Help Me Out

[#HBC | Mac]

I'm starting to play competitive pokemon and I just made a random team with some of my favorite pokemon. Any tips/advice/changes i should make?

At a Glance:

Infernape (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 24 Atk/252 SAtk/232 SDef
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Close Combat
- Fake Out
- Overheat
- Stealth Rock
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Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP/252 Atk/8 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- U-turn
- Pursuit
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Kingdra (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 252 Atk/252 Spd/4 SDef
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Substitute
- Outrage
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Tyranitar (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Crunch
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
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Gengar (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Focus Blast
- Shadow Ball
- Substitute
- Hidden Power [Fire]
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Breloom (M) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 12 HP/252 Atk/244 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Spore
- Seed Bomb
- Substitute
- Focus Punch
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I have no idea which breloom set to use, there all so amazing. Stole the nape lead from one of mow's old teams lol.

any pokemon/teams i should watch out for?

I might switch one of my pokemon to a magnezone to help support ttar, but I wouldn't know who to get rid of. And i hear magnezone sucks, any advice on this?

 

[Zankoku]

Is there a reason why your Infernape is EV'd in special defense?

The team looks really thrown together and probably won't work quite the way you imagine. It might be nice to put some more thought behind it.

 

[#HBC | Mac]

idk i stole the nape lead from mow.
I'm very new at this, and I'm not too sure how to go about making a good team. XD

do yu have any guides that can help me out?

edit: just read the rmt guideline thread, and im missing a few things in the first post. So i guess this can get closed. I'll lurk and stuff and learn how to make a better team

 

[Gates]

What Ankoku meant was that you should take all the EVs on Infernape out of Special Defense and put it into Speed.

I'm a ninja.

 

[Zankoku]

I think you copied it wrong. Between Infernape's 76/71/71 base defenses and holding a Focus Sash, if you really didn't realize that he should be running 232 SPEED instead of 232 SPECIAL DEFENSE when I pointed that out then you possibly aren't quite ready for team-building yet.

 

[Deleted member]

1. my infernape uses speed, not special defense.
2. your team has very few synergies to work with, particularly defensively.
3. the best way to learn is to test it. see which members of your team are carrying the weight the best and refine it from there.
4. HP fire gengar is cute but is also reduces you to 349 speed no matter what. IMO try thunderbolt first and see where that takes you.

edit: if you want we can talk more about this on aim. I should be home sometime tomorrow.

 

[Firus]

When making an RMT, be sure you've tested team, have a general strategy for the team and for each individual Pokémon, and have some Pokémon you've noticed you've been having trouble with. Without those, people will have trouble rating your team.

Make these edits and PM them to me and I'll edit them in and unlock the thread.