My First Team!!!

My First Team!!!
First Glance:


Team Making Process:

I started with a SR Metagross to get some hazards in.

Then, Salamence came because of sheer power and good synergy.

After that, I put a MixApe Infernape to increase the death count of the opponent.

Next, I put a Wish Vaporeon for something to help wall and use Wish to heal.

Desperately needing a Special Attacker, I went with CM Reuniclus.

And for a late game sweep, I put Hydreigon.


Under The Microscope:

@ Air Balloon
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Meteor Mash
- Hammer Arm
- Bullet Punch


(M) @ Lum Berry
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naughty Nature (+Atk, -SDef)
- Dragon Dance
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast



(M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Blaze
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Overheat
- Close Combat
- U-turn
- Stone Edge



(M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Water Absorb
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Wish
- Protect
- Scald
- Ice Beam



(M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast

(M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse
- Dark Pulse
- Fire Blast
- Focus Blast

Any suggestions will be accepted.

Eh, Salamence really likes to use Outrage for more damage compared to Dragon Claw.

@Alexial: He's using a mixed Infernape; the reason why it's using Overheat is to let it deal with physical walls. If it uses Flare Blitz, Pokemon like Gliscor and Hippowdon will laugh at it; not only that, it'll die faster.

its a pretty good team u got

Thanks for any comments made.

Ok, so comments on each pokemon indivisually:

I started with a SR Metagross to get some hazards in

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Ok, thats a fair start, watch out for trickers, some of them like azelf are hard to predict! *by trickers i mean taunters sorry
You can also use this to switch into toxic or toxicroaks to wall those, though ii do recommend dropping in zen headbutt on that thing, that's just me, its up to you.

Then, Salamence came because of sheer power and good synergy.

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Not much to say, but watch out when using outrage, they can switch into something like ferrothorn to wall it, and you'll be stuck there as he sets up spikes, or seeds, or you take damage from rocky helmet + barbs,just watch out for that. Oh, and scrap persim for lum. it helps way more.

After that, I put a MixApe Infernape to increase the death count of the opponent.

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Hm...just be carefull of life orb, and overheat seems good to take out the physical walls, good choice there. Not much else to say.

Next, I put a Wish Vaporeon for something to help wall and use Wish to heal.

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Toxic. Its gotta have toxic. You cant have a wallporeon without toxic. Truts me. It will help you so much. Scrap ice beam i suggest. It helps, but toxic will help more, unless you have a important reason to keep ice beam (does it help with dragons?)

Desperately needing a Special Attacker, I went with CM Reuniclus.

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Try and make the pokemon more specially. It looks like a wall to me, and reiniclus is a fail (imo) without trick room, but that would hurt the rest of your team, so find another speciall pokemon is my suggestion. Try something like Chandelure, or another pokemon, idk (fail) but this reuniclus doesn't seem like its in the right spot. But i guess if it works for you, keep it in, just psyshock? is that for blisseys or something? watch out for physical walls than becuase as ol blasty has horrible accuracy

And for a late game sweep, I put Hydreigon.

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Id say specs or sash would do better, but life orb still works great. Specs and Sash can do great late game, as, with scarf, Hydreigon can be an amazing revenge killer, and a late game destructoking at the same time. But its a good set, that was just my noob suggestion


Its a good team, i say watch out for powerful bug type moves, or u-turn and ice moves, but i guess vaporeon counters those! Its a good team but it has its little tweaks to fix up, You can listen to my advice, or if you think what im saying is wrong, go ahead and keep your set. Anyway, good team, and i think it can be really good to use in standard competitive battles :)

for your hydreigon you could try a choice scarf if you plan to use it as a revenge killer. it may also be worth your while to change its nature to timid just to ensure that it outspeeds other pokes and threats you are trying to get a revenge kill on. i also highly recommend draco meteor over dragon pulse, just so it hits harder and you get a nice revenge kill in =)

a poke you have to watch out for is rotom-w because it can KO infernape, vaporeon and salamence. it most likely use volt switch on vaporeon and mence.

since your reuniclus has magic guard you should LO it because it will take no recoil at all and you can use it to absorb statuses like burn and toxic since it wont take damage from those either.
another problem i see is a lack of direct recovery. once vaporeon is gone then your whole team looses out and they can heal off damage. salamence gets roost so you may want to sacrifice a moves for that if you can.

anyways i hope this helps =)