- Overheat Ability: Static / Lightning Rod --> Intimidate [emailprotected] @Mega Stone/Filler - Acupressure. - Stone Edge: see above Swampert's strongest moveset is Mud Shot & Hydro Cannon and it has a Max CP of 2,974. Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. I just got her in Victory Road and after a little bit of training, she evolved. Linoone is basically a HM Slave with Cut, Strength and Rock Smash. Ability: Synchronize / Trace --> Pixilate Ability: Torrent Flamethrower is a good move that provides coverage and takes out the pesky Grass types. Crunch is very helpful against Ghost types, as the team doesnt have any Pokmon with STAB Dark or Ghost moves. I didn't really think of Medicham as something that was very worthwhile, but I tried it out as I wanted to use Azumarill. Gardevoir is a great Pokemon in Gen 6 becuase of its new Fairy typing. - Steel Wing Sceptile @ Sceptilite - Flash Cannon If you're playing during the special shiny Beldum event, I would say replace Froslass with Metagross. Swampert @Swampertite/Whatever else you'd like Another thing, there are quite a few recoil moves on Blaziken.. Yeah it is a lot of TM's, but all the TM's I've put you can obtain quite early in game, some of which you can even learn through levelling up. Ideally, this is the Pokemon you want Ninjask to Baton Pass to. Lucy (Ninetales) @ Pecha Berry Rock Slide- Coverage against many of Sceptile's weaknesses, Swellow Victory Road Wally: Gyarados Ice Fang takes care of Altaria. Magnezone @ Magnet Volt Switch: is great STAB and lets you pivot. Ability: Huge Power. - Toxic (Pre-E4 - no items, moves or Pokmon only available in the Post-Game) - Focus Blast / Thunderbolt. - Ice Beam Another awesome Pokemon that can be Mega Evolved, but remember that only one Pokemon can Mega Evolve per fight. Overheat- Great power, STAB - Giga Drain - Earthquake - Stone Edge: TM71 from Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars. Good Defense and high Special Attack, but its other stats are low. - Strength. Swampert is very strong. Ability: Pickup - Return / Brick Break. You might be wondering why so few HMs. - Water Pulse If you choose not to evolve your Magneton and just give him the Eviolite from Route 123, he has less HP and less in both Attacks than Magnezone, but every other stat gets better. - Acid (idk why I chose this but its what mine had) Metagross @ Expert Belt - Crunch Every team needs a Psychic type and Gardevoir is a great pick. If it's male, I use Gallade, and if it's female, I use Gardevoir. Waterfall is also a great move but in my opinion Aqua Tail is better, thanks for the suggestions though :). - Earth Power For all the people who just love Magcargo or Torkoal, I choose Camerupt due to type advantages. Shadow Claw: Dewford Cave, requires Mach Bike - Wake-Up Slap Mega Aggron is a less balanced tank, which is more applicable in some situations. - Dark Pulse Just have a Pokmon in your PC knowing Dive. When I first got into Pokmon a while ago, Kecleon was my favourite Pokmon, because chameleons were and still are my animals, so no doubt I loved Kecleon. - Leaf Blade [emailprotected] Leftovers I have been experimenting with other Pokmon in my Alpha Sapphire, and Gallade has been phenomenal. Overall, just my favorite of the starters. - Waterfall With Recover and Acupressure (which sharply raises a random stat), it will be alive for a while. There is also a lot of water in Hoenn, so you'll probably battle a lot of trainers with Water Pokemon in the game as well. Ice Fang is a good defense against Winona and Drake. - Fire Blast: TM38 at Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars - Waterfall (HM). Strength: HM if not on Hariyama. - Zen Headbutt / Psychic Really, just here for raw power and Waterfall. I call it a SpA Sweeper Specialist. - Power-Up Punch - U-turn. Flamethrower: A great coverage move. - Dig I won't list the locations of the HM's since they're needed to complete the game anyway. - Dragon Pulse / Dive. What is a good in-game team for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl? Quick Attack is primarily used to conserve PP on more