Is it possible to tell what type of attacker is preferred?

Question

All my friends say they prefer Sp.Atk because they can't get cut by will-o-wisp but There are better physical moves suck as outrage knock off Earthquake Drain punch and the elemental punches rather then physhock and ice beam but I still don't know what to use I normally use 1 mixed 1 physical and 1 special but should I change it to 1 mixed and 2 special or vise versa

Comments

What pokemon is this?

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Whatever is necessary, just make sure your team is balanced  between the two. It wouldn't be an easy battle with all having all physical attackers versus a Hippowdon.

Answer 1

It totally depends. If you feel that your opponents mostly use Physically defensive Pokemon, use Physical sweepers.

Or, if they tend to use physically based ones, use a Special Pokemon.

Mostly though, when it comes to sweepers, Mixed Pokemon are preferred, such as Infernape, Salamence, Lucario and so forth.

Or else, you could use a Tank, like Blastoise or Hippowdown, or even a Wall like Lugia (if you can get that), or Amoongus, and so on.

tl;dr Go Mixed. Mixed sweepers generally have better coverage and get the job done. Only downside is that most of them are frail.