Subject: Or do what I do:
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Posted on: 2015-04-16 11:41:00 UTC
Use your STABmons or your pet trollfish to make a considerable dent in it. Vaporeon's the tough nut; Sylveon... not so much, especially against physical attackers. My primary source of physical damage 2HKOs both unboosted, though the problem (as ever) lies with the Protect spam. They have to break the chain to put on a status effect, so bait it the Toxic (Ix loves Toxic), switch to your Poison type to soak it up, switch back to your previous mon when it Protects to avoid the predicted reciprocal, and enjoy beating on it some more with Fake Out.
Also, Ix's Sylveon runs Pixilate-boosted Hyper Voice and her Vaporeon runs Scald, so you do run the risk of being hit quite hard or burned - always a problem on anything that's not a Guts abuser. Taunt works in that sense, but also means you have to deal with 30% burn chance spam, and nobody likes that. Also also, don't try and use status on her Umbreon or Espeon; they run Synchronize and Magic Bounce respectively, so it only works on the Umbreon, and even then only if you're trying to Toxic with a Poison-type, paralyse with an Electric-type, burn with a Fire-type, or use a Powder move with a Grass-type.
Ix, I've been tutoring you a li'l bit, it's only fair that the others know your classified information. =]