Surviving The Inkworld, An OU RMT

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..

Reserved for threat list

Idk about OU, but P2 definitely deserves to be in at least UU. love that little thing :)

I would put the 40 EVs in SpA for sure, you need all the power you can get once you survive that first hit from an opponent.

I would also go with Lum Berry on your Dragonite. I'd be more worried about him being Status'd then not having enough power, since dragonite has good type coverage in terms of moves.

Ok thanks. How would you rate the team on a scale of 10? And oh, what about feraligatr, and should i replace regice with lanturn or let it be? More rates please =P

Dragonite absolutely requires LO. It is explained fantastically by Legacy Raider here. However, I would recommend Superpower over Earthquake and 24speed Evs at the expense of attack. This will let you OHKO the standard Heatran and Tyranitar leads, whilst outrunning pretty much all lead Metagross.

That Feraligatr set is too vulnerable to entry harzards, particularly toxic spikes, and weather effects to sweep properly. He also lacks resistance to any common priority move other than Bullet punch, which means that stuff like Lucario and Dragonite can revenge you, not to mention all the stuff that outruns you at +1, including scarf Latias, Rotom and Jirachi. Empoleon can attempt a similar tactic much more successfully, though on the special side, which would work well if you replaced Regice with a physical sweeper (e,g Gyarados). Alternatively, SD Feraligatr works well, and at least its doing something Gyarados can't do that way too.

In fact, your team has three pokemon very weak to toxic spikes, and two that take 25% from SR. Particularly, your Regice will not live long with LO, entry hazards and sandstorm in addition to damage from the opponents attacks. In the role it is playing, it might well be outclassed by Agility zapdos, with higher special attack and much more beneficial typing. However, a sweeper like that is far too easily walled by Blissey, Snorlax and Tyranitar among others, and Zapdos has similar problems with SR. Your Regice is quite similar to a LO starmie that hasn't had the benefit of a setup turn, making it far inferior. A starmie could notably help your entry-hazard-weak team with rapid spin as well.

Special attack is only necessary on Porygon2 when running Discharge (usually in tandem with toxic.) You may as well max your defence to take Outrage and Waterfall better.


Good luck

So, i put gyarados instead of regice and empoleon instead of feraligatr.. well okay then. I shall try it out and tell you how it goes. Thanks! More rates appreciated~

dragonite should have a quiet nature + you arent going to outspeed any metagross by just using the 24 evs in speed, keep them in spec.atk. use life orb.superpower is fine to use over earthquake, though you shouldn't be staying in against tyranitar leads.... ever.

Quiet nature is quite right. However, I disagree about the metagross. Very few Metagross run more than 20 speed, which you tie with with 24 speed yourself. You don't lose any KOs by reducing your attack (not special attack!). As for TTar, you outrun pretty much all of them, but the odd lead mixtar will be faster than you.

Edit - it seems statistical evidence is required. Note that none in the stats means 8 or fewer Evs.

Metagross | Speed EV | Very Low (<50) | 14.6 |

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Given that over 1 in 3 metagross were used in the lead position, this means that at the very minimum, 60% of lead Metagross did not use between 12 and 48 speed Evs. Given that many of those who did are running 12, 16 or 20, I think you can be guaranteed to outrun most Metagross with 24 speed Evs. Of course, you can freely use a few more Evs if you want to outrun even more Metagross, though there is a certain point at which the nature should be changed

jc104 said:

Very few Metagross run more than 20 speed, which you tie with with 24 speed yourself.

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Shouldn't this be 'Very few Metagross run less than 20 speed' ..... 24 Spe grants Metagross the ability to outspeed most other Metagross, Tyranitar, and Empoleon...so yeah at least 24 is likely on *most* Metagross. Thats just how I see it right now. Metagross have room to invest 24-44 speed without affecting its defensive capabilities (no different kos).

It really isnt important about superpower vs EQ...I just prefer EQ for the consistency.

Just stick to the exact set provided by LR. There is really no room for alterations on that anti lead other than the final moveslot.

Hope that helped.

