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This team was born in order to create a team with sharpedo as a star, Pokémon very underrated in the ou metagame, even tough I think its one of the best cleaner of the metagame. To do so he needs support to his huge weakness to priority but also to those few Pokémon that can tank both of his stab (like Ferrothorn).
I started with Sharpedo and i immediately put Politoed to allow him a 50% more power to stab Waterfall.
Initially i tried SpecsToed to dent ferrothorn with hydro pump, then I added normal ScarfTornadus that everyone had forgotten because of its shape Therians. The niche of Tornadus is his 111 base speed that allows it to outspeed scarfed Gengar, Lati @ s, & Terrakion co. Basically it's the fastest scarfer.
At this point it was clear that Breloom was a problem for my team, its priority was too bad for sharpedo, and even Toed and Tornadus cant really beat it if weakened, so i put srockerCelebi to get one of the best counter to Loom.
Bi was so important in the team that I gave him BatonPass not to run the risk of being trapped by Tyranitar. So now the Steel in general gave me some problems, especially in more defensive team because they needed a switch in a bulky grass to absorb my water attacks: i then decided to include specs Magnezone to kill various Skarmory, Forretress, Ferrothorn, Jirachi, Scizor & stuff.
As the last member i decided to insert CB Terrakion because ... oh come on ... CBKion is what hits hard over all in the current metagame and have him in the team is a reliable weapon in order to rout the enemy defenses.
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The team so ran pretty well but like all beta team presented some problems, for example, the DragonSpam because Zone could stand a few shots leaving me too discovered then i really went for a Pokémon that played better to counter so i tried ferrothorn, but I noticed that Ferrothorn is grass and it doesnt not have sinergy with Celebi due to the same typing. I was Without trapper so i tried specs Gothitelle that not only let me trap the Steel but also annoying stuff such as a Tentacruel to prevent it from setting up toxic spikes and prevent it from spin as well, also Starmie and breloom where easily trapped, one of the most annoying poké to its powerful priority.
The team now was ending but at ladder matches I noticed an annoying weakness to Scizor but mostly Lucario who after a dance he could sweep my whole team, then I had a wonderfull idea that gave originality to my team: Cobalion.
The Typing of Cobalion has a useful resistance to priority of Zor and Cario, and thanks to its boosted CloseCombat by ChoiceBand it hits hard, but i will explain better in his description all useful tasks that Cobalion does in the team.
Eventually I noticed that people were using Jolly Breloom, and being Gothi slower of Loom i failed the trapkill, so I changed the set in scarf and the victories began to increase because I could kill Kion in band version and Keldeo in specs version without receiving damage, also Gengar and Starme, and let me trick in peace but especially rape Loom without him sporing me something.
Politoed (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Drizzle - Timid Nature
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Scald - Ice Beam - Encore - Toxic
Posted in the first place to give the boost of power at Waterfall of Sharpedo but also as a discreet revengekiller, can outspeed +1 adamant dragonite.
You will notice the presence of scald in the scarfer set, why this? The point of toed is not to make direct ohko but to help others members to wear down the opponent, even slightly, to help for the final clean sweep of Sharpedo.
All Pokémon that would sweep the shark, happens to come on even Toed (Rotom-w, Ferrothorn and similars) and burning them reduces drastically the staying power making them virtually dominated all others my pokémon because it would add 13% to damage each round my attack.
Encore on scarfer set is the most delicious there, it rapes all those people abusing sub Toxicroak or Jirachi, which is the only issue that the team has but thanks to It can encore it and preventing attack blocking it on substitute or on CalmMind.
Toxic Finally Is useful to poison all those immune pokemon to scald for example Gastrodon or jellicent, but also CalmMind Latias that i dont want to burn with scald.
Sharpedo (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Speed Boost - Adamant Nature
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spd
Waterfall - Protect - Crunch - Ice fang/Zen Headbutt
Sharpedo is the star of the team, I always wanted to make a nearly perfect team and finally I succeeded. Sharpedo has an incredible ability of cleaning with its fantastic dream world ability: Speed Boost which increases its speed every turn.
Thanks to his stab it gets an almost perfect Coverage, resisted virtually only by Ferrothorn, in addition i can hit with IceFang dragons like Nite, Mence, Chomp and LOLHydreigon. you can put Zen Headbutt on Fang for Keldeo and Cruel but I still have Gothitelle that performs an excellent job trapping them.
The EVs spread especially allows me to reach the magic number: 265.
After just one round it gets to 397 which can outspeed all Poké slower than 394: Jolteon, Aerodactyl & co, while +2 comes to 530 with which get over ScarfLatios and even ScarfTornadus.
It's raw power, a real break asses.
