Mmm...not unless you can make yourself Asian lol. I guess I can see Lum on Mamo, though I've found Scarf to be better(never ran Lum, but I can't even recall it ever getting burned. Still, I hate getting locked into a move, so there is at.)
The Gengar's EVs I ripped from a Japanese BSS team. At first I thought it was to help with M.Slowbro but with the 252 HP it doesn't really seem to do anything in particular.
Focus Sash Blaziken as a counter to Porygon2. Mamoswine was the one to increase coverage against dragons. I was thinking either Assault Vest or Rocky Helmet on the Mamoswine.
Lol, not always great with abbreviations. I didn't know standard Porygon2 can OHKO Blaziken, though I guess it makes sense. I feel like you get past P2 ok, but another option against it is Swagger on Thundy. P2 is pretty much never mixed, so you're not helping it at all, and after you T-Wave it has very little chance to move and it's pretty much smooth sailing from there. AV Mamo can live a decent number of hits from P2, so it has a couple chances for Fissure to hit. So I don't think you really need Blaziken, as you have plenty of other weapons vs P2, which isn't even terribly common.
Whoops. I misspoke and meant coverage instead of counter. Blaziken was more of something I thought of as it seems that without it my team has nothing useful against dark, ice and normal types so I put it there. To be honest though I'm not crazy about Blaziken as it is just a free switch in for teams with Talonflame.
You're testing on PS right? Just theorymoning isn't as good. In terms of dark, ice, and normals, Talon handles Weavile(tho it's your only Poke to do so really well,) Kang has trouble with Gengar and Chomp, fears a burn from Talon, and is liable to lose to your own Kang if you have boosts or something.
Mamo doesn't need a Scarf against Garchomp.
Hey blookazoo, be sure to visit the battle spot room on PS! as well. A lot of us there can help build a team with you by actively giving you advice and tips. Usually its better to post it here if you have an incomplete team but since you are planning to start from scratch, the battle spot room on PS! may be more helpful. Also, once your team is ready we can watch your battles and then tell you your mistakes after the battles (if any). As for the team, what pokemon or core are you thinking of building around?
Ummm...to outspeed it does. I guess Chomp won't OHKO if it's not Banded or boosted though.
Except it survives almost any attack and has priority plus 4x super effective STAB moves of it own.
252+ Atk Mamoswine Ice Shard vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Garchomp: 160-192 (86.9 - 104.3%) -- 25% chance to OHKO
Ice Shard is its' most used Ice move. It's on 89%.
Since Dragon Claw is doing more than EQ I believe you have the calc on doubles.
Yeah, you know I looked at that option and thought nah I wont change that. I wasn't going to put EQ on initially.
If you're looking for a simple start, I would recommend starting with either Mega Kangaskhan or Mega Blaziken as they're both two of the most simple and effective Megas to use in BSS. It's hard to give advice when you have little to work off of but it's definitely more fun to plan your own team if you start with a favorite that's also reasonably effective in the format. With that, Volcarona, Hippowdon and Cloyster are all fine choices in BSS. Volcarona often works as a Quiver Dance sweeper though it needs support to handle Talonflame and Fire-types in general, and if it chooses not to run HP Ice then something to handle Dragons like Salamence. Cloyster functions as a Shell Smash sweeper though naturally has to be careful with stuff like Thundurus and Suicune. Hippowdon is commonly used on cores with Mega Lucario and a dragon (often Dragonite) so that's a core you could start with if you're looking to go that direction. Either way it's tough to give specific help until you've decided what you want to run, but hopefully this gives you some ideas.
Thank you for the tips, i give a look for the "Hippowdon team". I was looking for Manectric in the past days, but the hidden power ice seems so difficult to breed for a newbie. If you have the time can you post a sample of a team with Hippowdon? I have also to catch all dittos for now. What a difficult game to start!
If you go to the giveaway section in wifi there's a Ditto giveaway that has Hidden Power Ditto which make it a lot easier to breed (and a 6 iv Ditto).
This thread has several high ranked teams from several seasons ago, but notably there are two with Hippowdon (one with Hippowdon and Cloyster) that you can check out. I can't find a sample team featuring Hippowdon, Lucario and Dragonite that isn't all in Japanese but if you're interested in taking a look at one and trying to decipher it yourself, there are a few here and here that utilize the core.
I just encountered another great pro for safety goggles unaware clefable: in sand and hail it fools people to believe clefable is magic guard instead of unaware and start setting up on it. I just encountered this against a garchomp who used swords dance against my clefable cause saw clefable getting no damage from the sand and clefable was paralysed so otherwise i would have lost the game :o
