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93.3 IV Snorlax ZH/EQ

Hatched this guy today not sure if I should feed him because of the move set.
As least have a maxed 84% ZH/HB and 2 lvl30ish ZH/BS defenders

Asked by shadetree24208 years 5 months ago

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It's still a Snorlax. The only reason not to would be to give the candy to one with a better move set. If you other lax are powered where you want them, go for it.

My Z/EQ Snorlax has already won 6 battles. That's how good he is.

I feel like most people attack Snorlax with Rhydon now and EQ is super effective against them.

Eq good against Rhydon? Really.

2x against his Rock typing, and his Ground typing doesn't get a discount against Ground attacks.There's no STAB involved with a Snorlax, but his base attack still makes it devastating when it lands.

The multiplier for SE is 1.25, same with STAB.

Dragonite is still superior against Snorlax, but there's no reason not to power this Snorlax. EQ is still a good move, just not as good as the STAB normal moves.

Give him food!.

how are you appraising his IV like that within the game?

But yea absolutely power him up if youve the candy.

It a app for Android (tool kit for Pokemon go) It's not available on iPhone thow.

I dont like Snorlax EQ, it's a bad attack easily dodgeable and boring(weak) for attacking as a Snorlax, Dont feed him!

People put Snorlax with Lick/Earthquake in gyms. This is at least better than that. The most important aspect of Snorlax is his fat HP and high CP. Having 93% IVs gives this really high potential. Unless you have a Snorlax with better moves AND higher IVs, I would power it up to at least 2500cp so I could put it into gyms above the lowest defenders.

Question for everyone, would you power up a Snorlax with nonoptimal moveset, Vaporeon, Gyarados, or Rhydon?

I should clarify the purpose of this power up is for Gym Defense. All of the following have the optimal moveset, but Snorlax.

A Snorlax with a non-optimal moveset will still take longer to defeat than any of your examples. Yes I'd power up other Pokemon too, but Snorlax is always the first choice in making a gym stronger.

How about Snorlax vs Dragonite vs Lapras all of the following have the same IV and the worst move set?

I would not power any of the following movesets for defense :
Snorlax L/EQ L/HB
Dragonite DB/anything
Lapras FB/DP FB/Bliz

All others moveset are very good even though SW/HB and FB/IB are suboptimal (2nd choices if nothing better)

If I have too choose one to power up among thos bad movesets, I would go for Dragonite without hesitation because CP is the highest so always usefull in gyms and candies are more easy to get so i dont feel bad "wasting" candies. You can only power up a few Snorlax and Lapras so you need to be patient and elect a good one.

Well, a Snorlax with Lick is not powerful at all, except if people take Alakazam or Exeggutor to attack Snorlax.

I would boost Dragonite and Lapras (maybe wait a FB/IB ?) for attacking, but to me, no one is interesting for defending.

So we do agree.

For defense, assumming good IV, all Snorlax ZH are worth powering. L/BS is aslo quite good. I would never power L/HBorEQ
The movesets of gyarados and Rhydon are secondary since they is no big difference between them and those two are weak on defense. You want them for their high CP so IV matter more.
Vaporeon is easy to get and waterpulse is way better for defense than Hydropump. Aquatail is somewhere in the middle. I personnaly power only 96%+ WP Vaporeon. But you might loosen this to 90%+ WPorAT if you have trouble getting a perfect one. Hydropump is not worth powering for defense but it's good having one to kill Rhydon golem and fires.

In my opinion, I don't agree the gamepress's statement that earthquake is not good because of no STAB bonus for NOW. Before, I believe it. Now, earthquake performs a good type coverage against gen 1 Pokémon, which is after the CP update. Gengasr, Rhydons and other attackers got their CP buffed, while Earthquake performs 25% more damage to them. Moves such as BS and HB are resisted by them and the Magnetmite family, which does normal damage. It also performs 56.25% more damage to Magnetons.

As always, a good snorlax with any moveset except for Lick/Earthquake is useful, just the most powerful defending moveset is ZH/BS.

But you should not invest your dust, since you already have good snorlaxes.

who attacks Snorlax with magneton?
I agree that there is no big difference beteween HB and EQ on defense but you seem to forget all the case where HB as great type+STAB advantage over EQ.
+56% : Dragonite, Gyarados, Exeggutor
+25% : Alakazam, Vaporeon

And who is the official 'soft counter' to Snorlax around the net?

Exactly Rhydon and EQ is super effective against it.

Seems like EQ is the better choice out of the two.

STAB + NVE is the same thing as SE damage in Pokémon go.

So, even against Rhydon, Snorlax with HB or BS is going to do more damage.

I would not boost it.

The reason is, even if it has a quite good potential, Snorlax candies are rare enough to get, to boost a EQ Snorlax.
Try to wait a ZH/BS Snorlax, even with lower IVs :)