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-Swords Dance -Rock Polish -Stone Edge -Close Combat Nature: Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Air Balloon If you still want to use Cobalion, you'll have to play to its strengths, which are its high Speed and Defense, as well as a good support move pool: -Thunder Wave -Stealth Rock/Roar -Close Combat/Volt Switch -Hidden Power (Ice) Nature: Impish/Bold EVs: 252 HP/208 Def/48 Spe Item: Leftovers Jellicent has very good synergy with Volcarona; it switches in to the Water moves it's weak to: -Scald -Toxic/Will-o-Wisp -Recover -Taunt Nature: Bold EVs: 248 HP/216 Def/44 Spe Item: Leftovers or -Scald/Surf -Shadow Ball/Ice Beam -Will-o-Wisp/Toxic -Recover Nature: Calm EVs: 252 HP/36 Def/220 SDef Item: Leftovers Ability: Water Absorb |
Thanks PlatinumDude, I'm gonna stick with Cobalion for now as a sweeper just because I like him, I may end up getting Terakion eventually. I think Jellicent would be a good combo with Volcarona, but what about a Spinner? Or another wall to go along with Jelli?
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-Stealth Rock -Rapid Spin -Earthquake -Ice Shard/Roar Nature: Impish EVs: 252 HP/4 Atk/252 Def Item: Leftovers Ability: Sturdy or -Rapid Spin -Earthquake -Stone Edge/Head Smash/Fire Fang -Ice Shard/Stealth Rock Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 HP/252 Atk/4 Def Item: Leftovers Ability: Sturdy |
I have a question. How does one go about choosing an online team?
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We have some resources you can use. Just posting this to say that you use the usage statistics for finding out which Pokémon are most common, then you can build your team with countering those in mind. There's also a threat list linked in that thread, and helps give you an overview on what each common Pokémon is known for.
Additionally, you can look at Smogon's RMT Archive for examples of good teams. |
Okay thank you Guys very much :D
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evaluate all dragon team, please ^-^
Look for gaps and weaknesses, it will have alot, since it is an all dragon team
Alright well my first entrant is giratina! Yey Giratina @griseous orb Adament 252 ev in atk 252 ev in speed Dragon tail Toxic Shadow force Its fly, but I've been thinking of switching fly for a fighting move (great type coverage) My goal is to use toxic and dragontail till all of opponets pokemon are poisoned and weakened. Once achieved I can hack away at hp using shadow force... Jst Giratina itself can probably defeat an ok team... BUT lets say it gets knockef out. It would probably be cause of a dragon type, an ice type, psychic, dark or ghost. So my next pokemon is out to counter those. Latios @ soul dew Modest 252 ev spatk, 252 ev speed Psychic Dragonpulse Flamethrower Focus blast/ aura sphere Normally I would put calm mind somewhere on this latios but because Giratina already poisoned and injured the pokemon, it'll be overkill. Latios already has exceptionally good special attack. Well all of his moves defend Giratinas weakneses so that speaks for itself Finally the one and only terra shark!! Garchomp @yache berry Nauhty 252 ev attack, 252 ev speed Dragon claw Earthquake Swordance Rockslide He only needs 1 swordance and he becomes unstopable... But he'll probably jst use earthquake in his 1st move to end the battle c[: Modest |
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While Giratina is equipped with the Griseous Orb, you should focus on its Origin Forme's offensive capabilities, not the defensive capabilties that its Altered Forme can do better. Also, Shadow Force is a bit easy to play around, despite the fact that it hits past Protect: -Draco Meteor -Shadow Sneak -Dragon Tail/Dragon Claw -Hidden Power (Fire)/Earthquake/Will-o-Wisp Nature: Naughty/Lonely EVs: 248 Atk/252 SAtk/8 Spe Item: Griseous Orb Latios can't learn Flamethrower, Focus Blast and Aura Sphere. It also has better moves it should be using than just Psychic and Dragon Pulse: -Draco Meteor -Thunder/Grass Knot -Surf/Hidden Power (Fire) -Recover/Psyshock/Dragon Pulse Nature: Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Soul