Introduction:
A few days ago, I read valentine's In-Depth guide to charizard Y. Since then, i've been building teams around charizard Y. Every team had flaws and not a few of them. My teams were weak to bisharp and CM clefable. So i decided to just throw in random mons and eventually i came up with the team i'm going to present to you. I believe that this is a great team and if played well, it will get me to higher ladder in no time. So without further ado, lets get on to the team.
TeamBuilding Process:
As mentioned, I started with charizard Y and put in some stuff that could support him really well. I will explain everything later so there's no need to make this a long section.
The Team:
Charizard-Mega-Y @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
> Fire Blast
> Solar Beam
> Focus Blast
> Roost
This is the monster that blows fire from its mouth. This team was build solely for the purpose of providing Charizard Y enough support for it to dent a whole lot of stuff. Nothing can take a fire blast really well. Even the things that resist it take enough damage for me to KO them with the other 2 coverage moves. The EV spread is standard. I'm using Timid because there are so many base 100s in this metagame and i want to atleast speed tie with them. Modest may be used because the increase in damage is quite significant. I still prefer timid as even without the boost from modest it can still hit hard enough. It can even take on water types easily because sun weakens water type moves so i don't have to worry about keldeo, greninja and azumarill. AV azumarill is still a pain but it can be dealt with. I haven't faced BD azu or CB but i believe that those two will be able to break through my team with relative ease. But again, nothing is perfect.
Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Stone Edge
After the Aegislash ban, Tyranitar is the best mon that can provide pursuit support for Charizard Y. The Lati@s are a pain and Tyranitar can switch-in on them with ease. It pursuit traps them hence making Zard's life easier. This guy also acts as my sand setter for exca to revenge kill/rapid spin. This is the scarf set which i haven't seen much but it works well. Superpower is for other ttars, Bisharp(which is otherwise really hard for me to handle) and chansey. Ice beam can be run but i don't like dropping crunch because it deals neutral damage to a lot of stuff. It acts as my revenge killer in some cases but excadrill is my main revenge killer. Stone edge is a powerful STAB for the pesky flying spam which everyone uses these days.
Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 240 HP / 192 Def / 76 SpD
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Slack Off
Two sand setters? You must be calling me crazy. I know its weird but it works. After reading valentine's thread, I was impressed by hippowdon's ability of taking hits. After trying it, I wanna kill myself for never looking at this thing before. This thing laughs at physical hits and can take special hits very well too. Its my main answer to genies. I just poison them and stall out. I've been in situations where the opponent had nothing for this thing. The moveset is standard and i took the EV spread from valentine's thread because i don't know if there is any better moveset for a mixed bulky hippowdon. Rocks are great because of the fact that my team has switch-ins to almost everything. The team forces a lot of switches and who doesn't like residual damage?
Azumarill @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 92 HP / 252 Atk / 164 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Belly Drum
- Aqua Jet
- waterfall
- play rough
This was originally meant to check greninja back in XY when it didn't have gunk shot. After the ORAS release I stopped using this team cux of those greninjas running around that ruin my team but after the greninja ban, I thought that this team could shine again. I changed the azumarill set to the terrifying BD set. The moveset is pretty standard here and I believe that it doesn't need to be explained.
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Roost
- Hidden Power [Fire]
In the start, I thought of using this as a defogger but then i realized that i still had one more slot left. So i decided to use it as a powerful special attacker. He can dent things very easily. The Set is standard except for HP fire which is not very common. HP fire OHKO's scizor and deals heavy damage to ferrothorn, two pokemon that like to switch-in on latios. Roost lets me keep him healthy in order for me to sweep with this late game. His great speed stat makes him a notable pokemon on my team.
Excadrill @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- Rapid Spin
Here is my sand abuser and spinner. Charizard needed spin support and nothing is better than a fast spinner like Excadrill. It was kind of a must for my team because i had two sand setters. I never thought of this as a threat but after using it makes me realize that i was wrong. This guy is faster than any scarfer and helps me a lot if something gets a DD up and goes insane. Its also my answer to clefable which was my biggest weakness and the reason of me leaving my old Charizard Y teams. The moveset is standard and not much needs to be said about this mole. Adamant is great because speed isn't the issue here.
Importable:
brokenwings
A few days ago, I read valentine's In-Depth guide to charizard Y. Since then, i've been building teams around charizard Y. Every team had flaws and not a few of them. My teams were weak to bisharp and CM clefable. So i decided to just throw in random mons and eventually i came up with the team i'm going to present to you. I believe that this is a great team and if played well, it will get me to higher ladder in no time. So without further ado, lets get on to the team.
TeamBuilding Process:
As mentioned, I started with charizard Y and put in some stuff that could support him really well. I will explain everything later so there's no need to make this a long section.
The Team:
Charizard-Mega-Y @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
> Fire Blast
> Solar Beam
> Focus Blast
> Roost
Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Stone Edge
Hippowdon (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 240 HP / 192 Def / 76 SpD
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Slack Off
Azumarill @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 92 HP / 252 Atk / 164 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Belly Drum
- Aqua Jet
- waterfall
- play rough
This was originally meant to check greninja back in XY when it didn't have gunk shot. After the ORAS release I stopped using this team cux of those greninjas running around that ruin my team but after the greninja ban, I thought that this team could shine again. I changed the azumarill set to the terrifying BD set. The moveset is pretty standard here and I believe that it doesn't need to be explained.
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Roost
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Excadrill @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- Rapid Spin
So, there it is. One of my best teams. Constructive criticism please. One of the things i like about this team is that it almost always has a safe switch-in to any threat. I haven't played much with this team but whenever i played, there wasn't a situation in which i was rendered helpless against something. I don't get swept by anything even after a good number of boosts. I haven't faced stall and i think i'll have problem against it but i will never know unless i play against stall. Please help me find out the flaws and weaknesses to this team so that i can improve it and get my old spot on ladder. The team works great for now and i have only lost a few times. I don't really consider this a success because i'm still on low ladder and there aren't any good players for me to prove that i really made a good team. Thanks for reading.
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Shout-Outs:
brokenwings
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