Hey there, i'm back, with a third RMT. Now, this team, it's supposed to be built to counter OU threats. And, it's mixed, with NU, UU and OU. And, once again i'm focusing on not using more than 1 or 2 'Most Used' OUs, like scizor, jirachi, latias, mence, etc. So here we are. The main goal of this team is to setup a feraligatr sweep. This team's nicknames are based on the Inkworld Trilogy by Cornelia Funke. The title's meaning is how lower tier pokemon survive in OU well, just as Mortimer, Meggie, Resa, Farid, Fenoglio, and Dustfinger did in the Inkworld.
Team Building Process:
Ok, so first up, i wanted to have an anti-lead, simply because of personal preferance. I like surprising standard entry-hazard setting leads. So, i choose dragonite, which can pretty much beat most of the leads.
Next up, i want a stealth-rocker which has good synergy with dragonite. Now, dragon-steel is good synergy, and at first thought, i thought metagross. But then i opted for something bulkier, Bronzong.
Now, i want to cripple as many pokemon as i can, so i opt for the surprisingly bulky and annoying, porygon2.
Now, i would want 2 sweepers and a choice user, you'll later know why. Initially, lanturn was in this spot to cripple some more, but a friend suggested sweeping regice, and it worked pretty well, so i opted for it.
Now for the choice user. It goes well, in terms of synergy, with the other pokemon. Rotom-h
Now, the late game sweeper, i opt for feraligatr, because of it's ability, torrent too.
There we are.
A quick glance:
A Closer Look:
The Anti-Lead
Farid (Dragonite)@Life Orb/Lum Berry
252 Atk, 252 SpA, 4 Spe
Inner Focus
Brave Nature (+Atk, -Spe)
~Draco Meteor
~Earthquake
~Flamethrower
~Extremespeed
This thing, it's just pure power. I'm stuck on the option between lum berry and Life orb, since Life Orb gives me monstrous power, and lum berry helps me beat smeargle roserade, and other status-abusers. Draco Meteor takes around 75% off machamp, and OHKOs salamence after +2 SpA drop. Earthquake OHKOs threats like Heatran. It 2HKOs metagross. I usually opt for earthquake, wary of Occa Berry. Extremespeed helps me take off a lot of HP if i'm in a tight spot, and get some KOs if i want. Here are some calcs. He is named after farid, going all-out with his fire and afraid of nothing.
Dragonite vs. Standard Mixnape: Extremespeed- 52.6% - 62.1%
Dragontie vs. CS Flygon: Extremespeed- 46.4% - 54.6%
Dragonite vs. Standard Offensive CM Latias: Extremespeed- 42.1% - 49.7%
Dragonite vs. Standard Lead Smeargle: Extremespeed- 64.3% - 75.8%
Dragonite vs. Standard Roserade Lead: Extremespeed- 71.4% - 84.4%
So yeah.
The Stealth Rocker/Wall
Fenoglio (Bronzong)@Leftovers
252 HP, 126 SpD, 126 Def, 4 Atk
Levitate
Sassy Nature (+SpD, -Spe)
0 Spe IVs
~Gyro Ball
~Explosion
~Stealth Rock
~Earthquake
Bronzong's main job is to setup stealth rocks and wall. I opt for sassy nature to survive a timid LO heatran's flamethrower, and sassy reduces speed, powering up gyro ball. Earthquake is for hitting magnezone, heatran, jirachi, infernape and other ground-weak pokemon on the switch. Explosion is exploding when i'm rather helpless, or to take out threats like vaporeon and blissey, that is after cleverly earthquaking on their protect. 0 Spe IVs is to power up Gyro ball, of course. Idk if i could use forretress here. Help please xD. It's named after fenoglio, well basically because it looks old and wise xD.
Some calcs-
Timid LO heatran vs. Bronzong: Flamethrower- 85.2% - 101.2% (Very slight chance to OHKO)
Standard MixNape vs. Bronzong: Flamethrower- 73.4% - 87%
Standard Offensive Zapdos vs. Bronzong: Heat Wave- 58.6% - 69.2%
Standard Specs Starmie vs. Bronzong: Surf- 41.1% - 48.8%
New MixMence vs. Bronzong: Fire Blast: 63.3% - 75.1%
Nuff said.
The Imperfectduck.
Dustfinger (Porygon2)@Leftovers
252 HP, 216 Def, 40 SpD/SpA?
Trace
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
~Thunder Wave
~Thunderbolt
~Ice Beam
~Recover
Oh my god, i simply love this thing. I call it the imperfectduck. (credits to lacerta on that name). Now, this thing stops things like DD mence, DD gyarados, DD Dragonite in their faces. It traces intimidate and neutralizes the attack boost, and thunder waves them and 2HKOs in each case (OHKO after SR damage though). Recover is to generally heal off damage. This thing is devastating to OU teams, countering things like jolteon and heatran, their main STAB attacks not hitting porygon2 when it switches into them because it traces volt absorb. It can also come in on a flygon earthquake, trace levitate and get a free turn. I simply don't understand why it isn't OU. If i'm mistaken, it's NU. It's named after dustfinger because of it's unexpected appearance, but strikingly strong and always beats the big guys. In general, it's win. Just like dustfinger.
Here are some calcs-
Standard MixNape vs. Porygon2: LO Close Combat- 79.1% - 93.6%
