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Venom Power! [Pokemon Diamond monopoison]

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11wildy

Meep
Any help on my Poison team? It will need to be able to win the Pokemon League AND the battles against a friend, who uses a mono fighting type team.

Note, this is the future plan as I've only beaten the first two gyms. The natures don't really matter to me, I don't want to spend even MORE hours in the great marsh to catch an impish Skorupi. You can suggest items if you want, I didn't put them because I have no clue about what good items you get on the way. I do have a Poison barb already though! :D

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Drapion
-Toxic Spikes
-Crunch
-Cross Poison
-Earthquake

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Crobat
-Fly
-Cross Poison
-Confuse Ray
-Steel Wing

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Roserade
-Giga Drain
-Sludge Bomb
-Shadow Ball
-Leech Seed

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Gengar
-Shadow Ball
-Sludge Bomb
-Thunderbolt
-Focus Blast

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Tentacruel
-Surf
-Sludge Bomb
-Ice beam
-Giga Drain

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Toxicroak
-Poison Jab
-Sucker Punch
-Drain Punch
-Focus punch/Brick Break
 
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Aura Sensei™

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Drapion - Toxic Spikes will not be very useful , so I suggest replacing it with Swords Dance to boost your Attack.

Toxicroak - Bulk Up or Swords Dance will be more efficient than two Fighting STAB's. Also you should replace Poison Jab with Ice Punch.
 
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11wildy

Meep
Alright, I guess I'll spend some time in the Game Corner for Swords dance then. And I went for two stabs on Toxicroak because Drain Punch has low PP. I guess it's better to just use Brick break instead. But how can I get it to learn Ice punch? I thought that was a Platinum tutor move only. I might just go for SubPunch though, which works very well together with Sucker punch.
 
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11wildy

Meep
Alright, but another problem arose. I want Sludge bomb on Roserade, Tentacruel and Gengar. But I only have 1 TM! So which Pokemon should get it and what move should the other two get instead ?
 
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CMHennigan

Well-Known Member
well tentacruel learns poison jab by level, which though it's a special attack, tentacruel's base attack is 70 while sp.atk. is 80, so its only a 10 point difference and you didnt mention EV training. As far as Roserade and Gengar, i would try to breed one of them to have sludge bomb as as egg move. Roserade is probably the easier choice as it's in the plant egg group, Take a peek and see which you prefer, and teach gengar Sludge bomb with the TM. That's how i would go about it. unless you've already used a sun stone on roselia..
 
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11wildy

Meep
I've already evolved Roselia to Roserade, and I don't really feel like breeding. So I was thinking about running Hyper Beam or something else on Gengar? Maybe Destiny Bond or Psychic even.
 
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CMHennigan

Well-Known Member
destiny bond, counter, curse, psychic is a decent option to hit fighting and other poison types, energy ball is fairly common, or explosion is nice to ensure a kill once gengar gets low on health.
 
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