by Airyll Thu 07 Dec 2017, 4:59 pm
I mean if you had an entire team of them you could set them up pretty amazingly depending on what you were trying to deal with.
Swagger / Taunt / Substitute / Rest or Recover
Toxic / Pain Split / Purify / Bide
Swagger / Counter / Recover / Substitute
Reflect / Safeguard / Curse(or Harden I guess) / Baton Pass
Etc. etc.
It's not an ideal team insofar as you're going to really find some things suck to fight and will be exceptionally hard to deal with just based on the fact they'll have type advantage over you and even if over-levelled you're never really going to be faster than anything. But if you'd be willing to put up with that, and as long as you can probably have a friend get you the Pokemon you need then it's still, in theory, manageable.
I reckon it would only be fair to have a friend at least trade you one to two Pokemon, not super high level of course but at least half decent, mostly so that you have at least one Pokemon with a semi-stable moveset.
Otherwise you're already about 22-27 levels into the story by the time you start hitting them, unless you can get them earlier than I know about them. I also envision the use of items like Quick Claw depending on the set of moves, or things like Focus Band if you have a Counter-based one.