Introduction
Well Been Using this team in Ou now for quite a while and its undergone many changes, I'm not a prominent stall player I prefer to play Bulky offensive, but I ended to being persuaded by a friend who uses stall on every team he has built to attempt to make one myself and apparently its fun and I enjoy using it. Probably more a "semistall" than an full stall team it came about with the idea of using the Rest talk gyarados I saw earthworm using ages ago in a tournament. It seemed an Interesting idea and without further ado Onto the team building.
Team Building
We start with Gyarados
Well as i said before Rest talk gyarados was the starting point for this team it's an interesting poke and in my opinion fairly underrated in favour of its more offensive sets. now gyarados has only one major weakness and that is electric so to combat this I decided to go with a lead swampert.(seriously why does it always end up on my team)
The Pokémon that came next was more out of stall necessity than Fully need, swampert had no able recovery so what better Pokémon to bring to the table than blissey?
This gave the team a fighting grass and electric weakness. Didn't seem a problem then so I added the "layer" Pokémon onto my team. Skarmory.
Now I needed a rapid spin blocker to take care of pesky spinners like Starmie and Fortress Enter Sub split Rotom H.
At this point I Decided upon adding a leech seeding grass type Celebi seemed like an overall good choice so the team ended up looking like this.
Now in this period of the team i reliesed that it was incredably weak to infernape sweeping my team once gyarados was dead. so i decided to scrap swampert celebi and skamory in exchange for pokemon that did there job just aswell. I allso realised during this period that Subsplit gengar could shut down my team completely. Therefore Skarmory was changed to a forretress This helped in a number of ways it gave me a rapid spinner and a toxic spiker whilst providing the same defensive power as skamory, it works in tandem with blissey becuase its a wish passer set. The second change was from a Swampert to an Offensive jirachi. The third change was from celebi to togekiss. So the team looks like this,
We start with Gyarados
Well as i said before Rest talk gyarados was the starting point for this team it's an interesting poke and in my opinion fairly underrated in favour of its more offensive sets. now gyarados has only one major weakness and that is electric so to combat this I decided to go with a lead swampert.(seriously why does it always end up on my team)
The Pokémon that came next was more out of stall necessity than Fully need, swampert had no able recovery so what better Pokémon to bring to the table than blissey?
This gave the team a fighting grass and electric weakness. Didn't seem a problem then so I added the "layer" Pokémon onto my team. Skarmory.
Now I needed a rapid spin blocker to take care of pesky spinners like Starmie and Fortress Enter Sub split Rotom H.
At this point I Decided upon adding a leech seeding grass type Celebi seemed like an overall good choice so the team ended up looking like this.
Now in this period of the team i reliesed that it was incredably weak to infernape sweeping my team once gyarados was dead. so i decided to scrap swampert celebi and skamory in exchange for pokemon that did there job just aswell. I allso realised during this period that Subsplit gengar could shut down my team completely. Therefore Skarmory was changed to a forretress This helped in a number of ways it gave me a rapid spinner and a toxic spiker whilst providing the same defensive power as skamory, it works in tandem with blissey becuase its a wish passer set. The second change was from a Swampert to an Offensive jirachi. The third change was from celebi to togekiss. So the team looks like this,
The team In depth
Gtfo (Forretress) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDEF
Careful Nature
- Spikes
- Toxic Spikes
- Rapid Spin
- Payback
Role Summary - Well filling the shoes of skamory is a pokemon who i think fits the role far better lacking a reliable recovery move means that Blisseys wish is incredably important , His role is to spin away spikes that trouble repeted switch ins that i need with stall teams and to put up atleast one layer of spikes and toxic spikes.
Moveset - Explosion is a rarely used move which i keep on the set if i ever need a quick Kaboom on something such as a calm minder or a Dragon dancer if gyarados has gone down. rapid spin gives me the utility i need to keep the momentum going in my direction and spikes and Toxic spikes are there for the layers.
Ev Nature & item - Forretress Has max max defense so i can use it as a passer between Blissey and gyarados its typing allows me to taking fighting types from blissey and give the fire types to gyarados Leftovers is for the extra healing and Impish is there for the added defense that makes this such a formidable pokemon.
Fortress is named after the younger of the two brothers Bound to a suit of armour alfonz and fortress share the same phsyical traits alfonzs was bound the the armor when he and his brother attempted to resurrect his brother
(Gyarados) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 8 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Waterfall
- Roar
Role Summary - Gyarados role in the team is simple yet vital To wall infernape and the majority of physical attackers in the game due to his reliable roar and waterfall he can simply roar away set up pokemon who would otherwise have an easy time with this team his only aggrivating weakness is any electric attack that is forced onto him usually 2hkos him even if its a physical variant.
