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Chinese Dood · Dec 17th, 2010, 1:29:22 PM

Good luck with that team! I still think Special Fire move is probably better (wait, did I even mention that before? lol), but maybe it's not that important.

Well, it seems like things are covered in that team, but at the same time, there isn't like an underlying theme/strategy to the whole team. Maybe it's ok, maybe not. I dunno. I almost feel like Hitmontop should be leading instead of Starmie too (in which case there is less of a need for Electivire). The thing with Electivire is that two of its strongest non-Electric attacks (Low Kick on heavy pokemon and Earthquake) are not present and are replaced with mediocre 70-75 base power attacks just for coverage, but the coverage won't OHKO many things that have defense EVs.

Well! That's just being critical. Not like I actually used anything that similar anyway, so maybe all my doubts are actually non-issues.

I still have yet to try Arbok. I was kind of lazy since I didn't feel like breeding for one, since I have to get Switcheroo egg move first, etc. etc. Instead I just RNG'd a 31/x/31/x/31/31 Beldum on Pokewalker which took less than an hour, just to see how Trick Metagross will do. I didn't do very well with that so far though pairing with Latios.

EDIT: I might just leave singles for a bit and go to the much more fast-paced doubles as well.

Dec 17th, 2010, 1:29:22 PM	#3278
Chinese Dood Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,053	Good luck with that team! I still think Special Fire move is probably better (wait, did I even mention that before? lol), but maybe it's not that important. Well, it seems like things are covered in that team, but at the same time, there isn't like an underlying theme/strategy to the whole team. Maybe it's ok, maybe not. I dunno. I almost feel like Hitmontop should be leading instead of Starmie too (in which case there is less of a need for Electivire). The thing with Electivire is that two of its strongest non-Electric attacks (Low Kick on heavy pokemon and Earthquake) are not present and are replaced with mediocre 70-75 base power attacks just for coverage, but the coverage won't OHKO many things that have defense EVs. Well! That's just being critical. Not like I actually used anything that similar anyway, so maybe all my doubts are actually non-issues. I still have yet to try Arbok. I was kind of lazy since I didn't feel like breeding for one, since I have to get Switcheroo egg move first, etc. etc. Instead I just RNG'd a 31/x/31/x/31/31 Beldum on Pokewalker which took less than an hour, just to see how Trick Metagross will do. I didn't do very well with that so far though pairing with Latios. EDIT: I might just leave singles for a bit and go to the much more fast-paced doubles as well. Last edited by Chinese Dood; Dec 17th, 2010 at 2:01:01 PM.