DD Mence vs. Porygon2: +1 LO Outrage- 82.6% - 97.3%
DD Gyarados vs. Porygon2: +2 Jolly Waterfall- 53.2% - 62.8%
DD Dragonite vs. Porygon2: +2 Adamant Outrage- 81% - 95.5%
Offensive Calm Mind Latias vs. Porygon2: Unboosted Draco Meteor- 56.4% - 66.8%
CB Tyranitar vs. Porygon2: Stone Edge- 58.6% - 69%
See?
The Surprising Sweeper
Capricorn (Regice)@Life Orb
252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Clear Body
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~Ice Beam
~Rock Polish
~Hidden Power [Ground]
~Thunderbolt
Ah, regice. It's sweeping capabilities are often overshadowed by it's base 200 Special Defence. It has base 50 Speed, which can outspeed electrode, if im not mistaken, after one rock polish. This, is a faster, and a bit stronger and better type coverage (in terms of moves) version of starmie. Same Base Special Attack and outspeeds after a rock polish. This comes as a big surprise to the opponent. BoltBeam+ Hidden Power Ground is unresisted type coverage. HP ground is to deal with jirachi, metagross, heatran. Regice is named Capricorn because of it's epic evilness xD.
Here are som calcs-
Regice vs. Offensive CM Latias: Ice Beam- 98% - 115.9%
Regice vs. Specially Defensive Zapdos: Ice Beam- 75.7% - 89.8%
Regice vs. Standard Wall Rotom-A: Ice Beam- 57.2% - 67.4%
Regice vs. SD Lucario: HP Ground- 86.8% - 102.5%
Regice vs. LO Heatran: HP Ground- 106.5% - 126.3%
Regice vs. Standard Tank Dusknoir- 49% - 57.5%
The Quick Man
Orpheus (Rotom-h)@Choice Scarf
252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Levitate
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~Shadow Ball
~Thunderbolt
~Overheat
~Trick
I have only 2 words to describe this little thingy. Quick Man. Lol, but it catches people off guard, since they would be expecting a defensive rotom, after seeing the rest of my 'defensive' team. But no. This is my assurance against dusknoir, skarmory, latias, gengar and other rotom-a's. Oh, i forgot scizor and lucario. This is my main counter against lucario. It outspeeds it like a quick man and OHKOs with OverHeat. It fails to tyranitar though... It catches blissey, snorlax, skarmory, and when i'm desperate, suicune, off guard like a quick man and cripples them by tricking them the choice scarf. It is named after Orpheus because of his quickness and cleverness.
Here are some calcs-
Rotom-h vs. Dusknoir (Standard Tank): Shadow Ball- 65.3% - 77.6%
Rotom-h vs. Rotom-A standard wall: Shadow Ball- 77.6% - 91.4% (Good chance of OHKO after SR damage)
Rotom-h vs. Offensive Calm Mind Latias: Shadow Ball- 65.6% - 77.5%
Rotom-h vs. Standard MixMence: Thunderbolt- 59.2% - 70.1%
Rotom-h vs. Phsycial Choice Jirachi: Overheat- 79.8% - 94.2%
The last, but certainly not least.
The BookBinder
Mortimer (Feraligatr)@Liechi Berry
252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Torrent
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~Waterfall
~Ice Punch/Earthquake?
~Substitute
~Dragon Dance
The star of the show, well sometimes. When i paralyse and take chunks of health out of the opponent's team, then feraligatr comes in. He subs on something like which he resists, or subs on a thunder wave, toxic, or will-o-wisp. Then Dragon Dance Away to glory and keeps subbing until he is below 25% health and gets the leichi berry attack boost and torrent activates. Then he sweeps teams like a book binder binds books =P. Now i'm having a problem with ice punch, or earthquake for the second attack spot. I have ice punch currently, and it's doing okay. He is named after mortimer, because he is the main pokemon (character) in the team (book), and always ends up doing something great, and sometimes fails. (lol)
Here are some calcs- (All feraligatrs will be +2 and torrent activated)
Feraligatr vs. Bulky DD Gyarados: Waterfall- 49.2% - 58.1%
Feraligatr vs. Offensive CM Latias: Waterfall- 60.9% - 71.9%
Feraligatr vs. Standard Wall Bronzong: Waterfall- 82% - 96.7%
Feraligatr vs. Standard Tank Dusknoir: Waterfall- 68.4% - 80.6%
Feraligatr vs. Defensive Rotom: Waterfall- 81.9% - 96.7%
Feraligatr vs. Physically Defensive Zapdos: Waterfall- 72.1% - 84.9%
Feraligatr vs. WishBliss: Waterfall- 101.8% - 119.8%
Feraligatr vs. Standard MixPert- 64.4% - 75.7%
Proof Enough?
Conclusion: You got the idea of the team by now.. Well, this is the first time im making a team like this, so yeah... it's not very good though, IMO. Your views are open now.
Pros And Cons:
1 weak to pursuit
3 Immune to spikes and toxic spikes
3 Vulnerable to spikes and toxic spikes
2 Weak to stealth rock
1 resisting stealth rock
Okay-ish Synergy.
That's it, i guess.
Rate away, friends... though I don't think many people will like this team..
Team Building Process:
Ok, so first up, i wanted to have an anti-lead, simply because of personal preferance. I like surprising standard entry-hazard setting leads. So, i choose dragonite, which can pretty much beat most of the leads.

