New Dusknoir Moveset

[tactician1016]

Dusknoir
Adamant/Brave
EVs: 252 atk, 252 hp, 4 def
Choice Band
Shadow Punch
Brick Break
Fire Punch
Ice Punch

What do you think?
Only real counter is Gyarados

 

[evkl]

http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/dusknoir Basically a variant on the CB version Smogon posted.

Not a bad idea but remember that banding means you can be switched into pretty freely.

 

[The Fool on the Hill]

I would replace Fire Punch with ThunderPunch, but that's it.

 

[tactician1016]

more powerful ghost move, plus it beats the two most common dark types OHKO (weavile, tyranitar)

 

[Geodude]

Tyranitar resists Fire Punch, what are you talking about?

 

[The Fool on the Hill]

^But Brick Break is 4x effective.

 

[The Outrage]

Generic Choice Band set =/= New, especially with a 252/252 split.

more powerful ghost move, plus it beats the two most common dark types OHKO (weavile, tyranitar)

Barely....

If I recall, Shadow Punch overpowers it by 30 base points with STAB, but giving up a first turn hit. When it comes right down to it, being able to hit first and defeat the opponent before you yourself gets damaged is much more important for a choice band set.

And what? The old standard has Focus Punch. You are really not going to be able to switch a Dusknoir into a Weavile or Tyrannitar safetly, so your attempts at Brick Breaking is useless with its low speed. Your only hope to actually kill those two is if you can lure them out with some strategic play, though a CB Dusknoir would become pretty obvious fairly quickly (but that`s besides the point).

With proper prediction, you'd hit the two Pokemon with a super effective base 150 move seeing as Dusknoir is pretty tempting to switch into for a Tyrannitar. Even if you don't get them, that's still a base 150 move, which is equal in power to any of your other moves with a super effective hit, and is much stronger than a neutral Shadow punch.

Now to quote Smogon: "Tyranitar, Weavile Metagross and Heracross are all huge problems"

Also we have an RMT forum :/