lol dude abilities arent chosen the pokemon come with them they are abilities certain pokemon have at birth. Maybe you mean i should focus on those ones? But thanks for the move set opinion. Oh and Goji if you see this check the team i want to see what you think.

Breed more Pokemon until you get one with the perfect nature and ability... or be impatient.

For Grumpig, go with Thick Fat. Resistance against Fire and Ice is far more useful than being immune to Confuse Ray and the rare Water Puls/Teeter Dance. Also, nix Torment for an attacking move. Psychic is obvious. You may want to consider replacing Magic Coat with Energy Ball or Shadow Ball, but that's your call.

Flygon's good. Try for a nature that drops defense to keep your speed, attack and special attack up.

Dry Skin is the better of the abilities, but what you have, moveset-wise is just horrible. Dark Pulse and Shadow Ball should *never* be on the same moveset. Ever. At all. The reason is because both moves have the same power and hit the same targets for super effective. The only difference is that one hits fighters and the other hits normals. No, if, you're going to use special attacks, go with Nasty Plot, Vacuum Wave, Sludge Bomb and Dark Pulse/Shadow Ball. Honestly, though, I prefer physical attack. Cross Chop, Stone Edge, Poison Jab, Bullet Punch/Sucker Punch/Fake Out. That's something I personally use.

Volt Absorb, obviously, for Lanturn. And why the heck do you have Hail? It hurts you and everyone on your team. Rain Dance is better and will help out Toxicroak. Replace Blizzard with Ice Beam, and put Surf over Hydro Pump. Thunder or Thunderbolt, your choice.

Nix that entire moveset for Dusknoir. You're not taking advantage of your Pokemon's moveset or looking to how you would utilize them. Dusknoir has those punches, but they're weak. The main purpose is to type trump, but your Dusknoir has no way of actually helping the team. I would add Will-O-Wisp to add some status as well as Shadow Sneak for some Ghost-type attacks. Ghost + Ice has good coverage, so keep Ice Punch. You can use your imagination for the last attack.

The *only* reason one use use Marowak is if you have the Thick Club. If you don't have that item, don't use that Pokemon. It's substandard otherwise. Earthquake or Bonemarang should be your standardized attacks, followed by something that complements its coverage like rock or ice. Between Earthquake and Stone Edge, there is nothing that Double-Edge hits harder. Fire Punch is more useful.

I'm honestly surprised at the number of your Pokemon that had strong hitting moves, and yet you chose against giving them those.

I'm trying to think of a Rain Dance team, but I'm having a little trouble with choices since I don't have the surfing Pikachu from PBR. I was originally going to have Azumarill as a lead, but I'm at a loss for the rest. Any tips?

Toxicroak and Kingdra come to mind.

I had a rain dance team on PBR that I used for doubles.

Kyorge
Vaporeon
Parasect
Toxicroak
Quagsire
Ludicolo

The reason I had Azumarill as a lead is because while holding a choice band and having Huge Power, Aqua Jet becomes terrifying to the one taking the hit. Also, I was hoping I had a Surfing Raichu due to the boost from Rain Dance for Surf, and the 100% accuracy on Thunder.

Also, Goji, how come you don't have Manaphy on your Rain Dance team? Hydration & Rain Dance makes it next to invincible(except from anything that outright kills it in one shot).

Because I really, really, really dislike Manaphy. It, along with Suicune, are my two least favorite Water-type Pokemon. They're just so... boring. If anything, Manaphy would take the place of Ludicolo as every other teammate has a purpose that Manaphy can't reproduce.

Apparently im not too good with the move sets im more of a strategy and ability person. I usually breed for abilities. I have some good ones like a toxicroak with motor drive and dry skin. Well actually my friend gave it to me and he has an AR so that might not even be possible. I think it is though from breeding a toxicroak and an electivire. I don't know but i have some other cool ones im working on like a walrein with volt absorb and thick fat and ill put them in my team. Im not so worried about move sets just yet. But later ill need some help.

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I'm sorry, but you can't possibly be serious.

Let me rephrase. A Pokemon can only have ONE ability. One. O-N-E. 1. Uno. One. Some pokemon can select between two abilities when they are born, but they still can only have one of those two. Eevee has Adaptability and Run Away. It can either be born with one or the other. The better ability is Adaptability and most Eevee will be bred for that one. Eevee cannot have Run Away and Adaptability at the same time. Eevee cannot have Adaptability and then switch to Run Away, or vice versa.

Toxicroak can have *one* of two possible abilities. Anticipation and Dry Skin. It can only have one of those two, which depends on RNG, and the ability of the mother if she has an Everstone. It cannot have Motor Drive. If you have one, it was hacked.

Walrein cannot have Volt Absorb. It is impossible. It doesn't matter who the father was; the species is only capable of having Thick Fat and Ice Body.

=/ Eevee shouldn't get Run Away. And a pokemon's moveset IS the key to any pokemon's strategy. Apparently, you don't have strategy since you don't have a good set.

i see i didnt know this. But i do have a gameshark that i have to admit to and i can virtually do anything with abilities. When someone told me you can breed for abilities i assumed you could. But then again never trust someone with an AR. Oh well im still foggy with most of this stuff but you have to cut me some slack im only 14. But non the less im trying to get this, ill study up. Someone could have told me this before although people probably assumed i'd know.

=/ What does age have to do with game knowledge?

enough. I'm still trying to learn alot. Like i had no idea about the abilities. i haven't been around long enough and i don't have a very good understanding of alot of aspects. Thats what age does.

I hadn't played a Pokemon game before D/P since Gold/Silver. There were a lot of adjustments I had to make, but I still managed to get caught up. Its less about age and more about taking the time and effort to learn.

I know thats what i said im trying to. Read my last post before that one. But say one thing and you get accosted. So lets actually get back to pokemon i was thinking of arcanine for a special attacker to lead off with. But i also like how magmotar looks. Ideas?

Arcanine is a physical pokemon, so it's best it makes use of that talent. a good special fire-type is Magmortar or Infernape.

Honestly, Arcanine wouldn't be a bad choice. It's attack is only 10 points higher than its special attack. It may not have the best move set, but no one would expect an Arcanine special sweeper. You may even want to consider making one a mixed sweeper.

Mixed is better than special, as all you'll get otherwise is Fire + Dragon. Good type coverage, but not hitting enough super effective.

I would like an Arcanine that would know the following moveset.

Flamethrower/Fire Blast
Dragon Pulse/Crunch
Extreme Speed/Crunch
Will-O-Wisp

What Arcanine needs to be able to learn is Stone Edge. That would give it an advantage.

MY Arcanine is lol.
Flash Fire

Sunny Day
Extreme Speed
Flare Blitz
Solarbeam.

Solarbeam just comes out of NOWHERE and owns water and ground Pokémon. I dont think I gave him much in the way of speed EVs, preferring to bulk him up.