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my team is weak, so could any of you help me?

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Question for Pokemon Ruby

my team is weak, so could any of you help me? my team is.......

sceptile lv.49 groudon lv.53
leaf blade fire blast
cut solarbeam
slam ancient power
dragon claw earthquake

aggron lv.45 medicham lv.43
roar mind reader
take down flash
iron tail hi jump kick
protect psych up

golbat lv. 40 gyarados lv.43
bite surf
wing attack dive
confuse ray hydro pump
air cutter twister

thanks!

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xebecer1913 answered:

Try out some of these pokemon and see what you think.
Groudon-flamethrower, earthquake, thunderbolt, solarbeam
Flygon/Salamence-fly, dragonbreath, flamethrower, crunch
Medicham-fire punch, ice punch, thunderpunch, psychic
Sableye-shadow ball, faint attack, brick break, night shade
Absol-thunderbolt, ice beam, flamethrower, Dark-Type Move (I can't remember all the dark moves absol can learn, so just experiment with them)
Note that you have to be exceedingly careful with the aforementioned dragons as they both take quadruple damage from ice moves and can be reckless with sableye since it is not weak against anything. Also, when looking for good move combinations, try using the following list to ensure they will work.

1: Make sure there are no moves that do minimal or zero damage. By the time the user is even level 40-50, you will not need these. Though there are rare cases where moves like this are prudent, you must remember that they are rare.

A good example of one of these cases is when you teach a keckleon skill swap, since you can then teach it a fighting move, psybeam, and faint attack. On the first turn of the battle, use skill swap and then, starting with the move the foe is weak against*, attack it.

Since its effect is now color change, it will become the type of the attack you last used, so when you attack with the next move in the sequence it will do double damage and the foe will change type again, letting you attack for twice the damage again, forcing the foe to change type, etcetera etcetera.
*because fighting, psychic, and dark are a tripartite D.A.P. sequence (see criterion 2 of this list) they are assured to affect any creature in any game from Pokemon Red to Pokemon Sapphire.


2: Make sure the move combination is a D.A.P. sequence (D.A.P. being an acronym for a much longer phrase that I would rather not type all of down here). To be a D.A.P. a minimum of 1 moves must be completely "covered" by the other(s) and at the same time be able to bypass effects such as wonder guard.

As an example, consider the dragon-type move dragon claw. When you attack, you will find that it does normal or double damage to all but one type of pokemon-steel.

Now fire is strong against steel, so any partially steel pokemon is a minimum of half weak against flamethrower.

Now as you know (or ought to know) the only way you cannot inflict normal or more damage on a pokemon is if all your moves are weak against one or both of its type(s). For a pokemon to repulse a dragon claw attack, it must be part steel.

Since fire is strong against steel, even if the flamethrower inflicts only half damage to one of the pokemon's types this decrease is neutralized by the double damage inflicted on the steel half.

Finally, since fire is not negated by any effect, dragon claw and flamethrower can be considered a Dipartite D.A.P. Sequence (the only known one in existence).
As you have probably noticed, I haven't yet mentioned how to deal with moves that get completely negated. Take the moves brick break, shadow ball, and faint attack.

Since both cover the other's negating type (ghost does double damage to ghost, fighting does double damage to normal) and fighting covers ghost's weaknesses, the only thing they cannot defeat is a normal-ghost type.

This neccesitates the inclusion of a third type to defeat that pokemon, the best being dark. Remember that the third type need not be super effective against the double negator to let the move set be classified as a Tripartite D.A.P. Sequence.
3: Make certain that the move types do not lean toward excessive power at the cost of accuracy/other beneficiary factor and pp.

By the time your pokemon reaches lv 40-100 it will have enough power to defeat other pokemon with ease and will need those beneficiary factors and increased pp instead.

However, unless you have a pokemon of extrordinarily high capacity, don't keep really weak moves like ember. Generally moves with 10-15 pp and about 100 power are good choices.

I hope this helps (and I'm sorry that it is so lengthy).

Cross Stinger answered:

First, Groudon would learn Solarbeam by itself on level 65, so you just wasted a TM19. Other than that, I like it. For Sceptile, it is also very good for this stage of the game.

Your Aggron could use Earthquake in place of Take Down, and your Medicham needs to lose Flash for Brick Break. Your Golbat can lose Air Cutter for Sludge Bomb, and your Gyarados can lose Hydro Pump for Ice Beam or another Earthquake.

NOTICE: Maybe I should post now that I will be retiring from the SuperCheats site on 1 September 2004, and I will inform you of what submission will be my last. Not that I have much choice in the matter...

Pokemon_Maker answered:

Thats a fine team but will need some work. my sajestion is Delete cut for Giga Drain whitch you will find a girl looking at a tree in a land across the Mt.Prayer If you have a grass pokemon she will give you Giga Drain and get rid of slam and Dragon claw! The advantage to wining is Stradigy and Weekness! Septile will do great for Sealo and walerin Gurudon... Teach him Thunder! by giving up Earthquake then he will do good against Every one on the Ice girl and Sharpedo Machain raise him more for better Fighting moves then he will do good every one on the Dark boys team even Shiftry train aggron untill he learns Dubble-Edge If you have the TM team Aggron Earthquake Replace Golbat for a Ice type he will do good on the dragon man and Gurudon will do good on steven exsept for Armeldo use septile on him. Teach garados Thunder too!

If you found Ice beam use it on your Ice pokemon or if you don't have one use it on garados and forget abot thunder! Delete Dive for a Short time to make room for Blizzard! and you will be set! P.s. If you whant a Ice pokemon go to Soil Cave above Mossdeep for a Shupple or if low tde go through the cave and you will find a Bolder use Strength on it to get to a Ice cave in there you will find Snowrunt! He is Criticaly Rare so use a pokemon at least level 32 so you don't kill him! Snow rent evolves into Glatile LV51 and after you do what I told you train your pokemon to Level60 at least! or Steven will Distroy your pokemon! If you send out a pokemon that his pokemon can use as a weekness he will kepp messing with its week ness! Good luck at the ELETE 4 PLUS Chapion STEVEN!

pokemaniac2009 answered:

I think you have a pretty balanced team, but if you're going to the Elite Four, I suggest raising them to higher levels, then you'll be unstoppable to all trainers (in the game).

 

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