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i am cool
09-24-2008, 01:24 AM
Seaking, the king of the sees, although he could be female.....anyway, seaking really fills some nice niches and is a very cool poke to use.


Uber king@ Life Orb
ability: Swift Swim
evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Waterfall
- Mega horn
- Return / Double-Edge
- Ice Beam / Peck


This set can be used in ubers where seaking is the fastest king of all thanks to kyogre's drizzle making him one hell of a sweeper via speed boost, boosting his speed in the rain, ice beam is for a nice ko on rayquaza, waterfall is for double stab and hurts hell out of everything, even groudon after sun take's a lot from it's hp, megahorn is to hurt those pesky psychics in ubers and for a powerful move all around, while return with waterfall is only resisted by empoleon and servers as a filler, while peck is if you see the rare shedninja, although this set is terribly walled by giratina.



UU king@ Life Orb
ability: swift swim/ Water Vail
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Waterfall
- Megahorn
- Return / Double-Edge
- Hydro Pump / Peck


Here you can opt for water Vail to make you immune to burns and the side effects of the like's of flame thrower, water fall for stab and if you go with swift swim you can destroy those ever so common rain teams in uu, mega horn is for hypno and grumpig who can survive a water fall even under the rain and lo, peck is just filler while hydro pump can kill steelix which has a chance of surviving waterfall even after lo, stab, seaking's good atk, rain and him being weak to it showing us that steelix is a really powerful physical wall.



OU king @ Life Orb
ability: Swift swim
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Waterfall
- Megahorn
- Return / Double-Edge
- Hydro Pump / Peck


This set is meant to be used on an ou rain team but can work outside of rain teams, if your using this on a rain team then you might to opt to pick peck since it hurts the rare shedninja and waterfall is hurting skarmory just as much as hydro pump under the rain, although hydro pump kos which water fall fails to do, return is just for pure type coverage while mega horn hurt's psychics type's especially those bulky one's, and also it can ko deoxys e, although seaking fails to out speed even after rain and max speed, unless your running hasty/naive seaking for some reason.


UU flail set @ Lieshi Berry
ability: Swift Swim/ Water Vail
evs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
nature: Adamant
- Substitute / Endure -
- Agility / Rain Dance
- Flail
- Waterfall

This is meant to be used only in uu since there’s no automatic ss and hail nor much entry hazards going on since there’s not many pokes that can learn them in uu, you basically come on something that can't hurt you, either agility or rain dance, rain dance being the best option since it double's your speed just like agility does and gives you extra oomph for your water attacks although when it end's it's pretty bad, once that is done you either keep subbing until you go down to -25% so lieshi activates, or you can opt for endure if your scared of something being faster still, flail is a nice 200 BP move and with lieshi boosting your attack your not going to have much trouble raping the opposition, water fall since every steel in uu is weak to water attacks unless you count mawile but still mawile is rarely ever seen.


Other Options: you could go and try a CB set, but the lo set basically does everything and the CB set won't out damage anything any time soon.

Evs: max speed and atk is the way to go.

Opinion: seaking can obviously fill a lot of niches in any tier and is a great sweeper, but it relies a lot on rain to be good because it's speed isn't that outstanding and it's atk it's anything spectacular either, over all it's a very good poke and should be considered when making a team.

Counters: Nothing much, you just have to wait and switch with good prediction until rain ends, while in ubers where there’s constant rain, giratina walls hell out of it and so does dialga and palkia to some extent, while kyogre might not be that much of a safe switch in it can work well if it has some bulky evs.