Introduction:
The "Double Dragon and Speed of Light Plant under Sun" Team is a Drought team based on three very good offensive pokémons: Venusaur, Salamence and Dragonite. I used it under the alt of Shyriu.Excalibur on Smogon to peak 1341 points in the 127 position.
Despite the fact it is a "Drought Dragon" team, it started as a thematic team around Shiryu, my favourite character of "Saint Seiya". Following the thematic idea, I've based my team using Dragon and Fighting Pokémons, but as I was seeing it problems, it evolved into this Drought and Double Dragon team.
Although this team has reached 1341 on the Smogon ladder, it has one very clear weakness: Ice. The main threat is Mamoswine, with its strong Ice Shard, because 5 of my 6 monsters are weak to Ice, but usually Venusaur can survive to Ice Shard and 1HKO back with Solarbeam, Dugtrio can also kill Mamoswine in some situations, and Dragonite too with ExtremeSpeed.
General Explanation of the Team:
Drought team, Venusaur is the main star and Runs Timid with 172 Speed EVs to outspeed Scarf Jolly Terrakion, also in the offensive troop there is a Double Dragon group with ScarfMoxieSalamence and Offensive DDNite. Dugtrio and Ninetales are the main weather pokémons, summoning the Sunlight and Trapping and destroying the other weather summoners. The last Pokémon is Donphan, that is a spinner, the main Stealth Rock-user and is good to revenge kill dragons and also sweepers with Sturdy+Earthquake (+Ice Shard).
The Team:
Ninetales (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Drought
EVs: 232 HP / 128 SAtk / 148 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Fire Blast
- SolarBeam
- Roar
- Sunny Day
Of course Ninetales is a must because of its ability of calling the Sunlight, when it's a weather war I must keep it safe as much as possible in order to have the Sunlight up to sweep with Venusaur, Donphan Rapid Spin and Dugtrio Arena Trap are helpers to Ninetales job. Roar is usually for Gorebyss take I can usually hit with Solarbeam as it Shell Smash and Roar as it Baton Pass, against Ninjask it's really fun too. Fire Blast and SolarBeam are attacks and Sunny Day is to help keeping the weather usually against Politoed to do some Sunny Day + SolarBeam sometimes on them.
Dugtrio (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
- Reversal
Dugtrio, a really good weather support, it traps and kill Tyranitar so well, also helps with Politoed, but Dugtrio is MORE much more than a weather support, it traps some important Counters of Venusaur-Dragonite-Salamence as Heatran, Jirachi and Blissey. Also, Dugtrio can set Stealth Rock and cripple Ferrothorn.
Dragonite (M) @ Lum Berry
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Outrage
- Dragon Dance
- Earthquake
- ExtremeSpeed
This is the first member of my offensive trio, Offensive DDNite is a Monster, it's so amazing. MultiScale makes it so easy to set up at least one Dragon Dance, and ExtremeSpeed makes it hard to be revenge-killed by Scarf Pokémons. Dragonite can also works just to came ExtremeSpeed and return to later Dragon Dance.
Donphan (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rapid Spin
- Ice Shard
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
Donphan is a Pokémon that I really love, with Sturdy it is a realiable Rapid Spinner, and can set Stealth Rock. Also with it high Atk Stat it is really good to Ice Shard on the popular Dragons. Also Sturdy + Earthquake is good to kill a lot of sweepers such as SDLucario, CMJirachi, and others.
Salamence (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Outrage
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Brick Break
ScarfMoxieMence, a incredible Pokémon that can sweep and is really fast, putting Salamence against a weakened is a incredible fact that can give you some advantage on the battle, Spamming its Outrage is something really good. One fact that I thing Salamence is sometimes overpowered is that he can set himself up without spend a turn using Dragon Dance, he can just Attack hard and see his attack stat skyrocketting to +1, +2, +3. Flamethower is to kill some Skarmories and Ferrothorns, Earthquake hit Jirachi and Heatran, and Brick Break is a strategy move to break Double Screens.
Venusaur (M) @ Wide Lens
Trait: Chlorophyll
EVs: 84 HP / 252 SAtk / 172 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- SolarBeam
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Growth
- Sleep Powder
Last but not Least, the Main Star, Venusaur, this pokémon under the sun is one of the best sweepers ever, the use of Sleep Powder then Growth than Hidden Power Fire/SolarBeam is really incredible and can sweep entire teams alone. Of course sometimes Sleep Powder is a bit annoying because of its low accuracy, so I use Wide Lens because I REALLY HATE when Sleep Powder misses and it can be the diference if a Win or a Lose. As ScarfTerrakion are so common I had to use Timid Nature and 172 Speed EVs to guarantee that I would outspeed Terrakion, this is very good because some teams only use Terrakion to stop Venusaur. 84 HP EVs may seem non-sense but it helps to survive Ice Shards and BandScizor Bullet Punches and 1HKO them back with SolarBeam/Hidden Power Fire.
Main Threats:
-> Tyranitar
-> Politoed
-> Abomasnow
-> Mamoswine
-> Blissey
-> Heatran
-> HIPPOWDON