Monoteams

@Zandgaia: There's always Delibird if you want. xD

Otherwise, I agree with anubite and Tennisace entirely. Most other people are limiting themselves to mere theorymon.
 
Mono-Flying in OU isn't too bad, since many teams use stuff like Aerodactyl/Salamence/Gyarados anyways. Coupled with a few other flyers, and maybe something like Magnezone, the end result isn't too bad. Steel, Water, and Psychic are the other good choices for mono-teams. All in all, though, a mono-team isn't a strategy, it's a handicap.
 
I found this to be a good read. I have had success with a Water Monoteam. It used something similar to the following:

Golduck
Quagsire
Pelipper
Starmie

and a couple other almost random Water Pokemon.

Thanks for the read, I may be new to this site, but I like it here already ^^
 
mtr said:
All in all, though, a mono-team isn't a strategy, it's a handicap.
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Indeed. But it's an interesting thing to do. It's said that people always play to win - that's not 100% true. While I think very few people would play to lose, most people have other motivations than just winning, like testing their skills, or trying out a team before building it on the cartridge, or learning about the metagame. Using a themed team would fall into the first and third of those.
 
I used to have a hail team which was logically all Ice-types:

Abomasnow (hail/subseed)
Weavile (physical sweeper)
Froslass (special sweeper)
Tentacruel (spinner/spiker)
Mamoswine (curser/physical wall)
Lapras (special wall/restalker)

Used to work pretty well actually, until Scizor got Bullet Punch. Then I had to scrap it.
 
MKDSJedi said:
I used to have a hail team which was logically all Ice-types:

Abomasnow (hail/subseed)
Weavile (physical sweeper)
Froslass (special sweeper)
Tentacruel (spinner/spiker)
Mamoswine (curser/physical wall)
Lapras (special wall/restalker)

Used to work pretty well actually, until Scizor got Bullet Punch. Then I had to scrap it.
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Venusaur isn't Ice typed. You could try Delibird as your spinner. And Mamoswine as your Spiker (SR).
 
Delko said:
Venusaur isn't Ice typed. You could try Delibird as your spinner. And Mamoswine as your Spiker (SR).
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Venusaur? Where?

Mono Ice will always use Abomasnow... and 95% of the time Walrein is also used.

Froslass should be the spiker. Jynx or Glaceon for special sweeper.
Articuno is also a option to support/annoy with the Subroost set.

Against Scizor, you must use something to lure it, and then HP Fire it. Glaceon is one of the best options: it has the defenses, and Bullet Punch can miss with some luck. Put a Babiri Berry on it and watch Scizor burn lol

All theorymon of course.
 
mtr said:
All in all, though, a mono-team isn't a strategy, it's a handicap.
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While using 6 Pokemon with the same weakness is a handicap, doubling or tripling up on similar Pokemon is an extremely viable strategy that works in all tiers. For example, I've used a combination of Starmie and Gyarados to wear Bulky Water-types down so Empoleon could sweep. I've used CB Azumarill to punch holes in the opposing team so DD Feraligatr could sweep. I've used Double Dragons and Triple Dragons, as many other players have before. Heck, Theorymon even showed that Double Dragons works in Ubers with DD Mence and Rayquaza. So while yes, mono teams are a handicap, doubling or tripling up on similar Pokemon works quite well on offensive or balanced teams.
 
Fighting-Mono looks pretty good. I might make one using:

Breloom
Lucario
Heracross
Machamp
Medicham
and a Wild card
 
I've found MonoNormal in the lower tiers is lots of fun, actually.

Ambipom - Lead, revenge killer
Clefable / Chansey - Defensive (special)
Miltank / Lickilicky - Defensive (physical)
Kangaskhan - Bulky sweeper, essential through Scrappy
Ursaring / Raticate - Status absorbers, sweepers

Bibarel can be used for the ever-so-pleasing lol factor with Simple and Charge Beam.
Belly Drum Linoone is always something to try out as well.

Something like that.

-Terywj
 
I play a lot of the Battle Factory on my Platinum game and I very often do something like this. My favorite team would probably just be Normal since it's so versatile and fun to mess around with. But also instead of just doing one type, sometimes I'll do something like all special/physical attackers, all Toxic users, or a Sandstorm* team.
*(Rock, Ground, and Steel almost always with a Sand Streamer)
 
-Terywj- said:
Ambipom - Lead, revenge killer
Clefable / Chansey - Defensive (special)
Miltank / Lickilicky - Defensive (physical)
Kangaskhan - Bulky sweeper, essential through Scrappy
Ursaring / Raticate - Status absorbers, sweepers
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Looks pretty good to me, although I would definitely prefer a Porygon-Z somewhere. Oh and just for the record, I'm almost certain that Lickilicky carries the most powerful Explosion in the game, (correct me if I'm wrong) so that's always fun.
 
Indeed it does. Which I think might make it the most powerful attack in the game excluding silly stuff like Power Tricked Shuckle Rollout. Slightly edges out Snorlax's Selfdestruct, and beats Metagross' Explosion.
 
Kingdra, intimidate, and possible yache berries could prevent that from happening.
I've built monotype teams for nearly all types, and nearly all of them failed horribly. One of my favourites was a trickroom Rock team.
 
With SR and standard sets. Oh, this is weavile. Mamo hurts a bit more.

CB weavile:

Dragonite- Is KOd by a -1 Ice shard
salamence- same
flygon-same
altaria- same

Latias is countered in general by weavile.

Kingdra vs. world.
 
I'm curious how thoughts on a bug egg group team would be. Scizor Heracross, Yanmega, Fygon, Gliscor, Drapion??? Still very much all bug, just without the downside of weaknesses. Other egg groups are pretty large,
 
Electric actually works very well!

Zapdos and Rotom-A cover your ground weaknesses. Then, you stick on electivire to help trick rotom-a (your best bet) to help cover blissey. Then you can go with electrode as an annoyer lead and finish up with magnet rise magnezone, specs jolteon, or parafusion lanturn. 4 ground weaknesses is eh, but whatever.
 
Aminar said:
I'm curious how thoughts on a bug egg group team would be. Scizor Heracross, Yanmega, Fygon, Gliscor, Drapion??? Still very much all bug, just without the downside of weaknesses. Other egg groups are pretty large,
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I would recommend packing a Forretress. :) Unfortunately, the inherent problem with most mono-teams is that they all share weaknesses, and once Flygon's down you're probably swept. I would recommend Scarfing Heracross as well, in order to be able to revenge Scarftran.
 
Eggbert said:
With SR and standard sets. Oh, this is weavile. Mamo hurts a bit more.

CB weavile:

Dragonite- Is KOd by a -1 Ice shard
salamence- same
flygon-same
altaria- same

Latias is countered in general by weavile.

Kingdra vs. world.
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Yache Berry says hi.
 
Sure, mono-dragon's going to have trouble with Ice Sharders. But so what? That's one move, on few Pokemon. Weavile and Mamoswine combined are on about 10% of teams. Most teams use other methods of dealing with dragons. So I'd say forget about Ice Shard, and focus on making the team beat everything else, then you'll achieve a decent win rate overall.
 
you guys are forgetting that Wild Card. I would never take a 100% dragon team into battle. I would use five dragons and Scizor, since Mamo and Weavile both lose to it(except wierd bait sets)
 
Yache Berry says hi.
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Hello to you to yache. Oh wait, no one really uses yache because of life orb, leftovers, or lum berry. Maybe one or two berries on the team, any more would ruin the offensives. You still get destroyed.
 
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