That's a good set for an offensive hail team. Just replace Hidden Power Fire with Protect, especially for a Snover lead. Protect helps it negate moves like Fake Out in order to abuse its Focus Sash and use Blizzard afterward. Also Grass Knot > Giga Drain. Hidden Power Fire won't do much damage anyway even if it's super effective since Snover is so weak. Blizzard does do some good damage, but that's about it.That Victini sounds devastating... V-Create spamming will beat full teams if they lack priority.
Zap Cannon Eelektross is gimmicky but can work, anyway I think your opponent could've done something else. White Herb Sceptile, as opposed to the Eel, does sound like a big threat, I wonder why it isn't used much seeing that UU has many gimmicky things.
So I started playing with a Hail team just now, mainly because I didn't want to screw up with my SubSalac Hera team, but also for funsies. Since Snover is extremely weak and frankly the Protect+Leech Seed set isn't very appealing to me, I wanted to try out something different, so I went with the Focus Sash set.
Snover @
- Blizzard
- Giga Drain
- Ice Shard
- Hidden Power Ground / Hidden Power Fire
Trait: Snow Warning
IVs: 30 SpA / 30 SpD (for HP Ground)
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 SpA / 4 Spe
Nature: Mild (+SpA, -Def)
Blizzard+Ice Shard hits many leads hard, and I'm guaranteed I'll survive a hit. Additionally, it's nice to screw with Crobat leads that expect the SubSeed set and opt for Taunt instead of Brave Bird / U-Turn, effectively giving me a free kill. Hidden Power Ground to do something to Fire-types, Hidden Power Fire is mainly for Bronzong and other Snover leads.
While it may seem like a pushover without Eviolite, it's pretty fun watching little Snover getting me a kill more than half the matches I've played (though they haven't been much), and Ice Shard can pick off weakened things later if you decided not to sac it for some reason.
I would just like to cite this post as an example of a GREAT creative / gimmicky set. It's fucking awesome and cuts through offense like butter. It also has good synergy with OTR Cofagrigius, though both are weak to Dark / Ghost. Mind if I do a write up in C&C for this set?When it comes to gimmicks, I am queen. All my teams use some kind of gimmicks.
Victini @ Charcoal
Brave Nature (+Attk, -Spe)
0 IVs
252HP/252Attk/4Def
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Trick Room
V-Create
Bolt Strike
U-Turn
Get rid of shits like Swampert, Slowbro, Rhyperior, Arcanine, etc from the opposing teams and its's game over after using Trick Room then V-Create. This set gives him both power and bulk. With 252HP, not much can OHKO it. With charcoal, Vcreate ohkos countless of things.
Probaly the best lure set in UU as +1 SP KOes Chandy and at +1 Herracroses CS Megahorn does only 60% with no Tanga and +1 zen headbutt always KOs and with tanga berry megahorn vs this set at +1 does literaly 38% MAX.and you KO with zen headbutt, Tanga Berry should be the main slash though as it lets you always beat adamant scarf herra after hazards.[pimg]151[/pimg]
Set: Bulk Up Mew
Mew @ Leftovers/ Tanga Berry
Trait: Synchronise
EVs:252 HP/248 SDef./8Spe
Carefull Nature
- Zen Headbutt
- Drain Punch
- $ucker Punch
- Bulk Up
This is a suprisingly good Mew set I have been testing on the ladder,and I gotta say ots good.With Mews All 100 stat spread,It uses this set well,With 100/100/100 Bulk and 252/0/248 investment and Bulk up,it takes hits well at +1 you can surrvive CS Herras megahorn,And with tanga berry,you alugh at it while you zen headbutt the bug into oblivion.Drain Punch helps greatly for Staying power and covrage,Sucker Punch hits hard at +1 and acts as a mini e-speed,KOing manythings like ghosts that would take mew down like OTR cofag and CS Chandy.The goal of this set is to accumulate multiple boosts,sit at a good amount of health,and sweep with zen/drain/Sucker covrage.This set does its job well,As it has noproblem sweeping through many teams in this meta when used properly.