emmathebest Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Hi hi! So, I've played my fair share of Matchmaking match-ups, and I've won a decent amount, but I just keep switching between several Pokemon in my hunt for the perfect last slot of my team. Any other advice is welcome too. Thanks to the Halloween Event, I have 800k I can spend freely as of now, so keep in mind that, as well. I didn't have much money before then, and I've been playing the storyline mainly for EXP for my team so far, so I actually haven't gotten to the Hoenn League yet, but Victory Road is next, when/if I get that far. So, I'd have to buy some Choice items if I deem them necessary, and why everyone just has Leftovers. Now, here is my team! Skarmory @ Leftovers Timid EVs: 252 HP, 252 Sp. Def IVs: 26 HP, 30 Def, 26 Sp. Def, 22 Speed Taunt Toxic Roar Spikes My trusty lead, always able to get 2-3 layers of Spikes down with no problem, while Taunting most other Skarmory/Forretress back, along with clearing boosts. Toxic for turns where Spikes are all down, but when Skarmory still has time to do stuffs. Roar for Phazing obviously. Not many people have a Rapid Spinner, so he is an invaluable semi-suicide lead. Heracross @ Leftovers Quirky (yeah, it's bad, but it's IVs are nice.) EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed IVs: 25/29/21/29/23/28 Brick Break Megahorn Rock Slide Earthquake Overall, solid physical attacker. Maybe could use Life Ball or a nature upgrade, but the ones I've seen for a decent price don't have as good of Defense IVs. :/ Metagross @ Leftovers Adamant EVs: 252 HP, 248 Atk, 6 Def, 4 Speed IVs: 19/30/26/11/29/13 Earthquake Meteor Mash Pursuit Psychic Another of my solid attackers, but also the last one. First two attacks are self-explanatory. Pursuit is nice whenever I guess switches right. Psychic is definitely replacable, I've just never gotten to getting rid of it, as I'm not sure what would work best. Vaporeon @ Leftovers Bold EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def IVs: 27/31/31/16/29/27 Surf Ice Beam HP Electric Roar Oh man, she was one AMAZING snipe on the GTL! Not to mention she is the physical wall of my team, able to take all sorts of hits, and surprise Gyarados everywhere by being a hard counter. Definitely a very valuable asset to my team. Chansey @ Leftovers Bold EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def IVs: 31 HP, 31 Def, 31 Sp. Def. Seismic Toss Toxic Heal Bell Softboiled An amazing Chansey I found, and is an amazing Special Wall obviously. Seismic Toss alone has helped me many times when I've actually forgone Toxic. A Heal Beller was someone I was looking for, and I found her. Softboiled never saw much use, though. HERE is where I've been having issues, however. I used to have a Snorlax here, but not only did he get somewhat replaced by Chansey, I...sold my amazing one thinking he would be banned soon from analyzing the Discussion on him. Welp, that shows what market prediction will accomplish in this game. Anyway, I do have a couple Pokemon already for this slot, but neither of them have really worked well with the team, and I will probably sell them soon enough. They are... Flygon @ Leftovers Hasty EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed IVs: 31 Atk, 31 Speed Crunch Superpower Earthquake Rock Slide Every time...every time I switched him into an Electric Pokemon like Jolteon, they had HP Ice. And when they didn't, anything else with Ice Beam would OHKO him. Will probably not use again. Medicham @ Leftovers Lonely EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed IVs: 27/28/31/26/29/27 Fire Punch Thunder Punch Ice Punch Hi Jump Kick Works great when he can outspeed and sweep, but usually gets OHKOed pretty easily, though not as bad as Flygon. Sceptile @ Leftovers Timid EVs: 252 Sp. Att, 252 Speed IVs: 30 Sp. Att, 31 Sp. Def, 31 Speed Giga Drain Leech Seed Pursuit Hidden Power (which?) Okay, this girl...has the most potential. I'm thinking maybe with Leech Seed though, maybe the EVs could be used to make her a bit bulkier? Also, I haven't decided on a Hidden Power yet, as it currently is Grass, a very sick joke indeed. Which would you guys use? Can she make it in my OU team? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! I've been meaning to ask this for awile, but now that I have money, I can actually change things up much more easily. :P Link to comment
Eggplant Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 You don't really have any special sweep potential at all, so among the three, I'd say sceptile. Pursuit is physical here, so it's worth tossing on a timid sceptile. If you're going to run a fast leech seed, you prob want substitute. If you can land a leech seed on something slower, you can spam sub and basically outheal the sub cost with lefties. Link to comment
