[OVERVIEW]
It's typing is extremely valuable as resisting psychic and ice, two of the top types in the tier is amazing and it also has the niche of being immune to freeze from bulky ice beam spammers like Chansey and Articuno, it can not only wall but even chip these pokemon down with Psychic or freeze them with Ice Beam. It also gains the benefit of having STAB on both of these top tier offensive types. However, despite all these benefits, It's stats really hold it back, making it incredibly physically frail and thus having a bad matchup against the top tier threats such as Snorlax and Tauros.The rest of Jynx's stats are not too great either, not that fast and not that strong. Jynx is extremely frail on the physical side so it struggles against strong attackers such as Tauros and Snorlax which it can't resist.It also loses to other top tier threats such as Jolteon and can lose to thunderbolt Starmie which is heavily in favour of Starmie. It can be used as an Exeggutor check on teams with Snorlax.
[SET]
name: Offense
Jynx (F)
Ability: No Ability
- Blizzard
- Ice Beam
- Psychic
- Rest
[SET COMMENTS]
This is the standard set that Jynx uses in the tier, Blizzard is essential for its moveset as it gives it higher odds into beating Rhydon and is also needed for the Zapdos match up. Ice beam is used for its more accuracy and pp for freeze fishing and general reliabilty. .Psychic is used to spam and drop the special stats of bulky threats like Articuno and Chansey. Rest allows it to stay healthy while it checks Chansey and Articuno by spamming psychic for special drops.
Set Description
It can be paired with reflect Snorlax to beat,Alakazam,Jolteon and Tauros, all of which Jynx happens to struggle with. Snorlax benefits from Jynx because Jynx beats reflect chansey, which Snorlax does not like facing and also reliably beating Zapdos, which Snorlax struggles to show consistency with and also relieves it from running Blizzard for Zapdos. Another great partner for Jynx is Zapdos, Zapdos covers the Slowbro and the Starmie matchups which Jynx can't beat without freeze luck. Zapdos benefits from Jynx beating Chansey and Jynx also helps out by beating Rhydon.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
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Other Options
Jynx's move pool is very shallow but counter is an option to try and beat Snorlax. This set is used to try and beat pokemon who hit hard with strong normal type moves like Snorlax by retaliating back with counter for all of their HP. However, it can't beat Tauros with it since Tauros can use leer first and pick up the KO with hyper beam the following turn, Tauros can also win by using Earthquake and Hyper Beam the next turn. This set isn't really popular because it loses the relliable damage and freeze odds from Ice Beam because it nearly always picks Blizzard over Ice beam on this set, to beat Snorlax with counter and blizzard back to back.
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Checks and Counters
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Jynx's struggles against some of the fast special attackers in the tier such as Alakazam,Jolteon and Starmie. Alakazam beats it by forcing rests with toxic and fishing for special drops and eventually winning as Jynx gets forced to rest every turn it uses toxic maximizing the odds of special drops from Psychic.Jolteon wins by using thunderbolt three times and Starmie wins by chipping Jynx down with special drops from psychic, thunderbolt and recover.Tauros and Snorlax win by just using strong physical, STAB moves against it.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
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It's typing is extremely valuable as resisting psychic and ice, two of the top types in the tier is amazing and it also has the niche of being immune to freeze from bulky ice beam spammers like Chansey and Articuno, it can not only wall but even chip these pokemon down with Psychic or freeze them with Ice Beam. It also gains the benefit of having STAB on both of these top tier offensive types. However, despite all these benefits, It's stats really hold it back, making it incredibly physically frail and thus having a bad matchup against the top tier threats such as Snorlax and Tauros.The rest of Jynx's stats are not too great either, not that fast and not that strong. Jynx is extremely frail on the physical side so it struggles against strong attackers such as Tauros and Snorlax which it can't resist.It also loses to other top tier threats such as Jolteon and can lose to thunderbolt Starmie which is heavily in favour of Starmie. It can be used as an Exeggutor check on teams with Snorlax.
[SET]
name: Offense
Jynx (F)
Ability: No Ability
- Blizzard
- Ice Beam
- Psychic
- Rest
[SET COMMENTS]
This is the standard set that Jynx uses in the tier, Blizzard is essential for its moveset as it gives it higher odds into beating Rhydon and is also needed for the Zapdos match up. Ice beam is used for its more accuracy and pp for freeze fishing and general reliabilty. .Psychic is used to spam and drop the special stats of bulky threats like Articuno and Chansey. Rest allows it to stay healthy while it checks Chansey and Articuno by spamming psychic for special drops.
Set Description
It can be paired with reflect Snorlax to beat,Alakazam,Jolteon and Tauros, all of which Jynx happens to struggle with. Snorlax benefits from Jynx because Jynx beats reflect chansey, which Snorlax does not like facing and also reliably beating Zapdos, which Snorlax struggles to show consistency with and also relieves it from running Blizzard for Zapdos. Another great partner for Jynx is Zapdos, Zapdos covers the Slowbro and the Starmie matchups which Jynx can't beat without freeze luck. Zapdos benefits from Jynx beating Chansey and Jynx also helps out by beating Rhydon.
[STRATEGY COMMENTS]
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Other Options
Jynx's move pool is very shallow but counter is an option to try and beat Snorlax. This set is used to try and beat pokemon who hit hard with strong normal type moves like Snorlax by retaliating back with counter for all of their HP. However, it can't beat Tauros with it since Tauros can use leer first and pick up the KO with hyper beam the following turn, Tauros can also win by using Earthquake and Hyper Beam the next turn. This set isn't really popular because it loses the relliable damage and freeze odds from Ice Beam because it nearly always picks Blizzard over Ice beam on this set, to beat Snorlax with counter and blizzard back to back.
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Checks and Counters
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Jynx's struggles against some of the fast special attackers in the tier such as Alakazam,Jolteon and Starmie. Alakazam beats it by forcing rests with toxic and fishing for special drops and eventually winning as Jynx gets forced to rest every turn it uses toxic maximizing the odds of special drops from Psychic.Jolteon wins by using thunderbolt three times and Starmie wins by chipping Jynx down with special drops from psychic, thunderbolt and recover.Tauros and Snorlax win by just using strong physical, STAB moves against it.
[CREDITS]
Written by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/recti.572752/
Quality checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/murm.520168/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user4.103/
Grammar checked by:
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user5.104/
https://www.smogon.com/forums/members/user6.105/
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