Pure power

[Comrade]

Now i know this ability boosts attack. but by how much?

Now i know Pontus is a big medicham fan so i'm sure he'll explain. so i\m asking too, what is the best medicham moveset? this perhaps?


Medicham @ life orb
Jolly nature
EVs: 252 att, 252 speed
- ice punch
- thunder punch
- fire punch
- High jump kick


well with this, i'm wondering the att stat? and possibly with pure power, what's it boosted to?

[Chris!]

Pure Power doubles Attack so it reaches 426, or 480 when Adamant. That's 720 with a Choice Band. I'd recommend Adamant CB (or Life Orb) or Jolly Choice Scarf. Choice Scarf makes it a good lead, killing large amounts of things, while Choice Band makes Medicham a monster that can 2HKO Skarmory with ThunderPunch/HJK and 2HKO Hippowdon with Ice Punch/HJK. His downfass is having nothing for Cress.

[Spindrift]

Pure Power doubles attack so you should have 426 attack

Gah, nimrodded!

Although congrats on (almost) 1,000 posts Chris

[johnnyonthespot]

fire punch is not really neccassary on this moveset.
theres not really anything too great, but bulk up could work with proper timing, feint is a nice little trick to catch opponents off gaurd and fake out's always a possibility for a little extra damage
i would probably do ice/thunder punch, hjk, and fake out

[Chris!]

Fire Punch's basically only for Fryy and Bronzong. Psycho Cut is a good choice if you can get it from a Kadabra or something.

WOO 1k

[Comrade]

congrats on the 1G Pontus! [not quite the same as chris] well done, thanks guys. that's all i needed.

[dre]

I actually don't like using Psycho Cut on Medicham. Sure, it provides you with another STAB move that has 100 accuracy, but there really aren't many guys you get to hit with that and be supereffective.

A move I actually like using on Medicham as a nice surprise .. Rock Slide. NO ONE seems to remember that this move exists. HiJumpKick, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, and Rock Slide has surprised quite a few people .. the only thing is that Water types that aren't part ground tend to laugh at you unless your HJK does over 50% (read: Milotic, whose defense is higher than I-don't-know-what anyway).

[Chris!]

Well, I mean if you have Ice Punch who are you hitting harder with Rock Slide than ThunderPunch?

I don't find Psycho Cut all that useful except for Dusknoir and certain revenge kills, so I use Fake Out or Focus Punch or Bullet Punch there on a CB set.

[dre]

Fire-types like Infernape (when he somehow doesn't murder you dead), Weavile (and you still get neutral damage when he runs out and Heatran comes in), Zapdos (even though there's still Ice Punch for him), and Salamence (Ice Punch is obviously better, but you get a nice laugh when Weavile runs away from this and switches Salamence in, only to get it Rock Slided).

Oh, and there's the flinch chance. Can't not love a good, timely flinch.