New Battle Maison Team

[Team Rocket Fan]

First of all, I'd like to say that all those sets created by me are used and tested before and they made me really proud. They can sweep even the most effective teams. I aim to arrive on Battle 50 and defeat the Chanteline to make myshelf feel a bit more confident (Or maybe it's just to take Revenge frrom those Haxing Cheaters) . Wherever you see a / or an "OR" I mean that I need help to select a move or a pokemon.

Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge / Rock Slide

Salamence, my favourite Dragon can be extremely strong with this set that allows him to show what his Attack and Speed stats wroth. I watch many mixed sets on most Salmence Teams I know. Personally, i think Mixed sets are worthless and useless because you can't show full potential of a pokemon's stat, like with this set. Jolly nature lets Salmence outspeed many other +Spd pokemon in the Battle Maison. Moxie an amazing option for Salamence makes him look like this: First I use DD, then I attack and kill the opposing pokemon. Moxie boosts my attack and then I sweep to victory. Life Orb is there for even more Damage. Dragon Claw is my choise instead of Outrage. Outrage locks me in a move and then confuses me. No thanks. You never know when a Fairy Type will show up in there. And when Salamence is confused he can even OHKO or 2KO himshelf.... Earthquake is an important coverage move for every physical attacker esspecially in the Battle Maison. Rock Slide or Stone Edge will be used for weakness in Ice Types that will OHKO Salamence. Importand threats for this set are: Choise Scarf Dazzling Gleam Mr Mime, All Ice Types, Aerodactyl, Dragonite, Raichu with Encore, Focus Sash and Discharge.

OR

Crawdaunt (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Crabhammer
- Knock Off
- Rock Slide

Crawdaunt. At first sight he looks pathetic with only his Attack stat being reliable. It's not like this. When equiped with Focus Sash he can surely take a DD Boost. Then it's all up to attacking. Knock Off is the main attack with STAB that KOs even the Bulkier opponents like Ferrothorn easily. Crabbhammer has a bigger chance to land a Critical Hit. Although it's not a need to most of the opposing pokemon to be OHKOed. Rock Slide is my choise over X-Scizor because it has a preety good chance to flinch and also both Yanmega or Volcarona have Bug Buzz for a Bug move. Adaptability is another amazing Ability that boosts STAB moves even more! Adamant Nature gives full potential of Crawdaunt's aamazing Attack Stat! Notable threats are: Raichu with Encore, Focus Sash and Discharge, Ampharos, Zebstika, Glaceon, Pyroar,All Fake Out users, Focus Sash users with a Speed Stat over 100 and Attacks over 100 as well, Chesnaught.

Venusaur-Mega (M) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Thick Fat
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Def / 80 SpD
Calm Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis
- Sleep Powder
- Leech Seed

My favourite starter! When Mega Evolves Venusaur gains the ability to have more Resistance on 2 of his Weaknesses, Ice and Fire. The Evs and Nature make his Defences almost equal.Sludge Bomb deals quiet a lot damage even with Evs investment in SpAtk gaining a STAB and has a really good chance to poison the foe. Synthesis is there for quick HP Restoring. Sleep Powder is to put dangerous foes like Set-Up Sweepers in sleep to give Venusaur more time to end the battle. Lech Seed is a really important reason I selected Venusaur. The most important move to Bulky Pokemon. It deals damage and restores respectful amount of HP to you as well. That's why I consider Mega Venusaur one of the best walls in the pokemon world. Notable threats: Unfezant, Haulucha, Pyroar with White Herb and Overheat, Reuniclous.

Volcarona (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Flame Body
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Roost
- Fiery Dance
- Bug Buzz

Volcarona is respectively considered really dtrong from evryone. Leftovers are there for recovery. Flame Body burns physical attacker that make contact with my moth leading them to total uselessness. Bold nature and full HP, Def is to make Volcarona's pathetic Defence stat be equal with her really good SpDef. Quiver Dance, the best set up move, not only makes her bulkier but also more nimble and powerful boosting Special Stats and Speed. Roost is for good recovery not making Volcarona lose anything in return. Fiery Dance has a great chance of 50% to boost your Special Attack while it also deals a respectful STAB Damage and Bug Buzz is a great STAB move that may lower SpDef too. Notable threats: All users of Rock Type attacks, Haulwcha, Unfezant, All users of Parlyzing moves, Yanmega.

