BF Team to the Extreme

[Freakshow]

I used this for a while, but it needs a rate
Battle Frontier Team, obviously.

Latios @ Shell Bell
Trait: Levitate
Stats: 272/209/196/285/387/236
EVs: 6/0/0/252/252/0
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Calm Mind
- Ice Beam
- Psychic
- Recover
Obviously can't change the nature unless I get a good one in the JAA. Psychic is for Heracross who can rip my team. The HP is terrible, obviously, but he gets quite a health back with Shell Bell. I don't have a Soul Dew

Metagross @ Choice Band
Trait: Clear Body
Stats: 312/403/310/180/190/211
EVs: 76/252/92/44/0/46
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Explosion
- Earthquake
- Meteor Mash
- Rock Slide
My normal/flying/rock resist. CB is there to let it OHKO other Metagrosses in the BF.

Snorlax @ Leftovers
Trait: Thick Fat
Stats: 502/278/176/82/140/315
EVs: Forgotten.
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Curse
- Return
- Shadow Ball
- Rest
Curselax. Also my special wall

r/h + criticize away

 

[ElementalBoxer]

I like it. It seems pretty standard to me. Though you might want to put a tank or something close to it on your team.

EBoxer

 

[WhiteWizard42]

lax needs careful nature. and what order do you put stats in, HP/Atk/Def/SAtk/SDef/Spd?

EDIT:

I like it. It seems pretty standard to me. Though you might want to put a tank or something close to it on your team.

lol. and curselax is a what, now?

 

[Freakshow]

lax needs careful nature. and what order do you put stats in, HP/Atk/Def/SAtk/SDef/Spd?

EDIT:

lol. and curselax is a what, now?

HP/Atk/Def/Spd/SA/SD

I don't really think it needs a Careful Nature considering it has 315 Special Defense

 

[ElementalBoxer]

Oops. I wasn't looking at the stats. Yeah snorlax is good as a tank. Though I think Whitewizard is right. He might do well with a careful nature.

EBoxer

 

[magnemiteZ]

yeah, 315 is plenty.

imo, Dragon Claw > Ice Beam.
Double STAB is cool in-game.

 

[WhiteWizard42]

DC is only SE on dragons, and IB is 4x effective on most of those, and psychic does more to anything neutral to both. i prefer bolt/beam/CM/recover, personally.

 

[magnemiteZ]

imo dual STAB is more effective in-game.
Bolt Beam is more usefull in Ubers.

 

[ElementalBoxer]

DC does more damage with STAB overall than Ice beam.

EBoxer

 

[WhiteWizard42]

and psychic does more than DC, so by your logic, what's the use in using dragon claw?

use moves for type coverage. dragon is neutral to everything except dragon and steel. ice does more damage to most dragons, because they're also either flying or ground-type, and it's super-effective on far more pokes. and psychic does more to steel-types.

the only thing that dragon claw does better than either psychic or ice beam is hit darks/psychics who aren't weak to ice beam, and kingdra.

 

[ShinyFufu]

So, which is better in-game? Boltbeam, or dual STAB? I always made mine with T-Bolt, Calm Mind, Pychic and Dragon Claw... never bothered with Recover.

 

[ElementalBoxer]

Depends on your preferences. I prefer DC. Whitewizard prefers Ice beam. Choose whatever you want.

EBoxer

 

[Freakshow]

I'd just go with Ice Beam, since I'll be happy enough to OHKO stuff like Jumpluff. Also, Ice Beam hits Skarmory harder than Dragon Claw, which my team has would probably have problems with if I use DC. Latios maybe able to outstall Skarmory, but the AI haxes so much that outstalling Skarm's Drill Pecks/Steel Wings is practically useless.
Recover deals with stuff like Crunchless Raikou trying to Calm Mind up with me and then Thunderbolt me to shreds. And its easier for Latios to CM up in its face than Lax trying to Curse

 

[Tazzler]

Good team, quaza-a.

I don't see anything wrong with it.

If that were my team and I could change the spreads, I would tweak it a little though.