Azumarill @ Quick Claw Hariyama - Iron Head - Psychic - X-Scissor - Earthquake - Will-O-Wisp. - False Swipe / Swords Dance - Flamethrower Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. - Arm Thrust (starting move) > Force Palm (Level 13) > Wake-Up Slap (Level 38) Nuzzle is simply a better version of Thunder Wave, dealing damage as well. - Night Slash. - Sludge Bomb - Confusion (Level 4) > Psychic (Level 30) - Rain Dance Ability: Thick Fat - Flash Canon - Thunderbolt Swampert - holding Swampertite with the moves: -Surf -Earthquake -Ice beam -Rock Slide Magcargo - holding heat rock with the moves: -earth power -overheat -amnesia -Sunny day Magnezone holding. - Bullet Seed: Move Reminder in Fallarbor Town. Poison Jab: Mirage Mountain, requires Acro Bike It was replaced with Shadow Ball once Wallace was defeated. Shadow Ball for other STAB, and Confuse Ray just to be annoying. - Tri Attack I just got her in Victory Road and after a little bit of training, she evolved. - Dark Pulse. - Earthquake - Swords Dance - Ice Beam - Bite (Level 20) > Crunch (Level 41) - Swords Dance / X-Scissor. - Surf / Dive as it is needed for the story mode. Also raichu is one of my favorite pokemon. Rock Smash: HM. I gave her Hone Claws so she could land Iron Tail/Stone Edge more often. When theres a particularly annoying Pokemon that I don't want to waste one of my key troops on, I roll out Ninetales to hand out some super-effective mojo. Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle - Brick Break / Reflect, Note: Many Pokemon in this team can Mega Evolve, it's up to you who gets to do so. Swampert Golem Alakzam LIoone Camerupt Tropius Manectric Latios Delcatty maybe there was a Vileplume too to be completely honest i don't remember my ORAS team that well the only members that were consistent was Swampert, Camerupt, and Latios the rest is just anyone else that may have passed in or out of the team for a significant amount of time before the elite 4 This team performed very well in a Nuzlocke I just completed, and it makes a very strong team for a casual playthrough as well. Ice Punch is a move tutor move, and the move tutors are only at the end of the game. Route 110 Rival: Slugma and Wailmer both fall to Marshtomp, but Grovyle is more of an issue. Really useful to be able to use that powerful attack and have no recoil. - Moonblast Lenny (Linoone) @ Nothing This is a good team but could I use swampert instead Of skeptile and replace gyrados with breloom. Flygon is the powerhouse of the team (it's worth training up Trapinch). Break Aggrons Sturdy with Quick Attack, and switch to Gyarados on an Earthquake to OHKO with Waterfall. [emailprotected] Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. - anything. - anything. Moonblast can be learnt at level 62, however it can be learnt sooner by going to the Move Reminder and getting him to teach it, it in exchange for a Heart Scale. 3) It has access to many great TMs & Move Tutors. Knock Off: Covers Hariyama's Psychic weakness and removes items. If you want Protean, catch the required Kecleon so you can DexNav for a Protean Kecleon. Tentacruel Return is probably the better option, since it'll do 102 STAB consistently instead of the regular 70 STAB from Facade. Dive What is a good mega evolution Pokemon for my team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Don't know how to get it easily? Aerial Ace for Fighting types. 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 . - Cut Gyarados @ anything It or Hariyama can deal with Sharpedo, and Gardevoir cleanly OHKOes the rest of Sidneys team. Fire Blast and Flamethrower are great moves, but I prefer Fire Blast because of Contests. - Dive (HM) When navigating around tight bends, where if you go too fast you'll end up on the shore, that is when having a normal speed surfer pays off. Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw: Rock Slide to help with the Flying weakness early on in the game. Finally an early Earthquaker! Norman: Marshtomp with Dig is very good for freely damaging the Slakings thanks to Truant. Rock Smash Ability: Rock Head I've always loved Banette so I decided to use one on this team! - Dragon Pulse / Dive. Swampert | BW | Smogon Strategy Pokedex While it has mediocre attacking stats (70/80 respectively), it does have access to 3 HM moves and nice typing to cover both Sceptile and Linoone's weaknesses. Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle. - Extrasensory I respectfully must disagree with you on Raichu. Double Edge is general coverage as a very strong move, especially given the Rock Head Ability. People may not like spending money on TMs, and Stone Edge isn't too reliable either. Night Slash/Shadow Ball In addition, Electric moves are very easy to see coming on most Pokemon, and Swampert hard walls most Pokemon with an Electric move. Silk Scarf-boosted Fake Out does quite a lot of damage to neutral opponents, and free damage is excellent. Discharge is the best STAB move it gets (The sidequest for TM24 Thunderbolt comes too late and is a waste of time). - Crunch The Flash Fire ability is underrated, but if you can pick up Drought do so. - Stone Edge - Surf. TM72 Volt Switch is awarded to the player as a prize for defeating Wattson. - Tackle (starting move) > Rock Slide (Level 28) - Water Pulse Glacia: Hariyama OHKOes both Glalie (and Walrein with Close Combat after a Fake Out), so the only annoyances are the Froslass. - Surf I taught Manectric Flash when I needed it. - Psycho Cut With these moves, Swampert can beat Roxanne, Wattson, Flannery, Tate and Liza, and most of Team Magma's grunts and admins. Brick Breaks primary use is to break the screens that Glacias Glalie #1 and Stevens Claydol set up, should it be necessary. - Rock Smash. - Yawn / Earthquake - Rock Slide Volt Switch and Thunder Wave are there if you ever need it, and HM Strength is there because Manectric is the perfect Pokemon to hold it. Bellossom (Pre-E4 - no items, moves or Pokmon only available in the Post-Game) - Flamethrower The Latis both get Surf and Waterfall in addition to the moves on this set, but those are both covered by other party members already. Best part? Sludge Bomb- Good power, STAB - Strength. You can teach Manectric Thunder Wave if you don't get the Hidden Power type you want, or for when you are about to catch a Legendary Pokmon. Fly is Crobat's main STAB, but if you don't want to wait 2 turns you can use Acrobatics. - Earth Power Linoone @ any item - Rain Dance / Rock Slide / Hammer Arm. - Stone Edge - Dragon Claw. Strength and Cut are half-STAB, half-HM (more on Surf later), Rock Smash is an HM and is also great for Heart Scale farming, and Shadow Claw does good damage to the Ghosts that Linoone doesn't like. Ability: Poison Heal Earthquake. Moonblast is STAB and anti-Dragon. - Steel Wing Earthquake is Earthquake, no explanation needed. - Earthquake / Knock Off / Heavy Slam / Poison Jab. Leaf Blade- Good power, STAB Ability: Pickup - Dragon Claw. Latios/Latias @ Latiosite / Latiasite / Soul Dew - Psychic - Sky Uppercut / High Jump Kick Gardevoir Fly This Pokmon is a beast in battle and in the Contests. - Acid (idk why I chose this but its what mine had) Iron Tail is STAB anti-Fairy, Stone Edge is also STAB. [emailprotected] Expert Belt Great team! - Signal Beam. I'm pretty sure Slaking doesn't pack Earthquake, but just bear that in mind as well. - Shadow Claw Yawn / Earthquake: Yawn if you can be bothered breeding it. Dragon Pulse / Dive: Dragon Pulse for coverage or Dive for another HM. Absol has a super high Attack stat and good Speed. Each of these Pokmon brings a lot to the team. Surf is excellent on Sharpedo, as it moves twice as fast when surfing and Dive allows you to dive underwater and explore beneath the sea. Yawn. Crobat doesnt excel in any major battles, but its very good at picking off minor Trainers all over the region. - Stone Edge / Rock Slide Some other Pokemon were used for some of these battles, and those instances will be noted with alternatives. Cut Ability: Rock Head Brick Break: Sootopolis City - Magic Coat 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. Seviper @ anything Stopping the new Fairies in their tracks doesn't hurt either. There is also a lot of water in Hoenn, so you'll probably battle a lot of trainers with Water Pokemon in the game as well. Steel-typing gives it good resistances and pretty good STAB moves throughout the game. Ability: Static Hypnosis- Puts enemy to sleep. Items are only examples and Abilities are only recommended. - Roost. Crawdaunt - Water/Dark Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. Power-Up Punch is better just because it will always raise Attack and is 100% accurate. I mean, just look at that 185 base Attack. Ability: Soundproof Waterfall is also a great move but in my opinion Aqua Tail is better, thanks for the suggestions though :). While everyone thinks Dawn Stones are a pain to obtain just use Super Training! Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim - Fly - Charge The best team for Pokemon Emerald with Swampert - Sportskeeda I used an Air Cutter Beautifly to cleanly KO it, but if you didnt pick one up, Wing Attack Zubat should also make quick work of it. Sludge Wave is also good for the Grass types, along with Ice Beam. - Psycho Cut If Manectric has a good Hidden Power type such as Ice, Grass or Water, keep Hidden Power as your main move, otherwise discard it. Wake-Up Slaps extra 10 BP is better than Force Palms chance to paralyse, so its a good STAB upgrade. In this video I take 6 Pokemon that. Make sure to use the Move Relearner on Gardevoir to get Moonbast. - Calm Mind The dual STAB moves mow down anything that's weak to them, Shadow Ball covers Ghosts, and Thunderbolt is great overall. - Fire Blast: TM38 at Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars - Thunderbolt - U-turn / Roost. Ability: Inner Focus Grovyle is easily dealt with by Golbat/Crobat. Grass Knot covers Ground types. - Psychic - Waterfall / Surf Now if you want to change a Pokemon go ahead. Ability: Static / Lightning Rod --> Intimidate Swampert | BW | Smogon Strategy Pokedex - Air Slash / Fly Every team needs a Psychic type and Gardevoir is a great pick. - Headbutt, Hoenn = Linoone Crabhammer is just powerful STAB. 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. - Dragon Claw Coil: Boost Attack to sweep. 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. Rock Slide: On a small island on Route 134 - Ice Beam Giga Drain "use it when you get it." Dragon Pulse is your main Dragon type move and is coverage against other Dragons. - Surf Ability: Guts Good team. Gyarados @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Rough Skin Ability: Snow Cloak Hey, gotta deal with 'em somehow! Ability: Guts Sidney: Give Gardevoir a Persim Berry and send it in against Mightyena to block Swagger and safely KO with Dazzling Gleam. This Pokmon also has powerful vision that lets it see even in murky water. It can restore health with Leech Seed and Giga Drain as well. Which one you get doesn't really matter, as you'll hardly ever use it in battle and they learn the same HMs. If you want to update your post, use the 'edit' button. - Earthquake - Recover Pyre This Pokemon is used for Tate & Liza and Phoebe, but if it sets up a few Swords Dances, you can sweep most teams. - Cut (HM) Ability: Trace I have one question though. - Discharge. Both evolutions' respective STABs are accounted for, and they both have coverage against Ghosts. - Earthquake. - Fly. Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim Ability: Overgrow (Mega Sceptile: Lightning Rod) - Hammer Arm A bit of a hassle to get, but I do really like Froslass, so I've included her. - Earthquake. Ability: Pickup It has a high Special Attack stat, and good Special Defense and Speed. Pick Up = free crap. TM Dazzling Gleam: Route 123 - Fly I know that this is old, but replace Moonblast with Hyper Voice for the Pixilate boost. Ability: Clear Body / Liquid Ooze Dazzling Gleam is an alternative, not as powerful but strikes multiple enemies which is useful for hordes. Before you ask why I have two Megas on this team, I Mega Evolve a different one depending on the situation. - Earthquake 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. Return / Facade: STAB move. Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice]: Always try for Hidden Power [Ice] for coverage, but otherwise Thunder Wave to catch stuff and paralyse an enemy. U-turn- Good power, allows you to switch Pokemon without wasting a turn. Aqua Tail is STAB and the rest is coverage (Crunch is STAB if Mega). Ninetales @ anything Steven: Lead Manectric into Skarmory, and Quick Attack to break Sturdy before KOing with Discharge. - Bullet Punch For a held item use Leftovers to keep Swampert in the game as long as possible to bring the pain. You have to Mega Evolve Heracross. Supersalamence93 here bringing you another Pokemon Teambuilder. Milotic is also another option, but evolving Feebas is a hassle. - Ice Beam For example, Hariyama is a tank and a strong attacker. - Ice Beam Roserade @ Miracle Seed Gyarados is an exceptionally useful Pokmon ingame. Nothing. Dragon STAB is surprisingly rare in Hoenn and hits a lot of things for fantastic neutral damage. This is a list of major battles the team will have to contend with. - Endeavor Quick question, what would be a good froslass alternitive? 