#BALTOY AND CLAYDO HOW TO#
Outside of this Magic Bounce would be fantastic.
#BALTOY AND CLAYDO SKIN#
Aftermath, Telepathy, Magician, Sniper, Super Luck, Telepathy and Wonder Skin and Synchronize, Trace, Sand Rush, Sand Force, Sand Stream, Sand Veil are all valid abilities for Claydol. While Levitate would make most Pokémon forget this idea, in Claydol's case it has a counterpart that has abilities other than Levitate, Bronzong. An offensive Mega would be very cool, but it would be severely outclassed, again, as Mega Blastoise shows. Since Claydol would likely retain Levitate, there would be no point in it.
Mega Aggron, Steelix and Audino all show defensive Megas do not work, unless they are like Mega Sableye and can be immune to status. If it were to happen, however, it is hard to say which stat needs it most, because it is fairly balanced already.Ī Mega Evolution would not work. However, if it were to gain one, it would be either far slower than Claydol(Claydol has decent speed for a wall) or be like Scizor and Porygon-Z and have a completely different stat distribution from its pre-evolution, one more geared towards offense.Ī stat boost is also unlikely, because of the large gap and its status as a counterpart to Bronzong, which has also quickly declined from top tier OU to barely usable in OU. Claydol has a massive 200 BST gap from its pre-evo, Baltoy, which makes it more fitting for a mid-evo than a true evolution. Well, let's look at a potential evolution. This decline has finally hit in the official games, as Claydol is no longer useful enough for Battle facilities, being one of the few Pokémon that sucks hard enough to not to be in a NPC team in Sun and Moon's Battle Tree. Its main purposes were dual screens and Rapid Spin, and the latter became irrelevant due to abundance of Ghost-types in DPPt and later with Defog buff in Gen V, and the former became just irrelevant because of the overall power creep and decline of conventional stall as a popular strategy. However, Claydol became useless quite fast. Mime as that region's early Psychic-type. It was successful enough to justify a counterpart in the next generation, Bronzor, which served alongside Chimecho and Mr. After, it was blessed with a rather weak type combination, that was strong offensively, but weak defensively, which is Claydol's forte.
It is one of the earliest OU Pokémon that was even in-game designed for sake of competitive gameplay. 1.Stats: Should Claydol get a stat boost, Evolution, Mega Evolution or nothing?Ĭlaydol is.