OR

Yanmega (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Protect
- Bug Buzz
- Air Slash
- Giga Drain

Yanmega. One of the few Team Rocket pokemon considered strong. Life Orb helps Yanmega deal a great amount of damage. Protect gives Yanmega a free Speed Boost allowing her to take care of physically faster opponents easily. Modest nature is to bring full potential of Yanmega's best stat, SpAtk, while Timid is not necessary because of her Ability. Bug Buzz is Yanmega's main attack with a good chance of lowering SpDef becoming even stronger. Air Slash is another STAB move able to land really good flinches with a chance of 30% while dealing respectful amount of damage. Giga Drain dels with Rock Types while also recovers a good amount of HP, cause Rock Types usually have a lot of HP investment. Important threats: All Rock Type attack users, Pyroar, Raichu, Ampharos.

Well? What do you think? Any suggestion is welcomed and appreciated! Thanx!

 

[It2Zoroark]

You have a lot of weakness to rock and electric type users, that said, you need a defogger or a spinner to keep your mons from getting wrecked by rocks. You have very little protection/status/disruption and no walls or set ups. Even in the battle maison these things are crucial to winning. With Volcarona, Salamence, and Crawdaunt needing a couple turns to set up a disruptive mon is almost a must. I learned quickly that any mon with just 4 offensive moves is not going to do well. Fake out and Wide guard are spectacular moves for setting up QD and DD. Moxie is a cool ability but is very fragile in doubles battles. Attacks like Leech Seed/Wil - O - Wisp/Thunder Wave are also very important and can be huge swings in battle.

 

[Cinesra]

Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge / Rock Slide

Salamence, my favourite Dragon can be extremely strong with this set that allows him to show what his Attack and Speed stats wroth. I watch many mixed sets on most Salmence Teams I know. Personally, i think Mixed sets are worthless and useless because you can't show full potential of a pokemon's stat, like with this set.

A mixed set would probably be more useful as Fire Blast would do serious damage to Skarmory, Ferrothorn, and (M) Scizor, pokemon that would otherwise wall you. A little less Special Defense is a fair trade-off. Also you'd probably be better off with Crawdaunt because Sally gets hard walled by Clefable and Togekiss and compounds rock weaknesses.

Rock Slide or Stone Edge will be used for weakness in Ice Types that will OHKO Salamence

A boosted DD and Fire Blast should be fine at taking out Ice types, so SE/RS really aren't necessary for that. A Rock move could be useful for Togekiss, but it really has no use outside of that whereas Fire Blast handles 3 pokes that wall you. A Lum Berry is a nice possibility. Also the word is spelled choice.

Crawdaunt (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Crabhammer
- Knock Off
- Rock Slide

You'd probably be better off with Aqua Jet for the last slot as it will let you pick off weakened pokemon or hit pokemon that are still faster after you DD/have priority. Really, Aerial Ace or Superpower may be better moves than RS for you as they hit various Pokemon, in particular Chesnaught and Mega Gyarados harder than your other moves. You may find SD+AJ better than DD+RS better as it boosts its Atk even more and lets AJ hit even harder to make up for the lack of Speed. You could potentially run DD and SD on the same set and use SD against move defensive teams or DD against faster ones. LO, Lum, or CB are all useful items you may want to check out.

Venusaur-Mega (M) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Thick Fat
Shiny: no because it's ugly
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Def / 80 SpD
Calm Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis
- Sleep Powder
- Leech Seed

My favourite starter! When Mega Evolves Venusaur gains the ability to have more Resistance on 2 of his Weaknesses, Ice and Fire. The Evs and Nature make his Defences almost equal.

Please don't invest EV's just to make your defensive stats about equal. You pretty much always want to specialize in one direction and for Venusaur I'd say Def. Use 240 Def, Bold, and 16 Spe for things like Azu and Mawile. I'm really not a big fan of Venusaur without a Grass STAB and would suggest you swap Leech Seed for Giga Drain.

