Squire Penguin

Fair points. It would be kind of a pain to worry about defense at all, given how abyssal it is on both of those fronts. I just felt like experimenting. Maybe some of my other team members will benefit from what I have until I can get my hands on Swords Dance. Thanks!

Hey, all! I'm pretty new here, but I hope I'm in the right place to be asking this. Haha. I'm on Terajuma Shore, and in the area where you fight the water-type gym leader so that you can progress I got bored and decided I would pick up a Carvanha and make it into a Sharpedo. It's pretty awesome; the attack IVs were great, it also has speed boost, it's low physical defense even has a little help from the IVs as well. My only complaint is that its naughty nature makes its already bad special defense worse, in my opinion. All in all, though I think it would be a fantastic sweeper as long as I make sure it lasts long enough. That's where Mawile comes in. Recently, it learned Iron Defense and Baton Pass. It's worked amazingly while grinding, especially whenever my hard-hitting Sharpedo just so happened to need to be switched in safely. I found out that Mawile can get Stockpile soon, and now I'm wondering what to do. I would prefer to have at least one of them since either one would complement my other team members too (they're all fairly balanced so I'm not too worried about them, plus I'd prefer that Mawile have more than just one move for attacking). It all kind of falls on my favorite little shark that I would prefer to use for a while. Should I (1) not bother, just continue to keep Sharpedo away from strong special attackers and continue to Baton Pass with Iron Defense as I see fit or (2) replace iron defense with stockpile and have a more balanced setup?