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New team.

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HyenaHaze

Serial Experiment
Well, I'm not sure what movests to have with these particular pokemon I have now, so feel free to put in a comment! (I'm also not puttin in lvls because I'm training all of them to lvl 100 the old-fashioned way.)

Luxray
Current Movset:
Thunder
Thunder Fang
Crunch
Strength

Dragonite
Current Moveset:
Surf
Hyper Beam
Dragon Rush
Waterfall

Staraptor
Current Moveset:
Brave Bird
Quick Attack
Fly
U-Turn

Flareon
Current Moveset:
Flamethrower
Fire Blast
Quick Attack
Take Down

Garchomp
Current Moveset:
Earthquake
Dragon Pulse
Sandstorm
Take Down

Spiritomb
Current Moveset:
Faint Attack
Ominous Wind
Sucker Punch
Dark Pulse


I'm also using this as an online team. Whaddya think?
 
For ingame, it would be decent. For online, it sucks.
I'm lazy right now, so I'll rate spiritomb, garchomp, and flareon.

Spiritomb is generally more of a wall than an attacker. At any rate, you never want to stick dark and ghost attacking moves on the same pokemon because they hit the same things SE. Pain split, will-o-wisp, calm mind, pursuit, hypnosis, and nasty plot are all good support options. As far as attacking goes, pursuit, dark pulse, shadow ball, and sucker punch are his best options. Pursuit hits switching things, but you won't see that much in game. Sucker punch is good if you're into prediction. Shadow ball or dark pulse depends on what you want to hit; they hit the same things SE, but dark pulse gets you killed by heracross while shadow ball gets you walled by normals.

Garchomp should run all physical moves, with a movepool including excellent moves like dragon claw, outrage, fire fang, fire blast, swords dance, and the ever popular earthquake. He's really one of the ones who is best when taught by TM.

Flareon is cute. He's fluffy. And that's about it. He has great attacking stats and no moves to utilize it. If you plan to use flareon, you're going to have to breed and utilize a more defensive set which will usually be better played by vaporeon or umbreon. If you wanted to take this online, I suggest replacing flareon with one of the stronger fire sweepers such as magmortar, heatran, or infernape. Kudos to the cuteness though.
 
Changes/suggestions in bold.

HyenaHaze said:
Well, I'm not sure what movests to have with these particular pokemon I have now, so feel free to put in a comment! (I'm also not puttin in lvls because I'm training all of them to lvl 100 the old-fashioned way.)

Luxray
Current Movset:
Ice Fang
Spark
Crunch
Return/Fire Fang

If you're unable to get Ice Fang, you could consider Iron Tail instead. Luxray is more of a physical Pokemon, so you don't need Thunder. It's also generally not a good idea to have two of the same types of damaging moves on one Pokemon. In this case, you had Thunder Fang and Thunder. Her Attack is superior to her Sp.Attack, so drop Thunder. Also, Thunder is inaccurate. Spark might not make the opponent flinch, but it does have a better chance at paralysis iirc and is more accurate than Thunder Fang. Return with max happiness is MUCH more powerful than Strength. Actually, a Return from a happy Luxray is her most powerful attack when against neutral opponents.

Dragonite
Current Moveset:
-Dragon Dance
-Outrage (Or keep Dragon Rush)/Dragon Claw
-Thunder Punch/Fire Punch/Thunderbolt/Flamethrower
-EQ

EQ plus a Fire/Electric is going to cover more than Water attacks are. Besides, you don't need Surf AND Waterfall on the same set. Both are effective/not effective against the same types of Pokemon. I'm not a big fan of Dragon Rush's accuracy, so Dragon Claw is a solid way to go. Hyper Beam leaves your Dragonite COMPLETELY open to a revenge kill if you're planning on using her competitively (as you stated). Drop Hyper Beam for Dragon Dance. With DD, you're able to boost her decent Speed to sweeping levels, and boost her already very high Attack. DD + STABed Outrage = hurt

Staraptor
Current Moveset:
Brave Bird
Quick Attack
Close Combat
U-Turn

She's gotta have Close Combat! :O lol Fly takes too long to use, and you already have the superior Brave Bird. If you're not a huge fan of recoil, you could consider Aerial Ace over Brave Bird. Other than that, this looks good.

Flareon
Current Moveset:
Fire Fang
Quick Attack
Iron Tail/Toxic
Return/Will-O-Wisp

This is one of those cases where it's okay to have two of the same types of damaging moves. Flareon's movepool is so shallow, it doesn't even come past your toes. Anyways, the deal is get STAB for Fire Fang, her only physical Fire attack, and hope for some big damage. She has a HUGE Attack stat, so that shouldn't be too hard to achieve. Quick Attack is nice for faster, fragile opponents that need to be finished off. The rest of the set is up to you: pure offense or double status. She has the Attack to hold the Choice Band, but you could consider WoW for physical opponents, or Toxic against Water types and others.

