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CianRyan

I for one am interested in knowing what teams ever on is using and would like to have updates on the development of every one's Pokémon.
As well as being interesting (me being nosey), this could also be handy for people who are planning on taking part in the tournaments, it's always great to have an idea of what you're going to be up against.

This is just an idea and I thought I'd put it out there and see what every one thought.

Take part only if you want to, this is not necessary!!

At the moment, I'm going back to basics and training a lot of new Pokémon, as it seems I won't be using my legendaries against you guys. :rolleyes:

In my party right now:
Infernape Lv.79
Dragonair Lv.43
Garchomp Lv.58
Haunter Lv.35
Kadabra Lv.17 (Just Evolved)
Milotic Lv.20 (Just Evolved)

I'm also training:
Luxray Lv.42
Staraptor Lv.52
Metagross Lv.54
Gyarados Lv.33
Manetric Lv.26
Roserade Lv.58
Lucario Lv.29
Dodrio Lv.32
Pigeot Lv.49
Togekiss Lv.20(Just Evolved)
Chingling Lv.30
Lapras Lv.46(Just Caught)
Magnezone Lv.56
Glaceon Lv.23
Ralts Lv.18(Just Caught)

I've a few more I'm working on at the moment but these would be the main ones.
I know, quite a lot for a main few. :rolleyes:
I can't decide who I want in my final team.

You guys?

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James Howlett

Drowzee
Growlithe
Kangkashan
Murkrow
Nidoking
Luxray

Haven't come across a Krabby as yet in Heartgold (i'm not very far into it) but I would like to add him one of them to my roster. I prefer a team of 8 consistently trainned and then carry four at a time. I do have an opening for an 8th...

A Neurotic

Anyone got recommendations for a good Breloom moveset for in-game play in Sapphire actually? I'm working with Sky Uppercut, Leech Seed, Bullet Seed and Headbutt. Bullet Seed needs to go, I was thinking maybe Toxic or Giga Drain in its place...?

Also, gonna replace Gyrados. I'm thinking either Sharpedo or Walrein. Thoughts?

Jazzkamiden

Haven't posted here yet.
My HG team is

Dragonair; lvl. 39
Extremespeed
Aqua Tail
Dragon Rush
Dragon Rage

Pidgeot; lvl. 40
FeatherDance
Wing Attack
Fly
Roost

Sudowoodo; lvl. 38
Block
Rock Slide
Strength
Rock Smash

Weepinbell; lvl. 36
Flash
Sleep Powder
Sweet Scent
Cut

Pikachu; lvl. 15 (cba leveling it up)
Surf
Thunderbolt
Thunder Wave
Quick Attack

Growlithe; lvl. 38
Take Down
Flame Wheel
Flamethrower
Fire Fang

Snorlax; lvl. 28 (i think)
Self-Destruct
Stock Pile
Metrenome
Snore

Feraligatr; lvl. 52
Dragon Claw
Waterfall
Focus Punch
Earthquake

The red Pkmn are usually switched in and out of my team.

Anyone have any move changes for my mon? Would be much appreciated! And which of my mon has the best moves? Thanks!

CianRyan

Banjo wrote: »

E4

A strong dark type: Psychic trainer.
Evolve that Murkrow and bring a fire type to beat Jynx and she will freeze the **** out of your bird.

Then a Psychic type for the next two: Poison and Fighting trainers.

Forth is a Dark Trainer: Grab your Machamp and train him, they canhave very powerful attacks if trained right.
Koga, the second trainer, uses a Skuntank first which is(I think) a Dark/Poison cross so I use a fighting move on it then get on with sweeping the floor with Psychic attacks.

For Lance the first time I can't remember who I used.
Every other time I've gone through though, it goes like this.

Dragonite out first, Outrage takes out the first two, maybe three Pokémon if I'm lucky.
If Garchomp isn't taken out by outrage, I take out my own Garchomp and use Dragon rush, done.
Gyarados then, Magnezone slaps him with a Thunder bolt.
Dragonite=Tyranitar, Stone edge t'****!
Then Charizard comes out last, Stone edge again.
Easy!

