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Machamp, finally

This team was able to pull it off with a few seconds on the clock. 4th try, previous attempts with an extra Espeon instead of the sweeper D'night. Getting all 6 KO'd would time out when swapping for the auto selected Blissey (idiocy!) instead of back up mons that were starred. Overall it worked better to have more stamina and dodge a bit even if close to timing out, rather than losing the whole team.

Asked by toytracker8 years 5 months ago
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Final shot ....

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Nice work, I've been close but always just timeout by a few seconds.

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FYI, this 'Champ had Heavy Slam. I think C/CC might be easiest to succeed against..

So from my vast experience of doing this once (but reading a ton ;-) ....
1) if timing out and not getting to all your team, add a glass canon (I walked enough Eevee into Espeon that I got several with FS).
2) if timing out because all 6 are getting KO'd (as in my first 3 attempts), then add more bulk, Eggs with psychic (or SoB) should be good.

With my last D'nite I was dodging a lot, because I knew it would be lights out if he couldn't go the distance. Paid off for me. I just now taught him Dragon Tail, which should do quite a bit better vs next Machamp compared to SW, we'll see.

Good luck, that was the most fun gym battle I've had in a long time!

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I don't think DT has any advantage over SW, besides STAB which has been nerfed. SW generates energy faster for me for some reason despite having lower EPS than DT on paper.
I TMed a 95% SW/OR Dragonite to DT/OR. I don't see any improvement.

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Congrats, teammate, that's an achievement!

What was his charge move?

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Thanks! Heavy Slam for this one, which did serious damage against the psychics.... although I tried a couple of weeks ago when my team was definitely still in the minor leagues, and Dynamic Punch ripped through them too.
I know some ppl post about how easy Machamp is, I did not think so... This was also on a recently new iPhone 7, and no real lag to complain about / blame.

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That's even more impressive - my son (level 26) and I (level 36) could not defeat a machamp with heavy slam together! Yes, there was serious game lag, but heavy slam is a devastating charge move.

You did well!

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My last 3 Machamps I've gone for have been BP/HS, which has just been brutal on me. That just rips through my psychics and even dragonite (and yes, I only have one).

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Congrats! Looks pretty much like my team except you have 2 Dnites with Hu. How big is the difference between SW and DT when attacking Machamp?

Since I fainted with 40 secs to go and auto selected a Gary B/HP when returning my next move will be to introduce some dodging.

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