Starter Pokemon for Pearl and Diamond revealed

[Shoden]

in Yellow it was Mewtwo, Articuno, Alakazam, Snorlax, Charizard and Venusaur but in G/S/C It was Suicune, Typhlosion, Houndoom, Tyranitar, Sneasel and Charizard. Fr/Lg it was Groudon, Tyranitar, Sceptile, Salamence, Aggron and Flygon. I use similar lineups on netbattle.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Okay here goes

Feraligatr: Hydro Pump, Surf, Cut, and Ice Punch
Tyranitar: Crunch, Rock Slide, Hyper Beam, Strength
Lanturn: Flash, Surf, Waterfall, Thunder
Alakazam: Psychic, Future Sight, Ice Punch, Recover
Lugia: Fly, Aeroblast, Future Sight, Recover
Mewtwo: Psychic, Ice Punch, Fire Punch, Recover

[Skarr]

Milotic and Ryechu made a good a team when in a double battle.

[Tavrobel]

Lots of Recoverers, eh?

Dewgong: Ice Beam, Surf, Sleep Talk, Rest
Zapdos: Drill Peck, Thunder Wave, Thunder, Steel Wing
Articuno: Fly, Sky Attack, Ice Beam, Blizzard (I really should get rid of that Sky attack for something not useless)
Mew: Psychic, Blizzard, Ancientpower, Metronome/Softboiled
Mewtwo: Recover, Psychic, Fire Punch, Shadow Ball
Charizard: Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Earthquake, Wing Attack

[Twilight Edge]

What team did you used to use?

Red/
-Mewtwo+the three birds+snorlax+Chrizard/Blastoise/Venusaur

Silver
-Ampharos+Ho-oh+two Snorlax(one for rollout and the other Hyper beam)+Magmar+Kadabra(I didn't bother to trade)

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
-Blaziken+Gardevoir+Magneton+Groudon+Kyogre+Rayquaza

[DK]

God this is gonna be hard to remember, but here goes:

Arcanine: Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Take Down and something else, can't remember. Probably Firespin
Raichu: Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Thunder and the one that caused Paralysis. Forget. D:
Venusaur: Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf, Solarbeam and Cut
Golem: Rock Slide, Dig, Earthquake and something else.
Lapras: Surf, Ice Beam, Blizzard and Sing, maybe, although I could have changed it for something else. Probably did, actually, but eh.

Then I use too many sixth pokemon to be arsed to list

[Zeromus_X]

Thunder Wave. I also enjoyed that attack.

Well, not when it was used against me.

[DK]

That's the one, thanks. Yeah a fast Raichu with Thunder Wave and then strong special attacks = Destruction :}

[Tavrobel]

The only thing better than the original Thunder is 100% accuracy Thunder.

[Old Manus]

I always had a tactic where I would have one super powerful pokemon that would never lose and the rest were used for fly, flash etc

[Shoden]

That's the one, thanks. Yeah a fast Raichu with Thunder Wave and then strong special attacks = Destruction :}

A ground pokemon with earthquake would splat Raichu.

[Del Murder]

You're making me bust out my old Pokemon Yellow for this!

Rhydon: Horn Drill, Rock Slide, Earthquake, Leer
Lapras: Double Team, Body Slam, Surf, Ice Beam
Gengar: Dream Eater, Confuse Ray, Night Shade, Hypnosis
Alakazam: Psychic, Reflect, Recover, Psybeam
Jolteon: Thunder Wave, Pin Missle, Thunderbolt, Thunder
Snorlax: Rest, Amnesia, Ice Beam, Body Slam

I forgot that I would switch out Rhydon for Venusaur when situations demanded it (basically when my opponent had water types over electric types):
Venusaur: Razor Leaf, Sleep Powder, Leech Seed, Solarbeam

[DK]

A ground pokemon with earthquake would splat Raichu.

Yes, that's kind of why you have 6 pokemon with you and why you vary their elements, to counter-act problems such as this. Hence your ground pokemon would be destroyed by my Lapras or Venusaur.

[ShunNakamura]

Arcanine: Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Take Down and something else, can't remember. Probably Firespin
Raichu: Thundershock, Thunderbolt, Thunder and the one that caused Paralysis. Forget. D:
Venusaur: Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf, Solarbeam and Cut
Golem: Rock Slide, Dig, Earthquake and something else.
Lapras: Surf, Ice Beam, Blizzard and Sing, maybe, although I could have changed it for something else. Probably did, actually, but eh.

.......

Yes, that's kind of why you have 6 pokemon with you and why you vary their elements, to counter-act problems such as this. Hence your ground pokemon would be destroyed by my Lapras or Venusaur.

Flygon could sweep everyone but Lapras on this team. And even lapras could take more then half damage before Flygon bit the dust.

Something that would cook flygon though would be if you managed to get a hidden power ice on Raichu(Raichu could be faster unlike lapras). Another thing is if Raichu had surf it would at least be able to scare off most ground types(Flygon, Claydol[maybe], Swampert, Quagsire, whiscash, and likely groudon(uber for a reason) being the ground types that don't mind surf all that much). Most ground types could possibly survive and unstabbed surf(as long as they are only 2x weak to it); however, even a little damage to them prior will make them fodder for Raichu with surf.

And anyways, what is cooler then a surfing rat?

[DK]

I don't even know what a Flygon is, so I don't really care. :}