Dew Garchomp is better off with a Jolly nature to let it outspeed as many things as it can. Rock Slide doesn't provide enough power to KO threats. Replace it with Stone Edge for the higher power, despite the lower accuracy, or Fire Fang, to let it hit Ferrothorn, Scizor and Forretress, should you go against them. IMO, you seem like you need some hazard support. Dialga can provide that for you: -Stealth Rock -Draco Meteor/Dragon Pulse -Fire Blast -Roar/Dragon Tail/Thunder Nature: Modest/Quiet EVs: 252 HP/56 SAtk/200 SDef Item: Leftovers Ability: Pressure In the future, it might be a better idea to research on what moves your Pokemon can possibly learn before making their sets. You have 2 slots left open in the team; you need 6 Pokemon for this team to be considered a full team. I'll let someone else figure out the last 2 slots. |
I'm not to big on looking for my moves and stratagies on smogon, I prefer to learn through trial and error c[:
My latios had Calm mind Reflect Dragon pulse And psychic I haven't played pokemon in a while so I didn't know which moves latios could learn, wups my bad. I wanted to make latios more offensive to protect my adamant giratina. oh and with Giratina, you're right I should go with its origin form... I jst wanted extra speed to poison the apponent first. And shadow force was only to buy time for toxic. If you switch to a normal pokemon in the middrl of shadow force I'll jst use dragon tail again ^-^ I was thinking about it and on terrakill I'm going to replace rockslide with firefang, so thanks ^-^ And now I gotta work on getting me a Dialga :D But with different moves, (I'm not a big fan of stealth rocks) The other 2 slots are for rayquaza and lucario Rayquaza 252 atk 252 speed Dragondance Dragonclaw I'm thinking of earthquake and maybe even flamethower umm idk Lucario Same atk and speed evs Drain punch Iron tail Swordance aura sphere/ extreme speed - which one is better? I know to many sweepers I probably need one other annoyer, apart from giratina a possibly a wall and a rapid spinner... So which pokemons do you think need to get off my team so I can add a milotic, a meganium or something around there |
Aww man, I need a new battle plan!
Lately, I have been doing online launcher battles. It hasn't gone to well...
This is my team at the moment: Emboar Serperior Samurott Cinccino ( Or what ever it's called :P I forget because it's nick-named ) Ditto Zoroark Half of this team was made by my friend. I decided to use the three main starters, but change Emboar to a Blaziken once i get one. Emboar is a terrible fire starter Pokemon. Ditto isn't the best one I would have picked and im starting to think my friend was intending me to have total doom. Zoroark is okay in some cases, sometimes using his illusion and getting un-noticed looking like my Emboar the whole match. I don't think it's a good team, and don't know what members to change, so i ask for your help. I don't think i wanna ask my friend for help again... |
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Your Latios looks like it had a defensive set. Latias (Latios' twin) can pull off defensive sets better because of its 130 Special Defense, further boosted by Soul Dew. As a general rule of thumb, use only offensive sets with Latios and defensive/support/tank sets with Latias. Dialga's best traits are its good defensive typing and high defenses. Its Speed isn't high enough to let it go hyper-offensive. And what are you talking about? Stealth Rock is one of the best support moves ever made. It damages all Pokemon, which Spikes and Toxic Spikes don't do, when they enter battle (even though the damage varies depending on what type the Pokemon is). Stealth Rock isn't very hard to get up either; it only takes 1 layer for Stealth Rock to do its job. Dialga has the defenses and typing to get Stealth Rock up easily. Said move also works well with Giratina's Dragon Tail, racking up extra damage on the Pokemon that switches into battle; Giratina's Ghost typing also ensures that opponents can't Rapid Spin away the rocks, since SR is an entry hazard. Rayquaza is rather versatile when it comes to