Scizor with Fury Cutter & Night Slash
Have 2 of these and intend to use it as Mew2 counter, as its weak to both bug and dark moves.How much additional/lesser damage would occur if i were to Charged TM to X-Scissor instead (STAB effect) ?
Thanks for your advice.
Answers
I've spreadsheeted some mon and their attacks to calculate cycle DPS (enough quick attacks to charge up the charged attack, and then the charge attack, total damage divided by total time). Here's Scizor's numbers:
FC/XS: 17.01 CDPS
FC/NS: 15.83 CDPS
This is without super effective/not effective mods. With those, against Mewtwo, we get:
FC/XS: 23.81 CDPS
FC/NS: 22.16 CDPS
One thing that this CPDS does NOT take into account is the energy gained from being hit. That will shift the damage emphasis from the quick attack to the charged attack, which would make this difference a little bigger.
Simpler math, XS does 45, NS does 50, but XS gets STAB +20%, so it does 54, and XS takes 1.6 sec while NS takes 2.2 sec, so it's faster too, but you can't just factor that in directly because both have to build up energy with Fury Cutter first.
