Summary

Machamp is one of the best Fighting-types in ADV Draft, with its only real competition being Hariyama. Machamp's Low Kick hits most Pokemon at least for the same amount of damage as Cross Chop, which has a base power of 100, has 100 accuracy unlike Cross Chop, and is harder to PP Stall. Due to his wide movepool including options such as Fire Blast and the elemental punches mixed Machamp is a very viable option versus threats that have a 4x weakness such as Salamence or Gyarados which are both 2HKO'd without much investment by Ice Punch and Thunder Punch, respectively, making your opponent think twice before switching them in vs Machamp. With his decent special bulk, Machamp actually wins 1v1 situations against surprising opponents such as Gengar and Alazakam. In a meta where Toxic is such a strong move, the threat of its ability Guts essentially making this a base 195 attack stat forces opponents to think thoughtfully about using Toxic. Machamp also has some more niche tools such as Encore to annoy defensive Pokemon either trying to recover or Pokemon thinking they force a switch to try and set up boosting moves such as Calm Mind. Weezing is a common matchup for Fighting types, but can be beat by Machamp's Substitute + Bulk Up set since at +1 Defense, and with either 56 defense EVs, 80 HP EVs, or a combination of the two, an uninvested Sludge Bomb doesn't break Machamp's Substitute anymore which allows it to freely boost.

Summary written by Butterchoke

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