What can wall a Talonflame?
I was just wondering what can wall a Talonflame, since a friend of mine keeps beating me with it. I’m very new to Pokemon, I could use all the help I can get.
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Three things:Rotom-Wash, Heatran and Rock types. These are the top three best counters to Talonflame in my opinion, for one big reason: they wall Talonflame’s STAB. If you don’t know what that means since you’re new, you’ll see a lot of this abbreviation, specifically if you play competitive Pokemon. It stands for Same Type Attack Bonus, which refers to the 1.5x power boost a move gets if its type matches one of its user’s types.
So how can you counter Talonflame with these Pokemon?
The mere existence of these Pokemon will mean experienced players won’t attempt to sweep with Talonflame since they know that they won’t win a fight against them with Talonflame. There are other tricks you can use to beat it, for example stalling it out using its recoil moves to your advantage, or “out-prioritising” it by using a +2 priority move like Extreme Speed to move before it does and deal and nice chunk of damage to it. Perhaps the best way to counter Talonflame outside of a Pokemon is Stealth Rock. In case you didn’t know, Stealth Rock deals damage to every Pokemon your opponent switches in, according to their type match with Rock. Since Talonflame is 4x weak to Rock, it will lose a huge 50% from its HP when switching in, which softens it up a lot, leaving it vulnerable to nearly any attack or simply killing itself with the recoil from Flare Blitz or Brave Bird.
Really all you have to do it survive an attack and hit it with something with a decent amount of power, and Talonflame is gone. If the move and the Pokemon are powerful enough, often it won’t even need to be super effective; Talonflame is just so frail. The Pokemon and things I mentioned are just the best at doing that, there are many other ways to counter it that depend on the situation. Also note that if those Pokemon are weakened, they may still lose against Talonflame.
If you have any questions about this, leave a comment. I tried to explain some things that may be foreign to newer players, but if I didn’t do a good job of something let me know.
A very solid wall to Talonflame would be tyranitar, with it’s resistance to both of talonflames STAB moves and a advantage against talonflame as a rock type with powerful 4x effectve moves like rock slide or stone edge and a very high attack stat as well as a nice defense stat tyranitar not only walls talonflame but also takes it out with ease.
