Can I solo a weather-boosted Machamp with this team?
I have my doubts...
- LV30, 3317CP 78% Confusion/Focus Blast Mewtwo (ATK 10)
- LV30.5, 2459CP, 91% Confusion/FS Alakazam
- LV33.5, 2722CP, 100% Confusion/Psybeam Espeon
- LV33.5, 2722CP, 100% Confusion/Psychic Espeon
- LV30, 2449CP, 69%, ZH/Futuresight Espeon
- LV30, 3010CP, 84%, DT/Hurricane Dragonite
I have a few other miscellaneous level 30 espeon with varied movesets and IVs, but none with Confusion/Futuresight.
Answers
I think survivability will be a problem with this lineup, unless you are doing a lot of dodging, which will hurt your DPS. Also, the Mewtwo is not optimal with focus blast; you'd be better off with a L30 Espeon with confusion/anything (*edit: this is wrong!). Or better yet, do you have another Dragonite with either DT/O or DT/H, which will help survivability?
A confusion/anything Espeon is probably slightly better than the ZH/FS one for DPS.
I'm going to say no with this exact lineup, but I think you are close. It might be good enough if the Machamp has close combat.
edit: Although you can re-enter the battle if your first six faint, the reason survivability is important is because of the glitch/penalty that gives a significant chunk of HP back to the boss when you re-enter.
C/FB on Mewtwo is perfectly acceptable in neutral weather and in Cloudy gets better time to win than C/FS Espeon. Nothing wrong with it.
The Hurricane Dragonite is a lot better against Machamp, but if you need additional survivability boost, you can swap your worst Espeon (C/PB or ZH/FS) for the DT/O.
I stand corrected regarding the Mewtwo. You are right on both counts. I have a L30 PC/FB Mewtwo, and it is much worse against Machamp than my L30 Espeons in pokebattler simulations, but I just checked to see what would happen if I changed the quick move to confusion, and it fares much better. And with weather boost, it outperforms even my L30 C/FS Espeon. So, leave the Mewtwo in there. I still think you could use a survivability cushion, so maybe put the DT/O Dragonite in place of the ZH Espeon, and I think you can get it done. Good luck!
Yes, you are right about the C/FB Mewtwo. I was judging based on my own PC/FB Mewtwo, but with C/FB, it is a lot better against Machamp. Funny, because I am the one who is always making the case that confusion is much better than PC for raid attackers. Indeed, it is.
As for dodging, a lot more raids are lost because of too much dodging than because of not enough dodging.
You can't generalize like that. Losing Machamp or Gengar raids because of dodging too much is extremely unlikely because most players will use glass cannons with amazingly good TTW against them but struggle with survivability. I triple dodged each CC today and started dodging fast moves at least three times expecting a CC and still finished the Machamp with 45 seconds left. I could've been spamming dodge 10 times every time a charge move came out and still finished with time left.
Agreeing on most of what you say but not the surviving Beeing an issue. my machamp team is extremely fragile, consisting of 3 Zams on 2500-2600, 1 SC/SB gengar on 2500 and 1 DT/H dragonite on 3300 CP and that with not-caring-much-dodging it always survives. I never use my 6th back up. One 3000+ dragonite anchors your team more than enough.
I once tried on purpose to kill my team, going for the no-doding strategy and I did kill my team but it was close.
CC will be easy with your lineup. I just soloed a weather boosted CC Machamp today with a L40 Espeon, 3 L30 Espeons and a L35 Gardevoir with 45 seconds left on the clock.
You have the DPS but survivability is an issue. Against CC you probably only need to succeed in one or two dodges, against other movesets you need way more dodging. Good thing is there's plenty of time for it due to how much damage the psychic mons deal to Machamp. If you do dodge successfully, your team can do all movesets.
Depends on what moveset the Machamp has.
I managed to solo a weather-boosted BP/CC Machamp with 20s left using this team:
L30 Alakazam 15/15/14 Conf/FS
L30 Alakazam 13/15/15 PC/FS
L30 Espeon 12/15/14 Conf/FS
L30 Exeggutor 15/13/15 with Conf/Solar
L30 Exeggutor 13/14/13 with Conf/Psyc
L30 Dragonite 14/14/11 DT/Hur
