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I am planning on restarting Sapphire (yeah, topic change), and I needed the best possible team. I don't want to speedrun it, but I hate level grinding.

 

I don't want to use any legends as I was planning on migrating them to SoulSilver via PalPark. Remember that it IS Sapphire, meaning I need something to deal with Kyogre.

 

I definitely wanted to use Torchic as my starter. There are 2 good Water-types and 2 good Grass-types that I could potentially use that are not starters, and Hoenn doesn't have any competition for Fire-types. Except Magcargo or Torkoal. But that is mid-game, and I'd rather have a Fire/Fighting type who'd help me throughout the game.

 

So Blaziken is definitely a yes.

 

And I definitely need a Water-type. So I was thinking Lotad, since you can get it early-game in Sapphire (Route 102, iirc), and it evolves using a Water Stone (but where will I find one?). It's bulky, it's dual Water/Grass type, and it will really help against many gyms (particulary Roxanne and Flannery). If I don't choose that, I was thinking MAYBE Pelipper. I don't really like it, but it can deal with the first and second gym REALLY well. Whatever.

 

In terms of a Grass-type, if I use Ludicolo, I have a free slot here. If I use Pelipper, I was definitely thinking Breloom. But another Fighting-type is redundant. It does have Spore and some nice Grass moves, so it's a good consideration.

 

Gardevoir is not a bad choice, but I'd be totally copying Wally. xD

 

MAYBE Manectric for a mixed attacker, I'm not entirely sure yet. It makes a good Electric-type, but that doesn't help me much since it only gets coverage on Flying (Water is covered by Grass), and I can just spam items on Winona and beat her with something else.

 

Depending on who I have access to first, I want to use either Flygon or Salamence. Salamence is obviously better in-game, but I'm pretty sure Vibrava is available, and Shelgon just sucks BALLS.

 

I won't be using Absol this run; sorry. D:

 

So my planned five Pokemon are: Blaziken, Ludicolo, Flygon, Gardevoir and free slot. The sixth will be a moderately high-leveled HM slave to heal my Pokemon during gym battles or the Elite Four. Early-game I will be taking 3 or 4 Zigzagoon with me to rack up some Rare Candies so I can avoid grinding or send them over to SS.

 

Someone help me with my team, because I might have serious problems if I can't get a Water Stone ASAP. And I have a free slot. D:<

 

All four of my Pokemon are Hoenn, so I want my fifth to be a Kanto or Johto Pokemon. I was THINKING Skarmory, but it is better to go the hyper-offense route on runthroughs of any Pokemon game. So, someone help. D:

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You get a Water Stone in the Abandoned Ship or you give a Blue Shard to that guy by Mossdeep.

 

For the 5th slot maybe Crobat, Skarmory, Magneton, Electrode, Dodrio, Muk, Weezing, Raichu, Girafarig, Donphan, Heracross, Pinsir, Rhydon, Lanturn or Kingdra if you're trying to stick within Kanto/Johto.

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You get a Water Stone in the Abandoned Ship or you give a Blue Shard to that guy by Mossdeep.

 

For the 5th slot maybe Crobat' date=' Skarmory, Magneton, Electrode, Dodrio, Muk, Weezing, Raichu, Girafarig, Donphan, Heracross, Pinsir, Rhydon, Lanturn or Kingdra if you're trying to stick within Kanto/Johto.

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Abandoned Ship is after you get Surf, and you can also find Ice Beam in there... so I guess I'll stick with Ludicolo.

 

Magneton sounds REALLY enticing, but I don't think I can get that until New Mauville, which is a bit late-game for me. Heracross and Lanturn are wonderful choices, but Lanturn gets repeated Water coverage with Ludicolo (and they are both special attackers, as well), while Heracross is rare (iirc) and adds a third Flying-type weakness.

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The Pokemon I listed except for Crobat, Skarmory, Muk, and Weezing aren't exactly early.

 

Magneton and Electrode are New Mauville, Dodrio, Raichu, Girafarig, Donphan, Heracross, Pinsir, and Rhydon are all at the Safari Zone. Lanturn isn't available until you get Dive, and I believe Kingdra is only available around Pacifidlog and the surrounding Routes.

 

Skarmory is by Fallarbor, Crobat is well...everywhere, Muk and Weezing are both in that Fire Path place. I personally would go with Magneton or take the repeated Water coverage and get a Lanturn. Heracross technically counts as a 4th Flying Weakness since he's x4 weak against Flying.

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Ok, so I've never really EV trained a Pokemon before cause I've never had anyone to fight but I just found out you can do random internet battles on PBR without friend codes so I've decided to make a team soooo....

 

What's better on a Bellyzard, Adamant or Jolly?

