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I came across another Machamp today, since I have optimized my team, I went and try it, but guess? Bullet Punch + Dynamic Punch, the hardest moveset! And it was even weather boosted.

First attempt, my Alakazam fired a Future Sight right before the first Dynamic Punch landed. Later, the second Dynamic Punch hit right before the next Future Sight. Then, a bug occurred, the game registered the Future Sight! After a while, boss HP rubber banding started to annoy me, so I quitted.

Third attempt, the first Dynamic Punch was delayed, and my Zam got off 2 Future Sights, this was by far the best attempt. But this time, energy rubber banded on my Espeon, then followed by a phantom charged move! I quitted and I gave up, and ended up duoing it lmao.

In fact, my Gardevoir was taken away about 30% HP by an undodged Dynamic Punch.

Edit: I did not power up any Lugias/Ho-ohs, they are below level 25.

For those wondering why I posted this twice, I thought the previous post did not send to the GamePress server, so I posted another one, but then I realized my previous post was successfully saved, now I deleted it.

Asked by 333-blue7 years 4 months ago
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Weather boosted anything is going to be stronger (by a measurable difference) than it's non-boosted self.

The more you know...

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by sfawc 7 years 5 months ago

I made the same mistake of trying to solo a Machamp on a cloudy day. Epic fail! With weather other than cloudy, I can solo pretty easily depending on his moveset and if it's windy or not. Usually 20-55 seconds left. But cloudy? Won't make that attempt again. :-(

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by SphiNx 7 years 5 months ago

Probably it's because of DP, I soloed C CC one in cloudy weather. It took me three tries, but my team is far from perfect: 2 zams lvl34, 3 espeons lvl29-30, and H SB gengar lvl 34.
And I use Android.

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Yes, i know, you have to dodge all charged moves in this case. When i first saw it it killed all 6 pokemon them timed me out with like a silver lining of hp left. On the second time i dodged the charged moves and i did it.

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by hkn 7 years 4 months ago

Bullet Punch + Heavy Slam is even worse as Alakazam and Espeon do not resist HS, while Gardevoir is weak to it.

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I would rather face a Machamp with Bullet Punch + Heavy Slam cuz it is comparatively easy to deal with.

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by kst76 7 years 4 months ago

I solo-ed a weather boosted machamp with counter/dynamic punch using 6 lvl40 dragonites. It was tough but managed to down it with 5 seconds left on the stop clock. I did not dodge. It was risky but if phone had a slight lag, the battle would have been lost. I am not sure if throwing in a mewtwo or gardevoir might improve the timing but I have not tried since my mewtwo is still only at lvl20. Losing interests in this game so not really keen on powering up any pokemons at the moment. If interests is rekindled, I might consider bringing mewtwo up to lvl35. I am crossing my finger and hoping niantic to introduce some skill-based type of gym battling to make this game more interesting...

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The simulations suggest that my level 30 team (PC/FS and Conf/FS Alakazams, Conf/FS Espeon, Conf/DG Gardevoir, Conf/Psyc Exeggutor and DT/Hu Dragonite) could easily beat a weather-boosted Machamp with Count/DP with realistic dodging (and the battle would go down to the wire with 25% dodging).

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