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Little help, please.

Heracross

Custom User Title
So here I am, finally about to get a fourth gen game in the next week or so, and I've been racking my brain to try and come up with a decent team for competitive play. This has not been easy as my only prior experience with NPCs was against my friend's team of mostly ubers, and my sister's team of mostly fire types, one which was nearly impossible, the other which was too easy. But anyway, less of my life story and more of getting down to business:

Bronzong would be my lead.

Bronzong @ Leftovers/Light Clay
Levitate
Relaxed (+Def -Spd)
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Atk / 128 Def
-Stealth Rock
-Light Screen
-Gyro Ball
-Explosion

Salamence @ Life Orb
Intimidate
Mild (+SAtk -Def)
120 Atk / 252 SAtk / 136 Spe
-Brick Break
-Draco Meteor
-Flamethrower
-Roost

Heracross @ Choice Scarf
Guts
Adament (+Atk -SAtk)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
-Megahorn
-Close Combat
-Stone Edge
-Night Slash

Dusknoir @ Leftovers
Pressure
Impish (+Def -SAtk)
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
-Shadow Punch
-Will-o-Wisp
-Thunderpunch
-Pain Split

OR

Gliscor @ Leftovers/Yache Berry
Hyper Cutter
Impish (+Def -SpA)
252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
-Rock Polish
-Taunt
-Baton Pass
-Earthquake

Porygon-Z @ Silk Scarf
Adaptability
Timid (+Spd -Atk)
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
-Tri Attack
-Nasty Plot
-Thunderbolt
-Ice Beam / HP [Fire]

Starmie @ Leftovers
Natural Cure
Timid (+Spd -Atk)
EVs: 160 HP / 132 SAtk / 216 Spd
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Recover
-Rapid Spin

Please also see this post.
 
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darkmega

Member
the only things that bug me are your salamences EV's and posiibly ur bronzong

ur bronzong is really weak to magnezone, but thats about it

ur Salamence has one special atk but 2 phys. Maybe consider going more atk EV's or a atk nature?

All in all a really good team

dont play me man u kill ME O_O
 

aquajet16

LVL? Death
Jsut put Dragon Pulse in Sala instead of Claw since it's a Mild natured
 

Ludakrix

Legen-waitforit-dary
exactly

also on your Hera, CB would be better then Scarf.
 

Heracross

Custom User Title
Switched Dragon Claw for Dragon Pulse.

If I were to go with CB on Hera, would it be better to run a Jolly nature, or would Adament be acceptable? I'm mainly just concerned with his sub-par speed while I'm fairly confident that 383 attack will be sufficient to lay down the beating I need.
 
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could always turn salamence into specs mence but this would be a NICE
MixMence
item: Life Orb
nature: Mild / Rash
Moveset + EVs 120 Atk / 252 SpA / 136 Spe
- Brick Break
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast / Flamethrower
- Dragon Claw / Crunch / Roost

edit: mixmence is pretty rare , but i'm surprised nobody else could see this guy's potential...
also earthquake would only be good for empoleon, so I say you use brickbreak instead...
 
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Darth Dragonite

Champion Breeder
Switch dusknoir out with a gyrados. because you already have bronzong for psych and dark type moves, teach your gyrados earthquake, thunderbolt, waterfall, and flame thrower.
 

Heracross

Custom User Title
Bump. I've been thinking recently that switching Dusknoir for a Baton Passing Gliscor would really benefit my team more.

Gliscor @ Leftovers/Yache Berry
Hyper Cutter
Impish (+Def -SAtk)
252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe
-Rock Polish
-Taunt
-Baton Pass
-Earthquake

Salamence, Heracross, and Porygon Z will all appreciate a boost to their unimpressive speed and it would let me go with Choice Band > Scarf on Hera for extra power. Additionally, I'd replace Bronzong's Leftovers with Light Clay for added team support since if he's exploding Lefties wouldn't be as useful anyway. And I've ammended Salamence's set as follows:

Salamence @ Life Orb
Intimidate
Mild (+SAtk -Def)
120 Atk / 252 SAtk / 136 Spe
-Brick Break
-Draco Meteor
-Flamethrower
-Roost

If he can get a speed boost as well as Light Screen helping him out, taking him down would be no easy feat unless your name is Weavile.

So what does everyone think about all that?
 
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Use these EVs for Bronzong: 252 HP / 128 Atk / 128 Def

Also, use Ice Beam over HP Fire on porygon-z IMHO. Although you don't cover bug, steel and ice so well anymore, you gain huge advantage of OHKOing most dragons, grounds and fliers, which all are quite common.
 

Heracross

Custom User Title
Oops, I already had those EVs in my text document, but forgot to change them here.

Getting HP Fire may prove difficult anyway, so Ice beam would definately be my second choice.
 
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