Next up, i want a stealth-rocker which has good synergy with dragonite. Now, dragon-steel is good synergy, and at first thought, i thought metagross. But then i opted for something bulkier, Bronzong.


Now, i want to cripple as many pokemon as i can, so i opt for the surprisingly bulky and annoying, porygon2.



Now, i would want 2 sweepers and a choice user, you'll later know why. Initially, lanturn was in this spot to cripple some more, but a friend suggested sweeping regice, and it worked pretty well, so i opted for it.




Now for the choice user. It goes well, in terms of synergy, with the other pokemon. Rotom-h





Now, the late game sweeper, i opt for feraligatr, because of it's ability, torrent too.






There we are.
A quick glance:






A Closer Look:
The Anti-Lead

Farid (Dragonite)@Life Orb/Lum Berry
252 Atk, 252 SpA, 4 Spe
Inner Focus
Brave Nature (+Atk, -Spe)
~Draco Meteor
~Earthquake
~Flamethrower
~Extremespeed
This thing, it's just pure power. I'm stuck on the option between lum berry and Life orb, since Life Orb gives me monstrous power, and lum berry helps me beat smeargle roserade, and other status-abusers. Draco Meteor takes around 75% off machamp, and OHKOs salamence after +2 SpA drop. Earthquake OHKOs threats like Heatran. It 2HKOs metagross. I usually opt for earthquake, wary of Occa Berry. Extremespeed helps me take off a lot of HP if i'm in a tight spot, and get some KOs if i want. Here are some calcs. He is named after farid, going all-out with his fire and afraid of nothing.
Dragonite vs. Standard Mixnape: Extremespeed- 52.6% - 62.1%
Dragontie vs. CS Flygon: Extremespeed- 46.4% - 54.6%
Dragonite vs. Standard Offensive CM Latias: Extremespeed- 42.1% - 49.7%
Dragonite vs. Standard Lead Smeargle: Extremespeed- 64.3% - 75.8%
Dragonite vs. Standard Roserade Lead: Extremespeed- 71.4% - 84.4%
So yeah.
The Stealth Rocker/Wall

