Pokemon: Battle Revolution Guide to Wi-Fi Battles: Double Battles Version 1.3 I. Introduction IA. Before you Start… IB. Eggs and egg moves. IC. EV training to the simplest ID. Easy Training Areas II. Rockin’ Teams IIA. Ubers IIB. No Ubers III. Items IV. Other Little Advice V. What NOT to do VI. Legal Stuff VII. Contact Information and Team Submission Information Version 1.3 - Fixed the Version error, added No-Uber Team submission Version 1.2 - Updated Move Listings, fixed a few tiny errors Version 1.1 - Updated E-Mail under contact information Version 1.0 - Posted on GameFAQs! First official guide posted by me. Hurray! NOTE: This is NOT an in depth guide for egg moves, EV Training, or anything similar to. Thinking so will result in sore eyes, with possible side effects including chronic headaches, yelling fits, and “&^$!; This isn’t what I need!” Syndrome. I, and the company/website of GameFAQs, are not liable for any other side effects not listed, and you read this guide at your own risk. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I. Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Welcome to my guide for Wi-Fi battles. Now I know a lot of other guides tell you about EV’s and IV’s and all that other jazz. Yeah, a lot of that can help, but if you just wanna play and win a damn match without having to go through all the trouble, this is the guide for you. I’m not knocking EV training at all, or saying it’s not important. All I’m saying is that I don’t want to spend all that time doing it and, to be honest, a lot of people don’t. The only type of EV training I’m going to have you do is the EV training items (I.e., Carbos, Protein, etc.) and thanks to the Battle Frontier/Park in DPP, getting them is really quick and painless. Alright so here’s what you need to do first. Beat your DS game. Plain and simple. There’s plenty of guides on how to do it, just do it. I don’t care how or with who, just do it and get it done. This isn’t going anywhere and reading up on it now might make your game harder for you in the short run. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IA. Before You Start… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alright, we’ll start with this. ANY POKEMON YOU CATCH OR START WITH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE A WI-FI CONTENDER. Did I get that across okay? Alright. Toss your Torterra and trusty Luxray to the side and listen up; If you wanna have a good enough team to win multiple battles (especially without legendaries) you’re going to have to raise them from level 1. It’s a pain in the ass, but it’s necessary. Now that we’re past that, there’s a couple things you have to do before starting your training. First off, you need to have all of the stat boosting items you can get from the Battle Frontier/Park. The Power Bracer, Lens, etc. I also recommend the Macho Brace as well. Even multiples of it. It’s one of my favorite items and it should be one of yours too. Once you get all of that, you’re pretty much ready to start. An optional item that I highly recommend is the stat raising items like protein and carbos. Each mon at level 1 can have 10 of each item, raising that EV 10 points per item used. Most wont use all 10 for each stat, and the rest of the EV’s come from training normally. It’s not necessary, but it does make things easier. Besides, it only costs 1 BP for 1 item. Also, I recommend each one of your pokemon to be at least 75 before hopping in a PBR match, making sure you get it’s most powerful moves (I.e., Water Spout for Kyogre) Another recommendation is having Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness. This game wasn’t blockbuster, but every pokemon you catch has a special move that’s either: A.) impossible to get or B.) a difficult egg move to get. For example, the Zapdos you catch in that game has Metal Sound, which lowers Sp. Def two levels, while Moltres picks up Extrasensory, an 80 power psychic attack that can flinch. Plus, the Lugia that you get has some serious trade value on the GameFAQS forum list, having Psycho Boost and Featherdance. Also, if you have some patience, you can clear all 100 battles at Mt. Battle to get all 3 Johto starters. Not only that, they come equipped with an awesome egg move AND their own elemental Hyper Beam (I.e., Blast Burn for Cyndaquil, with reversal), even though with DPP that‘s not rare anymore. Seriously, a Gamecube only costs 30 dollars now at GameStop, and you might even be able to get it for CHEAPER. Do it. I’m using my Jedi Mind Trick. Go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IB. Eggs and Egg Moves ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m not in any way or form going to name every pokemon egg group and egg move in the game. That’s insane and I give props to any person who decides to do that. If you want that kind of information, GameFAQs has a lot of really good guides to getting your pokemon the natures you want and the moves you want. Check them out. But back to the this. There are a lot of egg moves that can make a lot of the good pokemon even better (I.e., Tyranitar with Outrage = sex). If you’re going to handle all of the legendary pokemon you’re going to face, you’re going to have to utilize this strategy to the fullest. Otherwise, you’ll just get destroyed time and time again, and I don’t want to hear about another wiimote tossed through a TV screen in anger. I’m really tired of that. I’m sure you know the basics of egg moves, but here it is anyway. The male pokemon passes down the moves, while the female passes down the type of pokemon. There’s something a lot of people don’t know though. The female also passes down a similar nature 25% of the time on average (I don’t know the actual percentage. That’s just my percentage.). However, if the pokemon holds an Everstone, it passes down a similar nature 50% of the time, which is amazing. Use this method to your advantage to get the nature you want faster. More later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IC. EV Training To The Simplest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alright, now you have all of the training items I told you to get, right? If not, you need to get them. It’s crucial to your success. Now once you get your cute little pokes at level 1 with the nature you want, you’ll want to attach the training item you want IMMEDIATELY. This causes you to get more EV’s towards that certain stat, while making you act last almost all the time, even with high speed. Here’s what I recommend; retrace your steps of rising to the top and crushing Sinnoh, and utilize your Vs. Seeker. Psychic pokes are easier to train with the items, because those lucky little fellas get to have a nice move call Trick Room. Lame, but effective. Also, double battles are your friend. You can use your higher pokes with double battle owning moves like Earthquake or Surf and equip your tiny poke with Protect temporarily. It makes things a lot easier, and moves things very quickly along until your poke can act on it’s own accord. If your little poke is on a GBA game, I would suggest transferring to XD if you have that option. Mt. Battle on the GCN Pokemon is a great place for low level training, but you won’t get to use anything but the Macho Brace unfortunately :[. Still, if you want to train them up faster, Mt. Battle, Protect, and an angry Groudon could speed things up for you. Once your poke either evolves to it’s last stage or gets strong enough to handle itself, make it fight the strongest pokemon you can. Remember, if it faints it doesn’t really matter. You don’t have to make it happy (and I will NEVER make you use Return or Frustration) for it to be good. That’s all I’m having you do. That’s all I do and I’ve only lost twice out of 97 battles on PBR. It’s your decision if you want to do more. All I’m saying is it’s not necessary to win. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ID. Easy Training Areas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of people don’t know where to train their low level pokes or even their high level pokes. I’m gonna make things real easy for you, and post a couple of my favorite spots right here. - North of Solaceon up the bike path, there’s a double battle with a Clefairy and Pikachu that’s almost not worth it and a Pkmn Breeder with an Elekid and a Happiny. Happiny gives you 1.2k experience EVERYTIME. You’re going to destroy this guy hundreds of times with your low to mid level guys to train them up easily. - North of the Battle Frontier, there’s 3 trainers. One’s a Bird Keeper with some decent exp training for pokemon good against birds. I think he has a Farfetch’d, Swellow, and Skarmory. Don’t quote me though, I’ll check later. There’s a psychic with two Slowbro. AWESOME TRAINING. Slowbro is dumb, and really easy to beat. Great/easy training with even an unSTABed boltbeamer or even a psychic pokemon with Shadow Ball or a shock attack. - The Elite Four is irritating, I know, but the training there is awesome. In Platinum, the levels go up even higher, and it’s just amazing training for all types of high level pokemon you have. I’m open for more places of training. E-mail or IM me at anytime during the week and I’ll test them out myself. If they work as well as you say, I’ll add them to the guide and give you credit for giving me the information. Those are my favorite 3 places, however. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ II. Rockin’ Teams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WOOO! The moment you all have been waiting for! Well…maybe not. BUT! This is where I’m going to list off combinations that have worked for me in the past. If you have your own combinations, as I’ve said before, send them my way and I’ll test them myself and raise them myself. I don’t want people screaming at me through e-mails about how their team is better. Listen, I don’t care. I’m trying to help the people that want the teams they wanna use to be better. You can shove your “all uber rape” team up your ass. =] Anyways, I’ll list off all the combinations I’ve used, with and without Ubers alike. If you want to win on PBR, it IS possible with a no Uber team, but it’s much harder, since the opposition really doesn’t care if you like them or not. They’re still going to use them and, let’s be honest, they’re some of the most powerful pokemon in the game. