I never had a really good Rain team before. There were too many things to choose from and just 6 spots avalaible(5 with Politoed) and I didn't know what to choose for the team to work at his best. What is interesting about this team is Feraligatr that is surprinsgly good in this meta , a lot of teams are unprepared for this beast.
TEAM BUILDING PROCCES
The Team
Politoed @ Choice Specs
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power [Grass]
If you want a rain team you need Politoed. This is my favorite Politoed set: Choice Sepcs Rain Boosted Hydro Pump hits like a truck. Yeah , it's not even close to the power of Keldeo or Starmie but still 2HKO most Deoxys-D. I usually lead with him because rain is very important for team. I'm using HP Grass because it lets me beat Gastrodon (rare) and kill weakened Water types. 252 HP let's him survive some hits so he could spam more Hydro Pumps/last longer in weather war. Random fact: Choice Scarf Modest Genesect with Attack(not special attack) Boost fail to OHKO this Politoed with THUNDER and Politoed OHKOs back in the rain!
Tornadus-Therian (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 252 Spd / 4 Atk / 252 SAtk
Hasty Nature
- U-turn
- Hurricane
- Superpower
- Rain Dance
This is a weird Tornadus-T set , isn't it? If I lost the weather war and his weather inducer is death too (or if I need to screw some sun/sand abusers like Venusaur) Rain Dance Tornadus-T is here to save the day. After he summon the Rain he could: a) U-Turn for into another Pokemon to finish the oponent or b) SPAM HURRICANES! I also choosed Superpower over Focus Blast to nail Heatran and the Pink Blobs and because i hate miss! He is my only SR weak Pokemon but Regenerator kinda makes for it and it doesn't really need a spinner to perform well.
Breloom @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Adamant Nature
- Spore
- Low Sweep
- Mach Punch
- Bullet Seed
This guy! THIS GUY IS AMAZING! It's great against Hail , Sandstorm and other Rain teams. I prefer Low Sweep over SD because it gives another STAB to abuse , it lowers oponent's speed so I can kill it after switch (with SR it 2HKO Tornadus-T on the switch). Prority Technician Mach Punch is cool to weaken threats and let's Feraligatr beat them easily with Aqua Jet. 100% sleep inducing move is also cool so if something looks dangerous to my team => put it asleep. Bullet Seed is obvious Grass STAB that is boosted by Technician so after 2 hits it's something like base 75 Power Grass type or even more if he hits more than 2 times (187 BP if Bullet Seed hits 5 times!). Breloom also benefits from rain , so he is no more weak to fire so bonus for Breloom!
Latios (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Surf
- Trick
This Pokemon is really helpful for this team. It outruns Scarf Keldeo , Scarf Terrakion , Venusaur under the Sun and KO them most of time before they punch holes though my team. Because Fire Moves are nerfed under the Rain HP Fire doesn't really help Latios to KO Scizor or Genesect on the switch , and dpes nothing to Ferrothorn so I think Surf is better for Latios in this situation. Surf gets Pseudo Boost to hurt harder steel types that resists Draco Meteor (except for Ferrothorn and Empoleon and lol Dialga) , also he is not walled by Heatran. Trick is there to make useless walls that Latios can't pass like Jellicent or Ferrothorn.
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spd
- Bulldoze
- Power Whip
- Stealth Rock
- Thunder Wave
When you use a rain team , things like Starmie or Kingdra become really scary. Ferothorn is here to be sure Kingdra will not spam his moves to my team. BUT because Kingdra means Magnezone we should have a surprise for him , shall we? Bulldoze is here to laugh in the face of Magnezone. Power Whip is to hurt some Water types or even to score some KOs agaisnt some weakened mons. And because every team needs SR , there is SR and Twave is helping a lot to be easier to revenge things like Scar Latios.
