You just have to. - Quick Attack Volt Switch: is great STAB and lets you pivot. That's a lot of TMs. Sludge Bomb- Good power, STAB Shadow Claw is for Psychic types, and Earthquake is Earthquake. Fly- Good power, STAB, useful in-game Especially Stone Edge. Waterfall - Earthquake - Dark Pulse The other moves are pretty self explanatory, although you can use a mixed set with Psychic > Zen Headbutt for accuracy. - Iron Tail: Level 35 - Flamethrower Leech Seed and Toxic wears the opponent down. The moveset listed above was just the one I went with, but you have plenty of options for experimentation. It can restore health with Leech Seed and Giga Drain as well. Jolteon and Raichu are both amazing, but it can be a little hard to find a Thunder Stone, so another option is Manectric. A bit of a hassle to get, but I do really like Froslass, so I've included her. If you dont have a Beautifly, Hariyama is good for Mightyena and Sharpedo. Ability: Pickup This Pokemon is used for Tate & Liza and Phoebe, but if it sets up a few Swords Dances, you can sweep most teams. - Earthquake Frost Breath is better in most cases, because it'll be 120 STAB rather than 90, bar random Shell Armour Pokemon. - Dive. Ralts can be obtained in a horde encounter on Route 104. - Strength (HM) replace Iron Tail for Iron Head, accuracy over power is better than power over accuracy as Iron Head is strong enough STAB for Aggron to use and its does not have that 25% chance of missing. Exploud @ Leftovers / Shell Bell Biology. Skarmory for Cut, Strength, Rock Smash, and Fly. I won't bother listing the locations of these HM's, since their necessary to complete the game anyway. - Will-O-Wisp. Aggron - Steel/Rock U-turn is an option, but in-game you can switch when you need to. - Overheat - Surf - Ice Beam Ice Beam: Powerful STAB. Power-Up Punch is better just because it will always raise Attack and is 100% accurate. Return: Pacifidlog Town - Seed Bomb - Rock Smash Double Edge is general coverage as a very strong move, especially given the Rock Head Ability. - Zen Headbutt / Play Rough. 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 Tentacruel @ Black Sludge - Shadow Ball. Grass Knot covers Ground types. TM72 Volt Switch is awarded to the player as a prize for defeating Wattson. Night Slash- Decent power, covers Ghost weakness. Thunderbolt is a great move and fits better with the Mirror Coat set. Best part? Quick question, what would be a good froslass alternitive? Rock Head is a must for Double-Edge. Swampert is the best starter because it is only weak to Grass, but there are no Grass Gyms or Elite Four. For Boomburst, use a Heart Scale or just level up to level 58. Linoone You can also take on Winona with Stone Edge, but it is not recommended. Aggron @ Assault Vest - Earthquake - Foul Play Personally, I just catch the first Ralts I come across. After clearing four Gyms in a row with no new members, we head to 111 and catch a Trapinch! - Surf I sometimes rotate my Pokemon around, so these might not be the six I always use. - Shadow Ball Fly and Steel Wing are STAB, Night Slash is coverage and Spikes or Toxic are great status moves. Night Slash/Shadow Ball - Surf - Flash Canon Earthquake: Good coverage move. Ability: Guts -> Skill Link I didn't have any items left so I just gave her a Pecha Berry. Sceptile - Grass (Mega Sceptile - Grass/Dragon) Flamethrower: A great coverage move. - Earthquake. Poison Jab: Mirage Mountain, requires Acro Bike If you want, you can replace Tentacruel with Sharpedo, but it does have shoddy defences and it's rather lack luster without Speed Boost. To get Dragon Dance, first reach the Pokmon League. - Tri Attack If you want to surf faster, use Sharpedo instead. The other three main team members should be plenty up to that point, though, and with how fantastic Salamence is, it's arguably worth the effort. Psycho Cut/Psychic - Boomburst / Hyper Voice 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. - Stone Edge / Rock Slide Except for its Mega Evolution which really just makes it kinda OP. Volt Switch is good for pivoting, but its less helpful if playing on switch mode. Ability: Rough Skin Hariyama destroys the Elite 4, being good against Sidney, Phoebe and Steven. Brick Break: Sootopolis City - Thunderbolt Route 110 Rival: Slugma and Wailmer both fall to Marshtomp, but Grovyle is more of an issue. - Dragon Claw - Waterfall / Surf Earthquake is Earthquake, no explanation needed. - Psycho Cut Replace bulldoze with belly drum and get aqua jet on it somehow. Fly to the Move Relearner in Fallarbor Town, and use a Heart Scale to relearn Dragon Dance, which