Team building thread

[COLOR="#008080"]Might as well put the team here since I have an idea what to do in the other thread. So here's my team~

 Lead

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Nature: Jolly
Ability: Sturdy
Item: Custap Berry
EV: 252 Atk/Spe, 4 Def
Moves: Stealth Rock, Spikes, Whirlwind, Taunt

Maybe be weird to have as a Custap suicide lead (Will that hold item be useful for her?) but I do need someone that can be a decent lead to put down some Stealth Rock and maybe prevent the opponent from using their own with whirlwind? I might change the EV look and put the 252 in Def instead of Spe because of the item.

 Sweeper

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Nature: Adamant
Ability: Intimidate/Pure Power
Item: Mawilite
EV: 252 Atk/Def, 4 Spe (?)
Moves: Play Rough, Sucker Punch, Sword Dance, Toxic/Iron Head

Like I said in the other thread, I like Mawile. For my first time to work, I plan to use her as my MegaPoke in the team as a sweeper. She’s slow so her ev set up is based on more power rather than fixing her speed. The moves depend on if I see a lot of fairies in Gen 6. If I do see a lot of fairies in the near future, Iron Head seems to be the better choice of the two so I can gain more coverage of moves but if not, I’ll stick to toxic just in case.

Despite all that, her weakness is probably going to be common especially with this pokemon running in the game once we are allowed to trade pokemon from other games:

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This leads to the next pokemon to cover her weakness…

 MixAttacker

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Nature: Naive
Ability: Intimidate
Item: Life Orb
EV: 68 Atk, 188 SpA, 252 Spe
Moves: Draco Meteor, Outrage/Dragon Claw, Fire Blast, Earthquake

The best set for me to run Salamence is probably a MixAttacker because this will help against any pesky enemies of Mawile along with his own. I don’t like Outrage due to fairies being in the game and taking no damage while I’m locked by that move. This makes me lean towards D.Claw more but I may choose Outrage if fairies are not dominant in teams. This also means that his weakness is probably going to be Stealth Rock and Fairies and a few other things I didn’t mentioned (this is going to be a long post but I’m trying to keep it short. The former means I will need a Rapid Spin user and the latter is already covered. :x

 Rapid Spinner

Nature: Timid
Ability: Natural Cure
Item: Leftovers
EV: 248 Hp, 36 Def, 224 Spe

Moves: Rapid Spin, Scald, Psyshock, Recover

I don’t want to explain too much here but not much is needed to be explained. I got spikes/stealth rock on my side and I use starmie to take those out. I thought of other spinners but a Mega Blastoise bluff is probably not going to fool anyone if I have Mawile in the team….

This leaves me with two more pokemon that I have no clue what to do…..Aegislash could be a good spinblocker and a decent attacker but Gengar could be better and a more easier pokemon to bluff a mega over Blastoise. The other slot is probably going to be my wish-user so maybe an eeveelution (say Umbreon or Sylveon) maybe best. Jirachi is also another option but I don’t think it’ll be that great of a pokemon to use…. On the other slot, a ParaFlinch Togekiss could be better….even if I can fight w/ no fairy moves. The fact that Togekiss can neutralize Dragon Moves and Ground moves is great in my opinion. :b[/COLOR]

1) Whatever you do, don't have a suicide lead anymore. Defog screws that up in the new generation. Either have no Stealth Rock and Defog, or have a Rapid Spinner and a Stealth Rocker. Depends on how much you value Stealth Rock on the opponent.

2) I'd stick with Iron Head over Toxic on Mawile. I guess I'd put the rest of the Evs in HP if you don't want to invest in Speed? Otherwise, Speed. You could also look at the speed tiers (although this is old, 5th gen) to get an idea of what you want to outspeed. (aka dump some points in speed, some in HP).

3) Thanks to Fairy being immune to Dragon, if you Outrage on a Fairy you won't stay locked into Outrage. (However, I'm pretty sure it doesn't apply if you KO a Pokemon and they switch to a Fairy). Just a point for Outrage.

4) You're not going to bluff a Mega if you have a Mawile.

5) It would be quite helpful to have a Spinblocker if you end up going Stealth Rock.

6) I can't really judge the rest of your team, but you seem to be very Electric weak at the moment. Galvantara and Sticky Web is going to ruin your day.