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Thanks for your suggestion, Will give Hypnosis a try, but my concern with replacing Blizzard with Hypnosis is that Hypnosis is 60% accuracy and also Blizzard sometimes comes in handy changing some annoying field effects. It's just a point I thought of as field effects and hitting moves seems to be very very important in this game from my experience so far. Have also swapped my filler on Flygon for Dragon Dance and it has definitely made it easier for me on boss battles, mostly Singles, Doubles not so much. Will definitely try that in the future but Field Effects and the different seed effects are just extremely confusing to me for my current playthrough. More often than not, I find myself relying on Blizzard and hoping it changes the field to ice field as I feel like it seems to help me more often than not compared to the other fields so far. Will try to study up on what the different fields do and how to change them and hopefully apply that knowledge when the game is complete. Thanks again for your suggestions!

Hi, Thank you very much for all your suggestions. You got that part right on the money! I ended up building my team with some doubles in mind as we seem to have quite a bit of them in the game, sometimes teaming up with another teammate. But Aurora Veil with Light Clay has been very good for Singles too, while Tailwind sometimes allow me to outspeed another mon when my fastest mons dies , since my current Crobat isn't actually that strong offensively, but pretty good as kind of a support. I am definitely OK with doing some breeding! For Infernape, I am keeping that set in mind for when I get Sword Dance. However, would it be better for me have Mach Punch somewhere in there to have a priority? My main playstyle so far has been to use Infernape as a hit and run or as a revenge killer. Overall the main reason I used Overheat is so I don't take too much recoil and leave myself vulnerable to a priority while maintaining some semblance of knockout power. The future plan is to also equip ape with Firium-Z for Overheat use. With Sword Dance however, Iron Fist Fire Punch sounds pretty good and worth a try for sure, so definitely will do that as soon as I get Sword Dance. I agree with your view of Electric mons, but Magnezone will probably stay on the team mainly due to the Steel typing for fairies and poisons. As for Crobat, I will keep your set in mind and make another Crobat with your set and try that out for the rest of the game! One doubt I do have is with Confuse Ray though, I have found that most of the time RNG just doesn't work in our favor unless I restart a bunch of time just to get it, not sure if there is some hidden factor affecting it, but from my playthrough so far, I found that being able to "control your own destiny" and not count on RNG at all usually works better. As for Flygon, Krookodile is an interesting suggestion and will definitely explore it, especially as it will give Intimidate or Moxie as well. I did consider Garchomp, but I ended up not using it as it doesn't naturally get Earthquake and I still didn't get the TM so far. But you definitely brought up a very good point! I don't have a Mega option! I think I need to start working on Garchomp and Hippowdon both as rotation mons to give myself alot more options for sure! Another relatively trivial reason is the need for Fly sometimes, which I was reluctant to put on Crobat due to alot of it's moveset being egg moves. For Ninetales, I love that suggestion for sure, Freeze-Dry and Extrasensory both has good and bad so will hunt some heart scales and rotate them when necessary, like Freeze Dry allows me to hit super effective moves on Water Types, and it's my trump card for Amaria. Milotic, its just a pokemon I really like, and it gives me a mon that can do some sort of stalling and recovering like what you mentioned when things go south. The only pokemon on your suggestion I would consider changing to is Greninja, as I simply do not like Sharpedo, and find that Starmie seems to lack that extra oomph most of the time to land needed KOs even though it has amazing coverages.

Thank you for the suggestions! For Infernape, I actually tried Flare Blitz and Fire Punch but ended settling on Overheat while allocating some evs to special attack as Flare Blitz recoil sometimes is a little too much while fire punch seems to lack the extra power needed for KOs, and Overheat turns out to be not as big of a problem as I ended up using it as more of hit and run. For Crobat, I actually used Poison Fang for a bit, but ended up deferring to Cross Poison due to the Fairy Gym! I needed Cross Poison to net some KOs there to make my life easier with Adrienn. For Flygon, I didn't know it gets Dragon Dance! That would be an amazing addition for the filler move slot! But I think I have to check if the game still follows Gen 7 or Gen 8 learnset, if it's Gen 8, I would definitely get Dragon Dance!

Thank you very much for your suggestion! Would definitely do that, field effects and terrains are sometimes a pain and Electric Terrain will definitely help alot, though to be honest, I did not know Magnezone actually get Electric Terrain. Magnet Rise has been only quite situational in double battles so far, so thats an easy decision right there!

