You don't have to have an attack of every type on your team. You just need to have good type coverage, in otherwords, enough moves that deal with most, if not all other types. For example: Steel is SE against rocks, but Earthquake is SE against rocks too, and it takes down 4 other types, whereas steel only downs 2 types, so it's not necessary to have a steel move.

About the only thing a grass move will do that other move types don't already do is take out Swampert, seeing how that's its only weakness. Of course, you don't need a grass move at all to bring down Swampert.

None of your pokemon are legendary...what are you talking about?

Actual stats.

so i would have to give all my pokemon speed lowering natures, low speed ivs, and no speed evs to abuse trick room? If so forget it, my other team had better structure anyway

You could still use a pokemon that can function even outside of Trick Room. Otherwise when your TR set-upers are gone, your rest team is too.

well i am not going to waste my time getting pokemon just for them to have the worst possible speed stats

Trick Room is an easier way to go first.
Rather than run a Scarf and +Speed set, it leaves almost nothing for offensive.

Btw can someone rate my team, it seemed the rating centre was functioning properly for a few days.

Sorry for skipping your team.


Your sixth Pokemon could be Manaphy or Palkia (watch out, cuz you'll have 3 dragons). Giratina or Lugia are great walls, if you want them. Sorry, I'm not too experienced with Ubers.


Remind me later to rate the Mewtwo; I have to go now.

Scizor@?
Impish
EVs 184hp/176def/148spe

Agility
X-Scissor/Substitute
Iron Head
Baton Pass

After an agility it passes to

Articuno@Leftovers
Nature?
EVs 252hp/129def/129spe

Mind Reader
Shear Cold
Roost
Ice Beam

Who proceeds to destroy everything

p.s. I really need substitute, roost, and grass knot tms to finish sandstorm team!!!

Updated 3 of the pokes on my team. The Arcanine didn't work as well as I hoped..And I stupidly lost my Dragon Pulse TM...

This will likely be my last edit to my team until platinum comes out in english, school, work, Disgaea3/DS etc.. are all coming up soon. XD


Sashimi
Kingdra
Modest @ Haban berry. Swift swim
140 HP, 252 S.ATK, 116 SPEED
-Ice Beam
-Dragon Pulse
-Surf
-Rain dance

Lead. Throw Rain dance up and beat down other leads, namely Bronzong, Sandstreamers and dragons. The berry allows him to live through at least 1 dragon attack where he can counter w/ Ice beam or Pulse(if they might be holding a yache berry) and KO them. Kind of a special-using mock yache-chomp.




The Chef
Alakazam
Timid @ Life Orb. Inner focus
252 S.ATK, 220 SPEED, 38 HP
-Psychic
-Shadow ball
-Focus Blast
-Substitute

To me this Alakazam doesn't have HP, it has a countdown meter . Use sub if the opponent is likely to switch out or to scout. Sub also blocks sucker punch users that totally counter her. Since sub walls status I took inner focus to prevent fake out flinch. Works best in 3 vs. 3 but even on 6 vs. 6 with weather and rocks/spikes in play she can mid-late sweep up quite well.



Yogurt
Miltank
Serious (Chosen due to near flawless IV's) @ Thick Fat. Leftovers
252 HP, 204 S.DEF, 52 ATK,
-Earthquake
-T-wave
-Rock Slide
-Heal Bell/Milk Drink

Mil-Tank/Para Flinch abuser. Being normal type allows me to Switch into Ghost attacks used on my Alakazam and Mismagius. Thick fat also allows him to switch in to fire/Ice safely. Lacks STAB but ground/rock holds good coverage as well as my answer to electrics. I usually play milk drink in 3 vs. 3 and heal bell in 6 vs. 6 and doubles.


Thanks again ^^

Ok I was thinking of making a sandstorm team so how's this?

Hippowdon@ Leftovers
Impish| Sand Storm
252 Hp, 252 Def
~ Slack Off
~ Stealth Rock
~ Earthquake
~ Ice Fang

Leader with sand stream, spiker, physical sponge

Garchomp@ Yache Berry
Jolly| Sand Veil
252 Attack, 252 Speed
~ Swords Dance
~ Dragon Claw
~ Earthquake
~ Fire Fang

Physical Sweeper

Bronzong@ Leftovers
Careful| Levitate
252 Hp, 129 Def, 129 Sp.def
~Confuse Ray
~ Toxic
~ Rest
~ Block

Annoyer/ Tank

Empoleon@ Choice Specs
Modest| Torrent
252 Sp. Attack, 252 Hp <-- Should I replace this with Sp.def?
~ Grass Knot
~ Ice Beam
~ Surf
~ Hyper Beam/ Flash Cannon

Special sweeper with some Sp.Def

Lucario@ Life Orb
Naughty/ Naïve | Inner Focus
129 Speed, 190 Attack, 190 Sp. Attack
~ Agility
~ Close Combat
~ Blaze Kick
~ Dark Pulse

Mixed Sweeper

Mamoswine@ Choice Band
Adamant| Snow Veil
252 Attack, 252 Speed
~ Ice Shard/ Avalanche/Ice Fang
~ Ice Fang/ Avalanche/ Ice Fang
~ Earthquake
~ Stone Edge

Physical Sweeper



This is my first team so i'm not really sure if I should change anything or have any different pokemon, I was thinking about Heatran

Yeah but swampert is bulky it has both high defence ang special defence and it has high attack too so it could be a prob if i have no grass type move. One more thing is that if i don't have a grass type move my team will be destroyed by a sanstrom team. I was thinking of letting my charizard learn solarbeam and sunny day and take out dragon pulse and air slash and replace gengar with a lucario that knows psychic, is it a good idea??

do i HAVE to have nature & ev/dv spread???

