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Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

herojelly

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    I just started on Pokemon Black, it's been rotting in my cabinet for like 5 months. XD Anyways, I need help deciding on my team against overwhelming pokemon choices. Can someone help me out? This is what I have planned out so far:

    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team


    I'm thinking maybe a Gigalith and a Conkeldurr? Idk, I make horrible pokemon choices. D:

    Note that I won't be caring about IVs and Natures and stuff since this is just in-game. Thanks!
     

    jab2033

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    One of my favorites is Hydreigon. It's Dark/Dragon, and even though you catch it's first form real late in-game (victory road, I believe), it's still awesome.

    I don't know how you feel about using legendaries, but I do like Virizion. It's Grass/Fighting and my favorite out of the new Legendary Pokemon trio. You can get it pretty early (at least for a legendary).
     

    1UpedAngel

    Some guy who's there
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    Honestly, I'd get rid of Stoutland as it Normal's generally, at least with my experience, and maybe replace it with something like Reuniclus, as it has a reputation of being AMAZING.

    But for filling up your last 2 spots on there, I'd suggest maybe Excadrill/something Grass-type and Druddigon/Hydreigon.
     

    herojelly

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    Hmm, thanks for your input.

    Deino and Hydreigon seem to be caught rather late in the game from what I can see, I may just go with Stoutland instead, but meh. D:

    So do you think that this would be good?
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    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team


    Or should I change around a bit? I'm really feeling against victory road/dragonspiral tower pokes because I feel I would only be able to use them in the post-game.

    I really don't know anything though, so if they're amazing I could use them XD
     

    Ho-Oh

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    imo you're going to need something that can utilise fighting attacks, because in Unova, Plasma has TONS of things that are weak to fighting. Scraggy was amazing to use in-game for that reason, really. And there's also the fact that two of your Pokemon are weak to dark, and they're in the elite four. Since you have nothing really to counter that then there might be some issues for you.

    Zebstrika also apparently has a bad reputation in-game, or its previous evo at least. For example, since its base stats indicate its attack is higher than spA, you'd be training it until 47 to get Wild Charge, which is like the only useful thing, really, since most of its other STAB attacks that are physical aren't that high in power, so unless you wanna use it as a status based Pokemon, like, teaching it wild charge as backup, and thunderwave + toxic and something else, then you're not really going to get far from that moveset.

    Whereas if you replaced it with Scraggy, it covers your weaknesses for the elite four, aka dark+fighting which is really helpful in Unova. As for Stoutland, yeah I've used better (than Herdier at least, but hey up to you), and its non-STAB moveset as far as TMs and learnset goes isn't really that good, or high in power (physical that is) so you wouldn't really be hitting anything with super effective attacks often. And the only real use otherwise is Surf, which you could otherwise give to Samurott for your HM usage and since it's special, it'd fit fine.

    What attacks were you thinking of using on your others?
     

    herojelly

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    imo you're going to need something that can utilise fighting attacks, because in Unova, Plasma has TONS of things that are weak to fighting. Scraggy was amazing to use in-game for that reason, really. And there's also the fact that two of your Pokemon are weak to dark, and they're in the elite four. Since you have nothing really to counter that then there might be some issues for you.

    Zebstrika also apparently has a bad reputation in-game, or its previous evo at least. For example, since its base stats indicate its attack is higher than spA, you'd be training it until 47 to get Wild Charge, which is like the only useful thing, really, since most of its other STAB attacks that are physical aren't that high in power, so unless you wanna use it as a status based Pokemon, like, teaching it wild charge as backup, and thunderwave + toxic and something else, then you're not really going to get far from that moveset.

    Whereas if you replaced it with Scraggy, it covers your weaknesses for the elite four, aka dark+fighting which is really helpful in Unova. As for Stoutland, yeah I've used better (than Herdier at least, but hey up to you), and its non-STAB moveset as far as TMs and learnset goes isn't really that good, or high in power (physical that is) so you wouldn't really be hitting anything with super effective attacks often. And the only real use otherwise is Surf, which you could otherwise give to Samurott for your HM usage and since it's special, it'd fit fine.

    What attacks were you thinking of using on your others?
    I just replace attacks with better ones when I level up and occasionally I teach TMs, so I don't plan out movesets cause I suck like that XD

    If I replace Stoutland with Scraggy, what do you think I just replace Zebstrika with? D: I was kind of hoping for like a mixed sweeper with Zebstrika, but if it sucks that bad I'll replace it. At this rate I should just restart my save file. XD

    Anyways, Emolga probably sucks worse than Zebstrika, so I might just go with getting one of those dragon types that you get right before the elite 4, idk D:
     
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    Then You Have Axew

    You Can Get Axew Right After You Get Surf

    It's In Mistralton Cave Just East Of Chargstone Cave

    However If You Want An Axew Make Sure He Has The Abillity Mold Breaker Cuz It's Good
     

    herojelly

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    Axew sounds like a wonderful idea. (:

    So now, I'll list out movesets. Just as an fyi, I suck at movesets and am known to make stupid mistakes like teaching Alakazam Psycho Cut instead of Psychic. XD So please help me out!

