Team building thread

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.

[COLOR="#008080"]1) Thanks! I'll probably switch it up so that I'll have both decent support and attackers on the field. Not sure about this team though. Too many supporters and a few attackers (only 2 strong attackers and 3 average attackers (defogger, wish-mon, rapid-spinner). The last one is a suicide lead.

2) Will do... I might put some on speed to out speed some of the base 50 pokemon.

Did a bit of editing (expect some of the same words are here and there in this post) so here's the team!

 Lead

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Nature: Not sure
Ability: Not sure
Item: Custap (?)
EV: Not Sure
Moves: Electroweb, Sticky Web, ..., ...

Not sure what to do with this spider but I heard he can Electroweb and use Sticky Web and I think that might be perfect for my Sweeper. Need help on him... :S

 Sweeper

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Nature: Adamant
Ability: Intimidate/Pure Power
Item: Mawilite
EV: 252 Atk, 200 Def, 56 Spe
Moves: Play Rough, Sucker Punch, Sword Dance, 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 (same as before)

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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

Different reason! Since Defog gets rid of the spikes, I'll have a pokemon that that move but sadly going to get rid of a good move on the "defog" user to make room for defog

 Defog

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Nature: Jolly
Ability: Infiltrator
Item: Black Sludge
EV: 252 Hp/Spd, 4 Def
Moves: Taunt, Roost, Brave Bird, Defog

Might as well have a pokemon for this reason. Not sure if it's the best choice but it's something. *shrugs*

 Wish

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Nature: Bold
Ability: Cute Charm
Item: Sitrus Berry/Leftovers
EV: 252 Hp/Def 4 SpA
Moves: Wish, Protect, Moon Blast, Baton Pass/Shadow Ball/Toxic

The baton pass is questionable if it's worth having or not when I could just switch into a more defensive pokemon if sylveon gets hit by a powerful stab atk or a stab steel/poison. Her role is simple.....wish an injured pokemon and if that doesn't happen...stall if I have toxic as a move for her. I could go with Vaporeon but Corn did say my team is weak to electric....

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