Awsome Rain stall W cute human names

Tactical Notes:

• the best ways to kill GOD DAMNED FERROTHORNS is to either perish trap them or force swithes with a spore before cloyster smashing it up.​
• when dealing with kingdra often the solution lies within simple perish traping, if dugtrio or politoed is gone then may pokemon jebus help you all.​
• be rash with dugtrio as this blighter is in trouble when sr are up and most certainly has a useby date, should you have to retain him make sure to memento hime to cripple.​
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Hey there,

Your rain team looks pretty good but there are a few notable flaws. One of these is your overreliance on water type pokemon in your team. This will have quite a few negative effects on the success of your team. Offensively, your two sweepers will have a very hard time getting past Steel / Grass / Water type walls, of which there are very many in the tier. You have nothing to take down Ferrothorn / Rotom-W, two of the most common walls players use to handle Rain. Celebi with Psychic coverage is also a hard nut to crack- as it can OHKO Cloyster before it even sets up. Having many water types will also be trouble. You have 4 pokemon weak to electric, and only 2 pokemon that resist / are immune- making your team very weak to pokemon like Nasty Plot Thundurus-T, who, at +2, OHKO's all but Amoonguss with Tbolt / HP Ice. Rotom-W's Volt Switch will also be a huge pain. Offensive Grass types like Venasaur or Breloom can also tear huge holes in the team. One of the best things you can do to help your team fix this problem is to replace some of the water types with pokemon that have better synergy with the rest of your team.

Let's solve your team's problem of wallbreaking first. ScarfDos and Cloyster are your two sweepers, but they are countered by pretty much the same things, so you'll want a pokemon that can beat those walls instead. I think you should definitely replace Cloyster with Agility Thundurus-Therian. Thundurus-T is great at smashing the walls that Gyarados can't get past- walls such as Rotom-W, Ferrothorn or Skarmory. It also helps patch up your electric / grass weakness by being immune to one and resistant to the other.


Thundurus-Therian @ Expert Belt
Timid / 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Agility / Thunder / Hidden Power Ice / Focus Blast

Thundurus-T is an awesome wall breaker / offensive sweeper because of its power and coverage. It can nail most walls at their x4 or x2 weak spots, and KO them so the rest of your team can function with less pressure. Its massive speed after an Agility can also let you tear down Hyper Offensive teams, KOing or at least severely damaging the opposing sweepers who are not used to and not bulky enough to take your heavy attacks. By breaking down the tier's common walls and secerely crippling offensive teams, Thundy-T can certainly be of a huge help to your team. Agility is of course so you can boost your speed to unoutspeed-able levels, and then spam Thunder, which has powerfect accuracy in Rain with monstrous power and a sweet paralysis chance. Hidden Power Ice and Focus Blast are your coverage moves- 2HKOing or OHKOing most things that like to come in on Thunderbolt. Expert Belt and Max Spe / SpA gives you as much offensive prowess as possible, and lets you feign Choice.

Thundy-T really helps patch up a lot of the weaknesses of the team, but there are still a few things that must be fixed. Lati@s and Dragon types can become very annoying as you lack a Steel type to check them. Pokemon like Salamence or Dragonite can be revenged by Gyarados, but Scarfed attackers like Scarf Latios can tear big holes fast. For this reason, I think it's a good idea to at least give Dugtrio a way to nail these pokemon. I'd suggest you try Stone Edge over Protect on Dugtrio. You don't really have any use for Protect, so it's pretty much just an effective use of a moveslot. Stone Edge, on the contrary, helps Dugtrio nail Therians like Thundy-T, as well as revenge pokemon like Volcarona, DD Mence / Nite, or even Lati@s if they are low enough at health. Stone Edge lets you hit levitators, so you're not setup bait. You can also try Sucker Punch instead of Memento, as SPunch hits Lati@s like a truck, enough for an OHKO to Latios iirc (if not, definitely a 2HKO). Also, use a Timid nature to outspeed base 110's and 115's. One of Dugtrio's biggest assets is its speed, and you should take advantage of that. Dugtrio is a very important member because it traps opposing weater inducers and Terrakion- all of whom can be big threats.

You could also try Ice Beam on Politoed to hit Lati@s since you can survive one Draco Meteor, and cleave off some HP. Ice Beam also hits grass types / ground types / flying types / other dragon types, and makes Toed hard to set up on.

On Tentacruel, use Substitute or Toxic over Toxic Spikes. Your team is not bulky enough to be able to Stall opponents down to make good use of Toxic Spikes. Substitute or direct Toxic lets you quickly stall down opponents / walls and weaken them so a sweeper can revenge.

On Amoonguss, Stun Spore is probably better than Gastro Acid. Stun Spore lets you shut down opponents even after you Spore, making it cery hard for your opponent to choose effective Anoonguss switch-ins. Stun Spore can also cripple opposing sweepers, and but Thundy-T the chance to set up. Gastro Acid is kind of an unviable move as it wears off when your opponent switches out and rarely helps Amoonguss. Also try a spread of 252 HP / 28 SpA / 228 SpD Calm. This gives you much more special bulk so you can tank the hits of special attackers when needed. It also lets you use amoonguss as a great special wall. You don't need any extra Def because Tentacruel already handles it.

Finally, on Gyarados, use Jolly instead of Adamant. You need the extra speed to outspeed Dragonite and to beat as many threats as possible. The teeny bit of power loss is mitigated by Moxie.

Good luck!

thanks for the extensive review i will have to trial thunderus over cloyster as i do most certainly need a sp atker however i dont believe that i will replace amoongusses gastro acid for stun spore this being that stun spore only has a 75% accuracy and means that should they attempt to predict a stun spore switching by simply staying in i can still cripple them, it should also be noted that even with maxed def for tentacruel his sp def is still lower then his def. dugtrio acts secondarily as being able to perish trap this relies heavily on longevity ergo the need for protect. thanks that review i will attempt to make adjustments