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I am new to Completive pokemon and need help with my team
Noah_Road:
Alrighty I've gotten a pretty good look at your team. I'm known for helping others around this community with their teams so I'll give you some advice on yours.
Togekiss- What you have right here is a bulky special attacker. You have converage in Air Slash and Aura Sphere. From there you can decide one of 2 things: turn Togekiss into a support sweeper or into a set up sweeper. For a support sweeper, switch Nasty Plot to Thunderwave. When a pokemon is paralyzed and is being attacked by an Air Slash from a pokemon with Serene Grace, the pokemon has only a 40% chance to be able to move. This is very useful and exploitable on a Togekiss. If you choose to go for a set up sweeper, keep Nasty Plot and switch your EV spread from what you have now to 252 Sp.Atk, 252 Speed, 4 Sp.Def. This will help Togekiss bring out the maximum potential on the +2 boost it gets from Nasty Plot.
Roserade-Despite what Shin said, you never want to forego natural cure on a Roserade for technician. Since Weather Ball is the only move that takes advantage from teh abiltiy, and its not even a STAB move, the ability would be wasted on a pokemon that would rather be psudeo-immune to status ailments. Roserade actually does very well as a lead instead of an offensive core. Try using Sleep Powder, Toxic Spikes/Spikes, Sludge Bomb/Leech Seed/ Energy Ball. This sets your whole team up and can help take down the special walls that I've noticed would give your team some trouble.
Lopunny- Its odd that you picked Lopunny but nevertheless, its still viable if you use it right. Lopunny has a pretty peculiar ability, klutz, which can actually mess some teams up if you predict right. Klutz is an ability that doesn't let the pokemon use their held item. While this may seem like a bad thing, you can use it to your advantage by holding items that would otherwise be hamrful to you without any danger. Lopunny can then switch this harmful item to the opponent with Switcharoo. Take this set into consideration:
Lopunny@Flame Orb
Timid Nature
252 HP/4 Atk/252 Speed.
-Switcharoo
-T-wave
-Protect
-Heal Bell
This set focuses on both crippling your opponent and supporting your team. The idea here is to use Switcharoo on a physical attacker (the burn status cuts the attack stat in half)/wall or T-wave on a special attacker. Protect can be used to scout out your opponents team as well as racking up burn damage and Heal Bell is for curing your team of status ailments.
Ninetails-Ninetails seems to be a doublesided sword on your team. The sun doesn't really help support any of your pokemon other than Ninetails itself. Still, it is a good way to stop rain and sand teams. Your EV spread is fine on Ninetails. I would change Energy Ball to Solar Beam since it won't have any charge up time in the sun. Hidden Power Fighting also seems a bit situational on a Ninetails. I would try using Nasty Plot instead to turn Ninetails into a more dangerous special sweeper.
Spirtomb-I don't see anything wrong with this set. I actually like it. Spiritomb is your only wall though so I would be careful after loosing him.
Espeon-Being completely honest, even with the defence EVs, Espeon won't surive repeated physical hits. You should switch the EVs from HP to Sp.Atk to make use of the stats that Espeon can actually untilize. Just from the fact that I am pretty good with Psychic type pokemon, I know that Espeon does amazingly well as a Calm Mind sweeper. I would switch Reflct to Calm Mind and Light Screen to either Shadow Ball or Yawn to force switches.
Items suggested:
Togekiss: Leftovers
Roserade: Black Sludge
Lopunny: Flame Orb
Ninetails: Life Orb
Spiritomb: Leftovers
Espeon: Leftovers/Life Orb/Kespy Berry
Hope this helped.
zylonnick:
--- Quote from: Noah_Road on October 07, 2011, 02:56:14 PM ---Alrighty I've gotten a pretty good look at your team. I'm known for helping others around this community with their teams so I'll give you some advice on yours.
