As said, Crobat is another option, but on this team it shares a Psychic weakness with Tentacruel, who you can always replace with Sharpedo. I also used a Metagross, but you can't get that easily anymore. Gardevoir will be able to take on Brawley, Sidney, and Drake with it's moves. Ice Beam: Sea Mauville, in the storage room after completing all of the key puzzles. The last slot is a coverage holder. Every team needs a Dragon type and [emailprotected] are great. Night Slash- Decent power, covers Ghost weakness. Aside from giving you free stuff, Linoone also doubles as a pretty good HM user, and a decent battle Pokemon with only Headbutt. Rocky Helmet is a good generic item, but it needs a few specific berries against the Elite 4. - Magical Leaf - Surf. Now if you want. - Psycho Cut - Surf Iron Tail is STAB anti-Fairy, Stone Edge is also STAB. - Surf > Cut - Iron Head Volt Switch is good for pivoting, but its less helpful if playing on switch mode. TM Dazzling Gleam: Route 123 - Crunch (Each Pokmon (except for Froslass) will have an HM, including Dig. Ninetales is the butt of my team, but still fills a key role. Mist Ball/Luster Purge. (I know right lol), Swampert @ Swamperite - Crunch but they are not necessary. Magical Leaf is good for Rock types and Water types. - Discharge Bulk Up wasnt particularly useful at any point during the game, so the extra power Close Combat provided is generally the better idea. - Leaf Storm - Surf Linoone: Route 101 (Zigzagoon) They also have a Mega Evolution that makes that Dragon-type, which is pretty handy. - Tri Attack For a held item use Leftovers to keep Swampert in the game as long as possible to bring the pain. Ice punch for coverage and Rain Dance for setting rain when needed. - Ice Beam / Frost Breath - False Swipe / Swords Dance Swampert can easily crush most battles in the game and is the best centerpiece to a Champion's team. - Waterfall: HM05, you need it to complete the game - Swords Dance In these cases, the more generally helpful item will be noted instead. I call it a SpA Sweeper Specialist. There are others moves you could use here, like Sunny Day or Amnesia. Giga Drain - Bite (starting move) > X-Scissor (TM80 - Victory Road) Ability: Overgrow -> Lightning Rod. 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. - Waterfall - Waterfall / Surf / Dive - Earthquake (TM) / Stone Edge (TM). Swellow and Sharpedo are also constantly in the party, while Blaziken, Gardevoir and Manectric are constantly rotated, that way by the time I get to the Pokmon League I'll have a full party of six that are battle ready. What is a good in-game team for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald? Surf is because I was too lazy keep switching Pokmon so I had a different Surf-er, whereas, if you are patient enough, Superpower just gives him a little more coverage. - Focus Blast / Brick Break. Camerupt Medicham Good "All-Around" Team? - Pokemon Alpha Sapphire - GameSpot Slash is STAB and has a high critical rate, Shadow Sneak gives him priority (and turns him into a Ghost-type with Protean, covering his Fighting weakness), and Brick Break and Aerial Ace are just for further coverage (or type-transformation with Protean). - Surf - Psychic Oh, goody. - Earthquake: see above Crawdaunt - Water/Dark With this set, you can cover all of his weaknesses other than Fighting, but then again, Gardevoir handles them easily. Surf is a good move and is your means of water transportation. - Leaf Blade Giving Mega Swampert 152 Speed EVs is for out speeding Pokemon in rain not faster than Mega Sceptile, his arch enemy. Brick Break is a filler, taking advantage of the Fighting type's usefulness. - Flash Canon Focus Blast and Dragon Pulse are coverage moves, with Dragon Pulse getting STAB from Mega-Sceptile. - Fly Ideally, comment on more than just the four moves you'll . Various HMs: Given throughout the main story (Gift) - Ice Beam Latios/Latias @ Latiosite / Latiasite / Soul Dew I have been experimenting with other Pokmon in my Alpha Sapphire, and Gallade has been phenomenal. Swampert @ Swampertite your ORAS team? : r/pokemon - Reddit Swampert's favorite teammates include defensive Roserade, as it 4x resists Grass-type attacks and can set up Spikes that make Swampert a pain to switch into; Rhyperior, for setting up Stealth Rock and defeating Flying-type Pokemon reliably; and Flying-type Pokemon, such as Togekiss and Zapdos, to take Grass-type hits and build momentum for Swampert (Pokmon GO) - Best Movesets, Counters, Evolutions