2013-10-14, 03:28 AM
I can see Talonflame totally be a decent sized threat to most grounded pokemon.
Besides being really fast, and having a pretty good attack stat, its hidden ability is gale wings, which gives it +1 priority to flying-type moves. If you combine that with Sky Drop, I can really see it being really annoying to anything grounded, especially prankster sets. Most likely, he'll outspeed them with the priority. Sky drop is a two turn attack, but on the first turn, it basically disables them, they can't move, attack, or even switch out, then it damages them on the second turn. Toxic can also add to the combo, since they're forced to take poison damage for at least two turns. Of course, there's probably a few flaws with it, but I can see it as an annoying deadly combo.
Aside from that, having gale wings also lets him use a priority roost.
Besides being really fast, and having a pretty good attack stat, its hidden ability is gale wings, which gives it +1 priority to flying-type moves. If you combine that with Sky Drop, I can really see it being really annoying to anything grounded, especially prankster sets. Most likely, he'll outspeed them with the priority. Sky drop is a two turn attack, but on the first turn, it basically disables them, they can't move, attack, or even switch out, then it damages them on the second turn. Toxic can also add to the combo, since they're forced to take poison damage for at least two turns. Of course, there's probably a few flaws with it, but I can see it as an annoying deadly combo.
Aside from that, having gale wings also lets him use a priority roost.