My first competitive team
Apr 5, 2015, 08:51 PM
Realize that your team is EXTREMELY weak to Ice, not to mention Psychic, Fire and Flying. The idea you have in mind is unstable because there are games where you can't carry both Lopunny and Garchomp and aside from them, this team doesn't go very far offensively and over compensates too much defensively.
Your Lopunny set is pretty standard, however, it would make more sense to run Low Kick over Drain Punch if you really want to score those KOs unto Pokemon like Kangaskhan. You aren't running Protect so there is no reason to run sustain moves.
Go Protect over Iron Head. You won't be killing any fairy types with Iron Head plus Earthquake's damage is relatively close to it. I suggest running Life Orb on Garchomp.
Togekiss really isn't necessary here because it under-speeds the core of your team, shares weaknesses with team mates and isn't carrying any support other than Follow Me. I suggested using Talonflame over Togekiss to give you more offensive options as well providing Quick Guard support to stop faster Fake Outs and Prankster Pokemon with Quick Guard.
The same thing goes for Amoonguss. Lopunny is weak to Flying and Psychic and Garchomp is weak to Ice, all of which Amoonguss is weak to. Your team would appreciate Spore a lot but can't fit in a slot for that because it only adds more common weaknesses. One thing your team lacks is speed control and checks to Intimidaters that try to slow down Lopunny and Garchomp. Also Garchomp has no safe switch ins other than Rotom-W. I recommend trying out Milotic. It provides great special defensive bulk, speed control via Icy Wind, a better check to Landorus than Lopunny can ever be and it has access to Scald which makes trimming down physical attackers easier.
Decide between Bug Bite or Knock Off and give Scizor Swords Dance. Swords Dance allows Scizor to get in a huge chunk of chip damage with Bullet Punch as well as OHKO Pokemon that take neutral or super effective damage from Bug Bite or Knock Off. Give this thing a Lum Berry with an Adamant nature and spread a bit of EVs into attack and the rest into defenses and HP.
Its best if you run Rotom with either a Rocky Helmet or Sitrus Berry. Assault Vest Rotom is downright bad. This stops it from checking physical attackers with Will-o-Wisp or protecting from double ups into its slot. Protect, Thunderbolt, Hydro Pump, Will-o-Wisp is the standard set and there isn't any reason why you need to abandon it for this team. Either go Modest if you want it to be more offensive or Calm so it can withstand more Giga Drains, Solar Beams, Hyper Voice and so forth.
Your Lopunny set is pretty standard, however, it would make more sense to run Low Kick over Drain Punch if you really want to score those KOs unto Pokemon like Kangaskhan. You aren't running Protect so there is no reason to run sustain moves.
Go Protect over Iron Head. You won't be killing any fairy types with Iron Head plus Earthquake's damage is relatively close to it. I suggest running Life Orb on Garchomp.
Togekiss really isn't necessary here because it under-speeds the core of your team, shares weaknesses with team mates and isn't carrying any support other than Follow Me. I suggested using Talonflame over Togekiss to give you more offensive options as well providing Quick Guard support to stop faster Fake Outs and Prankster Pokemon with Quick Guard.
The same thing goes for Amoonguss. Lopunny is weak to Flying and Psychic and Garchomp is weak to Ice, all of which Amoonguss is weak to. Your team would appreciate Spore a lot but can't fit in a slot for that because it only adds more common weaknesses. One thing your team lacks is speed control and checks to Intimidaters that try to slow down Lopunny and Garchomp. Also Garchomp has no safe switch ins other than Rotom-W. I recommend trying out Milotic. It provides great special defensive bulk, speed control via Icy Wind, a better check to Landorus than Lopunny can ever be and it has access to Scald which makes trimming down physical attackers easier.
Decide between Bug Bite or Knock Off and give Scizor Swords Dance. Swords Dance allows Scizor to get in a huge chunk of chip damage with Bullet Punch as well as OHKO Pokemon that take neutral or super effective damage from Bug Bite or Knock Off. Give this thing a Lum Berry with an Adamant nature and spread a bit of EVs into attack and the rest into defenses and HP.
Its best if you run Rotom with either a Rocky Helmet or Sitrus Berry. Assault Vest Rotom is downright bad. This stops it from checking physical attackers with Will-o-Wisp or protecting from double ups into its slot. Protect, Thunderbolt, Hydro Pump, Will-o-Wisp is the standard set and there isn't any reason why you need to abandon it for this team. Either go Modest if you want it to be more offensive or Calm so it can withstand more Giga Drains, Solar Beams, Hyper Voice and so forth.
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