Vinnie

Okay, thanks and I did know that ^^ Also forgot to ask but is there any decent way of getting good iv'd pokemon or a good iv'd ditto to work with?

It's getting really old having my high speed tier pokemon on my team lose out to pokemon that have 10-15 lower base speed, so I feel that it might be time to breed, so I can have mons with proper natures and ivs. I'm just a little fearful at how bad breeding might be in the game. I know the creator loves to make everything as difficult and tedious as possible, and the thought of dealing with something like gen 4 breeding mechanics or worse makes me want to throw myself off a cliff. I also have no idea where to grab a destiny knot and am currently questioning if it's in the game, although I should have an everstone at least.

Way too many setup moves imo. I'd take dd off Tyrantrum and give it rock polish. Naganadel is fine, competitively I want to say fire blast over flame thrower, but the choice is yours. I'd go complete choice band with Dragonite but if you really want to run dd then I'd at least remove wing attack and give it thunder punch. For Flygon I'd go full defensive with stealth rocks and add twister(sounds stupid but this is reborn, and twister removes a lot of fields). Can't really make any minor changes to Goodra honestly, it either stays the same or I'd dump a completely new set on it. Zard X is fine, if you want to run crunch over eq, then it is what it is. I'd be a bit tempted to run belly drum honestly(it's a full dragon team, people know it's X and therefore weak to eq, so a potential setup opportunity is to just not mega and belly drum).

It's fine, thanks for all the advice. I know I probably could have worded it better earlier.

Actually I meant the opposite. I believe I said I didn't want to use it.

Some of these are pretty late game. Weavile takes a long time to get. Noivern does as well since I tried working with a Noibat in my very first play through but I eventually realized I'd be better grabbing one at later levels.

Honestly Amaria's water field was scary, but air balloons made it work out fine. As long as I have enough power to knock out her mons it's probably alright. I really don't see how great Blaziken is here. Without protect you can't always get a speed boost up, and without focus sashes you can't say guarantee a swords dance(which isn't available and is why you're running bulk up) + speed boost set either. I suppose it is probably the most outright powerful starter though.

And with very few minimal switching of party members? I just played through the game for the first time, although I probably missed a few side quests. I was just thinking about replaying the game but I wanted something different but at the same time potentially more comfortable. My last game I ran a team of Infernape - the mvp of the team. I actually got a shiny when soft resetting for iron fist. Taunt saved me a few times, although I switched mach punch out for acrobatics at the fighting gym because it helped out so much. I just wish it could get overheat. My infernape was naive so running a mixed set would be fine. Meowstic -> Alakazam which was a very necessary upgrade roughly the same bulk, but way more power and with it's high speed, lack of priority utility moves didn't matter. Ampharos -> Jolteon another needed upgrade. The electric type bulk just wasn't enough and honestly, Jolteon is probably the best non-legendary/mythical eletric type. Leavanny one of the original team members, it put in a surprising amount of work. It was actually amazing for doubles with how it got protect naturally. Donphan -> Excadrill I tried to make donphan work but a solo ground typing just didn't work, although it did last me through Shade's gym and then some Weavile - I waited so long for this guy purely out of love for it. I don't believe I could get knock off at the move tutor unfortunately though. I liked having a speedy dragon slayer on my team though. Prior to Weavile I tended to just carry around fodder, aside from having a Bisharp for a while. My team probably could've used a bulky water type over my weavile in all honesty but it worked. I'd like to try a different team though but I'd also like it to be somewhat comfortable and accessible through out the storyline at reasonable points. I know that with one of the mods I found on these forums I could breed mons and dump them in the shared pc box or something like that but I'd rather acquire them during the actual story. In terms of starters, Snivy is actually my favorite starter. I simply ran Chimchar over it because apparently contrary doesn't work. Also also also! I don't know the owner/lead creator of the game very well, I think their name is Ame but I wanted to say that their game is awesome, I love all of the work they've put into it and it's really the first pokemon game that's ever really challenged me. I've never ever had to soft reset and change strategies before gym leaders and other challenging opponents this much.