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Yay! That's great news! I can fill the Ferrothorn gap with something else bulky like Cradily for the time being. Just realized I am missing a defense against flying types... do I drop Type Null for something else slow and bulky buit with some actual coverage like Ampharos?... though then I have a big hole in my ghost defenses... not that Type:Null does much against ghosts... Edit: Also... couldn't I breed calm mind off of Woobat onto Primarina since they are both field types... or am I crazy?

Hi Everyone, With a quarantine in effect in my city I have returned to Reborn to pass some time... but I am very rusty and have been struggling on team construction (honestly I was never very good to begin with). I wanted to know if this idea would be viable and playable in reborn (since it's the hardest Pokemon game I have ever played and you can't just pick your favourite Pokemon and hope for a win). The team was inspired by the VCG 2017 AFK core; Arcanine, Tapu Fini, and Kartana; often backed up by a Garchomp, Snorlax, and Gigalith, but since obviously some of those Pokemon aren't available, and some I don't like I changed things around a little. I won't go into too much detail on the sets themselves, but I would love to hear people's opinions on whether this is a playable team given how hard Reborn is: Primarina - Calm Mind Special Sweeper Arcanine - Bulky (maybe?) Physical Sweeper Flygon - Physical Sweeper Spiritomb - Defensive Tank Type: Null - Defensive Tank Ferrothorn - Rock and Spike Setter From a type coverage standpoint both offensive and defensive, I think it covers everything I need. It has decent mix of roles, though is definitely a little heavy on physical damage over special. Does this team actually have what it takes to make in in Reborn? Help and suggestions greatly appreciated!

Stunfisk is a moderately rare encounter, just keep wandering around in its location and it will show up.

Trying to steer clear of another trick room team if I can (pretty happy with my current trick roomers), but it's certainly not out of the question. I've been putting some thought of my own into it and have been considering Bisharp and Froslass to cover my significant ice weakness... but that generate a new fire weakness in 2/3 of my team...

With my trick room team finished it is now time for a new challenge. This one is just kind of random pokemon I like using (as discovered by showdown random battles) and is less of a challenge and more just for fun... but I don't know how to round out the team... or what moves to give them... As it stands I have 4 pokemon I'd really like to include: Whimsicott, Dragalge, Gastrodon, and Vespiqueen. All 4 of these pokemon have served me really really well in one way or another during showdown... but obviously they generate some major issues... like a huge weakness to ice and flying attacks! Of these 4 pokemon I have planned 1 out fully: Whimsicott -substitute -leech seed -giga drain -moonblast 2 that I'm a little unsure about (I will mark the areas I am unsure of with ??????): Vespiqueen -defend order -roost -attack order -substitute/air slash?????? Gastrodon -toxic -scald -recover -hidden power earth?????? And one that I only have a vague idea (the pokemon is for sure but his moves... no idea!): Dragalge -sludge wave?????? -dragon pulse?????? -?????? -?????? This leave 2 final slots to fill... and I think I'm in pretty rough shape at this point! So please, players of Reborn, lend me some suggestions to help round out and finish my team!

Don't know why you guys are hating on mega Pidgeot. No guard hurricane sounds way too OP for Reborn.

Rearranged abilities again?! Noooooooo!

True, but there isn't anything I can really do about it. He's on the team for better or worse. Honestly, overall I'm not doing nearly as badly as I thought I would. My total score is right in the middle of the pack of my friends (one of them has run into the unfortunate challenge of having 1 OU pokemon and the rest UU, so the only time he gets to battle almost on even ground is against me, and I take him to town lol). Edit: And for whatever inexplicable reason we're back! Went on a mad kill streak with a win:loss ratio of 3/1. It was a good night for the team. I'm definitely getting better with it and have even had sceptile actually put in proper work now that I've got the hang of where and what he can switch in on (getting that mega off has been risky sometimes) Edit 2: Being tired is the key to my team losing... lost 12 battles in a row... basically erased all my progress for the day... I will never play after 1am again. Edit 3: For all who doubt the power of the loonster, a typical Linoone sweep from the original list lol http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/uu-192353150

Today did not go so well for our team, lads! After a crazy day of wrecking house yesterday (6:7 win to loss ratio), the team has dropped back down to losing almost every game... Today was 1:10 win:loss ratio (been a discouraging day of only 3 wins and 30 losses, but ended on a win, so I at least have that to be thankful for). Guess the force just wasn't with me. One problem may be that people may have become aware there is a Linoone in the UU circuit because everyone is suddenly becoming much better at stalling him out, and without the loooooone I typically don't have the sweeping power I need to push things over the edge.

Isn't Gastrodon too slow to ever need to make use of speed EVs? The only thing he'll outspeed are pokemon who are specifically slow to make use of gyroball and trick room, and then the speed helps even less. Also, with only linoone as priority, will this team be fast enough to take down a boosted target like swift swim kingdra (not the best example, since I know Armaldo is very effective against it thanks to battle armour, but something similar)? Up until this point to deal with obscenely fast things I've been getting a toxic off with Gastrodon (who can always take 1 hit), then extreme speeding with linoone and arcanine, and letting the toxic finish the job.

Linoone has to stay as part of the rules of the challenge. Of my favourite pokemon it is second in my heart (right behind sceptile, sometimes surpassing him to take first). The best I could do is drop Armaldo or Gastrodon (you'll notice they don't have nicknames) for Starmie (A.K.A. Thunderstruck) but that doesn't alleviate the issue at hand much. But take heart my friends for it is... through some strange twist of fate the most terrifying sweeper on the team and has single-handedly won more matches than any of the other pokemon (if not for earthquake/outrage flygon's occasional sweeps I'd be tempted to say combined) on my team. The key is to bring it in on a safe switch against pokemon tanks, walls, clerics, hazard-setters, or stalls and go to town (anything not maximizing offense really). The goal is that the opponent will only hit for >75% (sometimes they miss and it's even better), so the berry triggers and bellydrum goes off. Then go to town with the HP that's left (the amount of times that it has been 4% when I'm finished makes me suspect that there's a pattern worth examining there, I really need to pay closer attention to the attacks I survive). The only pokemon I have seen resist him so far are mega-aggron and umbreon, all the others have been swept with damage to spare. He's also been useful as a revenge killer thanks to extreme speed. Making due with what I have the team has been doing really well the past couple days and is now above a 50:50 win:loss ratio! I would be really happy if you'd be willing to show me an in depth analysis of each pokemon though! It would be really helpful!

You could always breed? It would just take a very long time for each pokemon.

I try to find the line between getting kicked around and doing the kicking. I like my reborn to have a real challenge during the gym battles so that I feel like I really earned my wins lol

I had an arceus for one turn of one battle? Does that count?