Pokemon White Pre-End game team

[Arger]

Hi Everyone,

Firstly I wanted to say that below is the first team I have created, It has been built with the intention of completing Pokemon White for the first time and therefore ideally any advice on moves and items I would prefer if they were not post game options.

I have done a fair bit of looking around however I am finding it difficult to get my head around all the latest changes and how best to plan out my abilities/moves for the below team makeup. I am also extremely happy to take advice on what to replace with regards to Pokemon, moves and items.

I haven't looked at EV Training as I figured it is best to re-breed and then start from scratch with the Pokemon I am interested in doing battles with.

Samurott

Nature: Rash
Ability: Torrent
Hold Item: Mystic Water??
Moves:
Surf
Ice Beam
Grass Knot / Hidden Power
Aqua Jet

Scrafty

Nature: Jolly
Ability: Shed Skin
Hold Item: Black Belt??
Moves:
Dragon Dance
Hi Jump Kick
Crunch
Ice Punch

Haxorus (Possible Replacement?)

Nature: Jolly
Ability: Mold Breaker
Hold Item: ??
Moves:
Dragon Dance
Dragon Claw
Earthquake
Brick Break / Rock Slide

Sigilyph

Nature: Jolly
Ability: Magic Guard
Hold Item: ??
Moves:
Hypnosis (To be replaced with Hidden power or Calm mind)
Psychic
Air slash
Roost

Chandelure

Nature: Modest
Ability: Shadow Tag
Hold Item: Charcoal
Moves:
Flamethrower
Shadow Ball
Energy Ball
Psychic / Hidden Power

Magnezone

Nature: Timid
Ability: Magnet Pull
Hold Item: ??
Moves:
Flash Cannon
Thunderbolt
Magnet Rise
Hidden Power

I would really appreciate any advice that you guys have to offer. I haven't played Pokemon since the original Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow and a lot has changed to say the least

It has been a lot of fun getting back into the games.

Thanks again.

[Zhanton]

Well it's definitely been a big break for you from Pokemon!

Return > Aqua Jet on Samurott for neutral coverage. Go with X-Scissor > Grass Knot as well, to hit the plethora of Psychic and Dark-types in Unova. Leftovers for the item would be fine, or even Expert Belt.

Give Haxorus Leftovers or a Muscle Band, and go with Rock Slide > Brick Break; Rock Slide gets better coverage alongside Earthquake than Brick Break does.

Calm Mind as the last move on Chandelure for boosting. Give it Wise Glasses for the item as it powers up all of your moves instead of just Flamethrower. You can run Timid nature as well since Modest + Wise Glasses + Calm Mind is a bit overkill, and Chandelure likes the Speed increase from Timid.

Magnezone @ Leftovers
Modest Nature
Ability: Sturdy
~ Thunderbolt
~ Flash Cannon
~ Signal Beam / Charge Beam
~ Thunderwave / Substitute

Sturdy is far superior to Magnet Pull. Magnezone isn't that fast so I wouldn't bother with Timid tbh but just run Modest instead. You can either go with Signal Beam for coverage and Thunderwave for team support, or run Charge Beam + Substitute; use Substitute and then spam Charge Beam, boosting your SpA on the way, and then you can sweep with Thunderbolt and Flash Cannon.

Hope this helps!

[Arger]

Thanks Zhanton!

I figured I would bump this post and see if anyone else had anyfeed back. I am about to hit the 8th gym and my Pokemon are sitting around lvl 40-42 atm.

[Arger]

Hi Zhanton,

I have taken a fair bit of time this afternoon going through my pokemon now that I have just gotten the 8th badge and I am on my way to defeat the elite four for the first time. My aim before this was to finalise my pokemon's movesets however whilst looking for them I noticed a fair few of my originally mentioned moves are either bread into the pokemon or can not be learned prior to the defeat of the elite four. I was wondering if you or anyone else on this forum may have some advice on what moves I should use in place of their more powerful post elite four options? I woul also love advice on weither or not to keep Sigilyph and/or what items to put in the place of the question marks

Samurott @ Leftovers

Nature: Rash
Ability: Torrent
Surf
Blizzard - to be replaced with Ice Beam after the E4
X-Scissor
Return

Scrafty@ ?

Nature: Jolly
Ability: Shed Skin
Hi Jump Kick
Crunch
Rock Slide
? -

Haxorus @ Leftovers

Nature: Sassy
Ability: Mold Breaker
Dragon Dance
Dragon Claw
? possibly Rock Slide (but Scrafty has that)
? - to be replaced with Earthquake after the E4


Sigilyph @? - Should I replace with Bravery?

Nature: Jolly
Ability: Magic Guard
Aerial Ace - Can't find Air Slash
Fly
Hypnosis
? - to be replaced with Psychic after the E4


Chandelure @ Wise Glasses

Nature: Rash
Ability: Flame Body
Flame Burst - to be replaced with Flamethrower after the E4
Shadow Ball
? - to be replaced with Energy Ball after the E4
? - to be replaced with Calm Mind after the E4

Magnezone @ Leftovers

Nature: Timid
Ability: Magnet Pull
Thunder Wave
Thunderbolt
Flash Cannon
Charge Beam - I can't find Signal Beam

I would really appreciate any advice that you guys have to offer.

Thanks again