    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    Should I do a Special Samurott?
    -Surf
    -Ice Beam
    -Grass Knot
    -Toxic/Rain Dance
    Do you think I should do this moveset or a physical Samurott like this?
    -Waterfall/Aqua Tail
    -Return
    -Swords Dance
    -Dig/Aerial Ace
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    -Psychic
    -Shadow Ball
    -Focus Blast
    -Energy Ball/Flash Cannon
    Idk here, there are so many good special moves it can learn through TMs, and I really don't know what I'm doing <.< Turning it into a four-attack machine might be too much XD
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Shadow Ball
    -Inferno/Overheat/Fire Ball/Flamethrower/OTHER FIRE MOVES!!!111
    -Psychic
    -Energy Ball/Other Fire Move
    No idea here, once again D: Just putting down special moves? D: I don't know how many fire moves to give either, since it can learn like 50.
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    -Earthquake
    -Swords Dance
    -Return/Brick Break
    -Aerial Ace/Rock Slide
    God I suck at movesets.
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Swords Dance/Dragon Dance
    -Dragon Claw
    -Shadow Claw
    -Rock Tomb/Brick Break
    Same as above
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Crunch
    -Hi Jump Kick/Brick Break
    -Dragon Claw/Stone Edge
    -Return

    As I said, I suck at movesets, recommend other moves please. XD
     

    1UpedAngel

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    That seems like an OK Team so far, however, Reuniclus should know Psychic as it doesn't have any STAB moves as I can see, and for Haxorus, I'd suggest getting it to learn Outrage as it is one of the most powerful moves it can learn with it's high attack, and make sure it learns Dragon Dance instead of Swords Dance as Dragon Dance not only increases Attack but Speed.

    And I'm sorry to the people that did use Scraggy, but I never use Fighting-types as theres so much I can do to counter them, a good Psychic from something Ghost-type always did them in, and then there's the weakness to Flying, which has some very universal pokemon that can learn some of those moves. I'd go against Scraggy for those reasons, but that's only me. I'm not trying to troll, I'm only giving you a piece of info I learned while playing.
     

    jab2033

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    My changes and comments are in BOLD:

    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    Should I do a Special Samurott?
    -Surf
    -Ice Beam
    -Grass Knot
    -Toxic/Rain Dance
    Do you think I should do this moveset or a physical Samurott like this?
    -Waterfall/Aqua Tail
    -Return
    -Swords Dance
    -Dig/Aerial Ace

    Both sets aren't bad, or you could go with a mixed set such as the following:
    -Surf
    -Aqua Jet
    -Ice Beam
    -Grass Knot

    Surf for STAB and Aqua Jet as a Water-type Quick Attack to finish things off if Surf or Ice Beam doesn't KO. Grass Knot is there for more coverage.
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Psychic
    -Shadow Ball
    -Recover
    -Energy Ball

    Only thing here is Recover over Focus Blast. Some sort of instant recovery is nice, and use Energy Ball over Flash Cannon, since Steel isn't that good of an attacking type.
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Shadow Ball
    -Flamethrower
    -Psychic
    -Energy Ball
    Go with Flamethrower over anything else. It's much more accurate. Energy Ball is good in the final slot.
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Earthquake
    -Swords Dance
    -Aerial Ace/X-Scissor
    -Rock Slide

    Go with Rock Slide as Rock + Ground is one of those combos that gives a lot of type coverage. And either Aerial Ace or X-Scissor in the final slot.

    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Swords Dance/Dragon Dance
    -Dragon Claw
    -Shadow Claw
    -Earthquake

    Go with DD over SD, as Haxorus could use the Speed boost. Earthquake in the final slot. Earthquake is just awesome. You can't beat 100 Base Power and 100% Accuracy.
    Help me out with my Pokemon Black Team

    -Crunch
    -Brick Break
    -Dragon Claw
    -Stone Edge

    That's what I'd do for Scraftry. I haven't used it before, so it might not be the best.

    Hope I helped.
     

    herojelly

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    Thank you guys so much! I now have a completely planned out team (:
    Now to find someone who will trade a Solosis from White with me...
     
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