Togekiss- What you have right here is a bulky special attacker. You have converage in Air Slash and Aura Sphere. From there you can decide one of 2 things: turn Togekiss into a support sweeper or into a set up sweeper. For a support sweeper, switch Nasty Plot to Thunderwave. When a pokemon is paralyzed and is being attacked by an Air Slash from a pokemon with Serene Grace, the pokemon has only a 40% chance to be able to move. This is very useful and exploitable on a Togekiss. If you choose to go for a set up sweeper, keep Nasty Plot and switch your EV spread from what you have now to 252 Sp.Atk, 252 Speed, 4 Sp.Def. This will help Togekiss bring out the maximum potential on the +2 boost it gets from Nasty Plot.
Roserade-Despite what Shin said, you never want to forego natural cure on a Roserade for technician. Since Weather Ball is the only move that takes advantage from teh abiltiy, and its not even a STAB move, the ability would be wasted on a pokemon that would rather be psudeo-immune to status ailments. Roserade actually does very well as a lead instead of an offensive core. Try using Sleep Powder, Toxic Spikes/Spikes, Sludge Bomb/Leech Seed/ Energy Ball. This sets your whole team up and can help take down the special walls that I've noticed would give your team some trouble.
Lopunny- Its odd that you picked Lopunny but nevertheless, its still viable if you use it right. Lopunny has a pretty peculiar ability, klutz, which can actually mess some teams up if you predict right. Klutz is an ability that doesn't let the pokemon use their held item. While this may seem like a bad thing, you can use it to your advantage by holding items that would otherwise be hamrful to you without any danger. Lopunny can then switch this harmful item to the opponent with Switcharoo. Take this set into consideration:
Lopunny@Flame Orb
Timid Nature
252 HP/4 Atk/252 Speed.
-Switcharoo
-T-wave
-Protect
-Heal Bell
This set focuses on both crippling your opponent and supporting your team. The idea here is to use Switcharoo on a physical attacker (the burn status cuts the attack stat in half)/wall or T-wave on a special attacker. Protect can be used to scout out your opponents team as well as racking up burn damage and Heal Bell is for curing your team of status ailments.
Ninetails-Ninetails seems to be a doublesided sword on your team. The sun doesn't really help support any of your pokemon other than Ninetails itself. Still, it is a good way to stop rain and sand teams. Your EV spread is fine on Ninetails. I would change Energy Ball to Solar Beam since it won't have any charge up time in the sun. Hidden Power Fighting also seems a bit situational on a Ninetails. I would try using Nasty Plot instead to turn Ninetails into a more dangerous special sweeper.
Spirtomb-I don't see anything wrong with this set. I actually like it. Spiritomb is your only wall though so I would be careful after loosing him.
Espeon-Being completely honest, even with the defence EVs, Espeon won't surive repeated physical hits. You should switch the EVs from HP to Sp.Atk to make use of the stats that Espeon can actually untilize. Just from the fact that I am pretty good with Psychic type pokemon, I know that Espeon does amazingly well as a Calm Mind sweeper. I would switch Reflct to Calm Mind and Light Screen to either Shadow Ball or Yawn to force switches.
Items suggested:
Togekiss: Leftovers
Roserade: Black Sludge
Lopunny: Flame Orb
Ninetails: Life Orb
Spiritomb: Leftovers
Espeon: Leftovers/Life Orb/Kespy Berry
Hope this helped.
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I second this, these builds are probably the best buids for your more defensive style of playing, though pokémon like espeon and rosarade are really frail for a defensive player. Magic Bounce on espeon will help you alot though.
Another option for Roserade could be a bulky water/ground (which surprises me you aren't using it already, although that water type and Drought Ninetales would contradict eachother probably).
Nidoqueen could be a more defensive pokémon for your team than rosarade would and also has acces to Toxic Spikes plus it has a huge , varied movepool.
deadae:
NOW GET OUT THERE AND WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aquashin:
--- Quote from: deadae on October 07, 2011, 05:05:16 PM ---NOW GET OUT THERE AND WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i quote that in bigger letters " [size=8]NOW GET OUT THERE AND WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/size]
deadae:
leafeon is the cutest ever sorry
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