But if you do, I would certainly recommend it. Ability: Intimidate - Shadow Ball Ability: Inner Focus Locations: Wake-Up Slaps extra 10 BP is better than Force Palms chance to paralyse, so its a good STAB upgrade. Giga Drain is powerful, reliable healing, and Sludge Bomb is nice STAB with a nasty 30% poison rate. - Flamethrower It's a strong defensive Pokemon that packs quite the punch. Kiwi (Dodrio) @ King's Rock You can replace Giga Drain later for Leaf Storm or Leaf Blade if you want Sceptile to be fully physical, but Giga Drain is really useful early on. Swampert is a Water & Ground Pokmon which evolves from Marshtomp. TM Shadow Ball: Mt. Milotic is also another option, but evolving Feebas is a hassle. - Steel Wing For its moves, Earthquake is its main STAB. Vivi (Aggron) @ Lucky Egg - Focus Blast - Wake-Up Slap Swampert - Movesets & Best Build for Ranked Battle | Pokemon Sword and When I first got into Pokmon a while ago, Kecleon was my favourite Pokmon, because chameleons were and still are my animals, so no doubt I loved Kecleon. Confusion works well until you get Psychic, which is able to OHKO or 2HKO most neutral targets. - Steel Wing. I'm going to post a team for Swampert here, as I beat the whole story mode in two days and never died once. TM10 Hidden Power can be obtained in Fortree City. Also on Route 111, we encounter one of the most underrated Gen 3 mons IMO. I hear Froslass is bad because it requires babying a weak Snorunt for a long time. Ability: Trace / Synchronize > Pixilate - Poison Jab However, Sidney has two Grass types on his team, so be cautious. Coil: Boost Attack to sweep. Swampert - #260 - Serebii.net Pokdex It can stand on its three-toed feet with a hunched posture, and pick up or grab objects with its hands, but when moving about it tends to run . I respectfully must disagree with you on Raichu. Hariyama @ Silk Scarf (Did I ever mention that Intimidate is a fantastic ability? - Leech Seed If Absol has Super Luck, your Night Slashes and Psycho Cuts will most likely crit. - Dragon Claw / Dual Chop Focus Blast is Steel coverage and Thunderbolt is extra coverage for other types. - Iron Tail. - Roost. - Psychic Pre-poisoning Hariyama with Guts makes it nigh unstoppable, especially if youre playing on switch mode. Heracross @ Heracronite Make sure to use the Move Relearner on Gardevoir to get Moonbast. Strength is for moving boulders, which is handy. What is a good in-game team for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald? - Stone Edge Nothing is greater than a Swampert. Linoone = Pick Up - Howl (starting move) > Spark (Level 13) > Discharge (Level 30) - Dig After you get to the E4, you can delete your HM moves and give Tentacruel more useful moves in Dazzling Gleam/ Ice Beam. Equip an Oran Berry or use Potions during the battle to survive Nosepass Rock Tombs. Ability: Frisk - Thunderbolt: TM24 after New Mauville quest Close Combat / Brick Break- Your call. Except for its Mega Evolution which really just makes it kinda OP. Ability: Static - Double Edge: Level 45 - Volt Switch (TM) 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. Both have STAB and good power. 2. Ice Beam- Good power, covers Grass weakness But now I do, and this Pokmon takes great advantage of its great ability: Huge Power. Psycho Cut/Psychic - Close Combat: Level 43 Crabhammer is just powerful STAB. Dazzling Gleam is the strongest Fairy STAB move Gardevoir gets before the postgame, and its extra BP is typically more helpful than Draining Kiss HP recovery. Hey guys how's it going? - Moonblast - Solar Beam: TM22 at the Safari Zone Hey, gotta deal with 'em somehow! Rock Slide- Coverage against many of Sceptile's weaknesses, Swellow For every Pokemon on the team, give recommended moves for use throughout the playthrough. Swampert is the aforementioned starter that's an absolute beast in competitive matches and can carry teams in PVE. It can be given a Wacan Berry in case Salamence connects with a Thunder Punch, but its very difficult to lose this battle. Please be sparing with images and formatting. Swampert: Mud Fish Pokmon 3 Attack Height Weight Gender Egg Group(s) 4'11" 1.5m 180.6 lbs. If you can't get it, Hyper Voice is the next best bet. A very good wall, with good attacking stats but low Speed. - Growl (starting move) > Mud Shot (Level 16) > Brick Break (TM31 - Sootopolis City). Banette is probably better. - Growl (starting move) > Disarming Voice (Level 11) > Draining Kiss (Level 23) > Dazzling Gleam (TM99 - Route 123) Ninetales @ Charcoal - Flamethrower If you really want to, you can replace Headbutt with Surf for another HM move, or Shadow Claw for better coverage. Quick Attack for priority and Thunderbolt is STAB. - Quick Attack (starting move). - Megahorn: Level 37 - Flash Cannon I'm pretty sure Slaking doesn't pack Earthquake, but just bear that in mind as well. Raichu or a Pikachu with light ball? Gardevoir Psycho Cut- Decent power, STAB - Brick Break / Hammer Arm Until then, use whatever item you think works. And finally, in the depths on the Shoal Cave (and by the depths I mean the first room), we meet our final permanent team member, the thicc walrus. - Protect. Ability: Levitate Flygon is the powerhouse of the team (it's worth training up Trapinch). Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. - Shadow Claw. - Dragon Claw. The last move is a variety of coverage moves. Ability: Trace Flamethrower is good for Ice types and Steel Wing for the Fairies. What is a good in-game team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Flip Turn. Ability: Flash Fire - Water Gun (starting move) > Surf (HM obtained after defeating Norman) For the last move, you can use Rain Dance to work with Swift Swim, or you can use Rock Slide or Hammer Arm for coverage. Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! - Ice Beam / Frost Breath Both Bite and X-Scissor are fairly useless for when theyre used, but theres not much Crobat needs other than Acrobatics. - Strength. 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. - Earthquake (TM) / Stone Edge (TM). - Coil Surf is good for dealing with pesky Fire types. Gyarados @ Rocky Helmet Metal Sound- Harshly lowers opponent's Special Defense and pretty much makes Magnezone unstoppable. - Shadow Ball The last slot is a coverage holder. Walrein and Milotic are both good Water type Pokemon. You might be wondering why so few HMs. Today's team is Gen 6/3 ORAS starting with Mudkip. Manectric @ Magnet / nothing - Focus Blast / Brick Break. Pyre) / Infestation (TM83 - Sootopolis City) / Toxic (TM06 - Fiery Path), Shadow Sneak (Level 7 - May require Move Reminder), Aerial Ace (TM40 - Mauville City Pokmart). - Mud-Slap (Level 9) > Dig (TM28 - Route 114) > Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) Waterfall - Crunch Blaze Kick was Blaziken's signature move and it's an all-around great Fire STAB. 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. - Earthquake - Acupressure. High Attack and Speed but low Special Attack and defenses. Another thing, there are quite a few recoil moves on Blaziken.. Yeah it is a lot of TM's, but all the TM's I've put you can obtain quite early in game, some of which you can even learn through levelling up. This should be enough to OHKO every Pokemon with Crunch, but if it isnt, the only threat is Dusknoir, who still cant usually kill with Thunder Punch. - Flash Cannon - Leech Life (starting move) > Wing Attack (Level 13) > Acrobatics (Level 35) Surf is because I was too lazy keep switching Pokmon so I had a different Surf-er, whereas, if you are patient enough, Superpower just gives him a little more coverage. - Moonblast - Iron Head Swords Dance boosts its already decent attack and makes it a good physical sweeper, especially when Mega Evolved. Zangoose @ Silk Scarf With Skill Link, Bullet Seed becomes one of the best Grass-type moves out there, and Earthquake is a standard. Various HMs: Given throughout the main story (Gift) Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice]: Always try for Hidden Power [Ice] for coverage, but otherwise Thunder Wave to catch stuff and paralyse an enemy. - Stone Edge: see above - Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice] - Shadow Ball: TM30 at Mt. Swampert is a great starter becuase its only weakness is Grass. Ability: Thick Fat The other moves are pretty self explanatory, although you can use a mixed set with Psychic > Zen Headbutt for accuracy. - Earthquake. I use the exact same team as yours except Absol. Overall, just my favorite of the starters. - Earthquake Earthquake - Thunderbolt - Steel Wing You can Mega Evolve it if you'd like, but personally I think other Mega Evolutions are much better choices than Gyarados'. Magnezone is a beast. Supersalamence93 here bringing you another Pokemon Teambuilder. It has great coverage and usually very fast. - Flamethrower - Leaf Blade - Energy Ball Every team needs a Dragon type and [emailprotected] are great. Greta (Gardevoir) @ Gardevoirite Return / Facade: STAB move. - Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast before Flannery, not enough coverage, id replace delcatty with a linnone hm slave and mightyana with garnavor with movesets of. Earthquake, Fly, and Dragon Claw are self-explanatory, and from there, pick an item and your choice of Ice coverage, and you're set! - Hidden Power (TM) / Flash (TM) / Thunder Wave (TM)*. Surf: STAB and an HM. - Earthquake Brick Break/Dazzling Gleam Zen Headbutt is solid filler coverage, and Earthquake is Earthquake! - Strength Same with Earthquake. Ability: Huge Power. Swampert @Swampertite/Whatever else you'd like Waterfall and Earthquake are accurate STAB. Ice Fang is coverage against Grass, and Stone Edge against Flying types. Waterfall and Crunch are physical STAB. Surf: Until a Water type is obtained. Swampert | BW | Smogon Strategy Pokedex Linoone can be subbed out for Zangoose or Seviper, which are both really good in-game. - Magic Coat - Earthquake - Iron Head Replace bulldoze with belly drum and get aqua jet on it somehow. Dig can be used in the same way as an Escape Rope to escape caves and Surf can be used to surf at a normal speed (since we also have Sharpedo in the party). Ability: Volt Absorb Pickup gives you free stuff, he learns a good chunk of the HMs, and he evolves early! - Dark Pulse. Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! Surf- Good power, STAB, useful in-game - Psycho Cut Winona: Manectric is a good answer to most of her team, but Gyarados may be necessary to Ice Fang her Altaria. [emailprotected] Expert Belt Ability: Torrent Stealth Rock. Dragon Breath Swap it for Psychic or something if you wish, but the signature moves have coin-flip odds to lower one of the target's Special stats (Attack for Latias, Defence for Latios). Fly and Iron Head are STAB. - Surf Now if you want. Stone Edge: Lilycove Department Store Rock Slide is another option and covers most of his weaknesses, but Earthquake is just overall better due to its higher power and accuracy. - Night Slash - Dark Pulse: TM97 at the Team Magma/Aqua Hideout Swampert is a great Poke in its own right, with a solid movepool, great Attack, and only one weakness. Gardevoir can also take on most of Team Aqua/Magma as the teams use a lot of Poison and Dark type Pokemon. With this set, you can cover all of his weaknesses other than Fighting, but then again, Gardevoir handles them easily. Linoone is synonymous with Hoenn, why wouldn't you use him? The first three are to utilize Sceptile's very high Special Attack. Ability: Rock Head Surf is preferred over Waterfall because of its higher base power, and Waterfall works better on Gyarados anyways. - Ice Beam 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. Moves are after getting rid of most HMs for the E4 and Champ. Gyarados can typically outspeed and OHKO both with Crunch, but Persim Berries might be a good idea anyways. - Arm Thrust (starting move) > Force Palm (Level 13) > Wake-Up Slap (Level 38) Sceptile. - Rock Slide 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. With access to Swords Dance, it could be a potential sweeper. - Sky Uppercut / High Jump Kick Roserade: Route 117 (Roselia), Super Training (Shiny Stone) I think Aggron is worse than Gyarados because it's unable to sweep the Elite 4 like Gyarados can. - Crunch Dazzling Gleam: Route 123 near the Berry Master's house, given by a Fairy Girl - Waterfall This is for a standard team, so just pick Mudkip. 3) It has access to many great TMs & Move Tutors. Steel Wing is the most viable move for the last slot, since Swellow has a pretty shallow movepool. Fake Out / Rock Slide / Power-Up Punch: Fake Out for some damage, Rock Slide helps against Flying types and Power-Up Punch is STAB that raises Attack. - Blaze Kick / Flare Blitz Close Combat: Powerful STAB move - Rain Dance Swords Dance: Good for setting up. If you choose not to evolve your Magneton and just give him the Eviolite from Route 123, he has less HP and less in both Attacks than Magnezone, but every other stat gets better. Set up 3 Dragon Dances on either the Claydol or Cradily, healing as needed, and freely sweep the rest of Stevens team. - Leer (starting move) > Volt Switch (TM72 - Obtained after defeating Wattson) - Thunderbolt Tri Attack is a decent move and is really just a filler and Flash Cannon is your Steel type STAB. It or Hariyama can deal with Sharpedo, and Gardevoir cleanly OHKOes the rest of Sidneys team. For this Hariyama, Thick Fat is preferred so it can tank more Ice and Fire moves. Seafloor Cavern Archie: Gardevoir handily deals with Archies entire team, but if youre scared of Crobat outspeeding, switch to Manectric for Discharge. - Focus Blast / Thunderbolt. Heart Scales: Repeatedly use Rock Smash on Route 111 (right outside Mauville City), Sceptile @ Wide Lens / Sceptilite Steven: Lead Manectric into Skarmory, and Quick Attack to break Sturdy before KOing with Discharge. - Crabhammer Swampert @ Swampertite You can give it a Persim Berry to block Magnetons confusion, but it should be a clean sweep. You're going to need an Electric type. [emailprotected] Item While everyone thinks Dawn Stones are a pain to obtain just use Super Training! Hypnosis- Puts enemy to sleep. Gardevoir @ anything This is a in-game team, it doesn't need to set up. - X-Scissor / Earthquake Boomburst is a fantastic move with a base power of 140, and 210 with STAB. Hariyama was a lot better than expected in this playthrough. Ability: Steadfast > Inner Focus - Meteor Mash / Power-Up Punch Ability: Marvel Scale / Oblivious Magnezone is easily one of the best, if not the best, Electric-types in the game, only contested by Manectric. - Crunch / Earthquake. Lilycove City Rival: Swellow and Wailord fall to Manectric, and Magcargo goes down to Swampert. I guess you could use Eathquake. Pyre). [emailprotected]: Southern Island (Gift) Mist Ball/Luster Purge. Other good moves you can consider are Brick Break, X-Scissor, Power-Up Punch and False Swipe (to catch Pokemon). Thanks! - Strength With DexNav, walking outside the strip of grass on Route 102 closest to Petalburg City will eventually force a Ralts encounter. Dragon Pulse / Dive: Dragon Pulse for coverage or Dive for another HM. - Magical Leaf Now if you want to change a Pokemon go ahead. As for Waterfall and Dive, I'd suggest grabbing the Good Rod, fishing up a Carvanha, and shoving it into your box until you need it. Ability: Torrent > Swift Swim I was just looking through for some ideas for my team and I think a Sceptile team is pretty good like this: Sceptile @ Sceptilite Magical Leaf comes in handy against Water/Ground types that Manectric can't touch, as well as Rock/Ground types. You can also take on Winona with Stone Edge, but it is not recommended. Swampert predicts storms by sensing subtle differences in the sounds of waves and tidal winds with its fins. - Pursuit Exploud @ Leftovers / Shell Bell I'm about to challenge the E4 while writing this: Cuddles (Swampert) @ Swampertite Ability: Synchronize / Trace --> Pixilate Skarmory is a very defensive Pokemon. Ice Beam: Sea Mauville, in the storage room after completing all of the key puzzles. Manectric is the best Electric type available in my opinion. Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. - Rock Slide / Stone Edge. 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. but they are not necessary. Spike (Cacturne) @ Miracle Seed Acrobatics is deadly when not holding an item. Arm Thrust is fairly subpar, but Force Palm is quite a solid move that will last until the midgame. Shadow Ball covers against Ghost and other Psychics. Swampert's favorite teammates include defensive Roserade, as it 4x resists Grass-type attacks and can set up Spikes that make Swampert a pain to switch into; Rhyperior, for setting up Stealth Rock and defeating Flying-type Pokemon reliably; and Flying-type Pokemon, such as Togekiss and Zapdos, to take Grass-type hits and build momentum for - Volt Switch. This is much more reliable than gambling on random encounters, and its often a large timesaver. Best Team for Hoenn ft. Zeldawars MysticUmbreon 581K subscribers Join Subscribe 27K 2.7M views 6 years ago Hey guys welcome to the Best Team For Hoenn. Ability: Flash Fire His defenses aren't that bad so he can hold in there longer than most and he has a really good Special Attack. Chimney Archie: I used a Beautifly with Silver Wind to safely take out Mightyena and Sharpedo, and Rock Slide Marshtomp for Golbat, but Manectric also works well. Ability: Blaze > Speed Boost TM Dazzling Gleam: Route 123 Linoone @ anything - Hex. Need I said more? Rock Smash - Calm Mind Because it is.) So while Meteor Mash is really great STAB, it lacks reliability and accuracy. Manectric @ Magnet / Life Orb *TM51 Steel Wing can be found in Granite Cave. No backup should be needed, but Gyarados is a good fallback. I mean, just look at that 185 base Attack. What was your team for every ORAS? : r/pokemon - Reddit Lenny (Linoone) @ Nothing Plus, he has a Mega Evolution and an Electric type immunity. Bro sub out Gardevoir for Gallade as it takes forever to get dawn stone if you have one system like me. If you want Protean, catch the required Kecleon so you can DexNav for a Protean Kecleon. If you want to surf faster, use Sharpedo instead. Fairies are no problem with Sludge Wave. - Supersonic (starting move) > Confuse Ray (Level 17) > Fly (HM02 - Route 119) Giga Drain is also STAB and Shadow Ball is for type coverage. - Roost - Stone Edge Tentacruel @ Black Sludge It receives. - Tri Attack - Earthquake - Ice Beam. Stone Edge- Great power. Linoone @ any item - Bite (Level 20) > Crunch (Level 41) The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. While Treecko might not be the best starter available, it certainly can still hold his own against Hoenn, especially because there is loads of water (insert IGN joke here). - Spikes, Magnezone Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle (Each Pokmon (except for Froslass) will have an HM, including Dig. Nice dual type Pokemon. - Hammer Arm Kiwi is my flyer. Very fast, with high Special Attack but low defenses. When you're at the Elite Four, though, you should forget its HMs and replace them with more useful coverage moves like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Shadow Ball and Return.