Your first team in Uranium

[tehterokkar]

First Playthrough:

Archilles
Baariette
Gellin
Garlikid
Blubelfrog
Nuclear Trawpint(the lvl 75 one you can catch)

Pretty random, just took some pokemon that seemed cool as I went along with not much thought. Regrets were the Fire starter and Blubelfrog.


Second playthrough:

Electruxo / Bold / Electruxolite
-Surf
-Hydro Cannon
-Thunderbolt
-Ice Beam

Literally requires mega evolution to be relevant. Balanced stats in this game are not the way to go.

Baariette / Adamant / Baariettite
-Drain Punch
-Earthquake
-Poison Jab
-Crunch

Strong overall, Mega evolution is just better than giving him Life Orb or Choice Band/Scarf.

Pajay / Bold / Focus Sash
-Flamethrower
-Air Slash
-Fly
-Tailwind

Idea was to use this as a fodder mostly. Setup Tailwind so that the slower Pokemon(Baariette/Electruxo) can go ham. Otherwise a good choice, great typing regardless of a 4x Rock Weakness, didn't see many rock moves used outside of rock typed pokemon.

Garlikid / Hasty / Life Orb
-Drain Punch
-Earthquake
-Poison Jab
-Energy Ball

Good defenses, fantastic offenses and a good movepool. This Pokemon is great. It doesn't posses the raw power of Baariette, but makes up for it with speed and is a good revenge killer.

Theriamp / Jolly / Choice Band
-Body Slam
-Rock Slide
-Earthquake
-Ice Punch

"What if Baariette had a twin that sacrificed defenses for speed?" This guy was hell to level up to its evolution, but after that it started to kick ass really hard.

Espeon / Modest / Choice Specs
-Psychic
-Shadow Ball
-Dazzling Gleam
-Quick Attack


I originally had 5 Pokemon, and only decided to add Espeon after I finished the 8th Gym and obtained Fly. Turned out to be a good investment, she was a powerhouse with Modest and Choice Specs. 


Overall the game is good until you beat 7th badge in terms of game flow. Then the trainer pokemon start to gain levels at an alarming pace and you are most likely outleveled by the time you get to the last gym's fodder trainers.
I don't know why this is necessary to make you grind levels so much at the end of the game if you want to survive the Championship matches. If I had not leveled my Pokemon for 6-ish hours on the Victory Road grass patches, I would have had 57-59 leveled Pokemon when I started the Championship. I got everything to 60 before I fought the first trainer on the Victory Road and they all had 60-64 leveled Pokemon. And then at Championship the trainers all had lvl 70 Pokemon.

Though yeah, I beat the game with most of my Pokemon being 62-64, with Baariette being 66. The Championship wasn't really even a challenge if you just build your team with the Glass Cannon concept in mind. Outspeed everything baseline and destroy with Super-effective attacks. Most Pokemon were 1 shot, some survived with less than 20% health.

The game does not allow "choose what you want" team builds without you spending many many hours grinding wild encounters at the Victory Road until all of your team are 70+. My team setup was Glass Cannon themed and it worked flawlessly since most of the Pokemon in the Championship were slow fucks.

Also the last battle against Urayne was the most disappointing shit ever. All you need are 1-2 Revive and 2-4 Full Restores. You wait for him to lower his SP.Atk with Overheat/Proton Beam to -6 and by that time you should have Intimidated him enough to make his Atk stat irrelevant. Then just 2 Metal Crunchers and he is dead.