Hey guys, I was wondering if you guys could help me with some suggestions on how I can improve my old team that I've transferred to white, to be more up to date. So far I've experimented some on pokemon online, although I'm winning a good amount of my matches I can tell it needs serious tweaking. Also add that I'm not interested in completely changing my team to a weather team or something like that, just a nice offensive team.
LEAD
Metagross-Lum
252Att/252Hp
Adamant
Stealth Rock
Bullet punch
Meteor Mash
Explosion
Ok, the lead, metagross, hes pretty much a standard lead as you can see. Basically just go in set up rocks, if I feel threatened blow up in there face, if I don't, either switch in appropriately or meteor mash it to death. It seems to be working pretty well this gen, infernape still owns and blaziken with protect and its new speed boost can be a pain to my whole team. Overall I don't see a reason to change my Metagross out at this point in time. I think I might as well opt out the lum for a sash, just to make sure I get those explosions off on those fire sweepers, like blaziken.
Breloom-toxic orb
252Att/12hp/244spe
Adamant
substitute
focus punch
spore
mach punch
Ahhh Breloom, the subpuncher, my favorite pokemon of all time, anyway. I love this thing if I can get it set up it destroys just about anything. The only issue I have here is deciding between mach punch and seed bomb. The reason I decided to go with mach punch is to kill that mole, mach punch pretty much wrecks it and w/o it the mole can own my whole team if it gets a swords dance set up. I do miss seed bomb for the fact that I could ohko jellicent that would switch in. The only pokes I cant kill with this guy is the new toxic healing gliscor, jellicent,reuniclus and of course gengar.
Garchomp-choice scarf
252att/252spe
Jolly
outrage
earthquake
stone edge
fire fang
Garchomp, the speed killer. I find my Garchomp to be incredibly effective, he just about outspeeds everything. Latios comes in, no problem, it seems like everyone expects they're latios/latias to outspeed my Garchomp so its usually a easy kill. Great for killing anything electric too...Just seems like everyone thinks they can outspeed my chomp so they just stay in ready to use that ice move for a ohko but than they die. Stone edge also is really nice for those scarfed Thundurus and his brothers, not to mention zapdos and others.
Togekiss-leftovers
252hp/36spa/220spe
Modest
air slash
aura sphere
fire blast
nasty plot
Basically my togekiss can kill just about anything with a little bit of luck, thats what I love about him. His main role is to go in and flinch kill anything, which it does a very good job of doing, and to tank some special attacks. He can also take out tyranitar and heatran with ease with aura sphere which really helps my team. As for fire blast I put that on for the steel switch ins etc. Also, hes great for that conkeldurr and any other fighter.
Scizor-choice band
252att/252hp
Adamant
bullet punch
superpower
pursuit
u turn
Basically the standard revenge killer that is scizor. What can really be said more, I just use scizor to revenge kill like a pro plus ohko of blissey is nice. Not to mention that sometimes, if your lucky he can even get a nice little sweep just straight up bulleting. No really new big problems seem to have risen up in gen 5. So yeah I think he fits in with my team perfectly.
Empoleon-life orb
76hp/252spa/180spe
Modest
grass knot
ice beam
surf
agility
Well here I think is my weakest link. One of the biggest problems I have is that toxic healing gliscor and this is my only pokemon with ice beam, of course though gliscor ohkos this guy without even trying. Basically Empoleon seems useless on my team I really want a good replacement but I'm dumbfounded on what I should replace him with.
Edit: Ive been thinking maybe Gengar, starmie, Jellicent, something like them....
Im thinking Gengar could ohko gliscor with a shadow ball, plus he could take care of jellicent. I could use a starmie packed with ice beam as well, or just use jellicent and scald him to death.
Ok, so far my main trouble has been the toxic orb gliscor, he renders my Breloom useless, and my only pokemon that has moves that counter him,Empoleon, gets ohkod by his earthquake, so I'm definately looking for a replacement for him. The reason I took off seed bomb and put on mach punch on my loom is because of Excadrill, so that leaves me with troubles with Jellicent, so I put grass knot on my Empoleon but it looks like I'm kicking him off the team so I'll have to keep that in the back of my mind. Another pokemon that we struggle with is Rotom washer, grass knot just barely does any damage, and of course I don't have seed bomb on my loom anymore. Reuniclus also can be a pain, usually Togekiss can take him out but phsyshock hurts toge badly. Also Blaziken can smash right through my team, was thinking maybe I should put aqua jet on something. Not to mention I have a huge weakness to ice. So that's basically it, thanks in advance.
