Monday, September 16, 2019

Psystrike Buff

Today, something incredible happened; Psystrike, Mewtwo's signature move, received a massive buff in Pokemon Go. Previously, it had fairly good stats, being a two-bar psychic type move dealing 100 base damage, similar to Shadow Ball. However, it had one major drawback; a ridiculous cool down of 4.4 seconds, and a damage window of 3 seconds. Damage window is when the damage is applied to the Pokemon, so that if you faint before the cool down ends the damage is still dealt. For reference, Hyper Beam, a notoriously slow one-bar move, has a cool down of 3.8 seconds and a damage window of 3.3 seconds.
However, after the buff, it is a far better move. It is still a psychic type two-bar move. However, it now deals 90 damage, 10 lower than before. This seems more like a nerf than a buff, but the cool down was reduced to 2.3 seconds and the damage window was reduced to 1 second. This seems relatively insignificant, especially with the 10 damage reduction, but it makes Psystrike incredibly powerful.
Psystrike Mewtwo now deals 20.918 DPS with Confusion, and 20.884 DPS with Psycho Cut. The only Pokemon in the game with higher DPS, Attack Deoxys, deals 21.856 DPS. However, even this small DPS difference is negated by the fact that Attack Deoxys has 140.6 Total Damage Output, and Psystrike Mewtwo has 654.9 TDO.
There is one major drawback, however; Psystrike is a move exclusive to this week. Get out there and raid! The best counters to use are Giratina Origin, Gengar, Tyranitar, Weavile, and of course, Shadow Ball Mewtwo!

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