powerful moves, and to break Sturdy on specific Pokemon. Waterfall and Earthquake are accurate STAB. Dragon Claw Power-Up Punch is better just because it will always raise Attack and is 100% accurate. - Strength - Iron Head. - Flamethrower At least all the moves are STAB :/, Aki (Breloom) @ Silk Scarf I know, I know, no Pokmon has Fly, Dive, Strength or Rock Smash and that's because I just waited to get the Eon Flute before doing any Flying and the rest was just me switching out random HM Slaves and other Pokmon to do what was necessary. Heracross @ Heracronite If you want, you can replace Tentacruel with Sharpedo, but it does have shoddy defences and it's rather lack luster without Speed Boost. With Skill Link, Bullet Seed becomes one of the best Grass-type moves out there, and Earthquake is a standard. Items are only examples and Abilities are only recommended. Surf is excellent on Sharpedo, as it moves twice as fast when surfing and Dive allows you to dive underwater and explore beneath the sea. Silk Scarf-boosted Fake Out does quite a lot of damage to neutral opponents, and free damage is excellent. Endeavor- Swellow has bad defenses and will have low health often. Spam Surf on Swampert, which Gyarados resists, and use Crunch with Gyarados on either Pokemon. - Toxic but they are not necessary. - Steel Wing. What is a good in-game team for Sword and Shield? - Steel Wing Linoone @ any item Waterfall and Crunch are physical STAB. Set up 3 Dragon Dances on either the Claydol or Cradily, healing as needed, and freely sweep the rest of Stevens team. Thunderbolt is your Electric STAB move, Flash Cannon is your Steel STAB move, Thunder Wave cripples opponents and can help with Magnezone's bad Speed, and Charge Beam can buff up their Special Attack so they can tear through teams. This team performed very well in a Nuzlocke I just completed, and it makes a very strong team for a casual playthrough as well. Changed my team according to the suggestions. Ability: Guts - Dragon Claw - Magic Coat - Teleport (Level 9) > Magical Leaf (Level 17) > Shadow Ball (TM30 - Mt. Sky Uppercut is a pretty good Fighting STAB if you don't want the 10% chance to lose half your HP. Froslass is a pretty good BoltBeam user, with passable Special Attack and good Speed. that are only available through, Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) / Rock Slide (TM80 - Route 134), Bulk Up (TM08 - Gift from Brawly) / Poison Jab (TM84 - Mirage Mountain), Surf (HM03 - Petalburg City after beating Norman) / Superpower (Level 46), Thunderbolt (TM24 - From Wattson after completing the New Mauville sidequest), Charge Beam (TM57 - Mauville City Pokmart), Dark Pulse (TM97 - Team Magma/Aqua Hideout) / Shadow Ball (TM30 - Mt. You can have Extrasensory to annihilate your Fighting type weakness (which you get through sneaking), or Shadow Ball which you can use to take out Phoebe the second of the Elite 4. The last slot is a coverage holder. - Earthquake - Hex. It was replaced with Shadow Ball once Wallace was defeated. Waterfall - Surf > Cut Manectric I use the exact same team as yours except Absol. - Growl (starting move) > Mud Shot (Level 16) > Brick Break (TM31 - Sootopolis City). - Surf I would replace it with Brick Break instead for more coverage You can do that too, however I enjoy to have at least 1 priority move in my team, just in case. Actually camperupt has 5 more SpAttack than Attack. Especially Stone Edge. While it has mediocre attacking stats (70/80 respectively), it does have access to 3 HM moves and nice typing to cover both Sceptile and Linoone's weaknesses. Skyler (Flygon) @ anything Alright, so this will be your starter obviously. The best team for Pokemon Emerald with Swampert Swampert Image via The Pokemon Company Swampert is the mainstay of this team, as the final evolution of the Water-type starter. - Confusion (Level 4) > Psychic (Level 30) - Splash (starting move) > Leer (Level 26) > Aqua Tail (Level 35) > Waterfall (HM05 - Sootopolis Gym) Is it in New Mauville? - anything. Manectric is the best Electric type available in my opinion. Heragross is a very good physical sweeper with