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The In-Game Team Advice Thread

Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

I am playing my white2. I have never played a GenV game before except for the hacked white2 rom & my current black2.
I've always wanted to try an all GenV Pokemons for my party.

For my starter, I will choose Tepig since it's the only starter I haven't try.
My other 5 would be Swoobat, Seismitoad, Archeops, Gothitelle & Accelgor.

I am not using Chandelure, Braviary, Volcarona, Zoroark & pseudo-legendaries for this one.
For flying is Vullaby good? Or Swanna?
Note that I haven't used like 90% of the GenV Pokemons except for the ones that I said I wouldn't used.
For movesets, I don't really follow smogon's cos I don't do competitive except for PWT lol.
As @Lansten; pointed out, you can't obtain Seismitoad or Archeops before the Elite 4 in White 2. Also, Gothitelle is exclusive to Black 2.

Personally, as you're already using Swoobat, I wouldn't want to double up on using another Flying-type, however if you want to, the expanded Unova Pokédex has many different options. Vullaby can only be obtained in Black 2 (and even then, only as a Mandibuzz). However, the Pokédex does have other options like Crobat (available as Zubat in Castelia Sewers) or Skarmory (Reversal Mountain). I'd personally suggest Skarmory, as its Steel-typing covers the common rock weakness it would otherwise share with your Swoobat and Accelgor. Personally, I'd use Sigilyph (Desert Resort) over Swoobat, as it has bulkier stats and can easily fill the supporter role of Gothitelle as well, but it's all down to personal choice.

In regards to a replacement for Seismitoad, I'd suggest another water-type that is available pre-Elite 4 that could help you cover that possible rock weakness (I assume you going for a Water/Ground type was partially for this reason?). I'd personally recommend a Vaporeon (Eevee can be obtained in Castelia City and Water Stones can be purchased from the Battle Subway in Nimbasa City) or a Floatzel (Buizel can be obtained on Route 11). Alternatively, there are solid grass-type Pokémon available as well, such as Sawsbuck (you even get given a Deerling with its Hidden Ability Serene Grace during the game's story) or Ferrothorn (Ferroseed in Chargestone Cave) - Sawsbuck is all about offence while Ferrothorn is defence, so it obviously depends on what kind of role you want one to play in your team.

As for the last slot, I would possibly suggest an Ice or Dark type, as they will provide coverage against some common types in the game. Weavile (available as Sneasel in Giant Chasm) fills both of those type slots, but I also found Drapion (Skorupi in Reversal Mountain) to be particularly useful during my playthrough. You could also possibly use Krookodile (especially as it learns Outrage, which will be useful against Drayden and Iris). You could use an Ice-type, or you could just give an Ice-type move to your chosen Water Pokémon.
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

@Joshawott
Thanks for the amazing insight. Yes, I'm planning to trade a Gothita & Tympole from my Black2.
After some thinking about Swoobat, I'd decided to use Sawsbuck from your recommendations.
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

Hello, everyone! I've beaten the game in White 2, and I'm thinking of using the team I went through the game with to take on the White Treehollow/PWT and to get good enough to beat my friends' teams. Please note that I cannot change natures or get Egg Moves on these guys, since I wouldn't want to undo my hard work, but help on movesets would be appreciated.

Leavanny ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Timid
Ability: Chlorophyll, Item: Miracle Seed
Moves: Return, Leaf Blade, Swords Dance, X-Scissor

Lucario ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Calm
Ability: Steadfast, Item: Expert Belt
Moves: Extremespeed, Aura Sphere, Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse

Electivire ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Rash
Ability: Motor Drive, Item: Magnet
Moves: Giga Impact, Wild Charge, Thunderbolt, Strength

Arcanine ♀ Lv. 76 Nature: Rash
Ability: Intimidate, Item: Scope Lens
Moves: Extremespeed, Flamethrower, Wild Charge, Dig

Sandslash ♀ Lv. 76 Nature: Lonely
Ability: Sand Veil, Item: Soft Sand
Moves: Earthquake, Stone Edge, Swords Dance, Dig

Golduck ♀ Lv. 77 Nature: Gentle
Ability: Damp, Item: Mystic Water
Moves: Surf, Waterfall, Ice Beam, Zen Headbutt
 
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Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

Hello, everyone! I've beaten the game in White 2, and I'm thinking of using the team I went through the game with to take on the White Treehollow/PWT and to get good enough to beat my friends' teams. Please note that I cannot change natures or get Egg Moves on these guys, since I wouldn't want to undo my hard work, but help on movesets would be appreciated.

