What is a good in-game team for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon? - Fly Ability: Huge Power. Item: Cameruptite or Charcoal Can deal with Psychics with Dark Pulse and X-Scissor. - Close Combat / Brick Break (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. - Overheat Dazzling Gleam is an alternative, not as powerful but strikes multiple enemies which is useful for hordes. What is a good mega evolution Pokemon for my team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? U-turn is an option, but in-game you can switch when you need to. The Dragon that only becomes available after the 8th gym and is horribly underleveled when you get it. 2) Mega Evolution Speed Boost allow me to outspeed many high-levelled Pokemon. Magical Leaf was primarily used against Wallaces Whiscash and Milotic, but it was also very helpful for dealing with Team Aquas Carvanha and Sharpedo, so Gardevoir wouldnt take extra damage from Rough Skin. - Signal Beam 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. It is vulnerable to Grass moves. This is a very balanced team around Mudkip. - Quick Attack (starting move). Rock Slide. - Surf (HM) I didn't really think of Medicham as something that was very worthwhile, but I tried it out as I wanted to use Azumarill. - Pursuit If you're playing during the special shiny Beldum event, I would say replace Froslass with Metagross. Finally, Leaf Blade and Thunderbolt are for smacking the myriad of Water-types in Hoenn. Also try for moves with decent base power and more PP as not everyone carries lots of Leppa Berries and will save trips to the Pokmon centre, this team is merely a suggestion so people can use whatever they feel like so it doesn't matter what I post as long as it is related and appropriate (am I right?). [emailprotected]: Southern Island (Gift) Nothing. On the rare occasion you do use it in battle, Dragon Breath paralyzes everything without the Fairy typing and your respective Lati's signature move exists. Metagross @ Expert Belt - Calm Mind ORAS OU - MEGA SWAMPERT RAIN TEAM | Smogon Forums The battle should be over in one or two turns. Your not wrong but Aggron is good against the Ice E4 member and Dragon E4 combined with its OP defence stat when you mega evolve it and its Steel/Rock typing is removed when it mega so it become a pure Steel type so its quite a defensive tank but I also see why you put Gyarados on your team. Ice Beam is coverage against Grass types until you get to the Battle Resort, at which point you should swap it for Ice Punch. - Flamethrower Flamethrower is a good move that provides coverage and takes out the pesky Grass types. - Thunderbolt TM26 Earthquake can be found in the Sea Floor Cavern. Swmapert can also be an HM slave. [emailprotected] Leftovers Shadow Ball for other STAB, and Confuse Ray just to be annoying. Route 119 Rival: Like before, Wailmer and Slugma should fall easily to Manectric and Marshtomp respectively. - Thunderbolt Ice Punch is a move tutor move, and the move tutors are only at the end of the game. Ability: Guts Ah, the evolution to the infamous Pikablu. - Earthquake 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 first options are for a safer playstyle, while the second set hits harder, but might kill you in the process. Swampert is the HM slave, but he has powerful enough moves that he can get you out of sticky situations as well. Skarmory Ninetales @ Charcoal - Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast Walrein @ Leftovers 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. Before you ask why I have two Megas on this team, I Mega Evolve a different one depending on the situation. - Cut Which is better? 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. Waterfall is your Water STAB and gets you to Ever Grande City, Play Rough is your Fairy STAB move, and Bulldoze covers its weaknesses to Electric and Poison. Today's team is Gen 6/3 ORAS starting with Mudkip. Magical Leaf is good for Rock types and Water types. I'm going to post a team for Swampert here, as I beat the whole story mode in two days and never died once. This Pokemon is used for Tate & Liza and Phoebe, but if it sets up a few Swords Dances, you can sweep most teams. Waterfall: STAB and an HM. 