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I didn't see a thread really dedicated to this, so I figured I'd make one. This is a thread designed for trainers who want to go beyond battling simple "route" trainers, the ones you encounter along the main storyline. The Battle Tower, Colosseum, XD, and the Battle Frontier feature opponents that have actual strategy, and not just moves that are learned natrually. Anabel's Curselax is going to be much harder to take out than a Snorlax belonging to Hiker Gregor.

So, in this thread you can ask for advice on building a team, fixing movesets, distributing EVs, among other things required to battle in a true competitive setting.

If you're posting a team/single pokemon, please use this format:

Pokemon Name @ Item
Level
Pokemon's Nature
Move 1
Move 2
Move 3
Move 4

Pokemon's Stats, if you would like to add them.
Other info you feel like adding. Shiny, Gender, etc.

Example:

Salamence @ King's Rock
Level 50
Adamant Nature
Brick Break
Hidden Power Bug 70
Rock Slide
Dragon Dance

HP 159
Attack 191
Defense 89
Special Attack 107
Special Defense 100
Speed 142

EVs--Max Attack and Speed

I tried an Arcanine. It's decent, but there are better pokemon out there. It has incredibly balanced stats though.

"Garm" @ Lum Berry
Lv. 50
Quirky Nature

Extreme Speed
Aerial Ace
Iron Tail
Roar

Meh. It's alright. Intimidate allows it to survive Earthquake and Roar the opponent.

Other good special sweepers--Alakazam, Gengar, Milotic (Special Tank), Porygon2, and Sceptile.

For example:

Sceptile @ Scope Lens/Leftovers/Other
Modest/Timid Nature

Crunch
Leaf Blade
Dragon Claw
Thunder Punch

Crunch can take out Alakazam, since Sceptile is just as fast. Dragon Claw is always good with so many Salamence about. Leaf Blade gets STAB, and Thunder Punch beats Flying types. His only real problem is Fire. You can drop Thunder Punch for Earthquake, I suppose. Or Rock Tomb/Slide, if possible.

I'm planning on raising a Porygon2 soon. It'a underused, but has a great move pool.

charchar was my first pokemon on sappire ,train my pokemon the honest way i love my salmance since the day i got it and would never trade it ,i have made better salmance that know hydro pump ,but the she was the first and will alway be by my side

if you go for an arcanine a good move set would be
iron tail
flamethower
extreme speed
---------(your choice)

Just went 56 rounds straight in the Battle Tower, so I feel I must post my team I used here. xD

Metagross--"Zetsuei" @ Salac Berry
Level 50
Adamant Nature

Earthquake
Meteor Mash
Psychic
Brick Break

He took down a Regirock in two hits with Meteor Mash. About 75% of the matches he made it all the way through. I thought of giving him Explosion over Psychic, but Psychic takes out Weezing and Machamp in 2 hits each.

Milotic--"Narcissus" @ Lum Berry
Level 50
Modest Nature

Surf
Recover
Mirror Coat
Ice Beam

That Electrode with Thunderbolt that I fought like 4 times fell for Mirror Coat. Not to mention quite a few others. Milotic even took out this really powerful Swampert, so I'm proud of him.

Blissey--"Aphrodite" @ Leftovers
Level 50
Lax Nature

Seismic Toss
Refresh
Substitute
Softboiled

I got pretty scared that I'd run into a Ghost type with her, but I didn't. Anything with only Special Attack moves got tossed into oblivion by a cute little Substitute. Hee hee.

I can post stats if anyone cares.

Umm sorry but i think beating the level 50 battle tower is sad... here's my BT team..

Dragonite@leftovers
Lv:100 (oh, yeah!!)
>Ice Beam
>Flamethrower
>Thunderbolt
>Hyperbeam

Latios@Shell Bell
Lv:100 (^_^)
>Dragon Claw
>Psycic
>Surf
>Dragon Dance

Metagross@focus Band
Lv:94 (almost there!!)
>Meteor Mash
>Psycic
>Earthquake
>Iron Defense


Note: I don't use cheats!!!! I EV train, then ANNIHILLATE the(supposedly)Elite 4 millions of times.....Current BT record:91/Current Hall of Fame:126/Playing time:450 Hrs....(i have no life...)

I don't have to...i just want to..i could use any of these:
Blastoise
Tyranitar
Gardevoir
Salamence
Flygon
Alakazam
Nosepass


All of them are around level 85...except for Salamence...He's level 91....
oh, and relying on legendaries is VERY SAD!!!! if you're any good at training, you could use anything...Except for Feebas and Magikarp....

Note:not wanting to start an argument.....just saying what i think....

Hmm. I need to replace my Gengar on my team with a sweeper that has better defenses. What do you all think of this?

Porygon2 @ Petaya Berry
Modest Nature

Ice Beam
Thunderbolt
Recover
Thunder Wave

Porygon2 has 90 base defense and 95 base Special Defense, and 105 base Special Attack. His only bad stat is Speed, at 60. But that's what Thunder Wave is for.