And should I give the Bellyzard substitute, or run a ninjask with substitute?

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Ok' date=' so I've never really EV trained a Pokemon before cause I've never had anyone to fight but I just found out you can do random internet battles on PBR without friend codes so I've decided to make a team soooo....

 

What's better on a Bellyzard, Adamant or Jolly?

And should I give the Bellyzard substitute, or run a ninjask with substitute?

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If you are passing Speed from Ninjask to Charizard, run Adamant. The extra power will somewhat help 2HKO Bulky Waters.

 

Since most leads don't carry Taunt (except Aero, iirc), you can run Sub/Protect/Baton Pass/X-Scissor for your Ninjask. I'd normally recommend Swords Dance, but your Charizard has Belly Drum anyways, unless you want to stat up to +6 Speed and +6 Attack, pass a Sub to Charizard, and sweep with 3 moves + Sub. That's viable, but people will realize your set-up with Ninjask pretty quick, and you only need to send 2 or 3 Speed Boosts to 'Zard.

 

EDIT: Blazekin, Gardevoir, Ludicolo, Magneton and Flygon?

 

Well, as soon as I get Surf after Norman (and the first five Gym Leaders do not need Magneton usage), I am pretty sure Abandoned Ship AND New Mauville open up at the same time. So that's fine. I'll need to find the earliest route I can get Vibrava.

 

Should I use my Master Ball on Latias or Rayquaza? I was thinking Rayquaza, because I am not even sure I want to capture Latias, and I'd rather have a good nature on Rayray instead of having a set nature for Latias.

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I swept someone with a Magmortar on Shoddy. It was actually kind of funny, because they forgot the thing could learn Thuderbolt, and were o_O when I got to 2HKO their Starmie. And iirc, I outsped it after Salac.

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Well... no. It's a waste of a moveslot. It can usually survive one Earthquake, seeing as it doesn't have crap HP and DEF stats, and it'd much rather use its moveslots for attacking, since it makes a somewhat potent mixed attacker.

 

The only thing Magnet Rise is viable on is... Magnezone. So if it is EVd to be faster than Metagross, it traps and kills with no worries.

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Eh. I kind of want to base it off of a Tortoise or something' date=' but there's already 7 Pokemon based off of Turtles/Tortoise's that I remember: Bulbasaur line, Turtwig line and Torkoal.

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Bulbasaur=Frog

 

It's more turtle like IMO.

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Eh. I kind of want to base it off of a Tortoise or something' date=' but there's already 7 Pokemon based off of Turtles/Tortoise's that I remember: Bulbasaur line, Turtwig line and Torkoal.

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Bulbasaur=Frog

 

It's more turtle like IMO.

 

The design and art direction for Bulbasaur were provided by Ken Sugimori,[6] a friend of the creator of the Pocket Monsters game, Satoshi Tajiri, and the species appeared as a starting character for players in the initial Game Boy games released in Japan. In translating the game for English speaking audiences, Nintendo of America gave the Pok?mon "cleverly descriptive names"; "of the three more popular Pok?mon, [...] Fushigidane, a dinosaur with a green garlic bulb on its back, became Bulbasaur"

 

It's more dinosaur like IMO.

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Eh. I kind of want to base it off of a Tortoise or something' date=' but there's already 7 Pokemon based off of Turtles/Tortoise's that I remember: Bulbasaur line, Turtwig line and Torkoal.

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Bulbasaur=Frog

 

It's more turtle like IMO.

 

The design and art direction for Bulbasaur were provided by Ken Sugimori,[6] a friend of the creator of the Pocket Monsters game, Satoshi Tajiri, and the species appeared as a starting character for players in the initial Game Boy games released in Japan. In translating the game for English speaking audiences, Nintendo of America gave the Pok?mon "cleverly descriptive names"; "of the three more popular Pok?mon, [...] Fushigidane, a dinosaur with a green garlic bulb on its back, became Bulbasaur"

 

It's more dinosaur like IMO.

Well, yeah, thats why its called Bulbasaur

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Just by looking at the starters this is how i view them:

 

Grass is 1st

Fire is 2nd

Water is 3rd

 

But there typing and states is more important to me, looks are still important, but not as much.

 

My AR won't let me make game saves of SS. This sucks.

 

It says WARNING: NO GAME CARD DATA FOUND.

 

Help?

 

There are some pokemon my friend's little brother wants' date=' but I can't trade them if I can't get more legit ones.

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If your AR is an older version it won't work on new games unless you enter a code of some sort i think.

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Eh' date=' I'm ready for some new pokemon. the grass and fire starters look cool for the new region. the other one is kinda fukked up. and zoroark can only be recieved by event, which kinda blows.

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How can Zorua be found? Just by egg/Ranger Tracks of Light?

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