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. They also have a Mega Evolution that makes that Dragon-type, which is pretty handy. Giga Drain Kiwi (Dodrio) @ King's Rock - Draining Kiss Since I decided to play through the game with the Exp. - Calm Mind - Psychic - Solar Beam: TM22 at the Safari Zone - Rock Slide - Strength (HM) Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. Swampert is my personal favorite of the three starters. STAB Earthquake and Waterfall from base 150 Attack is quite strong. Magnezone is easily one of the best, if not the best, Electric-types in the game, only contested by Manectric. Swampert Tropius Banette Absol Mawile Flygon Team 3: Blaziken Grumpig Breloom Walrein Zangoose Altaria Currently Hunting: WishIhadaManafi5, MockingJ and shoz999 N Nebbygetinthebag Well-Known Member Dec 28, 2018 #8 My team in Emerald was: Blaziken, Ludicolo, Gardevoir, Sableye, Aggron and Flygon. Earthquake: Good coverage move. Dragon STAB is surprisingly rare in Hoenn and hits a lot of things for fantastic neutral damage. So this comes very early on in the game. Bulk Up is to further boost Hariyama's high Attack and maybe counter the Defence drop from Close Combat. Raichu @ Air Balloon It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. Yawn / Earthquake: Yawn if you can be bothered breeding it. Magnezone @ Magnet Brick Break is a filler, taking advantage of the Fighting type's usefulness. Ninetales is the butt of my team, but still fills a key role. People may not like spending money on TMs, and Stone Edge isn't too reliable either. - Focus Blast / False Swipe. Locations: Glacia: Hariyama OHKOes both Glalie (and Walrein with Close Combat after a Fake Out), so the only annoyances are the Froslass. - Earthquake. If you want to surf faster, use Sharpedo instead. - Dragon Claw U only have to use dusk stone on a random Snount you have. - Surf / Dive as it is needed for the story mode. The other moves are pretty self explanatory, although you can use a mixed set with Psychic > Zen Headbutt for accuracy. - Zap Cannon Ability: Trace / Synchronize > Pixilate Earth Power- Good power, STAB You can also take on Winona with Stone Edge, but it is not recommended. Ability: Pickup Pyre) / Infestation (TM83 - Sootopolis City) / Toxic (TM06 - Fiery Path), Shadow Sneak (Level 7 - May require Move Reminder), Aerial Ace (TM40 - Mauville City Pokmart). I just got her in Victory Road and after a little bit of training, she evolved. Hariyama was a lot better than expected in this playthrough. Leaf Blade/Thunderbolt. - Night Slash. Shadow Claw to help against Ghost types is another option. Hariyama @ Silk Scarf Item: Black Glasses Tate & Liza: Send out Swampert and Gyarados. Earthquake is there because it's strong, Knock Off is to counter Psychic types, and Heavy Slam and Poison Jab are to take out Fairy types. For every Pokemon on the team, give recommended moves for use throughout the playthrough. Flannery: Marshtomp easily solos this Gym with Mud Shot as well. If you want to Mega Evolve him for even more power instead of the Wide Lens accuracy boost, that works too. (Each Pokmon (except for Froslass) will have an HM, including Dig. - Rock Slide / Stone Edge. Pokemon: Making The Perfect Gen III Team - The Gamer Swampert | SM | Smogon Strategy Pokedex - Thunderbolt Any good alternatives to moonblast? Roserade @Miracle Seed/Black Sludge/Filler - Confuse Ray. Ice Beam Swellow and Sharpedo are also constantly in the party, while Blaziken, Gardevoir and Manectric are constantly rotated, that way by the time I get to the Pokmon League I'll have a full party of six that are battle ready. Banette helps against Phoebe and Sceptile, Walrein or Milotic can all handle Drake. - Psycho Cut Swords Dance boosts its already decent attack and makes it a good physical sweeper, especially when Mega Evolved. Hammer Arm for coverage and Ice Punch takes care of the 4x Grass weakness. Gardevoir @ anything Well since Sceptile is more specially offensive leaf blade isnt an option, of course you could have Giga drain instead but energy ball has more power which is better with an offensive pokemon like sceptile. Hariyama is a very strong Pokemon with high HP and Attack stats, and has a large variety of moves to choose from. Fairies are no problem with Sludge Wave. - Dive. - Cut Swellow @ Sharp Beak 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. Earthquake is the best STAB move available to it, but Dig and Mud Shot both work well before then. - Strength - Steel Wing [emailprotected] Item - Strength Exploud @ Leftovers / Shell Bell - Crunch - Swords Dance 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. Ability: Torrent - Rock Smash, Cut: HM - Giga Drain - Dragon Claw Steel Wing is the most viable move for the last slot, since Swellow has a pretty shallow movepool. Power-Up Punch is just there to make his Attack even more