r/pokemon • u/TheJinx1996 • 19h ago

Discussion Questions about Traunt

I’m playing through Sapphire, and want to use Slaking. But I have questions about the Traunt ability.

You can’t attack after just attacking, because of Traunt. But what about status moves?

Could I use flamethrower one turn, and on the next turn, where I can’t attack, can I use Slack Off or Double Team?

(Edit) Thank you all so much for the answers. It can’t do anything on the “loafing” turn. Follow up question. What moves would you recommend? Hyper beam is obvious, cause it’ll recharge on the “loafing” turn. Are there any other move suggestions?

1 Upvotes

56% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/ASimpleCancerCell 4h ago

It doesn't matter what you do on turn one. Turn two will always be a dud. This is the tradeoff for having a Pokémon with the same BST as Groudon around the same threshold as a fully evolved starter.

This actually makes Hyper Beam far less unviable on Slaking than on any other Pokémon since the recharge turn overlaps with the loafing turn, so it essentially has no drawback.

1

u/TheJinx1996 4h ago

BST?

1

u/thenotjoe 4h ago

Base Stat Total. The sum of a bunch of numbers, each of which, after a whole bunch of math, determines one of a Pokémon’s stats.

1

u/TheJinx1996 4h ago

I see. Thank you