WI-FI battle revolution doubles.

milotic111

Here is a team that I am planning to use in the online mode of PBR double battles. That means I can only use four pokemon per battle. The idea is simple: set up trickroom and sweep with relicanth and clamperl. BTW if it says anything, this team has defeated all the master battles, except the very last one (last battle not serie), because I had to use deoxys. Stupid AI kept double hitting solrock. Makes me wonder if the programmers knew that trickroom would make this battle too easy.

The leads:
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Solrock ________________________________Shedinja
Adamant @ focussash ___________________Adamant @ focussash
max att and hp _________________________max att and speed
Explosion ______________________________protect
Trickroom ______________________________swordsdance
Protect/rockslide ________________________X-scizor
stealthrocks ____________________________Shadowsneak

I always lead with these two, unless I am facing a wheather team (you see the opponents pokemon before hand, so I know when to leave him). Shedinja draws in attacks so solrock has a greater chance of pulling of trickroom, due to not getting "ganged up on". I usually use protect first turn with shedinja, and swordsdance next when solrock uses explosion. I guess with the focusshash I could use swordsdance first turn too, but if both pokemon hit me, when expecting a focussash, I am screwed. I use shadowsneak if I suspect a focussash on the explosion turn. Further more, shedinja is also immune to surf and EQ, wich my two main sweepers carry.
If everything goes right, than I have after the second turn a trickroom up, 1 or 2 SD's on sheddy and 2 fainted pokemon on the opposition.

The nature of solrock is no -speed due to breeding problems, and I trained shedinja before I though of trickroom. Besides sheddy is still outrun by his biggest threats so he can kill.

The rest:

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Clamperl
Quiet @ deepseathooth
Max sp.att/hp
Surf
Brine
Protect
Icebeam

This thing hits hard. Very hard. I use brine when I want to hit only one pokemon (most partners don't like eating surfs from this thing.). But sheddy is immune to surf, so when he is still out, I can just use it. I don't have hidden-power because I am lazy. Protect works better BTW, it allows him to survive relicanth EQ's, and when I know the opponent tries to take out just clamperl it gives me a free turn.

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Relicanth
Brave @ widelense
max att the rest in def, sp.def and hp. So it reaches 300 def and 200 sp.def.
Rock-head

Headsmash
EQ
Waterfall
Doubleedge

Headsmash hits hard, and nothing likes to eat it. Especially when clamperls surf/brine has weakened them. The remaining attacks are for coverage. Wide-lense because missing has screwed me so much, and waterfall because he was bred in emerald.

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Scizor
max att/def
Adamant@ chestoberry
SD
QA
Ironhead
X-scizor

Scizor without speed EV's is slow. So he works well. Chestoberry is against sleep spammers on wi-fi since there is no sleep clause. If darkrai tries to darkvoid me, he is going to get it. But scizor is mainly a reserve. So he's not that important.

Pikachu
quiet@ lichtball
252 att/sp.att
Volt-tackle
thunderbolt/discharge (is discharge worth the risk?)
Grass-knot
protect.
 
Change Shedinja with Bronzong, Jirachi, ect. So you can rain dance and increase clamperl's sweeping power.

You could stick it else where, with clamperl expecially; surf wont effect it. Surf is 1x to relicanth and it's likely to OHKO relicanth. I'd say relicanth is better off being replaced by kingdra. It benifits by rain and is a water type that resists fire. Whereas your other two, one can only take a rapid spin, the other has piss-poor special defenses, though relicanth does resist 4x.
 
PirateDelux said:
Change Shedinja with Bronzong, Jirachi, ect. So you can rain dance and increase clamperl's sweeping power.

You could stick it else where, with clamperl expecially; surf wont effect it. Surf is 1x to relicanth and it's likely to OHKO relicanth. I'd say relicanth is better off being replaced by kingdra. It benifits by rain and is a water type that resists fire. Whereas your other two, one can only take a rapid spin, the other has piss-poor special defenses, though relicanth does resist 4x.
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No offense, but I wouldn't listen to these suggestions at all. Combine Trick room and Rain Dance and add Kingdra? And Change Sheddy with Bronzong/Jirachi? that doesn't make sense either. Because I feel that doubles needs more love, I'll help.

