This was a 225 streak that ended with a lot of major hax
The team:
zapdos @ focus sash
Nature: Modest
IVs: 31/20/30/31/31/31
EV spread: 4 HP / 252 Sp.Attk / 252 Speed
Moveset:
~ discharge
~ thunderbolt (for when garchomp faints)
~ heat wave
~ hidden power (ice, 68 power)
This goes great with my other lead, and is the only one on my team i know the ivs for, although the rest have fairly good ivs in their chosen attacking stat and speed. The hidden power gave me a dilema, but in the end i choose ice for the pesky ground pokes that resist stab electric moves, while it also deals acceptable damage to dragons who otherwise would make all of zapdos's atack not very effective.
Garchomp @ yache berry
nature: adamant
evs: 4hp/ 252 attack/ 252 speed
moveset:
~ earthquake
~ rock slide
~ dragon claw (more reliable than outrage)
~ crunch
This guy works great with zapdos, both have 2 moves that hit both opponents without hurting each other at all. Great coverage and good speed for their attack power. They are almost never 1hitko'd excluding crits, garchomp can withstand almost any ice attack with the help of yache berry unless it is STAB ice. Zapdos cant get k0d on first turn unless they double team cause of focus sash, unless there is weather
Lucario @ life orb
nature: adamant
evs: 44hp/ 232 attack/ 232 speed (i wanted it to have a little more bulk, this usually ensures it is 3hitk0d at the most by blizzard
moveset:
~ extremespeed
~ close combat
~ shadow claw (go away froslass)
~ protect
Without this guy my team would be owned by ice teams, but he can usually turn it around with close combat, as only three ice types commonly used in BT aren't weak to it, but two are weak to shadow claw (Jynx and froslass), and the third (articuno) is 4x weak to rock and weak the electric which means zapdos and garchomp can make quick work of it. Lucario also doubles as a clean up killer with extremespeed and can hit ghosts with shadow claw who would otherwise prove problematic (it could have been crunch but garchomp has that, and it would be redundant). It has protect so garchomp and gyarados can earthquake if they need to while it's in. I was originally going to put metagross in this slot because it is more tank oriented then lucario, but metagross is dreadfully slow in my opinion, and its stab meteor mash, although strong, is neutral against the water-ice types that my team has trouble with after zapdos faints.
Gyarados @ wacan berry
nature: adamant
evs: 4hp/ 252 attack/ 252 speed
moveset:
~dragon dance
~stone edge
~waterfall
~earthquake
After a dd it rapes pretty much everything, wacan berry lets it laugh at electric attacks while it dd's in there face then downs them with earthquakes, also intimitade (the most overpowered ability in doubles) helps alot. This guy comes in before lucario unless they have ice types, but stone edge over other option so if it needs too it can deal k0s to ice types. This was origanlly going to be starmie as an ice resist pokemon, but gyarados's intimidate and the fact that lucario already resists ice makes gyarados a better option in my opinion.
My team has problems with ice teams, which i tried to cut down with lucario, but both leads are weak to it. I lost to an ice team with a little bit of hax on the side in the end.
Also, i have a problem with the lati twins. Both of them normally outspeed my leads and slam garchomp with draco meteor (which it always dies too -.-) or an ice beam(which it usually survives), and i can do little to respond to that with garchomp gone, however if a lati uses an ice attack on garchomp (they hardly ever target zapdos) garchomp will survive unless it is a crit, and then i will usually focus fire and take them out with a hidden power ice and dragon claw (sometimes i kill with crit or what not but i always focus fire to make sure they get eliminated, and never rely on dragon claw alone). The white herb latias is a bitch and would usually be able to take out zapdos and garchomp with 2 draco meteors, as hidden power ice from zapdos doesn't 1hit ko ever and if they draco meteor they target garchomp always and then they will usually target an ice attack for zapdos which i dont care because of focus sash, after a lati kills one of my pokes I switch in lucario and shadow claw/extremespeed depending on its health, this usually takes care of it, and the second poke can be a pain because obviously im not fighting just the lati, but i usually do ok, and this is just me worrying a lot :o, but most of the time i do lost at least garchomp. I know this problem could be solved by making garchomp jolly to outspeed them, but i just think the power of adamant outweighs being able to outspeed to lati twins.
*just a little fun fact- i had a battle facing typlosion infernape blaziken and swampert, i found it pretty amusing, they got raped but they tried bless them.
now to the loss:
They lead with Abomasnow and glaceon, o crap an ice team :[… first turn goes like this:
Switched garchomp to lucario, because garchomp always seems to get 1hitkod by glaceon >_>
Zapdos used heat wave! Its supereffective! Abomasnow fainted, then it missed glaceon -.-
Glaceon used blizzard! It’s a critical hit! Zapdos held on using its focus sash!
Its not very effective…lucario is frozen! (I forget the wording don’t kill me…now it doesn’t really matter how much health lucario has atm but it was a little over ½ if im pretty sure, I didn’t think I would have to remember the battle that well, it was a run of the mill ice team which my secondary two usually can handle fine…)
Great…zapdos dies to hail
I send out gyarados because glaceon still would have killed garchomp, and they send out mamoswine
I used dragon dance on gyarados thinking to set up a sweep and try to make a come back, I think I should have attacked though seeing as lucario was owned, but I was still hoping for one of those first turn defrosts :[
Gyarados used dragon dance!
Lucario is frozen solid!
Mamoswine used earthquake, I forget how much health the glaceon was left with, and it killed lucario.
Glaceon used blizzard! I think gyarados was around 1/3 hp (I don’t really remember exactly >_<)and lucario died this turn…
Good so I had a 1/3hp gyarados with my garchomp and he has 3 pokes left
Gyarados used waterfall! Lmao it missed…gf mamoswine think it might have been the brightpowder one too on top snow cloak…well I killed glaceon with garchomp (I forget what attack sorry…) and mamoswine used ice punch which didn’t kill (<3 yache berry, and the intimidate), but of course with battle tower hax garchomp was frozen!
Last poke was lapras…wonderful I now have to rely on a 80 accuracy move (stone edge) to kill lapras…(I really wanted to put wide lens but I think the benefits of wacan berry outweigh it..idk tho). Or garchomp can unfreeze!
I kill mamoswine with waterfall and garchomp dies to avalanche from lapras(obviously he doesn't unfreeze >_<)...i was relying on garchomp unfreezing to ko lapras here or else i knew i was done...
Now my gyarados is in low health from the hail damage…I look up lapras…the only one with avalanche also has ice shard F***.
Lapras used ice shard! It’s a critical hit!(just had to throw that in there i guess battle tower…im sure it would have koed without the critical…) game -.-
After garchomp froze i was really done seeing as my gyarados was low hp and it was 1 v 2 in the battle towers favor.
I shouldn't have lost this battle it was filled with hax (and 2 freezes wth is that seriously!!!)
this is a link to proof pic:
http://yfrog.com/6w1000581bj its at imageshack i tried to post using the picture thing on this, but everytime i did it was like 4x bigger than this entire post as it is right now...
now i proofread this but there still might be mistakes, and sorry if i did anything wrong but, at the time im posting this my postcount is a whopping 3, so, as you can see, im new at this.