You can really slap whatever item you want on Roserade; it just depends on what you find around Hoenn. Now if you want to change a Pokemon go ahead. - Earthquake. Mudkip will be better for your Water HM user, and Blaziken has better type advantage, but guess what? Sceptile Knock Off: Covers Hariyama's Psychic weakness and removes items. Getting Protean was one of the things I was actually patient enough for. Aerial Ace for Fighting types. You might be wondering why so few HMs. - Moonlight My current team (in Alpha Sapphire) is Mega Blaziken (I lost my Blazikenite due to save data being erased somehow), Mega Gardevoir, Shiftry (From bros' Omega Ruby), Vigiroth, Swampert, and Skarmory. If not, Earthquake for Electric types (although its attack isn't that great). Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim Supersalamence93 here bringing you another Pokemon Teambuilder. Nasty Plot to sharply raise Special Attack and Will-O-Wisp to inflict burns (and take less physical damage). Aggron - Steel/Rock You could also go with Alakazam but I just love Gardevoir. Ability: Flash Fire What is a good in-game team for Scarlet and Violet? - Signal Beam Rock Slide / Aerial Ace / Shadow Claw: Rock Slide to help with the Flying weakness early on in the game. - Dragon Pulse: from Battle Resort Move Tutor for 12BP - Shadow Ball 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. You can only get a Dawn Stone from Wally after you beat him at the Victory Road, which let's you evolve your Kirlia into a Gallade. - Rock Slide Weezing is underrated, Im glad you added it onto the team. - Psychic If you're playing during the special shiny Beldum event, I would say replace Froslass with Metagross. - Growl (starting move) > Disarming Voice (Level 11) > Draining Kiss (Level 23) > Dazzling Gleam (TM99 - Route 123) Thunderbolt is your Electric STAB move, Flash Cannon is your Steel STAB move, Thunder Wave cripples opponents and can help with Magnezone's bad Speed, and Charge Beam can buff up their Special Attack so they can tear through teams. - Psychic: Level 31. Surf is Walrein's go-to STAB and takes the responsibility off of Linoone, Ice Beam is STAB and kills Grass-types, Crunch is filler, and Earthquake covers Electric and Rock types. TM71 Stone Edge can be purchased from the Lilycove Department Store for 30,000 Pokmon Dollars. Surf is a good move and is your means of water transportation. - Giga Drain. Swellow and Sharpedo are also constantly in the party, while Blaziken, Gardevoir and Manectric are constantly rotated, that way by the time I get to the Pokmon League I'll have a full party of six that are battle ready. Magnezone is easily one of the best, if not the best, Electric-types in the game, only contested by Manectric. The dual STAB moves mow down anything that's weak to them, Shadow Ball covers Ghosts, and Thunderbolt is great overall. Kecleon @ Expert Belt Ability: Pickup Various HMs: Given throughout the main story (Gift) Raichu @ Magnet - Crunch - Psychic - Dual Chop ), Item: Swampertite No backup should be needed, but Gyarados is a good fallback. Dazzling Gleam / Will-O-Wisp: Dark types will walk all over Banette without Dazzling Gleam, but Will-O-Wisp is good for burns. Ability: Shed Skin You make a Pokemon stronger and get Gallade much earlier at the same time! Surf is preferred over Waterfall because of its higher base power, and Waterfall works better on Gyarados anyways. Ability: Intimidate - Crunch [emailprotected] Leftovers Please follow these guidelines regarding detail in your post: Please also follow these guidelines regarding the contents of your team: Submit your team as an answer, not a comment. - Waterfall / Dazzling Gleam Route 119 Rival: Like before, Wailmer and Slugma should fall easily to Manectric and Marshtomp respectively. - Fire Blast: TM38 at Lilycove Department Store for 30k Pokedollars - Surf. Fairies are no problem with Sludge Wave. But anyways, Swampert is a great pick because he fills the spot for the Water HM user and he has a great movepool. Every team needs that tank that makes everyone mad when it endures everything you throw at it. Moonblast is STAB and anti-Dragon. Ninetales @ Charcoal - Hex. - Dragon Claw - Hammer Arm Altaria is my favorite Dragon type you can obtain in Hoenn (Besides Flygon). - Iron Head Tentacruel - Psychic - Surf - Sludge Wave - Roost (sneaking up/TM)*. - Brick Break / Reflect, Note: Many Pokemon in this team can Mega Evolve, it's up to you who gets to do so. Pyre - Surf Shadow Claw to help against Ghost types is another option. 