General team building

[mglax]

This is a thread for posting your own opinions on what pokemon the best team should be made of. But, instead of using specific pokemon, just what stats they have.

For example, someone might say that the best team should have all 6 members with the highest attack, and another might disagree and say that 3 members should have the highest sp. defence and 3 should have the highest speed.

Feel free to include why you think yours is the best way! I'll try to keep track on what most people agree on and try to post it. Also, if the order matters be sure to say what you want the order to be

 

[Sara Yamamoto]

My pokemon team is well balanced in all of their stats.

 

[EJ]

Definitely a well-balanced team.

I usually go half special-attackers, half physical-attackers. Some will be bulky while some will be fast. etc.

 

[Fever]

In any sort of competition, there is no substitute for speed.
Which is why, my teams are usually very quick.
They are also split between 3 physical and 3 special attackers.

 

[jab2033]

My teams generally have a mix of physical and special sweepers, with one of each having a stat-boosting move like swords dance or nasty plot. I also generally try to use moves that hits a pokemon's weakness.

For example, if I'm using Infernape, I try to give it a moveset that hits as many of its own weaknesses as possible. So I would include Grass Knot for Water and Ground types, and Rock Slide or Stone Edge for Flying-types.

 

[classikpokemontrainer13]

always include one tank pokemon to take damage so one with high hp. i second that getting the first hit with a high speed stat is one of the most important factors.

 

[Weavile05]

Yeah speed is always pretty good, and I never use any pokemon that lack in either of it's Attack stats, no matter how defensive it is.

 

[rippedupmemories]

Mine's normally high Attack and SpDef and SpAtk.

 

[OkyaS]

Speed is a great asset to have. It also depends on what your opponent has. Most of my pokemon have Attack.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

There is no such thing as the "best stat". It all varies with play style and how you build the team. For example, bulky offense teams tend to keep things balanced so they have no specific weakness to exploit, whereas stall teams capitalise on defensive Pokemon to stall their opponents out.

Personally, I prefer to have an epic hyper offensive team with one slightly defensive team-set-upper and five Life-Orb'd set-up sweepers.