and CP Dragon Pulse / Dive: Dragon Pulse for coverage or Dive for another HM. This was probably longer than it needed to be, but this team worked very well for me, so I hope it helps someone. - Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice] - Steel Wing Surf is good for dealing with pesky Fire types. There are some strategies used in a Nuzlocke that arent necessarily helpful in a casual run, like equipping specific berries. Endeavor- Swellow has bad defenses and will have low health often. Sure, it's not the fastest- but its. TM72 Volt Switch is awarded to the player as a prize for defeating Wattson. - Crunch Wallace: Set up a Calm Mind or two on Luvdisc with Gardevoir, then use Magical Leaf to cleave through it and Whiscash. This is a in-game team, it doesn't need to set up. What is a good in-game team for Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl? Swampert is the best starter because it is only weak to Grass, but there are no Grass Gyms or Elite Four. Some other Pokemon were used for some of these battles, and those instances will be noted with alternatives. Both have STAB and good power. - Ice Beam Hariyama @ Silk Scarf Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice]: Always try for Hidden Power [Ice] for coverage, but otherwise Thunder Wave to catch stuff and paralyse an enemy. Giga Drain is powerful, reliable healing, and Sludge Bomb is nice STAB with a nasty 30% poison rate. I won't bother listing the locations of these HM's, since their necessary to complete the game anyway. Second of all I have some changes you can make. - Flamethrower - Shadow Ball Giga Drain is also STAB and Shadow Ball is for type coverage. - Flamethrower - Dragon Pulse: from Battle Resort Move Tutor for 12BP - Bulk Up Rock Smash: HM. - Cross Poison Your choice of Ralts evolution. Which one you get doesn't really matter, as you'll hardly ever use it in battle and they learn the same HMs. Pyre), Will-O-Wisp (TM61 - Mt. Shadow Claw: Dewford Cave, requires Mach Bike TM Thunderbolt: Mauville City (help Wattson clean up New Mauville) Swampert: Mud Fish Pokmon 3 Attack Height Weight Gender Egg Group(s) 4'11" 1.5m 180.6 lbs. X-Scissor and Flamethrower are also coverage, and Swords Dance is to set up. High Attack and Speed but low Special Attack and defenses. - Rock Slide / Stone Edge. Rock Smash 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. - Sludge Bomb Flygon is the powerhouse of the team (it's worth training up Trapinch). - Stone Edge When you're at the Elite Four, though, you should forget its HMs and replace them with more useful coverage moves like Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Shadow Ball and Return. What is a good in-game team for Sword and Shield? - Rain Dance Ability: Rough Skin - Earthquake. Psychic is stronger on the remaining Pokemon, and the Special Defense boosts from Calm Mind will allow Gardevoir to live Milotics Hydro Pump and take down Wallaces entire team. - Sand-Attack (starting move) > Knock Off (Level 19) - Magic Coat Waterfall: It's an HM. Vivi (Aggron) @ Lucky Egg (Assuming you don't throw out Mega Sceptile in front of Glacia or something), Sceptile @ Sceptilite 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. I went with a team I tried to balance with as many types as I could get, along with some high base stats. Wally (Walrein) @ Never-Melt Ice On the rare occasion you do use it in battle, Dragon Breath paralyzes everything without the Fairy typing and your respective Lati's signature move exists. Heracross @ Heracronite Both Bite and X-Scissor are fairly useless for when theyre used, but theres not much Crobat needs other than Acrobatics. Great Pokemon who also gets Fly and Strength. Crawdaunt can learn Crunch, which pairs better with his high attack after STAB than Dark Pulse. U don;t have to lug it arround, just have it sit in that PC box of yours until you need it. Ability: Pure Power. - Dragon Claw If you ever need Giga Drain again, you can reteach it; you don't have that option if you let Treecko evolve at L16. Magnezone will be great help against Norman and Winona, but watch out for Earthquake on Altaria. With these moves, Swampert can beat Roxanne, Wattson, Flannery, Tate and Liza, and most of Team Magma's grunts and admins. Swampert predicts storms by sensing subtle differences in the sounds of waves and tidal winds with its fins. The Soothe Bell should be used until Golbat evolves, after which point Acrobatics is more effective with no item. - Cut - 