Best part? What is a good in-game team for Sun and Moon? Ability: Blaze > Speed Boost (I know right lol), Swampert @ Swamperite - Mirror Coat / Rain Dance. - Toxic / Toxic Spikes. - Shadow Ball Ability: Guts - Bite (Level 20) > Crunch (Level 41) Items are only examples and Abilities are only recommended. For its moves, Night Slash is STAB, and Psycho Cut is coverage on Fighting types. - Water Pulse / Thunder Waterfall and Earthquake are accurate STAB. - Acrobatics I must say, I would prefer Rock Slide, if I needed coverage on fire types. Rock Smash - Flash Cannon This little guy is really good, and try to send out before Swampert so it can use Mega Swampert's Ability (Swift Swim). I'm pretty sure Slaking doesn't pack Earthquake, but just bear that in mind as well. It receives. Shadow Ball covers against Ghost and other Psychics. Banette helps against Phoebe and Sceptile, Walrein or Milotic can all handle Drake. Ability: Levitate 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. Only use it if you didn't choose Brick Break. - Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw. It has a high Special Attack stat, and good Special Defense and Speed. This is the newest addition to the team. - Shadow Sneak. - Rock Slide / Stone Edge. - Thunderbolt / Thunder So this comes very early on in the game. 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. - Waterfall / Surf 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 - Rock Smash. If you want to Mega Evolve him for even more power instead of the Wide Lens accuracy boost, that works too. Ability: Early Bird - Sky Uppercut / High Jump Kick - Drain Punch For its moves, Close Combat is its strongest Fighting type move, but if you don't want the stat drops you can choose Brick Break instead. It's a strong defensive Pokemon that packs quite the punch. - Roost (sneaking up/TM)*. Ability: Huge Power. Swampert is semi-bipedal. Surf is good for dealing with pesky Fire types. - Rock Smash - Cut In this video I take 6 Pokemon that. Grovyle is easily dealt with by Golbat/Crobat. - Fly Ability: Colour Change / Protean (H). - Psycho Cut That's really it. - Swords Dance Wait until L21 to evolve Treecko, because it can only get Giga Drain at that point. Finally, Rock Slide is nice coverage against Flying-types that may annoy Swampert (and is basically your only hope for Winona). Psycho Cut- Decent power, STAB Ability: Synchronize / Trace --> Pixilate Steven gives you one early on and it's a great partner. I guess you could use Eathquake. - Knock Off If you want, you can replace Tentacruel with Sharpedo, but it does have shoddy defences and it's rather lack luster without Speed Boost. - Spikes, Magnezone - Acupressure. A very good wall, with good attacking stats but low Speed. Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! Phoebe: Give Gyarados a Persim Berry to block Dusclops Confuse Ray, and set up a Dragon Dance for free. - Toxic Brick Break is a filler, taking advantage of the Fighting type's usefulness. - Dark Pulse. Surf is preferred over Waterfall because of its higher base power, and Waterfall works better on Gyarados anyways. Ability: Sturdy Giving Mega Swampert 152 Speed EVs is for out speeding Pokemon in rain not faster than Mega Sceptile, his arch enemy. - X-Scissor TM19 Roost is awarded to the player as a Prize for defeating Winona, the Fortree Gym Leader. Of course Ghost is a problem, but if your entire team is wiped and Linoone is your only surviving Pokemon, you're in serious trouble anyway. - Rock Slide Thunderbolt / Discharge: Thunderbolt is the better move but Discharge is amazing if used in a Double Battle with Mega Sceptile, giving the latter a Special Attack boost and damaging the other enemies. Swampert @ Swampertite Ability: Thick Fat Spike (Cacturne) @ Miracle Seed Close Combat / Brick Break- Your call. I have one question though. Surf is Walrein's go-to STAB and takes the responsibility off of Linoone, Ice Beam is STAB and kills Grass-types, Crunch is filler, and Earthquake covers Electric and Rock types. - Hyper Voice. ), Item: Swampertite Strength will be the main move used until Aqua Tail is learned. - Feint Attack Wally (Walrein) @ Never-Melt Ice Shadow Ball: Mt Pyre, the giant casket room with the Medichamite Is a TM slave a thing? - Double-Edge. Roserade: Route 117 (Roselia), Super Training (Shiny Stone) I would recommend Protean as it gives him STAB on every attack, but Colour Change is still useful in a lot of cases. - Return Also on Route 111, we encounter one of the most underrated Gen 3 mons IMO. Today's team is Gen 6/3 ORAS starting with Torchic. Exploud @ Leftovers Waterfall Despite having usable STABs, [emailprotected] is obselete on the team type-wise and is generally used as an HM Slave (mostly for Dive, but Fly is also handy before getting the Eon Flute). The battle