offensive movesets; it can go physical, special or both: -Dragon Dance -Outrage -Earthquake -Overheat Nature: Naive EVs: 252 Atk/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Lum Berry or -Draco Meteor -Fire Blast/V-create -ExtremeSpeed -Outrage/Dragon Tail Nature: Hasty/Naive EVs: 4 Atk/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb or -Dragon Dance -Outrage -Draco Meteor -Fire Blast/Earthquake Nature: Mild/Rash EVs: 40 Atk/252 SAtk/216 Spe Item: Life Orb or -Swords Dance -Dragon Claw -ExtremeSpeed -V-create Nature: Jolly/Adamant EVs: 252 Atk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Life Orb or -Outrage -V-create -Draco Meteor -Earthquake/ExtremeSpeed Nature: Hasty/Naive EVs: 252 Atk/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Choice Scarf or -Outrage -V-create -ExtremeSpeed -Earthquake Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Choice Band Lucario doesn't really do well in Ubers because of its somewhat average offenses and poor defenses compared to the resident Ubers there. Excadrill is your best bet in its place as a Rapid Spinner: -Earthquake -Rapid Spin -Swords Dance -Rock Slide/Iron Head/Substitute Nature: Adamant EVs: 176 HP/60 Atk/252 SDef/20 Spe Item: Leftovers Ability: Mold Breaker Quote:
You're right on Cinccino's name. Ditto isn't that bad of a Pokemon because of its Imposter ability copying the opponent as soon as it enters battle. I'll throw out some move sets for all your Pokemon: Serperior: -Coil -Leaf Blade -Aqua Tail -Return/Substitute Nature: Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Leftovers or -Substitute -Calm Mind -Giga Drain -Hidden Power (Fire/Rock)/Dragon Pulse Nature: Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Leftovers or -Glare -Giga Drain -Dragon Tail -Taunt Nature: Bold EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SDef Item: Leftovers or -Reflect -Light Screen -Giga Drain -Taunt Nature: Timid EVs: 252 HP/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Light Clay Emboar: -Flare Blitz -Superpower -Wild Charge -Head Smash/Stone Edge Nature: Adamant (Choice Band)/Jolly (Choice Scarf) EVs: 128 HP/252 Atk/128 Spe (Choice Band) or 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe (Choice Scarf) Item: Choice Specs/Choice Scarf or -Fire Blast -Superpower -Hidden Power (Ice) -Grass Knot/Substitute Nature: Rash/Mild EVs: 128 HP/252 SAtk/128 Spe Item: Life Orb/Leftovers Samurott: -Hydro Pump/Surf -Ice Beam -Grass Knot/Hidden Power (Grass) -Megahorn/Superpower/Taunt/Aqua Jet Nature: Naive/Timid EVs: 4 HP/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb or -Swords Dance -Waterfall -Aqua Jet -Megahorn Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Lum Berry/Leftovers Cinccino: -Tail Slap -Bullet Seed -Rock Blast -U-turn Nature: Jolly/Adamant EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Choice Band Ability: Skill Link Ditto: -Transform Nature: Relaxed/Sassy EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SDef (Relaxed) or 252 HP/4 Def/252 SDef (Sassy) Item: Choice Scarf Ability: Imposter Zoroark: -Dark Pulse/Night Daze -Flamethrower -Focus Blast -Trick/U-turn Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SAtk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Choice Specs/Choice Scarf or -Nasty Plot -Dark Pulse/Night Daze -Focus Blast -Flamethrower/Substitute Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SAtk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Leftovers or -Dark Pulse/Night Daze -Flamethrower -Focus Blast -Sucker Punch Nature: Hasty/Naive EVs: 4 Atk/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Life Orb |
qustion i want to make an online team and im thinking of useing my ingame team. please help reveiw and tell me if they will work for online play
but this team setup is working wonders ingame balance: flygon defence and specail defence: magnezone speed and attack: arcanine and unfezant speed and specail attack: starmie attack and specail attack and speed: zoroark |
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Competitive Team Help
can i please get help on guide lines on how to chosse the right pokemon in order to make Competitive Team.
