tagwort
December 16th, 2007, 05:38 PM
So first, apologies for my lack of knowledge of this game. I stopped playing when I lost my Ruby/Silver, but recently, my boyfriend bought me a DS and pokemon Diamond as an early Christmas present (I know, best boyfriend ever). Problem is, I have to raise a new team from scratch to play against around 10 people, and my boyfriend is apparently undefeated in that circle. So while I need a well-rounded team, of most importance is countering his team:
Garchomp
Umbreon
Togekiss - thunder wave, air slash
Gardevoir - hypnosis, dream eater, focus blast
Snorlax - rest, sleep talk, earthquake
Milotic - aqua ring, recover, surf, ice beam
Irritating, as I was originally planning on using more than half of these on my own team.. It's worth noting that he might make this a trick room team in the future.
I'm pretty nervous about this team, but I didn't want to fight with a team of pure OU. So in order, I was thinking of a team involving the following:
Alakazam - psychic, hidden power ice (for garchomp, would that be a 1HKO?), trick (against a team built for self-healing, tricking a choice item sounds nice), focus blast
Drapion - night slash, knock off, brick break, toxic spikes (although I'm wondering if I can spend two turns setting it up). I know he's a bit average, but I'm fairly set on using him.
Garchomp - Don't rip me apart here, but I wanted to use him in an unorthodox manner: stealth rock, roar, earthquake, something else. With a fast nature. I know he's meant as a physical sweeper, but I thought this might be a bit harder to counter with his team.
Vaporeon - no idea what to do here. Can't decide what buffs to get, whether to make him a baton passer at all.
This is where my trouble comes in. Can't decide on the remainder of the team:
Dragonite - I loves me some dragon, and I like him more than Salamence. Inner focus would defend against Togekiss's flinch-spamming.
Tyranitar - sandstream could play up garchomp's ability.
Rhyperior - immune to togekiss's thunder wave, like his rock head. but my boyfriend mainly uses special attacks... I suppose sandstorm's +special defense wouldn't save rhyperior?
crobat/persian - quick hypnosis, U-turn out of there if up against something icky. if I toxic spikes, though, hypnosis won't work, right?
Dusknoir - this might just be a good idea if other people I play against have spinners. Also, pressure might help against the bf's stall tactics.
gyarados, weavile, kingdra, flygon (all previous favorites)
There are probably more I forgot. Anyone have any advice they'd like to offer?
Garchomp
Umbreon
Togekiss - thunder wave, air slash
Gardevoir - hypnosis, dream eater, focus blast
Snorlax - rest, sleep talk, earthquake
Milotic - aqua ring, recover, surf, ice beam
Irritating, as I was originally planning on using more than half of these on my own team.. It's worth noting that he might make this a trick room team in the future.
I'm pretty nervous about this team, but I didn't want to fight with a team of pure OU. So in order, I was thinking of a team involving the following:
Alakazam - psychic, hidden power ice (for garchomp, would that be a 1HKO?), trick (against a team built for self-healing, tricking a choice item sounds nice), focus blast
Drapion - night slash, knock off, brick break, toxic spikes (although I'm wondering if I can spend two turns setting it up). I know he's a bit average, but I'm fairly set on using him.
Garchomp - Don't rip me apart here, but I wanted to use him in an unorthodox manner: stealth rock, roar, earthquake, something else. With a fast nature. I know he's meant as a physical sweeper, but I thought this might be a bit harder to counter with his team.
Vaporeon - no idea what to do here. Can't decide what buffs to get, whether to make him a baton passer at all.
This is where my trouble comes in. Can't decide on the remainder of the team:
Dragonite - I loves me some dragon, and I like him more than Salamence. Inner focus would defend against Togekiss's flinch-spamming.
Tyranitar - sandstream could play up garchomp's ability.
Rhyperior - immune to togekiss's thunder wave, like his rock head. but my boyfriend mainly uses special attacks... I suppose sandstorm's +special defense wouldn't save rhyperior?
crobat/persian - quick hypnosis, U-turn out of there if up against something icky. if I toxic spikes, though, hypnosis won't work, right?
Dusknoir - this might just be a good idea if other people I play against have spinners. Also, pressure might help against the bf's stall tactics.
gyarados, weavile, kingdra, flygon (all previous favorites)
There are probably more I forgot. Anyone have any advice they'd like to offer?