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Terrakion @ Choice Band
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge
- Iron Head
- X-Scissor
Slowbro @ Slowbronite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 248 HP / 80 Def / 172 SpD / 8 Spe
Bold Nature
- Scald
- Psyshock
- Calm Mind
- Slack Off
This core just causes this team so many problems right from the start. Mega Slowbro is really good and just so slept on right now and you're team has no counterplay whatsoever to it aside from Toxic from Garchomp. The issue is that it completely walls every member of your team with incredible ease, including Kyurem-B despite Fusion Bolt. Rotom-W does laughable damage with Volt Switch leaving it free to use Calm Mind or heal off the damage. Gyarados has to be at +4 just to have a chance to OHKO with Natural Gift, but Scald has a 99% chance to burning sinking that idea fairly quickly. Due to Mega Metagross lacking Grass Knot and Starmie lacking Thunderbolt or Grass Knot the matchup is entirely in Mega Slowbro's favor. Terrakion is a devastating wallbreaker slices through everything with ease and you're only way of stopping it is revenge killing it with Mega Metagross. The bad part about that idea is Mega Slowbro is just waiting to switch-in and proceed to burn everything or just setup. So your best bet with Terrakion is banking on Will-O-Wisp not missing from Rotom-W, and if that's not the case you sadly get 6-0ed.
4 Atk Life Orb Teravolt Kyurem-B Fusion Bolt vs. 248 HP / 80+ Def Mega Slowbro: 156-185 (39.6 - 47%) -- 36.7% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
0 SpA Rotom-W Volt Switch vs. 248 HP / 176 SpD Mega Slowbro: 156-186 (39.6 - 47.3%) -- 43.4% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
+4 252 Atk Liechi Berry Gyarados Natural Gift (100 BP Grass) vs. 248 HP / 80+ Def Mega Slowbro: 328-388 (83.4 - 98.7%) -- 75% chance to OHKO after Stealth Rock
Well since CoC doesn't respond, I need to do this. I'm sure you all had joy poking fun at my (lack of) teambuilding skills. Anyway, now is the time for voting so without further ado, ..
As usual, everyone gets 2 Votes (no voting for your own core!) . Voting will end on Monday. Good luck and have fun!!! Oh yeah, whoever reaches the Hall of Fame 3 times or more gets to have their team broken.
Thanks Random Passerby for putting voting up. I was out allday today so apoligizes for being late. Probably shouldn;t have gonee out anyway as I'm not feeling the best. Anyway time to put my votes up
Alright Everyone Voting time is up and after a week of humiliating my Co-host with a grand total of 10 cores. I think it is time to find out which core came out on top. Its been pretty damn fun tho :D. The Winner is FrozenCold who claims his 2nd Hall of fame nomination which will be updated soon :)
Anyway After much debate between me and my co-host and reliesing the alarming lack of Bisharp Teams we decided it was time to address that as its one of the hardests things to switch into in OU. We tried hard to find a good Gardesharp team but couldn't so instead we opted for the next best Thing. Presenting to you all a Ala-Sharp a Hyper Offense team by kek123 built around megazam and Bisharp. Without further ado here is the team
Landorus-Therian @ Focus Sash
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Stealth Rock
- Explosion
Heatran @ Air Balloon
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Flash Cannon
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Explanation: The aim of the team its to set up rocks with Landorus-Therian and pave way for either Bisharp or Alakazam to just win and cause destruction. I always try and lead lando and set up rocks and then explode if the opponent hasn't already killed lando to keep up offensive pressure this usually works since the team is rather offensive so the exponent struggles to remove hazards with out lousing a pokemon. HP bug on keldeo is to make it harder for latios, latias or starmie to defog /rapid spin as well as lure celebi. If possible mega evolve Alakazam as soon as possible to get the speed boost out speeding mega lopunny and many other things like trace for free switch ins to heatran after tracing flash fire. Air Ballon Tran Revenge's Diancie and traps Sableye who would otherwise cause trouble and Latios is Glue
Although ive had lot of success against HO and balance this team can struggle against stall which is why bisharp runs lum berry to lure out status and get a free set up. Regardless tho it troubles the team so smart doubling and protecting lum sharp is a must. The strategy for this is that you set up rocks and kill stuff there isnt much strategy other than mega zam as soon as possible and to keep up offensive pressure and of course make offensive doubles when needed.
