Best Pokemon.

One of my personal favorites when doing competitive 6 on 6 is Espeon because of its crucial mid-game sweep potential. Moves: Stored Power Calm Mind Signal Beam Shadow Ball Item: Focus Sash Ability: Magic Bounce Stats: Timid Nature(+Speed, -Atk) 252 Speed/ 252 SpA /4 Spd I'd Like to start off with Espeons Ability. Magic Bounce allows the user to reflect all non damaging moves, hazards, and status moves. The rarity of this ability shoes just how powerful it is. At any point in time you can predict an enemy during a competitive battle will throw a thunder wave or will-o-wisp at you. This will be easily deflected by magic bounce even on switch in and an easily back fire on your opponent and can even send back stealth rock/spikes/toxic spikes/sticky web etc. This makes mid game switch ins a breeze for this Pokemon especially when you can properly anticipate your opponents next move. If in the case that you incorrectly predict and you take damage you can rest assure that focus sash will allow Espeon to survive and has the speed to deliver the first blow every round from one of three high coverage move sets. Shadowball: Protects from Ghosts and other Psychic Types Signal Beam: Protects from Dark/Psychic/Grass Stored Power: STAB move with powerful potential Strong against Fighting/Poison My typical exploitation of Espeon's power is by boosting his stats usually indirectly through a baton pass from another Pokemon on the team. By boosting his stats stored power receives Base:20 + n(20). N being the number of stat boosts he possesses. Espeon has the move calm mind which adds a stat boost both to his SpA and his SpD adding to not only his ridiculous amount of SpA but also to the base power of the move stored power. After using calm mind once, stored power's base power will be at [20+2(20)]1.5 (The 1.5 comes from STAB as Stored Power is a Psychic Move. While this may seem minor at first, given enough chance to power up or the opportunity for a teammate to boost its power and baton pass to Espeon, for example a smeargle with geomancy/baton pass/spore. Geomancy Boosts SpA/SpD/speed by +2. that is 6 power boosts and can truly unleash the potential of stored power. [20+6(20)]1.5= Base Power 210 !!! After Espeon gets baton passed in with this stat boost he is pretty much undef-eatable. He is fast enough to always hit first. If stored power doesn't kill you one of his other movies definitely will. He is guaranteed to survive at least one attack because of his held item. He is also unable to be statused confused or affecting in any way due to magic bounce. While a 1 on 1 battle with Aegislash would probably give victory to Aegislash has a few Faults in his set up. Your Aegislash set up is very prone to crippling. A Faster Pokemon with will-o-wisp would destroy your whole plan. Stance Change prevents you from preparing for priority moves from faster opponents. If you are using Shadow Sneak and Greninja uses shadow sneak Greninja's shadow sneak will move first every time because of his speed. Also because he will always move first your stance change will be triggered by shadow sneak bringing you to attack mode and leaving you very weak to a shadow sneak attack by a faster opponent. The same strategy would probably work for a slower Pokemon as well now that I think of it. The problem with King's Shield as a move is that while it may protect from damage, you are still vulnerable to a status move. There are also quite a few Pokemon who know Will-o-wisp as well as shadow sneak which would cut your attack power rendering a swords dance boosted shadow sneak powerful still but not nearly as powerful as it could be. He would slowly lose health and constantly be beaten in speed by a faster ghost type pokemon who also knows shadow sneak, god forbid the Pokemon has an infiltrator ability as well. Your Aegislash is set up to be a dominant sweeper but with all dominant sweepers he can easily be taken down with everything but brute force. Reasons Espeon is a Better Pokemon: A. High Special Attack and Speed ensures a powerful first strike almost every time B. His power potential in perfect scenarios can completely change the course of the game at any given opportunity. C. Strategic power of Magic Bounce and Stored Power for almost any situation