Leavanny ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Timid
Ability: Chlorophyll, Item: Miracle Seed
Moves: Return, Leaf Blade, Swords Dance, X-Scissor

Lucario ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Calm
Ability: Steadfast, Item: Expert Belt
Moves: Extremespeed, Aura Sphere, Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse

Electivire ♂ Lv. 76 Nature: Rash
Ability: Motor Drive, Item: Magnet
Moves: Giga Impact, Wild Charge, Thunderbolt, Strength

Arcanine ♀ Lv. 76 Nature: Rash
Ability: Intimidate, Item: Scope Lens
Moves: Extremespeed, Flamethrower, Wild Charge, Dig

Sandslash ♀ Lv. 76 Nature: Lonely
Ability: Sand Veil, Item: Soft Sand
Moves: Earthquake, Stone Edge, Swords Dance, Dig

Golduck ♀ Lv. 77 Nature: Gentle
Ability: Cursed Body, Item: Mystic Water
Moves: Surf, Waterfall, Ice Beam, Zen Headbutt

Leavanny looks fine to me.
I would personally have Dark Pulse (which you can get from the move relearner) on Lucario over Flash Cannon. It gives coverage over psychic and ghosts, and Flash Cannon is only super effective against ice and rock, which Aura Sphere would be much better for.
I don't really see a need for both Strength and Giga Impact. I really don't like Giga Impact as a move, and I would put Earthquake or Brick Break on it. You could probably replace Strength with Return.
Arcanine looks fine. I usually prefer Crunch over Extremespeed, but it's too late for that. But Extremespeed is still great.
There's no need to have Earthquake and Dig on Sandslash. I'd recommend Poison Jab for coverage against grass types, but Gyro Ball, Brick Break, X-Scissor, and Shadow Claw are all also great.
Get Zen Headbutt off of Golduck right now. Psychic is 100 times better due to 100% accuracy, stronger base power, and Golduck having better special attack than attack.
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

This is my Battle Revolution(an awesome GenIV game) team:

Salamence with Wide Lens(252sp.atk/252spd)
(Modest): Intimidate
-Fire Blast
-Hydro Pump
-Dragon Pulse
-Protect

Yanmega with Focus Sash (252sp.atk/252spd)
(Modest): Speed Boost
-Bug Buzz
-Air Slash
-Hidden Power(Ground)
-Detect

-Leafeon with Shell Bell? (252atk/252sp.atk)
(Adamant): Leaf Gaurd
-Leaf Blade
-X-scissor
-Dig
-Swords Dance

Milotic with Leftovers (252sp.atk/100def/100sp.def/54hp)weird? not really.
(Modest): Marvel Scale
-Surf/Hydro Pump(can't decide)
-Ice Beam
-Aqua Ring
-Recover/Dragon Pulse

Metagross with Life Orb (252atk/252def)
(Adamant): Clear Body
-Zen Headbutt
-Bullet Punch
-Ice Punch
-Meteor Mash/Earthquake

Blaziken with ??? (252atk/252spd)
(Adamant): Blaze
-Flare Blitz
-Drain Punch
-Agility
-Swords Dance
Strange, but designed to let Blaziken Sweep. Drain Punch Recovers the damege that the Blaze Pokemon took while it boosted its Attack and Speed and Flare Blitz is just strong.
 
Re: Simple Questions / Simple Answers (Gens 1-4)

I'm looking to start a new game in my Platinum and don't know which starter to pick. I'll use any of them, honestly; I like them all. Any preferences?
 
Help on Leaf Green Team

So me and my friends are starting something up in Fire Red and Leaf Green where we battle eachother every week without knowing eachothers Pokemon. No legendaries and we're only allowed to use the pre-National Pokedex Pokemon. So here's what my plan was for my starting 6:

Charizard
Jolteon
Snorlax
Alakazam
Lapras
6th spot still open

I know it's not a great team so any suggestions for my 6th spot or any replacements for my other 5 would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

You have a great team there. I would recommend Aerodactyl or Dragonite, or even Starmie, but you already have Lapras there, so it would be kind of redundant to have two Water types. Machamp and Gengar are good options as well. Not too many people use Nidoking, but I'm pretty fond of it and I think it's a great Pokémon.
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

So me and my friends are starting something up in Fire Red and Leaf Green where we battle eachother every week without knowing eachothers Pokemon. No legendaries and we're only allowed to use the pre-National Pokedex Pokemon. So here's what my plan was for my starting 6:

Charizard
Jolteon
Snorlax
Alakazam
Lapras
6th spot still open

I know it's not a great team so any suggestions for my 6th spot or any replacements for my other 5 would be appreciated.

Thanks.
All right I suspect Legendaries are out of the question for now at least...