Goodluck this week and I'll update the hall of fame soon. Probably tomorrow Morning before I vanish for a few days. Sorry its taken so long. Also if anyone can provide a Solid Garde/Sharp team I would be very appreaciative
Belly Jet Azumarill can completely sweep any HO team when the Water resists are removed. This is why it is natural to add AV Metagross to the core to Pursuit Trap Latios while also being able to check Mega Alakazam. Weavile is added to the team because it can weaken Keldeo to the point where +6 Aqua Jet OHKOes it (a switch into Knock Off+Rocks is sufficient). It also 1 v 1 every single Pokemon on this team except Mega Alakazam.
Well this core is a little bit weird and niche, but i guess it could work here:
(Poliwrath) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 248 HP / 236 Def / 24 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Circle Throw
- Scald
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
(Tyranitar) @ Chople Berry
Ability: Sand Stream
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 160 HP / 72 Atk / 164 SpA / 112 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
- Ice Beam
- Pursuit
Explanation: Well i don't know what to say, we work on the assuption that Poliwrath wall all this mon except Kazam and Latios. Indeed, Poliwrath counter easily Keldy Scarf, bisharpSD, and lando-t even with there"s explosion,,, :
252 Atk Landorus-T Explosion vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Poliwrath: 220-259 (57.2 - 67.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
In addition to it's bulk it can also burn some mons which are annoying so that's not bad going.
This tios and Kazam are trapped by ttar and with focus miss i guess ttar won the 1v1
This core holds a pretty simple concept. Mega Gyarados is quite the threat to this build as everything except Keldeo in theory is fodder for it. Mega Alakazam relies upon Focus Blast and we all know how that goes, it hard checks Bisharp, it can tank a hit from Latios and either setup a Sub or DDance, and finally with Heatran it gets forced out. Seeing as how Mega Alakazam and Keldeo are the two main factors of Mega Gyarados' success, AV Tornadus-T works as an excellent supplement towards a Mega Gyarados sweep. I checks Scarf Keldeo exceptionally well and Mega Alakazam fails to 2HKO it with Psychic. It then proceeds to annoy the aforementioned two and the rest of the build as well.
oh and kek123 this team could actually be made better with stealth rocks > hp ice on heatran and simply run double dance lando-t.
Talonflame
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Acrobatics
- Will-O-Wisp
- Taunt
- Roost
Generic fat core. Crocune can easily 1v1 the team but since Lando-T has explosion there's sd mega scizor to deal with it. There's Acro talonflame incase bisharp gets too many Swords Dances up and can wisp it and since knock off can't do as much because of talonflame holding no item it can roost off the damage. Crocune also stops heatran which can be a threat and since it lacks taunt it can just set up on it.
Azumarill @ Choice Band
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 172 HP / 252 Atk / 84 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Play Rough
- Waterfall
- Aqua Jet
- Superpower
Hydreigon @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Earth Power
- U-turn
This team is mauled by banded azu, just mauled. Every mon on the team is OHKO'd by one of its moves. Play rough murders bisharp, megazam, keldeo and latios while waterfall murks tran, lando, bisharp, and megazam, also superpower was just the coverage move that I threw on there since it easily OHKOs bisharp without risking the miss from play rough. The only two mons that even threaten azu are latios and Alakazam. This is where hydreigon comes in. Scarfed hydra lures in lati and zam to kill it or just revenges them and mutilates both with dark pulse. You can use earth power (after popping balloon ofc) or waterfall from really early game to remove tran and at least weaken bisharp so that hydrei can basically click draco and get a kill every time it comes in. When using hydrei against the core, one should generally bluff LO (not actually attacking though) and wait until tran and bish are out of the picture so that you can clean up the mess that azu has created.
No Weavile + Mega Mane Core this week? I'm extremly disappointed. You all should be ashamed. ROFL. In all seriousness I'm Glad its not here this week :D but we do have 6 Great Cores So please have fun
As usual, everyone gets 2 Votes (no voting for your own core!) . Voting will end on Monday. Good luck and have fun!!! Oh yeah, whoever reaches the Hall of Fame 3 times or more gets to have their team broken.