To get the best results.

please rate asap

Gengar@lefties
timid sp.a/252 spd/252 hp/6
-shadow ball
-thunderbolt
-hypnosis
-explosion

Garchomp@shell bell
jolly atk/252 spd/252 hp/6
-substitute
-swords dance
-EQ
-Dragon claw

Torkoal@lefties
impish def/252 hp/126 atk/126
-curse
-rockslide
-explosion
-rest

Slowbro@lefties
nature? def/252 sp.a/252 sp.d/6
-calm mind
-surf
-rest
-psychic

Alakazam@shell bell
timid sp.a/252 spd/252 hp/6
-psychic
-energy ball
-focus blast
-shadow ball

Blissey@lefties
gentle sp.d/252 hp/252 sp.a/6
-ice beam
-softboiled
-seismic toss
-???

oh---new at this is there any type or pkm i should be afraid to fight

Seeing that UU is full of purple pokes, I want to make a UU team that only consists of purple Pokemon, while still being somewhat competitive, I've also been using this team in the standard OU metagame.


AGILE ANTI-LEAD
jolly; focus slash
6 HP; 252 Atk; 252 Spe
- stealth rock
- taunt
- earthquake
- rock slide
Taung stops opponent's set up, especially BP teams, trick room, and substitute abusers. It's got insane speed so with focus slash I usually get 2 hits on weavile/gengar/azelf etc. to score a kill if they don't switch, stealth rock also comes in handy.


SPECIAL SPONGE
brage; black sludge
252 HP; 252 SpD; 6 Atk
- rest
- sleep talk
- shadow sneak
- brick break


PHYSICAL WALL
impish; black sludge
252 HP; 252 Def; 6 Atk
- rest
- whirlwind
- crunch
- earthquake


SPECIAL SWEEPER
timid; dampen; lefties
252 SpA; 252 Spe; 6 HP
- calm mind
- hypnosis
- ice beam
- surf


PHYSICAL SWEEPER
jolly; wide lens
252 Atk; 252 Spe; 6 Def
- swords dance
- cross chop
- stone edge
- x-scissor


SUPPORTER
calm; lefties
80 HP; 178 Spe; 252 SpD
- hypnosis
- will-o-wisp
- thunderbolt
- shadow ball


P.S. Since most raters are busy, why is the rater application feature currently closed down?

Dunno. But its been down for a months already. Bushin, and Volke are the newly appointed "Official-Raters" by Registeel_Rocks since most of the time this thread is swamped with RMTs.

No, but it makes it harder for us to rate it properly, since the moves and strategies we give won't be as effective, for example, a Weavile which isn't properly EV trained may or may not be fast enough to outspeed certain things. That, and generally teams that aren't EV trained don't have an apparent strategy (no offense), so we won't know how to help you. We won't even know how YOU want the pokemon to function.

Go ahead and post it, but be warned: there's only so much we can do if you don't EV train.

I'lll try to rate later this week. I'm just really busy; summer is over.

Woops, my team from 2 pages back have been skipped. It's this theam:

Thanks in advance for the advice/rating!

Right then, this is my team for Pokemon Battle Reveolution (And my team for any battles, I always do 3 on 3). I've started playin online, so I'd like to know what you think: (details at bottom)

@choice specs
Nature: Hardy
EVs: 'Bout that, it's gonna take alot of Stat reducing berrys

-Earthquake
-Thunder
-Ice beam
-Water Spout

My lead. If I'm faster than my opponent (it's a guess most the time) Water Spout at full/rain/STAB is alot of damage, if not, something at random. I might put something else for Earthquake.

@ Expert Belt
Nature: Adamant
EVs 252 ATK, 252 SPD, 6 HP

-Thunder Punch
-Ice Punch
-Cross Chop
-Eartquake

Ok, it's straight from Smogon, but the plan is simple. Kyogre lures out an Electric attack, I switch this guy in to absorb it, and free speed boost. I know it's prediction, but it's worked this far. Set up with the boost to sweep.

@Soul Dew
Nature: Bashful (I wanted Modest, but it's to late now)
EVs: 252 SP ATK, 252 SPD, 6 HP

-Thunder
-Calm mind
-Recover
-Dragon Pulse

Also off Smogon. Also a simple plan. Electivire tends to lead to an Earthquake. Not good. But then I switch to Latios, Levatates over it, and hopes to hit with a Dragon Pulse/Thunder. If I get a free turn, Calm Mind to boost sweeping, or Recover if I feel the strain.

