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Rayquaza Team

Is this rayquaza team good/strong enough?

1) Mamoswine 3000 CP, PS/AV
2) Mamoswine 2806 CP, PS/AV
3) Mamoswine 2756 CP, PS/AV
4) Rayquaza 3314 CP, DT/OR
5) Dragonite 3524 CP, DT/OR
6) Lapras 2276 CP, FB/BL

Replacements include:
Lapras 2131 CP, FB/B
Dragonite 3377 CP, DT/OR
Dragonite 3359 CP, DT/OR
Jynx 2057 CP, FB/AV
Articuno 2305 CP, FB/IB
Articuno 2164 CP, FB/BL

Or: Charge TM on 3596 Mewtwo hoping for ice beam
Charge TM on 2440 Mamoswine hoping for avalanche.

Thank you!

Asked by Yellow_Sponge5 years 1 month ago
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Strong enough for... a duo? Yeah that should be fine, but I'd use GoBattleSim to confirm.
Strong enough to guarantee three damage balls? Depends on how competitive your friends are.
As far as replacements, your team looks solid enough that I honestly wonder if this is just a weird flex, but the only thing on that replacement list that's really making your team all that much better is charge TM'ing that Mamoswine into Avalanche. Nothing else is going to significantly help your DPS situation, aside from maybe slotting in that jynx over the dragonite.

Tl;Dr: Use GoBattleSim and figure out if your team can duo RayQ. I suspect it can. If not, getting AV on that mamoswine is your next best include.

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Nice team you have there. Three Mamos should be enough for taking down Rayquaza. Just be mindful if Ray is packing Outrage. Your team is fine, unless you're looking for more DPS. For a duo raid you'll be set.

This is my team, I'm planning on Duo it:

Lv 40 Mamoswine 98% (15/14/15) PS/AV
Lv 40 Mamoswine 96% (15/15/13) PS/AV
Lv 40 Mamoswine 96% (14/14/15) PS/AV
Lv 40 Mamoswine 91% (14/14/13) PS/AV
Lv 40 Weavile 98% (15/15/14) IS/FP/AV
Lv 40 Weavile 91% (15/15/11) IS/FP/AV

While my brother has a 100% Jynx, two Mamos, a Weavile and a couple of dragons.

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Why using dragons over ice-attackers? According to pokebattler, lapras, cloyster, articuno... have better DPS and TDO than dragons in most scenarios.

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Maybe not the same reason than the OP, but my A-team for Rayquaza features a Dragonite and here is why:
- I don't have 6 excellent ice attackers (bad luck with moves on Mammoswines and Weaviles, out of CTMs)
- I have a good 15atk high level Dragonite
- My next best attacker options are Cloysters, low level or bad moveset, and I don't want to invest resources in Cloysters when I may be one CTM away from an additional Mammoswine/Weasel in my team.

I could power up my Rayquaza as well, but Dragonite is already here, so meh.

NB (edit): I focus primarily on DPS to maximize damage balls and bundles, I generally have no issue actually winning raids since enough players show up. So I don't care if my Dragonite dies quickly.

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OK, I see your point. Why to spend resources if your team is already enough?

In my case, i'll be lucky if a third player shows up, so I've powered up an Articuno. It's a cool mon, and I don't want to power up a other Dragonite.

What I don't understand is why PG doesn't mention it or Cloyster in its Ray guide.

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