UX Pokemon Guide

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1	Welcome to Pokemon Shuffle UX Useful Pokemon Guide!!
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3	Preface:
4	This guide gives an outline of the pokemons that will be useful to have/invest for UX stages. For stage team strategy, please refer to the other guide here : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GLKc0LYepjUJ6n2ETB36gpd_7fLEG1V8NkqgOKfkWpg/edit?usp=sharing. The stage guide is very much WIP please contribute as well!
5	The guide separates useful pokemons into different category, Booster, Delayer, Status,Burst, Utility and Mega choices.
6	The guide should not be taken as 100% correct. Many strategies are often viable, and hence this guide will be updated as needed.
7	Pokemons not listed here are not useless, but mostly outclassed by more common, farmable options. Again, feel free to use your favorite mons
8	The ranking here is more based to the harder part of UX, and hence ranking might differ from the normal RML/SS Guide. A lot of reference is taken from the previously mentioned stage guide.
9	The list of pokemon here takes into account for the cheapest strategy possible. Using items is a perfectly valid, or even better option if you don't have some of the mons!
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11	Other Notes
12	Special mention ranking are given to pokemons which generally sees very little use, but hold very strong niche on a certain stage.
13	All pokemons are assumed to be max level, but is definitely not necessary. A decent, acceptable AP would be around the 105-110 range.
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15	Special Thanks
16	Kevyaga, Sky for the huge effort to relentlessly try out different strategies for each stage.
17	BunBun, FloFlo, RedditShuffle, Jacobi0, Jameslfc, Manitary, Regis, Dante, Andy, Rias , Direwolf, Skippz, Shon, Lost, Kenny, Paul, Random, Clement and whoever else in Discord who helps me out ( too many to mention sorry)

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1	Useful Megas
2	Mega evolution is essential to almost any stage. While all megas can be used in one way or another, listed here is some of the most commonly used mega within ux.
3	Pokemon	Rank	Notes
4	M-Pinsir/SMCX	S	These two should be your go to mega at most of ux stages. M-pinsir holds better type coverage, while SMCX has 5 icon evolution which will help in barrier stages.
5	Others listed below may arguably be replaced by M-Pinsir/SMCX, although might not be the best choice
6	M-Beedrill	B	Typically used in low-move stages with bad starting boards. 3 icon + swap++ to mass clear disruptions are essential to some bad ux stages.
7	M-Diancie	B	Your go-to barrier remover mega, boasting possible 1 turn mega evolution. Barrier removal damage did not scale well with UX, but still sees some use just for thr removal effect.
8	M-Houndoom	B	Slow, but damage can be boosted by burn and pyre to deal significant damage. Highly recommended in ice/bug stage with tons of barriers.
9	M-Aggron	C	Very controversial, as Tap 3 Megas are very slow without Mega Start.
10	M-Alakazam	C	Has uses for disruption-heavy poison stages such as weezing/arbok/drapion
11	SM-Diancie/M-Aero	C
12	M-Steelix	C	Has uses, but slow mega evolution hinders it, or need you to bring Jirachi with you
13	WM-Glalie	C	A faster block clearer, but arguably covers less than steelix.
14	M-Loppuny	Special Mention	Useful in loppuny repeat, or when you need to clear disruptive skyfall as fast as possible
15	Spooky M-Gengar	Special Mention	All "Convert 3" Megas have a niche of high variance and high damage burst, which might be useful if you are doing itemless attempts in UX. Spooky-M-Gengar, or even blaziken is even stronger considering their burst can be boosted by status
16	M-Tyrannitar	Special Mention	Very useful on its own stage (M-Ttar 420 and Ttar UX Repeat)

