Hey everyone. I'm new here, so I'm not sure where to post this, please don't kill me. I want to get into competitive battling but I can't build a team well. Could you help me out, please? Even if it's just telling me which pokemon works well with which pokemon, that helps me out a lot. Basically I need you to help me build a team that will be good,. I'll tell you some of my favorite pokemon to use, to ease you just a little bit: Baton pass Scolipede with Swords Dance, and pretty much every good Skill Link pokemon.
Thanks a lot for any help!
Hi there! Everyone builds teams differently, but here are some tips as to how I build mine.
What I do is I start with a Pokemon or a core of Pokemon. I look at the Pokemon's weaknesses as a typing, and pick Pokemon that helps to cover that. Using a site like
Eggy Emporium's Teambuilder is a great asset. I often simply try to get my Pokemon to synergize well with each other typing wise and avoid stacking weaknesses unnecessarily. Make sure you aren't looking at a Pokemon solely for its typing though, you must also think of its role and viability. Sure I mean, you could but a Stunfisk in your team if it happens to synergize well typing-wise, but what can it actually do in battles? Not much, really. So think about that stuff. You also need to consider some needs in a team, like if some Speed Control would be all your team needs to wreck some lives, consider a Sticky Web setter but one that can mesh well with your team. Stuff like that.
So let's go with an example. Let's say you use Mega Heracross. Immediately, first thing is that Talonflame just destroys it, demolishes it, uhm, wrecks it! So you have a couple of options for Teammates. Rotom-Wash pretty much poops all over Tflame, same with Tyranitar. Tyranitar also happens to cover Heracross' psychic weakness, so you could choose that, but it does stack a fairy weakness, so you'll want somtehing that can deal with that and Tyranitar's other weaknesses. So you could put a Scizor in which helps with fairies but at the same time doens't stack too many weaknesses, adding a Rotom-Wash would alleviate the fire weakness and cover the uncovered water weakness, and thus the four current Pokemon all basically have their weaknesses covered. You would now think about things that would still threaten the team, or further support such as Sticky Web or Thunder Wave to help with Heracross' speed, and really, TTar and Scizor's speed too.
Don't spend more than an hour on your first team draft, overthinking things. You want to get a decent looking team put together, and then test it test it test it! It definitely won't be perfect from the get go, and by testing you can figure out any flaws in your team. Is a Pokemon just not pulling its weight? Is there a certain threat or group of threats that just demolish it? Do you wish your Pokemon would just be able to take a hit from a threat and KO it back? Take notes of these, and rectify your team as it goes on!
You're not gonna get anywhere by getting others to build teams for you. Try it out yourself, and you might find it to be quite fun!
Good luck, and happy teambuilding!
I may be able to find a way to move around the will o wisp problem though.