Metagross @ Expert Belt Leaf Blade/Thunderbolt. Psychic is STAB. Kiwi (Dodrio) @ King's Rock - Strength Weezing is underrated, Im glad you added it onto the team. Nice dual type Pokemon. - Flamethrower - Boomburst / Hyper Voice Very fast, with high Special Attack but low defenses. Moveset. Focus Blast and Dragon Pulse are coverage moves, with Dragon Pulse getting STAB from Mega-Sceptile. The best team for Pokemon Ruby - Sportskeeda So this comes very early on in the game. Thunderbolt is Manectric's main STAB, and Flamethrower is its main coverage. I prefer Frenzy Plant to Leaf Storm because it has a higher base power, and so a higher chance to OHKO the opponent. Focus Blast / False Swipe: False Swipe to help catch stuff, but Focus Blast is a great power move. - Signal Beam - Waterfall (HM). You make a Pokemon stronger and get Gallade much earlier at the same time! If not, Earthquake for Electric types (although its attack isn't that great). - Dragon Rage (Level 23) > Ice Fang (Level 32). Time for the HM Slaves. Steel Wing- Covers Rock and Ice weaknesses Strength and Cut are half-STAB, half-HM (more on Surf later), Rock Smash is an HM and is also great for Heart Scale farming, and Shadow Claw does good damage to the Ghosts that Linoone doesn't like. Giving Mega Swampert 152 Speed EVs is for out speeding Pokemon in rain not faster than Mega Sceptile, his arch enemy. He destroys everything. If you dont have either of these Pokemon, Disarming Voice Ralts and Wing Attack Zubat can easily take down the Gym. After spending a while hunting, I found a Shroomish on DexNav and it had Drain Punch so that was cool :0 I gave her the Silk Scarf because I didn't have any other items. High Attack and Speed but low Special Attack and defenses. Anyway, both evolutions are fantastic. Tentacruel If you choose not to evolve your Magneton and just give him the Eviolite from Route 123, he has less HP and less in both Attacks than Magnezone, but every other stat gets better. Discharge is the best STAB move it gets (The sidequest for TM24 Thunderbolt comes too late and is a waste of time). Ability: Snow Cloak The best team for Pokemon Emerald with Swampert - Sportskeeda Slash is STAB and has a high critical rate, Shadow Sneak gives him priority (and turns him into a Ghost-type with Protean, covering his Fighting weakness), and Brick Break and Aerial Ace are just for further coverage (or type-transformation with Protean). Gardevoir is a great Pokemon in Gen 6 becuase of its new Fairy typing. Thunder Wave can be used in the same way, since it learns Thunder Wave through levelling up and you get Thunder Wave as a TM quite early in game. - Return / Facade Exploud @ Leftovers Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. - Sludge Wave I'm too lazy to put all the locations for the Pokmon, items and TM moves, so you can just go and look it up on the DB or somethingidk. Conversely, Aggron's 4x weaknesses to Fighting and Ground are much more problematic, plus you obtain Aggron far later than Gyarados. - Moonblast: Level 62 or Move Reminder in Fallarbor Town Actually camperupt has 5 more SpAttack than Attack. - Wake-Up Slap It receives. Getting Protean was one of the things I was actually patient enough for. Ice Beam and Flamethrower are fairly late in the game, but you could wait or substitute with another move of your choice. Locations: - Waterfall Arm Thrust is fairly subpar, but Force Palm is quite a solid move that will last until the midgame. Sceptile With Mega Sceptile's high Special Attack, it's a great filler move, plus it seems to come in handy a lot (other than its bad accuracy). Pre-poisoning Hariyama with Guts makes it nigh unstoppable, especially if youre playing on switch mode. Make sure to use the Move Relearner on Gardevoir to get Moonbast. Altaria @ Altarianite Surf is good for dealing with pesky Fire types. - Dragon Claw There is also a lot of water in Hoenn, so you'll probably battle a lot of trainers with Water Pokemon in the game as well. Skarmory is a very defensive Pokemon. Replace bulldoze with belly drum and get aqua jet on it somehow. - Waterfall. Camerupt Ability: Torrent > Swift Swim - Mirror Coat / Rain Dance. Roserade @Miracle Seed/Black Sludge/Filler If you want Protean, catch the required Kecleon so you can DexNav for a Protean Kecleon. Swampert and Mega Swampert: Swampert is a good all-round Pokemon for the ingame