The Hardest Hitting Move

Stole this calc from the internet, TLDR: shuckle too good.

User's Team:

Shuckle @ Metronome Level: 100

Ability: Any

IVs: 31 Def

EVs: 252 Def

+Def Nature

Maximum Defense: 614

  • Defense Curl (Emerald Move Tutor)

  • Power Trick (D/P/Pt/HG/SS Level 48)

  • Mimic (FR/LG/E/XD Move Tutor)

  • Any

Smeargle

  • Skill Swap

  • Forest's Curse

  • Screech

  • Any

Cherrim

Ability: Flower Gift

  • Sunny Day

Cherrim

Ability: Flower Gift

Opponent's Team:

Noibat @ Any

Level: 1

Ability: Any

Ivs: 0 Def

Evs: 0 Def

-Def Nature

Minimum Defense: 4

Walrein

-Ice Ball

-Any

-Any

-Any

Greninja

Ability: Protean

Medicham

Ability: Pure Power

Have Smeargle use Forest's Curse on Noibat to add a Grass type

Have Smeargle use Skill Swap with Greninja to get Protean

Have Smeargle use Skill Swap again to give Shuckle Protean

Have Walrein use Ice Ball

Have Shuckle use Mimic to copy Ice Ball

Have Shuckle use Defense Curl for 2x power Ice Ball

Have Shuckle use Defense Curl until Shuckle is at +6 Defense

Have Shuckle use Power Trick

Have Smeargle use Skill Swap on Medicham to get Pure Power

Have Smeargle use Skill Swap again to give Shuckle Pure Power

Have Shuckle use Ice Ball until Metronome is at maximum potency

Have Cherrim use Sunny Day to activate Flower Gift for both Cherrim

Have both Cherrim use Helping Hand on Shuckle

On Ice Ball's 5th hit, get a critical hit

To make things simple with the calculation, I'm keeping out the super effective and critical hit calculations until at the end.

Psypoke's Damage Calculator:

Your Pokemon:

Shuckle @ Metronome

Level: 100

Type: Bug/Rock

Att/Spec Att: 614

Def/Spec Def: -

Stat Modifiers: 6

Ability: Pure Power

Your Opponent:

Noibat

Level: 1

Type: Normal (for easy calculating)

Att/Spec Att: -

Def/Spec Def: 4

Stat Modifiers: -6

Ability: Ignore Ability

Your attack: Ice Ball

Item: Metronome

Number of Consecutive Uses: 10

Global Battle Effects:

  • Sunny Day

  • Defense Curl

  • Helping Hand

  • Partner's Flower Gift

Results:

Defense Curl boosts the base power for Ice Ball with a 2.0× multiplier

Helping Hand strengthened the power of Ice Ball with a 1.5× multiplier

Shuckle's Pure Power boosted its Attack with a 2.0× multiplier

Shuckle's partner's Flower Gift boosted its Attack with a 1.5× multiplier

Shuckle's Metronome strengthened the power of Ice Ball with a 2.0× multiplier

Shuckle gets the Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB) for Ice Ball

MAXIMUM DAMAGE: 26,737,002

26,737,002 x 1.5 (additional Flower Gift) = 40,105,503

40,105,503 x 1.5 (additional Helping Hand) = 60,158,254

60,158,254 x 1.5 (new Critical Hit multiplier) = 90,237,381

90,237,381 x 8 (3x Weakness) = 721,899,048

/r/stunfisk Thread