Other Metagames Teambuilding (Just in general, Idk what I'm doing)

Just to start this off, I have been trying to learn this for a week by watching videos, battling, changing up my team but have actually learned nothing from any of it. I need some help please. I wanted to make a bulky offense team for this cobblemon server I'm in (Minecraft), it does singles and Idk where to start with it.

Gholdengo @ Heavy-Duty Boots

Ability: Good as Gold

Tera Type: Steel

EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Nasty Plot

- Shadow Ball

- Recover

- Make It Rain

I wanted to use gholdengo as a bulky sweeper and my pokemon I start out with. I put full EV's into SpA and Spe just to get the edge in the speed race and maximize my damage since my Def/SpD looks good to me. For the moves, I put nasty plot to boost my SpA for Make it Rain so I can negate the SpA decrease, I put Shadowball my STAB move if I know Make it rain's setup is too risky, recover because I wanted to be able to withstand some moves knowing I could pull it off with my Defense, and Make it Rain as my Special Attack Setup. I don't know why I put Heavy-Duty Boots on Gholdengo, I just see everyone use it (Which I know is bad)


Incineroar (M) @ Sitrus Berry

Ability: Blaze

Shiny: Yes

Tera Type: Fire

EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def

Impish Nature

- Knock Off

- Swords Dance

- Earthquake

- Flare Blitz


Incineroar is my lacker, I'm not sure what to do with him since I wanted him to be a bulky offense but also part time Wall with his EV's, I used Knock off to get enemy items out since he has enough health to pull it off, swords dance for his offensive side w/ Earthquake and Flare Blitz as his offensive moves. I also wanted a Sitrus Berry on Incineroar to help with Healing to survive longer


Umbreon (M) @ Leftovers

Ability: Synchronize

Tera Type: Dark

EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def

Careful Nature

IVs: 0 Atk

- Mean Look

- Toxic

- Protect

- Foul Play

I wanted Umbreon to be my support/Wall to pull off moves like Toxic and Mean look, I put EV's just to make it also into a bulky support, Protect is there to stall with Poison status and Foul Play is there against heavy sweepers on the Enemy team. I overall also don't know when to use Umbreon in my fights and he just feels useless. Leftovers is there for health regen mid battle


Zamazenta-Crowned @ Rusted Shield

Ability: Dauntless Shield

Tera Type: Fighting

EVs: 252 Def / 252 Spe

Impish Nature

- Heavy Slam

- Protect

- Body Press

- Wide Guard

Zamazenta is my main focus with my team, he's who I centered this all around off. I wanted to make him the heavy hitting tank with great speed as well, I do think I could of put some EV's into HP but I also wanted to maximize body press with Def. His Protect is to stall with his only 300 hp, Wide guard for all teamates ( I wasn't sure what else to put there since Body press is the only move for him that I understand ) and Heavy Slam for when Body Press fails on me due to typing's.


Gyarados (M) @ Never-Melt Ice

Ability: Intimidate

Tera Type: Water

EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe

Adamant Nature

- Dragon Dance

- Waterfall

- Ice Fang

- Earthquake

Gyarados is my Sweeper for Atk, I wanted him to be the Hyper Offense of the team that also has a setup with Dragon dance, Overall, I really just focused on his moves being really offensive Like Ice Fang, Waterfall, and Earthquake. I feel like he only does well because of his high damage which I think of as High risk high reward. I mostly use Ice Fang so I gave him Never-Melt Ice


Audino (M) @ Shell Bell

Ability: Regenerator

Tera Type: Normal

EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def

IVs: 0 Atk

- Heal Bell

- Heal Pulse

- Protect

- Yawn


Audino, my Healer support of the Team, I wanted to make another Wall Support to help switch out and heal if I make a mistake on the field, I am not sure what to do with Audino, I just put a bunch of status moves on him and hope that he isn't the last one left because then It's GG. I used Shell bell because I admit I'm not sure what item to use on Audino since He doesn't even have a Attack move.


I will say that I'm not sure what my team is weak to because I always get owned by anyone, doesn't matter the Pokémon, always Lose all my Pokémon and at most only kill one of theirs.


If you read the whole thing, I am so sorry for the mess that is my Team, I don't know how else to improve since I'm fighting and watching videos but none of it makes sense. DO NOT HOLD BACK! I WANT TO LEARN!!!!
 
Hey there and welcome to Smogon! Unfortunately this website isn’t for custom formats such as Cobblemon. If you were just trying OU, this team is rather unviable, and Zamazenta-C is banned in SV OU (and if I’m not mistaken Audino isn’t even in SV; unless you are doing NatDex in which case Zamazenta-C is still banned).

I suggest checking out the OU or National Dex subforms here on Smogon if you want to learn more about our tiers.

gl trainer!
 
Hey there and welcome to Smogon! Unfortunately this website isn’t for custom formats such as Cobblemon. If you were just trying OU, this team is rather unviable, and Zamazenta-C is banned in SV OU (and if I’m not mistaken Audino isn’t even in SV; unless you are doing NatDex in which case Zamazenta-C is still banned).

I suggest checking out the OU or National Dex subforms here on Smogon if you want to learn more about our tiers.

gl trainer!
Thank you for responding!, I'm just confused on how the tiers work and I can't find explanations for how each one works, I'll look for that.
 
Thank you for responding!, I'm just confused on how the tiers work and I can't find explanations for how each one works, I'll look for that.
Aside from Ubers, the Smogon tiers (OU, UU, RU, NU, PU, and unofficial metas ZU and SU) are all based upon usage. Things like UUBL and RUBL exist for Pokemon that would be those tiers by usage, but are too string and are thus banned from those tiers (in this case UU and RU). One thing to note is that any Pokemon that is under 4.52% usage in any tier will drop a tier (at least I think so; I’m a VGC player so I’m kinda stupid LMAO).

That’s the basic rundown. Anything banned from OU goes right to Ubers, and anything banned from Ubers goes right to AG (anything goes). Ubers UU is like UU, but for Pokemon banned to Ubers.

There’s a lot to learn about each tier, so go check them out!
 
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