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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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Yeah. But most of the time, if people are going to use EQ in a double battle, they want to take out both, not just settle for 1. So if they see a Togekiss, they might not go for it.
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Hasty (Defense is pointless anyway)

Thunderbolt
Brick Break
Volt Tackle
Grass Knot
Grass Knot is nice, but an Infernape with max Speed and Earthquake will do a 1 hit KO, unless Pika is holding a Shuca Berry. Nice to see Red's Team though. Just might need that Defense, since Earthquake is a very very common move.
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EliOceans wrote:Yeah. But most of the time, if people are going to use EQ in a double battle, they want to take out both, not just settle for 1. So if they see a Togekiss, they might not go for it.
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Hasty (Defense is pointless anyway)

Thunderbolt
Brick Break
Volt Tackle
Grass Knot
Grass Knot is nice, but an Infernape with max Speed and Earthquake will do a 1 hit KO, unless Pika is holding a Shuca Berry. Nice to see Red's Team though. Just might need that Defense, since Earthquake is a very very common move.
EQ would flatten Pika even with the defense. There's no real way to avoid that. Same with the Shuca Berry. Plus, with Volt Tackle draining HP, it'll be too weak to stand up to EQ with any hope of surviving. Honestly, I'd swap Thunder Bolt for Agility. Get that in when your foe is setting something up(yeah, you need prediction) and you can outrun most threats.
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Well why shouldn't I do that with Bastiodon?
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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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Because, we're talking about a double battle team with bastiodon. Pika needs one agility to outrun almost everything, aside from the elite speed pokemon. Bastiodon needs at least two Rock Polishes, and maybe three curses. Even after that, that leaves Bastiodon with just one extra stage of speed, not enough for a proper sweep. That gives the opponent at least 5 turns to attack. Togekiss may be fairly defensive, but if it get's hit by two strong attacks on the first turn, it has a really good chance of being stomped. And without Togekiss, Bastiodon falls apart at the seams.

EDIT: Steelix, among most other steel pokemon, walls Bastiodon completely. Most of them are armed with Earthquake, making them one of it's worst enemies. The ones with Earth Power being twice as bad.
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Well, when facing an Earthquake-style death for Pika, I'd swap into Lax or Gyara. Speaking of which...


Lax:

Adamant

Eartquake
Body Slam
Crunch
Rest

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Aero:

Adamant

Iron Head
Stone Edge
Rock Polish
Fly



Gyara:

Careful

Dragon Dance
Earthquake
Waterfall
Bounce (Yes, learned as a Magikarp)
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I'd choose Adamant for Gyara too.
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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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Selfdestruct requires Pokemon XD to obtain. So, yeah. You probably can't do that.

Anyways, I have my own strategy to be rated. This is for a 6-on-6 double battle, so even if this technique fails, I still have my other pokrmon to fall back on.

Rapidash@Focus Sash
Nature: Timid
Ability: Flash Fire
Moves:
Hypnosis
Horn Drill
Agility
Overheat


Machamp@Leftovers
Nature: Adamant
Ability: No Guard
Moves:
Protect
Bullet Punch
Dynamic Punch
Endure

Yeah, pretty predictable strategy. No Guard lets Horn Drill and Hypnosis hit all the time, and agility lets Rapidash outrun everything that's faster than it. Machamp has Endure and Protect to make sure it survives a long time, and Bullet Punch for that odd pokemon that may have a Focus Sash, or just needs a good punch to bring down. For ghosts or Sturdy pokemon, Overheat and DynamicPunch deal with them respectively. Still, a bit risky, but with the rest of my team, this could be used as a major weapon.
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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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Very nice. But since most Machamps have No Guard, instead of Guts most of the time, you never know when someone's gonna pull out a Fissure on you.

But it's still an inescapable plan. I give it a 9.
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Only one pokemon is faster than Rapidash and can use a OHKO move, and that's Dugtrio. And with an agility under it's belt, it outspeeds even that. Plus, Focus Sash prevents a OHKO.


Ack, just found out the hard way that No Guard doesn't work on OHKO moves.
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spudman2 wrote:The pokemon topic needs a help thread. This is it.
Anyone can ask, and anyone can answer.

I'll lead.

Magnezone: Bahl
Magnet Pull
????
Careful
Thunderbolt Magnet Rise
Flash Cannon ????

Any one have an idea for the item and last move?

