RE: In-game Team Rates
akolad said:
my team consists of
espeon choice scarf/the glasses that boost sp attack
psyshock
psychic
calm mind
shadow ball
reasoning: well a good sp sweeper with the ability to kill ghosts
heracross rocky helmet/focus sash
megahorn
faint attack
counter
earthquake
reasoning: a good physical attacker with the ability to repel all stronger and faster physical attackers
elektross i havent put an item on this bad boy yet suggestions would be nice
tbolt
earthquake
dragon claw
crunch
reasoning: well levitate equals no weakness plus it can beat other electric types
gliscor: itemless
earthquake
ice fang/fire fang
thunder fang
x scissor
reasoning: negates electric and ground moves and can counter its weaknesses with an ridiculous amount of attack strength
drapion air balloon
toxic spikes
earthquake
brick break
faint attack
reasoning: a good defensive dark type that can set the field and scope out the opponenets pokemon and poison the majority of the opposition
politoad rocky helmet/ focus sash depends on heracross
scald
ice beam
earthquake
bounce
reasoning: well a good water counterer with good defense/ and slightly over average attack and sp attack
Why on earth, first of all, are you using a specs + calm mind Espeon? Like what? When you have a choice item, you use it for sweeping. BOOSTS ARE USELESS WITH CHOICE ITEMS. It obviously looks like you want a special sweeper with your Espy, and I had one of my own in SoulSilver. I would recommend:
Psychic
Signal Beam (only available in gen 4, but REALLY WORTH IT!!)
Hidden Power [fighting or fire]
Shadow Ball
or something similar. If Signal Beam is unavailable because you transferred to 5th gen, do Grass Knot or something. Additionally, there is no point at all in having Psychic and Psyshock. I realize there are physical and special walls, but there's no need for both. Pick one.
Do NOT sash Heracross or give it a Rocky Helmet. Choice Band is the only item that makes sense. What are you doing? Life Orb is the only other option, but (and I also used a Heracross for my SoulSilver) its HP and defenses are too frail to take the Life Orb Recoil. As far as moves go:
Megahorn
Night Slash (Faint Attack is like the worst move Hera carries, ESPECIALLY if it's not running Choice Band)
Close Combat
Earthquake
I had that exact set for SS with Choice Band and never once in casual metagame nor storyline did it fail me. Like the poster above, counter is flaky and nobody uses it.
It seems like you really want a physical Eelektross, which is fine, but I think it serves a much better role as a special or mixed (which you sort of have) attacker:
Thunderbolt (Great choice)
Flamethrower (Better coverage than D-Claw)
Grass Knot
Brick Break
Yeah. Not much to say. It works better mixed the other way (more special).
You should probably put Leftovers on your Gliscor OR if it's from the dream world, it is
highly effective to use a Toxic Orb because Poison Heal gets all the benefits of Leftovers, but it is immune to other crippling statuses. I would highly recommend:
Earthquake
Ice Fang
Protect
Move of your choice
You get decent coverage with EQ and Ice Fang. Protect ensures another 1/8 of your max HP given back to you.
I'm pretty sure that this is an in-game team, because you have no support or walls on it. Since the above Pokémon do a more than adequate job with physical/special sweeping (and Gliscor is somewhat of a tank), you should really use Drapion to your advantage as support and defense. Give it Leftovers as well.
Toxic Spikes
Whirlwind
Crunch/EQ
Taunt/Other move of your choice
Toxic Spikes and Whirlwind is a basic measure of pHazing your opponents into residual damage. Then, you have Crunch or EQ for coverage.
Again, you have no support options and you need
some. Politoed fills that role perfectly. Give it Leftovers.
Scald/Ice Beam/Surf
Encore
Hypnosis
Perish Song/Protect/Move of your choice
Perish Song forces switches on wifi battles and this is a general support set.
Hope this helps![/b]
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