Dodging
How often does your phone register your dodge as an attack instead of dodging?
I'm asking to help choose which moveset to upgrade. Input is appreciated.
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ooopsa :D
sorry mate but 85-90% are registered well. so maybe every 10th fail. ohhh dear xD
But it depends on how much i really wanna dodge. If I would be concentrated for the dodges the quote would be much better. But dodging is often not really neccessary. So dodging is mostly not more than a bad try.
well everyone dodges HB unless their swipe is registered incorrectly as an attack. this doesn't change the relative effectiveness of the two moves, because one move doesn't have a higher change to make dodges register as attacks instead.
if your phone doesn't dodge when you want it to, then both moves would hit and you'd want hyper beam.
if both moves gets dodged, hyper beam does more actual damage as well as deal more dps over time.
earthquake only does more damage if it isn't dodged when hyper beam would have been dodged, and that only happens to people who are bad at dodging that they can only dodge hyper beam reliably.
since most players who are still playing are the competitive ones who can dodge consistently, that makes hyper beam the better move against most of the players who are going to fight your snorlax.
another thing to note is that the delayed damage can even work in favour of hyper beam, because some players won't use their charge move until after the hyper beam has been dodged just to be 100% sure that the hyper beam is dodged or simply because their charge move isn't fast enough, which gives the snorlax enough time to do a quick move or two that can't be dodged.
sorry, I don't know which is better.
while earthquake is the weaker move right now, who knows if moves are going to get rebalanced again, or whether the cp formula is going to be changed, or if movesets are able to be changed in the future.
it might be different for you but in my area, gyms are level 4-5 at most. no one bothers training gyms up high anymore because it takes too long and it's winter, so being at the top or bottom of a level 5 gym doesn't matter because it'll get taken down soon anyway, which means neither IV or moveset would matter.
but if it's different in your area, and gyms are still being trained up, I suppose it would depend on what others are putting in the gym. if they're putting in weak stuff then the 67 snorlax with hb will probably still be able to sit at or near the top, and will do a better job of defending, making up for the weaker pokemon.
if the rest of the pokemon are really strong, like idk the first defender is 2k cp, then your one snorlax's charge move isn't going to make much difference to the gyms overall difficulty to take down, but having the higher cp means it stays in longer, which is helpful if you're in an area where gyms are only losing their bottom defenders and being retrained again, but even then, the lower IV snorlax might still have a high enough cp to stay in the middle or near the top.
