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Shurtugal · Oct 3rd, 2012, 3:18:10 PM

Team looks cool.

My thoughts when viewing the team:

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Hey! Duggy + Sun is a bitch to this team, commonly known as Lavos Sun. Lavos Sun will Duggy Jirachi, Genesect, and Venu. It's really hard to come up with a solid change, I would go to Virizion first but its a must-have member against rain. I really want to change your Politoed spread. Does it get any extra kills? (EDIT: as in tornadus-t) Jirachi is a safe go-to for him anyway and getting the surprise kill on him isn't worth losing much needed bulk against sun teams. So unless you got a better reason (and feel free to correct me ;]) for using Scarf Toed, I recommend your classic defensive one. The set is better for fighting sun and keeping weather up in general and I feel it would be better for this team since sun is a bitch and you NEED to win the weather war.

Wish is o.k. on Jirachi I guess, but it isn't really needed. So its preference changes, but you can always switch Wish for something like Icy Wind, Iron Head, Body Slam, etc. if you find any holes in the team.

Er, Genesect is a bitch to this team. Any Genesect that is specially oriented will give you problems, considering your like 3 pokes ice weak. Gene + Duggy itself can flat-out laugh at you. I just want to say that you need to constantly spam U-turn with Jirachi in order to prevent these situations, and also Gene has flamethrower which will make your life miserable. Nothing, not even Kyreum - who fears +1 Bug Buzz - can switch into any of his attacks. So what I'm going to is suggest a mile of things for you to switch:

Firstly, switch banded Virizion for banded Terrakion, which hits harder and can also take most of Gene's attacks. With that said, your exposed to rain, so replace Xatu for Rotom-W. With physical bulk in Politoed and Lando's resistances, you don't need that much fighting resist for the team. Rotom-W will still had core wall most things in rain, and alsonside Kyreum, you should be fine. Banded Terrakion hits things like Skarm much harder too, which makes it a suffiecent counter to SkarmBliss as well, standalone. Stone Edge also hits Dragons like DNite who you fail to hit hard with except for slow Kyreum with.

on a final note, switch Wish for Icy Wind, or Iron Head, as Dragons will try to set up and Jirachi is your main wall, so you want to punish them if they try to set up on you. Good team and I hoped I helped. From reading your RMT, I have full confidence that I don't need to submit any sets for you, since you can probably do that on your own. GL!

EDIT: Duggy will still be hard to counter, just play smartly and hopefully Rotom-W or Kyreum can smash it. Also, I think Terrak can live a single EQ at +0.

Shurt

Oct 3rd, 2012, 3:18:10 PM	#2
Shurtugal Teach love to all the little birds! Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 819 Florida	Team looks cool. My thoughts when viewing the team: ... Looks like a solid team. Why Virizion? Oh, nice way to combat rain teams! Like the idea. Why is he using rain though? Sun looks like a problem and scarf toed is too weak to combat sun. Kyreum looks like it can, but venu's hits are probably going to hurt at least. Other dragons on sun teams would very much put him in a stuggle? How can I fix that? Lets move on, Jirachi. Like the set, but nothing outright abuses the wish passing, kind of like nothing benefits from rain other than Virizion and a very weak way to combat sun. He needs SR though, so I can see why he uses it. Maybe weak to other hazards? But he has Xatu? .-. Lando is a way to fight sun IF it can set up a RP first, so I guess it isn't that problematic? Lets see, what can I do to help this team? Hey! Duggy + Sun is a bitch to this team, commonly known as Lavos Sun. Lavos Sun will Duggy Jirachi, Genesect, and Venu. It's really hard to come up with a solid change, I would go to Virizion first but its a must-have member against rain. I really want to change your Politoed spread. Does it get any extra kills? (EDIT: as in tornadus-t) Jirachi is a safe go-to for him anyway and getting the surprise kill on him isn't worth losing much needed bulk against sun teams. So unless you got a better reason (and feel free to correct me ;]) for using Scarf Toed, I recommend your classic defensive one. The set is better for fighting sun and keeping weather up in general and I feel it would be better for this team since sun is a bitch and you NEED to win the weather war. Wish is o.k. on Jirachi I guess, but it isn't really needed. So its preference changes, but you can always switch Wish for something like Icy Wind, Iron Head, Body Slam, etc. if you find any holes in the team. Er, Genesect is a bitch to this team. Any Genesect that is specially oriented will give you problems, considering your like 3 pokes ice weak. Gene + Duggy itself can flat-out laugh at you. I just want to say that you need to constantly spam U-turn with Jirachi in order to prevent these situations, and also Gene has flamethrower which will make your life miserable. Nothing, not even Kyreum - who fears +1 Bug Buzz - can switch into any of his attacks. So what I'm going to is suggest a mile of things for you to switch: Firstly, switch banded Virizion for banded Terrakion, which hits harder and can also take most of Gene's attacks. With that said, your exposed to rain, so replace Xatu for Rotom-W. With physical bulk in Politoed and Lando's resistances, you don't need that much fighting resist for the team. Rotom-W will still had core wall most things in rain, and alsonside Kyreum, you should be fine. Banded Terrakion hits things like Skarm much harder too, which makes it a suffiecent counter to SkarmBliss as well, standalone. Stone Edge also hits Dragons like DNite who you fail to hit hard with except for slow Kyreum with. on a final note, switch Wish for Icy Wind, or Iron Head, as Dragons will try to set up and Jirachi is your main wall, so you want to punish them if they try to set up on you. Good team and I hoped I helped. From reading your RMT, I have full confidence that I don't need to submit any sets for you, since you can probably do that on your own. GL! EDIT: Duggy will still be hard to counter, just play smartly and hopefully Rotom-W or Kyreum can smash it. Also, I think Terrak can live a single EQ at +0. Shurt __________________ If you want your team rated; feel free to PM or VM me for your own, personalized rate! If you want to learn how to battle and win; check out my guide! Feel free to check out my team in OU that peaked #1!