Volcarona (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Flame Body
Shiny: no because it's ugly, too
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Roost
- Fiery Dance
- Bug Buzz

248 HP gets you an extra switch in to SR, so use that. If you can get your hands on a Giga Drain Volc, use it over Bug Buzz because it gives better coverage and lets you hit the types that are good against Fire hard. You might want to put 124 EV's into Spe to outspeed Mega Alakazam and Mega Aerodactyl after a QD or 160 to outspeed Mega Manectric after a QD/Adamant Excadrill before one. Lum is an option to cure you of Toxic or T-Wave, but it's probably better on Crawdaunt or Salamence and lefties is fine. An offensive set is good, too, with Giga Drain, Modest, max Spa, and possibly 125/160 Spe. For an offensive set I'd suggest Life Orb or a Passho Berry.

Yanmega (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Protect
- Bug Buzz
- Air Slash
- Giga Drain

The 4HP should be moved to Def because you want an odd HP number to switch into SR an extra time. Volcarona is usually better, but Yanmega could be a good pair with a SD Crawdaunt with Yanmega taking out faster Pokemon and Crawdaunt taking out slower ones, plus they have fairly good synergy. You might like Ancientpower over GD for Flying and Fire types, but GD is probably better.

You have a lot of weakness to rock and electric type users, that said, you need a defogger or a spinner to keep your mons from getting wrecked by rocks.

Is Stealth Rock that common in Battle Maison singles? I would imagine not.

You have very little protection/status/disruption and no walls or set ups. Even in the battle maison these things are crucial to winning. With Volcarona, Salamence, and Crawdaunt needing a couple turns to set up a disruptive mon is almost a must. I learned quickly that any mon with just 4 offensive moves is not going to do well. Fake out and Wide guard are spectacular moves for setting up QD and DD. Moxie is a cool ability but is very fragile in doubles battles. Attacks like Leech Seed/Wil - O - Wisp/Thunder Wave are also very important and can be huge swings in battle.

M8, read the title of the thread, m8. This is a singles team I haven't played 3v3 singles, because it's a stupid format and you should be allowed to use a full team but I'd imagine going mostly offensive is a good approach due to the fact that you only get half a team and it's harder to wall all threats with just 3 mons. Fake Out isn't very useful and Wide Guard has zero use in singles. He also totally has a wall and its name is Venusaur.

 

[Team Rocket Fan]

I tried a Team with Crawdaunt, Venusaur and Volcarona. I lost in Battle 49.....If only I had used a differnet move I could win the whole thing!!!

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Any advice is still welcomed! Thank you all for the good advice you gave and I'll make sure I give those changes a shot!!

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Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge / Rock Slide

Salamence, my favourite Dragon can be extremely strong with this set that allows him to show what his Attack and Speed stats wroth. I watch many mixed sets on most Salmence Teams I know. Personally, i think Mixed sets are worthless and useless because you can't show full potential of a pokemon's stat, like with this set.

A mixed set would probably be more useful as Fire Blast would do serious damage to Skarmory, Ferrothorn, and (M) Scizor, pokemon that would otherwise wall you. A little less Special Defense is a fair trade-off. Also you'd probably be better off with Crawdaunt because Sally gets hard walled by Clefable and Togekiss and compounds rock weaknesses.

Rock Slide or Stone Edge will be used for weakness in Ice Types that will OHKO Salamence

A boosted DD and Fire Blast should be fine at taking out Ice types, so SE/RS really aren't necessary for that. A Rock move could be useful for Togekiss, but it really has no use outside of that whereas Fire Blast handles 3 pokes that wall you. A Lum Berry is a nice possibility. Also the word is spelled choice.

Crawdaunt (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Crabhammer
- Knock Off
- Rock Slide

You'd probably be better off with Aqua Jet for the last slot as it will let you pick off weakened pokemon or hit pokemon that are still faster after you DD/have priority. Really, Aerial Ace or Superpower may be better moves than RS for you as they hit various Pokemon, in particular Chesnaught and Mega Gyarados harder than your other moves. You may find SD+AJ better than DD+RS better as it boosts its Atk even more and lets AJ hit even harder to make up for the lack of Speed. You could potentially run DD and SD on the same set and use SD against move defensive teams or DD against faster ones. LO, Lum, or CB are all useful items you may want to check out.

