Unoriginal Pika-Clone
Togedemaru
#777
Electric/Steel
Stats: 65, 98, 63, 40, 73, 96
Iron Barbs: If physical contact is made on this Pokémon, the opponent will receive damage equal to 1/8th of its maximum HP.
Lightningrod: Electric-type moves are drawn to this Pokémon. Electric-type moves will do no damage and the Pokémon's SP ATK is raised one stage. If the Pokémon is Ground-type, moves are drawn to it, but it gets no boost.
Sturdy: The Pokémon will remain with 1 HP if it was going to be knocked out by a move when at full Hit Points, and it is immune to One Hit KO moves.
Level Up
L1 - Tackle
L1 - Thunder Shock
L5 - Defense Curl
L9 - Rollout
L13 - Charge
L17 - Spark
L21 - Nuzzle
L25 - Magnet Rise
L29 - Discharge
L33 - Zing Zap
L37 - Electric Terrain
L41 - Wild Charge
L45 - Pin Missile
L49 - Spiky Shield
L53 - Fell Stinger
TMs
TM01 - Work Up
TM06 - Toxic
TM10 - Hidden Power
TM17 - Protect
TM21 - Frustration
TM24 - Thunderbolt
TM25 - Thunder
TM27 - Return
TM32 - Double Team
TM33 - Reflect
TM42 - Facade
TM44 - Rest
TM45 - Attract
TM46 - Thief
TM48 - Round
TM56 - Fling
TM57 - Charge Beam
TM66 - Payback
TM68 - Giga Impact
TM72 - Volt Switch
TM73 - Thunder Wave
TM74 - Gyro Ball
TM84 - Poison Jab
TM86 - Grass Knot
TM87 - Swagger
TM88 - Sleep Talk
TM89 - U-turn
TM90 - Substitute
TM93 - Wild Charge
TM100 - Confide
Egg moves
Egg - Reversal
Egg - Present
Egg - Encore
Egg - Twineedle
Egg - Wish
Egg - Fake Out
Egg - Tickle
Egg - Flail
Egg - Disarming Voice
L1 - Tackle
L1 - Thunder Shock
L5 - Defense Curl
L9 - Rollout
L13 - Charge
L17 - Spark
L21 - Nuzzle
L25 - Magnet Rise
L29 - Discharge
L33 - Zing Zap
L37 - Electric Terrain
L41 - Wild Charge
L45 - Pin Missile
L49 - Spiky Shield
L53 - Fell Stinger
TMs
TM01 - Work Up
TM06 - Toxic
TM10 - Hidden Power
TM17 - Protect
TM21 - Frustration
TM24 - Thunderbolt
TM25 - Thunder
TM27 - Return
TM32 - Double Team
TM33 - Reflect
TM42 - Facade
TM44 - Rest
TM45 - Attract
TM46 - Thief
TM48 - Round
TM56 - Fling
TM57 - Charge Beam
TM66 - Payback
TM68 - Giga Impact
TM72 - Volt Switch
TM73 - Thunder Wave
TM74 - Gyro Ball
TM84 - Poison Jab
TM86 - Grass Knot
TM87 - Swagger
TM88 - Sleep Talk
TM89 - U-turn
TM90 - Substitute
TM93 - Wild Charge
TM100 - Confide
Egg moves
Egg - Reversal
Egg - Present
Egg - Encore
Egg - Twineedle
Egg - Wish
Egg - Fake Out
Egg - Tickle
Egg - Flail
Egg - Disarming Voice
At first glance its just a slower-than-usual, vulnerable Pikachu clone and yeah, it kinda is. However, besides being the only physically offensive Electric/Steel type it also has a fairly versatile moveset. Most notably, it is a user of the previously bug-exclusive (Drapion lmao) Fell Stinger which turns a very mediocre damage dealer into a real threat.
Besides its crippling 4x weakness to Ground, it has a great defensive typing with 10 resistances, 2 of which are 4x resists, compared to 3 weaknesses. Another annoying gripe is that its speed doesn't quite meet OU's standards of the juicy 100 though it has some 100+ Speed 'mons if it has a Jolly nature since its so close to 100.
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Spicy Stinger
Togedemaru @ Life Orb
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Speed
Jolly Nature
- Fell Stinger
- Zing Zap
- Grass Knot/Poison Jab
- Fake Out
This is the gimmicky set which I've been utilising in OU to a pretty good degree of success. Effectively its a far inferior alternative to Pheromosa in that I will send Togedemaru out to finish off an opponent using Fell Stinger, even going out of the way to ensure that it gets low enough without dying that a non-STAB 50BP move can take it out. Fake Out seems counter-intuitive in that often it will deal less dmg than is taken from Life Orb as recoil but its utility comes from whittling down an already-low target in order to finish it with a Fell Stinger. With 250% of its original Atk stat its usually able to get some juicy KOs.
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Very much enjoyable and rewarding to use, Togedemaru provides a very weird niche with its immediate triple-Moxie but in the end won't ever be viable in OU with an offensive set like I use. It has decent support capabilities in its moveset and Lightningrod is always good but in this aspect it will probably be outclassed by other Pika-clones, even in Doubles, such as Raichu, Emolga and Dedenne. When people stop getting caught out by Fell Stinger, it will become even less useful as they can switch without much threat. Curious to see what people will do with such an odd Pokémon.