Slaking, The Lazy Pokémon. It spends all day lying down and lolling about. It eats grass growing within its reach. If it eats all the grass it can reach, it reluctantly moves to another spot. Wherever it lives, rings of over a yard in diameter appear in grassy fields. They are made by it as it eats all the grass within reach while lying prone on the ground. It is the world's most slothful Pokémon. However, it can exert horrifying power by releasing pent-up energy all at once. Hordes of Slaking gather around trees when fruits come into season. They wait around patiently for ripened fruits to fall out of the trees.
Battle Moveset
A Good Moveset for Slaking would have to be this:
Attacks:
Return/Double-Edge/Body Slam
Shadow Ball
Earthquake
Focus Punch
Items Attached:
Choice Band
Preferred Nature:
Adamant or Jolly
Strategy Using Slaking
Slaking, due to its typing and trait, is best suited
for the "generic Normal typed Choice Bander" set.
Double-Edge is the more powerful of the moves but
causes recoil while Body Slam can induce Paralysis but
is weaker in comparison. Return is the middle ground.
Earthquake and Shadow Ball cover all the resistant
types while Focus Punch leaves a huge dent in the
things that resist (Skarmory for example).
Like most Choice Banders it's entirely reliant on
prediction, you need to predict when to switch into
play and what move to use once in play, then predict
how to get out without putting another Pokémon at
risk. Slaking is rather user friendly for switching
in, since its high HP stat and average Defence stat
can take a few beatings, just don't overestimate what
it can withstand.
EV Corner:
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) or Jolly Nature (+Spd,
-SAtk)
It's up to you whether to go Jolly or Adamant. Most
people choose Adamant and it's probably the best
choice, since the things Jolly outruns aren't the
easiest Pokémon to switch into. You could also opt to
go with Max HP over Max Speed since you can still
outrun the common tanks without any Speed EV.
Other Optional Sets:
Slaking @ Leftovers
EVs: 240 HP / 148 Spd / 122 SDef
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Body Slam/Return/Double-Edge
- Earthquake/Slack Off/Rest
- Shadow Ball/Slack Off/Rest
- Bulk Up
The 2v2 Slaking. Get your partner to Skill Swap
traits, kick off 1 or 2 Bulk Ups and then sweep. A
recovery move is always nice (Rest can work with Early
Bird if you Swap that as your trait) and is advised to
replace one of your support attacks, but they aren't a
necessity.
Slaking @ Leftovers
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Rash Nature (+SAtk, -SDef)
- Return/Double-Edge
- Thunderbolt/Pursuit
- Ice Beam/Pursuit
- Flamethrower/Pursuit
Special Slaking. You could probably get a KO or 2 just
out of surprised. Pursuit could catch something that
has been weakened on the run.
Strategy Against Slaking
If you've got a fast Substitute or Protect on the
Pokémon that is up against Slaking then that'll beat
it. Also, Endure-Reversal Pokémon make for great
counters. Otherwise, all you can do is predict. The
standard Slaking has a move that hits every Pokémon
for at least neutral damage so you'll only beat it by
out predicting your opponent.
Contest Moveset
A good Contest Moveset for Slaking would have to be this for the Cool Contest best with Lonely, Adament, Naughty or Brave Nature:
Attacks:
Thunderbolt
Rain dance
Aerial ace
Hyper
beam
Items Attached:
Red Scarf
Strategy Using Slaking
If you do the attacks in this following order you should have very few problems; 1st - Aerial ace/Rain dance, 2nd - Rain dance/thunderbolt, 3rd - Thunderbolt/Rain dance, 4th -
Aerial ace/Thunderbolt, 5th - Hyperbeam
Locations in Games
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Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
Evolve Vigoroth
Colosseum
Trade from R/S/E
Fire Red/Leaf Green
Trade from R/S/E
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