Feraligatr @ Mystic Water
Trait: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Aqua Jet
- Crunch
- Superpower
There it is - the star of the show. Who needs Sheer Force? Feraligatr is a SHEER FORCE! After a SD and with rain support, Aqua Jet will hit everithing like a truck! With 252HP you had enough bulk to pull a SD and to survive some hits. After his primars checks are removed or weakened enough , start spamming Aqua Jet. With Crunch and Superpower , Ferrothorn and Jellicent , two pokemons that usually stop Feraligatr will die. But what about other bulky water types? They fall to Crunch , after SD , most bulky water types are 2HKO or 3HKO and they can't do much back just spamming scalds... and getting lucky burns. It become even more fun when Feraligatr is in the Torrent range - that's why I'm using Mystic Water and not Life Orb: it destroy the fun of spamming Rain Torrent SD boosted Aqua Jets. But with just Aqua Jet for STAB is safe to use Feraligatr without Waterfall? Well Feraligatr is too slow to do anything with Waterfall anyway. I recomand Feraligatr for everyone , you will not be disapointed!
Final Words
This is the team. Is based a lot around revenge killing , and things like Genesect are easily played by this team. I can't really found a big threat to my team , sometimes HO Volt-turn is hard to play against but is not impossible. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed my RMT , so rate and tell me if there is someting that could work better for team etc.
I wanted to built a team around a really interesting core I've found on forum(credit for this core goes to PryorConvictions). It was a core containing 3 water types: Politoed , Keldeo and Feraligatr.
Then I slapped 3 other random mons that works good in and for rain. First was Tornadus-T because it is obligatory in a Rain Offense Team.
The weakness to Electric and Grass was obvious so I added Ferrothorn to help with synergy and for hazards.
And lastly I added Dugtrio to trap other weather inducers. IDK what it was in my mind to add Dugtrio without a spinner. Focus Sash Dugtrio was really meh with the lack of a spinner.
The team was kinda good but there were some problems. First Dugtrio , with the lack of a spinner, he doesn't perform so well. OFC I could add a spinner but i really didn't want another water mon (Tentacruel or Starmie) and Donphan or Forry didn't looked so appealing to the team. I replaced Duggy with LO Tank Latias to help me with the sun teams.
The team looked better after those changes. But something I didn't liked... weakness to Ferrothorn + sometimes having 3 water types gives you hard time. All my water types had a fighting move but i risk a KO from Ferrothorn's Power Whip. So I decided to remove one of my water types. I decided to say bye-bye to Keldeo , because I had to many Special Attackers. I replace him with another fighting type: Techinloom , a pokemon that add some usefull resistance to the team.
Keldeo was my Scarfer , so I needed a new one. The Pokemons that was chosen to be scarfed was Latias...but because I'm founding Latios a better scarfer i replaced Latias with Latios.
Then I slapped 3 other random mons that works good in and for rain. First was Tornadus-T because it is obligatory in a Rain Offense Team.
The weakness to Electric and Grass was obvious so I added Ferrothorn to help with synergy and for hazards.
And lastly I added Dugtrio to trap other weather inducers. IDK what it was in my mind to add Dugtrio without a spinner. Focus Sash Dugtrio was really meh with the lack of a spinner.
The team was kinda good but there were some problems. First Dugtrio , with the lack of a spinner, he doesn't perform so well. OFC I could add a spinner but i really didn't want another water mon (Tentacruel or Starmie) and Donphan or Forry didn't looked so appealing to the team. I replaced Duggy with LO Tank Latias to help me with the sun teams.
The team looked better after those changes. But something I didn't liked... weakness to Ferrothorn + sometimes having 3 water types gives you hard time. All my water types had a fighting move but i risk a KO from Ferrothorn's Power Whip. So I decided to remove one of my water types. I decided to say bye-bye to Keldeo , because I had to many Special Attackers. I replace him with another fighting type: Techinloom , a pokemon that add some usefull resistance to the team.
Keldeo was my Scarfer , so I needed a new one. The Pokemons that was chosen to be scarfed was Latias...but because I'm founding Latios a better scarfer i replaced Latias with Latios.
The Team
Politoed @ Choice Specs
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power [Grass]
If you want a rain team you need Politoed. This is my favorite Politoed set: Choice Sepcs Rain Boosted Hydro Pump hits like a truck. Yeah , it's not even close to the power of Keldeo or Starmie but still 2HKO most Deoxys-D. I usually lead with him because rain is very important for team. I'm using HP Grass because it lets me beat Gastrodon (rare) and kill weakened Water types. 252 HP let's him survive some hits so he could spam more Hydro Pumps/last longer in weather war. Random fact: Choice Scarf Modest Genesect with Attack(not special attack) Boost fail to OHKO this Politoed with THUNDER and Politoed OHKOs back in the rain!