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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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My HeartGold Party:

Arceus
Lv. 100
Nature: Hardy
OT: TRU

Cynder (Typhlosion)
Lv. 83
Nature: Calm
OT: Steven

Sky (Ho-oh)
Lv. 58
Nature: Docile
OT: Steven

Arrow (Lugia)
Lv. 70
Nature: Jolly
OT: Steven

Spirithorn (Lucario)
Lv. 100
Nature: Jolly
OT: Malik

Kyogre
Lv. 50
Nature: Rash
OT: Steven



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Well, levels and natures don't matter unless we see the moves. Then there's not much to rate.
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well heres my team ii dont really think its to great but anyway


HERACROSS:
lvl:90
Nature: Gentle
Ability: Guts
Item: White Herb
Moves:
Megahorn
Giga Impact
Close Combat
Aerial Ace


NOCTOWL: Magician
lvl: 72
Nature: Naughty
Ability: Keen Eye
Item: Twisted Spoon
Moves:
Shadow Ball
Sky Attack ( for use after Hypnosis )
Dream Eater ( for Hypnosis )
Hypnosis ( for Sky Attack )

and now my pride and joy :D
AMPHAROS: CottonShok
lvl:73
Nature: Hasty
Ability:static
Item: Expert Belt ( because i have a wide variety of move types )
Moves:
Signal Beam ( bug= physic/dark/ghost )
Thunderbolt ( electric=water/flying )
Power Gem ( rock/flying and what else X_x )
Brick Break ( fighting=normal/rock )
( i probably didn't get the weaknesses completely right but yeah )



STARAPTOR: Raptor
lvl:91
Nature: Impish
Ability: Intimidate
Item: White Herb ( for Close Combat )
Moves:
U-Turn
Close Combat
Steel Wing
Brave Bird



ARMALDO: Scar
lvl:90
Nature: Naive
Ability: Battle Armor
Item: Razor Fang
Moves:
X-Scissor
Aerial Ace
Water Pulse
Flash Cannon



LATIOS:
lvl:72
Nature: Brave
Ability: Levitate
Item White Herb ( for Draco Meteor 8D )
Moves:
Zen Headbutt
Aerial Ace
Draco Meteor
Shadow Claw

and that is all XP
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Ok, I thought of a gimmicky, 3-poke strategy for a double battle.

First two pokemon out are Bronzong and Medicham with these sets.

Bronzong
Nature: Sassy
Ability: Levitate
Item: Light Clay
Moves:
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Skill Swap
- Explosion

Medicham
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Pure Power
Item: Salac Berry
Moves:
- Endure
- Reversal
- Bullet Punch
- Protect

First turn, Medicham uses Endure, Bronzong uses Skill Swap on Medicham. Simple as that. Medicham's moveset is made to be recycled later, if this strategy fails.

Second turn, switch out Medicham for this;

Slaking
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Truant
Item: Focus Sash
Moves:
- Return
- Earthquake
- Protect
- Shadow Claw

And, for Bronzong's attack, you select Skill Swap on Medicham again, so Slaking ends up getting it.
Why the jolly nature? Well, with over 800 attack, the Adamant nature won't add much, and it's Speed will come in handy. Focus Sash keeps it from fainting i the opponent chooses to hit Medicham, assuming they don't team up on it.
Both Bronzong and Medicham are disposable in this strategy, so, get Slaking to use Protect and Bronzong Explosion. Get rid of the two pokemon out already and pull out someone else.
Now, I'm not sure if Bronzong would loaf after the second Skill Swap, but if it does, then make Slaking attack that turn. THEN use Protect/Explosion.

To further aid this, get something like Togekiss to use Follow Me to draw away Increased Priority moves and let Slaking continue it's rampage. Sure, this strategy is risky and gimmicky, but it's fun.
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To avoid earthquake and other ground attacks, I've taught my Pika Magnet Rise. It works the same Levitate, right??? Right???
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Re: The Official "Rate My Pokémon" Thread

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It works the same as Levitate, yes, but in the turn that it tries to use it, the opponent can just slaughter it with something else(assuming it doesn't have a Focus Sash). Regardless, Magnet Rise has little use on a frail pokemon like Pikachu.
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Well, I completely changed my party lately, so why not?
FLYGON
Mild
Wise Glasses
Fly
Dragon Pulse
Earthquake
Sandstorm