Please rate and suggest any changes. I know the team needs alot of prediction, but if I get it right, I should win.

I've rebuilt my team a little so please rate it

1. Dusknoir@Leftovers Ability: Pressure
Nature: Impish EV: 252HP 68ATK 100SP.DEF 90DEF
Will-o-Wisp
Shadow Sneak
Thunder punch
Pain Split
(Physical tanker)

Since that it's Hp ain't sky high i decided to maximize it and it's DEFF anf SPDEF is already very high so i gave some ev to ATK

2.Milotic@Shell bell Ability: Marvel Scale
Nature: Modest EV: 124HP 252DEF 132SP.ATK
Surf
Ice Beam
Recover
Toxic
(Special Tanker)

My milotic is a tanker so toxic is better than hypnosis and it's SPDEF is already very high so i give it some SPATK evs and less SPDEF evs

3. Gallade @Scope lens Ability: Stedfast
Nature: Jolly EV: 252SPD 252ATK 6HP
Leaf Blade
Psyco cut
Stone Edge
Night Slash
(Physical Sweeper)

I gave it Leaf blade because i still think i need a grass type attack and gave it scope lens so that i will have a super high chance to score a critical hit since that all it's attack has high critical hit rate and i want to ask if choice band is a better item for it

4. Garchomp @Life Orb Ability: Sand Veil
Nature: Adamant EV: 252ATK 252SPD 6HP
Earthquake
Sword Dance
Dragon Claw
Fire Fang
(Physical Sweeper)

I have no moves againts a pkm like bronzong and skaromy so i gave it fire fang

5. Lucario @Expert Belt Ability: Stedfast
Nature: Timid EV: 252SP.ATK 252SPD 6HP
Aura Sphere
Dark Pulse
Psychic
Water pulse/Dragon pulse/Flash cannon/Hyper beam
(Special Sweeper)

I can't choose between Water pulse and dragon pulse my tea, already has 2 pokemon that knows dragon type attacks so putting 1 more ain't neccecery and water pulse help it covers up it's weakness but has low base power or mabye i should give it hyper beam as last resort or flash cannon to have STAB instead?

6. Charizard@Choice Specs Ability: Blaze
Nature: Modest EV: 252SP.ATK 252SPD 6HP
Flamethrower
Air Slash/Sunny Day
Dragon Pulse/Solarbeam
Focus Blast
(Special Sweeper)

I was thinking of sunnyzard is it a good or bad idea?

Is shedinja a good pokemon to have?

If you are a somewhat competent battler, are prepared to build a team around it, and spend many battles on that team to learn how to use it, then yes.



We need more than team members. Movesets, natures, items, and EVs please.

Sanjay, I included them all in my original post (page 71). I could copy and paste the whole team's EVs, natures, moves, additional info etc. but I though that would be stretching the page and I've seen previous post also only mentioned that their post was missed rather than reposting~ Anyway, thanks in advance for rating!

Mod Edit: Is this it? -R_R


Calm / Serene Grace / Leftovers
252 HP / 252 SpD / 6 Def
~ Roost
~ Thunder Wave
~ Air Slash
~ Aura Sphere / Grass Knot / Flamthrower (?)
I 've thought about replacing Aura Sphere with Grass Knot to scare off Ground types that attempts to switch into Thunder Wave, also it'd be my team's only move to counter Swampert, but I'd give up covering Steel and Normal which means I'm gonna be walled/sponged quite often. Flamthrower is another option that I'm considering since I have problems with Skarmory. Considering what my other pokes have, which one should I choose? Thanks in advance.


Jolly / Inner Force / Lum Berry
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
~ Dragon Dance
~ Outrage
~ Earthquake
~ Fire Blast


Modest / Water Absorb / Leftovers
188 HP / 252 Def / 68 SpA
~ Ice-Beam
~ Surf
~ Roar
~ Wish
Yup, Roar, because I desperately needed a hazer, and I didn't choose Yawn because it doesn't go through Substitutes and it kinda needs protect to max its efficiency.


Jolly / Pressure / Expert Belt
252 Atk / 252 Spe / 6 HP
~ Pursuit
~ Ice Shard
~ Ice Punch
~ Brick Break
Ice Shard to hit Substitute and Baton Pass users, also when my team's about to be sweapt by an Agility/DD opponent who's weak after setting up, Ice Shard could hopefully finish it off (although I'd have to sacrafice one of my pokes to safely switch Weavile out).


Impish / Pressure / Leftovers
252 HP / 252 Def / 6 SpD
~ Pain Split
~ Will-O-Wisp
~ Thunder Punch
~ Shadow Sneak


Careful / Thick Fat / Leftovers
168 HP / 120 Def / 220 SpD
~ Rest
~ Curse
~ Fire Punch
~ Body Slam
I initially used a Sleep Talk set, but Togekiss and Vaporeon seem to help out in sponging so I thought this might be more useful? I've been recommended to give up Snorlax and use a mixed Metagross instead... but I'm kinda reluctant to make such a change since I like Snorlax quite a bit. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks again!