Tornadus-Therian (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 252 Spd / 4 Atk / 252 SAtk
Hasty Nature
- U-turn
- Hurricane
- Superpower
- Rain Dance
This is a weird Tornadus-T set , isn't it? If I lost the weather war and his weather inducer is death too (or if I need to screw some sun/sand abusers like Venusaur) Rain Dance Tornadus-T is here to save the day. After he summon the Rain he could: a) U-Turn for into another Pokemon to finish the oponent or b) SPAM HURRICANES! I also choosed Superpower over Focus Blast to nail Heatran and the Pink Blobs and because i hate miss! He is my only SR weak Pokemon but Regenerator kinda makes for it and it doesn't really need a spinner to perform well.
Breloom @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Adamant Nature
- Spore
- Low Sweep
- Mach Punch
- Bullet Seed
This guy! THIS GUY IS AMAZING! It's great against Hail , Sandstorm and other Rain teams. I prefer Low Sweep over SD because it gives another STAB to abuse , it lowers oponent's speed so I can kill it after switch (with SR it 2HKO Tornadus-T on the switch). Prority Technician Mach Punch is cool to weaken threats and let's Feraligatr beat them easily with Aqua Jet. 100% sleep inducing move is also cool so if something looks dangerous to my team => put it asleep. Bullet Seed is obvious Grass STAB that is boosted by Technician so after 2 hits it's something like base 75 Power Grass type or even more if he hits more than 2 times (187 BP if Bullet Seed hits 5 times!). Breloom also benefits from rain , so he is no more weak to fire so bonus for Breloom!
Latios (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Surf
- Trick
This Pokemon is really helpful for this team. It outruns Scarf Keldeo , Scarf Terrakion , Venusaur under the Sun and KO them most of time before they punch holes though my team. Because Fire Moves are nerfed under the Rain HP Fire doesn't really help Latios to KO Scizor or Genesect on the switch , and dpes nothing to Ferrothorn so I think Surf is better for Latios in this situation. Surf gets Pseudo Boost to hurt harder steel types that resists Draco Meteor (except for Ferrothorn and Empoleon and lol Dialga) , also he is not walled by Heatran. Trick is there to make useless walls that Latios can't pass like Jellicent or Ferrothorn.
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spd
- Bulldoze
- Power Whip
- Stealth Rock
- Thunder Wave
When you use a rain team , things like Starmie or Kingdra become really scary. Ferothorn is here to be sure Kingdra will not spam his moves to my team. BUT because Kingdra means Magnezone we should have a surprise for him , shall we? Bulldoze is here to laugh in the face of Magnezone. Power Whip is to hurt some Water types or even to score some KOs agaisnt some weakened mons. And because every team needs SR , there is SR and Twave is helping a lot to be easier to revenge things like Scar Latios.
Feraligatr @ Mystic Water
Trait: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Aqua Jet
- Crunch
- Superpower
There it is - the star of the show. Who needs Sheer Force? Feraligatr is a SHEER FORCE! After a SD and with rain support, Aqua Jet will hit everithing like a truck! With 252HP you had enough bulk to pull a SD and to survive some hits. After his primars checks are removed or weakened enough , start spamming Aqua Jet. With Crunch and Superpower , Ferrothorn and Jellicent , two pokemons that usually stop Feraligatr will die. But what about other bulky water types? They fall to Crunch , after SD , most bulky water types are 2HKO or 3HKO and they can't do much back just spamming scalds... and getting lucky burns. It become even more fun when Feraligatr is in the Torrent range - that's why I'm using Mystic Water and not Life Orb: it destroy the fun of spamming Rain Torrent SD boosted Aqua Jets. But with just Aqua Jet for STAB is safe to use Feraligatr without Waterfall? Well Feraligatr is too slow to do anything with Waterfall anyway. I recomand Feraligatr for everyone , you will not be disapointed!
Final Words
This is the team. Is based a lot around revenge killing , and things like Genesect are easily played by this team. I can't really found a big threat to my team , sometimes HO Volt-turn is hard to play against but is not impossible. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed my RMT , so rate and tell me if there is someting that could work better for team etc.