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. - Iron Head. Yawn. Lets be honest, what Hoenn team is complete without Linoone. - Signal Beam. Creepy Pokedex entries aside, this Pokmon has great Speed. - Fly Return / Facade: STAB move. Absol has a super high Attack stat and good Speed. Close Combat does more damage but has lower PP and lowers your defenses. - U-turn / Roost. Pickup gives you free stuff, he learns a good chunk of the HMs, and he evolves early! - Strength Norman: Marshtomp with Dig is very good for freely damaging the Slakings thanks to Truant. - Dazzling Gleam / Moonblast The first options are for a safer playstyle, while the second set hits harder, but might kill you in the process. I remember looking for one desperately for a Marill in HGSS when I was a kid, because I thought it was really cool, and when I finally got one, I hated it because I didn't understand how abilities work. - Night Slash. Great team! - Recover Fly is Crobat's main STAB, but if you don't want to wait 2 turns you can use Acrobatics. - Fly Swampert is a great Poke in its own right, with a solid movepool, great Attack, and only one weakness. Please be sparing with images and formatting. Surf: Until a Water type is obtained. - Ice Beam. Ability: Levitate When I first got into Pokmon a while ago, Kecleon was my favourite Pokmon, because chameleons were and still are my animals, so no doubt I loved Kecleon. - Cut, Sableye Plus, he has a Mega Evolution and an Electric type immunity. 2) Mega Evolution Speed Boost allow me to outspeed many high-levelled Pokemon. Salamence: Meteor Falls Interior, requires Waterfall (Bagon) - anything. - Water Pulse I sometimes rotate my Pokemon around, so these might not be the six I always use. Also raichu is one of my favorite pokemon. Linoone = Pick Up Some other Pokemon were used for some of these battles, and those instances will be noted with alternatives. - Stone Edge - Flamethrower - Night Slash 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. that are only available through, Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) / Rock Slide (TM80 - Route 134), Bulk Up (TM08 - Gift from Brawly) / Poison Jab (TM84 - Mirage Mountain), Surf (HM03 - Petalburg City after beating Norman) / Superpower (Level 46), Thunderbolt (TM24 - From Wattson after completing the New Mauville sidequest), Charge Beam (TM57 - Mauville City Pokmart), Dark Pulse (TM97 - Team Magma/Aqua Hideout) / Shadow Ball (TM30 - Mt. The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. Every team needs a Dragon type and [emailprotected] are great. - Volt Tackle / Discharge Pre-poisoning Hariyama with Guts makes it nigh unstoppable, especially if youre playing on switch mode. - Roost If you want to surf faster, use Sharpedo instead. Hariyama is a good answer to Vigoroth and can work well against the Slakings too. Linoone can be subbed out for Zangoose or Seviper, which are both really good in-game. Skarmory This is the newest addition to the team. Overall, just my favorite of the starters. It has enough power to easily drag a boulder weighing more than a ton. Waterfall Raichu is fast enough to not need Quick Attack. I couldn't have Gardevoir as they are both Psychic-type, and the road to Gallade is pretty tough on Kirlia, so I decided on Meditite, and I was pretty happy with my decision. Other moves are pretty standard. Finally, Leaf Blade and Thunderbolt are for smacking the myriad of Water-types in Hoenn. What is a good in-game team for Sun and Moon? - Boomburst Hariyama @ Silk Scarf Vivi (Aggron) @ Lucky Egg Earthquake is the best STAB move available to it, but Dig and Mud Shot both work well before then. - Tackle (starting move) > Rock Slide (Level 28) Sceptile is easily taken care of with Crobats Acrobatics. Thunderbolt / Discharge: Thunderbolt is the better move but Discharge is amazing if used in a Double Battle with Mega Sceptile, giving the latter a Special Attack boost and damaging the other enemies. - Giga Drain - Earthquake: see above As said, Crobat is another option, but on this team it shares a Psychic weakness with Tentacruel, who you can always replace with Sharpedo. - Tri Attack If you dont have a Beautifly, Hariyama is good for Mightyena and Sharpedo. Ability: Pickup Magnezone @ Magnet Fly- Good power, STAB, useful in-game Moveset. Tentacruel - Mud-Slap (Level 9) > Dig (TM28 - Route 114) > Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) Thunderbolt is Manectric's main STAB, and Flamethrower is its main coverage. He destroys everything. - Waterfall. - Earth Power - Air Slash / Fly Share your best in-game teams for Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on this thread! Teams should be aimed toward making casual runs of the game efficient, enjoyable and hassle-free. If you want Protean, catch the required Kecleon so you can DexNav for a Protean Kecleon. Weezing has pretty good moves, pretty good stats, and a good defensive typing, which paired with Levitate, makes it a great physical wall. - Shadow Sneak It is vulnerable to Grass moves. - Thunder Wave (starting move) > Bite (Level 24) > Flamethrower (TM35 - Victory Road) Ninetales is the butt of my team, but still fills a key role. - Shadow Claw / Brave Bird - X-Scissor / Earthquake Ability: Thick Fat - Blaze Kick / Flare Blitz If you dont have either of these Pokemon, Disarming Voice Ralts and Wing Attack Zubat can easily take down the Gym. - Giga Drain Ability: Pure Power. - Volt Switch (TM) Route 110 Rival: Slugma and Wailmer both fall to Marshtomp, but Grovyle is more of an issue. - Hammer Arm Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. With DexNav, walking outside the strip of grass on Route 102 closest to Petalburg City will eventually force a Ralts encounter. - X-Scissor You can Mega Evolve it if you'd like, but personally I think other Mega Evolutions are much better choices than Gyarados'. You have to Mega Evolve Heracross. Just have a Pokmon in your PC knowing Dive. 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. I have a soft spot for Treecko. Ralts can be obtained in a horde encounter on Route 104. 3) It has access to many great TMs & Move Tutors. Ice Beam: Good against Grass types. Fly is more for convenience than damage, but it could work well in combination with Swamperts Surf in a Double Battle. Ability: Pickup - Rock Smash (HM) - Psycho Cut Shadow Ball/Dazzling Gleam/Grass Whistle. - Tri Attack Don't evolve Vibrava until Level 47, so it can learn Boomburst. - Rock Slide - Hypnosis Swampert's favorite teammates include defensive Roserade, as it 4x resists Grass-type attacks and can set up Spikes that make Swampert a pain to switch into; Rhyperior, for setting up Stealth Rock and defeating Flying-type Pokemon reliably; and Flying-type Pokemon, such as Togekiss and Zapdos, to take Grass-type hits and build momentum for Base 80 power and 100 accuracy make great use of its high Special Attack. With Recover and Acupressure (which sharply raises a random stat), it will be alive for a while. - Nasty Plot Rock Slide. On the rare occasion you do use it in battle, Dragon Breath paralyzes everything without the Fairy typing and your respective Lati's signature move exists. - Fly - Mach Punch (This team is also based on a no-Exp. The first team on this list that wasn't just Hoenn all over I like this team. Shadow Ball handles Psychic types, Dazzling Gleam smacks Dragon- and Dark-types hard, and Grass Whistle, despite its coin-flip accuracy, is still good. I would replace it with Brick Break instead for more coverage You can do that too, however I enjoy to have at least 1 priority move in my team, just in case. Crobat @ nothing if you want Acrobatics - Iron Head - Rock Slide. There isn't really much to say about them; they free up slots in the rest of the team's movesets and allow you to play the game. Sludge Wave is also good for the Grass types, along with Ice Beam. - Steel Wing Surf is needed quite a bit, but Dive and Waterfall really aren't, so they can safely be switched for one another at any given time. TM50 Overheat is awarded to the player as a prize for defeating Flannery. Nice dual type Pokemon. Here's the team I played through Omega Ruby with! - Brave Bird - Ice Beam Dig can be used in the same way as an Escape Rope to escape caves and Surf can be used to surf at a normal speed (since we also have Sharpedo in the party). Acrobatics is by far the strongest STAB move, with 110 BP per turn (provided Crobat isnt holding anything). - Ice Beam Swampert: Starter (Mudkip) I won't list the locations of the HM's since they're needed to complete the game anyway. - Quick Attack (starting move). I'm going to post a team for Swampert here, as I beat the whole story mode in two days and never died once. Earth Power is coverage and Yawn is also an option. [emailprotected] Item Ice Beam is coverage against Grass types until you get to the Battle Resort, at which point you should swap it for Ice Punch. Now if you want. It was replaced with Shadow Ball once Wallace was defeated. - Volt Switch. Otherwise, this team will straight up scrape anyone who tries to beat you.