Bob Fizzle
OBEY THE BEARD
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So I've been messing with my team a bit and was wondering if I should switch one of my Pokemon out for another Pokemon or edit my team?
My team consists of:
Lv. 100 Mimikyu (Holds Mimikium Z)
Lv. 99 Greninja (Holds Icium Z)
Lv. 86 Lucario (Holds Lucarionite)
Lv. 83 Lurantis (Holds Safety Goggles)
Lv. 73 Whimsicott (Holds Lucky Egg)
Lv. 71 Gardevoir (Holds Gardevoirite)
I'm pretty happy with my team, but don't have much in terms of defense against Grass or Steel types. They all have good stats and level up pretty quickly. I really don't wanna switch out my Lurantis, Whimsicott or Gardevoir because they're shiny (plus I'm emotionally attatched.) Have any suggestions for me?
What's the team for? WiFi battling? The Battle Tree? You're so far overleveled for the main game that your team selection doesn't really matter there.
There's really no point in having 3 fairies on your team, and if you insist on keeping Whimsicott and Gardevoir, then Mimikyu has to go, unless you're really intent on just fairy-spamming your way to victory. If you do want to do this, then maybe consider a Sticky Web or Screens setter to give Mimikyu and Gardevoir an easier time to set up.
Magnezone or Alolan Golem are worth considering for their Magnet Pull ability, allowing you to trap and remove troublesome steel-types for your fairies to sweep.
If you don't want to run a "fairy-spam" team, then a fire-type 'mon is the best way to add checks for grass- and steel-types in a single slot. In my mind, this is just screaming Heatran at me, but I don't know how you feel about using legendary 'mons on your team.
Is Greninja Protean or Battle Bond? If it's neither, then I would suggest swapping it out for a ground-type 'mon to beat steel- and poison-types for your fairy 'mons. Gliscor seems like a good choice to me, since, thanks to Poison Heal, you can give it a Toxic Orb and freely switch it into status moves aimed at the rest of your team, and it can also set Stealth Rock to make it that much easier for your offensive 'mons to land KOs, or even Defog to keep the entry hazards off your side of the field.
If you're going to run Mega Gardevoir, then there's no real point in using Lucarionite. (Even though Mega Luke is busted, non-mega Lucario is far better than non-mega Gardevoir IMO, so I'd stick with the Gardevoirite.) Same goes for Z-crystals. While the flexibility is nice in being able to pick which Z-move you want to use based on how the match is going, you usually end up handicapping yourself by taking away an valuable item slot from the 'mon that doesn't get to use its Z-move.