Gardevoir vs Lugia
So I've built my counter team for Lugia based off Pokebattler with and without my Pokebox and both say Gardevoir with Confusion/Shadow Ball is a great choice...
Just done a Lugia with Dragon Tail/Hydro Pump and it was woeful... "not effective" on screen for both my Gardevoirs!
Any ideas what I'm missing here?
Answers
1. Neither Garde nor Golem is that great against Lugia.
2. Gengar is a class cannon requiring a high level in order to survive long enough to fire a shadow ball that increases its DPS drastically.
In most cases you can put in 1-2 glass cannons up front (jolteon or gengar).
remaining 4-5 slots can be filled with raikou mewtwo, zapdos, tyranitar that all out lives and out DPS Garde. In many cases dragonite also outperforms Garde.
What ranking are you using? When checking perfect counters, both Gengar and Golem get higher overall and DPS ranking than Gardevoir, with Gardevoir having CB/SB as preferred moveset (9% better than C/SB).
Sounds like it's one of those cases where the averaging of simulations works in a strange unintended way and you get skewed results. Always worth checking the overall counters ranking in addition to your own pokebox.
I tried out my best Gardevoir against Lugia due to the same advice. Man could she tank the Lugia hits, but I didn't have the right moveset : CB/SB.
I have one other Garde with that moveset, but not boosted up. I bet it could work, but I've been investing in other counters that will be both useful here and against the Legendary Birds.