
Originally Posted by
mystical jackal
if you have empoleon and infernape, why don't put torterra in beautifly's place? Anyways, i would take that bug out and put another pokemon, it's serious. Any pokemon that total base stats are below 500 aren't suggested to use at battle tower. Being empoleon your special sweeper, and infernape the physical sweeper, i would add an annoying pokemon in this team.
empoleon
nature: Modest (+ s atk, -atk)
moveset:
-surf/hydro pump
-ice beam/signal beam
-signal beam
-flash cannon
item: Mystic water, nevermeltice, silver powder or metal coat
evs: 252 special attack, 126 defense, 126 special defense, 4 hp
despite being a mixed sweeper, this empoleon will be grown to become a special sweeper. Ev training is very important. Though with special attack maximized, some foe opponents are supposed to resist to this moveset, like blissey and snorlax, for example.
infernape
nature: Adamant (+ atk, -sp atk)
moveset:
-flare blitz
-close combat
-stone edge/shadow claw
-swords dance
item: Charcoal, hard stone, black belt, leftovers, shell bell
evs: 252 speed, 252 attack, 4 defense
while empoleon is your special sweeper, infernape will be your physical sweeper. Infernape goes for speed, that's why half of its ev are focused on speed and the other half on attack. One swords dance and your power base moves will be strong enough to knock out most of opponents in one hit (considering you'll cause a normal damage).
dusknoir
nature: Careful (+ def, - sp atk)
moveset:
-confuse ray
-protect
-toxic/curse
-double team
item: Leftovers
evs: 252 defense, 252 special defense, 4 hp
man, i defeat lots of trainers at battle frontier in emerald with dusclops, it should be a lot easier with dusknoir in platinum. You should start using double team before causing confusion, and protect sometimes if recovering hp was needed. Then, when you evasiveness rasies a bit, then use toxic/curse. Toxic will not hit poison, steel and immunity foes, and curse may put you in serious risk. However, curse will not be a problem if your evasion has raisen up and if you keep using protect. Have in mind that while foe fails on its moves, dusknoir's pressure ability will still in effect making it spends an extra pp everytime it attacks. Since you intend to use this team in tower of battles, it's not a problem the fact this dusnkoir will use lots of pp to sucessfully faint foes because hp and pp are fully restored after each battle.