Future Team

[WolfCyber]

Infernape (Life Orb(?))
+Atk / -SpA
- Flamethrower
- In Fight
- Grass Rope
- Scheme

Gastrodon (Wisdom Glasses)
+SpA / -Atk
- Surf
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam
- Recover

Carnivine (King's Rock)
+Atk / -SpA
- Power Whip
- Crunch
- Sleep Powder
- Swords Dance

Electivire (Scope Lens)
+Atk / -SpA
- Thunderbolt
- Fire Punch
- Ice Punch
- Earthquake

Spiritomb (Leftovers)
+Def / -Speed
- Dark Pulse
- Calm Mind
- Will-o-Wisp
- Pain Split

Toxicroak (Black Sludge)
+Atk / -SpA
- Poison Stab
- Brick Break
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge

I'm not just showing off my team, I actually am asking for help with these Pokémon. Since I chose these for my future game, I haven't given much thought on some of their moves and stats, so any help with EVs and alternate movesets would help.

*Note: Unless I'm playing under certain rules, all of these Pokémon will be carrying Leftovers.

 

[Payton64]

on the toxicroak, do you want to try something different or same old same old. if you want the latter, just keep the 3 moves you have on it and add swords dance. if you want to be creative, use the one that i have in my team:
Toxicroak@lefties (black sludge works too)
jolly
substitute
focus punch
ambush
filler

sub first. and then try to ambush. if it hits or doesn't work at all, use a 150 power (225 after STAB) focus punch. if it hits, then the opponent will be sure to not attack you the next turn so you fail (then focus punch). if it fails, the opponent will continue to not attack you so you continue to fail (then focus punch) you kind of have to play a mind game with your opponent to make this work. if you master it, it's a win-win situation.

 

[Zenigane]

Electivire is all messed up.

Electivire@Choice Band
Adamant nature
- Ice Punch
- Thunderbolt
- Cross Chop
- Earthquake

Your team has way too many physical sweepers.

 

[aragornbird]

Please use the actual name of the Nature, it's much easier to understand "Modest" than "+SAtk / -Atk".

Infernape @Life Orb
Naive
- Flamethrower
- In Fight
- Grass Rope
- Scheme

Gastrodon @Leftovers
Relaxed
- Surf
- Earthquake
- Recover
- Ice Beam

Carnivine Leftovers
+Atk / -SpA
- Power Whip
- Crunch
- Sleep Powder
- Swords Dance

Spiritomb (Leftovers)
Calm
- Dark Pulse
- Calm Mind
- Will-o-Wisp
- Pain Split

Your team has too many sweepers in general. The only thing that can take a hit is Spiritomb and it's defenses aren't even that great.
Gastrodon is a crappy excuse for a bulky Water compared to Swampert since the only thing it has going for it is Recover.
Carnivine is meh. It's really slow and rather frail. There are much better physical attackers out there.

 

[WolfCyber]

Electivire is all messed up.

Electivire@Choice Band
Adamant nature
- Ice Punch
- Thunderbolt
- Cross Chop
- Earthquake

Infernape @Life Orb
Naive
- Flamethrower
- In Fight
- Grass Rope
- Scheme

It's obviously just me, but I don't understand Electivire's set. I'm mainly basing each Pokémon on their movepools, weaknesses, advantages, and stats, and since Electivire has a much higher ATK over its own SpA, I don't understand why I would want Thuderbolt over Thunderpunch. TBolt has a higher base power, but that doesn't matter since Electivire physical attack is greater. I guess what I'm asking is why should I use TBolt over Thunderpunch.

And for Infernape, I never considered it as a mixed-sweeper. Wouldn't it be better as an all physocal attacker or an all special attacker? And how does Grass Rope work? Does it depend on the opponent's weight or Infernape's?

 

[aquasuicune]

Thunderpunch is for skarmory and gyarados. Skarmory has an insanely high physical defense, so thunderpunch won't do much. Gyarados has intimidate, so you might not kill it with thunderpunch, and then it can either earthquake you or dragon dance and then earthquake you. Which means you die.

Infernape makes a great mixed sweeper.
Grass rope does do damage based on weight. The list can be found somewhere on smogon.
On most pokemon, it averages BP 80 or above. It's really good on rhyperior and suicune.

 

[WolfCyber]

Thunderpunch is for skarmory and gyarados. Skarmory has an insanely high physical defense, so thunderpunch won't do much. Gyarados has intimidate, so you might not kill it with thunderpunch, and then it can either earthquake you or dragon dance and then earthquake you. Which means you die.

Infernape makes a great mixed sweeper.
Grass rope does do damage based on weight. The list can be found somewhere on smogon.
On most pokemon, it averages BP 80 or above. It's really good on rhyperior and suicune.

That's all I needed to hear.

Seriously, I'm not being difficult. I just needed someone to explain that. I'll change my Infernape since I like all "Schemers" anyway.

So far, I've changed Infernape's and Gastrodon's, Carnivine's & Spiritomb's, and for Electivire, I've dicided on Thunderbolt over Thunderpunch.