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Pokemon Pairing Combinations

Don't mean to mini-mod, but I posted a thread about this not to long ago

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39605 there ya go!

Ah, but that is for defensive walling combinations, not combinations in general.

Just my two cents, but anyways...

I have been tinkering with some theorymon for a while, and found an excellent 3 pokemon combo in Gyarados, Magnezone, and Garchomp.

Gyarados Weaknesses - Electric and Rock.

Both Magnezone and Garchomp Resist, and Chomp is immune to Electric. Magnezone resist the Boltbeam combo, so he is safe for the most part coming in on the likes of Starmie and such, while Garchomp can come in on others who wouldn't carry ice moves or threaten Magnezone with other SE moves that Chomp would be more oriented to handle.

Magnezone - Fire, Ground, Fighting

Both Chomp and Gyara resist Fire. Dos can come in on fighting attacks, which are primarily physical, and force a switch with intimidate. Garchomp resist fire, and threatens fire types with Scarf Earthquake or Stone Edge, and for other users of a Non-STAB Fire Move, an Outrage in the face.

Garchomp - Ice, Dragon

Ice is taken care of by both Magnezone and Gyarados. Gyara is neutral, but would be the main switch-in for physical ice move users such as Weavile and Mamoswine, while threatening with Waterfall and Stone Edge. Magnezone can come in on many other HP Ice or Ice Beam users, but it is best to have another special sponge/wall. Dragon... isn't that big of a deal if it is coming from anyone other than Garchomp. It is primarily physical, so Gyarados can switch in. If special, switch in Magnezone, but be wary of fire moves, so again, it is best to have a special wall along with this trio.

I am just looking up possible counters as we speak, as I intend to use this in my next team, but I am fairly sure a special wall is crucial for this trio. Feel free to critique and offer any suggestions.

EDIT: I should have mentioned that Garchomp would be Scarfed and the Gyarados is Bulky w/ Waterfall/SE, but I am still tinkering with which Magnezone would be best. I suppose it is flexible depending on the team's needs.
 
Max Def Weezing and Max Sp. Def Umbreon work quite well.
They both got semi-reliable recovery (Pain Split and Wish-Protect) and decent annoying moves.

Edit: Argh! Okay, never EV train a Pokemon and post at the same time again. Sorry people, it's Weezing.
 
Max Def Gengar and Max Sp. Def Umbreon work quite well.
They both got semi-reliable recovery (Pain Split and Wish-Protect) and decent annoying moves.

By gengar you mean Dusknoir, right? Gengar has pitiful defenses, and Dusknoir would be vastly superior in support.

However, Gengar+Dark type does usually work out, but why max defense on gengar? O___o
 
By gengar you mean Dusknoir, right? Gengar has pitiful defenses, and Dusknoir would be vastly superior in support.

However, Gengar+Dark type does usually work out, but why max defense on gengar? O___o
S/He probably means Dusknoir. Gengar doesn't even get Pain Split to begin with.

Bulky Water (not named Swampert) + Dugtrio is good for revenge killing electrics (excluding Zapdos). Empoleon is preferred as it takes neutral hits from grass attacks, 4X resistant to ice attacks. Though Dugtrio won't be enjoying powerful fighting/ground attacks aimed at Empoleon. So, predict well.
 
alright here's my personal fave:

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Magnezone @ Leftovers
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 220 HP/36 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Substitute
- Magnet Rise
- Hidden Power [Ice]
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Dragonite (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Focus Punch
- Outrage
- Fire Punch
- Earthquake


CB nite rocks, 2HKO's everything. in my mind it really is an amazing stall breaker, as long as you have some prediction skills, it'll be great. steels are the only thing stopping you from outraging shit at neutral, so that's why maggy's there. they cover each other's weaknesses perfectly too.
 
Jirachi and Moltres cover each other.
was this a typo or something?

anyways in UU, mantine/steelix is the new hotness, watch out for it x_x

pert+sdef zapdos is pretty cool because they are reasonably well at covering actual pokemon that give the other problems as opposed to just type coverage.
 
How about

Swampert + Togekiss

Besides resisting all of eachother's weaknesses (except for Swampert not resisting Ice), Swampert counters a lot of togekiss counters. Examples are Zapdos, Electivire, Metagross.
 
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