How to Make a Balanced Pokémon Black and White Team

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Last Updated: May 7, 2020

If you are starting one of the games Pokémon Black or Pokémon White you probably need a balanced Pokémon team. These steps will show you how. Also, most Pokémon will be called by their basic form.

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Go to the Unova Pokédex , and figure out what Pokémon you like most from each type. This will help you for your team members.
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You'll get a starter and a monkey in the game, so those two Pokémon are already decided. If you started with Tepig and Pansage, good Water-type(s) would be: Tympole, Tirtouga, or Frillish. If you started with Snivy and Panpour, good Fire-type(s) would be: Darumaka, Litwick, or Heatmor. If you started with Oshawott or Pansear, good Grass-type(s) would be: Sewaddle, Deerling, Ferroseed, Petilil, or Cottonee.

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A flying type is important, because the Flying-types in Unova are pretty formidable fighters. The main reason is, though it's because most of them can learn the HM Fly which allows you to fly from town to town. Good Flying-types that can learn HM fly (in their evolutions) are: Pidove, Vullaby, Rufflet, Archen, Sigilyphl, Woobat, or Ducklett.
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You might have Pokémon with double types like Bisharp, a Dark and Steel-type. Good Dark-types are: Pawniard, Zorua, Deino, Scraggy, or Purrloin. Good Dragon-types are: Axew or Druddigon. Good Ice-types are: Vanilite, Cubchoo, or Cryogonal. Good Ground-types are: Drilbur, Stunfisk, or sandile. Good Fighting-types are: Timbur. Good Rock-types are: Roggenrola.

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wikiHow Quiz: What Is My Pokémon Type?

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Water. Fire. Dragon. Ice. Without a doubt, each and every Pokémon out there has at least one defining type that makes them special. But if you lived in the world of Pokémon, how would you fit into the mix? Take this quiz to find out!

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Pick your ideal color palette:

Light blue, light pink, light purple, and peach.

Gold, bright orange, wine red, and maroon.

Black, azure, light blue, and blue-white.

Light sage green, light yellow, light orange, tangerine.

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Try Joltik, or Tynamo for Electric, Trubbish, for Poison, Klink for Steel, or Venipede, Dwebble, Karrablast, Shelmet, and Larvesta for Bug. You can also get Gothita, Munna, Solosis, or Elgyem for Psychic. Good Ghost-types are: Yamask. Some Normal-types are Lillipup, Patrat, Audino, Minccino, or Bouffalant.
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As an example, we will post our team: Haxorus, Emboar, Gothitelle, Simisage, Mandibuzz, and Seismitoad.

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What is the best team for Black/White?

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Any balanced team is fine. You should try to find a variety of different types.

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Where is a Shiny Haxorus in white? Also which starter should I pick Snivy Tepig or Oshawatt?

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Pick Tepig. Shiny Haxorus is a random Pokemon. You just have to be really lucky in finding a Shiny Axew, but that chance is really small.

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Train. Run along the grass until it shakes, and an Audino will appear. Defeat it, and you'll be rewarded with tons of EXP. For example: If your Pokémon is Lv.34 then go up against Audino whose level is 32.

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Always have a sufficient amount of Pokeballs. You'll never know, when, you'll see a Pokémon you like or a rare one.

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If you are training low-leveled Pokemon to fill your Pokedex, be sure to have a high-leveled, powerful Pokemon in the front of your party, then five low-leveled Pokemon.

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Certain legendaries cannot enter the battle subway. Keep this in mind.

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Do not train your starter ONLY and leave the rest of your team more than 6 levels lower. Keep your team members' level range at most 4 levels apart.

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Traded Pokémon will not always obey you. If it's a high-leveled one and you don't have a certain number of gym badges for it. In that case, be careful of using traded Pokémon.

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