My first real OU team!

Arvidter

Arvidter

Hello all! My name is Arvidter and I'm quite new to the competitive sector. This is the first serious team I have build, and I am wandering what you guys think I should do to improve this team.

The physical wall
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Skarmory@Rocky Helmet
Ability: Sturdy
Impish nature
EV's: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SpD
- Stealth Rock
- Whirlwind
- Roost
- Brave Bird

I really love this bird. Almost impossible to destroy with physical attacks, you just whirlwind everything you don't like and laugh how stealth rock kills them. I prefer Rocky Helmet over Leftovers, because you always got roost, and because Skarmory almost can't do any damage himself, this will be a real lifesafer.

The special wall from hell
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Tyranitar@Assault Vest
Ability: Sand Stream
Carefull nature
EV's: 252 HP/252 SpD/4 Atk
- Pursuit
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Crunch

The special tank from hell. It's just ridicilous how well he takes special attacks. Also the Pursuit trapper for the psychic/ghost types who really don't want to fight Tyranitar. I think he is a good counterpart for Skarmory and my team can really profit from the sandstorm (curse you weathernerf).

The annoyer
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Jellicent@Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
Bold nature
EV's: 248 HP/252 Def/8 Spe
- Will-O-Wisp
- Scald
- Recover
- Taunt

I just love taunt and will-o-wisp, and this is the pokemon who can make azumarill completely useless. He has really nice resistences and the mustach is really cool. Combined with Tyranitar and Skarmory, I really think there isn't much I can't wall (except physical electric pokemon, but I got that covered with Excadrill and Garchomp). He can completely shut down stallers, make set-uppers cry and is the nightmare of physical attackers.

The rapid spinner
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Excadrill@Air Balloon
Ability: Sand Rush
Adamant nature
EV's: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spe
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide

My sweet little rapid spinner. With sandstorm, he will definitely clear those entry hazards you have nightmares of. He does a surprising amount of damage, and with the Air Balloon he will havel 3 immunities!!!! He can also get rid of annoying fairies and if there is sandstorm, you can be sure he will be the first one to hit.

The special sweeper
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Volcarona@Life Orb
Ability: Flame Body
Timid nature
EV's: 4 HP/252 SpA/252 Spe
- Quiver Dance
- Fiery Dance
- Bug Buzz
- Giga Drain

My special sweeper. Get him a quiver dance, and he will be unstoppable. With giga drain he will hit his counters hard and live to kill another day without suiciding by life orb and getting killed by my own sandstorm. Despite his stealth rock weakness, he can really wreck teams who are not prepared.

Not even fairies stand a chance

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Garchomp@Garchompite
Ability: Rough Skin
Jolly nature
EV's: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe
- Sword Dance
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Stone Edge

Really, you don't even want to know how strong this guy is with sandstorm up. I destroyed a whole fairy team with only this guy in a sandstorm without Sword Dance. He can 1-shot a ridiculous amount of Pokémon, is almost impossible to 1-shot (stay away Ice-Shard Mamoswine) and is definitely the biggest thread of my team.

Please guys, can you give me your thoughts about my team? All thoughts, critics and tips are welcome!
 
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Hey really nice team, great synergy. I feel that Sayable can stop your team. Burn inflicts Garchomp pretty bad and once Toxic starts racking up on Volcarona it can be protect stalled really easily. Talonflame counters Skarm and Vol pretty well and Greninja for Chomp and Jellicent. Overall I must say your team is really good and can get really high up on the ladder.
We should battle on Showdown sometime my name is Yuit. :)
 
I have also noticed that in battles. I really like to play garchomp immediatly after my tyranitar, just to have a 4 turn use of Sand Force. And I also use Tyranitar to counter Greninja, like what happened in your replay. You only have to fear Scald because of the burn, and even Hydro Pump can't 2HKO you. The only have to fear fighting special attacks. You can sometimes forget you're really not as strong vs physical attacks as you think, but Skarmory is your man for that.

And Yuit, sure, my name is Arvidter on Showdown, it would be fun to fight you. I have indeed noticed that I don't like burns, except for Volcarona and Jellicent. I think Sableye is a very strong pokemon vs stallers and physical teams, which kinda discribes my team except for Volcarona. Although talonflame can counter skarmory a bit, I can take 1 flare blitz because of sturdy, the recoil from Rocky Helmet and Flare Blitz will hurt Talonflame a lot. Although Skarmory will lose, he will take a huge chunk of Talonflame with him, and I think Talonflame will die when Stealth Rock is present. I'm kinda happy to see that most pokemon you say only counter 2 pokemon (except for Sableye, who is annoying for 5 of my team o_O).

Thanks for the notes on my team!
 
I don't really think Sand Rush is that good of an idea on Excadrill. Sure, it's pretty cool and hey you even have T-Tar, but Mold Breaker can help stop Rotom-W, something that's been a bit too common. Excadrill is good by himself, the extra damage helps, but Mold Breaker really makes it better.

Do love how you've worked around the sand problem, though. Haven't seen a sand team in a while. Love them.
 
You've got a point there, especially since Rotom-W is so popular. The reason why had chosen Sand Rush are two reasons: I can revenge kill almost everything that killed my precious T-Tar, and his primary role is as a Rapid Spinner, so I can do a very fast Rapid Spin before I die. I have to admit Mold Breaker sounds very tempting, but do you think ignoring that oh so annoying Levitate (there are multiple pokemon that keep abusing that ability besides Rotom-W) better than the revenge killer role? Sand Rush was the reason he was banned to ubers in Generation V, where weather was still permanent.
 
Hey, yeah we should battle sometime my time zone is Eastern. We'll probably have to battle after 4 cause I have school Anyways see later
 
Okie Dokey. Kinda in a crisis right now our flight got cancelled so we can't get back to Canada.:/ Schools started to so got catch up quick. But I'll probably on sometime on the weekend :)
 
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