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Picking pokemon for my ingame team
These are the pokemon I was planning on having so far.
Physical sweeper: Infernape Trait:Blaze Nature:jolly item:Choice scarf Moveset: Mach punch (moves first) Sword dance Fire punch/blaze kick Acrobatics (if that is in platinum) Physical sweeper Bibarel (I know not your first choice but look at the specs first) Nature: Brave Trait:Simple Item:life orb Moveset: Curse Waterfall Quickattack/hyper fang Yawn I need help picking my other pokemon and there specs as well as with the current 2 I have right now. |
The best way to go with in-game teams is to just go with Pokémon who have a varied movepool and good utility, you don't have to go much farther than that or go with movesets that require much setting up.
Infernape Blaze Hasty/Naive - Flamethrower - Close Combat - Earthquake - Grass Knot Infernape works well as a mixed sweeper in-game, so a better nature would be Hasty or Naive. Other move options include Rock Slide, Return, Mach Punch, and Shadow Claw. Infernape has a very large movepool at its disposal and 104 Atk/SpAtk with 108 Speed, so it's best to use it. Floatzel Swift Swim Jolly/Adamant - Waterfall - Ice Fang - Crunch - Quick Attack (Surf, if you want) Floatzel is superior to Bibarel in pretty much every regard, 105 Atk compared to Bibarel's 85, and 115 Spe compared to Bibarel's 71 outclasses it by a lot. There's also the perk of Buizel being accessible very early in the game. Staraptor Intimidate Adamant/Jolly - Aerial Ace/Brave Bird (PP or power) - Quick Attack - Steel Wing - Fly Staraptor is another really good Pokémon that you can catch early in the game (if not your first capture) that has great stats and a good ability, plus Fly. Some Pokémon that would complement your team include Garchomp, Weavile, Alakazam, Gengar, Roserade, or Lucario. I can give you movesets on them as well, if you'd like; I also recommend Alakazam, Gengar, Roserade, or Lucario as they can provide more special offense. |
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Edit: Would togekiss work better than Staraptor? Just wondering cause I haven't done a play through with one in any of the games and was wondering if I could now if not then ok I'll do it later. |
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Togekiss will work really well, I recommend a set like this: Togekiss Serene Grace - Air Slash - Aura Sphere - ExtremeSpeed - Fly There are a lot of other options too, like Flamethrower, Shock Wave, Psychic, Shadow Ball, etc. |
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Edit: I might use Espeon. |
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So if you want to use Lucario like that, this would be a good moveset: Lucario - Aura Sphere - Dark Pulse - Dragon Pulse - Flash Cannon That is a strictly special moveset, if you wanted to make it more mixed you can use other moves like ExtremeSpeed, Earthquake, Stone Edge, and more. Lucario has an extremely large and versatile movepool. If you want to use Espeon, this is a good, varied moveset: Espeon - Psychic - Shadow Ball - Grass Knot - Swift / Quick Attack Espeon doesn't have much at its disposal, but that's a pretty straight-forward set to use it in-game. If you want to get creative, Espeon also has access to moves like Reflect and Light Screen. |
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I just remembered hp grass would be a good replacement too if I can get it. How would I do that anyways? |
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If you're debating on using an Eeveelution, I recommend Leafeon in Platinum. I used one a few years ago with the moves Leaf Blade, X-Scissor, Aerial Ace, and Quick Attack and it held its own very well, especially against Crasher Wake and Bertha in the E4. Also, getting a specific Hidden Power type is extremely tricky and requires breeding for exact IVs, it's not really recommended for in-game. |
just completed Platinum on my phone (using Drastic). As per my opinion having a Espeon/Gardevoir is really neccesary because most of the Team Galactic Grunts has Crobat/Golbat & Toxicroak/Croagunk which is really a big pain.
Also you can use Gyarados very effectively in this game because of Physical water type moves. For Gardevoir - Psychic - Thunderbolt/Shock Wave/Charge Beam - Calm Mind/Shadow Ball - Energy Ball/Focus Blast Gyarados - Aqua Tail - Ice Fang - Earthquake/Stone Edge - Dragon Dance it totally depends on you which one you like either Gardevoir/Espeon & Floatzel/Gyarados. I dont have much experience with Togekiss (it ofcourse has more base stat than Staraptor). My Staraptor knews - Fly - Brave Bird - Close Combat - Endeavor You can remove Close Combat with Steel Wing (as Hikari suggested) but Close Combat works better as it has much more power & Accuracy is 100. But the downside for this move is that it has only few usage (5 PP, Max 8) & it lowers the Defence stats. You can also think to add Garchomp, Roserade etc. Garchomp is hard to obtain (its in Victory Road as a Gabite). Garchomp - Earthquake - Dragon Claw/Dragon Rush - Stone Edge/Rock Slide - Swords Dance |
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Can I have both espeon ans leafeon or Gardivore and Leafeon? Edit: What if I did this for my team with the movesets given here. Infernape Floatzle Togekiss Lucario Garchomp Espeon |
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I got Gabite in Victory road so dont know about other places.
& yeah Gardevoir will be better choice then Espeon. If you are going to have Charge Beam on Gardevoir then there's no need of Calm Mind, you can remove it for any other move for more type coverage. |
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