tommysoprano Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) Hello All -- Somewhat new player to Pokemmo here, this is my first post on the forums and I have about 250 hours played and started early Fall 2023. I'm trying to get into the PVP scene and feel like I'm starting to get a better understanding of ranked, current meta and how to be successful but acknowledge there's probably gaps in my strategy that I am completely unaware of. I've played around with ~10 pokemon but keep coming back to the initial six below. I'll include a few others if you think I should change things up. Would love to hear honest, critical feedback - I won't take it personally! Also if there's other pokemon you think I should consider, please let me know! Thanks for reviewing. Lead: Naughty Mamoswine EVs 252 Atk, Speed IVs 24/31/26/21/31/27 Focus Sash Earthquake Stealth Rock Icicle Crash Ice Shard Ability Snow cloak (not taking advantage of this at all currently..) Quiet Arcanine (I know nature here isn't ideal, not sure how big of a deal this is?) EVs 252 Atk, Speed IVs 24/27/30/23/21/21 Life Orb ExtremeSpeed Flare Blitz Wild Charge Close Combat Ability: Intimiate Adamant Metagross 252 Atk/Speed IVs 31/31/14/10/14/31 Rocky Helmet Earthquake Meteor Mash Bullet Punch Psychic (should I change this to Ice Punch or something else for coverage?) Ability: Clear Body Timid Serperior 252 Sp Atk / Speed 31/16/18/31/4/31 Leftovers HP Fire Dragon Pulse Substitue (not sure the strategy on how to use sub but was reading this may be a good idea) Leaf Storm Ability: Contrary Modest Hydreigon 252 sp atk/speed 31/16/31/31/31/31 Choice Scarf Charge Beam Dark Pulse Draco Meteor Flamethrower Ability: levitate Impish Gyrados 252 Atk / Spd 31/31/23/20/28/31 Leftovers Crunch Waterfall Dragon Dance Thrash Ability: Intimidate Other Pokemon "PVP" ready with 2+ 31 IVs with their abilities: Drizzle Pelipper, Magic Bounce Espeon, Pressure Zapdos, Rough Skin Garchomp, download Porygon-Z, Natural Cure Starmie, Flame Body Vocarona, Abomasnow LMK what you think! Thanks so much. Edited January 24 by tommysoprano Link to comment
LeJovi Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 On 1/24/2024 at 1:26 PM, tommysoprano said: Hello All -- Somewhat new player to Pokemmo here, this is my first post on the forums and I have about 250 hours played and started early Fall 2023. I'm trying to get into the PVP scene and feel like I'm starting to get a better understanding of ranked, current meta and how to be successful but acknowledge there's probably gaps in my strategy that I am completely unaware of. I've played around with ~10 pokemon but keep coming back to the initial six below. I'll include a few others if you think I should change things up. Would love to hear honest, critical feedback - I won't take it personally! Also if there's other pokemon you think I should consider, please let me know! Thanks for reviewing. Lead: Naughty Mamoswine EVs 252 Atk, Speed IVs 24/31/26/21/31/27 Focus Sash Earthquake Stealth Rock Icicle Crash Ice Shard Ability Snow cloak (not taking advantage of this at all currently..) Quiet Arcanine (I know nature here isn't ideal, not sure how big of a deal this is?) EVs 252 Atk, Speed IVs 24/27/30/23/21/21 Life Orb ExtremeSpeed Flare Blitz Wild Charge Close Combat Ability: Intimiate Adamant Metagross 252 Atk/Speed IVs 31/31/14/10/14/31 Rocky Helmet Earthquake Meteor Mash Bullet Punch Psychic (should I change this to Ice Punch or something else for coverage?) Ability: Clear Body Timid Serperior 252 Sp Atk / Speed 31/16/18/31/4/31 Leftovers HP Fire Dragon Pulse Substitue (not sure the strategy on how to use sub but was reading this may be a good idea) Leaf Storm Ability: Contrary Modest Hydreigon 252 sp atk/speed 31/16/31/31/31/31 Choice Scarf Charge Beam Dark Pulse Draco Meteor Flamethrower Ability: levitate Impish Gyrados 252 Atk / Spd 31/31/23/20/28/31 Leftovers Crunch Waterfall Dragon Dance Thrash Ability: Intimidate Other Pokemon "PVP" ready with 2+ 31 IVs with their abilities: Drizzle Pelipper, Magic Bounce Espeon, Pressure Zapdos, Rough Skin Garchomp, download Porygon-Z, Natural Cure Starmie, Flame Body Vocarona, Abomasnow LMK what you think! Thanks so much. Mamoswine can learn endeavor which could be useful since you're running a suicide lead. Nature should be jolly/adamant. Arcanine's moveset is okay, i don't think it's good in OU but it's your first team, the nature should be jolly/adamant as well. Since Metagross is Adamant, Psychic will hit less, Ice Punch would be a good replacement. Serperior is okay, you can also run defog over sub seeing your team has no hazard removal and you have a team with 2 mons 2x weak to stealth rocks (Gyara / Ark9) On Hydre, U-Turn or focus blast might be better than charge beam, it doesn't really need that. If you want a sweeper then Gyarados should be jolly/adamant, waterfall/power whip/ice fang provide the best coverage overall. But it can also run bounce as a stab move, just note it will take two turns to attack unless you run power herb. Have fun! Link to comment
tommysoprano Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 Thank you! What do you think about running a bulky Zapdos with HP/D/SpD into the mix? or a Magic Bounce Espeon? or Starmie? Link to comment
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