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burninmylight on 07 July 2016
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Luke888 said:
IkePoR said:
That 4x Ground weakness tho.

Air Baloon and you're ready to go :v

Kill it in two turns instead of one then. ;)

burninmylight said:

We need to know it is/has a final evolution and it's base stats first. Corrosion is a cool ability, but that don't mean much if it's sitting somewhere with a sub-500 BST and can't do anything other than what it's ability entails. Earthquake is everywhere in compettive too, thanks in no small part to the Pokemon you mentioned.

Actually I think you can get pretty decent stats even below 500 BST, look at Sableye who was played for ages in it's regular form with 380 BST, of course Salandit and it's evo will have to deal with more weakneses, but the proper item can deal with that...

Possible 450 BST spread for Salandit's evo which would be perfect:

HP 70

Atk 20

Def 70

Sp. Atk 100

Sp. Def 70

Speed 120

In Sableye's case, it didn't have ANY weaknesses (plus THREE immunities!) until this current gen, and it has Prankster, one of the top five abilities in the entire game. It's typing and ability is what makes it viable, not those stats.

Salandit has a very useful ability, but it's not in the class of Prankster. In all likelihood, it'll be a nice ability, and with those stats, Salandit will be a niche mon with only a couple of uses outside of its ability. It's not tanking anything with that bulk, especially with Earthquake and Water attacks being super common, and Rock attacks not being far behind. It's extremely speedy, but with 100 base Sp. Atk, it better have Nasty Plot or Calm Mind. And even if it does, it still has the problem with bulk.