my friend has an archeops but my dusknoir (main pokemon first trained it caused I liked it then found out it is a badass) can always beat it as dusknoir never dies in the first turn meaning that his ice punch will bring his archeops to near death leaving crippled in attack.Ice Azure said:I'm assuming this is casual or competitive. I don't really play competitively, so these are just some casual ones.
R/S/E: Breloom, easily. Whenever I did a new playthrough, I would ALWAYS make sure to get one. Useful a backup for the first gym, evolves early and remains more than useful throughout the rest of the game.
D/P/Pt: Infernape makes a pretty decent sweeper for the whole game. Later on in Platinum, I would look for a Scyther and use him a lot throughout the game.
B/W: Probably Sawk and Archeops. Sawk is available early on, doesn't need to evolve, and has some good moves early on. Archeops should be obvious, I mean look at it's base stats... (Atk 140, Def 65, Sp Atk 112, Sp Def 65, Spd, 110.) It's really weak in the defense department and has a crippling (to say the least) ability, but its attack and speed usually let it sweep teams before they can attack.
I was talking casually and just playing through the game normally. Since it's don't bother with EV training in a playthrough just for fun, it often isn't capable to kill most walls in one hit, so I retreat in those instances.nuba km said:my friend has an archeops but my dusknoir (main pokemon first trained it caused I liked it then found out it is a badass) can always beat it as dusknoir never dies in the first turn meaning that his ice punch will bring his archeops to near death leaving crippled in attack.Ice Azure said:I'm assuming this is casual or competitive. I don't really play competitively, so these are just some casual ones.
R/S/E: Breloom, easily. Whenever I did a new playthrough, I would ALWAYS make sure to get one. Useful a backup for the first gym, evolves early and remains more than useful throughout the rest of the game.
D/P/Pt: Infernape makes a pretty decent sweeper for the whole game. Later on in Platinum, I would look for a Scyther and use him a lot throughout the game.
B/W: Probably Sawk and Archeops. Sawk is available early on, doesn't need to evolve, and has some good moves early on. Archeops should be obvious, I mean look at it's base stats... (Atk 140, Def 65, Sp Atk 112, Sp Def 65, Spd, 110.) It's really weak in the defense department and has a crippling (to say the least) ability, but its attack and speed usually let it sweep teams before they can attack.
Well, you could breed for the right nature if you want, but really if you breed for the egg move zen headbutt, then the fighting guy doesnt stand a chance agaisnt your scrafty as long as yours is faster.binnsyboy said:What do you mean, proper breeding?emeraldrafael said:My Vaporeon was like that. He was always overly powered cause he was the main focus of my team, and realy his only weakness always seemed to be an electivire, but then I always had a pokemon with earthquake.
EDIT: Although, in Black/white, Scrafty (with some proper breeding) can destroy the Elite Four on its own, and many of the gyms. the only person who gives it difficulty is the fighting guy, and if you give scarfty zen headbutt, that pretty much eliminates that risk.
OT: I had a Metagross like that. Even against other level 100s, it killed with one attack.
well the mole being a lower level then N's and his pokemon was able to take on 5 out of 6 of his team *starts twirling moustache smugly*.captaincabbage said:idk about everyone else, but Feraligatr has always been a rock for me to fall back on. Mine at it's current level on White (ported from Soul Silver) is just a powerhouse, with Aqua tail, Crunch, Superpower and Ice Punch. A little breeding got me that Ice Punch and it's a total lifesaver, I'm telling you.
Aside from him tho, all the way through White I continuously relied of Haxorus. I don't even know why, but for me she just always trumped the opposition. The only trouble I had was against Ghetsis, but that's fair enough, because the ************ ambushes you after fighting N, no recoveries, no revives, just coming down on you with that goddamned Cofagrigus.
Admittedly, I was only on three pokemon, which were Carracosta (full health. He's just too slow to use on the elite four), Haxorus on half health and Chandelure on like, five HP, so I'd say I did pretty well taking out half his team before he got me. XDnuba km said:well the mole being a lower level then N's and his pokemon was able to take on 5 out of 6 of his team *starts twirling moustache smugly*.captaincabbage said:idk about everyone else, but Feraligatr has always been a rock for me to fall back on. Mine at it's current level on White (ported from Soul Silver) is just a powerhouse, with Aqua tail, Crunch, Superpower and Ice Punch. A little breeding got me that Ice Punch and it's a total lifesaver, I'm telling you.
Aside from him tho, all the way through White I continuously relied of Haxorus. I don't even know why, but for me she just always trumped the opposition. The only trouble I had was against Ghetsis, but that's fair enough, because the ************ ambushes you after fighting N, no recoveries, no revives, just coming down on you with that goddamned Cofagrigus.
Well of course he could, in Gen 1 there were no dual types, so I'm sure a swampert could roll garymocruz1200 said:to answer everyones questions, i know swampert wasnt gen 1. but his typing and moves could decimate the pokemon that gary used in your final showdown with him in gen 1.Redlin5 said:I'm having Swampert flashbacks.
mocruz1200 said:1 swampert with the proper moveset could sweep gary's entire end team in RBY![]()
You sure about that?
watFurioso said:Well of course he could, in Gen 1 there were no dual types,