should be over in one or two turns. - Surf The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. Dragon Pulse is your main Dragon type move and is coverage against other Dragons. TM Dazzling Gleam: Route 123 Both have STAB and good power. Fly to the Move Deleter in Lilycove City to remove Strength, as its no longer useful. - Needle Arm Mt. Froslass @ Expert Belt / Wise Glasses - Earthquake - Flash Canon Any good alternatives to moonblast? Ability: Pickup Stone Edge- Great power. - Close Combat / Brick Break 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. - Drill Peck This guy has very good Attack and has a good movepool. While Treecko might not be the best starter available, it certainly can still hold his own against Hoenn, especially because there is loads of water (insert IGN joke here). Swampert's strongest moveset is Mud Shot & Hydro Cannon and it has a Max CP of 2,974. Second of all I have some changes you can make. Ability: Pickup Fly is Crobat's main STAB, but if you don't want to wait 2 turns you can use Acrobatics. - Solar Beam: TM22 at the Safari Zone Manectric For every Pokemon on the team, give recommended moves for use throughout the playthrough. - Sludge Bomb If you're playing during the special shiny Beldum event, I would say replace Froslass with Metagross. 1. - Strength. - Surf / Dive as it is needed for the story mode. Waterfall is its strongest physical Water STAB while doubling as an HM, while Earthquake is here for obvious reasons. Please follow these guidelines regarding detail in your post:. 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. Great speed, but sadly only great thing about it. Swampert for water HMs and Earthquake. I just got her in Victory Road and after a little bit of training, she evolved. - Solar Beam Flash improves your visibility in dark caves, although it isn't really needed. - Recover Toxic and Protect wear the opponent down effectively. - Acid (idk why I chose this but its what mine had) - Giga Drain - Steel Wing Skarmory for Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, and Fly. - Focus Blast / Brick Break. Gallade/[emailprotected] Mega Stone/Filler Skarmory - Growl (starting move) > Mud Shot (Level 16) > Brick Break (TM31 - Sootopolis City). - Dragon Claw TM26 Earthquake can be found in the Sea Floor Cavern. - Steel Wing Ability: Trace Thunderbolt is a great move and fits better with the Mirror Coat set. :D Shiftry @ Expert Belt Ability: Chlorophyll - Extrasensory Camerupt You can really slap whatever item you want on Roserade; it just depends on what you find around Hoenn. - Sludge Bomb 5) Great typing facing trainers like Sidney & Norman. Item: Black Glasses Omega Ruby. It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. It was replaced with Shadow Ball once Wallace was defeated. Roserade @Miracle Seed/Black Sludge/Filler Zen Headbutt is solid filler coverage, and Earthquake is Earthquake! - Waterfall / Dazzling Gleam - Iron Tail Your choice of Ralts evolution. Otherwise use Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut, which you learn by levelling up. - Moonblast - Fly Crobat doesn't really get to participate in a lot of important battles, and the only battle its good in is the battle against Brawly, which Gardevoir (Ralts) does better in. Swampert and Mega Swampert: Swampert is a good all-round Pokemon for the ingame of ORAS, and has considerable defences and attack in its Mega Form. - Drain Punch - Earthquake Hey guys how's it going? Swampert does well in Hoenn because there are very few required battles against Grass Pokmon. Quick question, what would be a good froslass alternitive? - Dragon Pulse: from Battle Resort Move Tutor for 12BP Shadow Ball handles Psychic types, Dazzling Gleam smacks Dragon- and Dark-types hard, and Grass Whistle, despite its coin-flip accuracy, is still good. Ability: Static / Lightning Rod --> Intimidate Biology. Its easily able to be incorporated earlier, however, and does well against the multitude of Water and Flying types in the game. - Flamethrower 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. Sceptile Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle. 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. Every team needs a Psychic type and Gardevoir is a great pick. 