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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:22 pm
Mercain I honestly wouldn't know. I'm thinking of making a team of pokemon, but I don't know what I should go for. I want a team taht can cover all weaknesses that is so far: Special wall blissey, a physical wall Skarmory, a physical (maybe mixed, idk) sweeper Infernape, a physical sweeper Weavile, and I'm planning on a special sweeper zapdos and I'm not sure on a 4th, hopefully a mixed/special sweeper (to balance out when I decide on infernape). Thoughts? How does it look Zepia? I might need to balance out attributes too. Maybe I'll post movesets in a bit too.
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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:41 pm
Well, it was actually going to be Whirlwind, Spikes, Roost, and I wasn't sure if I should have Toxic or Bravebird.
Here are my teams planned how I want them:
Blissey (leftovers)
Seis toss
Softboiled
aromatherapy
icebeam
Skarmory (shed shell)
whirlwind
spikes
roost
bravebird
Weavile (Choice Band)
Pursuit
Brick Break
Ice Shard
Night Slash
Infernape (Life Orb)
Close Combat
Flare Blitz
Swords Dance
Stone Edge
Zapdos (Zap Plate/Magnet)
Substitute
Roost
Thunderbolt
Hidden Power (Grass)
For a sixth, I'm thinking of a special sweeper. So far in mind I have Azelf, Gengar, Jolteon, Heatran, Porygon-Z, Vaporeon, and Magezone.
I'm not so much looking for an "omg strong pokemon" but something that helps balance the weakness of my teams.
This just in, Tyranitaur and Dragonite seem to both be suitable. I'm leaning more to Dragonite out of the two though.
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:47 am
Well, the common consensus seems to be that if Dragonite can do the job, Salamence can do the job even better.
Salamance has 1 more Base Attack than Dragonite, 10 higher Base Special Attack and 20 higher Speed, and is the same type to boot (Flying / Dragon).
Looking at your current moveset, you have no Ground attacks. Namely Hidden Power (Ground) or Earthquake. I assume your last Pokemon will have it?
Technically, Stealth Rock probably isn't a must, but it is quite effective. It takes out 1/4 life of a Pokemon with a weakness to rock and 1/2 of a Pokemon with something that's doubly weak to rock, which isn't nothing to scoff at.
Then again, I'm probably not the person you want to go to for Pokemon battle advice. XD
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 6:59 am
Oh, and you're lacking a Water move, too.
My personal opinion is that both Gyarados and Swampert could make make up for that, since they both learn Waterfall and Earthquake. Though then again, that would simply add another Physical sweeper, which might not be such a good idea.
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:12 am
Hmmm, how about giving my Skarmory toxic instead of spikes and having a swampert with Surf, earthquake, stealth rock and substitute?
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:36 am
Hmm... idk. I don't know if it'd be better if my tank to have the stealthrock/spikes attack, or if I should just have swampert have it and have him as my starter. I'm also not quite sure how I should take advantage of the substitute, because substitute is SO much better with baton pass. :/ It's fine on it's own, right?
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:45 am
Mmm. I'm not really sure what Substitute is generally used for. XD
The uses for it that I know so far are...
1. Focus Punchers (use Substitute in turn 1 with a slow Pokemon, then Focus Punch next turn for ownage)
2. Sub-Seeding (with a low HP Pokemon, set up a Leech Seed and then keep spamming Substitute while equipping Leftovers to make up the HP loss)
3. Baton-Passing (what I usually do with Ninjask / Yanmega with their natural Speed boosting ability)
4. Berry Activation (keep substituting till at less than 25% HP to activate a berry for sweeping; could probably also work with the Starter Pokemon abilities that increase respective type damage when under 33%)
5. Stalling (you know, to stay alive and stuff)
6. Status Protection (if I recall, status effects don't affect Substitutes, but then again, Swampert probably doesn't need to fear Thunder Wave due to his typing)
7. Safe Switching (a Substitute from a Pokemon with decent defenses could probably survive an attack in order to allow another Pokemon to switch in; any Pokemon with at least 404 HP could make a substitute that requires 2 Seismic Tosses from a Blissey to kill)
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:46 am
Yeah, I just realized my zapdos has substitute too, and it's pretty good because of roost...
Gahhhh. K, back to the drawing board lol.
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 7:52 am
Somehow, Steel Pokemon seem to be all the rage nowdays. You got Metagross, which used to be the stable of every run, you got Bronzong, which can set up Stealth Rock and is weak to only one type (with Levitate, it's weak to Fire, with Heatproof it's weak to Earth), you got Magnezone, who has massive Special Attack and better defense than most Electric Pokemon as well as the power to trap other Steel types and you got Heatran, which is a b***h to fight against.
God, I hate Steel Pokemon.
EDIT: Oh, and there's Scizor, too. Swords Dance + Technician + Life Orb + STAB Bullet Punch = Massive Pain
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:42 pm
On a side note, I've restarted my Pokemon Diamond.
My friend gave me a Shaymin, Darkrai, Mewtwo, Manaphy, Rayquaza and Arceus. It's ******** fun, though Manaphy has an extremely poor Special Attack, which makes Tail Glow somewhat less fun.
Though getting them to listen to me up to the second gym was a ******** b***h, since they never listen to me. And Darkrai has yet to learn a useful move. Blegh.
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