Only Dagonite ever takes a hit, Salamance is quicker than him bu his Dragone Claw only takes about three quarters of his health, then all hell is unleashed.

Alteria always comes after Salamance but as long as he doesn't get to use Perish song*, you're fine.

*I'm assuming that's what he'd use that, he's never had the chance to attack!:D

My team is usually:
Tyranitar: Dark/Rock
Metagross: Steel/Phychic and knows Hammer arm
Dragonite: Dragon/Flying
Garchomp: Dragon/Ground
Magnezone: Steel/Electric.
Who ever I'm training evolve, not for use.
Quick and easy EXP to level up for the DEX.

Urizen

Well, I'll put my guys up.

Platinum Team:

Infernape (Prometheus) - Lv.62
Luxray (Hyperion) - Lv.61
Sharpedo (Tethys) - Lv.61
Gallade (Kronos) - Lv.61
Garchomp (Gaia) - Lv.60
Staraptor (Theia) - Lv.60

SoulSilver Team:

Typhlosion (Typhon) - Lv. 55
Luxray (Elektra) - Lv.53
Kingdra (Calliope) - Lv.49
Espeon (Morpheus) - Lv.52
Umbreon (Thanatos) - Lv.48
Krobat (Charon) - Lv.45

I am, however, about to change my SS team, as Krobat annoys the hell outta me. But I need him to Fly, and I can't find any good fliers at all. And I don't use Legendaries out of principle, or I'd be using Articuno.

May restart SS actually...

whatawaster

Soulsilver team - going for my 8th badge

Typhlosion - Level 40
Lava Plume
Swift
Flame Wheel
Quick Attack

Haunter - Level 40
Hypnosis
Dream Eater
Shadow Punch
Shadow Ball

Gyarados - Level 40
Ice Fang
Dragon Rage
Surf
Aqua Tail

Electabuzz - Level 40
Discharge
Thunder Wave
Thunder Punch
Swift

Thinking of adding a fifth member, maybe Lapras, Umbreon or Tangela.

Banjo

With the Gyrados and the Electabuzz at those levels you'll probably walk it...
Well, the physica side of things anyway....

Buzzthebatgirl

I hardly post in here as I've long passed the story mode, but I still work on teams, mostly doubles. Here's a few ideas I have, bearing in mind VGC rules (which I have been running on for the last few months):

Smeargle @ Focus Sash/Choice Scarf

Dark Void/Spore
Protect
Imprison
Transform

Clefable @ Focus Sash/Toxic Orb (item depends on Smeargle)

Follow Me
Helping Hand
BoltBeam (Thunderbolt & Ice Beam - Filler moves)

Palkia @ Haban Berry

Spacial Rend/Earth Power
Thunder
Fire Blast/Flamethrower
Blizzard

Kyorge @ Choice Scarf

Water Spout
Thunder
Blizzard
Muddy Water

another variation of that team is, the Trick Room plan:

Clefable @ Focus Sash

Follow Me
Helping Hand
BoltBeam (Thunderbolt & Ice Beam - Filler moves)

Palkia @ Haban Berry

Spacial Rend/Earth Power
Thunder
Trick Room
Blizzard

Kyorge @ Choice Specs/Wise Glasses

Water Spout
Thunder
Blizzard
Muddy Water

Obamasnow @ Life Orb

Blizzard
Grass Knot
Ice Shard
Shadow Ball

Of course there is the dream team of:

Azelf @ Focus Sash

Thunderbolt
Explosion
Protect/Trick Room
Imprison

Kyorge @ Choice Specs/Choice Scarf

Water Spout
Thunder
Blizzard
Muddy Water

Palkia @ Choice Specs/Choice Scarf

Spacial Rend/Earth Power
Thunder
Fire Blast/Flamethrower
Blizzard

Eh...Garchomp? @ Choice Scarf/Choice Band

Earthquake
Rock Slide/Stone Edge
Outrage
Eh...Protect?

I prefer not to use Ubers as they tend to dominate the game, damn you VGC!

A Neurotic

Just beat Jasmine in HG. It's weird, I got three badges yesterday but it feels like my team didn't progress or level up at all, so they seem a bit low-level for the stage I'm at somehow.