I think the team is pretty solid. I personally would add Nidoking (or Nidoqueen if you prefer) as the last Pokemon. It is easy to raise, can learn a huge variety of moves, has decent offensive and defensive stats and also you get a moon stone early in the game. You need to trade Kadabra to evolve it to Alakazam but I think you know that anyway.

Another option would be Machamp which is a good fighting but I personally don't like it much.

Anyway I have played fir red multiple times and my usual starting team before I get to use some legendaries is.
Charizard (My favourite Pokemon since I was a kid.)
Pikachu and later Jolteon (Zapdos is the final electric I get though. Which can be obtained right after the Elite if I remember correctly.)
Graveler (Golem if I get to trade it.)
Kadabra (Alakazam if I get to trade it. Finally and after lots of GreatBalls I get MewTwo. :p)
Gyarados (It can cover water type while using dragon moves to bust it up. I change it for Suicune.)
Nidoking (I teach it 1 Bug, 1 Posion, 1 Dark and 1 Ground moves.)

I hope this helps. And I can give you a full team with moves if you want but it's always more fun to decide some stuff on your own and make it your own personal team. :)
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

You have a great team there. I would recommend Aerodactyl or Dragonite, or even Starmie, but you already have Lapras there, so it would be kind of redundant to have two Water types. Machamp and Gengar are good options as well. Not too many people use Nidoking, but I'm pretty fond of it and I think it's a great Pokémon.

Honestly I was planning on using Aerodactyl so you kind of helped me confirm. I'm considering Nidoking as well, though. My last run-through I had Dragonite, and while I love it as a Pokemon, it's a b*tch for me to deal with Dratini and Dragonair.

m0ckingbird20 said:
All right I suspect Legendaries are out of the question for now at least...

I think the team is pretty solid. I personally would add Nidoking (or Nidoqueen if you prefer) as the last Pokemon. It is easy to raise, can learn a huge variety of moves, has decent offensive and defensive stats and also you get a moon stone early in the game. You need to trade Kadabra to evolve it to Alakazam but I think you know that anyway.

Another option would be Machamp which is a good fighting but I personally don't like it much.

Anyway I have played fir red multiple times and my usual starting team before I get to use some legendaries is.
Charizard (My favourite Pokemon since I was a kid.)
Pikachu and later Jolteon (Zapdos is the final electric I get though. Which can be obtained right after the Elite if I remember correctly.)
Graveler (Golem if I get to trade it.)
Kadabra (Alakazam if I get to trade it. Finally and after lots of GreatBalls I get MewTwo. :p)
Gyarados (It can cover water type while using dragon moves to bust it up. I change it for Suicune.)
Nidoking (I teach it 1 Bug, 1 Posion, 1 Dark and 1 Ground moves.)

I hope this helps. And I can give you a full team with moves if you want but it's always more fun to decide some stuff on your own and make it your own personal team. :)

A Nidoking suggestion as well. I think I'll have to decide between Aerodactyl and Nidoking. I've never really used either one...could anyone suggest good movesets for them?

(Yes I know I need to trade to evolve Alakazam :) haha. I've played Pokemon my entire life just never been into battling other people often)
 
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Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

A Nidoking suggestion as well. I think I'll have to decide between Aerodactyl and Nidoking. I've never really used either one...could anyone suggest good movesets for them.
OK, I am drunk right now so excuse me if say something really stupid... I cannot give you a good move-set for Aerodactil as I have never used one in my team but I know it is one off the few Pokemon with such a high attacks speed in Red and Green.'

For Nidoking:
Shadow Ball (Dark) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Sludge Bomb (Poison) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Earthquake (Ground) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Megahorn (Insect) - Be careful! If you pass lvl 43 while it is still a Nidorino it will not learn Megahorn cause Nidoking learns it at lvl 43. Then your only option is to go for lvl 53 Nidorino which learns Horn Drill which is a one hit KO attack but has an accuracy of 30... while Megahorn has 120 Dmg and an accuracy of 85. That is why I prefer Megahorn.

This pretty much covers most of the move types the rest of the party might not contain. Of course I made this move-set for my Nidoking to fit with the party I usually make, which I posted on my previous post...
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

Oh, might I get a review? This would be delightful! I'm currently in Black2 (had to start over) and my current team consists of:
Emboar
Escalavier
Leavanny
Drillbur
Herdier
Minccino

I know for a fact I won't be evolving my Minccino because he's too cute, so I gave him an Evolite. I plan to drop Leavanny and Herdier later for both a water and a flying type (not exactly in the same Pokemon). I'm thinking a Frillish .... but I can't decide my flying type. I might go to the dream world, the sky zone, and see what I can find. No rush since my next gym is Elesa ....
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

A Nidoking suggestion as well. I think I'll have to decide between Aerodactyl and Nidoking. I've never really used either one...could anyone suggest good movesets for them.
OK, I am drunk right now so excuse me if say something really stupid... I cannot give you a good move-set for Aerodactil as I have never used one in my team but I know it is one off the few Pokemon with such a high attacks speed in Red and Green.'

