My Weird Ruby Team

[Red Storm]

I posted a ruby team awhile back, but I've changed it around some so it don't look like other teams.



Starmie
Nature- Calm/Modest
power- natural cure
item - leftovers/lum berry

Light Screen - Help overall team special defense
Rapid Spin - For anti-spikes
Recover - Healing
Psychic/Surf

I suppose I could use starmie as a starter. Could lay out light screen and deal with opposing starter who might be a spike layer.


Absol
nature- Adamant/Maybe Calm/Bold?
item - leftovers

Swords Dance
Protect
Shadow Ball
Baton Pass

I'm not sure if I want attack power for Absol or not. Its whole purpose is to waste opponents' pp while baton passing swords dance off to my Sand Slash or Tropius. Shadow ball for dealing with psychic/ghosts.


Sand Slash
nature- Adamant
item - chesto berry

Brick Break
Rock Slide
Earthquake
Chesto-Rest

Sand Slash is probably gonna be my tank. I didn't use swords dance on Sand Slash because I want Absol to set that up.


Tropius
nature - Adamant
item - leftovers/lum berry

Body Slam
Synthesis
Aerial Ace
Whirlwind

Yes, Tropius. This might not be the best pokemon to use, but have to like a little para-shuffling, or the attempt at least.


Weezing
nature - modest/calm?
item - leftovers

Thunder Bolt
Will-O-Wisp
Haze
Flamethrower

One of my special attackers I guess.


Wigglytuff
nature - Calm/Bold?
item- leftovers/lum berry

Body Slam
Attract
Sweet Kiss
Sing/Ice Beam/Psychic/Chesto-Rest

Slower version of para-shuffling Raichu.

[Kairi]

Sorry this took so long. ^_^;


Starmie
Nature- Calm/Modest
Ability- Natural Cure
item - Leftovers/Lum Berry

Light Screen - Help overall team special defense
Rapid Spin - For anti-spikes
Recover - Healing
Psychic/Surf
.

It's an interesting way to use Starmie...I'd ditch Light Screen for another Elemental attack, perhaps Thunderbolt of Skarmory.

Absol
Nature- Adamant/Maybe Calm/Bold?
Item - Leftovers

Swords Dance
Protect
Shadow Ball
Baton Pass

It works well for what you want it to do, although I'd maybe stick in Double Team, Tropius doesn't last that long...

Sandslash
Nature- Adamant
Item - Chesto berry

Brick Break
Rock Slide
Earthquake
Rest

Standard, but for a reason. You could use this instead of Starmie to wipe Spikes, although Sandslash has one "Recover"...

Tropius
Nature - Adamant
Item - Leftovers/Lum berry

Body Slam
Synthesis
Aerial Ace
Whirlwind

It's...kind of weak to a lot of types to psuedohaze...you need one, but Tropius? I'd use Leech Seed or Earthquake.


Weezing
Nature - Modest/Calm?
Item - Leftovers

Thunder Bolt
Will-O-Wisp
Haze
Flamethrower

I've never cared for Weezing, but the Wil-O-Wisp is important, and at least this one doesn't explode. x_X; It's special attack is kind of low to pull this off well though. Haze won't work well for it on a Calm Minding Alakazam.


Wigglytuff
Nature - Calm/Bold?
Item- Leftovers/Lum berry

Body Slam
Attract
Sweet Kiss
Sing/Ice Beam/Psychic/Chesto-Rest

Standardish, it works.

[Red Storm]

Yeah, psychic messes up Weezing good. That's why I stuck light screen on Starmie, but leaving Weezing out against anything that uses psychic is a bad idea. I thought about using dodrio instead of tropius and it learns haze as well.

[Kairi]

Dodrio is one of my favorite Hazers, one turn Rest with Early Bird, it's modestly fast, and has high attack.

[sableye]

is tri attack good with dodrio?

[Red Storm]

Dodrio is one of my favorite Hazers, one turn Rest with Early Bird, it's modestly fast, and has high attack.


I like dodrio myself. Drill peck is one of my favorite moves. Only bad thing is its poor defense. I wish it had a bit more of an attack selection though.

[Red Storm]

is tri attack good with dodrio?


I'm not sure about anyone else, but I kind of like tri attack. Its a base 80 normal attack I believe, but it has side effects. There's a small chance of doing one of the following to an opponent, freezing, burning, or paralyzing. For me, tri attack tends to freeze opponents mostly. That makes up some for power. I think its not a bad choice for dodrio since the attacks it learns are limited.

You could go with drill peck and tri attack, but I wouldn't use tri attack to replace drill peck. Return has more power than tri attack so if you want a more powerful move then use that unless you want the side effects of tri attack. Its more of what you think is best.

[Mana Lugia]

Dodrio... with that scarfy thing or Choice band with Frustration with all EVs stuck in Spd and Atk can be a dandy sweeper. Then there's Quick attack and Dpeck...

[Sturm]

Your Team is 9.5/10 points
Weezing has very low Special Attack...replace it with Sludge Bomb or Explosion...

[Frostweaver]

dodrio is the king/queen of flying attack user... it's the bomb.

Dodrio- adamant @ leftovers
-rest
-haze
-drill peck
-tri attack/return

i personally prefer tri attack as burning or freezing (best) the enemy can give you quite an edge... not to mention haze = screw Blocklax

[Dizzy]

hmmm maybe you should add a ninetales in there ,

[Rift]

or maybe Red Storm should add Latios! ^_^;

[Haruka]

No legendaries... Don't use Legendaries. most of them are 00bers.. and they can be beaten easily..

[Frostweaver]

actually most legendaries are hard to beat... not to mention the eon siblings have soul dew too... uber item for uber pokemon... most of the time they allow at most one legendary

[Red Storm]

or maybe Red Storm should add Latios! ^_^;


I never use legendaries on my teams. They sit in my boxes. Not that I don't like dragon pokemon, but I rather use non-legendaries.

[Rift]

The third time i beat the elite four i used these Pokemon:

Rayquaza
Latias
Kyogre
Regice
Regirock
Registeel

Hey, i dont think its cheating! ^_^;

[Frostweaver]

using ubers are not a way to cheat, but it's rather winning not by skill... as you got "unfair start" with uber stats if you're against an ordinary Pokemon. Not to mention there are some legendaries that can learn almost if not all the TM in the world...

[Kairi]

Latios and Latias are legendary on their own, with the Soul Dew they are considered 00ber. So, most people ban Soul Dew Eon Pokémon.

[Sturm]

The third time i beat the elite four i used these Pokemon:

Rayquaza
Latias
Kyogre
Regice
Regirock
Registeel

Hey, i dont think its cheating! ^_^;But I do.
I think legendary are little cheap...(like Sturm in AW2...he is cheat with 1 terrain cost and massive power, defense of 120%)
I never use legendary...
My team is...
Metagross
Salamence
Milotic
Torkoal
Magneton
Sceptile

Pretty average team, eh?