First off, If you aren't planning to be competitive, then keep Solrock. He does have a high cool factor but Bronzong is superior although a lot more boring. You also want to replace Shedinja as a lead, you can still keep him on your team but he doesn't make a good lead. Mainly because any Fake out user or even Taunt will stop you in your tracks. I would suggest Lv.1 Smeargle but because PBR Wi-Fi auto levels your Pokemon to 50, it won't work. You want to look for a lead that will guarantee Trick Room gets set up. A bulky Follow Me user like Togekiss is good, as that will draw Fire Attacks, Taunt, and Fake out away from Bronzong. You could also chose a Fake Outer instead, but I don't reccommend it because since you're using Trick Room, it will have very low speed, meaning that Solrock is still in Danger of Fake Out from something like Ludicolo, Weavile, or Infernape, among others.

Since this team is for PBR Wi-Fi, you can basically choose whatever TR sweepers you want. There are some/many that are better than HP-less Clamperl and Relicanth, but if you like using them, that's fine.

As for your last Pokemon, I would suggest something that can beat an Imprison team, because they beat Trick Room every time. A Fast taunter can be used. I suggest Weavile, because it's faster than gengar and won't risk being Hypnosised. It also learns Fake Out/Ice Shard/Night Slash, which will be very useful moves for beating Imprison.

Lastly, if you do choose to use a Follow me user like Togekiss(Only Togekiss, this doesn't apply to Clefable) you will probably want to change one of your TR sweepers because having 3 of your team weak to Electric isn't good. Hope my advice will help you.
 
Imprison isn't incredibly common on wi-fi, but it would certainly help to have a pokemon that stops its use and can serve other purposes. Your opponent can see your team just as well as you can see his, and when he sees a bunch of slow pokemon he will have a good idea what to do. It's best not to have a pure Trick Room team on wi-fi, and Weavile is an excellent pokemon to counter what will likely be brought out to stop your setup. Generally pokemon that can run Imprison will choose to do otherwise (on PBR anyway), because it takes up at least two moveslots to put it into effect and many TR teams are taken down by simple prediction; regular PBR battles can be won by a decent strategy and strong team, so the absolute-shutdown power of Imprison is usually unnecessary.
 
I think I am going to use quiet pikachu for the last slot. With both attack stats maxed it can deal quite some pain with volt-tackle/thunderbolt (discharge is too risky with 2 sweepers weak to electric)/grass knot (groudon users on wi-fi) and protect.

I was actually thinking of having something using follow me. I didn't knew what would be the best one. Preferably something slow of course. It works like shedinja but guaranteed. I still like him as a lead since I don't have to waste turns to get my immunity to surf and EQ in. But follow me would guaranty a trickroom. But I don't like togekiss for that job. Any suggestions for a good follow me-er? Scizor is going to bail for him BTW.

And I don't fear imprison. Almost nobody uses brine or headsmash/ironhead/x-scizor/volttackle. And they need to set it up first, in wich time I already have used trickroom and explosion.
 
milotic111 said:
And I don't fear imprison. Almost nobody uses brine or headsmash/ironhead/x-scizor/volttackle. And they need to set it up first, in wich time I already have used trickroom and explosion.
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They aren't going to imprison your sweepers. The target imprison users will be aiming for is Solrock, who will lead your team off. With TR imprisoned, your slow team will be easily destroyed by the opposition. Therefore, I think it would be wise to follow the advice of Blue Cookies and Ashenlock concerning imprison (Hint - Get a fast taunter or sleeper).
 
If you don't like Togekiss you can use Clefable. They are the bulkiest follow me users and the only others are Smeargle and some frail guys from XD
 
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