Genesect and Heatran aren't enemies! They are Friends!

Hello people from smogon! I am moderately new to this metagame as this is my 2nd RMT. I played a little bit of 4th gen during the post salamence ban era. I took a break off of the game and went back and played for a month during the Deoxys-S legal era. Now I'm back, playing a lot more often and starting to learn that i have a preference for hyper hyper offense which fits the bw2 metagame well. On my first RMT, i noticed that i hardly had anything to fall back on most of the time. When I built this team, I made sure I could have a very strong offense while take a lot of common attacks at the same time.

Lets get started!


Genesect @ Choice Band
Trait: Download
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- U-turn
- Iron Head
- Flame Charge
- Return
CB Genesect is my 2nd favorite underrated set (GO CURSE FERROTHORN). Choice Banded Genesect's U-Turn hurts. Flame Charge really helps against Ferrothorn and Forretress as well as gaining the speed to match that of choice scarf gensect. Iron head is it's primary Stab attack and return is there since it makes no pokemon able to resist every single one of my moves.



Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Overheat
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Gen 4 nostalgia, anyone? Scarfed Overheat Heatran can kill a lot of people unprepared for this threat. Even more people are unprepared for this thing after seeing Genesect in team preview. They would be thinking "So genesect has that scarf. He's probably the only one." SUPRISE OVERHEAT YOUR POKES DIE AND FAIL YOU. Thats what you get for underestimating this beast. Lava Plume is an option if you dont wanna use Overheat. Earth Power and HP Grass are for coverage.



Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Trait: Storm Drain
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Recover
- Toxic
- Earth Power
- Clear Smog

Gastrodon can be the bane of the existence of many teams. Gastrodon has a water immunity and electric immunity and has only one weakness which my team can cover very easily. Gastrodon has the capability of walling people and can Poison enemies, then start spamming recover if the enemy does less than 56.25% to you. Earth Power is there to cover Steel types that are immune to poison and Clear smog stops enemies from setting up.



Breloom @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Spore
- Swords Dance
- Mach Punch
- Bullet Seed

Breloom is one of the pokes that do fill my weaknesses really well. It is the standard techniloom set and gives me revenge killing and sash breaking capabilities. Breloom is such an unquestionable beast and has the capability of sweeping unprepared teams. The set is standard so it needs no explanation.



Golurk @ Focus Sash
Trait: No Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Ice Punch
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Punch
- DynamicPunch

From something standard to something not standard. Golurk has the ability to get SR up well and still pack an powerful punch. Think of it like Machamp that spinblocks, has stealth rock, and OHKO Ferrothorn and Forretress, and check garchomp. However, the thing is a lot more frail and thats why i need a sash.
Ice Punch beats Dragon Types well. Fire Punch beats enemy hazard setters, No guard dynamic punch gives it a Machamp Feel, and SR is an important thing.



Nidoking @ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power

That's my coverage. Sheer Force Life orb is really strong and Nidoking has great coverage and rounds up my team amazingly. I think this set needs no explanation and Nidoking provides a lot of resistances too.

Free for any rates. Thank you for reading.

When Gastrodon dies, yoour team is very week to water.
Nidoking? needs no explanation? using a UU pokemon in OU needs NO explanation? Every pokemon needs explanation on every team.
Anyway id suggest losing Golurk for a Landorus T. Stealth Rock and similar typing + 8etter a8ility as well as more damage as a 8ase 150ish attack stat is awesome!
Also as Nidoking is for coverage id use a Latios.
Latios resists water, fire, electric and grass. so it works well with your weeknesses.

The Sets:

Landorus-T @ Expert Belt
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 244 HP / 64 Atk / 200 Def
Nature: Adamant (+Atk,-SpA)
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-U-turn
-Stealth Rock

Latios @ life or8
Trait: Levitate
Evs: 252 Spe/ 252 SpA/ 4 hP
nATURE: Timid
-Draco Meteor
-Surf
-Hidden Power [fire]
-Roost/ recover

Clear Smog < Stockpile on Gastrodon
This will make you a pain as with good typing its easy to gra8 the stockpile. Toxic wears them down. And recover is just annoying.

Hope I helped.