Gothitelle (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Shadow Tag - Timid Nature
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Psyshock - Trick - Thunderbolt - Hidden Power [Fighting]
Awesome, Gothitelle in this team is more than right.
He removes many of those Pokémon that give me problem with its ability to trap things that i need.
With Psyshock I remove Breloom, Cruel, Keldeo, Terrakion and Amoonguss.
With TBolt it hits various jellicent, Starmie, Slowbro and Skarmory.
With HP Fight I hit Ferrothorn, Mamoswine and Tyranitar, Surely I missed someone, lol.
While with trick i can fuck those Pokémon that i can't hit with the above attacks, like Blissey/Chansey, Cresselia, Hippowdon, Jirachi, etc.
The interesting thing about being scarf is that I can avoid being hit and ko Gengar, Keldeo and Terrakion.
Gothitelle also is part of a small team inside strategy in combo with Cobalion, but we're going to look better in his description.
Tornadus (M) @ Sharp Beak
Trait: Prankster - Naive Nature
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Hurricane - Tailwind - Superpower - Hidden Power [Ice]
I understand the convenience of Regenerator of Therian form, but this one definitely stronger, lol.
This set a bit particular lets me perform surprise kill than ever I imagined, because in fact, this Pokémon is used practically only Choicer or alternatively LifeOrber, so when for example you use Hurricane and the opponent sends out Tyranitar to take an hurricane, not seeing the damage of Orb he expects a choicer, here I hit hard with a superpower with obviously kills and I won the weather war (chople berry apart >_>), same thing when I use superpower on heatran or blissey and the opponents place gliscor on field and I clean him with hp ice. Everything is really delicious.
But the cool doesn't end here: with tailwind (used mostly to end game) doubling the speed of the whole team for 4 rounds, that is enough to clean everything with a Pokémon (usually avoid using protect on Sharpedo) and the opponent will be shitty.
Ferrothorn (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs - Relaxed Nature
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef
Gyro Ball - Protect - Stealth Rock - Leech Seed
Unfortunately there's not much to say, it's the standard Ferrothorn that place rocks and helps me to wear down the opponent thanks to seeds + protect + iron barbs.
Used primarily as a wall for the Dragons, for rotom-w and any other stuff that you already know..
Gyroball its preferrd for Dragons but especially Kyurem-B that otherwise would give some problems to team.
Cobalion @ Choice Band
Trait: Justified - Naive Nature
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Close Combat - Volt Switch - X-Scissor - Hidden Power [Ice]
I needed something to hit hard, but as I said the priority of Zor and Cario bother me, so I looked for someone who still strong but resisted them, and cobalion was perfect.
Unfortunately it doesn't have the same Kion attack, so I had to arrange in other ways, and what I built was really very functional.
Usually I put the strategy into believing your opponent of being or physical or special, for example, the opponents usually send out them Landorus, Gliscor Celebi and Starmie then into believing to be Physical sweeper, next turn they always send out them, and that's where I get a good 70% damage to the Earth-flying pokemon.
Same thing for Celebi and Starmie, not expecting the XScissor it really easily come on field against him and get a clean ohko.
Do you remember the combo strategy with Gotitelle which I told before?
well thanks to VoltSwitch with the obvious entry of Jellicent or Skarmory on Cobalion, I assure a trapkill of Gothitelle on them that they were expecting the fight move and instead take a voltswitch, with the next entry of Gothi, you have no idea how many times this combo worked, lol.
Unfortunately when I was third on the ladder, the opponents haxed me and I went down on 25 th position and I didn't remember to do a screen but ohwell, the team is very strong, gg. I hope you enjoyed the team in all its originality and functionality.
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Politoed (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Encore
- Toxic
Sharpedo (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Speed Boost
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Waterfall
- Protect
- Crunch
- Zen Headbutt
Gothitelle (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Psyshock
- Trick
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
Tornadus (M) @ Sharp Beak
Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Hurricane
- Tailwind
- Superpower
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Ferrothorn (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Gyro Ball
- Protect
- Stealth Rock
- Leech Seed
Cobalion @ Choice Band
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Close Combat
- Volt Switch
- X-Scissor
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Encore
- Toxic
Sharpedo (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Speed Boost
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Waterfall
- Protect
- Crunch
- Zen Headbutt
Gothitelle (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Psyshock
- Trick
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
Tornadus (M) @ Sharp Beak
Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Hurricane
- Tailwind
- Superpower
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Ferrothorn (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 88 Def / 168 SDef
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Gyro Ball
- Protect
- Stealth Rock
- Leech Seed
Cobalion @ Choice Band
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Close Combat
- Volt Switch
- X-Scissor
- Hidden Power [Ice]