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I'm looking for suggestions for my DP Battle Tower team. I've been using this team with some varying degrees of success and got to a streak of about 77 but I got killed by something using trick room and then a Jynx killed me with Focus Blast, psychic, and ice beam.
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/200/21767095rp8.png Gengar @ Life Orb Timid +Spe, -Atk 6 hp/252 SpAtk/252 Spe Hypnosis Shadow Ball Focus Blast Thunderbolt This is my lead. Love it cause it can OHKO or badly hurt most pokemon. Works great with heatran as they cover nearly all of each other's weaknesses. Thinking about dropping hypnosis for maybe destiny bond or something, I'm up for suggestions. http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7789/490lr7.png Heatran @ Choice Scarf Rash +SpAtk, -SpDef 6 hp/252 SpAtk/252 Spe Flamethrower Earth Power Dragon Pulse Explosion Works great with Gengar, and covers Garchomp's ice weakness and resists dragon as well. Choice scarf lets it outspeed most pokemon. Explosion to get rid of a threat that I'm not cofident i could beat otherwise. http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2683/450ap0.png Garchomp @ Yache Berry Jolly +Spe, -SpAtk 6 hp/252 Atk/252 Spe Swords Dance Outrage Earthquake Fire Fang Swords dance on Garchomp when I can and use earthquake/outrage, only use fire fang for those odd skarmories and bronzongs. Yache berry so that he can usually take an ice attack as well. Usually switch into him when I expect a t-wave or other electric attack. I'm up for any suggestions for any other additions or changes I should make with these pokemon. |
@VanillaThunderbolt - Do yourself a favour and lead with Umbreon. You get Yawn support from the start, which is a necessity.
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@lanz..put sash on gengar and replace hypnosis with destiny bond.give chomp sub ove fire fang as hiding behind status is more important.heatran looks good.overall a soldi team.
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My team was :
Heracross Guts Toxic Orb Adamant 252atk 128 def 128 spdef Togekiss Serene Grace Leftovers EVs 252SpAtk 252Speed and something else i cant remember |
How's this team?
Kingdra w/ Life Orb (Shiny) Ability: Sniper Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 Atk. 240 Spd. Rest in HP IVs: Perfect Moves: Dragon Dance Yawn Waterfall Outrage Porygon-Z w/ Focus Sash (Shiny) Ability: Download Nature: Modest EVs: 255 Sp. Attack 255 Spd. IVs: Perfect Moves: Nasty Plot Ice Beam Dark Pulse Tri Attack Latios w/ Soul Dew (Shiny) Ability: Levitate Nature: Modest EVs: 255 Sp. Attack 255 Spd. IVs: Perfect Moves: Dragon Pulse Draco Meteor Psychic Recover |
Firstly..stop hacking pokes it's wrong.
secondly..if your gonnna hack get proper moveset's and stuff+soul dew dont work in th BT. |
Currently on battle 143 on platinum battle tower:
Sceptile Life Orb 252Atk, 252Spe Leaf Blade Dragon claw Earthquake Thunderpunch Salamence Choice Specs 252Spa, 252Spe Hydro pump Dragon Pulse Flamethrower Roar Chansey Leftovers 252Hp, 252Def Toxic Stealth Rock Softboiled Seismic toss |
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You know i find this very hard to believe =/ |
i was waiting for someone to say that lol.i mean i cant see it getting past palmer.
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what do you mean? Just because it's shiny and has perfect IVs doesn't mean it's hacked.
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listen to yourself a flawless shiney?what are your chances with a perfect nature..
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Guys, this isn't a debate about hacks. I don't even see why they're a huge issue if the BT uses Perfect IVs.
Does anyone reckon CM Luke could run some Bulk effectively? Mence and it have great typing, but Lucario can't take hits. |
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If you just want a bulky Steel-type attacker, then use Metagross or something to that effect. Calm Mind Lucario (regardless of its EV set) just isn't any...good. |
Individual rate in bold, overall at end.