For Nidoking:
Shadow Ball (Dark) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Sludge Bomb (Poison) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Earthquake (Ground) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Megahorn (Insect) - Be careful! If you pass lvl 43 while it is still a Nidorino it will not learn Megahorn cause Nidoking learns it at lvl 43. Then your only option is to go for lvl 53 Nidorino which learns Horn Drill which is a one hit KO attack but has an accuracy of 30... while Megahorn has 120 Dmg and an accuracy of 85. That is why I prefer Megahorn.

This pretty much covers most of the move types the rest of the party might not contain. Of course I made this move-set for my Nidoking to fit with the party I usually make, which I posted on my previous post...

Drunk this early?

And I'm going to use Nidoking. I have another question, though. Of Charizard, Alakazam, Jolteon, Lapras, Snorlax, Nidoking, what Pokemon should I send out first when I don't know what their's will be. I was thinking Snorlax.
 
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Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

I think Snorlax is a good choice, especially if he has the right move set and ability (Thick Fat) to deal with any Pokemon they send out. Unless they send out a fighting type or a Pokemon that knows a fighting type move (Brick Break is common) then you wouldn't have to worry about too too much. Lapras is always a good choice, too, with it's high HP and special and only weakness to electricity (I believe).
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

I think Snorlax is a good choice, especially if he has the right move set and ability (Thick Fat) to deal with any Pokemon they send out. Unless they send out a fighting type or a Pokemon that knows a fighting type move (Brick Break is common) then you wouldn't have to worry about too too much. Lapras is always a good choice, too, with it's high HP and special and only weakness to electricity (I believe).
Do you think I should teach Shadow Ball to Nidoking or a different Pokemon then? The only type I can't easily take care of is ghost, so a dark move would really help
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

I personally don't think you need to teach a Pokemon Shadow Ball... considering your only weak Pokemon to that type is Alakazam... the rest will more then likely be able to hold up to the ghost type (especially Haunter, who is blindingly fast anyways). However, if you do teach it to him then Nidoking, as stated, is a good idea. Shadow Ball has a lot of power and Nidoking should have a great attack stance. But your team should be able to deal with the ghost type by themselves normally, since they have low defense and/or special defense generally (especially if you teach Jolteon Bite). (Minus the Duskull tree)
 
Re: The In-Game Team Review Thread

I think Snorlax is a good choice, especially if he has the right move set and ability (Thick Fat) to deal with any Pokemon they send out. Unless they send out a fighting type or a Pokemon that knows a fighting type move (Brick Break is common) then you wouldn't have to worry about too too much. Lapras is always a good choice, too, with it's high HP and special and only weakness to electricity (I believe).
Do you think I should teach Shadow Ball to Nidoking or a different Pokemon then? The only type I can't easily take care of is ghost, so a dark move would really help.
 
Re: Help on Leaf Green Team

A Nidoking suggestion as well. I think I'll have to decide between Aerodactyl and Nidoking. I've never really used either one...could anyone suggest good movesets for them.
OK, I am drunk right now so excuse me if say something really stupid... I cannot give you a good move-set for Aerodactil as I have never used one in my team but I know it is one off the few Pokemon with such a high attacks speed in Red and Green.'

For Nidoking:
Shadow Ball (Dark) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Sludge Bomb (Poison) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Earthquake (Ground) - You have to teach it by using the TM.
Megahorn (Insect) - Be careful! If you pass lvl 43 while it is still a Nidorino it will not learn Megahorn cause Nidoking learns it at lvl 43. Then your only option is to go for lvl 53 Nidorino which learns Horn Drill which is a one hit KO attack but has an accuracy of 30... while Megahorn has 120 Dmg and an accuracy of 85. That is why I prefer Megahorn.

This pretty much covers most of the move types the rest of the party might not contain. Of course I made this move-set for my Nidoking to fit with the party I usually make, which I posted on my previous post...

Drunk this early?

And I'm going to use Nidoking. I have another question, though. Of Charizard, Alakazam, Jolteon, Lapras, Snorlax, Nidoking, what Pokemon should I send out first when I don't know what their's will be. I was thinking Snorlax.
It's 8PM here and also I visited a Beer Brewery with some friends so...

yea I think snorlax is yoru best choice and the other one would be Nidoking...
 
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