Beware the Medic

Hey everyone, I got another team here today. This one has been getting me pretty consistent wins thus far, and thought it would be nice to show it to the community :D The main focus is Blissey, as she often takes out about 2-3 pokes each match (no she's no sweeper, just one hell of a wall). Hopefully I'll get the Images to work right this time.


Jirachi serves as a wonderful lead/scout/anti-dragon. With scarf it can outspeed most of the tier, and can use U-turn to switch in others comfortably, hurt psychics, and escape Magnezones. Fire and Ice punch both serve as great moves to harm various threats such as scizor, ferrothorn, dragons, and landorus, and with serene grace, I'm likely to get of a burn or freeze. Iron head works as flinch STAB.


Blissey works as a major staple on my team, and with wish she can fully heal just about everyone on my team no matter how low of health. With Def investment she is no longer threatened by other physical sweepers. Toxic and Protect is useful against just about any major threat, as long as it's not steel, though I have some good counters with that. With Wish she can just stall out toxiced threats, and Seismic toss gives her a way to do some extra damage if needed. She's the perfect special wall, and only dropped 35% on a dragon gem'd draco meteor from a latios. I mainly focus on her because a friend of mine said she was useless and I wanted to prove him wrong :D


Donphan works mainly as my Def wall, but also works as my stealth rocker. It does have the potential of spinning off hazards, though I haven't had many good opportunities to do so. Roar can juggle out pokes to deal rock damage, or (and I use it mainly for this) to push out D-Dancers or other similar pokes to break their set ups. Earthquake is basic stab and makes him a potent choice to switch in to on pokes like T-Tar. He's usually the first to die on my team, but will die having removed maybe 1 physical threat and setting up rocks.


Alakazam serves as a potent special sweeper, and with it's great movepool can comfortably damage most if not all pokes in the tier. Psyshock is its basic STAB and is a great counter to special walls like blissey. Shadow Ball can hurt ghost and mean ol psychics like Jellicient, Latias, and other Alakazam. Focus Blast can hurt lots of things, but is mainly useful as a means to hurting pursuit users like T-Tar and Scizor that happen to switch in. HP Ice finishes up this set by providing coverage on dragons and the "us's" (Thundurus, Landorus, and Tornadus). Focus Sash guarantees it a hit, and Magic Guard keeps it safe from dropping HP from hazards and afflictions. I would like to point out that with its Timid nature, Alakazam is able to outspeed Most Gengar.


Breloom Serves as a specific Physical Sweeper, as in it will mainly be used to counter Rain teams and other Water threats. With technician and Life orb, all it's moves are dangerous. Mach punch serves as a revenge move, and Low sweep can get more damage off while lowering the speed of switch ins. Bullet Seed does an insane amount of damage with Tech boost, and Spore is great when a serious threat comes in, allowing me to switch out to a better alternative. When Life orb starts dealing the hurt, I can switch to Blissey and set up a wish to fill it back up with HP.


Mamoswine works as a physical sweeper who can hurt some of the guys breloom cannot, and can get off alot more damage with it being Choice Banded. Ice Shard is the perfect threat to Dragons and Landorus, but I can switch to Icicle Crash if I need to get off more damage, though I think I'll switch it for Stone Edge or something as I have yet to use it. Earthquake is a great STAB with amazing coverage, and Superpower has yet to fail me thus far.

So that's the team. If you want to see it in action I just uploaded a video to my youtube account http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YFZL04kaM It really shows everyone's strength, well except for Breloom. He dies fast :(. Thanks for reading :D

Hi. I like your team a lot, the only think I'd change is that Alakazam. Alakazam is, in my opinion, a strange kind of revenge killer, since it's fast, it can take a hit no matter what, and has good power and coverage to take down many common threat. However, your team already have two priority user and a Scarf, so having another poke devoted to revenge killing seems highly redundant, and the limited power Alakazam has (which is quite clear in your replay) prevents it to really attempt to sweep. Furthermore, your team is quite weak to Water (and to a lesser extent Grass) attacks: Keldeo can OHKO many of your pokes if wielding a Choice Specs, resists everything Jirachi can throw at it, and doesn't care too much about Ice Shard (only Mach Punch from Breloom has a shot at revenging it, however as you noted Breloom is frail and easily crippled). The best way to solve these problems is, in my opinion, to substitute Alakazam with an Offensive Latios. Latios has a great typing, resisting Keldeo and Breloom's STABs, and has a good amount of special bulk to back up those resistances, even inf uninvested. Furthermore, it has good speed and huge offensive potential, partially covering Alakazam's role (it can do so for everything below 110 base speed) and serving as a good wallbreaker for your other pokes to sweep. The item choice is up to you; since you have Blissey to grant Wishes for your pokes, Choice Specs can be used to achieve maximum power, to have a way to cripple walls (Trick) abd to avoid additional damage in the form of LO recoil; however, LO allows you to rely on self-recovery (Roost) which may be tempting.


The only other modifcations I'd do on your team are: switch from CB to Life Orb on your Mamoswine. Being able to switch moves is a huge boon on such a pokemon, which is otherwise forced out rather often if it's locked into something. Your team already handles well residual damage thanks to Wish and Spin support, so that's not really a concern, and the power drop is not that big anyway. The second one is to try Swords Dance on Breloom instead of Low Sweep. You currently have no set-up sweepers, and while they're not that much required in such a fast paced and offensive metagame like the current one, however SD Breloom is still very competitive and can take down a huge amount of threats after a SD, which can save you the day against more defensively inclined teams that may be able to absorb your attaks somehow. THis last one is more of an opinion than a suggestion, so feel fre to disregard it if you are satisfied with your current Breloom set.

Hope I helped somewhat. Good luck.