HeartGold Team Plan

[Weavile05]

Here's my planned team for my next run of HG.

Feraligatr (Male), Naughty @Muscle Band
252atk/ 252def/ 4hp or spe
Torrent
Waterfall
Crunch
Ice Fang
Superpower

Went for Naughty Nature because I might have Surf on it for the majority of the main storyline, since it doesn't learn Superpower until level 63. Therefor, a Sp.Atk Dropping nature would hurt me, and Gatr's Sp. Def isn't that good anyway. As for EVs, I'm leaning more toward giving some to HP rather than Speed, since Speed is one of Gatr's lowest stats. But at the same time, I already have EVs in Defense, and giving some to HP would be made even more redundant because of the Sp. Def dropping Nature.

Ampharos (Female), Modest @Leftovers
252 Sp Atk/ 252 HP/ 4 Def
Static
Thunderbolt/Discharge
Thunder Wave
Power Gem
Signal Beam/Focus Blast

I put 4 defense evs because it would help to balance out it's defense stats since Physical Defense is lower. Tbolt/Discharge is obvious, Thunder Wave to help against faster foes, Power Gem for coverage, and same for the last move. Signal beam has a higher accuracy, but as for focus blast... a lot of Ground types are also rock type....

Victreebell (Male), Naughty @Scope Lens
252 Atk/ 252 Spd/ 4 HP
Clorophyll
Swords Dance
Leaf Blade
Sleep Powder
Return

Yeah I wasn't really sure with this one. But I've never used a Victreebell before so yeah, why not?

Umbreon (Female), Relaxed @Leftovers
252 Def/ 252 Sp Def/ 4 Spd
Synchronize
Toxic
Protect
Payback
Moonlight

I had no clue on the nature, so if someone could help me out here, that would be awesome, and you would get a cookie. It only has one attacking move, but this isn't meant to dish out too much damage. It's meant as a support/wall.

Heracross (Male), Adamant @Toxic Orb/Burn Orb
252 Atk/ 130 HP/ 130 Def/ 4 Spd
Guts
Megahorn
Close Combat
Aerial Ace
Rock Slide

Obviously, quite a few of these moves and items will be unobtainable to me before the E4, but I'll have them by the time I get to Red. I'm gonna be searching a long time for this though....

Charizard (Male), Modest @Wiseglasses
252 SpAtk/ 252 Spd/ 4 HP
Blaze
Flamethrower
Dragon Pulse
Air Slash
Focus Blast

Obviously Specially based, Shame I'm gonna have to have a fly slave though. For anyone who's wondering, I'll probably be trading over a Charmander from a SS ROM on my R4i.

Note to Mods: Just so there's no confusion, despite the presence of EVs, specific abilities, and Competetive Battling Items, this is an in-game team. I just decided I'd try something a little different.

 

[jab2033]

Victreebel wants Sleep Powder, and I guess Return. It doesn't have a lot of options either way.

Either Bold (+Def, -SpAtk) or Calm (+SpDef, -SpAtk) Natures would be best on Umbreon. You could also try Payback as its attacking move, since Umbreon is fairly slow. Or you could give it the Lagging Tail to ensure Umbreon goes last and you'd always get Payback's power doubled that way.

 

[Weavile05]

Okay, thanks. I'll edit the first post in a bit. Do you think it's good otherwise? And if I do use Payback, would a Speed dropping nature be a good idea?

 

[njepkemaz]

Ferraligatr
Very good not much to change but go wth the hp EVs
Ampharos
I love ampharos though it won't be in the battle long because its a special sweeper so you won't need leftovers instead replace it with wide lens and teach it focus blast and thunderbolt
Victreebel
...hmmmmm
Umbreon
Trick room instead of protect
Heracross
not my pokemon of choice but i think it needsearthquake instead of rock slide
Charizard
Very good charizard best one i've seen no changes

 

[jab2033]

Okay, thanks. I'll edit the first post in a bit. Do you think it's good otherwise? And if I do use Payback, would a Speed dropping nature be a good idea?

Looks alright to me.

And if you want a Speed-dropping nature, Sassy or Relaxed would be your two best there.

 

[Squirrel]

Ampharos
I love ampharos though it won't be in the battle long because its a special sweeper so you won't need leftovers instead replace it with wide lens and teach it focus blast and thunderbolt

Ampharos is a brilliant pokemon, one of my favourites too - but it certainly isn't intended for use as a sweeper (unless risking the use of quick claw). Ampharos has a base speed of only 50, and it's health and defences are relatively much better - seems like its designed to last. I'm sure it could be used for either though. :)

 

[Weavile05]

Ferraligatr
Very good not much to change but go wth the hp EVs
Ampharos
I love ampharos though it won't be in the battle long because its a special sweeper so you won't need leftovers instead replace it with wide lens and teach it focus blast and thunderbolt
Victreebel
...hmmmmm
Umbreon
Trick room instead of protect
Heracross
not my pokemon of choice but i think it needsearthquake instead of rock slide
Charizard
Very good charizard best one i've seen no changes

I didn't intend for Ampharos to be a sweeper. I intended for it be a Tank, hence the leftovers and HP EVs. I do plan to go with Thunderbolt, but I have no garuntees on when I'll be able to get it, so that's why I have Discharge written down as well.

Trick room would kinda defeat the purpose of Payback on Umbreon (I recently edited that in due to a suggestion by Jab in case you didn't see that) and Protect actually works very well when paired with Toxic.

As for Heracross, I understand your reasoning behind earthquake (powerful, defeats Fire types), but I had Rock Slide there for covering it's insane weakness to Flying Types. Yeah it's a little less powerful than Earthquake but it also beats Fire types and with a 252 Attack EVs, not to mention Heracross's beastly base Attack AND Adamant Nature, I'm sure the 10 Base power difference won't matter much. And to top it off, it can make foes flinch! So unless there's some glaring reason why Earthquake would be better than Rock Slide, I'll just stick with Rock Slide.

As for Victreebell, if there is another Grass type someone would highly reccomend, let me know and I'll consider it.