detailed discussion: Dustox

[probationsmack]

im planning on making this guy my mascot... i practically dumped my starter for this loveable guy


trait is shield dust- shields pokemon from the additional effects of moves
that trait is going to be very useful when the serene gracers arrive in the future....

weaknesses 2x fire, 2x flying, 2x Psychic, 2x Rock
resisitances 4x fighting, 4x grass
immunitites none

Lv1 Confusion
Lv10 Confusion
Lv13 Gust
Lv17 Protect
Lv20 Moonlight .
Lv24 Psybeam
Lv27 Whirlwind
Lv31 Light Screen
Lv34 Silver Wind
Lv38 Toxic

TM06 Toxic
TM10 Hidden Power
TM11 Sunny Day
TM15 Hyper Beam
TM16 Light Screen
TM17 Protect
TM19 Giga Drain
TM21 Frustration
TM22 Solarbeam
TM27 Return
TM29 Psychic
TM30 Shadow Ball
TM32 Double Team
TM36 Sludge Bomb
TM40 Aerial Ace
TM42 Facade
TM43 Secret Power
TM44 Rest
TM45 Attract
TM46 Thief
HM05 Flash

no egg moves

i dont want to go too much into his stats but ill give you the max of each under a beneficial personality

max stats under beneficial personality
hp 293-324
attack 184-218
defense 228-262
speed 217-251
special attack 184-218
special defense 272-306

as you can see the lunar moth has no reason to be attacking, what it is intended for is kind of spelled out by what it learns naturally. I think it is the only pokemon capable of learning toxic by level plus it gets whirlwind, moonlight, and lightscreen.

dustox@leppa berry(restores pp)
shield dust
calm/careful

toxic
whirlwind
light screen
moonlight

toxic shuffler as well as a special defense tank. Calm/careful boost special defense while either lowering attack or special attack, he wont be needing them. I also like this guys 4x resistance to fighting, neutral damage from eartquake, etc. etc. leppa berry keeps moonlight going while toxic drains the strength,
also consider dustox for pseudo hazing capabilities with flash and whirlwind

[Gligar_Man]

dustox aint so bad its the first butterfree/beedrill thing that actually isnt defensively weak, but it alos doesnt have tank compatability, and is offensively weak... wouldnt be bad for the occasional status buff or whatever... heh,i dont like it, if it were defensively stronger i would, but... you know...

[probationsmack]

it is a tad bit insulting that I receive a lack of responses to my posts, if anything on this forum

IN DEPTH DISCUSSION

and may i ask is there a reason i dont receive responses?
well ill be radical and resurrect this topic

since ive already mentioned a moveset i would like to detail shield dust, dustox's cool trait

shields pokemon from additional effects of moves

wow thats cool
well assuming dustox doesnt get skill swapped
he will never:
be frozen
flinch
receive stat losses such as lowered defense from crush claw

i also assume that a curse from a ghost type would result in the ghost losing hp but no curse taking effect since the curse is the secondary effect

yet lets consider giga drain by tm
giga drain MIGHT not heal dustox since HP recovery is the secondary effect of this attack, and perhaps dustox's trait prevents secondary effects such as silver winds stat boosts
hmmmmmm

[Deck Knight]

Unfortunetely, Shield Dust only prevents ADDITIONAL effects. So moves like Sand Attack, Spore, Thunder Wave, and Leer will still effect it, however, Secret Power, Mud Slap, and Rock Smash won't do anything. btw. it also has a 2x resistance to poison and a 2x resistance to Bug(Being Poison DOES have its advantages).

A good point about Dustox though... it naturally learns Toxic... saves you your only TM06... A nice hidden plus to Dustox.

Dustox isn't real good at being a tank... but Silver Wind and Moonlight should work well for it to last... Gets Giga Drain too... hmmm...

Staller.

Dustox:

-Attack +Defense

Sheild Dust

Silver Wind
Moon Light
Giga Drain/Psychic
Toxic

Now, this set's use is simple, Silver Wind and Moonlight to heal and raise stats, Toxic for fugly Hazers, Giga Drain is for more healing, though kinda pointless with the low SA... Psychic is a higher PP move, and generally more usable.

[Gligar_Man]

bug/poison has a ton more weakness than it does resistance.... and dustox can still be pard and stuff, shield dust is good but heh... it aint the best, its too weak to be a tank, and too weak to be n attacker, does it learn confuse ray? confuse ray, toxic, moonlight, silver wind owuld be what i would go with if not... heh... whatever

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by probationsmack

i also assume that a curse from a ghost type would result in the ghost losing hp but no curse taking effect since the curse is the secondary effect

yet lets consider giga drain by tm
giga drain MIGHT not heal dustox since HP recovery is the secondary effect of this attack, and perhaps dustox's trait prevents secondary effects such as silver winds stat boosts
hmmmmmm

No, the damage from curse and the HP gained from draining moves ARE their main effects. A secondary effect is just a stat penalty or ailment that tags along with a damaging move.

[Gligar_Man]

like crush claw wont lower his defense and poison tail/claw wont cause toxic affect... im pretty sure...

[Rudoku]

Originally posted by Gligar_Man
like crush claw wont lower his defense and poison tail/claw wont cause toxic affect... im pretty sure...

Poison Tail's effect usually doesn't work on Poison type pokemon anyway.

[Gligar_Man]

it was an example... -_- like this and that wont work... bah...

[Powarun]

Well Dustox is different, you should have added that Dustox's evolution is randomly picked. Well Dustox is a pokemon that I can skip, next discussion.

[probationsmack]

i read that wurmple will evolve into cascoon at night and silcoon during the morning
in the day its random evolution
cascoon evolves into dustox
silcoon evolves into beautifly

[Scythemantis]

Nope, it's random. There's absolutely no way to predict how your wurmple will evolve, so you're better off catching a cascoon or silcoon in the woods.

[Gligar_Man]

true but people have found that like 75% of male wurmples turn into cascoon and 75% of females into silcoon... but who cares it takes like 2 minutes to evolve one... -_-