Well, after much time spent in D/P and ADV, I felt it was time to visit my roots and try the RBY metagame. If you can believe it, I'm going to use this for Netbattle and ingame so I can dust off my old Stadium cartridge. I must say it is nice not to have to post ev's, items, and natures. Well, here is my vision--probably going to need some work.
NOTE: Most of these pokes and their sets are going to look pretty standard, which I am comfortable with at the moment, as I'm new to this metagame. Changes in Bold.
(Retro sprites FTW!!)
Exeggutor
-Stun Spore
-Explosion
-Sleep Powder
-Psychic
Considering Tangela over him just to be cool. Pretty standard starter Exeggutor back to standard Double-powder+Explosion. Awesome.
Starmie
-Thunder Wave
-Recover
-Blizzard
-Thunderbolt
I've heard Starmie is a force to be reckoned with, and I believed. Back to T-wave over surf like I had had originally. Still a great sweeper with Boltbeam.
Tauros
-Body Slam
-Hyper Beam
-Blizzard
-Earthquake
General sweeper, can bring him in at various points during the game because I have Charizard as my late-game sweeper. From what I've seen, every serious RBY team has a Tauros :/
Rhydon
-Body Slam
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Substitute
Rhydon to replace Golem--though the debate over "Rhydon vs Golem" will be an eternal struggle, Rhydon's power is greatly needed on the team. Between Rhydon, Tauros, and Eggy explosion cover Chansey pretty well, as Pocket pointed out. Plus, while Sub will only block damage online, I believe it blocks status in Stadium as well.
Alakazam
-Psychic
-Thunder Wave
-Recover
-Seismic Toss
Standard Alakazam, with Seismic Toss replacing Reflect. Lets him do something to opposing Alakazams and Eggys and not worry about running out of Psychic in the hopes of a Special Drop.
Charizard
-Hyper Beam
-Earthquake
-Swords Dance
-Fire Blast
Ahhhh yes, Charizard. I envision him as my late-game sweeper, seeing as how he does just that with paralysis support. Recently changed back to the standard set again--I'm trying to think of a move over Body Slam (that isn't Hyper Beam) for Stadium. I'll use H-Beam competitively, and probably Submission for Stadium lol. Decided to use him as a lead against other commoners like Jynx and Eggy.
Well, there yah have it. Generally the theme will be to paralyze/incapacitate everything so that Charizard can bring fiery death to the remainder of the team. While "paralyzing the whole team" is the goal of most teams, 5 out of 6 can inflict it (Body Slams, T-wave, Stun Spore), I have Sleep support, and Rhydon+Exeggutor+Charizard take advantage of it extremely well.
Rate/Hate/Whatever please
NOTE: Most of these pokes and their sets are going to look pretty standard, which I am comfortable with at the moment, as I'm new to this metagame. Changes in Bold.
(Retro sprites FTW!!)
Exeggutor
-Stun Spore
-Explosion
-Sleep Powder
-Psychic
Considering Tangela over him just to be cool. Pretty standard starter Exeggutor back to standard Double-powder+Explosion. Awesome.
Starmie
-Thunder Wave
-Recover
-Blizzard
-Thunderbolt
I've heard Starmie is a force to be reckoned with, and I believed. Back to T-wave over surf like I had had originally. Still a great sweeper with Boltbeam.
Tauros
-Body Slam
-Hyper Beam
-Blizzard
-Earthquake
General sweeper, can bring him in at various points during the game because I have Charizard as my late-game sweeper. From what I've seen, every serious RBY team has a Tauros :/
Rhydon
-Body Slam
-Earthquake
-Rock Slide
-Substitute
Rhydon to replace Golem--though the debate over "Rhydon vs Golem" will be an eternal struggle, Rhydon's power is greatly needed on the team. Between Rhydon, Tauros, and Eggy explosion cover Chansey pretty well, as Pocket pointed out. Plus, while Sub will only block damage online, I believe it blocks status in Stadium as well.
Alakazam
-Psychic
-Thunder Wave
-Recover
-Seismic Toss
Standard Alakazam, with Seismic Toss replacing Reflect. Lets him do something to opposing Alakazams and Eggys and not worry about running out of Psychic in the hopes of a Special Drop.
Charizard
-Hyper Beam
-Earthquake
-Swords Dance
-Fire Blast
Ahhhh yes, Charizard. I envision him as my late-game sweeper, seeing as how he does just that with paralysis support. Recently changed back to the standard set again--I'm trying to think of a move over Body Slam (that isn't Hyper Beam) for Stadium. I'll use H-Beam competitively, and probably Submission for Stadium lol. Decided to use him as a lead against other commoners like Jynx and Eggy.
Well, there yah have it. Generally the theme will be to paralyze/incapacitate everything so that Charizard can bring fiery death to the remainder of the team. While "paralyzing the whole team" is the goal of most teams, 5 out of 6 can inflict it (Body Slams, T-wave, Stun Spore), I have Sleep support, and Rhydon+Exeggutor+Charizard take advantage of it extremely well.
Rate/Hate/Whatever please