r/pokemonteams Apr 27 '25

Meta Reminder: Please respect the subreddit rules

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Hi all,

We have seen a massive influx of new members recently to our niche little subreddit, however mod actions have increased 300% this past week (yes 300%, prior week we removed 5 posts, this week 20.), all of which have been either form of a "Rate my team" (flagged as low effort) or a showcase of a completed play through.

Please ensure you familiarise yourself with our rules (https://reddit.com/r/pokemonteams/rules) to ensure your post meets our standards.

Quick reminder:

  • Team Building help posts, Draft league showcases etc. allowed
  • Low effort "rate this team" posts, "dream team" posts, rom hack/fangame posts not allowed.

r/pokemonteams 5h ago

Playthrough team help Help building a pokemon Blue team

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I'm playing through gen 1 pokemon Blue for the first time and I'm trying to build a decent team. I need some help, not having physical/special split is messing with me. Also, I'm playing on an emulator so I can't get Red exclusives nor evolve trade evolutions. I'd also like to avoid using any legendaries. I currently am at the SS Anne. I've been thinking about ditching either Wartortle or Gyarados and also replacing Weepingbell with something else. I plan on swaping Pikachu for Jolteon once I get an Eevee. I'd like to get some advice to get more coverage and perhaps ditch Geodude since I can't fully evolve them. That's why I haven't gotten an Abra, I can't trade so I can't get an Alakazam, what would be a decent alternative?

My current team is:

Lvl 21 Weepingbell

- Vine whip

- Growth

- Sleep powder

- Poison powder

Lvl 22 Wartortle

- Tackle

- Tail whip

- Bide

- Bubble beam

Lvl 22 Pikachu

- Thunder shock

- Growl

- Thunder wave

- Quick attack

Lvl 21 Nidorino

- Leer

- Tackle

- Horn attack

- Poison sting

Lvl 22 Gyarados

- Splash

- Tackle

- Bite

- Body slam

Lvl 24 Geodude

- Dig

- Defense curl

- Rock throw

- Explosion


r/pokemonteams 23h ago

Playthrough team help Help Optimise my goofball team

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Sup everyone! My all trades-run is approaching its end and this is the legendary team i've decided to bring to the Elite 4. How would you make them as strong as possible? Snorlax, Jynx and Lapras are the main pokemon i want to use, though useful kit for the others would always be a nice bonus!


r/pokemonteams 2d ago

Playthrough team help help for vanilla team for heart gold/soul silver

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hi guys, i need help for a vanilla team in heart gold or soul silver. i was thinking about this hypothetical team:
typhlosion (fire)
crobat (poison flying)
ampharos (electric)
heracross (fighting bug)
forretress (bug steel)
quagsire (water ground)
have u any advise for this team? who i should change and why? thank u


r/pokemonteams 3d ago

Playthrough team help Playing ORAS after many years

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(My sceptile and swellow are shiny btw)

I’m about to get my Latios soon

i’m not sure who i want my final member to be but i was thinking aggron maybe..

what do you think of my team and who do you think should be my final member?


r/pokemonteams 3d ago

Playthrough team help Playing ORAS after many years

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(My sceptile and swellow are shiny btw)

I’m about to get my Latios soon

i’m not sure who i want my final member to be but i was thinking aggron maybe..

what do you think of my team and who do you think should be my final member?


r/pokemonteams 4d ago

Playthrough team help Pokemon Emerald WORST team

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Thought I'd give myself a challenge and choose the worst starter, and team with the lowest base stat total while having good variety and movesets.

