Snorlax

[GGFan]

Type/s: Normal
HP: 523
Attack: 318
Defense: 228
Speed: 158
Special: 228

Weaknesses: Fighting

Snorlax is pretty much the common standard in every generation of play.

Set 1
Body Slam
Earthquake/Surf
Hyper Beam/Counter
Selfdestruct

Ah yes, Snorlax. Arguably the best sweeper in the game. A very nice 318 attack packed with all the things a physical sweeper would need AND the ability to Selfdestruct. Explosion would be TOO powerful, haha. Anyways, strategy is simple. Bring Snorlax out whenever you want, Snorlax can be played whenever to be honest and then use what you have to use. Selfdestruct when you can't go on or predict the switch to Gengar by EQing or Golem/Rhydon by Surfing. Personally, I perfer EQ because it has wider type coverage and still hits Rhydon and Golem for almost 40%. Snorlax has bad defense and special but it's tremendous 523 HP makes up for it so it can take hits as well. Counter can work for a surprise but you have to ditch Hyper Beam and it's a one shot deal really. It's Selfdestruct OHKOs almost every Pokemon in the game except for rocks, Tauros, Mew and Mewtwo to my knowledge.

Set 2
Amnesia
Thunderbolt
Ice Beam
Rest

Amnesialax. Not very popular anymore, I used to see this used more in early 2003. Basically you play this like you'd play a Slowbro. Snorlax has the defenses and no electric weakness to pull this off. Amnesia up and boltbeam things, Rest when you get weak. The main problem with this set is that you wont be OHKOing things that take neutral damage from both, so physical attacks can get their licks in. Chansey will stall you and force an Ice Beam war and then you have exploders. Those damn exploders.

Set 3
Body Slam
Earthquake/Surf/Selfdestruct
Reflect
Rest

SamGLax, SamG was the one who thought of this particular set. It's the closest thing to a stallwar your going to get, depending on what's out there to combat this set. Only luck counters this, unless the opponent has a ReflectZam, Slowro or Exeggutor, it would be a good idea to switch out. Otherwise, this set can maul teams granted your Reflect is up when something can explode. In the hands of a good player, this set is just as good as the other two, possibly better than AmnesiaLax too. Body Slam is your mainstay move, EQ hits Gengar while Surf can mess up rock types more, though I personally recommend EQ more. Selfdestruct is sort of your "shit i just cant do anymore" or "shit i just cant set up" move.

Body Slam
Reflect
Amnesia
Rest

SamGSCLax. This Snorlax set is effective for three very important reasons. The current metagame doesn't really see or use this set. You can set up way too easily as a result. For example, send it in after Tauros kills something, set it up against Tauros, and it is game over for your opponent unless they run sets which no one uses. That or they run Persian. You use Gengar with this Snorlax, obviously. They work well together. Gengar also counters this set, but only if you don't run Explosion. Reflect Chansey beats this set, but you can't switch in unless you predict a Rest/Reflect/Amnesia.

The second factor is that Snorlax is hell to take down. 523 is the second best HP for a Pokemon that people actually use. With Amnesia and Reflect Snorlax can really take a beating then rest it off. With the HP alone he can take 2 CH Body Slams from Tauros at average damage and then rest it off.

The third reason why this works is because of Snorlax's attack and typing. Body Slam STAB on 318 is powerful. It 3HKOs Starmie and Chansey, so it is a waiting game to kill them. Alakazam, Exeggutor, Tauros, Chansey, Starmie, Rhydon, Golem, Zapdos, and Gengar (there are more, of course), they all fall to the set. Gengar is getting outstalled because Explosion really doesn't bother it.

Of course, this is not a full proof set. Some things can counter it. Chansey with Reflect will run Snorlax out of moves. Reflect Starmie does the same. Rest Rhydon can do this too. Gengar without Explosion outstalls this. Persian beats it. Again, using Gengar on your own team is not a bad idea. Other than that things get outstalled by Snorlax. Of course, no one really uses these things, and that is one of the reasons why this Snorlax is so good.

The most common set is the physical set because it can be used from the get-go. Snorlax is standard because it's arguably the best sweeper in the game with Tauros. Snorlax is awesome and I definitely recommend putting it in your standard teams as it can do everything you'd want a physical sweeper to do. Sure it's tied with Parasect and Lickitung for slowest Pokemon in the game but thats only a small price to pay for being able to Body Slam, Hyper Beam, EQ, SELFDESTRUCT, take physical and special attacks, serve as a boltbeamer and having nice stability against physical and special attacks.