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. - Rock Smash Deadly against Dragon types and can use Shadow Ball on fellow Psychics. - Earthquake. - Waterfall Focus Blast is Steel coverage and Thunderbolt is extra coverage for other types. Flamethrower is a good move that provides coverage and takes out the pesky Grass types. Walrein and Milotic are both good Water type Pokemon. - Protect. - Bulk Up Break Aggrons Sturdy with Quick Attack, and switch to Gyarados on an Earthquake to OHKO with Waterfall. if you want to change a move be. Ability: Frisk --> Prankster Manectric's moveset is very simple, consisting of only one STAB and coverage. A great Pokemon that can set up Sunny Day to boost STAB Flamethrower and make Solar Beam hit in one turn. You can also take on Winona with Stone Edge, but it is not recommended. - Iron Head You just have to. I would also recommend Mega Evolving Medicham more often than Sceptile, because Medicham is normally in bigger need of a buff to its stats. Giga Drain Shadow Sneak: Priority STAB. - Discharge. - Flamethrower - Fire Fang However, Sidney has two Grass types on his team, so be cautious. X-Scissor and Flamethrower are also coverage, and Swords Dance is to set up. - Overheat (TM) - Earthquake Each of these Pokmon brings a lot to the team. Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw: Rock Slide to help with the Flying weakness early on in the game. - Supersonic (starting move) > Confuse Ray (Level 17) > Fly (HM02 - Route 119) I went with a team I tried to balance with as many types as I could get, along with some high base stats. - Earthquake With DexNav, walking outside the strip of grass on Route 102 closest to Petalburg City will eventually force a Ralts encounter. Moonblast and Psychic are its main STAB, and Shadow Ball is Ghost coverage. After spending a while hunting, I found a Shroomish on DexNav and it had Drain Punch so that was cool :0 I gave her the Silk Scarf because I didn't have any other items. Finally an early Earthquaker! Waterfall is a good STAB move and with his huge Attack it just gets better. Tate & Liza: Send out Swampert and Gyarados. - Toxic - Close Combat 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. The Ability doesnt matter much, but it was fun to block Drakes Flygons from using Ground moves after Levitate was Traced. Ability: Immunity - Energy Ball Manectric was not brought onto the team until the 6th Gym, where it started to shine the most. Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! - Leaf Storm (Move Reminder) - Quick Attack Ice Beam: Powerful STAB. An awesome tank that can take physical hits very well. - Cut (HM) Ability: Torrent Acrobatics is deadly when not holding an item. Earthquake is a strong filler move. 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). - Cross Poison Earthquake, Fly, and Dragon Claw are self-explanatory, and from there, pick an item and your choice of Ice coverage, and you're set! - Flare Blitz / Blaze Kick Same with Earthquake. Waterfall is your Water STAB and gets you to Ever Grande City, Play Rough is your Fairy STAB move, and Bulldoze covers its weaknesses to Electric and Poison. Set up 3 Dragon Dances on either the Claydol or Cradily, healing as needed, and freely sweep the rest of Stevens team. Sludge Bomb- Good power, STAB As for Waterfall and Dive, I'd suggest grabbing the Good Rod, fishing up a Carvanha, and shoving it into your box until you need it. Equip an Oran Berry or use Potions during the battle to survive Nosepass Rock Tombs. 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. Another awesome Pokemon that can be Mega Evolved, but remember that only one Pokemon can Mega Evolve per fight. - Earthquake Wake-Up Slaps extra 10 BP is better than Force Palms chance to paralyse, so its a good STAB upgrade. I also used a Metagross, but you can't get that easily anymore. - Psyshock: TM03 at Pacifidlog Town. Both evolutions' respective STABs are accounted for, and they both have coverage against Ghosts. - Water Gun (starting move) > Surf (HM obtained after defeating Norman) [emailprotected] Item A Mega Evolution is what it needs ;~; Sharpedo @ Sharpedonite First off I love all of your Good In-Game team suggestions. - Tackle (starting move) > Bulk Up (TM08 - Obtained after defeating Brawly) > Close Combat (Level 46). - Earthquake Route 119 Rival: Like before, Wailmer and Slugma should fall easily to Manectric and Marshtomp respectively. The first options are for a safer playstyle, while the second set hits harder, but might kill you in the process. Thanks for reading! Yawn / Earthquake: Yawn if you can be bothered breeding it. Swellow is probably the best Fly user in Hoenn, except for Crobat; the others are a bit lacking in attack to make use of Fly in battle. Volt Switch: is great STAB and lets you pivot. TM42 Faade can be purchased in Mauville City for 10,000 Pokmon Dollars. Steel-typing gives it good resistances and pretty good STAB moves throughout the game. Toxic / Toxic Spikes - Again, your call. Froslass is a pretty good BoltBeam user, with passable Special Attack and good Speed. - Focus Blast Roserade is here to deal with Water types when the Ralts evo of the team can't. Earthquake, Yep. Bulk Up is to further boost Hariyama's high Attack and maybe counter the Defence drop from Close Combat. - Crunch Ability: Shell Armor - Shadow Claw / Brave Bird before Flannery, not enough coverage, id replace delcatty with a linnone hm slave and mightyana with garnavor with movesets of. 