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IIA. Ubers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alright. This is where the depth comes in. Grab your reading glasses, a pen and paper, and your Gameboy. This is about to get heavy. This section covers the use of teams with Ubers in them. Keep in mind: I don’t like legendary pokemon that much either. There’s no sense of training there, and they kind of suck fun out of the game. But without them, many would be lost. It makes a trainer feel good to catch a Mewtwo in a Poke Ball (which I’ve done by the way. It’s a good feeling), or finally find that stupid Latios you’ve been running all over the ******* world for just for it to have a bad nature. Bastard. Anyway, here’s the first team. Groudon @ Expert Belt/Muscle Band Earthquake Eruption/Fire Blast (Level Depending) Thunderpunch/Thunderbolt SolarBeam Cherrim @ Focus Band (Item really doesn’t matter here, whatever you choose is fine, but I like focus band) SolarBeam Helping Hand Lucky Chant/Protect Synthesis/Sunny Day Gardevoir @ Big Root/ (I PREFER Synchronize here, but Trace isn’t a bad thing either. More on this in a minute) Dream Eater/Psychic Thunderbolt/Shadow Ball (I Prefer Thunderbolt) Icy Wind Skill Swap Electivire @ Muscle Band/Expert Belt/Scope Lens (I’ve had success with all three) Thunderpunch Earthquake Ice Punch Magnet Rise/Cross Chop/Whatever (This is really a filler…Fire Punch can be successful SOMETIMES, but most of the time if you need a fire attack THAT badly, Groudon usually takes care of it) Umbreon @ Focus Band/Brightpowder Toxic Confuse Ray Protect/Attract (I don’t like attract, but it’s still bothersome) Protect/Snatch Latios @ Soul Dew Dragon Pulse Psychic Ice Beam/Shadow Ball Recover/Ice Beam/Shadow Ball Optional Poke (I use this one; nothing too crazy for moves here) Darkrai @ Anything Fun =] The Wise Glasses are fun. Dark Void (Duh…) Nightmare Dream Eater Dark Pulse Obviously, the main point of this team is Cherrim’s Flower Gift, but there are a lot of other places this team works out well. This was the first team I used, and I loved it. It’s just fun to play with. Even if you lose a couple times, it’s still fun to play with. I know you can’t get Darkrai, which is why I put Latios in there. I did happen to get one, and it’s possible to trade for a semi-legit one (which CAN be used in PBR). Let me try to explain the tactics here. Many battles start with Cherrim and Groudon, and for some reason people go after Groudon (silly kids…), because Groudon sets out an everlasting Sunny Day. Now, the Groudon I used to use to peruse through XD’s Mt. Battle couldn’t have Thunderpunch (I didn’t have Emerald *tearz*), but Thunderbolt worked wonders on those damn birds. When I made this, Thunderpunch sounded good to me =]. Either way works, with Thunderpunch having the power advantage. Groudon is really the only Uber needed for this team to work every time, and it really doesn’t do all that much. It’s good at wreaking havoc among the other Ubers, and not many people on Wi-Fi are going to use Kyogre, which is really the only pokemon you should worry about. Palkia CAN cause problems, but it’s mediocre speed stat makes it unreliable as an effective Groudon killer. Another recommendation; get a neutral nature for your Groudon. Lowering any one it’s stats gives it a weakness. Cherrim is your blessing in disguise. It makes all of your stronger pokemon stronger, and just makes things fun. Cherrim, otherwise, is a piss poor grass type, not learning much in the form of other types of moves. By not much, I mean it can learn Hyper Beam, Giga Impact, and Rollout (for real Nintendo…rollout?) and THAT’S IT. It sucks in that sense, and it wont be putting up much of a fight. In all honesty, I’d highly consider dumping SolarBeam for Safeguard. Safeguard and Lucky Chant makes the opposition kinda screwed in the form of the luck factor, and a lot of the time this team is going to out muscle other Uber teams (yeah I said it. And I‘ll prove it too. FC at the bottom, bring it on). Gardevoir is going to be your cheap skate. He’s gonna be the one pokemon that people aren’t going to expect. Skill Swap is gonna be the factor. We all know Cherrim can’t take a hit to save it’s life (though it does survive a Adamant Groudon Earthquake, so that isn’t entirely true), and that’s where Gardevoir comes in. Use its Skill Swap when Cherrim is low on HP and save it’s Flower Gift ability. If Cherrim is in good standing, use Icy Wind to lower the speed of your opponents unless you’ve got something out there Voir can beat up easily (I.e., Gyarados + Thunderbolt). This way, you’ll be able to use Skill Swap much easier, and you won’t have to worry about Voir and Cherrim’s mediocre speed as much. Between you and me, Icy Wind made my first trip through Orre in XD a lot easier. Also, a Trace Voir can easily use Skill Swap to give