Topic: Team Building Q+A Thread

[Ledyba]

Depends what game you're talking about.

[Roxxy the Zangoose]

I'd go with Staraptor... it only needs two moves to get great coverage, and you can still run Return:

Staraptor@Amulet Coin
Trait: Intimidate
Nature: Jolly
-Return
-Brave Bird
-Close Combat
-Fly

Thank you! I shall get it immediately.

[Legacy]

Soul Silver for me. Sorry I meant to say that =/

[Ledyba]

List of things:

Attack -  Surf on Route 42, nothing but Goldeen and Seaking. +1 attack, 2+ attack respecetvully.
Defence - Any Cave, Dark Cave, common Geodudes. +1 defence
Special Attack - Surf at National Park, Nothing but Psyduck (+1) and Golduck (+2)
Special Defence - Surf anywhere to encouter Tentacools (+1) or Tentacruel (+2)
Speed - Lake of Rage, post-Red Gyarados.  Mostly Magikarp (+1) save a rare Gyarados or Sprout Tower (Day time/morning) where there's nothing but Rattatas (+1), night time its Gastly (+1 special attack) though.

[Afro-Disiak]

OK my new question is this:

What pokemon are best for getting various EV's? Like say if you're trying to get Sp.Def EV's, which pokemon would be best to battle, and where would you find them?

I've decided to start getting a competitive team together, so that once I get wi-fi I can start battling others, so I will probably be asking a fair few questions on here now =/

In HGSS, EV training is much simpler:

HP - Surf in Slowpoke's Well, Slowpoke give 1 HP EV
Atk - Surf on Route 42, Goldeen give 1 Atk EV, Seaking 2 Atk EVs
Def - That small patch of grass just south of Pallet Town, nothing but Tangela giving 1 Def EV
SAtk - Surf in Ilex Forest or north of Goldenrod/south of National Park, Psyduck give 1 SAtk EV, Golduck 2 SAtk EVs
SDef - Surf in the ocean! Tentacool give 1 SDef, Tentacruel give 2 SDef EVs
Speed - Surf behind Blackthorn Gym, 100% chance of Karp, which give 1 Speed EV each

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[Legacy]

I copied and pasted both into a document so I can use them =]
Thanks for the lists guys, much appreciated.

[Ledyba]

use Dan's, they're more useful than mine haha.

[Legacy]

I'll use both. Depends on the area I'm in at the time etc. Besides the more info I have the better eh? Helps me become a better competitive trainer (I won't say battler since that involves actually being able to battle effectively, which I'm unsure of right now...)

[Lusewing]

For HP I would actually recamend Hoothoots, sure you have to wait till it is night but running around the grass by the early towns in the dark will give you almost nothing but the Hoots. They give 1 HP ev each and as they are such low levels it is not long before any baby's you are EV training can handle them themselves thus saving the switch outs.

[Luna874]

Does magic guard negate life orb damage because if it does, I might start using life orb clefable in my gravity team.

clefable @ life orb
modest nature
252 HP / 252 SpAtk
- gravity
- thunder
- fire blast
- blizzard

OU tier, life orb clefable is coming....

[Afro-Disiak]

It does indeed, I've used a set like this in UU to decent effect:

Clefable (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 216 Atk/76 Spd/216 SAtk
Quiet nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Double-edge
- Fire Blast
- Grass Knot
- Softboiled
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Magic Guard also negates Double Edge's recoil, making it a better option than Return. Clefable's damage output is pretty low though, even with Life Orb.. I'd recommend Spikes and Stealth Rock on a team with this sort of Clefable, to help nab those KOs it wouldn't get otherwise.

[Enigma]

Does Thick Fat act as a 'resistance' for Fire and Ice moves, or does it half it without being classed as a secondary type?

For example -

Through a series of moves, a Shelgon gets Thick Fat through Skill Swap - would Thick Fat make it resist Ice, or would it simply be neutral to it thanks to the Dragon typing? (Like almost having a secondary Grass typing..?)

[THE ARBITER]

one major flaw grass is weak to ice an no it will be a regular atack with super efeective noise

[Afro-Disiak]

one major flaw grass is weak to ice an no it will be a regular atack with super efeective noise

lol?

Thick Fat just means you take 50% of the damage that would have been caused without it. It would still be super effective, and likely still KO Shelgon..

[Hahex and Oshawott]

how come no one makes use of the wonder guard regigigas that came in an event with tru? Is it because it's too cheap? If that's the case, then i'm definately using that! (I'm cheap).
And surely it's ability would bump it up all the way back into BL at least? (dunno if there's big threats or something for it in higher tiers or whatever... i dont really know what im talking about anymore)