Fenoglio (Bronzong)@Leftovers
252 HP, 126 SpD, 126 Def, 4 Atk
Levitate
Sassy Nature (+SpD, -Spe)
0 Spe IVs
~Gyro Ball
~Explosion
~Stealth Rock
~Earthquake
Bronzong's main job is to setup stealth rocks and wall. I opt for sassy nature to survive a timid LO heatran's flamethrower, and sassy reduces speed, powering up gyro ball. Earthquake is for hitting magnezone, heatran, jirachi, infernape and other ground-weak pokemon on the switch. Explosion is exploding when i'm rather helpless, or to take out threats like vaporeon and blissey, that is after cleverly earthquaking on their protect. 0 Spe IVs is to power up Gyro ball, of course. Idk if i could use forretress here. Help please xD. It's named after fenoglio, well basically because it looks old and wise xD.
Some calcs-
Timid LO heatran vs. Bronzong: Flamethrower- 85.2% - 101.2% (Very slight chance to OHKO)
Standard MixNape vs. Bronzong: Flamethrower- 73.4% - 87%
Standard Offensive Zapdos vs. Bronzong: Heat Wave- 58.6% - 69.2%
Standard Specs Starmie vs. Bronzong: Surf- 41.1% - 48.8%
New MixMence vs. Bronzong: Fire Blast: 63.3% - 75.1%
Nuff said.
The Imperfectduck.

Dustfinger (Porygon2)@Leftovers
252 HP, 216 Def, 40 SpD/SpA?
Trace
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
~Thunder Wave
~Thunderbolt
~Ice Beam
~Recover
Oh my god, i simply love this thing. I call it the imperfectduck. (credits to lacerta on that name). Now, this thing stops things like DD mence, DD gyarados, DD Dragonite in their faces. It traces intimidate and neutralizes the attack boost, and thunder waves them and 2HKOs in each case (OHKO after SR damage though). Recover is to generally heal off damage. This thing is devastating to OU teams, countering things like jolteon and heatran, their main STAB attacks not hitting porygon2 when it switches into them because it traces volt absorb. It can also come in on a flygon earthquake, trace levitate and get a free turn. I simply don't understand why it isn't OU. If i'm mistaken, it's NU. It's named after dustfinger because of it's unexpected appearance, but strikingly strong and always beats the big guys. In general, it's win. Just like dustfinger.
Here are some calcs-
Standard MixNape vs. Porygon2: LO Close Combat- 79.1% - 93.6%
DD Mence vs. Porygon2: +1 LO Outrage- 82.6% - 97.3%
DD Gyarados vs. Porygon2: +2 Jolly Waterfall- 53.2% - 62.8%
DD Dragonite vs. Porygon2: +2 Adamant Outrage- 81% - 95.5%
Offensive Calm Mind Latias vs. Porygon2: Unboosted Draco Meteor- 56.4% - 66.8%
CB Tyranitar vs. Porygon2: Stone Edge- 58.6% - 69%
See?
The Surprising Sweeper