of ORAS, and has considerable defences and attack in its Mega Form. - Calm Mind Nuzzle is simply a better version of Thunder Wave, dealing damage as well. Dragon Claw Flash Cannon- Good power, STAB - Thunder Wave (starting move) > Bite (Level 24) > Flamethrower (TM35 - Victory Road) Strength: HM if not on Hariyama. - Megahorn If Manectric has a good Hidden Power type such as Ice, Grass or Water, keep Hidden Power as your main move, otherwise discard it. Tate & Liza: Send out Swampert and Gyarados. If you ever need Giga Drain again, you can reteach it; you don't have that option if you let Treecko evolve at L16. When theres a particularly annoying Pokemon that I don't want to waste one of my key troops on, I roll out Ninetales to hand out some super-effective mojo. Ice Punch is a move tutor move, and the move tutors are only at the end of the game. Glacia: Hariyama OHKOes both Glalie (and Walrein with Close Combat after a Fake Out), so the only annoyances are the Froslass. For the last move, you can use Rain Dance to work with Swift Swim, or you can use Rock Slide or Hammer Arm for coverage. - Surf - Flash Canon The first options are for a safer playstyle, while the second set hits harder, but might kill you in the process. Ability: Thick Fat Manectric is only able to deal with Winona and Wallace with Thunderbolt, and Glacia with Flamethrower. Well since Sceptile is more specially offensive leaf blade isnt an option, of course you could have Giga drain instead but energy ball has more power which is better with an offensive pokemon like sceptile. Ice Beam - Discharge There are others moves you could use here, like Sunny Day or Amnesia. Sceptile @ Sceptilite - Focus Blast Earth Power- Good power, STAB Gyarados can typically outspeed and OHKO both with Crunch, but Persim Berries might be a good idea anyways. Ability: Overgrow I use the exact same team as yours except Absol. Hey guys how's it going? Good Defense and high Special Attack, but its other stats are low. Absol has a super high Attack stat and good Speed. With Skill Link, Bullet Seed becomes one of the best Grass-type moves out there, and Earthquake is a standard. - Flash Cannon - Earthquake. Set up 3 Dragon Dances on either the Claydol or Cradily, healing as needed, and freely sweep the rest of Stevens team. - Mud-Slap (Level 9) > Dig (TM28 - Route 114) > Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) Ninetales @ Charcoal - Fake Out (Level 10) - Surf - Earthquake Sceptile is easily taken care of with Crobats Acrobatics. - Poison Jab Swap it for Psychic or something if you wish, but the signature moves have coin-flip odds to lower one of the target's Special stats (Attack for Latias, Defence for Latios). You can also take on Winona with Stone Edge, but it is not recommended. - Ice Beam. Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim Jolteon and Raichu are both amazing, but it can be a little hard to find a Thunder Stone, so another option is Manectric. Raichu @ Magnet Ability: Rock Head Moving on to Route 102, we catch a Ralts, who eventually becomes Gardevoir! Manectric was not brought onto the team until the 6th Gym, where it started to shine the most. Swampert @ Swampertite Psycho Cut- Decent power, STAB TM Ice Beam: Sea Mauville Ability: Rock Head Best Team for Hoenn ft. Zeldawars - YouTube 5) Great typing facing trainers like Sidney & Norman. Earthquake is there because it's strong, Knock Off is to counter Psychic types, and Heavy Slam and Poison Jab are to take out Fairy types. In these cases, the more generally helpful item will be noted instead. I call it a SpA Sweeper Specialist. TM10 Hidden Power can be obtained in Fortree City. 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. Ability: Trace - Drain Punch Manectric @ Manectite - Giga Drain Rock Slide is another option and covers most of his weaknesses, but Earthquake is just overall better due to its higher power and accuracy. - Dive. You can delete all HM moves once at the E4 and Linoone is good to deal with Phoebe. Swampert - holding Swampertite with the moves: -Surf -Earthquake -Ice beam -Rock Slide Magcargo - holding heat rock with the moves: -earth power -overheat -amnesia -Sunny day Magnezone holding. - Recover It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. - Foul Play Flamethrower: A great coverage move. I guess you could use Eathquake. - Tackle (starting move) > Rock