Bayleef - lv 23
Growlithe - lv 20
Gastly - lv 22
Gyrados - lv 26
Flaafy - lv 28
Onix - lv 19
Machop - lv 22

[last two are the in-game trades, so I should be able to level them up pretty quickly if needs be]

It just feels wrong, taking on a level 35 Steelix with my little baby level ~20 team.

Atavan-Halen

At the moment my SS team consists of:

Froslass - lv.34 (currently being trained)
Togekiss - lv.48
Milotic - lv.58
Tyranitar - lv.62
Lucario - lv.65
Rayquaza - lv.100

Just beat Red on Mt. Silver. He absolutely destroyed my team up until Rayquaza. I forgot how strong he was. But some carefully timed full restores, outrages and extremespeeds got me the win. T'was hard though as nearly all his pokémon know blizzard, which tended to nearly KO Rayquaza

Oh and btw, I picked Squirtle from Prof. Oak

whatawaster

Just beat Lt. Surge for my 9th badge:

Haunter - Lv 46
Electabuzz - Lv 50
Gyarados - Lv 47
Typhlosion - Lv 48

Taken a break from the main quest to do some of the battle frontier stuff so i could start EV training for the first time.
Had two dratini's, male and female, one with 31 IVs in speed and special attack and one with 29 IVs in attack.
Used the power items so i know the hatched dratini has the IV's i want (29 attack and 31 speed).
Then it took about 20/30 hatches until i got a few that the guy in the battle tower said have "fantastic" or "outstanding" ability or whatever it is he says. I'm happy enough knowing that at a minimum, the other 4 stats average around 23 IV. It's my first go at this, so i don't want to get much more detailed than that.
But i can not get the nature i want. So i've decided to stick with a naive nature for my own sanity, because i haven't the patience to wait for an adamant or Jolly.

What would be a good EV spread for a Dragonite? 252 speed, 252 att, 4 hp?

Buzzthebatgirl

whatawaster wrote: »

But i can not get the nature i want. So i've decided to stick with a naive nature for my own sanity, because i haven't the patience to wait for an adamant or Jolly.

What would be a good EV spread for a Dragonite? 252 speed, 252 att, 4 hp?

Ask not what a good spread is, but what you need it to achieve. Tank, Physical Sweeper, Special Sweeper or mixed Sweeper? The spreads will be different.

whatawaster

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

Ask not what a good spread is, but what you need it to achieve. Tank, Physical Sweeper, Special Sweeper or mixed Sweeper? The spreads will be different.

well . . . i'm fairly new to this, but i guess Dragonite's 134 base attack would make it a good physical sweeper?

Buzzthebatgirl

whatawaster wrote: »

well . . . i'm fairly new to this, but i guess Dragonite's 134 base attack would make it a good physical sweeper?

That's fine too, we all had to start some time

Dragonite also has a base 100 Sp.A, that's not to be sniffed at

It really depends if you want to go all Physical or all Special on it or surprise your opponent with a little mix move in there. It doesn't have to be your first choice of a move, but time it right and it could pay off well.

A set like:
Dragonite @ Focus Sash/Life Orb

Draco Meteor
Dragon Dance
Earthquake
Superpower

EVs: 4 HP, 252Spd, the rest in A and SA

...could work well on a Dragonite, see what works and doesn't work on your party. Have fun and play around it moves and ideas

whatawaster

Buzzthebatgirl wrote: »

That's fine too, we all had to start some time

Dragonite also has a base 100 Sp.A, that's not to be sniffed at

It really depends if you want to go all Physical or all Special on it or surprise your opponent with a little mix move in there. It doesn't have to be your first choice of a move, but time it right and it could pay off well.

A set like:
Dragonite @ Focus Sash/Life Orb
Draco Meteor

Dragon Dance

Earthquake

Superpower

EVs: 4 HP, 252Spd, the rest in A and SA

...could work well on a Dragonite, see what works and doesn't work on your party. Have fun and play around it moves and ideas

thanks!

Looks like it won't be as long and drawn out a process as i thought. My Gyarados just got infected with Pokerus!

