Snorlax Charged TM
Actually I have a 3040 cp Snorlax who had Lick and Hyper Beam and changed Lick to Zen Headbutt cuz Lax is a disappointly raid attacker, I was wondering if also changing HB at the risk of getting Earthquake, also if Earthquake is inferior or on par to Hyper Beam in defense?
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Since when is Rhydon and Tyranitar good counters to Snorlax?
Your examples are not "good counters" they are "tank counters"
Snorlax with EQ or HS = no STAB but super effective against Rhydon and Tyranitar.
Rhydon with Counter = no STAB but super effective against Snorlax.
Tyranitar have no SE moves against Snorlax so all its doing is tanking while trying to put out allot of DPS which is not time efficient.
Its a shame they don't even mention Heavy slam on the defensive moves explenation even thougt ZH-HS is ranked A on defense.
HS is a worse version of BS wich was unargubly the best defenive move on Snorlax in gen 1.
If you want to take down a high cp snorlax then tank counters are your best bet. Either that or Machamp. And if the attacker uses machamp I would rather have HS than HB or EQ
Change it back to Lick, lol, being useless in raids doesn't mean it isn't good against other common defenders, except Snorlax and Blissey.
Normally, Earthquake hits super effective damage against its common counters, but Dragonites and Murkrows can demolish them quite easily. Both are very easy to dodge.
Earthquake does 51% damage to flying. Hyper Beam does 51% damage to ghost.
This sounds pessimistic, but why even use a TM for a defensive mon? If somebody wants to take that gym, they're going to. It's unlikely that a better charge move will make much of a difference. Unless you're just swimming in TMs, it may be better to use them on your offensive pokemon where a better charge move can mean you are able to solo a raid.
Lol i'll do the inverse: change my 93.3% ZH/BS 3170CP Snorlax to L/BS. I love attacking with Snorlax specially to take down a Gym. I have one L/BS 2810CP already and im working on a 93.3% L/HB too. L/BS will work great on pvps.
For raids, Snorlax can do fine as a tank counter against Alakazam, Lugia and will be the best tank counter against Mew and Mewtwo too.
To finish, Snorlax is my third prefered mon: Mewtwo, Dragonite then Snorlax.