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Is this team viable

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:36:02 No.18534848 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>18534928 >>18534948 >>18534993 >>18535181

I've never been a competitive player, but I just made this team of my favorites.

Is it viable?
I wanted Magmortar, Rhyperior, and Corsola...but they don't seem to fit in.

Heracross (Moxie)
Krookodile (Moxie)
Rotom (Substitute, Pain Split)
Archeops
Lickilicky (Heal Bell, Wish)
Scolipede

The idea is an offensive team that stalls well, can heal, and gets stronger over time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:39:33 No.18534885 Report

Quoted By: >>18534908

I appreciate any help, I'm doing this for my job at a used game store. I thought it'd be fun if we did an Elite 4 challenge, if you beat each of us you get a 10% discount on your next purchase.

Sorry if these threads are frowned upon, not trying to be too much of a fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:41:47 No.18534908 Report

Quoted By: >>18534931

>>18534885
what kind of e4 member has a mixed team?
are you karen??

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:43:10 No.18534928 Report

Quoted By: >>18534946 >>18534947

>>18534848
consider an Assault Vest Solid Rock Rhyperior (max HP and atk EVs) to cover Heracross' weaknesses. The latter can be your mega and the pivot of your team

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:43:21 No.18534931 Report

Quoted By: >>18534966

>>18534908

Well we don't want to give out discounts too easily. Monotype teams get wrecked easily, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:43:55 No.18534937 Report

Quoted By: >>18534958

Mega Heracross is fantastic
Krookodile is too frail and too slow, generally, but you can make it work
Rotom-W dominates the meta
a friend of mine used Archeops in gen V, but back then there was less priority and sweepers were elss bulky
>Lickilicky
shit taste
I run offensive Scolipede myself; Speed Boost, Adamant, with Swords Dance, Poison Jab, Earthquake, and Baton Pass, holding a Focus Sash. It's glorious.

Overall this team night bot work very well though. It's not too balanced and weak on the defense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:44:25 No.18534946 Report

Quoted By: >>18534968

>>18534928

Who should I drop for him?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:44:27 No.18534947 Report

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>>18534928
this and you could lead with baton passing Speed Boost Scolipede (Rhyperior checks its weaknesses as well but it's awfully slow)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:44:34 No.18534948 Report

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>>18534848
You should probably make Rotom Heat or Wash form. If you're going to use a Rotom of course.

Also, I'd recommend replacing Scolipede with something more useful considering you've already got Heracross.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:45:08 No.18534958 Report

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>>18534937
>night bot
*might not

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:45:34 No.18534966 Report

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>>18534931
Sort of true. Not all teams can handle all the single type of a monotype. example, if you run out of psychic or ground type users vs a poison type mono, you're gonna have a bad time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:45:38 No.18534968 Report

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>>18534946
maybe Krookodile, his earthquake is kinda redundant and Dark type has shit coverage

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:45:57 No.18534973 Report

Quoted By: >>18534995

I guess I'm really bad at covering weaknesses.

Does team building come from experience?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:46:29 No.18534982 Report

Quoted By: >>18535030

I understand you're using your favorites, so I won't critique your actual 'mon choices, but here's some things to consider:

>3 physical sweepers, no special sweepers (consider Magmortar)
>no mega (at least it wasn't indicated you were using M-Hera)
>Rotom should be in Wash form and physically defensive
>Lickilicy should be specially defensive but dies to fighting too easily
>Scolipede should have its HA, a Focus Sash, and lead your team

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:47:08 No.18534993 Report

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>>18534848
>Wanting to use Corsola

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:47:14 No.18534995 Report

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>>18534973
both experience and "theory". try it on showdown first if you plan on raising it from zero, to avoid to lose too much time if you change your mind

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:50:09 No.18535030 Report

Quoted By: >>18535051 >>18535087

>>18534982

Is wash form better? I was relying on Rotom being hard to hit as a ghost type so that I could stall and switch out for sweepers when I need them.

I only just realized all of my sweepers are physical. Fuck. Maybe I'll switch Magmortar for Krookodile, but he's just so fucking cool.

I'm not expecting the competition to be too difficult though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:52:13 No.18535051 Report

Quoted By: >>18535087 >>18535128

>>18535030
Rotom in its Wash form only has one weakness - Grass - and has access to Hydro Pump. Rotom in its Heat form is just as good but Overheat isn't as valuable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:55:03 No.18535087 Report

Quoted By: >>18535128

>>18535030
>>18535051
Also regular Rotom's stats are garbage.

Abzu

Abzu Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:58:45 No.18535128 Report

Quoted By: >>18535140 >>18535177

>>18535051
>>18535087
They are not and ghost form has a great immunity to fighting as well as being quicker than wash/heat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 21:59:59 No.18535140 Report

Quoted By: >>18535177 >>18535285

>>18535128

Hmmm I'll keep him in his normal form than, that was my draw to him, plus his wash form is too silly looking

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:02:40 No.18535177 Report

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>>18535128
>>18535140
>defenses lower by 30 each
>speed mattering on a defensive poke
>gain normal and fighting immunity, but ghost and dark weaknesses

You're crippling yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:02:59 No.18535181 Report

Quoted By: >>18535201 >>18535207 >>18535239

>>18534848
>an offensive team that stalls well
Wat.

First glaring thing is two Moxie users. Its redundant and you're much better off choosing one and finding using that slot for another niche. Your team is also 5/6 physical attackers and Rotom as a support 'mon, so it doesn't even count as a strong special attacker. Second glaring mistake is Archeops. Its ability renders it competitively useless; don't use it. Drop Archeops for Magmortar. Drop Heracross (pains me to say this because Hera is one of my faves and an incredibly fearsome physical sweeper but I think its the best choice given the rest of your team) for a defensive mon. Bulky waters are also a solid choice (try Suicune or Milotic, or if you really insist on using Corsola, then go ahead). Also let me add in the caveat that this team could only have a shot of survival in UU and below; it'd absolutely get annihilated in OU. I specialize in UU and RU though (1900 in Gen V UU and 1800 in Gen V RU on Showdown). I've always hated the power creep in OU.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:04:29 No.18535201 Report

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>>18535181
>not reading OP's second post

It's for a used game store pseudo-tourney.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:04:56 No.18535207 Report

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>>18535181
always a solid choice*

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:07:32 No.18535239 Report

Quoted By: >>18535258

>>18535181

I'll keep that in mind, I need a special attacker for sure, only problem is I don't like any.

Thanks everyone!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:09:11 No.18535258 Report

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>>18535239
You listed Magmortar, a hard hitting special attacker, especially with Speed Boosts from Scolipede.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 Mar 2014 22:12:20 No.18535285 Report

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>>18535140
I like regular Rotom a lot more, but we must admit that Rotom-W is a lot better.
Even if ghost form is inmune to fighting moves, they are a lot of things that kill it easily.

But hey, if its a store tournament you could do well with this team. Use this to see how much coverage have your mons http://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coverage

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