Who should my sixth team member be?

[retiinas]

Hi! I'm playing through Pokemon Black for the first time, and I need help deciding on the final member of my team. So far, I've got:

Serperior
Darmanitan
Chandelure
Eelektross
Hydreigon

What Pokemon would fill out this team well? Thanks!

 

[PandaSamma]

Great team! How about Gothitelle?

 

[Nicolas721]

Maybe you could go for Seismitoad or Jellicent, they are easy to find and evolve, have coverage of Poison and Ice-types respectively and could cover your Ground weakness.

 

[retiinas]

Maybe you could go for Seismitoad or Jellicent, they are easy to find and evolve, have coverage of Poison and Ice-types respectively and could cover your Ground weakness.

I was considering those, especially because I don’t want Hydreigon to have both surf and fly

 

[retiinas]

Great team! How about Gothitelle?

Thanks! I hadn’t considered Gothitelle. I might just do that

 

[Unovia]

@PandaSamma, are you still collecting options?

 

[PandaSamma]

@PandaSamma, are you still collecting options?

Options?

 

[Unovia]

Options?

Yeah, choices for the team.
As someone who has done a lot of playthroughs, I think I could give a few choices.

 

[PandaSamma]

Yeah, choices for the team.
As someone who has done a lot of playthroughs, I think I could give a few choices.

Ah, I think you're meaning to talk to retiinas. Unless you're meaning breeding options for what pokemon to breed next in either Shield or Shining Pearl but that's more a thing to message me about or reply to my post about XD

 

[Unovia]

My choices that I would give to @retiinas (sorry @PandaSamma)
Your most glaring issues are:
Ground (x3)
Rock, Bug, Water, & Ice (x2)

Best Options:
Seismitoad-It would counter the Ground & Rock weaknesses.
Swanna-It would counter the Ground, Rock, and Bug weaknesses, while not being weak to Ice.

Others have brought up Gothitelle. While I like Gothitelle, it does not counter any of your weaknesses, and it's similar to Chandelure. Same for Jellicent.

 

[PandaSamma]

My choices that I would give to @retiinas (sorry @PandaSamma)
Your most glaring issues are:
Ground (x3)
Rock, Bug, Water, & Ice (x2)

Best Options:
Seismitoad-It would counter the Ground & Rock weaknesses.
Swanna-It would counter the Ground, Rock, and Bug weaknesses, while not being weak to Ice.

Others have brought up Gothitelle. While I like Gothitelle, it does not counter any of your weaknesses, and it's similar to Chandelure. Same for Jellicent.

No problem. Good choices too!

 

[retiinas]

My choices that I would give to @retiinas (sorry @PandaSamma)
Your most glaring issues are:
Ground (x3)
Rock, Bug, Water, & Ice (x2)

Best Options:
Seismitoad-It would counter the Ground & Rock weaknesses.
Swanna-It would counter the Ground, Rock, and Bug weaknesses, while not being weak to Ice.

Others have brought up Gothitelle. While I like Gothitelle, it does not counter any of your weaknesses, and it's similar to Chandelure. Same for Jellicent.

I really appreciate the in-depth help! I think I'm going to go with Gothitelle. Even though it doesn't counter my weaknesses, I think for a casual play-through, (especially one I'm nearly already done with) I can handle having these weakness unaccounted for

 

[Unovia]

I really appreciate the in-depth help! I think I'm going to go with Gothitelle. Even though it doesn't counter my weaknesses, I think for a casual play-through, (especially one I'm nearly already done with) I can handle having these weakness unaccounted for

No judgement. Good luck!