General Rate My Team Thread Version 2.0 - Page 25

Thank you i will definetly do (I already caught him at level 15 and hes level 27 now)

Hmm... Sneasel is a fast Pokemon with an excellent Speed base stat, and a good Attack one. However, it's defences and HP are rather low.

If you want to use a Sneasel, go for it, but remember to use it and then switch out soon, because quite a few Pokemon can hit it with it's Dark/Ice typing.

my team is
raichu lv55@leftovers
thunderbolt
strength
thunder wave
toxic

blastoise lv55@leftovers
ice beam
skull bash
protect
surf

vileplume lv55@amulet coin
petal dance
solarbeam
sunny day
sleep powder

ryhorn lv29@exp share(training)
earthquake
rockblast
stomp
scary face

need suggestions, in victory road,new pokemon?

A few useful tips after seeing the movesets here;

1) Don't have more than one of the same type move. For example, there's no need to have both Hydro Pump and Surf.

2) Accuracy > Power. If you have a choice between Fire Blast or Flamethrower, go for the latter.

3) Check what Types are Attack and what's Special Attack. For example, if you have a Tyranitar, try to give it mostly Attack moves rather than Special Attack, as it's Attack Base Stat is much better than Sp.Atk.

4) Stat-Upping items like Blackglasses are practically useless. It isn't worth having a 10% Base Power increase for a single type move. Use Leftovers or a Status-healing Berry instead.

5) Stay away from moves that take more than one turn to work. That includes Dig, Fly, Sky Attack, Skull Bash or anything else like that. Solar Beam's an exception ONLY if Sunny Day/Groudon's Drought Ability is in play, as it becomes a one turn move.

6) Try and use moves with a Base Power of at least 60. This is really generalising, though; Quick Attack is an excellent move if you have high enough Attack, especially with a Sword's Dance or two.

7) HMs are generally rubbish. The only decent one is Surf; Cut, Fly, Strength, Rock Smash, Flash, Whirlpool aren't good, and Waterfall is worse than Surf anyway.

8) At least have one STAB move. STAB means "Same Type Attack Bonus". This means, if you use a move with the same Type as the Pokemon, you get a 1.5x Base Power increase. For example, if you have a Tyranitar using Thunderbolt, it will only have 95 Base Power. If you use a Thunderbolt with Raichu, it'll be 142.5 Base Power, as 95 x 1.5 = 142.5

This is just some general stuff I picked up while looking at the recent movesets. Choose to use my advice or not, it is naturally your choice, but please don't try and justify using Rock Smash or anything like that. Thanks for reading and feel free to ask something.

Changes are in red, comments in blue.

quote justinkal

Hi will someone rate my battle tower team please. Note this is for Ruby Version!

Ok this is my team all level 100 in order

Salamence@leftovers
-Crunch
-Dragon Claw
-Hydro Pump
-Flamethrower

I understand why you had Fly, but to be honest, few Pokemon with a decent Attack Base Stat have Rollout, and it isn't a common move anyway. Those that are deadly with it, such as Donphan, are weak to Hydro Pump, so that takes care of them. Anyway, you appear to have a Special Sweeping 'mence, so Hydro Pump works better there as it allows you to cover many more Pokemon than Fly does.


Swampert@mystic water
-Brick Break/Iron Tail
-Earthquake
-Surf
-Ice Beam

As a general rule, never have two of the same Type moves in a moveset. Brick Break/Iron Tail gives you more Type coverage and makes better use of Swampert's naturally higher Attack Stat. As for Waterfall... This isn't Diamond man, Water moves are always Special, so you might as well have Surf for STAB.

Shedinja@Kings Rock(DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE IT, VERY HELPFULL)
Return
Confuse Ray
Fury Cutter
Shadow Ball

Hmm... Shedinja is still hit by Fire, Dark, Flying, Ghost and Rock moves. Those Types are common, so you will be 1HKOed eventually. I don't like Shedinja at all to be honest for that reason; it's far too easy to knock it out and it's predictable. I'd suggest you use something else, but if you're adamant about using it, go ahead. As far as replacements go, why not try Metagross?

This message was edited by justinkal on Oct 13 2007.

_{Salamence can have Hydro Pump, you just need to breed it onto him. A Gyarados or a Seadra/Kingdra works well.}

With my current team I finnaly lost unfortunatly but with a grand total of 92 wins. An annoying Wishcash used fissure on Swampert. Then Salamence KOed Wishcash. Then they sent out Registeel which used explosion KOing Salamence. Then they sent out Duskclops and I sent out Shedinja@brightpowder. I used shadow ball, and take out 2/3 of their hp. They used Will-o-wisp and I died.

can u all rate my party???

smeargle-own tempo
quick claw
tail glow
belly drum
morning sun
baton pass

ninetales-flash fire
white herb
overheat
iron tail
crunch
fire blast

groudon
focus band
eruption
solarbeam
earthquake
thunderbolt

kyogre
mystic water
ice beam
water spout
sheer cold
thunder

deoxys-pressure
white herb
psycho boost
thunder
solarbeam
reflect

meganium-overgrow
miracle seed
solarbeam
ancientpower
counter
light screen