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Am I wasting my time?
Here's my first competitive team. It's primarily a bunch of beatsticks, but Dusknoir is in there for annoyance. I've just started raising, but I'm having second thoughts. Is there any pokemon that should be replaced? And I'm not using ubers.
Mamoswine (Naughty) Shell Bell Snow Cloak EVs: Max attack and HP -Earthquake -Ancient Power -Avalanche -Hail Espeon (Rash) Lax Incense Synchronize EVs: Max Sp. Att. and speed -Calm Mind -Psychic -Light Screen -Hyper beam? - Maybe not, but I don’t know what else to use… Glaceon (Quiet) Hold-??? Snow Cloak EVs: Sp. Att. and Sp. Def. -Hail -Ice Beam -Water Pulse -Hyper Beam/Protect – I’m leaning towards the latter, but I’d like a second opinion Tyranitar (Brave) Scope Lens Sand Stream EVs: Max Attack and Sp. Def. -Protect -Brick Break -Crunch -Stone Edge Salamence (Adamant) King's Rock ??? - (I don't know Salamence's ability) EVs: Max Attack, good Speed and Sp. Att. -Dragon Dance -Dragon Claw - Or Dragon Rush, if he learns it -Flamethrower -Arial Ace Dusknoir (Brave) Leftovers Pressure EVs: Sp. Def and Defense -Shadow Sneak/Shadow Punch -Confuse Ray -Toxic -Curse? - I'm worried about the HP cut on this one... And that's my team. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Xae |
Hyper Beam and its variants are very bad in competitive battle since it leaves you vulnerable for a turn.
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Get a special sweeper, your far too physical, and get a special wall aswell, dusknoir can do all the walling on its own. Maybe a rapid spinner aswell, Mence hates Stealth Rock... Also kinda Weavile weak...., a steel type such as metagross would go nice here. |
Why must you run Sandstorm on such a team like this? The only Pokemon that aren't affected my Sandstorm is Mamoswine and Tyranitar. This team needs a better defense system. A steel type does good on this team.
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What if I kept Mamoswine slow, maybe Brave nature, and kept on avalanche with some better defense and Sp. Def. Evs? if that's not a good idea, I'll probably just get rid of Mamoswine for a special sweeper like you said, I'm thinking Magnezone for Gyarados. I'll switch out Espeon for a Metagross, sounds good... Glaceon for Vaporeon, okay The other move sets seem fine, too, but I think I might want to keep brick break in my party, though tyranitar does seem a bad choice for it. And as for Dusknoir, if I do go with a Magnezone for a special sweeper, I'd like to stick with an annoyer moveset w/ leftovers, since thunderpunch won't be needed. I'll take it all into consideration. Thank you! -Xae |
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http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/espeon Here is what id do. Keep the duskinor hes a very good defensive pokemon, and since you have none on your team keep him, altho duskinor is better with the egg move painsplit, and his nature needs to be defensive, either carefull which is preferd, or Impish. His moves should be Painsplit Fire Punch or thunderPunch ShadowSneak Wilo-Wisp As for switching Glaceon with vaporeon thats a bad idea IMO if you want a special sweeper i wouldnt go with one thats so slow like vaporeon. I would get a starmie be it timid or Modest, Timid being faster, Modest being more special atk. Teach Him Grassnot Thunderbolt Icebeam Surf Altho you dont have a rapid spinner so i would lose grassnot or icebeam for Rapidspin, but those 4 above are the best choices for a special sweeping starmie it can cover almost any pokemon and its faster then most of them too. And for Espeon keep it, change its nature to timid Change its move set to this, it would be really nice combo'd with the starmi, substitute to scout what the oponent is trying to use on, then do a calm mind and if you know Psychic wont cover it, baton pass out to starmie who will most likely be able to kill whoever your fighting specially with the boosted special atk your getting. Calm Mind Baton Pass Substitute Psychic If your going to keep mamoswine it needs to be adament with choice band or at least an expert belt or life orb Peck Earthquake Stone Edge Ice shard |
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