Venusaur Moveset OP & DPS
Afeter seeing de Venusaur page y came to the conclusion that the actual best and OP moveset for Venusaur is Razor Leaf + Petal Blizzard (keeping in mind that the DPS of the quick and charge attack are higher than the VW/SB moveset), nevertheless, the VW/SB is marked as the optimal moveset. Anybody knows why is that?
Answers
There is more to the damage calculations than simply the DPS of the moves.
PB may have higher dps, but over the duration of SB, you'd throw out PB and a couple of quick moves with much lower dps. So overall SB will do more damage over the course of the fight.
To put it on numbers: you'd deal 180 damage with Solar Beam in x seconds. In those same x seconds if you have Petal Blizzard, you'd do 110 plus a few 7's or 11's from the quick moves afterwards.. which likely doesn't add up to 180. Even though they're charging a new PB, it's probably still not enough.
My understanding is that over time Razor Leaf and Petal Blizzard deal more damage over time. I'm thinking that they figure you'll only need to fire off one solar beam to defeat the opponent since one cycle of Vine Whip and Solarbeam is stronger than one cycle of Razor Leaf and Petal Blizzard.thats taking into consideration that you use it on a Pokemon you have an offensive type advantage over hence why it ranks higher on the list. Im not quite sure but this is how I've rationalized it.
