Hi, I'm at a loss for what to do with the monkies. I initially got them with Hasty or Naive natures, trained their Att and SP Att to make them mixed attackers, (because i like to make use of a pokemon's naturally highest stats) however given their fairly low defences to begin with, I thought maybe I should make them Timid or Jolly, and make each one a physical OR special attacker and max their speed.
This worked out great with Pansage (Jolly with Seed Bomb, Recycle, Rock Slide and Dig) as all it's type weaknesses are covered. Pansear was a little harder (Timid with Flame Burst, Recycle, Grass Knot and ??? Which will likely end up being Focus blast) because all of it's weaknesses are taken care of by Grass Knot, but I might put on Focus Blast just to really make sure Rock types are taken care of, lol! However, my second special attacker, Panpour, is the hardest one to figure out. (It is also Timid with Scald, recycle, Ice Beam and I'm stumped on the 4th move) a ground move would be amazing and take care of it's last weakness, but the only ground attack it learns us dig, which is terrible on a Timid nature. I don't know why it can't learn one if the mud moves if Pansear/Simisear can learn grass not and solar beam. Anyway, any advice on an attack move for Panpour that doesn't duplicate special moves already in my other two monkies?
Now this brings up a further question in general for pokemon with equally good attack stats, should you sacrifice one if your defense stats in order to make both attacks maxed out? Or should you pick one type of attacker to make it and sacrifice the other kind of attack stat? I really need advice, thanks! (And I know about Smogon, it wasn't that helpful in my opinion) thanks for any advice/opinions