an opponents skill to someone who can use it better. Electivire is a beast. Done. There really isn’t much else to it. It’s ability, Motor Drive, is easily spammed using Groudon or Gardevoir. Electivire has a very wide moveset, and you can form it around however way you choose. I like to have Ice Punch for the probable Dragon type you’ll see. The only downside to Electivire is it’s piss poor defenses. Sp. Def. is mediocre, but not as bad as it seems. There’s a way around this, but it’s hard, and sometimes not worth your time. If you traded out Electivire with a Mewtwo or a Zapdos, it’d be understandable, but I lean towards Electivire. It’s fast enough to outrun Garchomp and the Uber Dragons, which is what I use it for most of the time anyway. Alright, Umbreon! My favorite little helper! You might notice it has ZERO attacks. Well, high up pokemon trainers know that this little beast doesn’t need one. It’s out there for one thing and one thing only: to piss your opponent off. Umbreon has gotten OHKO’ed once and ONLY ONCE. That was from a CH Cross Chop from a very angry Electivire. Toxic gets progressively more powerful over time, and no one uses Refresh/Rest anymore. Confuse Ray is obvious. I hate confusion with a passion, and mix it with paralysis and it’s just down right irritating (paralysis, attractiveness, and confusion is a combo you’ll see later). Protect just further bothers people, and keeps Umbreon breathing long enough for perhaps a Synchronize effect to come into play. Snatch is kind of a weird move. It can be the most helpful and most useless thing in the world. What it does is it stills your opponents status changing or healing move and uses it instead. So moves like Recover and Thunder Wave are rendered useless. You sometimes steal a move, too. For example, if a Raichu used Thunderbolt while you were using Snatch, and it was going to paralyze it’s target, Umbreon would take the attack and use it as it’s own. Really just a filler here, for in between 2 Protects (Protect, Snatch, Protect). This Umbreon can be and should be in almost every 4 slotted lineup with this team. Latios. Okay. I’ll be honest, I had no idea whether Latios was going to actually be of help to me in PBR. It wasn’t looking good when I caught it. Timid nature, just trying to find a temporary replacement for Darkrai specifically for this guide (you’re welcome). The speed boosting nature was actually really cool, and Latios worked well with Groudon and Electivire. Not to mention, I ended up getting a Soul Dew as well, which I felt was pretty lucky to find that (thank you GameFAQs trading board). Dragon Pulse was a TM I ended up giving to my Latios, unaware it learned it. Oops =]. Anyway, nothing too crazy here. Psychic is obvious, I’d hope. The last two moves are really just fillers. Honestly, Shadow Ball has little worth on the main game, but you’d be surprised how many times Mewtwo shows up…or maybe you wouldn’t. Anyway, Ice Beam isn’t really necessary. By the way, with Flower Gift AND the Soul Dew, a Latios on average with a neutral nature will have 360 Sp. Atk. Not that it should mean anything to you or anything. =] Darkrai is the pokemon I use in PBR. It’s legit, and I received it using the gift item Member Card from an event near my house. Dark Void is an unbelievably useful technique, and Darkrai isn’t slow. It puts both of your opponents to sleep with the best accuracy next to Spore (having 100%). It’s defenses are good enough to make it survive, and there isn’t a single Fighting pokemon that’ll out run it. Bad Dreams is just another one of those bother moves, and another move that can be Skill Swapped around with Gardevoir. If you can get a semi-legit Darkrai, I still recommend it. GameFAQs trading boards are here, guys. There’s one out there if you put the work out. It’s moveset really isn’t anything special. It makes things go zzZzzZz while you beat them up (or get off a Guard Swap/Groudon sun time?). It makes maneuvering around those big bad legendaries a lot easier. Overall opinion - A- This is the team I generally use when I wanna prove my prowess as a Pokemon Trainer. Instead of just one strategy, it has multiple, making it very versatile and easy to use. A team of all Ubers still can prove to be a challenge, though, but this is the least amount of them I could use and win with. My two losses on Wi-F came from teams consisting of Deoxys, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, etc. It was close (a 1x1 finisher between my weakened Darkrai and a full health Mewtwo. Dark Void missed, and I knew Dark Pulse wasn’t going to be a OHKO). As long as you play smart with this team, you should do fine. I didn’t even have to use the EV training items with this team; I just trained normally. So if you’re looking for something like that, this is an easy team to train and use. This team only lost to one of the other teams I created, and is the only reason I had to give it the A-. That’s the team I recommend to any starting PBR trainer. Easy to raise, with some simple movesets. I can’t imagine a team accomplishing a