[RATE MY TEAM] Netherlandish's Teams

[Netherlandish]

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Anyways, your team still has a huge Ice and Fairy weakness.

With ridding Dragonite I get rid of a fairy and an ice weakness. There. Issue solved.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Absol is a decent physical attacker and does a great job as a glass cannon, that is after it mega evolves. Before Mega Evolution, Absol has a base 75 speed which is pretty low compared to most threats. As you should know, you don't gain the speed boost from Mega Evolution until the following turn meaning that Absol in most cases will not be going first on the turn it mega evolves and it will get swatted like a bug. What is my point you ask? RUN PROTECT!

With everyone and their dog running Mega-Kang because originality and meta do not mix, Sucker Punch is usually a good opener on the first turn when the speed buff isn't accounted for.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: For Doublade, yeah switch it to an Aegislash. If you need a dusk stone, do the Super Secret Training level against the Aegislash Balloon until you get the stone. It takes a while but it is worth it.

And Aegislash gets his own special protect analogue. So there.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Kingdra really has little to no place on this team. Furthermore, if you are running a Pokemon that utilizes set up moves, you need some form of speed control, a Pokemon with Rage Powder/Follow Me to redirect any possible damage or status and carry stronger hitting moves or spread moves. Run Draco Meteor over Dragon Pulse and I'm going to explain why. After a Focus Energy set up with Scope Lens, you achieve 100% critical hit rate. What this means is that all your attacks do 1.5x the amount they initially do plus another 1.5x for the Sniper ability. What you need to note also is that critical hits ignore your stat drops and the opponents stat increases meaning if you're at -6 Special Attack and you use Draco Meteor, it will hit as if it were at 0 Special Attack plus the Critical Hit + Sniper boosts. For spread move, run Muddy Water. Sub out Flash Cannon for Protect.

I was going to run Muddy Water, but from my research Kingdra can only learn it through breeding which nullifies the reason I have her on my team to begin with.
I figured out what you originally meant by the crit nullifying the stat debuff a while ago from a youtuber (I wanna say it was Verlisify? I could be wrong) due to it being worded better. I would like to give it Draco Meteor except evidently the only way to do that in ORAS is to have your friendship be max with your dragon-type pokémon with is a bunch of bollocks with a side-order of chips.
My Kingdra can more often than not shrug off a hit on the turn it uses Focus Energy, unless it's another Draco Meteor in which case I wouldn't be dumb enough to keep it sitting in the open if that were the case.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Nidoking is pretty slow so you need speed control in the form of either Icy Wind or Thunder Wave. Rework the EV spread to accommodate for the speed control method of choice and invest the remaining EVs defensively. For a set like this, run Protect over Thunderbolt

Nidoking is actually one of the faster pokés on my team, so I don't really have much issue there.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Sylveon can't learn Mirror Coat so sub that for Protect and also Pixie Plate is a better item option over Expert Belt since it doesn't require you to hit super effectively for the damage boost

I'm an idiot, I meant Magic Coat, not Mirror Coat. Though, I will try out the pixie plate item instead, maybe that'll give Hyper Voice that extra punch it needs sometimes.
Though, I have an idea to just rid Sylveon off the team and replace with Mega-Gardevoir or something along those lines.

(Jun 7, 2015, 11:53 AM)Marcusube Wrote: Take Dragonite off this team and replace it with either Cresselia, Uxie or Musharna. You have enough offensive options so now you need a means of support. These three mons all learn Thunder Wave and have Helping Hand, Icy Wind and Trick Room. They don't lack offensively, however, for they do learn Ice, Electric, Grass, Psychic and Dark moves

I'm thinking of replacing Dragonite with something like Talonflame. A decent support poké with priority Tailwind and Roost. Everyone is running it so why not? Not to mention some fire-type attacks would make for decent coverage.

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My plan currently is as thus; remove Dragonite, Sylveon, M-Absol, and Doublade. Replace with Chestnaught, M-Gardevoir, Talonflame, and Aegislash.
Chestnaught build I believe I've already posted in this thread, and would love to get around to breeding if starters weren't such a right pain in the arse and it's just been chaos.
M-Gardevoir would fill in as my mega with getting rid of M-Absol, and is a lot better than Sylveon what with them learning the same moves anyhow.
Talonflame is run by a lot of people online so why not just hop on that bandwagon.
And I've already made my case about Aegislash.