an interesting typing that cancels out some weaknesses. - Surf Fly to the Move Relearner in Fallarbor Town, and use a Heart Scale to relearn Dragon Dance, which will be crucial in setting up sweeps against Phoebe, Drake, and Steven. - Thunder Wave Close Combat: Powerful STAB move This is a good team but could I use swampert instead Of skeptile and replace gyrados with breloom. - Earthquake: see above Wallace: Set up a Calm Mind or two on Luvdisc with Gardevoir, then use Magical Leaf to cleave through it and Whiscash. - Fake Out / Rock Slide / Power-Up Punch. Fly and Iron Head are STAB. Banette @ Banettite TM10 Hidden Power can be obtained in Fortree City. - Leech Life (starting move) > Wing Attack (Level 13) > Acrobatics (Level 35) - Strength Sure, it's not the fastest- but its. Medicham is a great Pokemon with good stats and a good movepool. - Flamethrower - Psychic - Earthquake / Knock Off / Heavy Slam / Poison Jab. This guy has very good Attack and has a good movepool. 81.9kg Male:87.5% Female:12.5% Monster Water 1: National Pokdex Hoenn Pokdex Abilities Hidden . Today's team is Gen 6/3 ORAS starting with Mudkip. Really useful to be able to use that powerful attack and have no recoil. Glacia: Hariyama OHKOes both Glalie (and Walrein with Close Combat after a Fake Out), so the only annoyances are the Froslass. Moves are after getting rid of most HMs for the E4 and Champ. Flamethrower is good for Ice types and Steel Wing for the Fairies. If you can't get it, Hyper Voice is the next best bet. He has amazing Special Defence and good Attack, and a pretty great movepool. Shadow Claw: Sometimes Shadow Sneak isn't enough. Ability: Rock Head - False Swipe / Swords Dance - Double-Edge. "use it when you get it." - Flash Cannon Flamethrower - Zen Headbutt - Tackle (starting move) > Strength (HM04 - Route 112) > Dragon Dance (Level 47) (I know right lol), Swampert @ Swamperite The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. Hammer Arm for coverage and Ice Punch takes care of the 4x Grass weakness. Very fast, with high Special Attack but low defenses. For Boomburst, use a Heart Scale or just level up to level 58. Any good water type alternatives for Walrein or Milotic? Winona: Manectric is a good answer to most of her team, but Gyarados may be necessary to Ice Fang her Altaria. Crobat @ Soothe Bell > nothing Strength will be the main move used until Aqua Tail is learned. - Solar Beam: TM22 at the Safari Zone Dragon STAB is surprisingly rare in Hoenn and hits a lot of things for fantastic neutral damage. The Flash Fire ability is underrated, but if you can pick up Drought do so. It receives. - Dazzling Gleam / Will-O-Wisp. - Thunderbolt - Stone Edge / Rock Slide U don;t have to lug it arround, just have it sit in that PC box of yours until you need it. A great Pokemon that can set up Sunny Day to boost STAB Flamethrower and make Solar Beam hit in one turn. Ability: Guts Deadly against Dragon types and can use Shadow Ball on fellow Psychics. Before you ask why I have two Megas on this team, I Mega Evolve a different one depending on the situation. Some other Pokemon were used for some of these battles, and those instances will be noted with alternatives. - Rock Smash Ability: Guts -> Skill Link Ability: Pressure / Super Luck --> Magic Bounce Surf is because I was too lazy keep switching Pokmon so I had a different Surf-er, whereas, if you are patient enough, Superpower just gives him a little more coverage. Gardevoir/Gallade: Route 103 (Ralts), Super Training (Dawn Stone) TM70 Flash can be obtained in Granite Cave. - Thunderbolt. Raichu @ Magnet - Earthquake Ability: Rough Skin I've always loved Banette so I decided to use one on this team! - X-Scissor - Echoed Voice Banette is probably better. Moonblast is STAB and anti-Dragon. Rock Smash: HM. - Waterfall / Surf / Dive Flamethrower- Has lower power than Overheat, but covers for Overheat's low PP. - Dark Pulse. Sceptile has a nice physical movepool, so it's highly viable to have Leaf Storm as your sole special move and 3 other physical moves to allow Sceptile to stay in after using Leaf Storm. Zen Headbutt is a decent STAB move with a decent flinch chance, High Jump Kick is a very powerful STAB move (but you will want to be careful using it), Ice Punch covers her Flying weakness, Bulk Up allows it to set up a possible sweep, and Poison Jab covers her Fairy weakness. Psychic is STAB. Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. if you want to change a move be. Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle - Stone Edge Dazzling Gleam is an alternative, not as powerful but strikes multiple enemies which is useful for hordes. Ability: Pure Power. Swampert is my personal favorite of the three starters. 2. - Waterfall Thunderbolt- Good power, STAB Hey sumwun. - Shadow Ball - Thunderbolt - Quick Attack Sludge Bomb Poison Jab: Main STAB move. But anyways, Swampert is a great pick because he fills the spot for the Water HM user and he has a great movepool. Roserade: Route 117 (Roselia), Super Training (Shiny Stone) I have a soft spot for Treecko. - Thunder Wave (starting move) > Bite (Level 24) > Flamethrower (TM35 - Victory Road) 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. Gyarados is an exceptionally useful Pokmon ingame. It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. - Crunch Ability: Shed Skin Brick Break is a filler, taking advantage of the Fighting type's usefulness. Ability: Volt Absorb Earth Power is coverage and Yawn is also an option. - Earthquake. If Manectric has a good Hidden Power type such as Ice, Grass or Water, keep Hidden Power as your main move, otherwise discard it. *TM73 Thunder Wave can be purchased in Slateport City for 5000 Pokmon Dollars. Switch training Ralts may be necessary for a while, as its too weak to deal with Poochyena and Zigzagoon (even with Confusion). The battle should be over in one or two turns. Ability: Pickup - Close Combat Skarmory for Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, and Fly. - Waterfall. He has high defenses and Attack so make sure you have physical hits if you swap any moves out. I have finished the game twice and now I'm doing it again. And finally, in the depths on the Shoal Cave (and by the depths I mean the first room), we meet our final permanent team member, the thicc walrus. - Shadow Ball - Hyper Voice. - Pursuit - Moonblast / Dazzling Gleam. Gallade - Fly Ninetales @ Charcoal Swampert @ Swampertite Poison Jab: Mirage Mountain, requires Acro Bike - Cross Poison I respectfully must disagree with you on Raichu. Thunderbolt / Discharge: Thunderbolt is the better move but Discharge is amazing if used in a Double Battle with Mega Sceptile, giving the latter a Special Attack boost and damaging the other enemies. Bro sub out Gardevoir for Gallade as it takes forever to get dawn stone if you have one system like me. - Will-O-Wisp. - Earthquake I also used a Metagross, but you can't get that easily anymore. As said, Crobat is another option, but on this team it shares a Psychic weakness with Tentacruel, who you can always replace with Sharpedo. Ability: Rock Head Surf: STAB and an HM. To keep things tidy, we will remove any teams posted as comments in this thread. That's really it. - Sludge Wave. Swords Dance: Good for setting up. Aggron has high Defense that can help it serve as an effective tank. 5) Great typing facing trainers like Sidney & Norman. - Rock Slide / Stone Edge / Facade / Dive. Earthquake: Good coverage move. The first three are to utilize Sceptile's very high Special Attack. Rock Head is a must for Double-Edge. - Brick Break / Hammer Arm Stone Edge comes in handy for dealing with Flying types and countering Fire and Ice types, so it synergizes with Thick Fat. 1) It's the best Fire type in ORAS. You can include items, abilities, etc. Except for its Mega Evolution which really just makes it kinda OP. Close Combat / Brick Break- Your call. You can use Aqua Tail instead of Waterfall if you'd like, but I like the flinch Waterfall can give you. Who needs an Uber starter and the only Grass/Dragon type? I know that this is old, but replace Moonblast with Hyper Voice for the Pixilate boost. - Rock Smash. - Ice Beam Dragon Claw: Meteor Falls, in the WAY WAY back (requires Surf and