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[lestatdark]

trasharmdsister12 said:

lestatdark said:

trasharmdsister12 said:
So now I've established 5 of my party rebuild for Black. I have...

Samurott - lvl 80 (Surf, Hydro Pump, Hyper Beam, Megahorn)
Hydreigon - lvl 71 (Fly, Strength, Dragon Claw, Hyper Beam)
Galvantula - lvl 67 (Cut, Thunderbolt, Bug Bite, Sucker Punch)
Chandelure - lvl 65 (Flamethrower, Hex, Overheat, SolarBeam)
Metagross - lvl 64 (Psychic, Meteor Mash, Giga Impact, can't remember off the top of my head)

Any suggestions for the final member? I've covered (in order) Water, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Bug, Fire, Ghost, Psychic and Steel types. I was thinking Piloswine/Mamoswine to get Ice and Ground in there.

How the heck did you get Dragon Claw on Hydreigon? It isn't learned by neither Deino, Zweilous nor Hydreigon and can't be taught via TM to neither of them. Did you mistook the move for Dragon Tail or Dragon Rush? 

Anyway, my advice (as someone who uses Hydreigon a lot..and that would be an understatement) is to swap Dragon Claw with Dragon Pulse. Not only would you take advantage of his best stat, Sp. Att, the attack power of the move is higher (90) and it's an overall more effective move against other Dragons. I would also suggest (albeit this would be extremely time consuming), to breed your Hydreigon to learn Dark Pulse, which on par with Draco Meteor are the most devastating weapons in Hydreigon's arsenal.

I was going off of memory at that time so I may have been wrong about exactly which move it was.

Let me bust out the stats fresh from the screen.

Hydreigon lvl 79: Fly, Dragon Rush, Hyper Voice, Strength
Chandelure lvl 76: Overheat, Flamethrower, SolarBeam, Hex
Metagross lvl 75: Shadow Ball, Meteor Mash, Psychic, Hyper Beam
Samurott lvl 83: Hyper Beam, Hydro Cannon, Surf, Megahorn
Kyurem lvl 76: Glaciate, Dragon Pulse, Imprison, Endeavor
Galvantula lvl 74: Thunderbold, Cut, Sucker Punch, Bug Buzz

You were correct about Dragon Rush. After I beat the game I started reading up how to best prep these Pokemon and I did come across those tips about Dark Pulse so I may check it out when I finally get through Kanto in Heart Gold. Thanks for the tips!

You're welcome Dragon Rush is a good move for any Dragon, though I find it a bit unaccurate for my taste (75% accuracy is a bit too low, especially when you get competitive), so I actually prefer to use Outrage or Dragon Pulse. 

I would strongly recommend you getting rid of those HM's as well, it's only hindering your best potential moveset for Hydreigon. For example, my moveset is as follows: Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse, Dark Pulse, Draco Meteor. That makes it excedengly strong against anyone wishing to exploit it's weaknesses, plus Draco Meteor just obliterates all, given the very high Sp. Att stat it has at level 85 (320).

As for your other pokemon, you've seem to have a pretty balanced team, though my speciality is Dragon foremost (I haven't tried out Kyurem yet though, I use non-legendaries only) so I can only give you advice focused on that type primarely