HahnSolo Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 With some progress being made on the latest installment and Pokemon GO launching I decided to do a little optimizing on my reborn squad since I struggled a bit towards some of the later gym leaders. (Reborn's Ev's are quite odd as they give you 2 extra points than normal games) Any feedback would be appreciated! Crobat (ProBat) (Shiny) Nature: Naive Ability: Infiltrator Item: N/A Evs: 252 Atk, 252 Spd 6 Sp Def Moves: Acrobatics Roost Fly Cross Poison Leafeon (Cannabis) Nature: Adamant Ability: Chlorophyll Item: Leftovers Evs: 252 Atk, 252 Def, 6 Spd Moves: Leaf Blade Synthesis Quick Attack Swords Dance Typhlosion (Feurer) Nature: Rash Ability: Flash Fire Item: Leftovers Evs: 252 Sp Atk, 252 Spd, 6 Def Moves: Cut Eruption Sunny Day Flamethrower Kingdra (SeaBiscuit) Nature: Mild Ability: Sniper Item: Scope Lens Evs: 252 Sp atk, 252 Spd, 6 Def Moves: Surf Agility Dragon Pulse Focus Energy Glaceon (Desoxyn) Nature: Modest Ability: Ice Body Item: Leftovers Evs: 252 Sp Atk, 252 Spd, 6 Sp Def Moves: Hail Blizzard Shadow Ball Frost Breath Samurott (Django) Nature: Naughty Ability: Shell Armor Item: Leftovers Evs: 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 6 Def Moves: Dive Waterfall False Swipe Swords Dance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azodian Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 You can normally get EVs to 255 in the base games but the last 3 points are wasted (EVs work in multiples of 4). Reborn caps at 252 to keep you from overfilling. You should also optimize your natures at the psychologist on 7th street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global Mods Dreamy Posted July 12, 2016 Global Mods Share Posted July 12, 2016 Your current members all seem pretty decent by themselves, but you have 4 monotypes and 2 water types, so I feel like you might be lacking some versatility and could use some dual types. EV's look good and movesets are pretty decent allowing for utility spaces. nice leftovers too, I never got a high level pickup pokemon to get them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daigotsurezan Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Diggersby tho? No, seriously. Since you have two Water-types, I would suggest dropping Samurott (because Kingdra gets more coverage and is just cooler) in favor of another Pokemon. Diggersby with Huge Power hits like Chuck Norris, and just from leveling up can learn Bounce, Earthquake, Hammer Arm, and Facade. You can hit the Move Relearned to get Swords Dance In addition to hitting hard, he's got decent stats all around (except Special Attack, but with Huge Power who cares?). I've used him to good effect through most parts of Reborn, and he should remain useful going forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HahnSolo Posted July 12, 2016 Author Share Posted July 12, 2016 (edited) Your current members all seem pretty decent by themselves, but you have 4 monotypes and 2 water types, so I feel like you might be lacking some versatility and could use some dual types. EV's look good and movesets are pretty decent allowing for utility spaces. nice leftovers too, I never got a high level pickup pokemon to get them. Yeah. I leveled up linoone to 100 to maximize the chances. I did that before this, grinding ev's with him just chilling in the back picking up items. Diggersby tho? No, seriously. Since you have two Water-types, I would suggest dropping Samurott (because Kingdra gets more coverage and is just cooler) in favor of another Pokemon. Diggersby with Huge Power hits like Chuck Norris, and just from leveling up can learn Bounce, Earthquake, Hammer Arm, and Facade. You can hit the Move Relearned to get Swords Dance In addition to hitting hard, he's got decent stats all around (except Special Attack, but with Huge Power who cares?). I've used him to good effect through most parts of Reborn, and he should remain useful going forward. Is that a shofu reference? Lel. I've thought through having 2 water types and understand it may be a potential weakness. Samurott's name is Django for a reason, he's my starter (all the way back to episode 8) and kingdra's water typing is kind of moot because of his dragon typing. Having both a physical and special water type could prove useful. Diggersby is an interesting idea though. I never played gen 6, so i've messed around with a few types from there on reborn with most of them being underwhelming. Dragalge was the most promising, with its adaptability and interesting typing. Its speed was atrocious though... I had a donphan on my team for most of my playthough. It mostly just served to be a HM slave with rock smash and strength. I used it as a switch in to electric types and earthquake spam. Its lack of buff moves really held it back. If diggersby can learn swords dance and has huge power i might try it out. You can normally get EVs to 255 in the base games but the last 3 points are wasted (EVs work in multiples of 4). Reborn caps at 252 to keep you from overfilling. You should also optimize your natures at the psychologist on 7th street. Oh. I never really did much research or bothered with Ev's in the base games. They were often a breeze comparison to reborn. I did optimize the natures, or at least to a tolerable degree. The psychologist is random so it sometimes took half an hour to get at least manageable natures. What would you recommend I change? Edited July 14, 2016 by Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpee Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Oh. I never really did much research or bothered with Ev's in the base games. They were often a breeze comparison to reborn. I did optimize the natures, or at least to a tolerable degree. The psychologist is random so it sometimes took half an hour to get at least manageable natures. What would you recommend I change? Since your Crobat is a physical attacker, I'd recommend changing it's nature to either jolly or adamant for as much speed/attack as possible. Your typhlosion is a special set, so Timid or Modest would be ideal for more speed/special attack with sacrifices to your already poor attack stat. This can also be applied to your kingdra, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymdall Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Team is looking good, though I don't really like keeping the TMX moves, given that we can now get rid of them normally. Hidden Power...whatever you have on it, or Nature Power is a good substitute on Typhlosion. Nature Power puts in a lot of work, you'd be surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Dragon Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Your team seems fine, though as others have mentioned, you'd probably want more type coverage. You might as well make use of that Donphan beyond being an HM slave. I have one in my main playthrough and stat buffs or no, she hits pretty hard with Earthquake and Strength and is bulky in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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