D/P/Pt Normal Team of Not-So-Awesome

[Coloursfall]

Er, yeah, Normal is my favourite type, so I built a team around it! Go me! So let's get to what you came for, then: the team. (this is on Shoddy, btw)


Edward (Persian) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- U-turn
- Night Slash
- Fake Out
- Seed Bomb

Lead. Fake Out something, and then beat it's face in with the right attack. Night Slash handles ghosts, Seed Bomb is for rocks, grounds, and waters, and U-Turn is for a GTFO situation.


GigabyteMe (Porygonz) @ Wise Glasses
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Tri Attack
- Dark Pulse
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt

Boltbeam + Tri Attack. And Dark Pulse. This one is pretty straight-forward. Not sure if I should have Wise Glasses or Choice Specs/Scarf on him.

Hiromu (Miltank) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Scrappy
EVs: 252 Atk/126 Def/132 SDef
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Curse
- Body Slam
- Milk Drink
- Earthquake

This thing is annoying as hell. I have one just like it in my actual game, and it's swept entire teams. Curse until you can't Curse anymore, Milk Drink when you need to, and beat up everything else.

Orion (Clefable) (M) @ Leftovers/Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 Def/132 SAtk/126 SDef
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Cosmic Power
- Charge Beam
- Ice Beam
- Softboiled

Hello there, I am a Boltbeaming tank sort of thing.

Izumi (Kangaskhan) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Scrappy
EVs: 252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Crunch
- Earthquake
- Focus Punch
- Substitute

Subpunching. I have one just like this in my game, an I managed to surprise a ghost-type on the switch with a Focus Punch to the face, since I have Scrappy.

L'Arc-En-Ciel (Togekiss) (M) @ King's Rock
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Air Slash
- Tri Attack
- Roost
- Thunder Wave

Flinchhaxing and Tri Attack for good measure.

Um, so yeah... Help is greatly loved.

 

[wyoming789]

Good team overall. For PorygonZ, replace the Wse Gasses w/ Choice Specs for a much stronger attack. Nothing wrong with Miltank or Kangaskhan. On Clefable, I would replace Charge Beam w/ Thunderbolt, just because it starts out stonger, and won't miss. Take off Thunder Wave. Let Tri Atack do what it was meant to do.

 

[Aisling]

Haha! Izumi Kangaskhan, I lol'd. best mental image <3

And yeah, I don't know much about competitive battling but I know what Serene Grace does and what Tri Attack can do. So I would take off Thunder Wave and give it something else. I couldn't tell you what, though.

 

[Coloursfall]

hm, perhaps Aura Sphere instead? It's fairly useful...

 

[1. Luftballon]

no keep the t-wave it can't flinch well otherwise

 

[J.T.]

Yeah, TWave is a great way to pull off some annoyances. Keep it.

 

[Coloursfall]

kay, keeping Twave then. :3 I love annoying people.

 

[Lord Shyguy]

I'd take off TWave and give it an attack move with a side effect similar to that. With Serene Grace, it would be much more effective. Maybe Water Pulse or Signal Beam? (For confusion.)

 

[J.T.]

Thing with Water Pulse and Signal Beam is there's still only a CHANCE for its secondary effect (however high it may be, there's still a chance it won't confuse), unlike TWave, which has a 100% chance of paralysis. In addition, confusion can be cured just by switching; paralysis doesn't give that luxury. And further, paralysis is more likely to stop an opponent from moving (IIRC), between the speed loss and the chance of full paralysis.

 

[Lord Shyguy]

Well, yeah, I guess that would make sense... Because it has Serene Grace, though, any attack move with a side effect just seems better.

 

[otaku-dono]

Edward (Persian) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- U-turn
- Night Slash
- Fake Out
- Seed Bomb

Lead. Fake Out something, and then beat it's face in with the right attack. Night Slash handles ghosts, Seed Bomb is for rocks, grounds, and waters, and U-Turn is for a GTFO situation.

Might want to go for a Choice Scarf here, since it is a lead and needs to outspeed possible Trick users or whatever else your opponent decides to throw at you.

L'Arc-En-Ciel (Togekiss) (M) @ King's Rock
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Air Slash
- Tri Attack
- Roost
- Thunder Wave

Flinchhaxing and Tri Attack for good measure.

Aura Sphere over Tri Attack, otherwise fine.

Orion (Clefable) (M) @ Leftovers/Life Orb
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 Def/132 SAtk/126 SDef
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Cosmic Power
- Charge Beam
- Ice Beam
- Softboiled

Hello there, I am a Boltbeaming tank sort of thing.

Maybe go with Thunderbolt and Calm Mind over Charge Beam and Cosmic Power. It means your defense suffers, but oh well. And it might pay to run a Toxic Orb, since that protects you from sleep/paralysis.

It might pay to go with another Normal/Flying type on the team since once Togekiss is gone Swords Dance Lucario walks all over your team. Scarfed Staraptor might be a good idea here, that way you can outrun it and KO with Close Combat (I'm pretty sure). The only thing it would make sense replacing is Miltank though, so I'm not sure if you'd want to do that. If you do keep Miltank though, replace Earthquake with Heal Bell so you have a good cleric on your team.

 

[1. Luftballon]

choice scarf is stupid on a set with fake out

tri attack is there for status, but whatever

if you want calm mind clefable, at least move the sa ev's to sd

 

[J.T.]

if you want calm mind clefable, at least move the sa ev's to sd

CM will be boosting that too. My big question is where's the HP EVs? Those are... kinda important.

And don't put Choice Scarf on Persian. The thing's blisteringly fast anyway. All that does is destroy the purpose of Fake Out and outspeed maybe one or two Pokemon that it doesn't already.