Moveset - Once againa self explainatary moveset for a stall team giving gyarados a reliable stab move and a reliable recovery move with the absense of skarmory in the team its more imporant than ever for gyarados to be alive to roar away threats to the team.
Evs Nature & item - The Item and Nature give gyarados the defensise he needs to be my main phsycal wall whilst the evs give him the ability to outspeed pokemon that would cause a problem to the team.
hoenhiem is the father of edward and alfonz elric being the largest pokemon on my team gyarados fit the role of the first creator of the philosopher stone
(Blissey) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 52 HP / 204 Def / 252 SDef
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Wish
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Seismic Toss
Role Summary - As much as i dislike wish blissey for how powerful she is the lack of recovery on Jarachi and forretress means she is integral in the makeup of the team being an all powerful special wall her main use is to counter such pokemon as Specs starmie or rotom who have a happy day with this team without her.
Moveset - Standard wish support moveset really Protect over softboiled for the toxic stalling , Ok main question your will ask now is why are you using toxic on a toxic spikes team? this is because only using toxic spikes mean rest talk pokemon Flying pokemon and levitating pokemon such as Rotom-H dont need to worry about switching in and out on blissey.
Ev Nature & item - Being a special wall i decided to ev and nature her as such though it became appernt i could secrifce being a max max special wall in the ou environment to being able to take some Non stab phsyical hits.
winrey rockbell is the automacanic who makes the arm and leg of Edward elric being there best friend since childhood means she is both talented and "loved" by the brothers
(Togekiss) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 204 HP / 40 Spd / 76 SAtk / 188 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Air Slash
- Roost
- Encore
- Body Slam
Role Summary - Togekiss is the bulkey sweeper and special defensive beast on my team Designed to ruin Specially mixed infernape and sub split gengar its offensive enough to sweep a weakned team whilst allso being bulkey enough to act as a stall pokemon. Its Allso useful in Paralysing pokemon who are immune to my Toxic spikes.
Moveset - Air slash is for the Stab sweeping move adding the flinch and serene grace onto that makes togekiss and jirachi a hard combo to handle, roost adds the Keynesian and keeps the stall going. Aurasphere was chosen over physic mainly because air slash ruins subsplit Gengar at the same rate. Body slam was chosen over Thunder wave for the abilty to paralyse ground pokemon and jolteon.
Ev Nature & item - The evs are to provide the bulkiness of a special wall i lost with celebi whilst allowing me to outspeed other pokemon and hit them hard enough with are slash. calm nature is there to increase togekiss defensive capablitys as is leftovers.
togekiss Takes on the form of Izumi the teacher of the elric brothers who started loving them as a mother
Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Bold, 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Levitate
-Reflect
-Thunderbolt
- Substitute
- Pain Split
Role Summary - Now i did say that rotom was a Sub split in the itroduction but it was changed to a scalf rotom to be able to handle steel pokemon who otherwise could wall most of this team and to be faster than gengar and other ghost pokemon Koing them on predicted switch ins. It allso acts as a rapid spinner and a Shut down pokemon on such pokemon as Blissey.
Moveset - Self explanatory really Thunderbolt and shadow wave for the stab Overheat for the pesky steels and trick to cripple recovery pokemon.
Ev Nature & item - not much of an defensive rotom its eved to be as hard hitting and fast as possible chosen mainly of scalfgengar because of its signature overheat.
roy mustang is the Flame alchemist whos signature move is to create fire he is the commanding officer of the elric brothers and allso there friend
Jirachi @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Iron Head
- Trick
- Ice Punch
- Fire Punch
Role Summary - Ok jirachis role in the team has many purposes the first is to get the most important layer up, Namley Stealth Rock after that using a Combination of Iron head and trick it acts as a late game sweeper aswell as a dangerous crippler to opposing stall teams.
Moveset - The moveset is fairly straightforward using a combination of stealth rock for the layers iron head for the stab and the flinch Trick for the cripping and U turn for pesky starmie leads, The main reason i have slashed Ice punch onto there is that dragonite is an extreamly dangouse pokemon to this team when used as a lead.
Evs Nature & item - Evs are there to obtain maximum speed and damage Due to the use of scalf i felt it more appopritate to use Adamant over jolly for the extra damage. So scalf, I toyed with the idea of a life orb jirachi lead towards the start but i then used leafovers seeing that wasnt giving me the results i wanted, i swapped it to a scalf/trick lead with the help of a friend.
Jirachi is named after Edward elric because of the simerlaritys in metal body structure Edward elric is the main protagonist in full metal alchemist having only half a human body left after he tried to resurrect his mother
