Tlaltecuhtli – Peaked #1
According to Aztec mythology, the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca were to create the world at the origin of time, before the First era, or sun. But the earthly monster Tlaltecuhtli was destroying everything they were creating. The gods turned themselves into giant serpents and wrapped their bodies around the goddess until they broke her body in two.
The top part of Tlaltecuhtli's body became the earth, mountains and rivers; her hair became trees and flowers; her eyes caves and wells. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca also gave her the gift of providing humans with whatever they need from her body. However, the Earth Goddess often claims some form of tributes, through human blood, in order to keep producing what humans needs.
Tlaltecuhtli swallows the sun every night and regurgitates it back out in the morning. She swallows the hearts of victims sacrificed to her, so it was common to carve images of her on the bottom of stone boxes in which the hearts and blood of sacrificial victims where placed after being ripped from their bodies.
The top part of Tlaltecuhtli's body became the earth, mountains and rivers; her hair became trees and flowers; her eyes caves and wells. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca also gave her the gift of providing humans with whatever they need from her body. However, the Earth Goddess often claims some form of tributes, through human blood, in order to keep producing what humans needs.
Tlaltecuhtli swallows the sun every night and regurgitates it back out in the morning. She swallows the hearts of victims sacrificed to her, so it was common to carve images of her on the bottom of stone boxes in which the hearts and blood of sacrificial victims where placed after being ripped from their bodies.
Overview:
When making this team I was really focusing on trying to become as anti-metagame as possible, with my main focus on Arceus-Rock. Of the new Pokémon introduced and preexisting ones being buffed – Kyurem-B, Kyurem-W, Ho-Oh, Lugia, Latios, Latias – Arceus Rock, with sand support, is able to easily beat all of them, if not outright hard counter them. He was also a good counter to the way too overused Extreme Killer, and is not helpless to one of sands arch nemesis – Groudon. From there I built my team, preferring a more defensive build, while still being able to put offensive pressure on my opponent. And now, I present to you: Tlatecuhtli
The Team:
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 76 Atk / 180 SpD
Sassy Nature (+SpD, -Spe)
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Low Kick
- Fire Blast
In all honesty, Tyranitar is pretty shitty in the Uber metagame as some of the top threats just rape him, but I will still prefer him any day of the week over Hippowdon as he does have some notable niches. He is able to help deal with spinblockers, along with Excadrill to ensure the onslaught of Ho-Oh is unpreventable. He is able to trap weakened Scarf Kyogre spamming Ice Beam, to help me win the weather war. Honestly, I would not use Tyranitar if he could not summon sand or take annoying crap such as Dark Void so that I do not have to sacrifice another one of my Pokémon. All in all, it is important to try to use Tranitar’s strengths to the best of your ability, like trapping that annoying Latias or Lugia, as otherwise he has very little use in the Ubers metagame because Kyogre and Groudon are just waiting to blast him.
Excadrill @ Life Orb
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Rapid Spin
When making a sand team Excadrill is almost a requirement. He has that blazing speed, and resistant to Extremespeed that makes him an amazing revenge killer, access to Swords Dance (which I hardly ever use), which makes him a deadly sweeper, and finally he is the ultimate rapid spinner. It is mainly his rapid spinning skills along with being an amazing revenge killing skills that I focus on (he has a lot of skills). A reliable rapid spinner is just what Ho-Oh dreams of (yes, Excadrill drills Ho-Oh, that player) and together they have nice offensive synergy. While I often use him as a late game cleaner he is a great check to many of the most notable sweepers in the tier such as the before mentioned Extremekiller and others such as Darkrai.
Latias @ Soul Dew
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Dragon Pulse
I put Latias on my team for one reason and one reason only: bloated whales. This Latias is able to take any attack from Kyogre and (eventually) return with a hard-hitting Dragon Pulse without being completely useless. (I’m looking at you Gastrodon) She carries Substitute over something else potentially useful such as Roar to protect against random shit such as Thunder Wave and so I have a “safe move.” I really only have trouble if my opponent’s team carries some stupid combination such as Kyogre and CB Tyranitar, but even then, I have Substitute to help protect me.
Ho-Oh @ Leftovers
Trait: Regenorator
EVs: 204 HP / 252 Atk / 52 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Substitute
- Recover
- Brave Bird
- Sacred Fire
Honestly, I didn’t really want to reveal the EV spread that I use because once you go black you never go back. (if you didn’t get that he leaves the opponent’s team blackened) He is my main sweeper on this team because he really does have not any safe switch-ins, and he is still bulky enough to take random Draco Meteors and Recover off the damage. I decided that it would probably not be best to go Max speed because you are still only sitting at base 90, but I wanted enough defense so that my Subs would not break to even STABed Dragon Tails. With this spread he reaches 404 HP so he can still set up on blobs that are not blue blobs, and then proceed to strike the blue blobs from above. Max attack is nice because you really don’t want your main sweeper to be as weak as shit. Regenerator is just icing on that cake so that if I substitute to scout and then switch out I do not lose any HP.
Dialga @ Leftovers
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 56 SpA / 200 SpD
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Roar
Dialga wins the prize on my team for being the Pokémon most commonly KIA on my team. (Yes Pokémon DO die in battle; Nurse Joy is just like mom telling you your goldfish that was floating on its back this morning woke up that afternoon) I most commonly use Dialga as my lead so that I can set up Stealth Rock quickly and because he almost is never OHKOed by one attack. Roar is because too many stupid people use Dragon Tail, so people assume their Pokémon behind a Sub is safe. Finally Fire Blast is to destroy Fortress thinking that they can safely set up on Dialga. Dialga is probably one of my favorite Pokémon in Ubers and should be on every team because it really is that useful.
Arceus-Rock @ Stone Plate
Trait: Multitype
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
- Calm Mind
- Judgment
- Recover
- Will-O-Wisp
Finally I present to you the reason why I built this team (and the reason why you had to listen to my stupid, pointless, off topic, just flat out annoying rants). Rock Arceus really got a huge boost in the BW2 metagame because he can check and counter sooo many Pokémon. He can beat most of the other Arceus forms in the sand, as that Special Defense boost never becomes so apparent and passive damage is really useful in this situation. He is able to wall from both sides of the spectrum while still providing offensive momentum for my team making him with out a doubt the star of my team.
You probably thought from the title that this was going to be a serious RMT, but I tricked you. Threat list coming when I am not so lazy and do not say this team has an Excadrill weakness, I have a sixth sense for Excadrill and he is cursed to always fail against me.
