Only for TR I defined 5 teams - and I switch them based on the hint what is expected. But yes, most of them can be solved by generic team - the only tricky ones are ‘Winning is for winners’ / ‘Don’t bother I have already won’.
TR stops are great from two perspectives
source of great IV - the fact that purification gives you +2 to each stat is great - also lover cost of training
easy source of Dragon mon - to complete task ‘Catch dragon to get 3 rare candy’
Here is my current purified stash (after 493 encounters):
Yeah, I realised at some point it makes more sense than my previous scheme (iv xx-xx-xx)
As you can see (two FFF fully evolved at the end) in the beginning I missed the concept of getting special move from community day - so those two are the waste…
Now I have mons called ‘wait XXX’ which are waiting for December to be evolved
There is very nice article about this on Hub - I came back to it quite often (well, maybe not now - when you approaching 500 you just know what they have and what you should use).
Here:
I did not participated in community days earlier - so I have no good Tyranitars (one Pupitar FFF waiting for December) - so my generic team is Aggron (Smack Down , Stone Edge), Machamp(Counter, Dynamic+Rock Slide) and Gyrados (Waterfall,Hydro Pump) - but I do not remember when last time I had to use Gyrados.
Like I said earlier - the only tricky encounters are when they say ‘Winning for winners’…
One of the combinations - Snorlax + Poliwrath + Gyrados - costed me over 15 faited pokemons before I picked the right team.I use for them Hariyama + Mewtwo + Machamp.
TLDR: Tyranitar should suffice against anything not named grass, water, ground and “Ive already won”
Raikou murders water, Moltres/Heatran murder grass, Kyogre beats Ground and Ive already won can always win if you wind up with an unlucky choice of Pokémon - usually its best to do a test round with TTar, Heatran and Dialga to see what Pokémon does he have before preparing accordingly
Tran? (The only thing that comes to mind for that is Heatran; but with over 300 mons now my brain’s namespace is rapidly exceeded in most name-guessing exercises.)
Raikou murders water which is not named Swampert. Because of Swampert I prefer my FP Venusaur against water. He eats Swampert for breakfast! Other risk is of course Gyarados, but in water he’s very rare. But I always put Raikou as second just in case.
Lapras works good in Winning is for winners with starters, because he both destroyes Fire (Surf) and Grass (Ice Beam) and resists the water. For Gyarados Lapras doesn’t work: his water typing removes his Flying weakness for Ice. On the other hand it gives him a 4 times weakness to Electric, so prefer Raikou against him.
No, I meant that Lapras kills your grass counters anyway so you might as well mow the water grunt down with Raikou and save a Roserade for the case where he has a Swampert
That’s an option as wel indeed. But I prefer my Venusaur over Roserade in these match-ups due to a better bulk. And as soon as Lapras comes in I switch to Raikou. Never seen both Lapras and Swampert in 1 Rocket battle btw.
Honestly my Machamp (100%, L40) had no chance against Giovanni’s Persian in december. I used Metagross there to clean the shields and beat him, so after that I could clean up the rest with Kyogre and Tyranitar.
Never tried Metagross, but my Machamp did great. Even took out half of his Rhydon after killing the Persian. I don’t have a good Kyogre either. And my TTar got killed early too when I tried that.
I use Lucario with power up punch against Giovanni. It has a lot more resistance and fast charge move that hits harder and harder. Shields are down really fast.