similar tactic any better, and I haven’t found one yet. If you want one with pure power, this next one will be down your alley. Lots of Uberness here. Let it fill you with joy, glee, and hopefully victory. Not a lot of strategy here, just a couple highlander pokemon. Mewtwo @ Wise Glasses Psychic (duh) Thunderbolt/Shadow Ball Ice Beam/Focus Blast Recover (some people use rest…I don’t like that at all) Rayquaza @ ??? Okay here’s the deal. There are so many ways you can go with this pokemon, that I couldn’t list the one you’re all going to like. So here’s the deal. I’ll post my thoughts, and you can just go with what you want. Rayquaza @ Muscle Belt/Focus Sash Dragon Claw Shadow Claw/Avalanche (ONLY if Mewtwo doesn’t have Shadow Ball; Otherwise, go with the latter) Draco Meteor/Focus Blast (ONLY if Mewtwo didn’t choose Ice Beam; Otherwise go with the latter) Ice Beam/Thunderbolt/Earthquake Deoxys (Speed Form) @ Expert Belt/Black Belt Psycho Boost Substitute Recover Focus Punch Dialga @ Adamant Orb Dragon Pulse Flash Cannon Roar of Time/Earth Power Aura Sphere Palkia @ Lustrous Orb Water Pulse/Surf Spacial Rend Earth Power Aura Sphere Lugia (This is from XD) @ Leftovers Extrasensory (more on this below) Aeroblast Featherdance Recover Alright here’s how this one works. You throw the Poke Balls…release 2 of the 6 pokemon you have…and that’s it. Everything else just kinda happens. No real strategy here, and most of you are going “Well, duh. That’s kinda obvious.” Well no it’s not. You’d be surprised how many times I fought a Dialga with leftovers using Draco Meteor. It didn’t even kill my Umbreon in one hit. Nicely done, PokeMaster287. Nicely done. All personal stabs aside, this team speaks for itself. I’ll go through each one though, just for your pleasure (or pain) Mewtwo sometimes gets forgotten along the way. With the amazing amount of legendaries Game Freak and Nintendo are spamming, they are starting to realize a lot of our old Kanto friends weren’t made to be very good (giving Flareon Fire Fang is no help Nintendo. Where’s Flare Blitz?!) Anyway, choose whether you want Ice Beam or Thunderbolt or both. Choosing both will make the RBY and Stadium favorite Mewtwo. It killed almost anything in its path. Shadow Ball is a special attack now, leaving that open as an option, and Focus Blast would annihilate any dark types thrown your way (except for Umbreon…suXX0rs) Rayquaza is your own decision. I’m not talking about it. Deoxys’ Speed Form is a bit underrated. Being in Speed Form makes it faster than everything. Go ahead, reread it a few times. NOTHING WILL MATCH YOUR SPEED. It’s stats are even across the board, and no one, including the AI, expects your Deoxys to be using Substitute and Focus Punch. It works well, I promise you that. Psycho Boost in case of emergency (ICE from now on), which should fry anything you need it too. Don’t forget to spam recover after using a FP. Dialga’s pretty simple. Use it’s Adamant Orb to your advantage and overpower your opponent with Dragon Pulse and Flash Cannon. Roar of Time is an ICE move for sure, and it saves your skin quite a few times. If you feel it’s not helping you along, swap it out with Earth Power for some more versatility. Aura Sphere never misses, not much more to say there. Palkia’s about the same thing, really, though it doesn’t need Dragon Pulse. I really don’t like Surf anymore. They decided to make it hit your partner (which makes sense, but it’s still irritating) and that just isn’t worth it in my book. Water Pulse is weak, but if you really need a Water attack with more power that badly, you just guessed wrong and probably deserve to lose. Earth Power and Aura Sphere stay the only obvious winners here. Lugia is your supporter for this team. The only poke I suspect you won’t use at least every other battle. It’s defenses are top notch, and help it outlive most Ubers, even with a Super-effective hit. Featherdance is basically to stop hardcore physical attackers like Electivire or a Deoxys in attack form, but it doesn’t matter. Aeroblast is a special attack now which makes me happy ^_^ see? Recover makes Lugia outlast everyone, thanks to it’s unnoticeably high speed. Seriously. It’s faster than a lot of pokemon. It’s surprising, really. Overall - B Look, I’ll be plain with you guys. I don’t like Ubers all that much, so the grade is a little biased. This team wins a lot, but it usually only wins when your opponent doesn’t have a solid strategy to play with. Although it has no strategy, this one is better for the younger kids for the simple fact that they could go in blind and win a fight with this team. Seriously. I can’t give it a lower grade than a B, though, because it’s really hard to beat a team like this. With a 6 on 6 fight between this and my first team (above), all of these guys hard a hard time dealing with Darkrai’s sleep techniques and speed (except Deoxys of course). It ended up with the first team winning with 3 pokemon remaining: Gardevoir, Darkrai, and Cherrim. Cherrim hadn’t even seen the field yet. Those are my two Uber teams guys. I’d love to post