Monday 9 July 2012

Pokémon Review: Tornadus





It may be the worst of the 3 genies, but that doesn't stop it from being awesome!
Tornadus is unique in the fact it is pure flying type -- the first and only pure flying type.
It has STAB Hurricane, which is extremely usefull, especially for rain teams as it has 100% accuracy in the rain (and has 50% accuracy in the sun) -- it also has a 30% chance of confusing the opponent.
Another popular move for Tornadus is Acrobatics with Flying Gem, but this is seen more in VGC.
It also has a very nice ability in Prankster, giving +1 priority to non-attacking moves.
Tornadus is also let down by it's bad Defense & Special Defense stats, but don't let it's flaws put you off it!

As for EVs, I'd focus mainly on Special Attack & Speed when using a Hurricane set, but focus mainly on Attack & Speed when using an Acrobatics set.

Here are the 2 most common Tornadus sets, these are both Smogon sets:

Hurricane
Tornadus @ Life Orb/Choice Specs
4 Atk/252 SpA/252 Spe
Nature: Naive/Timid
Ability: Prankster
Moveset: Hurricane, Hammer Arm/Focus Blast, Rain Dance/Hidden Power Ice, Taunt/U-turn

Acrobatics
Tornadus @ Flying Gem
252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Prankster
Moveset: Acrobatics, Bulk Up, Brick Break, Taunt/Substitute

In the TCG:
Card I am reviewing: Tornadus - 89/98 & 98/98 - Emerging Powers

Even though Tornadus EX has been released in Dark Explorers now, Tornadus from Emerging Powers is still an extremely good card.
For only 3 basic energies, you can use Hurricane to do 80 damage to your opponent, but you have to move a basic energy from Tornadus to one of your benched Pokemon.
1 basic energy will also let you switch an energy from one of your benched Pokemon to Tornadus.

I also like how it has a cheap retreat cost of only 1 basic energy.

I don't really have anything else to say, but here are the links to the scans: http://pokebeach.com/scans/emerging-powers/89-tornadus.jpg & http://pokebeach.com/scans/emerging-powers/98-tornadus.jpg

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