uber play, not both), and I just used Wobbuffet and swept him. It's still OP, but not quite as invincible as it once was.
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