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What's your best (or two to three) universal attacker?

When you attack an enemy gym, and you dont wanna bother examining the type advantage, or the pokemon in the gym is snorlax with few counter. Whats your universal attacking pokemon? Or maybe 2-3 pokemon together to attack any gym.

Requirement:
1. Generally broad type advantage
2. High dps
3. reasonable health to survive
4. When facing type disadvantage, can easily find another pokemon also a good attacker to complement.
5. easy to dodge moves
6. better to be relatively easy to obtain (not necessary)

Asked by babydouding8 years 5 months ago

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Dragonite (for everything except lapras)
Arcanine (for lapras)
Vaporeon (when Dragonite faints)

Done

My main pick is Dragonite. I like Pokémon with fast quick attacks:

Gyarados;
Vaporeon;
Jolteon;
Alakazam;
Cloyster;
Snorlax;
Gengar.

I usually start with my 3219cp Dragonite DB/DP, the others will be based in the enemys poké (i use to fight with 2 Dragonites DB/DP, one 3k and other 2k).
If i need to pick 3 different mon for an universal team, i think Dragonite, Gyarados/Vaporeon and Alakazam works fine.

My three dragonites. Two with DB/DC and one with DB/DP. Don't need anything else against enemy gyms. If there are lots of dragonites in a gym then maybe I'll throw in my FB/Bliz Lapras. If it's a bunch of Snorlaxes then I may use my MS/SE Rhydon.

Snorlax 3067 cp lick body slam 100iv
Dragonite breath pulse 3150
Other snorlax lick hyperbeam 2924
Lapras for dragonites. I love snorlax

Dragonite with Dragon Breath

Snorlax with Lick

Vaporeon with Hydro Pump

Those are definitely my top 3 all-around attackers

Those are kind of obvious, though. Some others that I find very useful that are less commonly considered:

Wiggly w/ Pound/Hyper (mini-Snorlax, can beat pretty much anything)

Gyarados w/ DB/Pulse, or Bite/Hydro

Tangela w/ Vine/Solar (and Venusaur obv - you really need some strong grass attackers)

Magneton w/ Spark/Discharge

Cloyster w/ FB/Blizz

Tentacruel w/ Jab/Blizz (underrated w/ decent stats and almost no type weaknesses)

Pinsir w/ Fury/XS (Makes easy work of Egg)

2640 Golem, **Mud shot(not slap)/Stone edge. Keep away from grass and water moves and this guy keeps up with any attackers I've seen. Stone edge is one of the best moves in the game, and gets golem through any air or ice (lapras, Dragonite) easily. And legacy move mud shot allows easy dodging while charging stone edge fast and still doing good dps.

3079 Dragonite, Dragon breath/Dragon pulse. I know this guy is against the rules, but he compliments Golems water/grass weakness so well. Not much needs to be said about a Dragon breath Dragonite.

2580 Alakazam, Psycho cut/Psychic. Not much life, but can still get through 3 major defenders (if no failed dodges). Most efficient potion user, and no glaring weaknesses. For anything left

And since every gym is packed with vaporean, I love my exegg with solar beam - get the first shot off, dodge the Hydropump, then send them to oblivion with 2nd shot - can easily take out 2 vapes and sometimes 3. I also like my Snorlax with Lick/HB, just have to time up the Hyperbeam right after their special.