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1	Combo Booster
2	Combo boosters are the main way to tackle UX stages. and is well worth the hefty investments to them. This is mainly due to the huge hp of UX, and damage goes exponentially higher the more combos you make. Some may choose to skip some overlapping ones, like Lele + Deoxys-A or Bulu + Fini, but having all of them really helps in UX stages
3	Name	Rank	Note
4	Hoopa-Unbound	S
5	Tapu Koko	S
6	Tapu Fini	S
7	Delphox	S	Use only with Ninetails. The S-rank is reserved for the first Pyre, which can be any of your choice.
8	Tapu Bulu	A	Could be an S-rank, if not because Tapu Koko being more farmable.
9	Silvally	A	Highest AP TC when neutral. Despite numerous TC users there are still plenty of stage where you will bring neutral TC.
10	Zoroark	A	May not be as needed with Hoopa, but double combo booster is still really strong.
11	Tapu Lele	A
12	Deoxys-A	A
13	Ho-oh	A	Use only with Ninetails. 2nd pyre is great but at times you want to bring LDE/ Shot with you alongside ninetales
14	Lucario	B	Low mo3 chance hurts, despite nice typing covering normal types.
15	Zygarde-50	B	UX does not have a lot of hard dragon stages, but has similar ap to silvally at lvl 20.
16	Croagunk/Tentacruel	B	Hindered by the lack of fairy stages. One should be enough for UX purposes.
17	Lunala	B	Trades spookify+ boost for delaying disruption, and low mo3 proc rate. Only as a secondary booster on top of Hoopa-U
18	Others	C-F	May be usable, but may not be worth the effort.
19	Arceus/Smeargle	Special Mention	The most reasonable way to defeat snorlax repeat, if you have any of them

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1	Delayers
2	Combo Boosters are the way to go,but you can't do that if disruption is filling the field. Ensuring opponent is equally crucial when disruptions are bad. Some of the listed have very specific, but valuable niche
3	Name	Rank	Note
4	Alolan-Ninetails	S	Alolan-Ninetails can even be useful as a neutral delayer on some stage.
5	Shaymin/Treecko	S
6	Ribombee	A	Paralyze+ has a very strong point in delaying for 10 whole turns, having plenty of uses. Also the best way to stall fighting & dark types
7	Paras	B+	Same as Ribombee, but trades stalling fighting type for stalling grass type longer than freeze. Also higher AP.
8	Darkrai	B+	Niche:Psychic stages
9	Mesprit	B+	Niche : Poison Stages
10	Suicune	B+	Niche : Rock Stages
11	Bellossom	B	A hard competition with shaymin,trading higher duration for combo multiplier and proc rate.
12	Hoopa-C/Dhelmise	B	Niche: Ghost types, as well as dealing quite hefty damage while delaying.
13	Bewear	C	A special mention for bursting and delaying at the same time, but hindered by proc rate. Useful for specific normal stages
14	Nihilego	C	Niche: Fairy types
15	Omanyte/Greninja	Special Mention	Niche:Fire types (Pyroar-M/Pyroar-F)
16	Pidgey	Special Mention	Niche:Fighting types if no ribombee. Listed only of high farmability, and many have invested for SM
17	Others	C-F	Outclassed due to low number of turns stalled, or bad proc rates.

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1	Offensive Status
2	Covers spookify+, burn+, as well as poison. Status is very powerful to add another multiplier on top of your combo boosters, as well as to boost your bursts depending on the stage. You will only need to bring one of them so pick your favorite status inducer. Most commons one will be listed
3	Name	Rank	Notes
4	Ninetails(Burn+)	S	Burn+ is really powerful. good proc rate companied by two strong pyre users, an LDE user and FE to boot. Also covers a large amount of UX stage. It does face some competition with freeze as fire types has little to no delayers
5	Gulpin(Poison)	B	Fairy types are not much, and poison teams are hindered by low base ap of their poison + poison pact. Despite that, poison are very crucial for fairy stages
6	Mimikyu(Spookify+)	B	Useful to use with LDE and FE, it's hindered by lack of good combo booster, and pure dark team with hoopa+darkrai+zoroark.

