Ashman's D/P Team

[Ashman]

So I just came in from the Advance era, and man things have changed... here's what I'm using atm:

Updated to try and conform.

Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Crunch
- Dragon Dance
- Fire Punch
- Stone Edge

The TTar lead has worked pretty well so far... Stone Edge ohkos gyarados. Well, it doesn't, but the sandstorm finishes gyarados off, so meh to that, plus most people expect cb. I once had a alakazam trick a choiceband onto it and then eat a crunch, which I thought was hilarious. I personally thought TTar was highly overrated in gen3, but it went way up in gen4 while CB Salamence (what I used to lead with) went way down.

Lucario (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Crunch
- Extremespeed
- Swords Dance

Lucario is my favorite pokemon that was released in gen4, and as he's also really solid (and immune to sand stream) he earned a place on my team... no question. His extreme speed helps me out of a lot of jams, such as Togekiss and it's annoying 60% flinch rate. He's also quick enough without extreme speed to revenge kill quite a few pokemon, including opponent's ttars.

Hippowdon (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 168 Def / 88 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic

My main physical wall. Earthquake doesn't seam to work to well on this... but what can you do? There's not much else to say here... it's a physica wall. I bring it in against physical threats, toxic, stealth rock, sometimes stall... Earthquake seems really sub-par. It does like no damage to anything.

Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Dragon Pulse
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Grass]

My main man for special sweeping. I show lucario to bait a fire attack and then flip out to heatran and sweep with fireblast. I went with HP Grass to cover for swampert on this team since I have two pokemon that have Ice attacks... one special and one physical. I also opted against explosion for two reasons: 1) I hate explosion and 2) explosion seems like what you do when the pokemon's time is up... and for that it means switching heatran out and then back in.

Porygon-Z @ Choice Specs
Trait: Adaptability
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Dark Pulse
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
- Ice Beam
- Tri Attack

This is another special sweeper, and honestly feels like the weak point of the team. Still, I'm just not sure what to do with this guy. I would like to replace him, but I'm not sure with what. He covers quite a bit for me and I do love his ability to own with tri attack.

Gyarados (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Ice Fang
- Stone Edge
- Waterfall

Gyarados is, was, and always will be my favorite pokemon. There is nothing more special and amazing than 2 DDs on a gyarados and sweeping ftw. I've been flipping back and forth between this and bulky gyara, but one thing's for sure, I hate life orb with a passion. I might try running the bulky EVs with this movepool though, mostly because I find that this move spread is really important.

Gameplan: Opening with sandstream isnt' a problem, but basically this is all a big setup to where I can bring in either TTar or Gyara for the dd sweep.

Disclaimer: I'm still working on getting my head around the vast number of pokemon in this generation. I have not actually played diamond/pearl (I use netbattle) so half these pokemon are still new to me, but I've been playing on netbattle for a while in gen4. Basically this is the first team that started consistantly winning, so I figured at this point it would be a good idea to pop over here and just check to make sure I'm not winning because of some fluke. I seem to have some problems with Gengar (as usual) and Togekiss, but like I said before I can take togekiss by stalling a bit with hippowdon and then using extreme speed to sacrifice lucario.

 

[~Golden Emp]

You should try to post your pokemon this way, as the rules say:

(Pokemon picture)
Name @Item
Nature
[Ability]
EV's
-Move1
-Move2
-Move3
-Move4

Description


Change it quick because the way you post is against the rules. Do it so we can help you.

 

[Matthew]

Hi! You should maybe look at a few of these rules

3. Have some actual words in your post beyond your six Pokemon and their moves. Not following this makes your post quite boring to read and rate. All Pokemon should have a good reason for being in your team anyway, so why not post that reason? If you are having trouble with this one, start by giving an explanation for each team member. Why are they there? What role do they serve? How do you get them in? Then, give an explanation of how you would open with the team and how you would go about using it. All of these things help people rate your team and allow us to offer more helpful advice.

 

[Ashman]

OK here's what happened: I run noscript on ff, which does this weird thing when I post on forums when I forget to allow the forums where all the formatting goes away. I'm really sorry and as you can see I already fixed it...

At least, it looks fixed from my comp.

 

[familyguyman]

Yeah, it's fine now.

I'd recommend Starmie for Porygon-Z. It get's Grass Knot, Ice Beam and Surf/Hydro Pump and can Recover Life Orb damage. It's a fast thing too. This will help against Swampert, Scizor (Hydro Pump OHKOs and you avoid U-Turn by being faster) and Infernape. He can also absorb status which is a very nice thing. Azelf also works but lacks Recovery and Status absorption.

If you don't like Hippowdon's damage, try a Curse set. Suddenly, he hit's hard and is really hard to move by force. If you don't mind losing Sandstorm back up, try Gliscor. He's a bit more versatile than Hippowdon, take's hits just as well and gets lovely Sand Veil. He also can Swords Dance to really hit hard but can also use nice things like Knock Off.

Cheers.

 

[Ashman]

I actually really like hippowdon's ability to wall so I'll probably keep him as he is. I'll try out the gliscor though!

As for starmie, that's a great idea, I'll test it out as soon as I'm done with this battle...