Buzzthebatgirl

whatawaster wrote: »

thanks!

Looks like it won't be as long and drawn out a process as i thought. My Gyarados just got infected with Pokerus!

Grab yourself a set of "Power" (Power Belt, Power Lens etc) items from the Battle Frontier/Tower. These will really help cut down on EV training time

Urizen

Ok, I restarted, replayed and am deciding on my final team and movesets. I'm fairly happy with my team (movesets will be modified before I go into competetive battles, the current ones are mostly to help me get around/catch Pokés). What's the opinions?

Feraligatr/ Oceanus
Waterfall, Hydro Cannon, Ice Fang, Scary Face

Typhlosion/ Typhon
Flamethrower, Blast Burn, Strength, Smokescreen

Luxray/ Eos
Thunder Fang, Discharge, Crunch, Flash

Gallade/ Hyperion
Psycho Cut, Rock Smash, Leaf Blade, Swagger

Glaceon/ Asperia
Ice Beam, Icy Wind, Shadow Ball, Hail

Salamence/ Theia
Dragon Claw, Crunch, Fly, Cut

I'm especially looking for advice on movesets. I want to ditch the HM moves as soon as I beat Red. I realise I can't even get to him with the current moves, but I'll deal with that when the time comes, probably replace Hydro Cannon with Surf and one of Typhon's moves with Rock Climb.

whatawaster

Just beat Red.

Dragonite - Lv 70 (Dragon Dance, Outrage, Aqua Tail, Wing Attack)

Gengar - Lv 62 (Hypnosis, Dream Eater, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball)

Tyranitar (late addition!) - Lv 60 (Stone Edge, Earthquake, Crunch, Dark Pulse)

Typhlosion - Lv 61 (Eruption, Flamethrower, Earthquake, Quick Attack)

Electabuzz - Lv 64 (Rock Climb, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Swift)

I was prepared to have to use Dragonite to kill of 3/4 of his, but it turned out i just needed to drag him out to deal with Charizard at the end.

Tyranitar dealt with Pikachu with one Earthquake
Typhlosion dealt with Venusaur
Electabuzz dealt with Lapras
Electabuzz (hero) dealt with Blastoise
Electabuzz and Gengar dealt with Snorlax
Dragonite finished the job.

TheChrisD

Right, well maybe a little bit of an update on my new HG team (i.e. the legit one :P)

Lucozade, the Elekid. Lv19
Docile/Static
Shock Wave/Swift/Low Kick/Thunderpunch

Sunburn, the Magby. Lv20
Lax/Flame Body
Faint Attack/Smokescreen/Ember/Sunny Day

Flinch Hax, the Togetic. Lv23
Lonely/Serene Grace
Sweet Kiss/Encore/Extrasensory/Metronome

Dyslexia, the Haunter. Lv25
Naive/Levitate
Hypnosis/Shadow Punch/Sucker Punch/Confuse Ray

Hayfever, the Bayleef. Lv25
Mild/Overgrow
Headbutt/Reflect/Magical Leaf/Poisonpowder

Just beat Morty, with Flinch Hax again raping his team :P
Also, very surprised when Togepi evolved at only Level 19, only having the Soothe Bell attached for one level! I guess the Pokéwalker really does help with happiness...

Really do need a Water-type, so probably going to go use Bill's Eevee and take a Vaporeon with me. I would take Slowpoke -> Slowking, but it really is too slow, and plus Flinch Hax is good enough with the Psychic type moves as it is...

A Neurotic

Grinding to take on the Elite 4.

Meganium - lv 39
Gyrados - lv 40
Growlithe - lv 45 (have Fire Stone)
Ampharos - lv 43
Haunter - lv 40

Was going to use Ho-oh as my sixth but now I'm thinking I might raise an Espeon

CianRyan

God, it's been a while.
Right, add An attack boosting, exploding Shiftry to my team, along with a Galade in training and I evolved a Shelder there today because I saw the Pokémon of the week. I'm after a Starmie next.

Spellings are likely to be wrong, I'm tired, hi bed... Goodnight!