so far heres what im thinking so far: kingler(with sheer force Ability) moves: crab hammer, superpower Genesect: thunder, bug buzz, gunk shot Arcanine: wild charge, fire blast, outrage |
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-Swords Dance -Agility -Crabhammer -Return/X-Scissor Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 48 HP/252 Atk/208 Spe Item: Life Orb Ability: Hyper Cutter or -Crabhammer -Double-Edge/Return -Superpower -X-Scissor Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Choice Band Ability: Hyper Cutter But then again, Kingler isn't seen often in standard play due to having imbalanced stats; while it has high Attack and Defense, its Special stats and HP are low and its Speed is average. Try something else like Starmie. It can learn Rapid Spin to clear entry hazards: -Hydro Pump/Surf -Ice Beam -Thunderbolt -Rapid Spin/Recover Nature: Timid EVs: 252 SAtk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Leftovers/Life Orb Ability: Natural Cure Genesect has a wide special movepool to take advantage of. Gunk Shot has terrible coverage, so don't bother with it. It makes a good scout with Choice items: -U-turn -Ice Beam -Thunderbolt/Bug Buzz -Flamethrower/Bug Buzz Nature: Hasty/Naive EVs: 8 HP/248 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Choice Scarf or -U-turn -Ice Beam -Flamethrower -Thunderbolt/Bug Buzz Nature: Hasty/Naive EVs: 4 Atk/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Expert Belt/Focus Sash or -Bug Buzz -U-turn -Ice Beam -Thunderbolt Nature: Naive/Hasty EVs: 4 Atk/252 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Choice Specs or -Rock Polish -Ice Beam -Flamethrower -Thunderbolt/Bug Buzz Nature: Timid/Modest EVs: 252 SAtk/4 SDef/252 Spe Item: Life Orb or -U-turn -Iron Head -Flamethrower/Zen Headbutt -Explosion/Ice Beam Nature: Naughty/Lonely EVs: 252 Atk/4 SAtk/252 Spe Item: Choice Band Arcanine should generally focus on physical attacks, since its physical movepool is decent: -Flare Blitz -ExtremeSpeed -Wild Charge/Crunch -Close Combat/Morning Sun Nature: Adamant EVs: 72 HP/252 Atk/8 SDef/176 Spe Item: Life Orb Ability: Intimidate/Flash Fire |
I posted my Team already I just need a few question's answered in order to make a few last minute changes
my team is Infernape,Garchomp,Metagross,Latios,Swampert and Dusknoir The sets are pretty standard and the EV's too, the team is for SS Here are my questions: What is the speed of a hasty/naive jolly 192ev's infernape with 15-25 Iv's I know max is 176 but I think thats 31 IV's and 252 EV's The reason I ask is I can only give 31 IV's to it and if I find out the stat I can decide if I want to put it in attack or speed if its easier can some decide fr me I think speed is more important but I need it to kill the things its faster than Can anyone think of a better replacement for dusknoir provided its bulky and can deal at least enough damage a tank basically that doesn't add to many weaknesses and preferably is immune to something for an easy switch in :L sorry just found out the infernape stat its hasty with 15 Ivs is 159 and 25 Ivs is 165 so that really isnt fast enough 31 IV's is only 168 so instead of the spread of 252/64/192 should I make it 252/44/212 That gives it 130 sp.atk the moveset is [email protected] orb (Hasty,Naive) Close combat Overheat U-turn Stone edge/mach punch 212 EV'S gives it 170 speed but is 130 sp.atk enough for overheat to OHKO most steels namely bronzong and bulky grass types Venasaur/exeggutor? because anything that fire is neutral on I think close combat will do more damage provided its also neutral? so should I bump the speed EV's to 212 or is 168 fast enough and I'm worrying over nothing? |
Gengar Moveset
Gengar Moveset
Hi guys im looking into a gengar but not totally sure what to do. im doing a 3rd gen gengar ATM so please keep that in mind. the current one i have is Bashful Nature EVs 252 Sp ATK/252 Hp/ 4 Sp DEF moveset Hypnosis Dreameater Curse Shawdow Ball All ideas are welcome would appreciate the help |
This moveset is a pretty good idea lol. It puts apponents to sleep, sets in curse, and restores/ damages the other pokemon. Pretty good except hypnosis got doen graded to 60% accuracy and gengars bleh defences c[x