Waterfall) It can be given a Wacan Berry in case Salamence connects with a Thunder Punch, but its very difficult to lose this battle. - Water Gun (starting move) > Surf (HM obtained after defeating Norman) Ability: Clear Body - Thunderbolt - Shadow Ball Return is probably the better option, since it'll do 102 STAB consistently instead of the regular 70 STAB from Facade. I taught Manectric Flash when I needed it. Camerupt Rock Slide. - Psycho Cut STAB Earthquake and Waterfall from base 150 Attack is quite strong. What is a good in-game team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? - Grass Knot. - Coil Both evolutions' respective STABs are accounted for, and they both have coverage against Ghosts. TM Ice Beam: Sea Mauville - Surf (This team is also based on a no-Exp. Magical Leaf comes in handy against Water/Ground types that Manectric can't touch, as well as Rock/Ground types. - Leaf Blade - Volt Switch (TM) ), Item: Swampertite I'm making my Swampert team that I used to beat the game. - Surf It was more helpful in the Elite 4 than Wake-Up Slap was, as a PP Max gave it enough PP to reliably take out a few opponents. Earthquake is a strong filler move. I'm too lazy to put all the locations for the Pokmon, items and TM moves, so you can just go and look it up on the DB or somethingidk. - Moonblast - Psychic - Psychic Swampert @ Soft Sand Moonblast can be learnt at level 62, however it can be learnt sooner by going to the Move Reminder and getting him to teach it, it in exchange for a Heart Scale. Kiwi (Dodrio) @ King's Rock - Tri Attack - Extrasensory / Shadow Ball. - U-turn / Roost. Steven: Lead Manectric into Skarmory, and Quick Attack to break Sturdy before KOing with Discharge. Poison Fang is STAB, but Acrobatics will typically be more useful. - Magical Leaf Ability: Marvel Scale / Oblivious In these cases, the more generally helpful item will be noted instead. I have one question though. Ability: Flash Fire - Flamethrower For a held item use Leftovers to keep Swampert in the game as long as possible to bring the pain. Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. This is for a standard team, so just pick Mudkip. - Leaf Storm / Leaf Blade Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt or Energy Ball are coverage, or you can use Calm Mind to set up. His defenses aren't that bad so he can hold in there longer than most and he has a really good Special Attack. Manectric's moveset is very simple, consisting of only one STAB and coverage. - Strength / Yawn. - Dark Pulse: TM97 at the Team Magma/Aqua Hideout Flygon @ anything This move will be handy then. (Assuming you don't throw out Mega Sceptile in front of Glacia or something), Sceptile @ Sceptilite Surf is Walrein's go-to STAB and takes the responsibility off of Linoone, Ice Beam is STAB and kills Grass-types, Crunch is filler, and Earthquake covers Electric and Rock types. Blaziken is my personal favorite of the Hoenn starters, and his Mega is amazing, so why not? Gardevoir will be able to take on Brawley, Sidney, and Drake with it's moves. - Moonblast What is a good in-game team for Sun and Moon? - Rock Slide Ability: Trace After spending a while hunting, I found a Shroomish on DexNav and it had Drain Punch so that was cool :0 I gave her the Silk Scarf because I didn't have any other items. Ability: Flash Fire Chimney Archie: I used a Beautifly with Silver Wind to safely take out Mightyena and Sharpedo, and Rock Slide Marshtomp for Golbat, but Manectric also works well. Thunder becomes totally OP when you add Rain Dance to it and if you send out a Mega Swampert (Swolepert) his Speed will double making him just that much more over-powered. - Solar Beam Swampert predicts storms by sensing subtle differences in the sounds of waves and tidal winds with its fins. Which one you get doesn't really matter, as you'll hardly ever use it in battle and they learn the same HMs. - Shadow Sneak Share turned off, I decided having bulky Pokmon would be a good idea. This Pokmon is a beast in battle and in the Contests. You could go mixed or choose Leaf Blade in place of Giga Drain and run Brick Break in