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Backup Party, Tell me which party is better.
This is my backup party or my 2nd party, so here it goes.
Espeon @ Mind Plate Ability: Synchronize Nature: Naughty Evs: Unknown, obtained through trade. Moves: -Psychic -Shadow Ball -Grass Knot -Morning Sun Metagross @ Leftovers Ability: Clear Body Nature: Bold Evs: Speed 252 Moves: -Brick Break -Psychic -Meteor Mash -Earthquake Gengar @ Spooky Plate Ability: Levitate Nature: Adamant Evs: None Moves: -Thunderbolt -Dark Pulse -Sludge Bomb -Shadow Ball Heracross @ Leftovers Ability: Swarm Nature: Naive Evs: Speed 78 Moves: -Megahorn -Swords Dance -Close Combat -Stone Edge Porygon - Z @ Focus Sash Ability: Download Nature: Docile Evs: None Moves: -Discharge -Dark Pulse -Tri Attack -Ice Beam Claydol @ Earth Plate Ability: Levitate Nature: Serious Evs: Unknown, obtained through trade. Moves: -Earthquake -Psychic -Shadow Ball -Stealth Rock Please give positive comments, if you have no advice for me and are not willing to say it in somewhat of a positive way or not in a negative way then do not bother commenting on this team. |
Adamant nature on a special gengar? I would suggest Timid nature.
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Well Weavile kills half of this team with Pursuit (Gengar, Claydol, Espeon), so I would suggest diversifying your team up a little more. Also, Bold on Metagross simply must go. Adamant or Impish will do fine.
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Get rid of the plates, use other items that increase certain move power if you want. Like darkglasses for dark, miracle seed for grass, yada yada.
Earth plate on claydol? Lefties, please. Hera doesnt need lefties, drop sword dance, add facade, and give him a poison/flame orb, and get guts ability - to up his attack by 50%. Choice specs on poryz, common weather teams will KO focus sash. |
First all, plates only give a 10% increase for moves, so they suck.
And if Claydol is your only wall, there's going to be trouble. Natures are terrible. ._. Sludge Bomb may have STAB on Gengar, but doesn't provide good coverage. 3 pokemon have Psychic. ._. Then 2 have Dark Pulse, which has similar coverage. Since you're Weavile weak, as pointed by Anti, and no matter how much it sucks, go Choice Scarf Hera. Espeon doesn't really have the bulkyness to be using a recovery move, unlike Starmie when EV'd. Also, EVs are a MUST. go there for EVs. |
Itachi, Plates and Element Items (Mystic Water, etc.) give a 20% boost in this generation. But eh, either way, they're still bad items. ;D Oh, and Metagross can wall effectively, don't you forget him.
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Metagross @ Leftovers Trait: Clear body Nature: Impish / Adamant EVs: 252 HP / 172 Defense / 84 Attack - Meteor Mash - Agility - Thunderpunch - Earthquake / Explosion Quote:
Gengar @ Life Orb Trait: Levitate Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SpAtk / 252 Speed / 4 HP - Shadow Ball - Thunderbolt - Focus Blast - Hypnosis Quote:
Heracross @ Choice Band* Trait: Guts Nature: Adamant Evs: 252 Attack / 252 Speed / 4 HP - Sleep Talk / Pursuit - Megahorn - Stone Edge - Close Combat *You can use the Flame Orb moveset, to activate its Guts ability. It will get the same boost from Choice Band, but it will be able to switch its moves around freely. If you do, be sure to use Pursuit instead of Sleep Talk. Quote:
PorygonZ @ Choice Specs Trait: Adaptability Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SpAtk / 252 Speed / 4 HP - Thunderbolt - Icebeam - Dark Pulse - Tri Attack Quote:
Claydol @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate Nature: Relaxed EVs: 252 HP / 172 SDefense / 84 Defense - Earthquake - Cosmic Power / Rest / Explosion - Stealth Rock - Icebeam Needs a good wall in replacement for Espeon. |
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Metagross comes in on Blissey! Blissey switched out! Out comes Hippowdon! Metagross used Agility! Even with a SD pass, you're doomed against Hippowdon. Also, Agiligross has a lot more counters than CBgross due to its lower power, so Swampert and Bulky grounds will wall it to death. Most steels will also laugh at Metagross and all will fire Earthquakes back at Metagross. Meanwhile, CBgross can 2HKO almost all of its counters if Meteor Mash gets an attack boost and can still beat many without the attack boost. some will still wall it bad (Bronzong, Swampert) but CBgross has much more damage potential. Like you said, Metagross is very bulky, which means it should be fine without speed since it can take plenty of hits (which it can do better than people give it credit for). the only use I really have for Agiligross is a sweeper that gets a SD pass from Gliscor or Celebi. Though I certainly would say it was a fine rate, easily one of the most useful posts in this thread. I just would say Agiligross...isn't that good. |
Trust me, i used agiligross against my friend in a battle, and it was so worth it. I used agility then knocked out blissey, aerodactyl, and umbreon. So it was worth it, agiligross won me that battle.
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Is shoddy same thing as wi-fi? and yes, he is a bit of a noob =).
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Shoddy is an online battle simulator. WiFi is the wireless connection battling.
http://www.shoddybattle.com is where you download Shoddy. |
Hey,I think your party is great, but two are weak so whatever is good on dark i would get it.
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I actually agree with itachi on that one, why do you think it's that great? after all the comments i've read, you should realize that this party is not great.
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I've just noticed you're a bit Tyranitar weak. It 5-0's your team. Swampert fits in best, and is also the best Tyranitar counter. |
ahaha monkey star wars is so funny.
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So if your friend is a newbie, how exactly does beating him with AgilityGross prove your point? I am sorry, but is he is trying to beat AgilityGross with Aerodactyl and Blissey, something is wrong.
Also Swampert can't wall Tyranitar to save its life these days Itachi :0 It's not even close to the best Tar counter. If you use AgilityGross, you'll essentially have 5 pokemon since you don't even have the proper support for it. CB is much easier on you to run and is better anyways. |
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