FLAAFFY
Naive
Everstone
Thunder
Discharge
Thunder Wave
Signal Beam

GENGAR
Lax
Spell Tag
Shadow Ball
Hypnosis
Dream Eater
Poison Jab

FLAREON
Relaxed
Charcoal
Fire Spin
Fire Fang
Lava Plume
Dig

DITTO
Quiet
Quick Powder
Transform

SLOWKING
Bold
(None)
Brine
Surf
Shadow Ball
Psychic
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my soulsilver gitched abit, so now I restarted it, but can't get past Bugsy...can you give me some advice on how to help out my younger Pokemon?
Togepi
no item
lax nature
lv.13
serene grace
Growl
Charm
Extrasensory
Metronome

Rattata
Shell Bell
lv.15
hardy nature
Guts
Rock Smash
Bite
Quick Attack
Pursuit

Pidgey
no item
serious nature
lv.16
Tangled Feet
Tackle
Sand-Attack
Gust
Quick Attack

HootHoot
no item
Naive nature
lv.17
Keen Eye
Uproar
Foresight
Peck
Hypnosis

Totodile
no item
Quirky nature
lv.17
Torrent
Scratch
Bite
Water Gun
Cut

I don't have a sixth one yet, and can you give me advice? I don't want to use my AR on it again, since the AR was the cause of the problems in the first place! (it made it impossible for me to even FLY in Kanto! and guess what; I WAS IN KANTO!!! The maps wouldn't even show Kanto...just Jhoto..Well, at least I was able to send my best pokemon back to Sinnoh, my Platium version..yay, I didn't lose TRU Arecus and Draco Meteor Jirachi!)
EDIT: never mind, I ending up useing my AR for a weaker level up. I'm now on my way to Jasmine...
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First of all, Evolve Totodile. Secondly, dun bother with a bunch of normal types. Ypu'll just waste EXP on them, since they won't be of much help. Choose one or two of them and keep and raise. Otherwise, you'll have a bunch of low levels against high levelled pokemon.
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..sorry if this is a bump (wait, its stickied, it'll never be locked..so I guess it'll be ok)
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My team now:
Manik/Raticate
lv. 64
Guts
Leftovers
Rock Smash
Hyper Fang
Crunch
Super Fang

Shadow/Umbreon
lv. 64
Synchronize
BlackGlasses
Quick Attack
Tackle
Bite
Trump Card

Big/Mamoswine
lv.65
Snow Cloak
Wide Lens
Earthquake
Icy Wind
Ancient Power
Blizzard

Muscle/Machoke
lv.67
guts
Black Belt
Strength
Foresight
Cross Chop
Rock Climb

Sonic/Feraligatr
lv.68
Torrent
Wave Incense
Waterfall
Surf
Cut
Ice Fang

POOP/Pigeot
lv.69
Tangled Feet
Sharp Beak
Air Slash
Fly
Mirror Move
Roost
(once again, I'm sorry if this is a bump. and don't make fun of my pokes, they pwned the elite four on the first try!)
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Umbreon is pretty much useless. I mean....tackle? Really? Come on, you must have some TM's or something! Regardless, it seems pretty much useless. Umbreon's attacking stats are awful, and it has three normal attacks to boot. Just putting that out there.
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..so? they still defeat every enemy i come across
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I guess for in-game it's not TOO TOO awful, but still, Tackle and Quick Attack? Certainly Umbreon tried to learn SOMETHING better? At least buy it Dark Pulse.

Anyway, for an in-game team, this is a meh team. If it was in any form of competetive battle, you'd be screwed.
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This is my main pokemon team. I would like to know if they are good and which moves they should learn :D Thanks!

(Pokemon)
(Ability)
(Item)
(Moves)

Weavile
Pressure
Iron Ball
Night slash
Fling
Shadow claw
X-Scissor

Metagross
Clear Body
Muscle Band
Hammer Arm
Meteor Mash
Zen Headbutt
Hyperbeam

Porygon-Z
Download
Wise Glasses
Tri Attack
Psychic
Charge Beam
Hyper Beam

Rotom
Levitate
Razor Fang
Omnious Wind
Dark Pulse
Charge Beam
Discharge

Gallade
Steadfast
Scope Lens
Stone Edge
Psycho Cut
Leaf Blade
Night Slash

(No 6th pokemon yet)
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Parafusion Pachirisu:

Timid
Lum Berry

Thunder Wave
Super Fang
U-Turn
Sweet Kiss

So basicallyyou can use Thuder wave and sweet kiss in either order. I'd say sweet kiss first though. Then you super fang to get the hp down and u-turn for your next pokemon. :D
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