MetaNite!!

[Lord Wallace]

if I have learned one thing in all my 5th gen battles it's this : All it takes is one Moveslot to ruin an entire team. Think on it for a second and you will get it. This simple thesis has won me countless battles against weather teams I wouldve otherwise lost miserably to.

 

[Griff]

if I have learned one thing in all my 5th gen battles it's this : All it takes is one Moveslot to ruin an entire team. Think on it for a second and you will get it. This simple thesis has won me countless battles against weather teams I wouldve otherwise lost miserably to.

Your overhyping destiny bond, dood.

 

[Lord Wallace]

Your overhyping destiny bond, dood.

Lolz I'm not talkin about Bond! Silly (although It is also a great move)

I'm actually talking about putting one of the weather moves on his bulkiest Pokemon

 

[Rofellos]

You mean thunder? That's the only weather move that comes to mind unless hurricane goes here somewhere. And griff this is the team I'm doing so I'm not gonna just go get an excadrill I need real feedback. If you've got one better for politoed I'm ready to hear it lol

 

[Lord Wallace]

No. I mean Sunny Day or Hail (the best one since hail teams are so uncommon) or Rain Dance or Sandstorm. These moves let you take complete control if the weather based metagame.

 

[Rofellos]

Ahh I like your line of thinking! I could definitely do with hail dragonite is the only one with fire punch and sunny day teams are more common. Or sunny day would work in Dnites favor. I'm not sure who here could learn sunny day but I'm guessing tentacruel could learn hail?

 

[Lord Wallace]

Both Dnite and tentacruel can learn it

 

[Rofellos]

Intruiging so then I'll add it to tentacruel and remove venoshock. I've never seen many poison moves besides toxicroak
poison jab and toxic or tx spks around these forums so I think hail will do nicely here.

 

[Lord Wallace]

I hope you enjoy butchering Sandstorm teams ^_^

 

[Rofellos]

Haha I'm sure I will! I really like how tentacruel has turned into an excellent utility mon. So switching out hail the next issues I have are wondering if gliscors ev spread needs to be changed and also trying find any other holes and what would be the best way to smash politoed?

 

[Lord Wallace]

Haha I'm sure I will! I really like how tentacruel has turned into an excellent utility mon. So switching out hail the next issues I have are wondering if gliscors ev spread needs to be changed and also trying find any other holes and what would be the best way to smash politoed?

your Gliscor is fine.

For Politoed I recomend a Mixnite with Thunder,or stay the same and get the less effective Thunderpunch.

Here's my Mixnite:
Rash@Leftovers
252 SP attack 40 Attack 218 Speed

Outrage
Thunder/DD
Fire Blast
Draco Meteor/Roost

 

[Rofellos]

Hmm I quite like that set up a mixnite might be a better sweeper especially with thunder against rain teams. Let's mix it up and give it a shot! Oh Dark don't forget to look at the hail change for tentacruel tell me if you think it's a better set now.

 

[Lord Wallace]

Your Tentacruel set is great but your Dnite moveset doesn't
make sense. DD with no physical moves? Maybe replace Draco Meteor for Outrage
and Fire Blast over Roost or just replace DD with Outrage

EDIT: okay now it looks good

 

[Rofellos]

Yup I just made that change as soon as I realized lol I kept outrage for phsyical force and added thunder and fire blast thanks for the recommendation!

 

[Lord Wallace]

Yup I just made that change as soon as I realized lol I kept outrage for phsyical force and added thunder a fire blast thanks for the recommendation!

No problem

 

[Rofellos]

So now comes my other problem. My terrakion has the two stats boosters and two stab moves but I feel it might be bland. And I feel that two stat boosters could be switched. My ideas would be if i'm running jolly then get rid of rock polish for something else or run adamant and keep swords dance or rock polish only. Any suggestions or am I overthinking?

 

[Lord Wallace]

Run Adamant and Rock Polish

 

[Rofellos]

Right that's what I thought. And then keep swords dance or add another move? I kinda miss xscissor lol

 

[Lord Wallace]

Add another move,don't run two stat ups

 

[Rofellos]

Hooray I get xscissor back! Ok so now we've tackled most of the team. Any pokemon that I should watch out for even with the team looking as it is?

 

[Lord Wallace]

Hmm well I can't think of any immediate threats that can sweep your team,go ahead and try this out and see how it goes

 

[D-Nite FTW]

Why bother running Will-o-wisp on a SPECS Rotom? All Specs Rotom should just run this set: Trick/Volt Switch/Hydro Pump/HP Fire. It has good coverage and can pass Specs to an unlucky physical attacker like Scizor and Conkeldurr.

Gliscor should run 244 HP EVs to maximize Poison Heal recovery and an Impish nature since Gliscor should not be taking special hits so a Careful Nature is useless.

Metagross has an awkward EV spread that doesn't use its EVs to the fullest. You have an extra 2 EVs in both HP and Spd that can be used to power up another stat. Also gonna give you the same suggestion I gave Darkerones which is to give Metagross Ice Punch instead of Zen Headbutt to hit more Pokemon for super-effective damage.

 

[Rofellos]

Oooo I've been dying to try out volt switch since it's a kin to uturn (fav move) does it hit as hard as thunderbolt though? I do like using trick too for catching physical mons off guard and i would be happy to add ice punch to metagross! Did some testing and i've found I really need another ice move.

 

[Lord Wallace]

It has 70 BP but with STAB it should still hit pretty hard

 

[Rofellos]

Ok just finished round three of changes! Kinda excited to have rotom using a hidde
power.