will be crucial in setting up sweeps against Phoebe, Drake, and Steven. Strength: HM if not on Hariyama. Then give it the power bracer and you have the most OP azumarill in existence. Waterfall is Sharpedo's main attacking Water move and allows you to climb waterfalls. Moving on to Route 102, we catch a Ralts, who eventually becomes Gardevoir! As for the last two slots, it's up to preference. - Iron Tail. Swords Dance: Good for setting up. - Iron Head About "Swampert is very strong. Ability: Thick Fat 4) My personal favorite of the 3 starters. if you want to change a move be. - Mud-Slap (Level 9) > Dig (TM28 - Route 114) > Earthquake (TM26 - Seafloor Cavern) - Waterfall: HM05, you need it to complete the game - Flamethrower Swmapert can also be an HM slave. If you ever need Giga Drain again, you can reteach it; you don't have that option if you let Treecko evolve at L16. - Yawn / Earthquake If Absol has Super Luck, your Night Slashes and Psycho Cuts will most likely crit. - Strength. Good Defense and high Special Attack, but its other stats are low. - Hidden Power (TM) / Flash (TM) / Thunder Wave (TM)*. Before you ask why I have two Megas on this team, I Mega Evolve a different one depending on the situation. Fairies are no problem with Sludge Wave. Swampert is a good defensive Pokemon, boasting key resistances to common attacking types such as Rock, Electric, Steel, Fire, and Poison-types. - Crunch Giga Drain Hey sumwun. He has high defenses and Attack so make sure you have physical hits if you swap any moves out. - Ice Beam / Frost Breath - Psychic If you choose not to evolve your Magneton and just give him the Eviolite from Route 123, he has less HP and less in both Attacks than Magnezone, but every other stat gets better. - Confusion (Level 4) > Psychic (Level 30) Swampert Sceptile is easily taken care of with Crobats Acrobatics. Please be sparing with images and formatting. I'm pretty sure Slaking doesn't pack Earthquake, but just bear that in mind as well. - Bite (starting move) > X-Scissor (TM80 - Victory Road) - Stone Edge - Flash Cannon - Ice Beam Bulk Up is to further boost Hariyama's high Attack and maybe counter the Defence drop from Close Combat. I decided to use Bulk Up as Poison Jab is pretty hard to get, and I simply didn't have the patience. Pyre For its moves, Night Slash is STAB, and Psycho Cut is coverage on Fighting types. Flamethrower is helpful against Stevens Steel types. It receives. - Surf (HM) - Cross Poison Ability: Static Giga Drain is powerful, reliable healing, and Sludge Bomb is nice STAB with a nasty 30% poison rate. Coil: Boost Attack to sweep. While everyone thinks Dawn Stones are a pain to obtain just use Super Training! - Crunch / Earthquake. - Leaf Storm - Cut, Sableye Exploud is a decent Pokmon with stats that tend to lean towards the Special Attack. Linoone = Pick Up - High Jump Kick Ability: Guts Swampert @ Swampertite - Thunder Wave - Cross Poison - Bullet Punch Grass Pledge / Giga Drain: The former can be learnt from a Move Tutor in Mauville City if Sceptile has high Happiness. - Strength / Yawn. Breloom/Sitrus Berry Hasty Nature - Mach Punch (lvl 23) Otherwise use Blaze Kick and Sky Uppercut, which you learn by levelling up. - Leaf Blade Ability: Flash Fire Ice Fang is a good defense against Winona and Drake. Exploud can't learn Thunderbolt and you can only get Shockwave from Transfer or from the move Tutor. Nice dual type Pokemon. So Energy Ball is STAB, Dragon Claw is STAB as a mega and Earthquake and Rock Slide cover all other weaknesses. - Thunderbolt / Thunder - Earthquake. - Zen Headbutt / Psychic Ability: Pure Power. Which is better? Salamence: Meteor Falls Interior, requires Waterfall (Bagon) 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. - Ice Punch. - Crunch: Level 41 You have to Mega Evolve Heracross. - Fly. - Thunderbolt / Discharge 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. - Thunderbolt - Stone Edge Best Team for Hoenn ft. Zeldawars MysticUmbreon 581K subscribers Join Subscribe 27K 2.7M views 6 years ago Hey guys welcome to the Best Team For Hoenn. Energy Ball covers all weaknesses and Flamethrower is solid STAB. Supersalamence93 here bringing you another Pokemon Team builder. - Flamethrower Ability: Early Bird - Discharge Spam Surf on Swampert, which Gyarados resists, and use Crunch with Gyarados on either Pokemon. - Dragon Claw Item: Black Glasses Sidney: Give Gardevoir a Persim Berry and send it in against Mightyena to block Swagger and safely KO with Dazzling Gleam. Feint Attack and Needle Arm are STAB, Poison Jab is for Fairies, and the last move slot is