Comments, and Suggestions for my first Competitve Team.

[Infinite Emerald]

Lead

Azelf with Focus Sash
Naive Nature
Hp. 4
Sp. 252
Spec Att. 252

Stealth Rock
Taunt
Explosion
Psycic
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Skarmory with Leftovers
Impish Nature
Hp. 252
Sp. 4
Spec. Df. 252

Brave Bird
Roost
Spikes
Whirlwind
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Rotom-C with Choice Scarf
Timid Nature
Spec. At. 252
Spec. Df. 4
Sp. 252

Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Leaf Storm
Trick
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Scizor With Choice Band
Adamant Nature
Hp. 248
At. 252
Sp. 8

U-Turn
Bullet Punch
Super Power
Pursuit
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Infernape with Life Orb
Naive Nature
At. 252
Spev. At. 44
Sp. 212

Close Combat
Overheat
U-turn
Stone Edge
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Starmie With Life Orb
Timid Nature
SpA. 252
SpD. 4
Spe. 252

Hydro Pump
Thunderbolt
Ice Beam
Recover

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Well I am open to any comments, and I really want some suggestions to make this team better. I am "Rocket Grunt Kurth" on Pokemon Online if anyone wants to battle also!

 

[Zankoku]

Can you please give a bit of reasoning behind each of your choices? I don't think this team holds itself together well, but other than serious lack of synergy I can't give a proper explanation at the moment.

Also, that was a horridly weak Pursuit. Make sure your Scizor is running Technician, not Swarm.

 

[Gates]

Make sure your Scizor is running Technician, not Swarm.

I'm fairly sure that goes without saying. I can't think of any reason why you would run Scizor with Swarm.

I don't think Skarm should run Brave Bird since it hinders his abilities as a tank imo. Running Toxic would be fine overall since it'll hit non-steels harder and you wouldn't Brave Bird any Steels anyway. It seems like a bad move because it makes Skarm a lot weaker to Taunt, but you'll be using a recoil move or switching out if they Taunt you anyway. I also reccommend Shed Shell because there's always some **** using Magnezone.

Speaking of Taunt, you could also use my awesome TauntSkarm build which is great for winning stall wars against stuff that doesn't have Flamethrower.

Skarmory (F) @ Shed Shell
Ability: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP/72 Def/184 Spd
Impish nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Roost
- Spikes
- Taunt
- Whirlwind

 

[Fuelbi]

Take off Psychic on Azelf and put up Grass Knot.

 

[The Real Gamer]

Take off Psychic on Azelf and put up Grass Knot.

Lead Machamp likes this idea.

 

[Fuelbi]

Lead Machamp likes this idea.

Takes out Lead Swampert.

Mine doesn't die after Plode, so I thought it was a good idea.

 

[Zankoku]

Mine doesn't die after Plode

Wait, what?

 

[Fuelbi]

Wait, what?

Yeah, pretty much. I end up with about 30-40% of health

And I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here or not. If so, please make it more obvious. The internet sucks at sarcasm.

 

[The Real Gamer]

Yeah but MixPert is an extremely easy switch in for just about any Grass Pokemon. As soon as your opponent sees that his precious Pert is about to get demolished, he/she will always switch out, unless they are willing to sack their Pert, which is dumb.

Then the following happens:
-Celebi paralyzes the switch in.
-Breloom Spores the switch in or sets up a Sub.
-Shaymin Leech Seeds the switch in.

Machamp has almost no safe switch ins (Rotom will take a huge hit after WoW fails thanks to Lum Berry), so stay with Psychic and put one of the 3 Grass Pokemon on this team.

 

[Fuelbi]

Yeah but MixPert is an extremely easy switch in for just about any Grass Pokemon. As soon as your opponent sees that his precious Pert is about to get demolished, he/she will always switch out, unless they are willing to sack their Pert, which is dumb.

Then the following happens:
-Celebi paralyzes the switch in.
-Breloom Spores the switch in or sets up a Sub.
-Shaymin Leech Seeds the switch in.

Machamp has almost no safe switch ins (Rotom will take a huge hit after WoW fails thanks to Lum Berry), so stay with Psychic and put one of the 3 Grass Pokemon on this team.

Well, if he puts one of these guys in, then at least put Breloom. I mean, Shaymin and Celebi don't get a power boost after getting poisoned. Plus, you get to use Spore (I'm not sure about any of these other guys)

 

[The Real Gamer]

Breloom can be easy to deal with early game. And unlike Breloom, Celebi can actually deal with most of its counters.

What happens to switch ins after they are TW'ed:
-Scizor gets a quick BP, then dies to HP fire.
-Forry also gets HP fired.
-Non ShucaTran gets OHKOed by Earth Power.
-Gengar gets OHKOed by Celebi w/ Psychic.
-Most TTar variants get OHKOed by LO/max+ Leaf Storm.
-Opposing Celebi get smacked by Celebi w/ U-turn.
-Everything else that Celebi can't beat is well... Paralyzed, which sucks.

But if you want to put things to sleep, I guess Breloom could be viable. Lol

 

[Fuelbi]

Let's see

-Ok, that's good
-I guess that's also good
-I guess that's good as well
-How can Gengar get OHKO by Celebi with Psychic? Gengar is a Ghost type. Hell, it should be the other way around.
-Eh, W/E.
-W/E as well

But really, who wouldn't switch out Ttar, Scizor, and Forry when they see Celebi coming in? I can see Shucatran being surprised at EP and how do we know that the other Celebi isn't faster than yours? And I believe Breloom is a better replacement. I think it's more beneficial than Paralyze considering it can put stuff to sleep.

 

[The Real Gamer]

You're confused. I'm talking about the following situation:

-Random Pokemon of yours vs. MixPert
-You switch in Celebi
-Opponent switches in whatever and eats a Thunder Wave

So no matter what happens, Celebi is going to out speed all of its counters lacking priority moves.

So to answer your question, Gengar is out-sped and OHKOed by Psychic. :\

 

[Zankoku]

Shaymin and Celebi both really don't give a **** about poison.

 

[Fuelbi]

You're confused. I'm talking about the following situation:

-Random Pokemon of yours vs. MixPert
-You switch in Celebi
-Opponent switches in whatever and eats a Thunder Wave

So no matter what happens, Celebi is going to out speed all of its counters lacking priority moves.

So to answer your question, Gengar is out-sped and OHKOed by Psychic. :\

Wait? DOH! I just realized that Psychic attacks hit it for neutral damage. I forget that just because one type is weak to another, the way it attacks the other doesn't have to necessarily have to have attacks that hits it weakly

 

[The Real Gamer]

I forget that just because one type is weak to another, the way it attacks the other doesn't have to necessarily have to have attacks that hits it weakly

lolwut?

Really though you should learn more about Celebi and its movesets considering you're such a huge fan of... well... Celebi.

 

[Fuelbi]

Lol.

What I meant that just because Psychic is weak to Ghost, it doesn't mean that Psychic attacks have to hit Ghost types weakly... you get me now right?

And **** it, I know enough about Celebi to use it on a team

 

[Infinite Emerald]

Can you please give a bit of reasoning behind each of your choices? I don't think this team holds itself together well, but other than serious lack of synergy I can't give a proper explanation at the moment.

Also, that was a horridly weak Pursuit. Make sure your Scizor is running Technician, not Swarm.

Allright, I don't really have to many reasons other than I was doing what my friend who knows a good amount in this area told me too and he asked me to post it here so that I can get suggestions.