OP, and the rest are coverage or fillers. - Shadow Ball Fire Blast and Flamethrower are great moves, but I prefer Fire Blast because of Contests. Deadly against Dragon types and can use Shadow Ball on fellow Psychics. - Hex. What is a good in-game team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? - Waterfall Linoone @ None Sky Uppercut is a pretty good Fighting STAB if you don't want the 10% chance to lose half your HP. - Bite (Level 20) > Crunch (Level 41) Cut Grovyle is easily dealt with by Golbat/Crobat. TM Shadow Ball: Mt. In addition, Electric moves are very easy to see coming on most Pokemon, and Swampert hard walls most Pokemon with an Electric move. Seafloor Cavern Archie: Gardevoir handily deals with Archies entire team, but if youre scared of Crobat outspeeding, switch to Manectric for Discharge. - Moonlight Ability: Natural Cure - Thunderbolt Ability: Torrent Surf: STAB and an HM. Otherwise use Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut, which you learn by levelling up. Ice Beam: Powerful STAB. Moonblast and Psychic are its main STAB, and Shadow Ball is Ghost coverage. - Shadow Ball -Moonblast Wallace: Set up a Calm Mind or two on Luvdisc with Gardevoir, then use Magical Leaf to cleave through it and Whiscash. Skyler (Flygon) @ anything Good Defense and high Special Attack, but its other stats are low. Grass Knot covers Ground types. So we have our first special attacker! - Shadow Claw Ability: Levitate Swampert - Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Wiki Guide - IGN - Dragon Pulse For Boomburst, use a Heart Scale or just level up to level 58. - Ice Beam After it was of no use to me, I taught it Hidden Power again. Ability: Rock Head Please be sparing with images and formatting. - Waterfall - Rock Smash, Swellow @ anything Bellossom - False Swipe / Swords Dance Rocky Helmet is a good generic item, but it needs a few specific berries against the Elite 4. - Giga Drain. - Giga Drain / Leaf Storm - Swords Dance Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw: Rock Slide to help with the Flying weakness early on in the game. Swampert @ Swampertite - Dragon Pulse With access to Swords Dance, it could be a potential sweeper. - Psychic You might be wondering why so few HMs. Night Slash: Helps against Psychic types. Toxic / Toxic Spikes - Again, your call. Brawly: I used a Taillow with Wing Attack to sweep Brawly, with Beautifly as backup. - Volt Tackle / Discharge Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. - Psychic Blaze Kick was Blaziken's signature move and it's an all-around great Fire STAB. Gallade - Echoed Voice - Protect. Camerupt Make sure to get a Pickup Linoone specifically; the prospect of free items is simply too good to pass up. - Earthquake. Also useful against Steven's Metagross. Altaria @ Altarianite - Shadow Ball Bulk Up wasnt particularly useful at any point during the game, so the extra power Close Combat provided is generally the better idea. Ability: Overgrow -> Lightning Rod - Shadow Ball. Linoone @ any item Spike (Cacturne) @ Miracle Seed - Growl (starting move) > Mud Shot (Level 16) > Brick Break (TM31 - Sootopolis City). - Discharge. - Recover Really, just here for raw power and Waterfall. :), This team features not one, but two HM slaves, to allow the rest of the team to fire on all cylinders. - Boomburst Acrobatics is by far the strongest STAB move, with 110 BP per turn (provided Crobat isnt holding anything). Sludge Bomb is STAB, Flamethrower is just for some coverage, Dark Pulse/Shadow Ball covers his only weakness in Psychic, and Will-O-Wisp/Infestation/Toxic is for chip damage, adding to his walling role. Medicham is a great Pokemon with good stats and a good movepool. - Psycho Cut Surf is good for dealing with pesky Fire types. If you can't get it, Hyper Voice is the next best bet. - Double Team (Level 6) > Calm Mind (Level 24) Ability: Static Base 80 power and 100 accuracy make great use of its high Special Attack. - Earthquake. Wait until L21 to evolve Treecko, because it can only get Giga Drain at that point. Banette @ Banettite Quick question, what would be a good froslass alternitive? Magnezone Grass Pledge / Giga Drain: The former can be learnt from a Move Tutor in Mauville City if Sceptile has high Happiness. - High Jump Kick / Sky Uppercut If you want to update your post, use the 'edit' button. - Close Combat: Level 43 - Will-O-Wisp. - Roost. I decided to use Bulk Up as Poison Jab is pretty hard to get, and I simply didn't have the patience. I would recommend Protean as it gives him STAB on every