I dub this Pokemon...............Standard

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[samthedigital]

What about Counterlax?

[GGFan]

Yeah forgot about Counterlax sorry.

[Yellow]

I fought a counter-lax the other day. Caught me off gaurd.

[samthedigital]

I would like to add that EQ on the Reflect set is much better, so I would NEVER use Surf. Snorlax doesn't really care if a Golem is out after he is set up. Explosion doesn't do enough for him to care about getting hit. He can take a Psychic from 'Zam and sleep off the damage IIRC. So you switch after you rest. I wouldn't ever use Surf because even if you predict the Golem switch and nail them, they can still Explode, doing what they would have done anyway. That and Gengar walks over Surf/Reflectlax, something that would REALLY suck. Since Snorlax wants to keep his reflect, since this set has a harder time switching in with a lack of SD. That being said, SD is an option over EQ since even with BS Snorlax can sort of take care of Rhydon/Golem. He gets beat by Gengar, but Selfdestructing after he has done his job gives you a good advantage

Edit: I would just like to add that while I don't like Surf, GGFan is right, it is an option.

[samthedigital]

I keep forgeting things. =X
Amnesia can also work. He only needs to use it twice throughout the game. The third time won't matter. And when it works, only two things will beat it: Luck and stalling it. Gengar can help stall it, but he will get outstalled. Slowbro goes and outstalls it IIRC. Another Snorlax will not outstall it, and both will be wasted, however. So really the only thing you need to worry about is Slowbro. But he *might* get pp wasted. It depends, really. I just wanted to add this bit.

[samthedigital]

Aerodactyl, (Arcanine), Articuno, Blastoise, )Charizard(, (Clefable), Cloyster, Dewgong, Dragonite, Exeggutor, Gengar, )Golduck(, Golem, (Gyarados), Kabutops, Kangaskan, (Kingler), Lapras, )Lickitung(, (Machamp), Magneton, (Marowak), Mew, Mewtwo, Moltres, (Muk), )Nindoking(, (Nidoqueen), Omastar, Onix, )Pidgeot(, )Pinsir(, Polywrath, Rhydon, Sandslash, )Seadra(, Slowbro, Snorlax, Tangela, (Tauros), (Vaporon), )Venusaur(, )Vileplume(, Weezing, )Wigglytuff(, and (Zapdos) can all survuive a Snorlax Selfdestruct.
Pokemon that have nothing around their name can survive it 100% save the CH, (Pokemon) survive something like Tauros, they can die to it, but not usualy. )Pokemon( have at least 90% done to them, and it might KO, but it could live. Some )Pokemon( almost always die, though. This is NOT including unevolved Pokemon.

Every Pokemon that is fully evolved that learns Reflect can also live through a Snorlax Selfdestruct 100%.

[GGFan]

Gengar can't really stall Amnesialax at all unless it has Rest for some stupid reason. o.O

[samthedigital]

What I was talking about before was Reflect/Rest/Amnesia/Body Slam. Gengar can help stall out Snorlax so that your own Snorlax can outstall the opponents Reflect+Amnesia Snorlax, and then eventualy get your opponents Snorlax to struggle so that yours safely sweeps. This is if the opponent doesn't switch out. If that happens then Gengar will come in and counter 'Lax again later maybe. You could use Surf/Earthquake/Ice Beam/Thunderbolt instead of Body Slam for this set and avoid the Gengar problem, but then you get problems like killing Chansey and Starmie unless they are paralysed and you are not. That is why BS should ALWAYS be there with this set even with the Gengar problem. That and Gengar is usualy sleep bait, and the player could put something else asleap if Gengar is awake. I think someone mentioned Surf/Amnesia/Reflect/Rest before. It gets stalled to hell. BS>>>>>anything. It needs it. =X
I just need to get that last point across so people don't thing I am an idiot trying to promote that stupid Surf/Amnesia/Reflect/Rest set.

I forgot something else. Rest Rhydon counters some forms of Reflectlax, Reflect Chansey counters every form of Reflectlax. I am not going to count Starmie and Alakazam as counters for the Reflect/Amnesia set since Snorlax (those with Reflect, and lol at Reflect Starmie) runs them out of everything usefull.

Also, don't get me wrong, I am not saying that this should always be used. I am just saying that BS/Amnesia/Rest/Reflect is a valid option that can work.