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. Gardevoir doesn't have any great abilities, but on a rare occasion Trace can help in some cool ways. His defenses aren't that bad so he can hold in there longer than most and he has a really good Special Attack. Lenny (Linoone) @ Nothing - Double-Edge. - Ice Fang: Level 32 [emailprotected] Item - Close Combat: Level 43 - Shadow Ball - Surf Hariyama is a very strong Pokemon with high HP and Attack stats, and has a large variety of moves to choose from. Swampert is a Water & Ground Pokmon which evolves from Marshtomp. - Thunderbolt: TM24 after New Mauville quest - Double Hit - Thunderbolt Swampert - #260 - Serebii.net Pokdex I have a soft spot for Treecko. - Tackle (starting move) > Strength (HM04 - Route 112) > Dragon Dance (Level 47) Fake Out / Rock Slide / Power-Up Punch: Fake Out for some damage, Rock Slide helps against Flying types and Power-Up Punch is STAB that raises Attack. Moonblast and Psychic are its main STAB, and Shadow Ball is Ghost coverage. - Strength (Pre-E4 - no items, moves or Pokmon only available in the Post-Game) Ability: Flash Fire - anything. - Volt Switch (TM) Tentacruel - Fly Item: Miracle Seed The other three main team members should be plenty up to that point, though, and with how fantastic Salamence is, it's arguably worth the effort. I'm pretty sure Slaking doesn't pack Earthquake, but just bear that in mind as well. - Roost. Pyre Swampert for water HMs and Earthquake. - Flamethrower Finally an early Earthquaker! Drake: Gyarados can set up two Dragon Dances on Altaria and proceed to sweep Drakes entire team. - Teleport (Level 9) > Magical Leaf (Level 17) > Shadow Ball (TM30 - Mt. Stealth Rock. Acrobatics is by far the strongest STAB move, with 110 BP per turn (provided Crobat isnt holding anything). Calm Mind was chiefly used to sweep Wallace for free, but because its also a TM, it can be swapped for things like Flash as the need arises. TM70 Flash can be obtained in Granite Cave. Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle What is a good in-game team for Sun and Moon? Every team needs a Psychic type and Gardevoir is a great pick. Ice Beam is coverage against Grass types until you get to the Battle Resort, at which point you should swap it for Ice Punch. Roserade @ Miracle Seed Metal Sound- Harshly lowers opponent's Special Defense and pretty much makes Magnezone unstoppable. Swampert is a good defensive Pokemon, boasting key resistances to common attacking types such as Rock, Electric, Steel, Fire, and Poison-types. Share Playthrough), Sceptile @ Sceptilite (I SR'd for a Shiny - it was worth it lol) - Acupressure. - Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast - Hone Claws Kiwi (Dodrio) @ King's Rock Roserade @Miracle Seed/Black Sludge/Filler - Surf Grass Knot covers Ground types. Flygon - Ground/Dragon I just got her in Victory Road and after a little bit of training, she evolved. 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. - Dragon Claw. - Leer (starting move) > Volt Switch (TM72 - Obtained after defeating Wattson) Toxic Spikes has to be used twice to badly poison, but it affects the whole team. Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. I'd keep x-scissor on MSceptile and swap EQ with Leaf storm. I didn't really think of Medicham as something that was very worthwhile, but I tried it out as I wanted to use Azumarill. If you dont have a Beautifly, Hariyama is good for Mightyena and Sharpedo. Ability: Inner Focus Your not wrong but Aggron is good against the Ice E4 member and Dragon E4 combined with its OP defence stat when you mega evolve it and its Steel/Rock typing is removed when it mega so it become a pure Steel type so its quite a defensive tank but I also see why you put Gyarados on your team. - Strength - Swords Dance So we have our first special attacker! If you're worried about Earthquake, you can use Magnet Rise as your final move, or either Reflect or Light Screen if you're not too fussed about it. Ability: Natural Cure Swampert @ Swampertite Dragon Claw: Meteor Falls, in the WAY WAY back (requires Surf and Waterfall) Ability: Flash Fire Just have a Pokmon in your PC knowing Dive. Surf: Until a Water type is obtained. - Earthquake Ability: Shell Armor Rock Head is a must for Double-Edge. Waterfall is also a great move but in my opinion Aqua Tail is better, thanks for the suggestions though :). The Diantha look-alike set would be ideal considering Hyper Voice is useless if I Mega Evolve Blaziken, but if you