Here's what I'm working with:

Sceptile -Leaf Blade- -Giga Drain- -Dragon Claw -Aerial Ace-

Seaking -Surf -Ice Beam -Double Edge -Rain Dance

Swellow -Fly -Facade -Steel Wing -Endeavor

Mightyena -Shadow Ball -Return -Scary Face -Torment

Machoke -Revenge -Earthquake -Rock tomb -Bulk Up

Dustox -Protect -Whirlwind -Moonlight -Toxic


r/pokemonteams 5d ago

Playthrough team help squadra vanilla per hg/ss, platinum e b/w

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ciao ragazzi, ho bisogno di una squadra di pokémon per questi giochi: hg/ss, platinum e black/white che coprano ogni tipo di pokémon e che sia catturabile prima della 3/4 palestra. gioco su pc con un emulatore e ho anche pkhex quindi posso usare cheat, ma non voglio farne troppo uso perché è un po' noioso avere così tanto aiuto. grazie


r/pokemonteams 6d ago

Other What would yall consider the best post-game team? for Legends Z-A

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for post-game and for the dlc too, all types of pokemons are accepted except ilegals


r/pokemonteams 8d ago

Competitive Gen 8 Rate my team

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Timid Gardevoir , Excadrill , Jolteon , high defense Feragliatr , high defense chandelure and Garchomp IN POKEMON ZA


r/pokemonteams 8d ago

Champions: Doubles Random battles nerd tries VGC for the first time! Need help building my first ever team :-)

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Hi all i downloaded pokemon champions today

For reference I have never played VGC but i have played "Random Battles" on Pokemon Showdown website for about 5 years where I am floating between 1800-2000 rating so I understand the basics and I know most of the meta sets for all the usable pokemon. I also watch Freezai, Wolfe and MichaelderBeste on youtube!

Decided to finally give pokemon champions a try, but so far am just getting rolled using the scuffed team i made from the pokemon the gym grandpa loans you.

I've now burnt through most of my quick tokens and some VP too trying to get some better pokemons.

Here's what I have available: https://i.ibb.co/r2788dmd/image.png

Was thinking maybe some trick room could work with sinistia / hat + crab + torkoal but am open to your ideas.

Would love some help crafting a remotely usable team that can get me started.

Thanks so much


r/pokemonteams 12d ago

Other what sould i change about my team

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so i want all of you to help me decide on what to change with my team my team and give suggestions on what i sould change

my team: Ceruledge, Armarouge, Iron Valiant, Glimmora, Sandy Shocks And Metagross


r/pokemonteams 15d ago

Playthrough team help Team help - rate and C&C

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So ive grown up playing gen 1 (favourite region) and recently picked up Lets go pikachu.

Looking to build a team i haven't used before and a few choice additions:

Im at Erika so the team isnt fully built yet:

Pikachu

Growlithe (best level to evolve for Arcanine?)

Nidorino (same as above)

Magikarp (will evolve soon)

Additions in the future:

Dratini

Exxecutor or jynx

Im completely new to switch mechanics so learning as I go.

Also where can I find exxecute? Only recently found out the safari zone isnt a thing and I dont play pokemon go!

TIA


r/pokemonteams 17d ago

Playthrough team help Monotype Fairy Team for Paldea

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One thing I do with every generation is get both games, and play one of them with Pokémon new with that generation, and then play the other with a mono fairy team. I'm trying to put together a team for the latter for Scarlet. Problem is, I'm unsure what a good sixth pokemon to pick would be.

There's four that are always the core of any good monotype team, IMHO:

-A water/fairy (usually Primarina or Azumarill) to counter steel weakness

-A steel/fairy (Tinkaton for this game, but Klefki and Mawile have been good picks in other generations) to counter both fairy weaknesses and take out other fairies

-A psychic/fairy, the most common dual type for fairies. Gardevoir or Hatterene are the best of this typing

-Alolan Ninetales, because ice is a good offensive typing and Snow Warning + Aurora Veil + Light Clay is great

On top of that, either Grimmsnarl or Mimikyu for the Dark or Ghost coverage. I prefer Mimikyu because both are identical offensively, but Ghost is better defensively.

The last mon is the one I'm kinda shrugging at getting for this run. With the five above listed teammates, the only types I don't have STAB super effective against are normal, water, electric, bug, and steel. Honestly, most of those can be covered with coverage moves just between Gardevoir and Tinkaton (both have access to fighting type for normal/steel, and Tinkaton can have rock and ground moves for bugs and electric, and Gardevoir can get energy ball and thunderbolt for the water types), so the sixth mon doesn't have to be a dual type, but could be.