Hi, Looking for a way to improve my current team with its moveset or even swapping out some pokemon where necessary. Any suggestions given is appreciated! Infernape (Life Orb) Nature: Naive Ability: Iron Fist -Overheat -Mach Punch - Close Combat -Thunderpunch Magnezone (Leftovers) Nature: Modest Ability: Sturdy -Discharge (Changing to Thunderbolt when I can get it) -Thunder Wave -Flash Cannon -Magnet Rise Crobat (Black Sludge) Nature: Adamant Ability: Infiltrator -Super Fang -Tailwind -Brave Bird -Cross Poison Flygon (Assault Vest) Nature: Jolly Ability: Levitate -Outrage -Earthquake -Crunch -Filler (Currently Fly) Alolan Ninetales (Light Clay) Nature: Timid Ability: Snow Warning -Aurora Veil -Blizzard -Moon Blast -Freeze Dry Milotic (Leftovers) Nature: Bold Ability: Competitive -Surf -Icy Wind -Recover -Toxic

Competitive actually raises special attack instead of attack. Defiant is the one that raise attack. Emolga is going to a major help through with nuzzle being such an OP move. Nicely done so far though. Keep it up!

ONIX!!! Sassy king putting in work against taka's ace. Though I see him getting alot less uses from this point on till steelix.

With your team I would recommend catching 1 or 2 more pokemon to help with ciel. Blaziken might not end up doing much but I would recommend replacing fire pledge with bulk up probably. Ampharos is a definite choice especially with discharge since the paralysis chance could end up being you winning or losing. I don't remember if you can have access to move deleter but get rid of dive and put something like icy wind on blastoise if possible. Your cubchoo into beartic seems to be your best chance at beating her ace and it would be even better if you can manage to get rain dance set up, preferably by blastoise to make use of swift swim that beartic gets. I also feel you might want to keep zebstrika just for this fight due to it being so high in level and type advantage. If possible try to get a rock type on the way to calcenon like rhydon, golem or gigalith?

I did it with cofagrigus power splitting it then have meowstic set up a light screen and pretty much killing him with leech seed damage and 2 close combat from infernape ( 2 becoz thanks focus miss).

Looking at your team there are a few pokemon that you can keep like blaziken, noivern and gardevoir. So looking at the above 3, we still need to cover water, ground and poison as you wanted. Blastoise and nidoking are 2 pretty good options imo as they fulfil your need for all 3 types. Blastoise can function as a semi-tank(?) and nidoking can be the sweeper with the wide array of tm moves you can get on it. Flamethrower, sludge wave, earth power and megahorn would be an example of a moveset you can try on nidoking. The last pokemom I typically likes to run a cleric, which might or might not helps in-game for you, but it's my style and has helped me alot. I personally used sylveon and you can consider that, though that might clash with gardevoir in terms of typing, so you might also consider espeon as your psychic type. Reuniclus is also a good option as a psychic type since it has decent bulk and hits pretty hard. It also gets recover and trick room which could make it pretty self-sufficient. Your noivern could run something like dragon pulse, air slash/hurricane, flamethrower and tailwind for example consider theres a fair amount of double battles tailwind can come in handy.

Oh sorry my bad, I was originally intending for you to use onix then evolving to steelix and continue with him. But I forgot to consider that would only leave you with 17 choices. SRY!!!

Normal: Miltank Fire: Infernape Psychic: Meowstic Bug: Butterfree Dark: Bisharp Steel: Steelix Electric: Emolga Ground: Onix Rock: Archeops Poison: Garbodor Grass: Vileplume Ghost: Mismagius Fairy: Sylveon Flying: Hawlucha Fighting: Mienshao Water: Lanturn Ice: Aurorus Dragon: Druddigon

Looking at your team, you might want to already consider how you are going to beat a gardevoir. Your team is not fast and the only one to outspeed gardy gets oneshot if you fail to oneshot it.

I pressed f12 when I got my 1st JACKPOT too lol... instantly ragequitted the game for 3 days. Came back and 1st roll, axew

Well, imagine we do get a legendary, but instead of a dragon we get bird... :feelsgd:

Aye Singapore ftw! Anyway thanks for all the welcomes, hope to see you guys around too!

Thank you very much!!!

My name is ys chong from Singapore. Have been playing reborn since episode 9. I came over this game through shofu when he started in episode 9 but since then have been absolutely blown away by this amazing game. Even though I have played this game for quite a long time I have not really posted anything and even sign up for this forum until recently since I tend to not be very active on the forums I do end up going to, but here I am, so.. yea. Anyway just a super short introduction about me with pokemon, I mostly play VGCs on main games and once in a while smogon though I tend to prefer lower tiers like NU and RU instead of OU and above. Currently on reborn I have finished all episode 15, just going through breeding for egg moves and hunting events down whenever I feel like it and am also playing through another amazing game like reborn which is Pokemon Rejuvenation. Well before anyone fall asleep, I shall spare your torture and end this. See you around! PS. My English is not very good, so please forgive me for bad english if necessary.