Fluorescence

Hey all, I'm new to this forum

I recently bought HeartGold (never played the original Gen II games

) and I was hoping for some ideas for movesets for my pokémon (they currently suck). My current team looks like this:

Flareon: Lvl 33
Moves: Quick Attack; Fire Blast; Ember; Headbutt

Jolteon: Lvl 33
Charge Beam; Thundershock; Thunder; Double Kick

Espeon: Lvl 33
Quick Attack; Swift; Sand-Attack; Confusion

Marco the Dragonair: Lvl 34
Dragon Rage; Twister; Thunder Wave; Aqua Tail

Vaporeon: Lvl 34
Water Gun; Surf; Bite; Sand-Attack

Umbreon: Lvl 34
Pursuit; Shadow Ball; Helping Hand; Confuse Ray

Originally I was using a different team consisting of Bayleaf, Slowking, Haunter, Togetic, Arcanine and Sandslash but then I got drunk and training an all eeveelution team sounded like a lot of fun :P I decided not to trade from platinum to get the leafeon and glaceon though, and instead have Dragonite in the sixth slot (he just pwns

). So that's my current team!

Bobalicious93

Just saved the Radio Tower in Goldenrod and got the Rainbow Wing.

Togetic - Lvl 27 (Yawn/Fly/Extrasensory/Focus Punch)
Sudowoodo - Lvl 27 (Rock Smash/Strength/Faint Attack/Dig)
Kadabra - Lvl 28 (Drain Punch/Confusion/Reflect/Psybeam)
Bayleef - Lvl 30 (Magical Leaf/Cut/Razor Leaf/Flash)
(Red) Gyarados - Lvl 35 (Aqua Tail/Dragon Rage/Ice Fang/Whirlpool)
Onix - Lvl 32 (Iron Tail/Slam/Rock Throw/Sandstorm)

..Methinks I'm gonna have to level all of these up quite a bit before I even think about going for the 8th badge...:o

A Neurotic

Just beat the Elite Four.

Ampharos lv 44 (Charge, Discharge, Signal Beam, Thunder Wave)
Arcanine lv 46 (Flamethrower, Crunch, Heat Wave, Reversal)
Meganium lv 46 (Body Slam, Light Screen, Synthesis, Petal Dance)
Gyrados lv 46 (Ice Fang, Dragon Dance, Bite, Aqua Tail)
Haunter lv 45 (Shadow Ball, Dark Pulse, Curse, Confuse Ray)
Ho-oh lv 47 (Extrasensory, Sunny Day, Fire Blast, Sacred Fire)

Tried not to use Ho-oh too much as I'm not a fan of using legendaries. Couldn't believe how easy Lance was, once Gyrados got a couple of Dragon Dances in he could OHKO all of his team!

Yay, Kanto!

Kersmash

Started SS again yesterday (But not before trading my good pokemon to my brother for a wee vacation; I'm not gonna use em though

)

Currently on my way to Azela town.

Quilava Lv. 21
Mareep Lv. 14

Banjo

Finally got around to taking on the E4 and Champ last night. Team :

Batista - L45 Machamp @ Muscle band (Headbutt / Rock Slide / Focus Energy / Cross Chop)
Castle - L45 Charizard @ Amulet Coin (Slash / Smokescreen / Dragon Pulse / Flame Thrower)
Shevlocke - L46 Magnezone @ Leftovers (Discharge / Thunderwave / Flash Cannon / Lockon)
Sabbath - L47 Metagross @ Twisted Spoon (Hammer Arm / Zen Headbutt / Iron Head / Iron Defense)
Bunga - L46 Cubone @ Thick Club (Focus Energy / Rock Slide / Iron Head / Earthquake)
Morrigan - L47 Honchkrow @ BrightPowder (Wing Attack / Night Slash / Haze / Night Shade)

Didn't have much of a strategy going in, but between them they completely cleaned the clocks of the E4 - had to use an Ether on Shevlocke's Discharge and a single potion on Sabbath who was the only 'mon to take damage. Thought I'd walk the champ too but it was not to be... Went down to literally the last HP, his dragonite was on vapours, Bunga had 1 HP, we both attacked and he was fastest.