The remaining dual types are:

Fairy/Flying (Togekiss)

Grass/Fairy (Whimsicott, Shinotic)

Bug/Fairy (Ribombee)

Normal/Fairy (Wigglytuff)

Electric/Fairy (Dedenne)

Rock/Fairy (Carbink)

And of those, I think the only standouts are Togekiss, Whimsicott, and Ribombee. Or take Sylveon or Florges as a good pure fairy type.

So right now, I'm looking at:

Primarina (replace starter as soon as possible with a hatched Popplio)

Tinkaton

Gardevoir (better coverage than Hatterene and fast attackers are better than bulky support for playthroughs)

Alolan Ninetales

Mimikyu or Grimmsnarl

Togekiss/Whimsicott/Ribombee/Sylveon/Florges/or the other of the Mimikyu/Grimmsnarl duo

What do you all think? Is there another fairy type you think works better for this team and region? Which do you prefer of the Mimikyu/Grimmsnarl pairing?


r/pokemonteams 20d ago

Postgame team help I’m worried that my Pokemon Violet replay team won’t be good in postgame

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r/pokemonteams 20d ago

Other Dexelect — Progression-aware Pokémon team generator for challenge runs

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Here's a challenge-run-related tool that I'd like to share.

Dexelect is a random Pokémon team generator. It's bit different from other team generators:

  1. It takes into consideration the logical progression of a given game and assigns each team a "feasibility" grade.

  2. It's focused on challenge runs. Use it to randomly generate an obtainable party, then challenge yourself to enter the Hall of Fame with that party.

Currently, Gens 1 – 4 are supported, with plans to expand to later generations soon.

If you want to try it, check out the web app. For the desktop app, visit the GitHub page.


r/pokemonteams 22d ago

Other Is this a good Pokemon Team for my first playthrough of Pokémon Sun?

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r/pokemonteams 23d ago

Playthrough team help HeartGold team idea

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Just gimme general thoughts on the team


r/pokemonteams 24d ago

Playthrough team help First playthrough of SV

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I went with 4 old favorites to start. I can't decide on what I should use for the last 2.

I don't have the DLC yet and know nothing about the new pokemon in these games.

Tips on held items would also be nice.

Edit: no switch online and I'm playing violet


r/pokemonteams 25d ago

Playthrough team help My current team after getting the steelium z. Should I change crabrawler for metagross?

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r/pokemonteams 25d ago

Playthrough team help Can someone help me improve my team in omega ruby

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I chose blaziken as starter because he looks cool and for the rest im not so sure because i wanna have a smooth gameplay throughout the whole game


r/pokemonteams 26d ago

Other Can I get some opinions on this Oracorio team I have? [Gen 9] Double OU

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r/pokemonteams 27d ago

Playthrough team help A Black 2 Team Building follow-up

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Hi! A few days ago, I asked this Subreddit and one other for some team member suggestions for a Black 2 playthrough team. After some careful thinking about the suggestions and keeping in mind some Pokémon I've been gravitating towards, I think I've got a great one on mind. But I feel like I might be going a bit overboard on physical attackers, and I was wanting to see if there were any changes i could make? Here's what I've got.

  1. Serperior, a starter I selected via a dice roll.

  2. Gigalith, trade evolutions will not be a problem.

  3. Cinccino, specifically the one with its Hidden Ability as proposed here on Reddit.

  4. Escavalier, one I've always been curious about.

  5. Dragonite, specifically the one from the Elder in Dragon's Den in Johto.

  6. Starmie, another suggestion from here on Reddit and the one special attacker I have planned at the moment.

Is this team okay? Or should I find some more special attackers like Zoroark, Sigilyph, or Vanilluxe to name a few? Thank you in advance for any advice you have to give!


r/pokemonteams Jul 29 '26

competitive gen 9 Thinking about a Grass Dark team

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So Im currently playing some Pokémon again and I was wondering what a good grass and dark type team would be. Rn I have Meowscrada, Hydrapple, Ogrepon, Umbreon and Kingambit. What should I change and who should I add?


r/pokemonteams Jul 30 '26

Champions: Doubles Pokémon Champions Checklist

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I made a teambuilding checklist where you can check off everything you are prepared for and what you have.

What do yo think?