MawileM Team

[ArchonInterface]

Looking for improvement ideas on my team. Any suggestions go ahead.
*Hydreigon@LifeOrb Modest
Max sp.A and max Speed
-Flamethrower
-Dragon Pulse
-Dark Pulse
-Flash Canon
*Porygon2@Eviolite Modest 252HP 160Def 98Sp.D
-Recover
-TriAttack
-T-Bolt
-Ice Beam
*Mawile@Mega Careful Max Hp and max Sp.D
-Taunt
-Play Rough
-PowerUp Punch
-SuckerPunch
*Trevenent@SitrusBerry w/ Harvest Careful Max Hp max Sp.D
-Shadow Claw
-WillOWisp
-HornLeech
-Protect
*Donphan@Assault Vest Adamant Max Hp Max Sp.D
-RapidSpin
-PlayRough
-IceShard
-EarthQuake
*Milotic@Leftovers Modest Max Hp Max Def
-DragonTail
-Recover
-Ice Beam
-HydroPump

 

[Air]

Hey, I can see that your new here, and this is a decent team. Before I get onto the rate,
I would suggest butting 3 lines of description on your pokemon, which is stated in the RMT rules.

Firstly, I would suggest a Adamant Nature on Mawile, and A Bold Nature on Milotic. The adamant nature boosts attack instead of special defence, which is for more attacking power, and a bold nature on Milotic allows it to tank physcial hits better. I would also suggest Scald over Hydro Pump on Milotic. As a physical wall/tank, scald is the better option of hydro pump for its 30% burn chance, even with the power drop.

Mawiles set is a little odd. Taunt, while a valid option, it's not worth it over having swords dance, iron head, fire fang, or substitute. The same goes for power-up Punch. This move, while good in theory, it comes short as a good move. It's evs are also off. Mawile is a physical attacker, not a special wall at all. I would suggest changing a few moves and evs on mawile, here's the set:

Mawile Set

Colour Coded!

Mawile @ Mawilite
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance / Substitute <- No Power Up Punch!
- Play Rough
- Iron Head / Fire Fang / Focus Punch / Taunt
- Sucker Punch

Hope this helped!

 

[ArchonInterface]

Yes I am new and I apoligize for the lack of information. The only reason I'm lacking bold is because I was too lazy to breed out a bold nature but I will get to it. My reasoning of Pump over Scald was Trevenents WillOWisp but I run Scald on Greninja and its glorious. As for Mawile, putting ev's into attack along with Adamant drastically reduces its survivability against any sp.A in my experience so far. I've chosen against Iron Head as play rough hits anything relevent I've seen harder. I saw myself simply not using it and opted for something else. I see the reasoning for SD but I wasn't liking how the battles played out whereas with PUP I'm pushing out extra damage in trade for the increased boost. Taunt has been beautiful on the switch in (people love burning her xc). Though for that same reason SubPunch has great Appeal and I had not considered it, thank you. Hopefully this makes up for my poor post earlier.

 

[Air]

Yes I am new and I apoligize for the lack of information. The only reason I'm lacking bold is because I was too lazy to breed out a bold nature but I will get to it. My reasoning of Pump over Scald was Trevenents WillOWisp but I run Scald on Greninja and its glorious. As for Mawile, putting ev's into attack along with Adamant drastically reduces its survivability against any sp.A in my experience so far. I've chosen against Iron Head as play rough hits anything relevent I've seen harder. I saw myself simply not using it and opted for something else. I see the reasoning for SD but I wasn't liking how the battles played out whereas with PUP I'm pushing out extra damage in trade for the increased boost. Taunt has been beautiful on the switch in (people love burning her xc). Though for that same reason SubPunch has great Appeal and I had not considered it, thank you. Hopefully this makes up for my poor post earlier.

Let me explain something about pure power, Pure Power doubles your attack, so any evs you put into there doubles as well. It a lot more efficient to put evs into attack, and you will see the difference in power. Without attack evs (which get doubled :p), there's a lot of wasted potential.

Also, Power Up Punch is outclassed by swords dance, doing what it can do in 2 turns, in one turn. Swords Dance + Sucker Punch OHKOs the whole meta, basically. And PuP has the power of an unboosted quick attack. Not that good at all. Taunt Is fine, however.

Try the changes out, you'll see the difference. Edited the original Mawile set

 

[ArchonInterface]

Ill try out the change. Ill switch in swords dance and move the evs around for optimized offense. After some more testing I was indeed lacking in power. Primarily against Volcarona which ignores everyone else on my team entirely.

 

[dragonuser]

Hello,

Unfortunately I am going to have to lock this thread for lacking descriptions. Descriptions are extremely helpful to potential raters, offering them insight into why you chose that mon and its moves/EV spreads.

Feel free to pm me your descriptions and I will happily unlock this thread for you.