I did make a rain team with manaphy, i played about 16 games all around 1400-1500 range(final rating i got was 1535) climbed from 1380 lost 5 games(4 with an actual user who knows how to use alolan ninetales, 1 to walking wake(my manaphy died so had nothing to counter wake)) Here is the team I used(with short detail on each member):im still mad at this bc setsu whooped my ass with this on ladder but besides that this mons a freak man. tail glow + surf + dgleam + filler is very nutty and not hard to pilot and win with, other sets like take heart resttalk are p bad and imo is kinda a waste of the mon that manaphy can be. waiting until someone cooks rain with this tho but unfort veil is everywhere on the planet atm
https://pokepast.es/d68ed01cb105c5e2
starting with
obviously to setup rain, u turn to absorb damage and switch,roost for recovery, knock for utility, surf for some dmg.
is good to take on other electric types, defeats tusk with hurricane, t-wave for utility and u-turn over volt switch because of so many ground types, tera poison lets it counter enamorus, ironval, and makes it immune to toxic.
hits many things very hard and flip turn helps it keep momentum on its resists, psychic fang is for water absorb clodsire, pex and other poison types.
is there to clean everything left, tera grass over tera water solely to tank a grassy glide from rilla and ko it with ice beam(it has to be weakened tho, this works if you can predict rilla switching in or if it is weakened by hazard) hydro pump or surf depends on you.
is there for gambit things
and finally,
is there to switch in on resists or status moves, set up, tera grass against rilla or rotom-w and go on the rampage, try keeping it above 50% health before rain runs out.(forgot to mention the nature in pokepaste but its timid nature)
unfortunately, this team is weak to walking wake(tho not completely dead to it), and a-ninetales(try to keep your pelipper alive against it) i won against 4 a-ninetales and lost against 4, sadly i didn't save any such replays but you got to either kill ninetales early or switch pelipper before it sets up veil.
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