poke construction help, please?

[Pokemaniac Jo Jo Gun]

For a fair time, I tried making one ultimate team out of my favorite pokemon, but no matter how I tried, there were always gaping holes in my defenses (due to my lack of skill as a poke-battler, no doubt.). Then, I decided, instead of just making one team out of my mostfavorite pokemon, I'd take my favorite pokemon in each element and alternate pokemon before battles. My problem: help with movesets. I was wondering if you could help me be able to use my pokemon to their full extent.

Dark: mighteyana
Ghost: dusclops
Poison: Gengar
Flying: crobat
Water: gyarados
Bug: Ninjask

Those were original pokemon I was trying to make a team with. I've now added:

Ice: sneasel
Grass: cacturne
Fire: charizard
Rock: aerodactyl
Steel: lairon (but I'm using aggron for battle. lairon's just my favorite)
Psychic: wobuffet
Normal: smeargle
Dragon: flygon
Electric: electribuzz
Fighting: hitmonlee/primape (which is better?)
Ground: marowak

I've already come up with one for dusclops

Dusclops@ Leftovers
Brave; EV: Attack,Sp Defense

Substitute
Focus Punch
Shadow Ball/Punch
Night Shade/Pain Split

But that's just my opinion. Thanks...

[BarnebyJones]

I like primeape a lot. Sleep is so annoying. I do use him in battles

Primeape@leftovers jolly ~252 atk ~252 spd ~6hp
cross chop
earthquake
bulk up
rock slide

Hitmonlee is not bad also, I've never used it myself but It can't be paralyzed. Thats pretty good. But it's defense is horrid and it can't fight other fighting pokemon unless it 1 hit ko's it, or is bped major defense.

[Ultimate_Evil]

hey your already doing the right thing, the best team you can have is a team of your favorite pokemon, just teach them the right moves and dont use rare candies to train them, your on the right track.

[Pokemaniac Jo Jo Gun]

Which is better for dusclops, Nightshade, or Pain Split?

[wobmaster]

I think the Dusclops standard includes Will-o-Wisp and Pain Split definately, and then you can choose between Night Shade, SToss Focus Punch, Shadow Ball, and Confuse Ray.

[InterFed_OV]

You don't want CRay with Wisp, because Burn cuts Attack and Confusion's self-damage is based on the victim's Attack stat.

FocusPunch/ShadowBall/PainSplit/Will-O-Wisp@Leftovers is the standard set.

[Pokemaniac Jo Jo Gun]

Um, sorry, but what covers for Focus Punch in the moveset?

[Darth Payne]

You don't want CRay with Wisp, because Burn cuts Attack and Confusion's self-damage is based on the victim's Attack stat.

FocusPunch/ShadowBall/PainSplit/Will-O-Wisp@Leftovers is the standard set.
Am I correct in assuming then that Paralysis reduces Speed? (sure seems like it)

And are threre any other conditions that decrease stats?

[InterFed_OV]

With Focus Punch without Sub, you punch on the switch. You predict when they'll switch and what they might switch to, and you nail them when they switch in. It takes lots of skill to do this, though, so use Seismic Toss in place of F-Punch until you get the hang of the Switch-Punching concept.

Burn cuts Attack in half, and Paralysis cuts Speed in half. Poison, Sleep, and Freeze don't reduce any stats.