attack, but Colour Change is still useful in a lot of cases. - Moonblast I sometimes rotate my Pokemon around, so these might not be the six I always use. Ability: Soundproof - Headbutt, Hoenn = Linoone - Teleport (Level 9) > Magical Leaf (Level 17) > Shadow Ball (TM30 - Mt. In these cases, the more generally helpful item will be noted instead. - Bullet Seed: Move Reminder in Fallarbor Town. Steven: Lead Manectric into Skarmory, and Quick Attack to break Sturdy before KOing with Discharge. Exploud @ Leftovers - Dive, I had to make him into a HM slave since I didn't have any other team members that could learn the Water HM's and I didn't wanna get rid of a team member to have an HM slave. The first team on this list that wasn't just Hoenn all over I like this team. Milotic @ Mystic Water Swampert Alright, so this will be your starter obviously. They're pointless in-game. Nothing is greater than a Swampert. 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. You can include items, abilities, etc. - Waterfall / Surf / Dive Azumarill @ Quick Claw - Tri Attack - Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw. - Waterfall - Endeavor I'll make one for Blaziken because who doesn't love the fire chicken? Brick Break / Strength: Brick Break is a good STAB move that has more PP than Close Combat, and it doesn't get the Defense drops that Close Combat has. The Ability doesnt matter much, but it was fun to block Drakes Flygons from using Ground moves after Levitate was Traced. Also raichu is one of my favorite pokemon. - Grass Pledge / Giga Drain Froslass @ Expert Belt / Wise Glasses Need I said more? I taught Manectric Flash when I needed it. - Rock Smash Fly and Steel Wing are STAB, Night Slash is coverage and Spikes or Toxic are great status moves. Some other Pokemon were used for some of these battles, and those instances will be noted with alternatives. - Moonblast Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice]: Always try for Hidden Power [Ice] for coverage, but otherwise Thunder Wave to catch stuff and paralyse an enemy. - Flash Cannon The other three main team members should be plenty up to that point, though, and with how fantastic Salamence is, it's arguably worth the effort. - Shadow Ball. Earthquake is through Heart Scale as well! Pickup is super useful as well, hence why it has no item. You can only get a Dawn Stone from Wally after you beat him at the Victory Road, which let's you evolve your Kirlia into a Gallade. I'm about to challenge the E4 while writing this: Cuddles (Swampert) @ Swampertite I remember looking for one desperately for a Marill in HGSS when I was a kid, because I thought it was really cool, and when I finally got one, I hated it because I didn't understand how abilities work. - Leaf Storm Gardevoir - Psychic/Fairy Hey, gotta deal with 'em somehow! TM Ice Beam: Sea Mauville We all know how constricting HMs can be otherwise (especially before getting to Lilycove), so let's get started. Slash is STAB and has a high critical rate, Shadow Sneak gives him priority (and turns him into a Ghost-type with Protean, covering his Fighting weakness), and Brick Break and Aerial Ace are just for further coverage (or type-transformation with Protean). - Fly Skarmory is a very defensive Pokemon. Thunderbolt is Manectric's main STAB, and Flamethrower is its main coverage. - Cross Poison It has a high Special Attack stat, and good Special Defense and Speed. I think Aggron is worse than Gyarados because it's unable to sweep the Elite 4 like Gyarados can. Type disadvantage is an issue with Fire types but you can change one move to Earthquake or use Aggron with Surf. - Earthquake Milotic is also another option, but evolving Feebas is a hassle. For example, Hariyama is a tank and a strong attacker. Weezing has pretty good moves, pretty good stats, and a good defensive typing, which paired with Levitate, makes it a great physical wall. With DexNav, walking outside the strip of grass on Route 102 closest to Petalburg City will eventually force a Ralts encounter. Swampert | BW | Smogon Strategy Pokedex - Ice Beam - Shadow Ball Flamethrower is good for Ice types and Steel Wing for the Fairies. Sceptile @ Sceptilite - Supersonic (starting move) > Confuse Ray (Level 17) > Fly (HM02 - Route 119) Shadow Claw is for Psychic types, and Earthquake is Earthquake. With Mega Sceptile's high Special Attack, it's a great filler move, plus it seems to come in handy a lot (other than its bad accuracy). Gardevoir @ Gardevoirite Ice Beam and Flamethrower are fairly late in the game, but you could