Oh, and my qualification/tips, copy/pasted from a psot I made over at the Serebii Forums 'll try to help. I've gotten up to 123 wins in Single battles, so I'll see if I can help you out. While you don't need EVERYTHING listed here, every little bit helps. Some thanks to Jumpman from Smogon and the Something Awful forums, who got 400+ wins in the BT: Accuracy: There are many Double Team abusers. You'll want a Pokemon to carry Aerial Ace or Shadow Punch or Swift or something like that. If you can get it on a Pokemon that uses it well (STAB, Technician), great, if not, don't worry. Sure, you MIGHT hit them with your more powerful STAB attack, or you might get stalled to death. Sturdy: OHKO absorber. During my best streak, I went without one. However, I got lucky. Unfortunately, there aren't many to choose from in this area. Magnezone and Skarmory are your best bets. Bulk: Pokemon that can carry some bulk and take a hit or two while being able to fight are a great asset. Sometimes you'll be able to do a ton of set up, so it's nice to have a Scizor who can take 3 ice beams while it sets up three swords dances. Status: Find a way to absorb status, especially since the BT will start using status that is bad for your starter to have. Start with someone who's electric weak? Have a ground backup. Tyranitar? Bring out Starmie or Vaporeon. Or just get someone who uses Natural Cure or RestTalk. Cover your weaknesses: On my winning team, every single SE hit on one Pokemon was either resisted or immune on at least one team mate. I had Garchomp, Starmie, and Scizor. Quote:
No way to reliably abosrb or abuse status. Toxic is covered, as is Thunder Wave paralysis, but sleep could screw you over, and the coverage you do have is situational. It's better to have a guranteed status absorber. Natural Cure, RestTalk, or Sub sets can all work wonders. Not a lot of bulk. Chomp has natural bulk, and Heatran carries some resistancies, but I like to put some EVs into defensive stats in the BT as it gives my Pokes a chance to set up. But this team is a good start. |
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Another thing. Just because you can't get flawless shinys, doesn't mean that it's wrong for BT. Online, things'd be different. Anyway, comments in bold. |
I thought i would take a break from doubles and try a single streak and
Just Beat my old singles record of 123 and got to 141 :),With the following team : Umbreon @ Focus Sash**Beachy careful/calm syncronize(I think i spelled it wrong) 252hp/252sp.def/6def ~Yawn ~Charm ~Flash ~Substitute Beachboy's smexy creation.i just had to try it out hats of to him. Garchomp @ Lum berry**Game Shrak Jolly Sand Veil 252att/252spd/6def ~Outrage ~Earthquake ~Sword Dance ~Substitute Sorry arch,Just had to steal the awsome nick :P About chomp:"words" Scizor @ leftovers**Sniper adamant Tecnition 72hp/252att/184spd ~Sword Dance ~Quick attack ~Brick Break ~Night slash My lack of platinum really hurts.As sooon as it come out im going to change it :) How I lost: Dark sent out beachy AI send out hitmonlee. Im certain it is gonna CC so i go for yawn. hitmonlee used close combat A critical hit. Beachy held on with sash(or some such) Beachy used yawn OK so im right i decide to let beachy die so chomp can get a free switch. Hitmonlee used blaze kick The attack missed Beachy used charm. Ok that was freakin gay.no free switch on a sleeping poke for me.so i decide to charm once more. Hitmonlee is fast asleep.Zzzz Beachy used charm. Maybe i can get in a few flashes and hope he misses is my next thought. Hitmonlee Woke up. Hitmonlee used blaze kick. Beahy fainted. Gay Go GAME SHRAK Ok so this is where the mistakes start. Garchomp used SD. Hitmonlee used close combat. garchomp lost around 23% Frankly i just wanted to see if i could keep a sub up without wasting a turn and I could so yeah. Game shark used earthquake. Hitmonlee held on using focus sash hitmonlee used CC. CTITICAL HIT. Game shark fainted. TBH i knew it held a sash from my experience with the tower as the sash one has blaze kick so i wanted it to sash then sub then kill it.So i take minimal DMG.looks like i wasn't haxed but lost due to stupid play.the rest is self -explnatory as scizor quick attacks it and is up against a straptor at -1. I think this team can get past 200 but am to lazy to give it another shot.ill wait till i get platinum and then get scizor with BP and superpower along with sub. Ironic isn't it, The AI gets haxed and i lose :( |
You could have also done this with Chomp...
Set up substitute to scout for damage (or hell, put it into a damage calc and see what he really has on ya) If it breaks your sub by crit or whatever, you attack immediately and hope it doesn't crit you back, or set up sub again. If it doesn't crit and you decide to attack, you're there against a 1HP Hitmonlee and you're faster. Let's say your sub survives... Set up Swords while it breaks sub. (75%) You keep toying around until you feel comfortable. You can attack and get it 1HP and take damage, or set up another substitute. And we know Staraptor would be a breeze with Chomp and Scizor in shape. EDIT: yeah, we need to jumpstart this thread. Hopefully, I'll be back to battle tower stuff soon. First I've got to get my hands on a Togekiss I've been wanting to try for a while now. |
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I know i shoulda scouted with a sub and i realize my mistake i dont know what i was thinking i guess i wanted to take minimal dmg and i hadn't had a close battle in 141 battles or been haxed at all so i might have been slightly over confident.looks like you should never underestimate the BT. If your planning to put up double records just let me know and ill post the team i got to 72 wins with :p plan to do another run with my doubles team hopefully passing hundread. |
Well, I'm going to lock this. A new, revised and maybe even a lil' more helpful will be coming soon. And I always kinda disliked how it was a Smogon-carbon-copy anyway, even though they really did hit it on the nail. XD So yeah, time to mix things up. If you don't see the new thread within a few days, feel more than free (heck, feel obligated) to come yell at me on my profile.
Hoping that with an updated version we can spark more participation as well. Locked. |
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