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Metagross, is it better as an attacker, as a defender or both and what moveset to choose?

Is Metagross better as an attacker or as a defender (or both) and what moveset to choose?

For my (post-community day) hundo Metagross

Asked by Blue___Phoenix5 years 4 months ago
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so imo non-meteor mash metagross' best use was a Machamp counter specific to Bullet Punch + Heavy Slam

Vs Bullet Punch + Heavy Slam
Zen Headbutt + Psychic Metagross has a much higher TDO than most of the non-legendary Psychic types, while still having acceptable dps and although Sky Attack Moltres and Ho-Oh also fulfill this role one is event exclusive and the other is a legendary only good in this match up and hence not worth the rare candy expense

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Hope you wouldn't be too angry if I said Metagross needed Meteor Mash to actually be good in both aspects. Well, non-MM Metagross perform about same on offense and defense. For non-MM Metagross:
Offense: Bullet Punch+Flash Cannon for best non-exclusive Steel attacker, Zen Headbutt+Psychic for tanky (but bad DPS) Psychic attacker.
Defense: Optimal=Zen Headbutt+Flash Cannon
Good=Zen Headbutt+Psychic
But nah, I would still recommend powering up MM Metagrosses more than a non-MM hundo.

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After the community day, my old, hard-won, high-level Flash Cannon Metagross got renamed Charlotte - she had her time, now she can die.

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The best use for that Metagross is as a Defender for people to feed Berries to in order to potentially get Beldum candies. Other than that, the only thing I would be using that one for would be for Machamp or other Psychic-weak raid bosses. (Particularly for Gengar Day, when running into a Raid Boss with Poison moves)

Until Niantic releases a way to use a TM for Community Day and other Special Event moves, I wouldn't power this one up at all. Which SUCKS, because it's a Hundo for a Pokémon that is actually useful. I'm sitting on a 96% pre-CD Metagross that I want to use, but without Meteor Mash, it's just not that useful. (Meteor Mash is just plain that good)

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It's a solid defender. ZH/MM would be the best moveset in that case, but BP/MM isn't that bad either.

It's also a pretty good attacker - try using a few in Granbull raids while he's still around. Metagross eats him up.

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by ghao89 5 years 5 months ago

Hi there fellow LA trainer!

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I feel it’s a horrible defender. It’s only advantage is slowing attackers to switch to a fire mon. I now include a blast burn charizard in my battle party that melts Metagross like butter

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