Venusaur-Mega (M) @ Venusaurite
Ability: Thick Fat
Shiny: no because it's ugly
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Def / 80 SpD
Calm Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Synthesis
- Sleep Powder
- Leech Seed

My favourite starter! When Mega Evolves Venusaur gains the ability to have more Resistance on 2 of his Weaknesses, Ice and Fire. The Evs and Nature make his Defences almost equal.

Please don't invest EV's just to make your defensive stats about equal. You pretty much always want to specialize in one direction and for Venusaur I'd say Def. Use 240 Def, Bold, and 16 Spe for things like Azu and Mawile. I'm really not a big fan of Venusaur without a Grass STAB and would suggest you swap Leech Seed for Giga Drain.

Volcarona (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Flame Body
Shiny: no because it's ugly, too
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Roost
- Fiery Dance
- Bug Buzz

248 HP gets you an extra switch in to SR, so use that. If you can get your hands on a Giga Drain Volc, use it over Bug Buzz because it gives better coverage and lets you hit the types that are good against Fire hard. You might want to put 124 EV's into Spe to outspeed Mega Alakazam and Mega Aerodactyl after a QD or 160 to outspeed Mega Manectric after a QD/Adamant Excadrill before one. Lum is an option to cure you of Toxic or T-Wave, but it's probably better on Crawdaunt or Salamence and lefties is fine. An offensive set is good, too, with Giga Drain, Modest, max Spa, and possibly 125/160 Spe. For an offensive set I'd suggest Life Orb or a Passho Berry.

Yanmega (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Speed Boost
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Protect
- Bug Buzz
- Air Slash
- Giga Drain

The 4HP should be moved to Def because you want an odd HP number to switch into SR an extra time. Volcarona is usually better, but Yanmega could be a good pair with a SD Crawdaunt with Yanmega taking out faster Pokemon and Crawdaunt taking out slower ones, plus they have fairly good synergy. You might like Ancientpower over GD for Flying and Fire types, but GD is probably better.

You have a lot of weakness to rock and electric type users, that said, you need a defogger or a spinner to keep your mons from getting wrecked by rocks.

Is Stealth Rock that common in Battle Maison singles? I would imagine not.

You have very little protection/status/disruption and no walls or set ups. Even in the battle maison these things are crucial to winning. With Volcarona, Salamence, and Crawdaunt needing a couple turns to set up a disruptive mon is almost a must. I learned quickly that any mon with just 4 offensive moves is not going to do well. Fake out and Wide guard are spectacular moves for setting up QD and DD. Moxie is a cool ability but is very fragile in doubles battles. Attacks like Leech Seed/Wil - O - Wisp/Thunder Wave are also very important and can be huge swings in battle.

M8, read the title of the thread, m8. This is a singles team I haven't played 3v3 singles, because it's a stupid format and you should be allowed to use a full team but I'd imagine going mostly offensive is a good approach due to the fact that you only get half a team and it's harder to wall all threats with just 3 mons. Fake Out isn't very useful and Wide Guard has zero use in singles. He also totally has a wall and its name is Venusaur.

You are right. Salamence's stats may be better that Crawdaunt's but Crawdaunt still has more advantages.
Crawdaunt's last slot will be Aqua Jet. Thanx for mention it! I have faced many speed problems even after a DD.
Anyways, I really think you forgot a bit about the Battle Maison since it doesn't use Megas...

 

[It2Zoroark]

I apologize, I should definitely read things better lol. I actually see Rocks a lot in the battle maison and is quite frustrating when I am running my M Char Y.

 

[Team Rocket Fan]

I apologize, I should definitely read things better lol. I actually see Rocks a lot in the battle maison and is quite frustrating when I am running my M Char Y.

Indeed, Rock Slide and Stone Edge defeated my Volcarona the last time too....But not Stealth Rock...It's not common there as I see it. Thanx anyway.