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. What is a good in-game team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? - Cut - Psycho Cut Aside from giving you free stuff, Linoone also doubles as a pretty good HM user, and a decent battle Pokemon with only Headbutt. Rock Slide- Coverage against many of Sceptile's weaknesses, Swellow With this set, you can cover all of his weaknesses other than Fighting, but then again, Gardevoir handles them easily. You can teach Blaziken Flare Blitz and High Jump Kick by going to the Move Reminder and exchanging one Heart Scale per move. I must say, I would prefer Rock Slide, if I needed coverage on fire types. - Drill Peck Gardevoir @ Life Orb / Gardevoirite / Leftovers - Strength - Rock Slide / Stone Edge. Frost Breath is better in most cases, because it'll be 120 STAB rather than 90, bar random Shell Armour Pokemon. Rock Slide: It's a great coverage move for two of Mega Sceptile's weaknesses. I would replace it with Brick Break instead for more coverage You can do that too, however I enjoy to have at least 1 priority move in my team, just in case. Ice Beam is coverage against Grass types until you get to the Battle Resort, at which point you should swap it for Ice Punch. Finally, Rock Slide is nice coverage against Flying-types that may annoy Swampert (and is basically your only hope for Winona). - Leaf Blade You can really slap whatever item you want on Roserade; it just depends on what you find around Hoenn. Tentacruel @ Black Sludge Ability: Clear Body - Close Combat The moves give the best coverage he can have. Except for its Mega Evolution which really just makes it kinda OP. I prefer Frenzy Plant to Leaf Storm because it has a higher base power, and so a higher chance to OHKO the opponent. - Ice Beam Ability: Huge Power. - Psychic: Level 31. Zangoose @ Silk Scarf - Acupressure. Shadow Sneak: Priority STAB. Pyre), Will-O-Wisp (TM61 - Mt. - Ice Beam. Poison Jab: Main STAB move. Here's the team I played through Omega Ruby with! - Thunderbolt / Discharge Brawly: I used a Taillow with Wing Attack to sweep Brawly, with Beautifly as backup. - Ice Beam Swampert can't get Ice Punch for Grass coverage, but it can get Ice Beam. Ability: Guts Milotic @ Mystic Water Route 119 Rival: Like before, Wailmer and Slugma should fall easily to Manectric and Marshtomp respectively. Pyre) / Infestation (TM83 - Sootopolis City) / Toxic (TM06 - Fiery Path), Shadow Sneak (Level 7 - May require Move Reminder), Aerial Ace (TM40 - Mauville City Pokmart). - Leech Seed Second of all I have some changes you can make. If you want, you can replace Tentacruel with Sharpedo, but it does have shoddy defences and it's rather lack luster without Speed Boost. Ice Beam- Good power, covers Grass weakness Bulk Up is to further boost Hariyama's high Attack and maybe counter the Defence drop from Close Combat. I'll make one for Blaziken because who doesn't love the fire chicken? Giga Drain is STAB and allows them to recover HP, Leaf Blade is a great STAB move with a high critical hit chance, Dragon Claw is STAB if you decide to Mega Evolve, and Earthquake allows him to cover his Fire and Poison weaknesses. With DexNav, walking outside the strip of grass on Route 102 closest to Petalburg City will eventually force a Ralts encounter. I don't understand why people wouldn't want to spend money on TM's, if they want to use them, they're going to have to buy them eventually, whether that be during the game, or once they've completed it. Surf- Good power, STAB, useful in-game Night Slash: Helps against Psychic types. Ability: Shed Skin Ninetales @ Charcoal I know, I know, no Pokmon has Fly, Dive, Strength or Rock Smash and that's because I just waited to get the Eon Flute before doing any Flying and the rest was just me switching out random HM Slaves and other Pokmon to do what was necessary. - Nuzzle It's a strong defensive Pokemon that packs quite the punch. I'd keep x-scissor on MSceptile and swap EQ with Leaf storm. Please follow these guidelines regarding detail in your post: Please also follow these guidelines regarding the contents of your team: Submit your team as an answer, not a comment. - Ice Beam Flamethrower- Has lower power than Overheat, but covers for Overheat's low PP. - Giga Drain / Leaf Storm - Earthquake Lucy (Ninetales) @ Pecha Berry Shadow Claw: Dewford Cave, requires Mach Bike Medicham In these cases, the more generally helpful item will be noted instead. It can be given a Wacan Berry in case Salamence connects with a Thunder Punch, but its very difficult to lose this battle. Ability: Pickup However if you don't have the time to get Protean, just catch the first one, and SR for a good Nature. Just don't use against a Grass type. - Boomburst - Steel Wing (TM) Manectric is a great Pokemon with high Speed and Special Attack, which is further boosted with its Mega Evolution. Base 80 power and 100 accuracy make great use of its high Special Attack. Any good water type alternatives for Walrein or Milotic? Tri Attack is a decent move and is really just a filler and Flash Cannon is your Steel type STAB. What is a good in-game team for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald? I hear Froslass is bad because it requires babying a weak Snorunt for a long time. Flip Turn. Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. Swampert is my personal favorite of the three starters. - Steel Wing Ability: Pure Power. Rock Slide is another option and covers most of his weaknesses, but Earthquake is just overall better due to its higher power and accuracy. 81.9kg Male:87.5% Female:12.5% Monster Water 1: National Pokdex Hoenn Pokdex Abilities Hidden . Thunderbolt is a strong electric move that is helped by Gardevoir's high Special Attack, especially helpful against Wallace and Steven's Skarmory. You can Mega Evolve it if you'd like, but personally I think other Mega Evolutions are much better choices than Gyarados'. Don't give Linoone an item as pickup gives random stuff like Revives and Repels, for Flygon don't give Yache berry as many people are just too lazy to find where they planted berries (or even plant them in the first place).and it's one time use, some random wild Pokmon's Ice-type move would waste the berry. Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! Share Playthrough), Sceptile @ Sceptilite (I SR'd for a Shiny - it was worth it lol) - Thunder Wave Otherwise, this team will straight up scrape anyone who tries to beat you. Psycho Cut/Psychic With Mega Sceptile's high Special Attack, it's a great filler move, plus it seems to come in handy a lot (other than its bad accuracy). I have been experimenting with other Pokmon in my Alpha Sapphire, and Gallade has been phenomenal. Skarmory Woah. - Brick Break / Hammer Arm - Wake-Up Slap - Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast - Ice Fang: Level 32 Raichu @ Magnet I would suggest adding a Mega Stone to it, so it can actually use good Flying STAB, but that isn't available until after the postgame, to it's in the same boat as Swampert's Ice Punch, i.e. TM26 Earthquake can be found in the Sea Floor Cavern. Acrobatics is deadly when not holding an item. Acrobatics is by far the strongest STAB move, with 110 BP per turn (provided Crobat isnt holding anything). Remember: Mega Evolve Heracross at all times!! I understand what you're saying for Blaziken however you don't need to use Flare Blitz and High Jump Kick, I said you can otherwise use Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut, I only taught my Blaziken Flare Blitz and HJK for when I was battling the Elite 4. dude change earth power to earthquake camerupt has higher attack than special. I remember looking for one desperately for a Marill in HGSS when I was a kid, because I thought it was really cool, and when I finally got one, I hated it because I didn't understand how abilities work. - Double Hit - Crunch / Earthquake. My current team (in Alpha Sapphire) is Mega Blaziken (I lost my Blazikenite due to save data being erased somehow), Mega Gardevoir, Shiftry (From bros' Omega Ruby), Vigiroth, Swampert, and Skarmory. Ability: Torrent > Swift Swim Swampert - Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Wiki Guide - IGN - Thunderbolt However, Sidney has two Grass types on his team, so be cautious. - Shadow Ball. You could go mixed or choose Leaf Blade in place of Giga Drain and run Brick Break in place of Leaf Storm and go physical, although his base Attack isn't great compared to his Special Attack. - Shadow Ball Sceptile For every Pokemon on the team, give recommended moves for use throughout the playthrough. The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. 5) Great typing facing trainers like Sidney & Norman. - Nasty Plot - Flash Cannon Getting Protean was one of the things I was actually patient enough for. - Dive / Ice Beam. Linoone @ None - Surf (HM) Ah, the evolution to the infamous Pikablu. - Feint Attack - Toxic Linoone is basically a HM Slave with Cut, Strength and Rock Smash. You could also go with Alakazam but I just love Gardevoir. - Surf - Rock Smash, Swellow @ anything Swampert is a great Poke in its own right, with a solid movepool, great Attack, and only one weakness. Heracross @ Heracronite Swampert @ Soft Sand Giving Mega Swampert 152 Speed EVs is for out speeding Pokemon in rain not faster than Mega Sceptile, his arch enemy.