KaynineXL Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, emmathebest said: your stuff Skarmory @ Leftovers Timid EVs: 252 HP, 252 Sp. Def IVs: 26 HP, 30 Def, 26 Sp. Def, 22 Speed Taunt Toxic Roar Spikes Get an impish nature and run 252 hp and at least 150 def(up to 252), it's optional to run some sp def. You need to be able to take physical hits because that's your primary switch ins, you have no recovery other than lefties, so the evs in def are important. Heracross @ Leftovers Quirky (yeah, it's bad, but it's IVs are nice.) EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Speed IVs: 25/29/21/29/23/28 Brick Break Megahorn Rock Slide Earthquake Get adamant/jolly nature and 31 speed. It's pretty much needed. Switch brick break with low kick which is better against this certain meta, we have Snorlax who is huge and Skarmory who isn't light either as some of your main low kick targets. Considering you have a lefties Metagross, I would consider taking CB or Scarf on this Hera, actually.. Scarf seems like the best choice because your team is lacking speed which is important for forcing out fast offensive mons that might otherwise sweep you. I don't think you need rock slide & EQ together, it's mainly just to hit Arcanine. I'd switch EQ since rock slide is important for Gyarados and take pursuit which is great for revenge killing low health threats. Metagross @ Leftovers Adamant EVs: 252 HP, 248 Atk, 6 Def, 4 Speed IVs: 19/30/26/11/29/13 Earthquake Meteor Mash Pursuit Psychic In a meta which is swarmed by flying/water pokemon(milo, skarm, slowbro, vapo, starmie, gyara), tpunch is very useful and needed imo. If you're not going to use CB, pursuit isn't so threatening and we can already take that on Heracross which is more fitting. Meteor, EQ, Tpunch, Psychic set seems reasonable although you can switch psychic for something like agility which gives you more sweep potential. Try breed again for higher speed IV then get around 108 speed(or max), 252 attack and the rest in HP. Vaporeon @ Leftovers Bold EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def IVs: 27/31/31/16/29/27 Surf Ice Beam HP Electric Roar This isn't great really. You need wish + protect on that, also high sp attack wouldn't hurt. The nature + ev spread is fine though. Surf, wish, prot, hp elec/ice beam/roar/heal bell is the standard set. Chansey @ Leftovers Bold EVs: 252 HP, 252 Def IVs: 31 HP, 31 Def, 31 Sp. Def. Seismic Toss Toxic Heal Bell Softboiled This is fine although twave might be the better option since you giving immunity snorlax free ins isn't too nice. ------ You need electric immunity in your team(remember what I said above about electric attacks being dominant?) Jolt/Flygon/Rhydon Rhydon is good because it is a Snorlax switch, but you've already got Metagross for that job so the other choices might be better. Flygon is a great choice, you can put CB or Scarf on this(depending on what you go for on Heracross, put the opposite on). Jolt would be risky to attempt to bring on an electric attack because one miss predict and it's lights out for Jolt where as the other two might stand better chance at living. I would take Flygon personally. It's not perfect and it doesn't fix all your teams issues, but I think it comes closest. Your team struggles to fight against spikers since you've got no rapid spin but lots of ways for Skarm/Forre to come in and little ways to punish them. Edited November 1, 2016 by KaynineXL emmathebest and Murcielago 2 Link to comment
emmathebest Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 On 01/11/2016 at 9:06 PM, Eggplant said: You don't really have any special sweep potential at all, so among the three, I'd say sceptile. Pursuit is physical here, so it's worth tossing on a timid sceptile. If you're going to run a fast leech seed, you prob want substitute. If you can land a leech seed on something slower, you can spam sub and basically outheal the sub cost with lefties. Good idea. Any HP you'd suggest? @KaynineXL - I appreciate your advice the most, by far, and I thank you. :) Staggiie 1 Link to comment
Sztajger Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 On 2.11.2016 at 2:13 AM, emmathebest said: Good idea. Any HP you'd suggest? Fire or ice but fire is better Link to comment
Noad Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 I've cleared the mean posts, if people find it hard to be civil then do not post in this thread. Thank you Eggplant, KaynineXL and Sztajger for being kind & positive representatives of our community. DoubleJ and emmathebest 2 Link to comment
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