some of yours on the guide, so e-mail them to me (e-mail located at the bottom of the page). If they’re good enough to win ONE battle on Wi-Fi for me, I’ll post them on here as soon as I can and credit you with your team. More details on team submissions below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IIB. No Ubers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Currently Under Construction. More soon) This section is dedicated to using no Ubers in any of your teams whatsoever. No Mewtwo *tearz* but you still can use Raikou and Latios and pokemon of that nature, because they’re not as good as everyone else :P. It sucks to train them up, and it’s a big ol’ pain in the ass to get the right move sets, but still, it’s fun to use, and well…here it is. Based off of Pokemon Coliseum. Raikou @ Wise Glasses Thunderbolt Extrasensory (:P) Reflect Thunder Wave Espeon @ Focus Band/Light Clay Psychic Shadow Ball Morning Sun/Protect Light Screen Suicune @ Nevermeltice/Mystic Water Tailwind Hydro Pump/Brine Icy Wind Signal Beam Umbreon (told you you’d see it again :D) @ Leftovers Confuse Ray Attract Snatch/Protect Toxic/Protect/Guard Swap Metagross @ Muscle Band Meteor Mash Zen Headbutt Thunderpunch (Platinum only - Move Tutor) Explosion/Filler Typhlosion @ Salac Berry Endure Reversal Eruption/Flamethrower/Blast Burn Filler (Doesn’t really matter; Throw in something you think might be helpful) I won’t spend much time on this team. It’s really not all that special, but there’s been some success in the past with this team. The basic idea is that no matter what comes out at you, you’re going to wanna use Espeon and Raikou first, preferably both with Timid natures, jacking their speed higher than necessary. Light Screen and Reflect to start off, then whittle away at their team with powerful blasts from Psychic and Thunderbolt (Extrasensory if Psychic rapes). Umbreon plays a similar role as the Uber Flower Gift team, being an irritating little bastard. Don’t you just love him ^_^? Anyway, continuing on! Raikou learns Extrasensory in DPP, and is kind of cool. You’ll really only be using Thunderbolt here, with an occasional Thunder Wave. Thunder Wave sets up Umbreon nicely, and Raikou is just awesome. Use him. Abuse him. Love him. Espeon is much like Raikou, in a sense that it’s out there to set your guys up. If Espeon and Raikou knock something out in the process, that’s just a bonus and chalk it up as a victory. Shadow Ball is a special attack now, which replaces Coliseum’s bite with happiness and joy. Although, there’s another path you can go down. Protect with Espeon is kind of cool. A lot of people on Wi-Fi get worried about Espeon quickly, and sometimes focus their attacks towards it. Protect can give your ally a free beat down session. You could swap Morning Sun out too; it’s not a necessary move. Suicune learns the strangest moves out of the three dogs. I have no idea why it learns Tailwind, but it makes things very easy for you. To be honest, most of the time I’d take Hydro Pump over Brine, but Espeon and Raikou are gonna leave some pokemon weakened for Suicune to Brine up…but it’s your call. Signal Beam = Sex and can OHKO a lot of Psychic types blind. Seriously, do you expect a Suicune to come out with Signal Beam? Ah Umbreon, our paths cross again. ^_^ I’ve missed you so. This is the Umbreon I mentioned earlier. Snatch works well on teams similar to my A- Uber team, because you can steal moves like Guard Swap and Thunder Wave. It works well sometimes, but some would argue that you’d be better off with protect. I’ve had my Umbreon snatch a dying Mewtwo’s recover. It was a happy day. I almost lost that one. Same old song and dance here, though. If you want to feed off of Raikou’s Thunder Wave, don’t bother with Toxic and give it Guard Swap or Moonlight. Metagross should be an Uber, but it’s not. I have no clue why. Meteor Mash hurts everything, even if it’s not very effective. It gets Zen Headbutt now, which has a chance to flinch, but you won’t have to worry about that. It won’t be faster than much, even with Tailwind active. Thunderpunch is just a “Uh oh, help me.” move. It hurts things when nothing else does. Explosion is one of my favorite moves. I love when it goes boom, and Umbreon protects. Also, you can use it in a partnership with something else. And it’s name is… Typhlosion. “Enduversal” FTW. In Coliseum, I couldn’t use anything but Flamethrower and Dig. DPP helped this poke out a lot. Eruption? For real? Awesome. Anyway, that move and whatever you decided to be your filler are gonna be the only moves you use besides reversal, so Blast Burn or Eruption are good ways to go. Earthquake is always an option as a filler, but I used Focus Punch. Two high power moves that aren’t usually ever used. Just an emergency poke here, I’m sure there are better. Overall - A I couldn’t believe it. This team of all teams beat my Flower Gift team. Not just once or twice. Every single time those teams faced off, this team won the fight. It even beat the all Uber team more than once. I had to give it an A compared to my