[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Mine definitely is not set yet.  Still have until Heart's stuff is finished to decide, though, so I'm not in any particular rush (yet).  Spirit also still has to decide which Water mon he might borrow from Terra, if any.

This doesn't necessarily require super knowledgeable competitive advice.  None of us really know what's down there in the Ruins' depths, so this is all just semi-educated hypothesizing of what we think might be useful to have down there.  It'd still be nice to have some input from you concerning all of this. (...)

Okay. Since it's been asked so kindly and totally not because I'm so susceptible to encouragement, I'll update read myself properly and then carefully chip in to give my thoughts about the not-yet set teams. Which is mostly Nathan's if I saw that correctly?

I'll keep myself impartial as best as possible. What I obviously cannot know is which Pokemon of yours you're interested to train up more+bond with more, that's an inportant factor for me at least.

Terras Team

Angie aka Dunseraph
Michael aka Ventus' Breloom
Anubi aka Lucario
Oinari/Tomoe aka Zorua
Pixie aka Mawile
Edmundi aka Bastiodon

Suggestions:

• I feel a bit sorry for Shiranui as Terra's soft-Starter being left behind, maybe it's just me being sensitive though. Guts-boosted Fake Out and Belly Drum are such a strong combo also against anything that's not immune. Possibly replacing Pixie.
  
• Please don't bring or loan out Lovely/Lapis Lazuli, he's unfortunately way too bing to battle properly within an enclosed space, I fear he'll hinder our choices or be outright not allowed to join selected battles.
  

Nathans Team

Set:
Gallade, Dizzalam aka Absol, Charizard

Suggestions:

• Solomon aka Slowking due to their Hidden Power and affinity with lore, Brine can be suprisingly powerful.
  
• Grid aka Galvantula due to he's so good at putting your chara's Stats into good use, why forfeit that?, Electro Web, Fury Cutter to defeat Psychic Types fast when facing them alone.
  
• Ditto due to flexibility and versatility including another potential Heal Pulse.
  

Spiras Team

Noire aka Banette
Toya aka Dusknoir
Nubi aka Mismagius
Hida aka Magcargo
Luna aka Driftloon
Copus aka Beedrill

Suggestions:

• None. Sounds overall fine, Ghost Type is his speciality so it's natural to have several team members of that Type.
  
• Look at this cool and creepy artwork of a Mismagius I found (Link) :O
  

Hearts Team

Honedge/potential Duoblade
Viktor aka Trevenant
Atlas aka Golett
Gustav aka Clawitzer
Rose aka Infernape

Suggestions:

• Bring Questzal aka Delta Onix or Steelix instead of Honchcrow, as not bringing them would render the effort put into his obediance soft-pointless.
  
• Or replace one of your partial Ghost Types with the crow to have something against opposing Ghost and Psychic Types, maybe instead of Viktor? Atlas has all the elemental punches and you seem to enjoy battling and interacting with him.