Hey, cool team you have there. However I agree with the above poster, your team struggles against Water attacks after Gastrodon is gone. While the ability to shut down Water + Electric coverage is nice, Gastrodon can do absolutely nothing against Keldeo, thus not being that great even in the role of Water absorber. I'd suggesto to replace it with a Specially Defensive Jellicent, that gives you the Water protection you need without being raped by Secret Sword, and it can take most of those nasty Electric attacks anyway (for instance: +1 248 SpA Genesect Thunder: 264-312 (65.34 - 77.22%); 252 SpA Choice Specs Rotom-W Volt Switch: 212-252 (52.47 - 62.37%), which may seem a lot but it means you can take one to scout attacks or if you really need to, Recover, and switch to an immunity. Also it laughs at Starmie's attempts to take it down), and you still have 1 resistance and 2 immunities, so with decent prediction it shouldn't be a problem. You may be afraid to see two Pursuit weaknesses in the same team, but that's not really a problem since TTar won't Pursuit any of those two easily (OHKO'd by Golurk and burned by Jellicent). This won't fix completely your weakness to Water, but at least is less susceptible to common attackers that can come in without problems on Gastrodon and cause huge troubles to your team (read: CB Scizor, SubDD Dragonite, SubDD Gyarados; all of those could easily switch in and either cripple with CB U-Turn or start DDing since Clear Smog doesn't work if the're behind a Sub).


Also, I'd like to suggest switching from Nidoking to Sheer Force Landorus. It hits harder, has better typing, much more power behind its attacks, very decent coverage (not on the level of Nidoking but still enough to hurt almost everything) and sits on a better speed bracket compared to Nido. While ability to absorb Toxic Spikes is indeed nice, the fact that it lets your team with 2 ground weaknesses, only 1 resistance (which is weak defensively anyway) and zero immunities is too bad to be ignored, thus the Flying typing of Lando is immensely helpful. You can opt to run Substitute or Rock Polish instead of a fourth coverage move, giving you a very decent added sweeper if your Breloom dies to something unexpectedly.


Other little nitpicks: Lava Plume is too weak on ScarfTran, and while I encourage the use of two Fire attacks to enable late game sweeps, you should opt for Flamethrower or Fire Blast, that can deal enough damage to actually hurt things. Lava Plume can be useful in veeeery situational cases for the burn chance (Dugtrio comes to mind), but those are very rare and don't justify a sub par move at all. Also, Techniloom doesn't make great use of 252 HP EVs; without defensive investment it WILL be KOed regardless, and without speed, it's even weak to many things it could beat before. I suggest a 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe spread, for the reasons that I just exposed. Lastly, I see no reason to run unstabbed DynamicPunch on Golurk when you could run Iron Fist, that gives a sizable bonus to your coverage options, and go for a STAB Earthquake.

Hope it helps. Good luck with your team.

EnterRAYZORS said:

When Gastrodon dies, yoour team is very week to water.
Nidoking? needs no explanation? using a UU pokemon in OU needs NO explanation? Every pokemon needs explanation on every team.
Anyway id suggest losing Golurk for a Landorus T. Stealth Rock and similar typing + 8etter a8ility as well as more damage as a 8ase 150ish attack stat is awesome!
Also as Nidoking is for coverage id use a Latios.
Latios resists water, fire, electric and grass. so it works well with your weeknesses.

The Sets:

Landorus-T @ Expert Belt
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 244 HP / 64 Atk / 200 Def
Nature: Adamant (+Atk,-SpA)
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-U-turn
-Stealth Rock

Latios @ life or8
Trait: Levitate
Evs: 252 Spe/ 252 SpA/ 4 hP
nATURE: Timid
-Draco Meteor
-Surf
-Hidden Power [fire]
-Roost/ recover

Clear Smog < Stockpile on Gastrodon
This will make you a pain as with good typing its easy to gra8 the stockpile. Toxic wears them down. And recover is just annoying.

Hope I helped.

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I meant that the set needed no explanation its a pretty common set altogether lol. Gastrodon learned stockpile? What was I doing with Clear Smog? Im absolutely gonna change that. Landorus-T is a fine and nice option over Golurk. However, I like the spinblocking capabilities that Golurk has since SR can wear down switches against Breloom since what Grass/Fighting cant hit Rock can. And Latios, i used to run nidoking and Latios on the same team and they were both beasts. Latios probably scarier though. I was kinda too paranoid for my Gastrodon to get poisoned so i had a toxic spike remover. Thanks for the rate. 8888888888888

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