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1	Burst
2	Burst are also a huge part of UX, especially in 5-support stage where comboing is almost impossible. Burst are also useful when you can't figure out a move that leads to a long combo.
3	There are a lot of burst, so only the most useful ones will be listed. In 4 mon stage, most bursts are only used when it comes with high AP, due to how AP matters in combos.
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5	LDE/Final Effort
6	Lde got a slight shaft , due to tc-boosted combos easily outdamaging it. Neverthless still crucial for a lot of stages.
7	5-supports, Low move stages, and bad disruption stages are where it shines. FE on the other hand lets you to deal obscene damage outsidr reasonable tc range, giving it a spot on many stages.
8	Pokemon	Rank	Type
9	Heatran	A	Fire types has great coverage for ux stages. Decent ap, boosted by burn, makes it necessary to have.
10	Infernape	A	Infernape as a new FE addition can certainly replace heatran in many cases, but having both certainly helps.
11	Conkeldurr	A	Covers the ever annoying normal types. With the lack of strong fighting shots, is a very nice addition to 5-support stages.
12	Graduate-Pikachu	A	There are tons of bulky water/flying types, where he really shines.
13	Stufful	B	Theoritically would be a nice addition, although there are doubts to its small ap. Untested
14	Litwick	B
15	Dusknoir	C
16	Oshawott	C	Hits bulky ground/rock stages hard, but competes with strong shots, double tc and status
17	Skuntank	C	Competing for a spot between the other strong poison shots, but still has a niche.
18	Rufflet	Special Mention	Performs quite nicely in fighting stages like M-Gallade
19	Victini	Special Mention	Despite having huge AP, not many stage requires it except M-Gallade
20	Unconditional Burst
21	Burst you can trigger at any time. Generally they are high risk/high return with lot of variance
22	Pokemon	Rank	Notes
23	Buzzwole	A	High ap, proc rate and coverage makes this really valuable, especially for normal stages
24	Keldeo-R	B	The lack of fighting powerhouse makes Keldeo-R valuable with his high ap.
25	Luxray	C	A decent jack-for-all-trade beatstick, but outshadowed by double tc, drains, or meganium.
26	Charizard	C	High AP UP, to increase winning possibility by playing with variance. Also has a nice coverage , boosted by burn+
27	Pikachu	C	High AP UP
28	Mewtwo	C	High AP 50/50 burst, to play with variance
29	Beware/Dhelmise/Hoopa-C	Special Mention	Used more for their stalling properties, but still deals good damage. See Delayers for more details
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31	Drains
32	A huge star in latter UX, where hp goes enormously high and normal burst don't scale much. Will certainly be seen a lot in crazy strategies on different stages.
33	Pokemon	Rank	Notes
34	Roselia	A	Highly farmable, High Ap and good coverage. Probably the best drain user by ROI alone
35	Guzzlord	Undecided	Having a chance to proc at mo3 makes it able to compete with S-yveltal.
36	S-Yveltal	Undecided	High AP, usable against itself, and highest chance to proc at mo4
37	S-Xerneas	Undecided	High AP, usable against itself, and highest chance to proc at mo4
38	Rain-Castform	Undecided	Generally outclassed by other drains, but still usable
39	Raincoat Pikachu	Undecided	Covers bulky flying types, and competes with Roselia for mo3 proc. More useful when starting boards are bad
40	Genesect	Undecided	High AP, and hits the bulky psychic/ grass types.
41	Crobat	Undecided	Slightly redundant if you have Genesect, but cheaper in investment and still shine in stages like S-Xerneas
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43	Shots
44	Shots boast high multipliers, decent proc rate, and is useful in clearing up starting boards, as well as easening up disruptions to tap. Due to large amount of shots they won't be ranked. individually. They are of course interchangable with other shot, but only farmable/common shots are mentioned in that case
45	Type	Notable Members	Notes
46	Grass	Meganium
47	Fire	Turtonator, Rapidash, Litten, Typhlosion	Fire shots are generally good since all of them can be boosted by burn, on top of their decent to high ap.
48	Poison	Muk, Salazzle	Fairy type is small in numbers, so poison shots will be on a lower priority
49	Rock	Tyrantrum	High ap, and farmable
50	Fairy	Florges, Kirlia, S-Diancie, Clefairy	You may have enough coverage for lots of stage even without 4 of them.
51	Ground	Groudon,P-Groudon, Dugtrio, Flygon
52	Water	Kyogre-,P-Kyogre
53	Ghost	Duskull, Drifblim, Trevenant
54	Dark	S-Ttar
55	Fighting	Hitmontop, Hitmonlee
56	Flying	Noivern	Sky-Shaymin may be worth a mention, but often overshadowed by fire shots
57	Electric	-	Pikachus have quite a low ap, but can still see some use. In general you want to sleep/freeze water/flying stage. A small niche is M-Salamence
58	Steel	-
59	Bug	-	Spewpa has decent ap, if you invest on him
60	Dragon	-	Rayquaza and kyurems has very little use after M-Rayquaza.
61	Normal	-
62	Ice	-	Vanilluxe may have some use for M-Salamence
63	Psychic	-

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1	Mons which is generally low-priority and not necessary, but might be useful to have.
2	Pokemon	Ranking	Notes
3	Jirachi	C	Helps Aggron/Steelix to Mevo faster
4	Charmander	Special Mention	Helps M-houndoom to Mevo faster.
5	Meloetta	Special Mention	Helps M-Ala to Mevolve faster