want to invest fully in Gardevoir, go ahead. - Fly Ability: Static / Lightning Rod --> Intimidate Kecleon @ Expert Belt - Surf Wake-Up Slaps extra 10 BP is better than Force Palms chance to paralyse, so its a good STAB upgrade. - Shadow Sneak. Ability: Rock Head - Recover Aggron @ Assault Vest - Strength Surf: STAB and an HM. Stone Edge: Lilycove Department Store Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim if you want to change a move be. Spam Surf on Swampert, which Gyarados resists, and use Crunch with Gyarados on either Pokemon. - Stone Edge - Toxic - Rock Slide / Hidden Power [Water]. Brick Break / Strength: Brick Break is a good STAB move that has more PP than Close Combat, and it doesn't get the Defense drops that Close Combat has. 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. - Headbutt, Hoenn = Linoone It was more helpful in the Elite 4 than Wake-Up Slap was, as a PP Max gave it enough PP to reliably take out a few opponents. Earthquake is there because it's strong, Knock Off is to counter Psychic types, and Heavy Slam and Poison Jab are to take out Fairy types. The other moves are pretty self explanatory, although you can use a mixed set with Psychic > Zen Headbutt for accuracy. - Moonblast Treecko overall has pretty good stats, including great Special Attack and Speed and solid Attack, which are great combined with Sceptile's large movepool. If you want to surf faster, use Sharpedo instead. Steel-typing gives it good resistances and pretty good STAB moves throughout the game. Thunderbolt is a great move and fits better with the Mirror Coat set. I won't list the locations of the HM's since they're needed to complete the game anyway. Also raichu is one of my favorite pokemon. Another awesome Pokemon that can be Mega Evolved, but remember that only one Pokemon can Mega Evolve per fight. - Rock Smash (HM) Close Combat: Powerful STAB move - Psyshock: TM03 at Pacifidlog Town. - Close Combat - Water Pulse / Thunder - Earthquake: TM26 from Seafloor Cavern beneath Route 128. Flannery: Marshtomp easily solos this Gym with Mud Shot as well. I hope this team works for you! Shadow Ball handles Psychic types, Dazzling Gleam smacks Dragon- and Dark-types hard, and Grass Whistle, despite its coin-flip accuracy, is still good. I like how you added altaria to the team, altaria is one of my favorites. Also, I must respectfully disagree with you on Aggron and Surf. This makes it a great defensive lead for a team that needs a reliable entry hazard setter. I mean, just look at that 185 base Attack. Found at the route after Rustboro and Petalburg Woods, Swellow can be quite useful in battle and as a flyer. Especially Stone Edge. 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. Items are only examples and Abilities are only recommended. - Will-O-Wisp. You can Mega Evolve it if you'd like, but personally I think other Mega Evolutions are much better choices than Gyarados'. Swampert | BW | Smogon Strategy Pokedex Ah, the evolution to the infamous Pikablu. The Magnemite line has great stats, including a monstrous Special Attack stat and a great Defence stat. - Thunderbolt - Drain Punch For its moves, Night Slash is STAB, and Psycho Cut is coverage on Fighting types. - Thunderbolt Exploud @ Leftovers - Shadow Sneak Exploud is a decent Pokmon with stats that tend to lean towards the Special Attack. - Flamethrower Anyway, Kecleon may seem like an odd choice, but it is surprisingly solid. Feint Attack and Needle Arm are STAB, Poison Jab is for Fairies, and the last move slot is more filler than anything. Is a TM slave a thing? - Return / Facade - Sludge Wave If you can't get it, Hyper Voice is the next best bet. - Double-Edge - Pursuit - Shadow Ball Getting Protean was one of the things I was actually patient enough for. Swampert: Starter (Mudkip) Yawn. - Volt Switch. Seafloor Cavern Archie: Gardevoir handily deals with Archies entire team, but if youre scared of Crobat outspeeding, switch to Manectric for Discharge. Altaria @ Altarianite Thanks for reading! Sceptile Ability: Trace Hariyama was a lot better than expected in this playthrough. - Discharge. Strength because you need a Strength user and it's a decent move. This is much more reliable than gambling on random encounters, and its often a large timesaver. Glacia: Hariyama OHKOes both Glalie (and Walrein with Close Combat after a Fake Out), so the only annoyances are the Froslass. Why not? Good team but I would replace Gyarados with Aggron as you have 2 members weak to electric