Pre-Serra Team

[VapePoreon]

I'm looking to improve my team and I'm having some difficulties deciding who to replace and with what. The major thing is I have 4 Pokémon weak to ground moves. I would also like to have an eeveelution on my team in some fashion (preferably a Leafeon, but not a necessity). I'm right at Serra (haven't challenged her yet). I'm considering swapping out Skunktank and Palossand, but that still leaves me with 3 Pokémon weak to ground.

 

Barbaracle lv48

Tough Claws

Razor Shell

Stone Edge

Shell Smash

Night Slash

 

Toxapex lv45

Regenerator

Poison Jab

Baneful Bunker

Recover

Toxic Spikes

 

Palossand lv45

Water Compaction

Giga Drain

Earth Power

Shadow Ball

Iron Defense

 

Skuntank lv46

Stench

Night Slash

Sucker Punch

Flamethrower

Toxic

 

Sceptile lv46

Overgrowth

Detect

Rock Smash

Leaf Storm

X-Scissor

 

Arcanine lv45

Intimidate

Flare Blitz

Crunch

Extreme Speed

Close Combat

[Gentleman Jaggi]

You can get a Trapinch by trading a Mothim to a guy in a house in Chrysolia forest (might have to teleport it there first from Spinel Town if you haven't already); Flygon isn't too well-suited for Serra's gym, but it's strong and has a great movepool. Also has Levitate, so immune to Ground. It's imo the best Pokémon you can get around this part of the game.

 

You can also get an Eevee from a cave in Chrysolia Forest to evolve to any of its evolutions.

 

Azurine Island has wild Yanma - Yanmega is one of the stronger Bug Types out there and Speed Boost is a handy Ability for many situations.

 

Tanzan Mountain has wild Sandile - one of Krookodile's Abilities is Moxie and it has decent enough Speed to overtake a lot of enemies if you invest in it.

[hibirb]

Mankey/Primeape is another option that really carried me through Serra's gym. The early access to Close Combat that Primeape gets really allows you to power through the gym.

[areason]

You can get a darmantian, helps a lot against Serra.

[Goomymaestro]

I trained up noivern to fight Serra, Boomburst turn 1 wrecks her. You can use a ground type with sturdy (Donphan) and use earthquake to shatter the field. Flygon works as well if you can get it fast enough (Which you probably can).