Slide (Level 28) - Stone Edge Frost Breath is better in most cases, because it'll be 120 STAB rather than 90, bar random Shell Armour Pokemon. Swampert @ Soft Sand Swampert is the aforementioned starter that's an absolute beast in competitive matches and can carry teams in PVE. For all the people who just love Magcargo or Torkoal, I choose Camerupt due to type advantages. Dazzling Gleam is an alternative, not as powerful but strikes multiple enemies which is useful for hordes. Swampert can't get Ice Punch for Grass coverage, but it can get Ice Beam. [emailprotected] Expert Belt - Steel Wing - Steel Wing / Acrobatics. For Boomburst, use a Heart Scale or just level up to level 58. Hey, gotta deal with 'em somehow! Ice Beam- Good power, covers Grass weakness This team performed very well in a Nuzlocke I just completed, and it makes a very strong team for a casual playthrough as well. Sludge Bomb- Good power, STAB Surf is excellent on Sharpedo, as it moves twice as fast when surfing and Dive allows you to dive underwater and explore beneath the sea. - Iron Head - Shadow Claw What is a good in-game team for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Dragon Claw: Meteor Falls, in the WAY WAY back (requires Surf and Waterfall) Rock Slide is a powerful coverage option that works as a good backup against Winona, should Manectric fall. Ability: Sturdy Thunder becomes totally OP when you add Rain Dance to it and if you send out a Mega Swampert (Swolepert) his Speed will double making him just that much more over-powered. Giga Drain - Strength - Giga Drain Mega Aggron is a less balanced tank, which is more applicable in some situations. Ability: Overgrow -> Lightning Rod Plus, he has a Mega Evolution and an Electric type immunity. Ability: Static / Lightning Rod Gardevoir U-turn is an option, but in-game you can switch when you need to. - Strength - Metal Sound. - Earthquake Another thing, there are quite a few recoil moves on Blaziken.. Yeah it is a lot of TM's, but all the TM's I've put you can obtain quite early in game, some of which you can even learn through levelling up. TM19 Roost is awarded to the player as a Prize for defeating Winona, the Fortree Gym Leader. Sidney: Give Gardevoir a Persim Berry and send it in against Mightyena to block Swagger and safely KO with Dazzling Gleam. - Hone Claws Crobat doesnt excel in any major battles, but its very good at picking off minor Trainers all over the region. Manectric @ Magnet / nothing Brick Breaks primary use is to break the screens that Glacias Glalie #1 and Stevens Claydol set up, should it be necessary. Ability: Marvel Scale / Oblivious In addition, Electric moves are very easy to see coming on most Pokemon, and Swampert hard walls most Pokemon with an Electric move. - Zen Headbutt / Play Rough. Crunch is very helpful against Ghost types, as the team doesnt have any Pokmon with STAB Dark or Ghost moves. The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. - Waterfall / Dazzling Gleam I understand what you're saying for Blaziken however you don't need to use Flare Blitz and High Jump Kick, I said you can otherwise use Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut, I only taught my Blaziken Flare Blitz and HJK for when I was battling the Elite 4. dude change earth power to earthquake camerupt has higher attack than special. Linoone - Ice Beam They're pointless in-game. Sludge Wave is also good for the Grass types, along with Ice Beam. Crobat is probably the best flier in the game due to its high Speed and large variety of moves. - Drain Punch To get Dragon Dance, first reach the Pokmon League. Ability: Trace - Magical Leaf - Strength Ability: Lightning Rod / Static - Fly - Brick Break I think Aggron is worse than Gyarados because it's unable to sweep the Elite 4 like Gyarados can. - Bite (Level 20) > Crunch (Level 41) - Endeavor - Spikes, Magnezone I would recommend Protean as it gives him STAB on every attack, but Colour Change is still useful in a lot of cases. Thunderbolt is STAB, Flamethower is coverage, Volt Switch is a free switch and STAB, Quick Attack is priority or Thunder Wave for paralysis. :D Shiftry @ Expert Belt Ability: Chlorophyll - Extrasensory Steven: Lead Manectric into Skarmory, and Quick Attack to break Sturdy before KOing with Discharge. - Shadow Ball - Thunderbolt. Kecleon @ Expert Belt Ability: Static / Lightning Rod --> Intimidate