JTrainer's Platinum Team

[JTrainer]

This is my Pokemon Team in my Platinum version. All of these pokemon (except Roserade) were also in my team in Emerald version.


Blaziken @ Choice Band
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 255 ATK / 255 SPEED
Moves:
Flare Blitz
Stone Edge
Superpower
Thunderpunch

Blaziken was my starter, and is my one of my leads (I can have more than one lead, right?). He relys on powerful moves and his choice band to deliver heavy blows, most often resulting in OHKOs. I'm thinking of replacing thunderounch with earthquake, but I'm not sure yet. I only keep his thunderpunch to deal with Gyarados.




Gardevoir @ Lum Berry
Nature: Timid
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 188 SP.ATK / 67 DEF / 255 SPEED
Moves:
Psychic
Calm Mind
Focus Blast
Thunderbolt


Gardevoir is one of my special sweepers (I know there are better psychic sweepers out there, but I like Gardevoir, and thats all that matters). She uses the synchronize/lum berry combo. I'm thinking of re-raising her with Trace, but synchronize has proven really useful in the past, so I'm still unsure.




Salamence @ Yache Berry
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 255 ATK / 255 SPEED
Moves:
Outrage
Fire Blast
Earthquake
Dragon Dance

My main physical sweeper. He is a physical attacker, but his special attack is still good enough to use Fire Blast. His main strategy is to use the Dragon Dance/Outrage combo. It is extremely powerful, and has won me many battles. I gave him a Yache berry so he can survive an ice beam, allowing him to set up his combo.



Roserade @ Black Sludge
Nature: Timid
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 188 SP. ATK / 67 DEF / 255 SPEED
Moves:
Energy Ball
Shadow Ball
Sludge Bomb
Sleep Powder


My other lead. She uses sleep powder first (in most cases) and then either attacks, or I switch her out for a pokemon that has a type advantage against the current opponent. She is really good, and has helped me win lots of battles.




Milotic @ Slac Berry
Nature: Modest
Ability: Marvel Scale
EVs: 255 SP.ATK / 255 SPEED
Moves:
Ice Beam
Recover
Hydro Pump
Mirror Coat

My Milotc is only a sem-wall. I mainly use her as a special sweeper. She can usually soak up any specail hits, even thunderbolts, and thunder from Kyogres. Then she can send the attack back with mirror coat. Also, if that attack lowers her HP enough, her salac berry kicks in, allowing her to either finish off the opponent or heal herself with recover before being hit again. I only choose Hydro Pump over Surf because in double battles, Surf hits your ally too, and I don't want to take that chance.




Metagross @ Life Orb
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 204 ATK / 152 SP.DEF/ 154 SPEED
Moves:
Meteor Mash
Agility
Explosion
Earthquake


My Metagross is a combination sweeper and wall, but mostly a sweeper. First he uses agility to become faster than just about anything, then hits the opponent hard with a life orb boosted Meteor Mash or Earthquake. And if his HP is low and has used agility, he can finish off the opponent with a life orb boosted explosion, which can take out almost any opponent that doesn't resist it.


Please rate. I'll consider any advice I'm given, except for having them hold the same items, or replacing them with different pokemon.

 

[Lucario1337]

If Blaziken has Stone edge why does it need thunder punch to deal with gyarados? I suggest replacing gardevoir with a latias either the defensive cm or offensive cm set also your evs on salamence,blaziken,gardevoir, miltoic, and roserade make no sense because they are not divisble by 4 so you are wasting evs. They need to be divisble by 4 and one stat can have a max of 252 that is the max stat point you can get in one stat say if youre spread was 255/255 you would have to make it 4/252/252 Aside from that there are many more problems with this team and i dont feel like doing a complete overhaul

 

[JTrainer]

If Blaziken has Stone edge why does it need thunder punch to deal with gyarados? I suggest replacing gardevoir with a latias either the defensive cm or offensive cm set also your evs on salamence,blaziken,gardevoir, miltoic, and roserade make no sense because they are not divisble by 4 so you are wasting evs. They need to be divisble by 4 and one stat can have a max of 252 that is the max stat point you can get in one stat say if youre spread was 255/255 you would have to make it 4/252/252 Aside from that there are many more problems with this team and i dont feel like doing a complete overhaul

Did you not read what I wrote?! I said I am NOT replacing pokemon my team, especially not with a legendary. Also, if I invest EVs into HP, they won't have their ATK/SP.ATK and speed at the highest they can go, and my pokemon need that. Plus, I checked, and the max EVs a pokemon can get in one stat is 255, not 252 (don't believe me? Check Bulbapedia. Its there).

Also, I tried using Blaziken's Stone Edge against a level 100 Gyarados, and it did not OHKO it. Thats why I keep Thunderpunch.

And if there are so many things wrong with them then how come last time on wi-fi they won at least 8 out of 10 battles? Hmmmmmmmmmm?!

 

[Arkeis]

Because you've been fighting noobs. Try fighting 10 people from Smogon and see how well you do. You'll be lucky to win more than 5 with a team like this.

Also, Lucario is right. All EVs need to be divisible by 4. 255 is not divisible by 4, so it is a waste of EVs.

 

[Bloo]

Did you not read what I wrote?! I said I am NOT replacing pokemon my team

Ok, there's no point in posting a team if you're not going to take any suggestions for Pokemon replacements. When posting a team, you have to realize that you're posting it for other people to criticize it and if you're not going to take them, there's no purpose in having this open since nothing productive is going to come out of this thread. I left this thread open for a while to see if anything good would come out of, but apparently nothing did. You also stated that this is your Pokemon team in your Platinum Version. In-game teams shall be locked. For those reasons, I'm locking this, sorry. In the future, be sure to take a look at the RMT rules.

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