Opinion and battling suggestions

[kaleidoscope]

I want your opinions on this team plus suggestions on how to use it properly.

Heavily inspired team which people might not take seriously but i would like to. You can tell who has this team.

Infernape
Hasty
64 Atk / 252 SpA / 192 Spe
Focus Sash
~ Fireblast
~ Close Combat
~ Vacuum Wave
~ Stealth Rock
Supposed to be my lead but wasn't able to breed in Fake Out so i replaced it with Vacuum Wave for priority attack.

Torterra
Impish
212 HP / 252 Def / 44 Spe
Leftovers
~ Eartquake
~ Wood Hammer
~ Protect
~ Leech Seed
really good physical tank.

Staraptor
Jolly
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Sky Plate
~ Roost
~ Substitute
~ Brave Bird
~ Close Combat
Healing damage off.

Floatzel
Adamant
232 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Def / 16 Spe
Mystic Water
~ Waterfall
~ Rain Dance
~ Crunch
~ Ice Punch
Rain Dance to make good sweeper

Garchomp
Jolly
4 Def / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Anti-ice berry
~ Earthquake
~ Fire Fang
~ Dragon Claw
~ Crunch
Still Need opinions for good moveset

Pikachu
Timid
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Light Ball
~ Thunderbolt
~ Substitute
~ Grassknot
~ HP ice
i forgot to mention that the downside of this one is that the average IV value is on the low side making the HP:ice not so strong as i'd like. It was hard catching one with HPice in the first place (1 out of 40 catches) that's why my alternative is the Surfing Pikachu

P.S. can anyone tell me where to get the sprites to post here?

 

[SharKing]

I'll work on the sprite thing later. For now, I'll say this...

The title sure had me fooled. I thought this was a random in-game team, until I looked at it.

Definitely replace Pikachu with a real one. The Hardy nature screws you over, and BoltBeam is valuable.

Floatzel's too fragile to use Rain Dance. You might want a Choice Band set to surprise peeps. Try this:

Jolly / Choice Band / Swift Swim
- Waterfall
- Ice Punch
- Brick Break
- Pursuit
252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP

Staraptor's too fragile for SubRoost. Try Life Orb, and in place of Substitute and Roost, Return and Quick Attack.

And the plate for Flying-types is called the Sky Plate.

Finally, Garchomp. It's Uber, so I suggest replacing it with something like Salamence. Otherwise, you're stuck in Ubers, where you'll be crushed repeatedly.

 

[kaleidoscope]

thanks for the suggestions but i battle with my friends who use garchomp as well. this isn't for online competitive battling so no tier things for us just "no legendaries" rule. we still battle competitively though even if its just us (by us i mean 10 of us)

i'll edit once i have them trained properly. it means retraining my Floatzel. i have to level up for the EV bonuses to kick in right?

 

[SSJ4Jesus]

On the topic of boltbeam, 4 of your team members are weak to the combo; a fast boltbeamer (starmie comes to mind) might wreak havoc on your team.

thanks for the suggestions but i battle with my friends who use garchomp as well. this isn't for online competitive battling so no tier things for us just "no legendaries" rule. we still battle competitively though even if its just us (by us i mean 10 of us)

Its kind of hard for us to give you much help then, since you're playing in a completely different metagame than what we're playing in.

 

[kaleidoscope]

On the topic of boltbeam, 4 of your team members are weak to the combo; a fast boltbeamer (starmie comes to mind) might wreak havoc on your team.



Its kind of hard for us to give you much help then, since you're playing in a completely different metagame than what we're playing in.

actually that advice is kinda what i need so i know what i should look out for. So thanks for that should keep an eye out for it.

Out metagame is not that different since all of us "competative builds" which you can see on smogon. We just use all pokemon except legendaries regardless of tier..

 

[Troggy]

Out metagame is not that different since all of us "competative builds" which you can see on smogon. We just use all pokemon except legendaries regardless of tier..

If you don't use 'legends', that's a pretty big difference. The standard metagame commonly has Celebi, Jirachi, Heatran, Latias, Azelf, and Zapdos...

 

[Jaxon]

^ That doesnt make TOO much of a difference, but yes. You probably could throw a stick in a tourney and hit a guy who uses those legends (Dont do that though...).
I would prefer jolteon or something instedead of pikachu. Alo maybe overheat for infernape instead of fire blast?

 

[SolxLuna]

since chomp is now uber, you will most likely need a new dragon type

try this:
salamence @ choice Scarf
Adamant/modest Nature
Evs: 4 HP / 252 Atk or SpAtk / 252 Speed
- Dragon Pulse/Dragon Claw
- Fire blast/Toxic/dragon dance
- Earthquake/Brick Break
- Hidden Power Grass/Roost

you can alter this set into either:

physical sweeper
special sweeper
mixMence
Stall Mence (a tank/wall mence by using not evs, just the moves)
Anti-Skarm/Bliss (works for double battles better then single battle)

I am not the best when it comes to movesets but Im pretty sure this could be good for your team.
also, you can alter the moves/EVs of salamence to work in synergy with the rest of the team.

 

[Jaxon]

^ Flygon works too, just give him fire punch instead of fire fang. Also, just so you know, he only learns crunch as a trapinch.