How is this pokemon team?

[Xari]

I'm new to the forums, so if this is the wrong place to ask this type of question, please redirect me.


I'm not looking to play competitively; just going through the game. I do want to make sure my team is relatively good and not consisting of weak pokemon.

My team at the moment is (parentheses are moves I want to replace with):

Gabite
- Dragon Rage (Dragon Rush)
- Sandstorm (Fire Fang Maybe)
- Take Down (Not sure)
- Sand Tomb (Earthquake)

Rotom
- ThunderShock (Thunderbolt)
- Shock Wave (Shadow Ball)
- Uproar
- Blizzard

Staraptor
- Aerial Ace (Brave Bird)
- Fly
- Defog (U-Turn/Return)
- Close Combat (Close Combat)

Empoleon
- BubbleBeam (Surf)
- Pound (Ice Beam/Flash Cannon)
- Peck (Peck)
- Metal Claw (?)

Haunter
- Payback (?)
- Shadow Punch (Hypnosis maybe)
- Shadow Ball
- Sucker Punch (?)

Magmortar
- Have not yet caught.

 

[Hikamaru]

First, it'd be best to provide full information about your team, such as moves. It'd really help us with improving your team better if we know more about what they're running. I do have to point out a bit of type redundancy with Gengar and Rotom there, and typically I wouldn't recommend multiples of the same type since diversity is the key if you want to avoid one particular type wiping the floor with you.

 

[Xari]

Thank so much for answering. When I was posting I did think that I should provide information about my Pokemon; however, I'm a bit early into the game right now (20s to 30s) so I don't have all the movesets I wish for. There is redundancy in some moves (like having fly and defog on my Staraptor).

Here's my team in full detail... parentheses are moves I want to replace with


Gabite
- Dragon Rage (Dragon Rush)
- Sandstorm (Fire Fang Maybe)
- Take Down (Not sure)
- Sand Tomb (Earthquake)

Rotom
- ThunderShock (Thunderbolt)
- Shock Wave (Shadow Ball)
- Uproar
- Blizzard

Staraptor
- Aerial Ace (Brave Bird)
- Fly
- Defog (U-Turn/Return)
- Close Combat (Close Combat)

Empoleon
- BubbleBeam (Surf)
- Pound (Ice Beam/Flash Cannon)
- Peck (Peck)
- Metal Claw (?)

Haunter
- Payback (?)
- Shadow Punch (Hypnosis maybe)
- Shadow Ball
- Sucker Punch (?)

Magmortar
- Have not yet caught.

 

[curiousnathan]

I'm just going to move this into In-Game Team Help, as threads like these don't belong in 4th Gen!

 

[Xari]

Thank you for moving it! I'll keep this in mind for future reference.