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Sorry for the late reply! Had a break from reborn first after a gruesome fight with Titania. What you just suggested looks like something I can wreck anything with... and I like that HAHAHAHAHA I'll definitely either make a good ass quagsire as you said or let alolan-ninetales have mist instead and let salazzle do the acid downpour. It's funny how what you suggested on sceptile was the set I had on him during the titania fight as I searched sceptile movesets on the internet beforehand and that one caught my eye. Definitely will get knock off on scrafty now since the tutor should be there already. Thanks for the recommendations! I put on a choice band on that baby and he destroyed both titania's excadrill and klefki. Will keep that on him for the time being till a scarf decides to show itself in EP19 hehe. Thanks for the recommendation anyways! I find flygon too frail to set up a DD most of the time I've tried it, and if I do pull it off and flygon still has health, it faints because of the damage of both the life orb and the hail (due to my alolan nintales setting up aurora veil). I'll keep the choice band on him for now but thanks for the recommendation! Thunderpunch is definitely going on him for the amaria fight. As for the physical sceptile, I really do feel like its been subpar at best. The liechi berry does boost its attack up, but it still doesn't have the killing power to kill anything except for ground/rock/water types and sometimes ice types depending on how frail they are against drain punch. I'll definitely switch to a special set and I'll try out that weakness policy sceptile if ever I can finally get that focus blast, but I do fear that sceptile is just to frail to take a supereffective hit and live to see the light of +2 on his atk and sp.atk. Thanks for the recommendations!

You're so right on that togekiss addition that I'm mad at myself for not thinking about that. What do you think its nature and moveset should be? I was thinking I could focus on its sweet SpD, boost the HP for the wish, and add some points into speed if ever. I don't think I'll plan to dish damage with this baby, so I'm thinking its gonna be a full on annoying support with the combo of yawn and wish. edit: Scrap the points in speed, I'll have togekiss have 0IV's in speed so it could definitely be last against most pokemon to do baton pass for a safe switch! I'd probs have to put the ev's of spd to def instead to make her take better hits from both physical and special though. Do you have any suggestion on what item I should give flygon with for the time being then? I really thought the reward for aqua was the choice scarf, so since that's outta the way I'm stuck on what I should give him Starmie's set right now plowed through ciel's team for me (shut down 5 of her pokemon till it ran out of pp for both moves), so I'll keep it for now until I see the need for it to go full special sweeper. I'll add superpower on flygon for now and switch it to thunderpunch for the water gym leader later on. Noted too on that heat wave comment, its base power is higher than flamethrower and isn't single target for the expense of just 90% acc which I can definitely live with. Thanks for the very helpful input!

About to go to the desert! Getting a beldum and leveling that thing up is going to be a nightmare, so I plan on just leveling up one of those big boi's after I finish the last gym available. Thanks for the suggestion! thanks for that

Hey guys! New to both this site and teambuilding in general... so I really appreciate any help I get. I'd usually just slap some cool, strong looking pokemon in the team but strategy and team planning is huge in this game, and those two are very out of my comfort zone sadly This is my team so far: ALOLAN NINETALES (Lvl 77, Snow Warning, Light Clay) EV'S: 252 SPA, 252, SPE, 6 HP NATURE: Timid (+spe, -atk) MOVES: - Blizzard - Freeze Dry - Moonblast - Aurora Veil AGGRON (Lvl 77, Sturdy, Rock Plate for now, will put aggronite if ever) EV'S: 252 SPD, 252 HP, 6 ATK NATURE: Careful (+spd, -spa) MOVES: - Heavy Slam - Rock Slide - Fire Punch - Stealth Rock SCRAFTY (Lvl 77, Moxie, Black Belt) EV'S: 252 SPE, 252 ATK, 6 HP NATURE: Jolly (+spe, -spa) MOVES: - High Jump Kick - Dragon Dance - Thunder Punch - Crunch STARMIE (Lvl 77, Analytic, Weakness Policy) EV'S: 252 SPE, 252 SPA, 6 HP NATURE: Modest (+spa, -atk) MOVES: - Hydro Pump - Psychic - Recover - Cosmic Power FLYGON (Lvl 77, Levitate, Choice Scarf once I finish that gang quest) EV'S: 252 ATK, 252 SPE, 6 HP NATURE: Adamant (+atk, -spa) Moves: - Dragon Claw (will be replaced for outrage) - Earthquake - Fly - ... idk what to put here. maybe defog? U-turn isnt out yet SALAZZLE (Lvl 77, Oblivious, Black Sludge... idk what to put on this girl) EV'S: 252 SPA, 252 SPE, 6 HP NATURE: Timid (+spe, -atk) Moves: - Sludge Wave - Flamethrower - Nasty Plot - Hidden Power (Grass... idk how much eggs I hatched just to get a hp salazzle like this) Bench Boi's: SCEPTILE (Lvl 78, Unburden, Focus Sash) EV'S: 252 atk, 252 spe, 6 hp Nature: Adamant (+atk, -spa) Moves: - Leaf Blade - Acrobatics - Drain Punch - X-Scissor SCOLIPEDE (Lvl 75, Speed Boost, Black Sludge) EV'S: 252 spe, 252 atk, 6 HP Nature: Jolly (+spe, -spa) Moves: - Megahorn - Poison tail (will replace with jab if ever I get it) - Protect - Baton Pass Theres also Noivern and Alolan Marowak in my PC which are close to the level of these pokemon. I know the team must be pretty trash so here I am asking for your help... thanks! edit: I also realized that M - aggrons gonna have a hard time staying alive, so planning to add a wish user if ever..