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. Shadow Ball and Thunderbolt or Energy Ball are coverage, or you can use Calm Mind to set up. Ability: Flash Fire Strength - Overheat Linoone @ None If Manectric has a good Hidden Power type such as Ice, Grass or Water, keep Hidden Power as your main move, otherwise discard it. - Signal Beam. Hariyama @ Expert Belt - Grass Knot. - Flamethrower - Stone Edge: TM71 from Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars. Megahorn and Close Combat are really strong STAB. However if you don't have the time to get Protean, just catch the first one, and SR for a good Nature. U-turn- Good power, allows you to switch Pokemon without wasting a turn. - Thunderbolt: TM24 after New Mauville quest 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. Sceptile is easily taken care of with Crobats Acrobatics. Sludge Bomb is STAB, Flamethrower is just for some coverage, Dark Pulse/Shadow Ball covers his only weakness in Psychic, and Will-O-Wisp/Infestation/Toxic is for chip damage, adding to his walling role. Pyre - Ice Beam - Mud-Slap (Level 9) > Dig (TM28 - Route 114) > Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) Linoone can be subbed out for Zangoose or Seviper, which are both really good in-game. I hope this team works for you! His defenses aren't that bad so he can hold in there longer than most and he has a really good Special Attack. Good Defense and high Special Attack, but its other stats are low. Raichu @ Magnet Hey sumwun. - Earthquake - Ice Beam - Ice Beam *TM73 Thunder Wave can be purchased in Slateport City for 5000 Pokmon Dollars. - Flamethrower - Stone Edge / Rock Slide Manectric @ Magnet / Life Orb - Thunderbolt. - Tackle (starting move) > Strength (HM04 - Route 112) > Dragon Dance (Level 47) - Water Pulse 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. - Earthquake. - Steel Wing / Acrobatics. Fly and Steel Wing are STAB, Night Slash is coverage and Spikes or Toxic are great status moves. - Foul Play [emailprotected] @Mega Stone/Filler Until then, use whatever item you think works. Ability: Sturdy Flygon is the powerhouse of the team (it's worth training up Trapinch). - Echoed Voice Swampert is the aforementioned starter that's an absolute beast in competitive matches and can carry teams in PVE. I didn't have any items left so I just gave her a Pecha Berry. What is a good in-game team for Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald? - Megahorn - Thunderbolt - (filler move). Cross Poison is also STAB, and Steel Wing and X-Scissor are coverage against Rock, Ice and Psychic types. - Ice Punch. - Leer (starting move) > Volt Switch (TM72 - Obtained after defeating Wattson) I couldn't have Gardevoir as they are both Psychic-type, and the road to Gallade is pretty tough on Kirlia, so I decided on Meditite, and I was pretty happy with my decision. - Hex. - Headbutt, Hoenn = Linoone Return / Facade: STAB move. Dollface (Banette) @ Banettite Endeavor- Swellow has bad defenses and will have low health often. I've always loved Banette so I decided to use one on this team! You can delete all HM moves once at the E4 and Linoone is good to deal with Phoebe. This should be enough to OHKO every Pokemon with Crunch, but if it isnt, the only threat is Dusknoir, who still cant usually kill with Thunder Punch. Really helps with Fire Blast and Solar Beam. [emailprotected] Expert Belt Except for its Mega Evolution which really just makes it kinda OP. Then give it the power bracer and you have the most OP azumarill in existence. Ability: Pure Power. Thunderbolt is Manectric's main STAB, and Flamethrower is its main coverage. This Pokemon is used for Tate & Liza and Phoebe, but if it sets up a few Swords Dances, you can sweep most teams. Kiwi is my flyer. 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. - Power-Up Punch It also creates free turns for Mega Swampert with its slow U-turn and by baiting in Electric-types such as Zapdos and Tapu Koko. Hariyama was a lot better than expected in this playthrough. Strength: HM if not on Hariyama. 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. - Psychic The Dragon that only becomes available after the 8th gym and is horribly underleveled when you get it. Medicham is a great Pokemon with good stats and a good movepool. (Pre-E4 - no items, moves or Pokmon only available in the Post-Game) - Psychic Ability: Rock Head - Shadow Claw - Volt Tackle / Discharge Zen Headbutt is a decent STAB move with a decent flinch chance, High Jump Kick is a very powerful STAB move (but you will want to be careful using it), Ice Punch covers her Flying weakness, Bulk Up allows it to set up a possible sweep, and Poison Jab covers her Fairy weakness.