What's your pokemon team?

[SSBfreakCK]

Yep, the infamous "What's your tea," thread has been reborn! A shame Bowserizer's original thread didn't survive the apocolypse.. Ah well. Onto business!

This thread is all about posting your own teams in Diamond & Pearl, and rating others' teams. Give comments, ask for advice or give it, all that stuff. But first thing's first - you need to post your team! Also, don't forget to tell if you have multiple teams, i.e. one for ubers, OU, UU, doubles, etc. if you ever post multiple teams. Simple, right? Anyways, let's get posting! I'll show my own team soon enough. :P

Also, incase someone hasn't bought Diamond/Pearl yet(you should wait for Platinum), I'll gladly let anyone talk about their previous generation-game's team. So feel free to post whatever team on whatever game!

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[Dal]

Well, my Diamond team is:

Empoleon - Lvl 75
Luxray - Lvl 75
Staraptor - Lvl 75
Lucario - Lvl 75
Garchomp - Lvl 75
Giratina - Lvl 75

And my PMD2 team is:

(me) Mudkip - Lvl 10
(Jazz) Torchic - Lvl 10

I just restarted.

[SSBfreakCK]

Restarted your PMD2? Should of gave me your powerful guys so I could give them back to you afterwards. Ah well.

That's a pretty good team, you've got a huge stock of resistances. You do have two major problems though - three ground weaknesses and three ice weaknesses(and one is a 4x on Garchomp!). In game, that's a great and powerful team, but when facing another player that might be problematic. It's still good either way though.. Although I do wonder, if you didn't have Giratina on your team/weren't allowed to use legends, what'd you use exactly?

[Dal]

My Gengar that is the storage. She's around level 69.

[SSBfreakCK]

Ah, Gengar? Wise choice, it's levitate ability can really help stop that triple ground weakness from killing you. Gets rid of that triple ice weakness too. A lot of your team resists Dark/Ghost/Psychic too.. I think Gengar is actually better than Giratina on that team, atleast on an offensive perspective - Giratina is the ultimate Ghost or Dragon type that can defend, while Gengar is probably the best Ghost type at para-offense/support.

[JonRyan]

i don't have diamond or pearly :[
does that mean i can't post my team??

[SSBfreakCK]

Lol, read this quote Jon.

Also, incase someone hasn't bought Diamond/Pearl yet(you should wait for Platinum), I'll gladly let anyone talk about their previous generation-game's team. So feel free to post whatever team on whatever game!

In other words, post away!

[JonRyan]

ha ha sorry i was just soo saddened that i couldn't post i was getting historical :/


my team


1.charizard
2.Tyranatar
3.dragonite
4.blastoise
5.aggron
6.slamernce


*copied from the club.sorry for the spelling so forgive me once more ha ha.

[Dal]

6.slamernce

I'm guessing this is Salamance, right?

[SSBfreakCK]

ha ha sorry i was just soo saddened that i couldn't post i was getting historical :/


my team


1.charizard
2.Tyranitar
3.dragonite
4.blastoise
5.aggron
6.salamence


*copied from the club.sorry for the spelling so forgive me once more ha ha.

Fixed the spelling!

Alright, I'll start with typing. ..To be honest, this team is pretty bad in terms of weaknesses. You've got a triple rock weakness, one of which is 4x(Charizard), and you've only got one resist to it(Aggron), not a good start. Next, you have two Ice and Fighting weaknesses each, all of which are 4x. You have two Ice resists in Blastoise and Aggron. Fighting is covered with 3 resists in Dragonite, Salamence, and Charizard, however.

Unfortunatly, since all 3 of them have a 4x weakness, they're easily dispatched of(especially Charizard). This means your team can fall apart relatively quickly, so you need to play very catiously.

You also have a 3x water weakness on Charizard, Aggron, and Tyranitar. Aggron is easily dispatched by bulky water types, especially swampert who can hit it with Special water moves, AND a 4x effective Earthquake. With Aggron gone, you lose a lot of resists. And with 2 4x weaknesses, Aggron doesn't stick around long. That's a big weakness right there.

While you have 3 resists to water on the rest of your team, whenever you have 3 2x weakness or two 4x weaknesses of the same type, no matter how many resists you have, it's not good enough. Sorry to say, but your team is very prone to being pummeled with weakness-based attacks, which can disassemble it very quickly.

On an offensive perspective, your pokes should be able to fan a wide variety of offensive moves. Many of your pokes can set up sweeps as well - unfortunatly, the ones best at this(Charizard, Dragonite, Salamence)have 4x weaknesses. I assume you rely on brute offense rather than setting up a sweep?

Another note: you lack a lot of power in special attacks, your strongest special attacker is Salamence with 350 Sp. atk, which isn't very strong considering what others can achieve. I don't think your Salamence is all Special attacks either, which leaves you weak to something like Skarm Bliss(skarm soaks up nearly your entire team, while the rest of your team is easily walled by any special walls).

One final area, speed. Your pokes are all relatively slow, the fastest being either Charizard or Salamence(they have equal speed base stats), both of which aren't very fast and have 4x weaknesses.

Not to be rude, but my Special Salamence could sweep your entire team with just Dragon Pulse and Choice Specs, and I doubt you'd move first any of the time since mine is quite fast. Aggron might resist Dragon, but his terrible Sp. def lets him get 2HKO'd, most likely.

On pen and paper, your team isn't very good, sorry. Once you get Platinum, I highly recommend getting some faster pokes, and stronger special attackers. And one final note: remember, this is just a personal opinion. Don't take it too seriously!