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Have you had trouble making a good team? Well, this article will show you how to make a good one! Just remember, there is no one best team.
Steps
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1Choose your starter Pokémon. A starter Pokémon is the very base of an effective team. There are three for HeartGold and SoulSilver:
- Choose Chikorita, the Grass-type, if you want your starter to deal primarily with the Defense stats and status conditions. This Pokémon is excellent for setting up Reflects and Light Screens, and also learns a few powerful moves at later levels.
- Choose Cyndaquil, the Fire-type, if you want a starter with powerful Special Attack. This Pokémon's offensive movepool, coupled with its stats, can often make it effective enough to be the lead.
- Choose Totodile, the Water-type, if you want the starter to have an excellent Attack stat. While the number of Special Attack moves in its movepool can be a bit of a hindrance, this Pokémon is often seen as the most powerful of the three starters stat-wise.
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2Create a good defense for your starter. It's good that you cover your starter with the type that can beat the type that your starter is weak to.
- To protect Chikorita, a variety of different Pokémon can be used on account of its many type weaknesses. It is recommended to use Fire-types like Growlithe or Vulpix to protect it from Bug and Ice, or Ground-types like Sandshrew to combat Fire and Poison.
- To protect Cyndaquil, employ a Water-type like Wooper or Psyduck in order to defend it from Rock- and Ground-type attacks. An Electric- or Grass-type may also be effective for its Water-type weakness, so Mareep and Bellsprout are viable options.
- To protect Totodile, use Ground-type Pokémon to defend it from Electric attacks, or Fire-type Pokémon to defend it from Grass attacks.
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3Catch Pokémon that have a type advantage over the Elite Four. A Psychic-, Dark-, Fighting-, and Ice-type lineup, for example, can be used to beat the Elite Four and the Champion easily.
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4Use all six Pokémon team slots wisely - you can't take more than six with you. Make sure you have some dual types!
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Community Q&A
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QuestionIs my team of Quilava, Spearow, Wooper, Machop and a Furret good enough?
Community AnswerSwitch out Furret for a different Pokemon because it has pretty low stats. Or you could keep it on your team as an HM slave. -
QuestionHow do I get Lapras?
Community AnswerLapras appears on B2F of Union Cave only on Fridays. You need surf to reach it. -
QuestionI want to use Chikorita as my starter. What should the rest of my lineup be?Community AnswerCrobat or another poison flying type, Lanturn, an ice type like Mamoswine, Arcanine, and a dark psychic or fighting type.
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