Got your VM
While Empoleon is not a bad suggestion for you team, I feel that a CM wish Jirachi fits it better. It is still a special sweeper but it can now provide wish support to you other pokemon such as Porygon and Dragonite. Wish support would be very beficial to your team as then Porygon could taek more hits as while it may be able to survive a salamence;s outrage, it would be crippled for the match, CM + Wish jirachi allows you to fix this somewhat and still give you a special sweeper.

I also like Lum berry Metagross over Bronzong as it does a very similar job to bronzong while not losing momentun on this offensive team. Explosion could be used over Bullet Punch if you don't feel that you need the priority.

Okay, then. I'll try your suggested changes. Nothing wrong with regice though? And you are saying i should replace what for jirachi?

oh sorry, Yes I would like Regice to go over Jirachi as Jirachi helps your team much better than Regice can and Jirachi does not lose 25% of its health switching into Steal rock unlike Regice

Jirachi is doing fine. Thanks a lot, giga. Well, any more rates?

Personally, I find that leadDragonite is better off with Superpower, as it KOs shuca Heatran and prevents blissey from stalling you out (it takes roughly 44% from a quiet EQ, which means it stalls you with softboiled while you die to LO recoil.) And yes, it should run those speed EVs. You can take a few out of attack if you want the oomph in Extremespeed / Superpower.

Hi. Got your VM.

With all those Scizors and Tyranitars dominating the metagame, Regice will have a very hard time sweeping. Scizor will easily come in on a resisted Ice Beam and Bullet Punch Regice to end it's sweep. Tyranitar takes pitiful damage from any of Regice's attacks thanks to it's huge Special Defence stat and threatens with Stone Edge. Scizor and Tyranitar are #1 and # 2 in usage, so you will definitely encounter them. Your set is also completely walled by Blissey that can either cripple Regice with Toxic or hit it with Seismic Toss. Additionally, even after a Rock Polish, in a metagame filled with extremely fast Pokemons and priority moves, Regice will rarely be sweeping. It's Stealth Rock weakness also makes it a very poor option, especially on an OU team and will require a lot of support to have a chance at effectively sweeping. With Life Orb, the SR weakness, potential Sandstorm, Regice will go down very fast.

Instead of Regice, I would reccomend using Heatran in this slot. Heatran is a superior Special attacker compared to Regice and most importantly it alleviates your Rotom-A weakness as it can switch-into a Shadow Ball or Overheat / Will-o-Wisp to activate Flash Fire and hit it with STAB Fire Blast. It is also crucial because it provides a second Steel type to your team which is extremely important in the current metagame that is centralised around Dragon types. In addition, Heatran pairs well with your Rotom-H because it invites Ground and Fighting attacks. This will allow Rotom-H to switch in easily more easily. I would reccomend using a Life Orb Heatran with HP Grass to get past Swampert since it walls the majority of this team and you need some sort of Stall breaker:

Heatran @ Life Orb | Flash Fire
Timid | 4 HP / 252 SpAtk / 252 Spe
Fire Blast | Earthpower | HP Grass | Taunt / Explosion

Now, when making a competitive team, you have to make sure that none of your sets are outclassed. In this case, Dragon Dance Feraligatr is completely outclassed by DD Gyarados due to Gyara's better stats and Intimidate. However, there is one thing that sets Feraligatr apart from Gyarados, and that is Swords Dance. It has almost unresisted coverage with Return and Waterfall. With SD, Feraligatr can boost it's attack twice as fast as Gyarados and utilize Aqua Jet to hit faster opponents. Most importantly, Aqua Jet gives you an excelent move to revenge kill Infernape one of the biggest threats to this team as it OHKOes your whole team with the appropriate move with only Rotom-H being able to revenge kill it but it cannot switch-in safely due to the omnipresence of Fire Blast. Anyway, here's the Feraligatr set:

Feraligatr @ Life Orb | Torrent
Jolly | 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Swords Dance | Waterfall | Return | Aqua Jet

Good Luck with your team!

Thanks. Well, this team is pretty much done i guess.