Luxray, Ampharos, or Electivire - comparison?
Which is a better electric type?
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If you want to cripple potential sweeper, Luxray’s intimidate will serve your purpose. Electivirehas good old Motor Drive, which means if you can predict a Thunderbolt incoming from Gengar, you can switch Electivire into it, and snag a free +1 Speed boost, and then fire off a Psychic, Wild Charge, Fire Punch, and so on. Amphiros’s stats have never appealed to me so I’ve never used one. hope that helps.
Luxray and Electrivire should both run Physical sets since they have better Attack stats and better physical movepools. Ampharos should rarely be used though it has a monstrous Special Attack stat. (at 115, high in NU metagame standards) However, this will depend on what you are looking for, a physical or special tank. If you ask me, since I’m inclined to Physical, I’d go with Luxray. Luxray has Intimidate, which could be used as a cripple-sweeper. Electrivire is best used during Double battles. It can absorb a nice Discharge and speed up while it’s ally Discharges the enemy to death. Note that if the opponent is a Ground-type, Electrivire will easily be able to cover that weakness. Ampharos is my favorite Electric special-sweeper from the NU, with a gigantic Special movepool in NU standards like Focus Blast, Signal Beam, Power Gem, Thunder, Thunderbolt etc. it has a good niche (in my opinion) in my NU team.
go with luxray
Thunderbolt-since yours has SP ATK EVs
volt switch -stab and good if you want to switch Pokemon
ice fang-cover ground weakness
thunder wave//return-wave if you want to slow down enemies, , return if you don’t want to electric moves
Talking stat wise, ofcourse Electivire wins with 540 again 510 and 523 (being ampharos and luxray respectively).But if you want a pyshical sweeper, Electivire would have been good if it’s defense wasn’t trash, and therefore Luxray would be better.LuxrayElectric Terrian: Set up 50%+ Power for Electric moves.Thunder Wave: Paralysis, Speed drop.Wild Charge: Pyshical strong move, only little recoil damage.Crunch: Good Coverage and Strong pyshical move to screw Psychic and Ghost Pokemon.