LEAD
Metagross-Lum
252Att/252Hp
Adamant
Stealth Rock
Bullet punch
Meteor Mash
Explosion
Ok, the lead, metagross, hes pretty much a standard lead as you can see. Basically just go in set up rocks, if I feel threatened blow up in there face, if I don't, either switch in appropriately or meteor mash it to death. It seems to be working pretty well this gen, infernape still owns and blaziken with protect and its new speed boost can be a pain to my whole team. Overall I don't see a reason to change my Metagross out at this point in time. I think I might as well opt out the lum for a sash, just to make sure I get those explosions off on those fire sweepers, like blaziken.
Breloom-toxic orb
252Att/12hp/244spe
Adamant
substitute
focus punch
spore
mach punch
Ahhh Breloom, the subpuncher, my favorite pokemon of all time, anyway. I love this thing if I can get it set up it destroys just about anything. The only issue I have here is deciding between mach punch and seed bomb. The reason I decided to go with mach punch is to kill that mole, mach punch pretty much wrecks it and w/o it the mole can own my whole team if it gets a swords dance set up. I do miss seed bomb for the fact that I could ohko jellicent that would switch in. The only pokes I cant kill with this guy is the new toxic healing gliscor, jellicent,reuniclus and of course gengar.
Garchomp-choice scarf
252att/252spe
Jolly
outrage
earthquake
stone edge
fire fang
Garchomp, the speed killer. I find my Garchomp to be incredibly effective, he just about outspeeds everything. Latios comes in, no problem, it seems like everyone expects they're latios/latias to outspeed my Garchomp so its usually a easy kill. Great for killing anything electric too...Just seems like everyone thinks they can outspeed my chomp so they just stay in ready to use that ice move for a ohko but than they die. Stone edge also is really nice for those scarfed Thundurus and his brothers, not to mention zapdos and others.
Togekiss-leftovers
252hp/36spa/220spe
Modest
air slash
aura sphere
fire blast
nasty plot
Basically my togekiss can kill just about anything with a little bit of luck, thats what I love about him. His main role is to go in and flinch kill anything, which it does a very good job of doing, and to tank some special attacks. He can also take out tyranitar and heatran with ease with aura sphere which really helps my team. As for fire blast I put that on for the steel switch ins etc. Also, hes great for that conkeldurr and any other fighter.
Scizor-choice band
252att/252hp
Adamant
bullet punch
superpower
pursuit
u turn
Basically the standard revenge killer that is scizor. What can really be said more, I just use scizor to revenge kill like a pro plus ohko of blissey is nice. Not to mention that sometimes, if your lucky he can even get a nice little sweep just straight up bulleting. No really new big problems seem to have risen up in gen 5. So yeah I think he fits in with my team perfectly.
Empoleon-life orb
76hp/252spa/180spe
Modest
grass knot
ice beam
surf
agility
Well here I think is my weakest link. One of the biggest problems I have is that toxic healing gliscor and this is my only pokemon with ice beam, of course though gliscor ohkos this guy without even trying. Basically Empoleon seems useless on my team I really want a good replacement but I'm dumbfounded on what I should replace him with.
Edit: Ive been thinking maybe Gengar, starmie, Jellicent, something like them....
Im thinking Gengar could ohko gliscor with a shadow ball, plus he could take care of jellicent. I could use a starmie packed with ice beam as well, or just use jellicent and scald him to death.
Ok, so far my main trouble has been the toxic orb gliscor, he renders my Breloom useless, and my only pokemon that has moves that counter him,Empoleon, gets ohkod by his earthquake, so I'm definately looking for a replacement for him. The reason I took off seed bomb and put on mach punch on my loom is because of Excadrill, so that leaves me with troubles with Jellicent, so I put grass knot on my Empoleon but it looks like I'm kicking him off the team so I'll have to keep that in the back of my mind. Another pokemon that we struggle with is Rotom washer, grass knot just barely does any damage, and of course I don't have seed bomb on my loom anymore. Reuniclus also can be a pain, usually Togekiss can take him out but phsyshock hurts toge badly. Also Blaziken can smash right through my team, was thinking maybe I should put aqua jet on something. Not to mention I have a huge weakness to ice. So that's basically it, thanks in advance.