other teams. For some reason, it’s hard to break through reflect and light screen at the same time. Tailwind works like something fierce, and Power Swapping with my Quiet Suicune had it single-handedly defeating pokemon on the Uber team. It killed Mewtwo in one Signal Beam o.0 That’s the number 1 non-uber team I’ve used so far. I tried making a similar team from XD, but let’s just say it ended horribly and leave it at that. That game leaves you so ill-prepared for the outside world, you’re better off keeping that sissy team inside Orre where it belongs. Although, the Medicham and Tyranitar you get from there are SWEET, but not unique. They just have good egg moves. Anyways, that’s three teams so far. I’m working on a second Uber team right now, and I should have it up by the time the Version 1.1 is ready to go. This next team is one of the first submissions I've had that actually worked. It was a bit shocking really, as I never really liked combinations like this. But, it worked, so here it is. Bronzong: Lum Berry (Needs Levitate) Extrasensory Gyro Ball Rest Trick Room Tyranitar: Chople Berry Rock Slide Earthquake Crunch Protect Camerupt: Passho Berry (Solid Rock is better) Eruption Earth Power Rock Slide Protect Magnezone: Shuca Berry Discharge Mirror Shot/Flash Cannon (Mine knows Mirror Shot because I didn't want to use the one use TM Flash Cannon yet) Toxic Magnet Rise Gliscor: Brightpowder/Lax Incense (With Sand Veil) Aerial Ace Earthquake Double Team Ice Fang Torterra: White Herb Superpower Crunch Earthquake Leaf Storm "Okay, the strategy for my party is pretty self-explanitory, use Trick Room and then kill your opponents as you move first, but there are some subtle (and not so subtle) elements in this party that make it deadly. One of these elements is the use of wide-range moves and working so they don't hit your partner or don't hit it hard. (Torterra is very resistant to Earthquake). Another is the use of Flinch through Bronzong's Extrasensory and Tyranitar's Rock Slide as well as Camerupt's Rock Slide. I don't use Camerupt's Rock Slide often though The first two Pokemon that should be sent out (generally) are Bronzong and Tyranitar or Camerupt, whichever better fits in type-wise against the opponent as you get to see their party beforehand. The key is to use Protect and hope that your opponent attacks Tyranitar or Camerupt, and they do little to Bronzong, letting it use Trick Room. The Lum Berry comes in handy against those who may disrupt Bronzong's Trick Room (TR) like Darkrai with Dark Void. It also helps with its Resting if it needs it. My Tyranitar (nicknamed Mr. T) is the base of this party besides TR because with the Chople Berry it almost never goes down in one hit. It usually takes out Pokemon that get a hit on it by the next turn, or its partner does anyway. Magnezone is probably my least used Pokemon because Torterra has a more diverse type move pool, but it is armed with Toxic to take out annoying stalling Pokemon (Umbreon, anyone?). Gliscor is mainly in my party for Earthquake and Discharge absorbing, but its main weapon is Ice Fang to damage Dragons. It might be better with a Yache Berry instead of accuracy reducing items, but I like the increased possibility of an evaded attack especially with its Double Team if nothing else is useful at the time. Torterra is probably put into all of my foursomes in PBR because of the type coverage it has against so many Pokemon. The White Herb gives it an option of Superpower or Leaf Storm, and I rarely need both. Weaknesses in this Party: The time it lost in PBR, Bronzong got a Critical Hit on it from a Fire Punch by a Slaking. Yes, do not let Bronzong die before it uses Trick Room. Otherwise a lost is almost certain. Also, the fact that everyone but Bronzong has a double weakness is also a problem. This is where wide range moves and ganging up help eliminate pokemon that could exploit these weaknesses effectively." Overall Grade - C I originally gave this team a B-, but after some work on it, I realized how much it could gain and how much room there is to grow from this. I found Camerupt and Torterra to be close to worthless in this team. It did happen to beat my Uber team up there with a Critical Hit Crunch ending Mewtwo's life. Ah well. Anyway, this team could benefit from a better moveset and some better pokemon. I replaced Camerupt with Heatran and Torterra with Shuckle. I also tried Porygon-Z in place of Magnezone, and it worked out pretty well too. Porygon-Z was my second TR user, and had Discharge as well, making it an easy replacement for the weakness prone Magnezone. Tyranitar really doesn't need EQ, but as of this update, I'm not sure what a good replacement would be. I'm thinking Ice Punch but I'm not sure. Overall, good team, fun to play with, with lots of room to grow. Use this as a starting point and move forward with it. Also, TAUNT RAPES THIS TEAM. Hardcore. Like no other. It's kinda hard to get a TR off when Taunt is being used on your uber slow poke. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ III. Items ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, so you know how I told you all the items I suggested to be on each pokemon? Well this is basically gonna be me telling you where the items can be found. Pretty simple really. Battle Frontier/Park in Platinum/Diamond & Pearl. All of the items not there, such as the Wise Glasses, are found throughout the game itself. The Salac Berry can be bought off of PBR itself, from the main game, and a lot of the items in question can be too. So there it is. Not too hard to get them really, just play the game. If you have any specific questions, I’ll answer them personally, or you can look at any item FAQ on GameFAQs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IV. Other Little Advice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Obviously, I don’t expect you to use my team verbatim as I have it on here. This guide is supposed to be developed to give you some ideas for a team of your own. If you use my team, I’d be thrilled to hear about your success with my team ideas, how you created a team of your own, or anything of the sort. Basically, if you do something different with my teams, you do so at your own risk. They have success in the Wi-Fi battles, and you really shouldn’t stray from it unless you know it’ll work better for your type of battling. I gave some hints of creating your own team. Just know this: the successful teams that win in double battles are teams built around not just one strategy, but multiple. Keep this in mind as you build a team to dominate the Wi-Fi battles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ V. What NOT To Do ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once again, this is just advice. Don’t hurt me ^_- - Don’t use pokemon from Red, Blue, and Yellow (1st generation). 90% of them can’t compare to the more recent generations. The only ones you should use are any that have a new stage (Rhyperior, Electivire, etc.), Dragonite’s family, any legendary, or Jolteon. Otherwise, there’s a poke that’s got a better moveset or stat set. - Don’t use items that work for one move. That only hinders YOU. The only item you should use for one move is one of the choice items, which forces you to use that one move over and over again for more power or speed or whatever. You need items that work for you in a better way. - Spam items like the Wise Glasses and the Muscle Belt on every team. There’s at least one pokemon that uses all physical and special attacks. Don’t equip the Muscle Belt to someone who’s more deep with moves unless it’s a boost you feel is necessary. - Most Ubers are good to go without EV training. All non -Ubers I would suggest you start from level 1, as I said earlier in the guide, but it’s not necessary to build your team. It just makes them better if you raise them from an earlier level. Besides, that’s the point of the game, guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VI. Legal Stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Basically, this guide is mine, not yours. Don’t try and use it for your own writing or for monetary value without my consent or legal procedures will be made. You can use it for yourself and you can share it with words, but if I find out that you’re using it as your own, that’s when things get messy. Please don’t do it. I don’t wanna be the bad guy. As of now, GameFAQs is the only site I’ve given permission to present this guide, and no other site or person(s) may use it without written consent by the author (me). All Pokemon names and games are property of Game Freak Inc. and Nintendo. I don’t own anything but the words on this guide. Any plagiarism or theft of my work will result in bad things. Play nice kids. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VII. Contact Information and Team Submission Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are a ton of ways you can get a hold of me, but the best way is through instant messaging. I have AIM and Yahoo and you can reach me at LXchargersXT for AIM and Sportsfan15100 for Yahoo. You can also e-mail me at Garrymundy@yahoo.com because I check that everyday as well. For team submissions, I’d like it if you sent them through the e-mail I gave above. Tell me all SIX of your pokemon (no less) and you may have one optional pokemon, but list why it’s there and who it replaces. Tell me what your strategy is, and how each pokemon uses each of it’s moves, so I know exactly how to recreate it. Throw natures in there if you wish, and tell me how you trained if you want it done right. If it wins just one battle on Wi-Fi or manages to beat one of the 3 teams I’ve listed so far as samples, I’ll post it on the guide for everyone to see and oh and ah at. You will, of course, be given all the credit for the idea, and it will help improve the guide and everyone’s pokemon playing abilities as well. Thank you in advance. Also, if you have anything that you would like me to add or any questions, feel free to e-mail me as well and I’ll add a FAQ section for people that may have similar questions. Copyright Garry Mundy (Leonheart23464) June 19th, 2009