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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?

Asked by lorenztroke7 years 11 months ago
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Not sure as to why SB is on top but for VW generates more energy and has a shorter cool down.

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So, you think that the optimal moveset is VW/PB?

If vine whip generates more energy why Razor leaf has more DPS? I am agree with you about the cool down.

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They balanced the moves, if it does more damage is generates less energy and vice versa.

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You really want vine whip if you are a dodger. I have no clue why is solar beam is listed better than petal blizzard.

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So, as a dodger VW/PB is better, and as a non dodger the optimal would be RL/PB?

Im asking cause im a non dodger (im mostly dodge charge attackas).

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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.

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Sense has been made! Thank you, you made my VW/SB venusaur even more likable to me.

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This is technically it.

VW/SB will do more damage over time than RL/PB if you are an attacker. If you are a defender RL/PB will do more damage over time because the AI only attacks about once every 1 second.

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Maybe with a 50 seconds fight PB can do more damage but as it is now using a high damage skill like solar beam makes combat easier because u cant actually kill lets say a gyarados before using a HP.

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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.

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Solar beam has to be one of the most effective, powerful charge moves in the game at the moment. Petal Blizzard is no where near as good. The tech explanation is above thanks to swordgrunt :)

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