Rate my team(Pokemon Diamond) - Page 5

No my FC is in my sig.

I have Time.

But I don't need any Wonder Mail


So is it the battle against your Dream Team? Or non-legends first

Does your Dream Team contain Legends?

Ok I'll battle your Dream Team then you're Legends.

Dream Team is Double.
Legends is Single.

I'll take your FC when you're ready

I don't care what you us as long as they are legal.

You should get an account so you can PM me when you want to battle

Ok then.

Forget about that KI. I've been following this thread and I'm just going to do this right here seeing as he doesn't want to head over to the other forum.

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All level 100
Listed from who i put first to last also from sixth favorite to favorite

Tyranitar-Ability:Sand stream
Moves-Rock slide,Crunch,Earthquake,Ice beam

Metagross-Ability:Clear body
(Shiny)
Moves-Psychic,Meteor mash,Zen headbutt,Earthquake

Salamence-Ability:Itimidate
Moves-Fly,Flamethrower,Earthquake,Dragon claw

Dragonite-Ability:Inner focus
Moves-Fly,Outrage,Ice beam,Surf

Charizard-Ability:Blaze
(Shiny)
Moves-Flamethrower,Fly,Shadow claw,Brick break

Blaziken-Ability:Blaze
Moves-Blaze kick,Sky uppercut,Poison jab,Focus blast

Your team, quite frankly, is absolutely and utterly awful. Not only are the movesets and Pokemon choice terrible, but there is no team fluency, there is no overall strategy and YOU REFUSE TO EVEN GIVE THEM ITEMS!!! I'm not going to sit here and argue with you over this; I'm going to tell you what you're doing wrong, how you can make things better. If you can't accept what I'm telling you, don't bother to respond.

First of all, all-out offense is a terrible idea. A team like this is so easily defeated by any competent person who knows even the smallest thing about stalling. As soon as this team hits a Pokemon that it can't kill in a couple of hits, then you've got no hope. Your opponent can sit there healing their Pokemon and wearing down your own for the entire duration of the battle whilst all you can do is attack feebly because you've left yourself with no other option.

Essentially what I'm saying is that you need an effective defense setup to fall back on when the attacking doesn't work. There are many, MANY Pokemon out there with the capabilities of sponging your attacks, setting themselves up and then proceeding to destroy each and every individual in your team. One particular individual, to give you an example, is the Crocune set:

Suicune @ Leftovers
Bold Nature
Pressure Trait
EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/6 Spd
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Calm Mind
- Surf

If you run into one of these, what can you do? All you can do with your team is attack; Suicune sits back, absorbs all of your hits with its massive Defense, healing any damage with Rest and slowly boosting its Special Attack and Special Defense with Calm Mind. Then, once it's done that long enough, it just unleashes Surfs from its now massive Special Attack that proceed to take out every single member of your team. You cannot stop such a thing with a team such as yours. Here is where you NEED defense.

You might argue that the Crocune could do the same thing to any team, but that's not the case. Most good teams carry a phazer, a Pokemon that knows Roar or Whirlwind. As soon as Suicune starts setting up Calm Minds, the phazer can come in and simply force Suicune to switch out, causing it to lose all of its boosts in the process. The Suicune is countered by things like Celebi who can use a combination of Leech Seed, Leftovers and Recover to survive its hits, drain its HP and then hit it with Grass Knot whilst asleep. Any Gyarados with Taunt can leave the Crocune unable to do anything except Surf, allowing Gyarados to Dragon Dance a couple of times and again set up a potential match winning sweep. Can you see the point I'm trying to make here?

To get back to the actual team at hand, my advice is a complete overhaul. I'm not going to tell you who you should replace with whom, or tell you what movesets would be better for your Pokemon because that's not going to teach you anything and it's not going to work in this case anyway. My advice to you would be to do some reading on the metagame; a good place to start is smogon. This site contains suggested movesets for all manner of Pokemon, as well as detailed explanations as to what they do, how they work, what can stop them and what they stop. Another good place to check out is the Pokemon Diamond Competitive Tutor Program. This contains a list of people on the site widely regarded as having a good, in-depth knowledge of the game who can help to assist you in your endeavours to become a better player.



Now, as I said earlier, you can choose not to listen to what I've said here. I don't care. All I ask is that if you do have a problem, don't do what you've done earlier on and start yelling at me because I'm not going to pay attention. It's called constructive criticism; either learn to accept it and become better for it, or stubbornly refuse and continue to look like an idiot. The choice is yours.

Yo! Rate this!
1Giratina(origin)i couldnt help myself...-Protect,Aura sphere, Dragon CLaw, And undecided 4th move.(suggestions?)
2Shaymin(sky)-Air SLash, Leaf Storm/Seed Flare, Psychic,Rest/Sub.
3Darkrai-Dark Void, Dream Eater, Dark Pulse, And I think Tunder
4Empoleon-Drill Peck, E.Quake, Surf, Ice Beam
5Gliscor-Fire Fang, X-Scissor, Dig, ???4th(sugg.)
6Weavile or Lucario if Weavile-Avalanche, Shadow Claw, Night Slash, Aerial Ace. UNFINISHED NOT SURE ON THIS TEAM EXCEPT FOR EMPOLEON, EVEN STILL HIS MOVESET ISSN'T DECIDED FULLY. I HAD TO THINK ABOUT THIS TEAM FOR LIKE 2 MINS. BUT RATE IT ANYWAYS... MIGHT PUT INFERNAPE IN IT...

this really should go into the diamond battle forums