Pokemon Ruby Questions

I need my team rated! I want to see if i can beat my friend.
<BR>Here is my team so far:
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<BR>Blaziken lv.81
<BR>Blaze Kick
<BR>Sky Uppercut
<BR>Arial Ace
<BR>Flamethrower
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<BR>Gyrados lv.75
<BR>Strength
<BR>Dive
<BR>Surf
<BR>Dragon Rage
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<BR>Latios lv.47
<BR>Recover
<BR>Refresh
<BR>Luster Purge
<BR>Psychic
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<BR>Rayquaza lv.76
<BR>Fly
<BR>Hyper Beam
<BR>Extremespeed
<BR>Outrage
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<BR>Salamence lv.96
<BR>Dragon Claw
<BR>Fly
<BR>Dragonbreath
<BR>Crunch
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<BR>Groudon lv.75
<BR>Solarbeam
<BR>Fissure
<BR>Earthquake
<BR>Eruption
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<BR>Thanx if you reply (I haven't been able to train Latios to learn good moves yet) : P

Date of Question: Jul 9th 2004 | Question ID: 6126

First of all, I would get rid of Gyrados's Dive for a strong water move. And you need to train your Latios Up to at least level 60.

I'd rate your team at 8/10

Train your Pokemon some more like Blaziken to level 100 it will be easier since it's astarter pokemon. Also good job with your Salamence it's really strong just teach it a different variety of moves. For example my Salamence has the moves Rock Tomb (Rock move) Dragonbreath (dragon move) fly (flying move) and ember (fire move i'm planning on deleting that and putting in a stronger move). Tis way my Salamence is an all around pokemon. With your Blaziken teach it fire blast and stuff. My Blaziken's 100 and it knows flamethrower, dig, fire blast, and blaze kick.Train your groudon more and latios. Also you might want to give a pokemon focus band it is really good and found in the shal cave when you talk to person deeper into the cave in low tide. It will sometimes stop you from fainting. That will be helpfull so use it to use your strongest move. The combintaion with groudon is great. Thanks to groudon's sunny day you don't have to charge up for solarbeam. You should teach Rayquaza flamethrower. I hope i helped and if someone wants me to tell them about there team then just say it's for me or something beacause i'm always on super cheats as soon as i get on the internet.

Hello.Before I rate, I will help you defeat that friend of yours. Let's see......................................Your Blaziken is pretty good,but since it is in the 80's , why not raise it some five or six levels ? I recommend you delete dive and strength for Gyrados,and teach him byte or some water moves,.As for Latios,either deposit him or raise him in the pokemon league ( you have to be patient ).The same thing goes for Rayquaza, who needs care.Salamence and Groudon ( raise him to level 80) are not bad.As for the rest of the attacks, they are pretty good.

RATING:You must balance your team, so that they cover each others weaknesses, and that means include many types,instead of Latios for example.And you focus too much on a few pokemon,like Salamence and Blaziken only, which is not good.My advice is to make them all strong,(in 80's),because if the best two guys faint,you will have other strong guys to take over from there.Got me ? Hope I helped.

THE MIRAGE TRAINER

Well in my opinion that's an awesome team. I've managed to beat the Elite Tour with these pokemon:

Blaziken lv.53
Hariyama lv.51
Groudon lv.49
Raichu lv.50
and Absol lv.50

But if you were talking to any of those uber-trainers up there who have all their pokemon above lv.100 then they'd say that you'd have to work on your team. My best advice to you is that type advantage means everything, it doesn't matter WHAT level your pokemon are at. TYPE ADVANTAGE has gotten me through the whole game, it's the secret to my pokemon success.

A way to really surprise your friend is to berry blend with your friend and mix a leichi, ganlon, or salac berry with an apicot or pataya berry and you'll get a pokeblock that instantly brings your pokemon to level 100. Those berries are hard to get though. If you get Jirachi, he'll be holding a salac or ganlon berry. To get the leichi berry, go to mirage island and pick them. But to get apicots or patayas, you'll have to go to a special berry giveaway or cheat them on.

On blaziken you should replace one of the fire moves it has with slash. Teach gyarados flamethrower, thunderbolt, ice beam, and earthquake (if necessary use another ground move). On latios delete refresh, psychic, and luster purge for surf/other strong water move, fly/other stong flying move, and dragonbreath. Delete raquaza's normal and dragon moves and teach it ice beam, thunderbolt, and flamethrower (if you want, remove fly and revive its dragon claw). Swap salamence's dragonbreath in for flamethrower, and since you've used dragon claw, exchange groudon's solarbeam, fissure, and eruption in for flamethrower, thunderbolt, and slash.
Finally, train up a bit and you will have a pretty good team.

You can sweep the floor with me. I suggest training your Latios more though.