wait or substitute with another move of your choice. Surf is a good move and is your means of water transportation. Ability: Clear Body / Liquid Ooze - Stone Edge: TM71 from Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars. Ability: Guts - Surf 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. A bit of a hassle to get, but I do really like Froslass, so I've included her. - Earthquake Conversely, Aggron's 4x weaknesses to Fighting and Ground are much more problematic, plus you obtain Aggron far later than Gyarados. Thunderbolt is a great move and fits better with the Mirror Coat set. He has amazing Special Defence and good Attack, and a pretty great movepool. After you get to the E4, you can delete your HM moves and give Tentacruel more useful moves in Dazzling Gleam/ Ice Beam. Ability: Inner Focus Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt or Energy Ball are coverage, or you can use Calm Mind to set up. - Toxic - Waterfall / Dazzling Gleam I have a soft spot for Treecko. - Feint Attack Just make sure your Delcatty has Cute Charm or Wonder Skin for its Ability. Linoone = Pick Up - Waterfall. His defenses aren't that bad so he can hold in there longer than most and he has a really good Special Attack. But if you do, I would certainly recommend it. Ability: Pure Power. Gyarados can typically outspeed and OHKO both with Crunch, but Persim Berries might be a good idea anyways. - Fly You can use Aqua Tail instead of Waterfall if you'd like, but I like the flinch Waterfall can give you. - Solar Beam Anyway, Kecleon may seem like an odd choice, but it is surprisingly solid. It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. Seviper @ anything Pyre - Dive The last move is a variety of coverage moves. Sidney: Give Gardevoir a Persim Berry and send it in against Mightyena to block Swagger and safely KO with Dazzling Gleam. The best team for Pokemon Ruby - Sportskeeda Swampert can't get Ice Punch for Grass coverage, but it can get Ice Beam. Creepy Pokedex entries aside, this Pokmon has great Speed. While it is an HM slave, I do recommend you use it in battle as well. - Waterfall. Ability: Volt Absorb - Tackle (starting move) > Rock Slide (Level 28) - Focus Blast Raichu or a Pikachu with light ball? Giga Drain is also STAB and Shadow Ball is for type coverage. - Strength / Yawn. - Thunder Wave (starting move) > Bite (Level 24) > Flamethrower (TM35 - Victory Road) X-Scissor and Flamethrower are also coverage, and Swords Dance is to set up. I would suggest adding a Mega Stone to it, so it can actually use good Flying STAB, but that isn't available until after the postgame, to it's in the same boat as Swampert's Ice Punch, i.e. (Did I ever mention that Intimidate is a fantastic ability? - Facade (TM) Toxic and Protect wear the opponent down effectively. Rock Slide is another option and covers most of his weaknesses, but Earthquake is just overall better due to its higher power and accuracy. 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. - Signal Beam. For this Hariyama, Thick Fat is preferred so it can tank more Ice and Fire moves. Stealth Rock. Giving Mega Swampert 152 Speed EVs is for out speeding Pokemon in rain not faster than Mega Sceptile, his arch enemy. Earthquake is a strong filler move. Moonblast is STAB and anti-Dragon. - Mach Punch Every move on this guy is very helpful, just make sure to get that Poochyena sticking out of the tall grass at the beginning of the game. First off I love all of your Good In-Game team suggestions. - Thunderbolt - Flamethrower Toxic only affects one Pokemon, but badly poisons it. (Pre-E4 - no items, moves or Pokmon only available in the Post-Game) Swampert Golem Alakzam LIoone Camerupt Tropius Manectric Latios Delcatty maybe there was a Vileplume too to be completely honest i don't remember my ORAS team that well the only members that were consistent was Swampert, Camerupt, and Latios the rest is just anyone else that may have passed in or out of the team for a significant amount of time before the elite 4 - Strength For a held item use Leftovers to keep Swampert in the game as long as possible to bring the pain. - anything. If you dont have a Beautifly, Hariyama is good for Mightyena and Sharpedo. As good as any other Pokemon are, Mega Heracross is a flat out boss. - Sludge Bomb Ability: Colour Change / Protean (H). Dive TM70 Flash can be obtained in Granite Cave. Swampert (Pokmon GO) - Best Movesets, Counters, Evolutions and CP While everyone thinks Dawn Stones are a pain to obtain just use Super Training! - Zen Headbutt / Play Rough.