Share your Ideal Generalist Battle Party for Gym Attacking?
Trying to prepare a battle party that is able to allow me to prepare ahead of gym battles (i will still need to rotate a bit from time to time) w
Machamp x 2 (Both with Counter/Dynamic Punch) for Tanks
Dragonite (Dragon Tail/Outrage) for Neutral Targets
Raikou (Thundershock/Wild Charge) to Cover Water/Flying
Gyrados (Waterfall/ Hydro Pump) to Cover Fire/Ground and Maybe Rock (Fingers Cross no Rock Throws)
Entei (Fire Spin/Overheat) to Cover Grass
I also have Alakazam with Confusion/Future Sight....but based on observation, i don't see many people putting poison or fighting mons for defensive
Anyone like to share your ideal generalist battle party?
Answers
None of the above, as I'm driving to work look for a gym my color with an open spot. Way home from work look for something to battle on the raid map. As I'm going there or home and I see a gym with an open spot, I put one in. Later on check the chat board to see if somebody close needs help with a legendary. If so I go to the grocery store, way home might put something in a gym or sweep with 3350 Dragonite
I have two gym battling teams. My main one, "The Generals", if I ever need to use it for a gym full of high CP tanky defenders and get the job done quickly (with Ho-oh and Lugia serving as my main anchors), and a secondary backup team with most of my mainly used legendaries (in case I am on a potion shortage).
Here is my gym clearance squad. Ill replace the focus blast gengar with a mewtwo, if I ever get one. Otherwise, the gengar and machamp will take out the blissey and snorlax. The rest will power through whatever is left. I usually switch out before any of them faint.
When ho-oh stops being a raid boss, I will power it up, and may start using it to take out dazzling gleam blissey. Right now the other five are sufficient for all the gyms I deal with.
For optimal speed, I'd want to have 3 Machamp, 1 Dragonite, 1 Tyranitar, probably 1 Entei. Even if I fail a dodge or two with Machamps, I'll stil have enough left to get through all 3 big normal types in an efficient manner even if they're maxed. Dragonite can take down almost any other defender fast enough that it's not worth it to bring specialist in for them. The types that give Dragonite trouble being Fairy and Steel, Entei can handle both. Tyranitar is good for taking down the occasional psychic types that get put in to deter Machamps and is a good sweeper having a 3-bar charge move.
If I see a lot of Vaporeon (or very big Gyaradoses), Raikou replaces either Tyranitar, Entei or the 3rd Machamp.
Get 3 Champs, and a few Dnites and Ttars and no gym will really stand in your way (as long as the aren't being remotely fed GRs). There are other choices that will be more optimal for certain targets, but considering there are currently no notable Fairy quick moves, these three basically decimate all relevant gym defenders. Dnite resists almost all elementals, Champ is super effective against all top tier defenders, and Ttar is just reliable as long as you dodge super effective hits. I personally don't diversify my gym sweeper team because switching into a hit is just annoying.