types and Aggron walls most of the E4 combined with its broken mega evolution with solid defence and great offensive power, other than that, good team :). - Flamethrower - Stone Edge / Sunny Day / Amnesia. - Earthquake Toxic / Toxic Spikes - Again, your call. - Solar Beam Return: Pacifidlog Town - Moonblast: Level 62 or Move Reminder in Fallarbor Town Swmapert can also be an HM slave. Swampert - Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Wiki Guide - IGN Once you get to the Battle Resort, there are a lot of good moves he can learn, including two great STAB moves! Ice Fang is a good defense against Winona and Drake. Leaf Blade/Thunderbolt. Magical Leaf comes in handy against Water/Ground types that Manectric can't touch, as well as Rock/Ground types. It can restore health with Leech Seed and Giga Drain as well. Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. TM Earthquake: Seafloor Cavern (on the main path, can't miss it) - (filler move). With access to Swords Dance, it could be a potential sweeper. - Brick Break: TM31 in Sootopolis City. Swampert @ Soft Sand Phoebe: Give Gyarados a Persim Berry to block Dusclops Confuse Ray, and set up a Dragon Dance for free. - Fake Out (Level 10) - Seed Bomb Yawn / Earthquake: Yawn if you can be bothered breeding it. - Fire Blast: TM38 at Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars Good Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed, but low HP and Defense. - Rock Slide Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt or Energy Ball are coverage, or you can use Calm Mind to set up. - Signal Beam You have to Mega Evolve Heracross. I would recommend Protean as it gives him STAB on every attack, but Colour Change is still useful in a lot of cases. Hypnosis- Puts enemy to sleep. - Poison Jab Confusion works well until you get Psychic, which is able to OHKO or 2HKO most neutral targets. - Cut Close Combat: Great coverage move. Swampert is a great starter becuase its only weakness is Grass. Swampert is the HM slave, but he has powerful enough moves that he can get you out of sticky situations as well. You make a Pokemon stronger and get Gallade much earlier at the same time! After you get to the E4, you can delete your HM moves and give Tentacruel more useful moves in Dazzling Gleam/ Ice Beam. Dragon STAB is surprisingly rare in Hoenn and hits a lot of things for fantastic neutral damage. - Waterfall. - Giga Drain Azumarill @ Quick Claw What is a good in-game team for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald? - Psychic - X-Scissor Ability: Sturdy Linoone = Pick Up - Brick Break / Strength - Zen Headbutt / Play Rough. Zen Headbutt is solid filler coverage, and Earthquake is Earthquake! The best team for Pokemon Emerald with Swampert - Sportskeeda I sometimes rotate my Pokemon around, so these might not be the six I always use. Ability: Pickup - Calm Mind - Protect. - Brick Break / Hammer Arm Good team. Ability: Torrent Volt Switch: is great STAB and lets you pivot. There isn't really much to say about them; they free up slots in the rest of the team's movesets and allow you to play the game. Lilycove City Rival: Swellow and Wailord fall to Manectric, and Magcargo goes down to Swampert. Fly- Good power, STAB, useful in-game Gallade Ability: Static The first team on this list that wasn't just Hoenn all over I like this team. - Growl (starting move) > Disarming Voice (Level 11) > Draining Kiss (Level 23) > Dazzling Gleam (TM99 - Route 123) Since I decided to play through the game with the Exp. [Top 10] Pokemon Omega Ruby Best Teams That Are Powerful! - Will-O-Wisp You can teach Blaziken Flare Blitz and High Jump Kick by going to the Move Reminder and exchanging one Heart Scale per move. Of course this doesn't always work, but the moveset I run on Ninetales highlights its strengths and covers my team pretty well. - Ice Beam 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. - U-turn. - Thunderbolt - X-Scissor Surf should be used until you catch a Carvanha on Route 118 and teach it Surf, then you can delete Surf if you so wish by going to the Move Deleter in Lilycove City. 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. Swampert's favorite teammates include defensive Roserade, as it 4x resists Grass-type attacks and can set up Spikes that make Swampert a pain to switch into; Rhyperior, for setting up Stealth Rock and defeating Flying-type Pokemon reliably; and Flying-type Pokemon, such as Togekiss and Zapdos, to take Grass-type hits and build momentum for