Ok, this is a moveset I thought up for Gen V for a lead Steelix:
Steelix @ Custap Berry
Brave, Sturdy
252 HP, 252 Atk, 6 Def
~ Gyro Ball
~ Explosion
~ Taunt
~ Stealth Rock
Taunt and Stealth Rock are typical moves. Brave is to maximize Gyro Ball's power. Hopefully when Azelf hits you with Fire Bast or something, your HP goes down to 1 (you survive because of the ability Sturdy). Then Custap activates, and you Explode! Its not that creative, but at least it exploits Gen V's changes.
torchie, you can just go to the sticky rating center in the battle tower for team rating. but if its for a battle tower team, you can just make a new topic for it. Or there's already a topic on battle tower, you can get away with posting it there.
If you want some (very) un-proffessional advice, then if you still have TM Grass Knot, replace Focus Blast with that. You also want to be able to do damage powerfully or quickly. Life Orb or Quick Claw are good choices (although higher up in the battle tower, quick claw rarely works). Use Blast Burn when you are ABSOLUTELY SURE it will kill the last pokemon on the opponents team. I'm not sure if its possible without breeding, but get sweet kiss and thunderwave onto raichu
. Luck is the biggest thing in batle tower (apart from using soul dew latios
), so having a pokemon both confused and paralyzed is VERY helpful. Replace Thunder and Shockwave with those two moves. Also, item should be Shuca Berry, because the battle tower will always use their super effective moves on your pokemon. Get Close Combat on Staraptor
and delete Aerial Ace, its not powerful enough for a pokemon like staraptor
. If you haven't already put Life Orb on Infernape
, give it to Staraptor
, otherwise Shell Bell or Muscle Band are fine. If you are willing to waste a TM, get rid of steel wing and replace it with Return (and max out your Pokemon happiness, Psypoke has a guide on that), and you will be able to hit everything at least neutral with Fly, Close Combat and Return. Forget what competitive players say, Fly is very useful in battle tower, as they rarely switch. Brave Bird to be used like Blast Burn.
You need four pokemon for double battles, and salamence
will not be good in a trick room team. In fact, you could use it in your single battle team, with a choice band and put it in the lead pokemon. Remember to switch it out if there is a pokemon you can't kill with your locked move. Bronzong
can't have EQ, as that will not do much damage to the opponent (because the damage is shared) and Shuckle
will have to protect. Using Shuckle
is risky, because of power trick giving him a defense stat of 10. A pokemon with Me First could help, but you absolutely must keep Bronzong
alive, because Shuckle
can't sweep anything without Trick Room. If you have a deepseatooth, brilliant, coz you can then get a clamperl
, and it will be amazing in trick room with a deepseatooth. No joke, its special attack is about as high as mewtwo's
with a deepseatooth. Other easy pokes to get that are good in trick room: claydol
, luxray
,
ninjask rampardos
.
If you can, replace Bite with Payback and Dark Pulse with Curse on umbreon
. It's incredible, especially on umbreon. Otherwise, multibattle's fine, remember to always pair with Riley, Cheryl or the mini pink haired girl