Top 5 Fridays: Top 5 Pokemon that are cute but can still kick ass.

I love pokemon and I have recently got into competitive battling. I also love cute things as seen in my blog's title so it made sense for my first top 5 to do cute and competitive pokemon. Firstly some ground rules:

1. A pokemon's kick ass ability will be in relation to the tier that it will battling in. For example if we refer to the Pokémon I spoke about Monday, Horsea ( please refer to http://kawaiiandkute.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/battling-with-cuties-horsea.html) it may be brilliant in Little Cup but it wouldn't hold its own as well against a Mega pokemon.
2. They must be cute.
3. No additional pokemon mechanics (contests, pokeathlons, etc.) will be considered. Those lists will come at a later date.
4. It isn't any particular order since they all do different roles in competitive play.

So without further ado, here is my top 5 cute pokemon that can still kick ass.

5. Azumarill

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Azumarill was a pokemon highly disregarded until generation 6 (the time when Pokémon X and Y came out) however generation 6 introduced fairy typing which has became this pokemon's biggest blessing. Firstly I have to talk about it's versaltility in competitive battling, and let us start with the fact that this can work in either singles or doubles. Single battling takes advantage of Huge Power, which followed by a belly-drum/ aqua jet combination turns this little bunny rabbit into the one of the most formidable sweepers in OU at the moment. Double battling takes advantage of either Huge Power or Azumarill's Hidden Ability Sap Sipper. So how does sap sipper work?

Let's say you have a team where Azumarill is your main physical sweeper and Venusaur is your main special sweeper. You could simply teach Venusaur petal blizzard. Now Petal blizzard is a move that hits everybody is double battles including your ally. Now normally if your ally is a water type then this is bad news due to the fact that unless your water type has incredibly high special bulk then they would most likely be knocked out in the process, however Azumarill has Sap Sipper which means any grass moves directed to it will raise it's attack stat by one stage. This means that whilst Venuasaur is inflicting damage to your opponents Azumarill is getting some nice attack boosts free of charge.

With thanks tor Rawsquid on Pokémon Showdown for allowing me to test it.

 4.  Shuckle

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Shuckle is the complete opposite in terms of roles of a competitive team to Azumarill. Shuckle is a cute adorable wall. With based defence and special defence of a whooping 230 each. That increases even more thanks to shell smash on a contrary Shuckle. Nothing will OHKO this thing. NOTHING. Not only that but it has some brilliant support moves. It has access to 2 entry hazzards (stelth rock and sticky web), toxic for status and infestation for damage and trapping power. Just look at the cute adorable face of DEATH.

 3. Spheal

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Look at him. Isn't he so Kawaii!!!! Cuteness aside, this little ball of aww turns into ahh as soon as Hail comes into play. Spheal and his whole evolutionary line are argued to be the best hail stallers in the game. Here's how it works:

1. Spheal's ability must be ice body.
2. Give your Spheal leftovers to hold.
3. Have a pokemon on your team that can bring up hail easily. In Little Cup snover is perfect for this.
4. Set up a substitute on your first go.
5. Then if you haven't got toxic spikes on your opponents side of the field, go for a toxic.
6. Then alternate between Subsitutes and protects, with the odd occasional blizzard.
7. Bring in the snow again if need be.
8. Watch your opposition die! All because of this ball of adorableness.

Yeah, let's say I'm experimenting with a hail team now.

2. Pikachu:

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Now most people see this guy as the cute pokemon mascot. Then somebody decided to give this guy a light ball, an item that doubles pikachu attack and special attack. Now you have a pokemon that is actually more commonly used than his evolutionary counterpart in competitive play. Not to mention that his hidden ability lightening rod is a godsend for a double battle rain team.

 

1. Chansey

 



 

 

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Once upon a time there was a pokemon that by making it happy became on of the biggest walls in competitive play. Then somebody inventred an item known as the eviolite. An item which increases a pokemon's defence and special defence by 50% if they can evolve and thus the pokemon said goodbye to it's evolutionary form whilst it went to OU. There is no doubt that chansey and Blissy are 2 of the best special walls and unless you have a fighting type pokemon it is very difficult to eliminate them both.

 

If you want to battle me on Pokémon Showdown then my name is happybonnie123. I look forward to beating you all with my Spheal army of death.