I would recomend a more sweeping assualt. His speed and special attack are no laughing matter. So give him a life orb to hold and a modest naturevand you got yourself a pokemin capable of seriously denting an apposing team. Gengar @life orb Shadowball Focus blast Pain split Substitue/thunderbolt With this set you'll go in substitude, this prevents you from deing the next turn and get a status like paralasis or burn. Now use pain split it will restore your health and bring your apponents down. Then either shadow ball or focus blast. Killing the other pokemon, now repeat. Pain split is used very handy with life orb and substitude and it works especially good with pojemon who have lots of hp. instead of substued you can use thunder bolt for more neutral coverage |
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Gengar @Leftovers Timid/Modest nature 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe ~ Thunderbolt ~ Ice Punch ~ Giga Drain ~ Fire Punch This would also work in-game perfectly. Unless you have R/S because Ice and Fire Punch are only available via move tutors in Emerald. You could replace both moves with Shadow Ball and Hypnosis if that is the case. |
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Requesting IV Help
I'm trying to get a Chancy with perfect (or near-perfect) IVs in Special Defense and HP for my team (and perhaps a decent IV in Speed wouldn't be bad), but I haven't had any luck yet. I'm pretty sure I understand how EV training works, but I just can't get the hang of breeding for IVs. I've been reading online guides and I thought I understood it, but I was obviously wrong.
I'm gonna try to explain what I did earlier tonight (in a spoiler below, for the sake of not having a super long post) and maybe somebody can tell me what I did wrong. I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Spoiler:
Feel free to reply to this thread, or even send me a PM if you'd prefer, to explain where I've gone wrong. I'd love it if somebody could help me out! Thanks for any help you can give! I'm new to any sort of "advanced breeding" and EV training, so I apologize if I'm missing something super obvious. One last thing, is there any way to legitimately obtain a flawless Ditto? I'm convinced that it isn't possible, but I always like to be completely sure of these things. |
Brainstorming over a Competitive Team
~ Heyaa everyone!
I was thinking of joining in on the wifi-battles! But before I can, I DO need a competitive team.. Here's the problem, I don't really know what Pokémons to put in it since there are so many combinations and Pokémon I like! (I am having the hardest time choosing) There are 2 Pokémons that I love being in it: Weavile and Milotic! I already have my Weavile (Physical sweeper) but I am still brainstorming over a good moveset though! Weavile @ Choice Scarf/Focus Sash/ ... (Still not sure) Pressure | Jolly 31/31/x/31/x/31 252 Atk, 252 Spe and 4 Hp -Night Slash -Ice Punch -Brick Break - ... (Not sure yet) Here's my question for you guys: What do you consider being a nice team that includes a Weavile (and maybe even a Milotic), I'd love to hear from you! Please put the suggestions like this: Pokemon @ Item Ability | Nature IVs EVs - Moves Thank you! ~ Lots of love. Creame |
While Weavile is a good anti-Dragon Pokemon, its low defenses make it priority-bait. Mamoswine is a better alternative because it has enough bulk to compensate for its lesser Speed:
-Stealth Rock -Earthquake -Ice Shard -Endeavor Nature: Adamant EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Focus Sash Ability: Thick Fat or -Earthquake -Icicle Crash -Ice Shard -Stone Edge Nature: Adamant/Jolly Eva: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Life Orb/Choice Band Ability: Thick Fat or -Icicle Spear/Icicle Crash -Earthquake -Superpower - Stone Edge Nature: Adamant/Jolly EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe Item: Choice Scarf Ability: Thick Fat Ideal teammates are Pokemon that appreciate having Dragons out of the picture. |
Thanks!!
Still looking at other people's teams to find out what Pokémons I should use :3 |
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