Best Water Type if you picked Snivy? (Pkmn Black/White)?

Question

I am replaying Pokemon White as a nuzlocke and currently, my team is:

Servine
Ducklett
Zebstrika
Krookodile

I feel like there are way too many good grass types in comparison to water types.

I can't use panpour because it died earlier in the game, I can't use ducklett or tirtouga because I plan on getting archeops as a fossil (instead of tirtouga, and that way I don't really want to have 2 flying types on my team)...

I could always not have a water type (as I already have Krookodile to cover for most fire types) and get a Pokemon that can learn surf, but there aren't many of those (especially not in early game. Otherwise, I would get hydreigon, but deinos are hardly guaranteed in a nuzlocke as they are hard to find. Also, I already have a dark type).

Anyone have any suggestions? I'd appreciate it.

Answer 1

I highly recommend a Seismitoad. You can catch a Tympole at Pinwheel Forest. At Lv 25 it will evolve into a Palpitoad and at. Lv 36 it will evolve into a Seismitoad. If you could wait, then you could catch a Palpitoad later in the game at Route 8, Icirrus City and Moor of Icirrus. Anyways, I'd suggest the following moveset:

Swift Swim Seismitoad:

• Rain Dance (To activate it's ability)
• Surf/Scald/Hydro Pump
• Earth Power
• Sludge Wave/Sludge Bomb (To cover it's Grass weakness)

Hope I helped.

Comments

Thanks for your answer. I thought of tympole, but I've already caught something in Pinwheel forest (this is a nuzlocke, btw). Is there any other area where it's easy to find?

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He said that if you wait a bit, on route 8 you can get palpitoad, same with icirrus city and the moor of icirrus. I'm not sure how hard it is to get palpitoad there, but you still some chances.

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Oh right, sorry (completely missed that... ^^;)

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It shouldn't be hard to catch. And: your welcome.

Answer 2

Tympole is an awesome water type in black/white. It grows into water ground (sismetoad) which is a sick combo (water Pokemon immune to electricity though susceptible to grass i'll admit). I just started on white again and chose tepig with tympole and zebstrika. Great combo. It does clash a bit with krookodile but having two ground types is totally ok with powerful moves like earthquake.

You can get it relatively early as well.

Give it
Surf - STAB, target all,
Earthquake - STAB, target all,
Ice Punch - Get the dragons and flying
Poisen Jab - cover your weaknesses. have a move that can target individuals if needed.

EV train your attack stat for this mix.

Comments

Thanks for your answer. I thought of tympole, but I've already caught something in Pinwheel forest (this is a nuzlocke, btw). Is there any other area where it's easy to find?

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I don't think Tympole occurs again. You might be screwed until late game when you can pick up frilish. A useful ghost water type. Of course I would rather have a litwik on my team and nobody needs two ghost pokemon. Then your stuck with basculin also late game.

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Of course you could use Larvesta a fun bug/fire type instead of litwik then frilish would be much more usefull.

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I might try to find tympole or I'll just stick with 2 flying types (ducklett for surf and archeops for fly).

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Ice Punch already covers Grass-type pokemon, so don't waste another move covering what another move already covers, if that is your only reason to put in Poison Jab

Answer 3

I'd personally recommend basculin. It's easy to find, has great abilities, and isn't too hard to train. Recommended move set is aqua tail(lv26)/waterfall(HM), crunch(lv24), take down(lv20)/double edge(lv36), and surf(HM)/dive(HM)/anything else. You can find them by fishing, or by trade in driftveil city. It might take some training, so be warned. hopefully you've beaten elesa already...