more filler than anything. - Dragon Rage (Level 23) > Ice Fang (Level 32). - Moonlight - Crunch - Acupressure. - Magical Leaf Ability: Inner Focus 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). The Ability doesnt matter much, but it was fun to block Drakes Flygons from using Ground moves after Levitate was Traced. For its moves, Earthquake is its main STAB. Ability: Torrent --> Swift Swim TM71 Stone Edge can be purchased from the Lilycove Department Store for 30,000 Pokmon Dollars. Can deal with Psychics with Dark Pulse and X-Scissor. A great Pokemon that adds to this teams diversity, Psychic and Moonblast are STAB. Until then, use whatever item you think works. I just love Mega Sceptile, he was my favorite starter from Hoenn and still is. - Shadow Ball: TM30 at Mt. Ability: Synchronize / Trace --> Pixilate TM26 Earthquake can be found in the Sea Floor Cavern. - Needle Arm - Sky Uppercut / High Jump Kick I hear Froslass is bad because it requires babying a weak Snorunt for a long time. Pokmon Team Builder Reimagined | Best Swampert Team - YouTube Is a TM slave a thing? Gyarados @ Rocky Helmet Ability: Levitate Metal Sound- Harshly lowers opponent's Special Defense and pretty much makes Magnezone unstoppable. Also useful against Steven's Metagross. They have a really good movepool and who wouldn't want to fly around the huge Hoenn region on a dragon?! Ice punch for coverage and Rain Dance for setting rain when needed. 1. - Signal Beam. Lilycove City Rival: Swellow and Wailord fall to Manectric, and Magcargo goes down to Swampert. Boomburst is a fantastic move with a base power of 140, and 210 with STAB. Manectric is the best Electric type available in my opinion. - Iron Tail Zen Headbutt is a decent STAB move with a decent flinch chance, High Jump Kick is a very powerful STAB move (but you will want to be careful using it), Ice Punch covers her Flying weakness, Bulk Up allows it to set up a possible sweep, and Poison Jab covers her Fairy weakness. Ability: Intimidate The Assault Vest makes Aggron more of a tank, and I don't use status moves anyway. Flannery: Marshtomp easily solos this Gym with Mud Shot as well. X-Scissor and Flamethrower are also coverage, and Swords Dance is to set up. Acrobatics is deadly when not holding an item. - Earthquake. Close Combat: Powerful STAB move Blazer (Blaziken) @ Blazikenite - anything. - Surf - Overheat (TM) Ability: Immunity Roxanne: Mudkip easily sweeps with Water Gun. Bellossom Hariyama @ Silk Scarf Echoed Voice was my Swablu's best buddy till it evolved and I just couldn't part with it, not to mention how much better it gets with Pixilate. Swampert - Movesets & Best Build for Ranked Battle | Pokemon Sword and It can be given a Wacan Berry in case Salamence connects with a Thunder Punch, but its very difficult to lose this battle. Raichu @ Air Balloon Ability: Thick Fat Brick Break/Dazzling Gleam If you're worried about Earthquake, you can use Magnet Rise as your final move, or either Reflect or Light Screen if you're not too fussed about it. - Solar Beam Every team needs a Dragon type and [emailprotected] are great. Aggron has high Defense that can help it serve as an effective tank. Set up 3 Dragon Dances on either the Claydol or Cradily, healing as needed, and freely sweep the rest of Stevens team. Deadly against Dragon types and can use Shadow Ball on fellow Psychics. - Close Combat But anyways, Swampert is a great pick because he fills the spot for the Water HM user and he has a great movepool. High Attack and Speed but low Special Attack and defenses. - Water Pulse / Thunder (Left set of moves is Gallade, right set is Gardevoir) - Flash Cannon - Close Combat - Thunder Wave / Hidden Power [Ice] Manectric is a great Pokemon with high Speed and Special Attack, which is further boosted with its Mega Evolution. Item: Silk Scarf Flygon @ anything - Shadow Ball Please follow these guidelines regarding detail in your post:. So while Meteor Mash is really great STAB, it lacks reliability and accuracy. You can teach Manectric Thunder Wave if you don't get the Hidden Power type you want, or for when you are about to catch a Legendary Pokmon. You can delete all HM moves once at the E4 and Linoone is good to deal with Phoebe. I kinda cheated a little and brought a Dawn Stone over from my Pokmon Y version so I could have a powerhouse early on and he just rocks it. Absol has a super high Attack stat and good Speed. Swampert @ Soft Sand Milotic is also another option, but evolving Feebas is a hassle. - Power-Up Punch I know that this is old, but replace Moonblast with Hyper Voice for the Pixilate boost.