Capricorn (Regice)@Life Orb
252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Clear Body
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~Ice Beam
~Rock Polish
~Hidden Power [Ground]
~Thunderbolt
Ah, regice. It's sweeping capabilities are often overshadowed by it's base 200 Special Defence. It has base 50 Speed, which can outspeed electrode, if im not mistaken, after one rock polish. This, is a faster, and a bit stronger and better type coverage (in terms of moves) version of starmie. Same Base Special Attack and outspeeds after a rock polish. This comes as a big surprise to the opponent. BoltBeam+ Hidden Power Ground is unresisted type coverage. HP ground is to deal with jirachi, metagross, heatran. Regice is named Capricorn because of it's epic evilness xD.
Here are som calcs-
Regice vs. Offensive CM Latias: Ice Beam- 98% - 115.9%
Regice vs. Specially Defensive Zapdos: Ice Beam- 75.7% - 89.8%
Regice vs. Standard Wall Rotom-A: Ice Beam- 57.2% - 67.4%
Regice vs. SD Lucario: HP Ground- 86.8% - 102.5%
Regice vs. LO Heatran: HP Ground- 106.5% - 126.3%
Regice vs. Standard Tank Dusknoir- 49% - 57.5%
The Quick Man

Orpheus (Rotom-h)@Choice Scarf
252 SpA, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Levitate
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~Shadow Ball
~Thunderbolt
~Overheat
~Trick
I have only 2 words to describe this little thingy. Quick Man. Lol, but it catches people off guard, since they would be expecting a defensive rotom, after seeing the rest of my 'defensive' team. But no. This is my assurance against dusknoir, skarmory, latias, gengar and other rotom-a's. Oh, i forgot scizor and lucario. This is my main counter against lucario. It outspeeds it like a quick man and OHKOs with OverHeat. It fails to tyranitar though... It catches blissey, snorlax, skarmory, and when i'm desperate, suicune, off guard like a quick man and cripples them by tricking them the choice scarf. It is named after Orpheus because of his quickness and cleverness.
Here are some calcs-
Rotom-h vs. Dusknoir (Standard Tank): Shadow Ball- 65.3% - 77.6%
Rotom-h vs. Rotom-A standard wall: Shadow Ball- 77.6% - 91.4% (Good chance of OHKO after SR damage)
Rotom-h vs. Offensive Calm Mind Latias: Shadow Ball- 65.6% - 77.5%
Rotom-h vs. Standard MixMence: Thunderbolt- 59.2% - 70.1%
Rotom-h vs. Phsycial Choice Jirachi: Overheat- 79.8% - 94.2%
The last, but certainly not least.
The BookBinder

Mortimer (Feraligatr)@Liechi Berry
252 Atk, 252 Spe, 4 HP
Torrent
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~Waterfall
~Ice Punch/Earthquake?
~Substitute
~Dragon Dance
The star of the show, well sometimes. When i paralyse and take chunks of health out of the opponent's team, then feraligatr comes in. He subs on something like which he resists, or subs on a thunder wave, toxic, or will-o-wisp. Then Dragon Dance Away to glory and keeps subbing until he is below 25% health and gets the leichi berry attack boost and torrent activates. Then he sweeps teams like a book binder binds books =P. Now i'm having a problem with ice punch, or earthquake for the second attack spot. I have ice punch currently, and it's doing okay. He is named after mortimer, because he is the main pokemon (character) in the team (book), and always ends up doing something great, and sometimes fails. (lol)
Here are some calcs- (All feraligatrs will be +2 and torrent activated)
Feraligatr vs. Bulky DD Gyarados: Waterfall- 49.2% - 58.1%
Feraligatr vs. Offensive CM Latias: Waterfall- 60.9% - 71.9%
Feraligatr vs. Standard Wall Bronzong: Waterfall- 82% - 96.7%
Feraligatr vs. Standard Tank Dusknoir: Waterfall- 68.4% - 80.6%
Feraligatr vs. Defensive Rotom: Waterfall- 81.9% - 96.7%
Feraligatr vs. Physically Defensive Zapdos: Waterfall- 72.1% - 84.9%
Feraligatr vs. WishBliss: Waterfall- 101.8% - 119.8%
Feraligatr vs. Standard MixPert- 64.4% - 75.7%
Proof Enough?
Conclusion: You got the idea of the team by now.. Well, this is the first time im making a team like this, so yeah... it's not very good though, IMO. Your views are open now.
Pros And Cons:
1 weak to pursuit
3 Immune to spikes and toxic spikes
3 Vulnerable to spikes and toxic spikes
2 Weak to stealth rock
1 resisting stealth rock
Okay-ish Synergy.
That's it, i guess.
Rate away, friends... though I don't think many people will like this team..