place of Leaf Storm and go physical, although his base Attack isn't great compared to his Special Attack. Also raichu is one of my favorite pokemon. If you want to update your post, use the 'edit' button. Swampert is the HM slave, but he has powerful enough moves that he can get you out of sticky situations as well. Steel Wing- Covers Rock and Ice weaknesses Ability: Guts - Night Slash Ability: Levitate It can even learn Blizzard or Ice Beam to deal with Grass Pokemon by itself, but it isn't. - Giga Drain / Leaf Storm Dazzling Gleam / Will-O-Wisp: Dark types will walk all over Banette without Dazzling Gleam, but Will-O-Wisp is good for burns. - Focus Blast / False Swipe. - Stone Edge Plus, he has a Mega Evolution and an Electric type immunity. Ability: Static / Lightning Rod When theres a particularly annoying Pokemon that I don't want to waste one of my key troops on, I roll out Ninetales to hand out some super-effective mojo. Flygon Flip Turn. - Thunderbolt Azumarill @ Quick Claw Drake: Gyarados can set up two Dragon Dances on Altaria and proceed to sweep Drakes entire team. Don't know how to get it easily? I didn't have any items left so I just gave her a Pecha Berry. Pick Up = free crap. You can give it a Persim Berry to block Magnetons confusion, but it should be a clean sweep. [emailprotected] - Roost. Pelipper is a mandatory teammate because it provides free rain with its ability Drizzle while checking Keldeo, one of the best checks to Mega Swampert. This is the newest addition to the team. - Surf / Dive as it is needed for the story mode. - Earthquake. Is a TM slave a thing? As good as any other Pokemon are, Mega Heracross is a flat out boss. - Shadow Ball - Signal Beam I must say, I would prefer Rock Slide, if I needed coverage on fire types. replace Iron Tail for Iron Head, accuracy over power is better than power over accuracy as Iron Head is strong enough STAB for Aggron to use and its does not have that 25% chance of missing. The first options are for a safer playstyle, while the second set hits harder, but might kill you in the process. For its moves, Close Combat is its strongest Fighting type move, but if you don't want the stat drops you can choose Brick Break instead. If you want to Mega Evolve him for even more power instead of the Wide Lens accuracy boost, that works too. Base 80 power and 100 accuracy make great use of its high Special Attack. Fly to the Move Deleter in Lilycove City to remove Strength, as its no longer useful. This makes it a great defensive lead for a team that needs a reliable entry hazard setter. Item: Miracle Seed Swampert People may not like spending money on TMs, and Stone Edge isn't too reliable either. Hariyama @ Expert Belt - Cut Hariyama will be able to take on Roxanne, Wattson (with Bulldoze), Norman, Sidney, and Flannery and Glacia with Thick Fat. Shadow Claw to help against Ghost types is another option. Sludge Wave is also good for the Grass types, along with Ice Beam. Swampert for water HMs and Earthquake. For example, Hariyama is a tank and a strong attacker. Tentacruel - Waterfall. - Leaf Storm - Strength - Bulk Up Froslass @ Expert Belt / Wise Glasses An awesome tank that can take physical hits very well. Ninetales is the butt of my team, but still fills a key role. I'd keep x-scissor on MSceptile and swap EQ with Leaf storm. Gardevoir @ anything Now if you want to change a Pokemon go ahead. - Ice Beam. - Psycho Cut Skarmory - Strength - Steel Wing (TM) - Rock Smash - Double-Edge Pyre), Will-O-Wisp (TM61 - Mt. - Spikes, Magnezone TM Earthquake: Seafloor Cavern (on the main path, can't miss it) Knock Off: Covers Hariyama's Psychic weakness and removes items. TM71 Stone Edge can be purchased from the Lilycove Department Store for 30,000 Pokmon Dollars. Spike (Cacturne) @ Miracle Seed Ability: Natural Cure > Pixilate Exploud @ Leftovers / Shell Bell Calm Mind was chiefly used to sweep Wallace for free, but because its also a TM, it can be swapped for things like Flash as the need arises. - Power-Up Punch - Steel Wing, Item: anything Flygon is one of my favorite mons of all time, plus we need a flyer, so I picked it.