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Just starting, could use all suggestions
Hey all, I never really got into competitive battling but I'm trying to now and would appreciate any advice from others who do so. I'm having trouble deciding on non team and a moveset/EV spread for my eventual dragonite. I currently have an adamant dratini with perfect IV's except Sp. Atk obviously. I'm not sure what moveset to use for it and how many EV's for each stat. The only other Pokemon I have so far in my team is a careful Skarmory with perfect IV's in everything except Sp. Atk. The EV spread I chose to use was 224 HP, 32 Def, and 252 Sp. Def. I wanted him to be well rounded with HP, def, and sp def. His moveset will likely be spikes, toxic, roost, and a physical flying attack. I figured I also need a mega evolution Pokemon but can't decide who. Please help if you can, any advise is appreciated. Pokemon I'm considering: gyrados (mega), alakazam (mega), starmie, trevenant.
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We need EV's, Nature, Ability, Item's for six different Pokemon. This is Team Help, not Team Build afterall.
It's also advisable to play-test with the team before you have a rate, since what may look good on paper, sucks when put into practice. |
Well, if you choose to use Mega Gyarados, take advantage of its high Attack. Don't use it for Special Attacks, it's not really worth it, since its Special Attack rating is pretty low:
Ability: Moxie Nature: Adamant Item: Gyaradosite Substitute Dragon Dance Waterfall Bounce/Stone Edge Mega Alakazam has terrible Attack and Health ratings, but makes up for it in its high Special Attack, Special Defence, and Speed ratings. Ability: Synchronise/Magic Guard Nature: Modest/Calm Item: Alakazite Psyshock/Psychic Calm Mind Focus Blast Hidden Power Ice/Hidden Power Fire/Substitute Starmie has good stats all around, but its Health could use a little bit of training. I would use Leftovers because of that, but you can use the Life Orb if your Starmie gains a good Health rating. Ability: Natural Cure Nature: Modest Item: Leftovers/Life Orb Rapid Spin Scald Psyshock/Thunderbolt Recover or Ability: Natural Cure/Analytic Nature: Quiet Items: Leftovers/Life Orb Rapid Spin Hydro Pump/Surf Psyshock/Thunderbolt Recover Trevenant can be used as a Spinblocker, and has pretty good stats, excluding its Special Attack and Speed: Ability: Natural Cure Nature: Careful Items: Leftovers Will-o-Wisp/Destiny Bond Rest Phantom Force/Shadow Claw Wood Hammer/ Horn Leech or Ability: Harvest Nature: Calm Items: Lum Berry/Sitrus Berry Shadow Claw Will-o-Wisp Substitute Leech Seed/Horn Leech |
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Mega Gyarados is bad, really bad. But if you insist on using it... Gyarados @ Gyaradosite Ability: Moxie (Mold Breaker upon Mega evolving) EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Nature: Adamant Moves: Dragon Dance / Waterfall / Bite / Bounce Mega Alakazam is also bad, sadly. But this set is still viable on it... Alakazam @ Alakazite Ability: Magic Guard (Trace upon Mega evolving) EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spd Nature: Modest Moves: Psychic or Psyshock / Focus Blast / Shadow Ball / HP [Ice] or HP [Fire] Hope this helps :D |
(This is assuming XY can learn these moves) I don't play X or Y, so I don't know. Nor do I competitive battle w/ XY Pokemon.
Dragonite @ Leftovers Multiscale Adamant Nature 252 Atk/252 Spe/4 SpD Dragon Dance Dragon Claw/Outrage ExtremeSpeed Earthquake Multiscale gives you a chance to set up a DD, boosting your Speed to 389 w/ one DD adamant nature. W/ Jolly nature it's 426, you'll be able to outspeed a Volcarona & Salamence @ max IV's and EVs & Jolly nature. I've removed Fire Punch as it's never really helped me, had much more closure with Earthquake. With DD set up you'll be able to take out his quite worthy adversary Salamence assuming they don't DD before you do. ExtremeSpeed is used for those hard hitters that like to set up first such as Haxorus. It's pretty self explanatory. Damage as they set up, and Extreme for the kill. Well that's how I do it anyways, everyone has their own way.. |
Also, keep in mind with the new Fairy-types running around, you want a good Steel- or Poison-type Pokemon. A Toxicroak might work well:
Nature: Adamant/Jolly Item: Black Sludge Ability: Poison Touch/Anticipation EVs: 244 HP, 132 ATK, 120 DEF, 12 Speed Substitute Poison Jab Brick Break Bulk Up/Torment This set is designed to make Toxicroak a good Phys Sweeper with significant investments in HP, ATK, and DEF. It's ideal to use Substitute when you use Bulk Up or Torment so Toxicroak has something to absorb its damage. Poison Jab is a huge hit to Fairy-types, at a power 80 move, and Brick Break destroys any barriers that could have been set by those Double Screeners. Cross Chop can be a good alternative to Brick Break if screens aren't your concern, but it has low PP, so I'm not so sure it can see a good use. |
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