Garchomp
Current Moveset:
Earthquake
Dragon Claw
Stone Edge/Fire Fang
Swords Dance

After a Swords Dance, she WILL hit hard. She's more of a physical Pokemon, so don't teach her Dragon Pulse. Take Down isn't super-effective against anything, gives recoil, and Garchomp has much better physical options, so drop it. Also, Sand Storm might help out your Garchomp, but what about the rest of your team? All of your other Pokemon are going to take damage from Sand Storm if you switch out Garchomp/if Garchomp faints. "Will it help my team or just one member?" It's important to remember that when picking weather moves.

Spiritomb
Current Moveset:
Nasty Plot/Calm Mind
Hypnosis/Will-O-Wisp
HP Fighting/Psychic
Dark Pulse or Shadow Ball

Dark and Ghost attacks are SO similar. It's generally not a good idea to
not have both offensive Ghost and Dark attacks on one MS. In the last slot, Shadow Ball really would be a superior choice due to the chance of Shadow Ball lowering the opponent's Sp.Defense, which could help your setting up. Spiritomb is so slow that it won't matter if the opponent flinches because you'll be going after the opponent 99% of the time with Spiritomb. lol

I'm also using this as an online team. Whaddya think?
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You have too many physical Pokemon. The only Pokemon you have that should use Sp.Attacks is your Spiritomb. Also, many of your Pokemon aren't able to take a hit or two, except Spiritomb. However, you shouldn't rely on her to take all of your opponent's attacks. I suggest getting rid of a few of your physical sweepers and adding more defensive/Sp.Attacking Pokemon.
 
Thanks for the info. ^_^
I was going to put Infernape as my main attacker for fire types, but his defense suuccckkks.
I'm EV training Flareon oh-so-slightly as well to give him an edge, so I'm probably keeping him in there.

But still, thanks! :D

Edit: Whoa, thanks Sapphire. This may turn out well! :D

I'm already changing some of the moves here so I'll post when I'm done messing around with that.


Edit no.2: What would you guys suggest for a better defense/sp.attack member? And who would I replace?
 
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Infernape's defense may not be great, but it is actually better than flareon's. (Flareon's special defense is better, but infernape's is good enough to let him take at least one hit if he doesn't OHKO the opposition.)

I'm not sure what you mean by defense/sp. atk member, but I'm assuming you mean a bulky special attacker. In that case, pokemon such as magnezone and togekiss are great. However, many great special sweepers are a bit more fragile but can still take a hit. Pokemon like that include yanmega, porygon-Z, lucario, roserade, and azelf. They would work well on your team over luxray.

If you wanted some pokemon that were more defense oriented, take a look at standards such as blissey, bronzong, empoleon, and dusknoir among others.
 
aquasuicune said:
Infernape's defense may not be great, but it is actually better than flareon's. (Flareon's special defense is better, but infernape's is good enough to let him take at least one hit if he doesn't OHKO the opposition.)

I'm not sure what you mean by defense/sp. atk member, but I'm assuming you mean a bulky special attacker. In that case, pokemon such as magnezone and togekiss are great. However, many great special sweepers are a bit more fragile but can still take a hit. Pokemon like that include yanmega, porygon-Z, lucario, roserade, and azelf. They would work well on your team over luxray.

If you wanted some pokemon that were more defense oriented, take a look at standards such as blissey, bronzong, empoleon, and dusknoir among others.
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Thanks much. I just replaced Flareon with Houndoom (better defense and movepool) and replaced Staraptor with Blissey. :D
Hope it's better now...
 
Houndoom & Blissey, huh?


Houndoom @ Heat Rock
Modest/Timid Nature
~Sunny Day
~Solarbeam
~Flamethrower
~Nasty Plot/Dark Pulse


Houndoom
Modest/Timid Nature
~Flamethrower
~Dark Pulse
~Will-o-Wisp
~Nasty Plot



Blissey
Modest/Calm Nature
~Calm Mind
~Ice Beam
~Thunderbolt
~Softboiled

Blissey
Calm Nature
~Thunder Wave
~Seismic Toss
~Aromatherapy
~Softboiled


There you go :)
 
Thanks much. :D
Mah team will be awesome thanks to you guys.
 
This team has some problems with typing because if there is an Ice/water pokemon on an opponents team it couldf take out half your team which is never a good thing.
 
This team has some problems with typing because if there is an Ice/water pokemon on an opponents team it couldf take out half your team which is never a good thing.
 
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