please never use poliwrath outside of agipass.
Most of the shit previously mentioned are stuff that technically works, but they have literally no defensive utility and you will feel like you play 5v6 most of the game just to set up that one cool set that might have a shitty matchup anyway. What everyone will suggest anyway are gonna be the 20th and lower best GSC mons that have a niche, so I'll save y'all from the work and write up whatever needs a shoutout in the metagame. Shoot me.
Heracross @ Leftovers
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Megahorn
- Curse
lol dis nigga. It's pretty neat now that you look at how many of todays builds that forego a flying (Skarm, Zapdos) and how hard some of them get smacked by this thing. Once mainly Skarm and Steelix are gone, this shit can wreck some real havoc, while unlike Scizor, also performs defensively as a sleep absorber that comes in and sets up on non-FB Nidoking. Of course there's the more common Seismic Toss variant, but that shit's dull, and not something you really can build around, but more of a last-second addition for most teams, that wants something that chips decently on Skarmory. ProTip: user Endeby tends to be weak to this.
Tentacruel @ Leftovers
- Swords Dance
- Sludge Bomb
- Hydro Pump/Surf
- Substitute
God damn this thing's great, don't know why it's not used more. Sets up on non-AA Vap (BORAT?) easily, non-HP Electric Cloyster (which unfortunately is everywhere, but Cloy dies fast anyway), and ravages through a lot of the common mons on offense. Steelix is 2HKOed, Tyranitar is 2HKOed with H-Pump, Eggy is almost OHKOed by 476 (+2) Sludge Bomb (but Eggy often takes a lot of irrecoverable damage anyway), and even electrics dislike the poison that potentially comes from Sludge Bomb. Pretty sure Lax takes about ~40-ish percent from +2 Sludge Bomb which is pretty reasonable damage. And seeing as many as up to six of those Pokemon on the same team, isn't unreasonable at all.
Jynx @ Leftovers
- Lovely Kiss
- Psychic
- Ice Beam
- Substitute
Jynx is pretty neat, because it threatens the main Sleep Talker on offense; Zapdos. Substitute eases prediction, and also is used because Jynx doesn't really have all that many options that will do much in the long run. Main issues are as always the other fat sleep absorbers, and the main special walls, Raikou (ST?), Snorlax (ST?), Vaporeon and Suicune. You can try to pass some Growth's to it but you need Roar Cune and Raikou gone first, before Vap can pass reliably. Or you can try the next mon on my list...
Jolteon @ Leftovers
- Thunder/Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power Water
- Growth
- Baton Pass
GrowthPass Jolteon always looked cool in my eyes but I never had the courage to try it out. One of the few Pokemon that actually
benefits from Raikou being a Sleep Talk variant, and thus I had high hopes for it. Probably the eeveelution that has the easier time Baton Passing boosts, though as mentioned has a hard-stop in Roar Raikou. 999 Jolteon is also probably the most dangerous of the eeveelutions, but it's a bit too slow to get there. I'm running out of shit to say now. There's also Bite (lol) as an attacking option if you wan't to sweep, as you hit Exeggutor and probably nothing else, but I don't have the balls to do that.
Venusaur @ Leftovers
- Growth
- Sludge Bomb
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Leech Seed
I believe I ran into Conflict on the PO ladder when he was running this, and god damn it pissed me off. My memory might be hella bad, and for all I know it might've been an illusion, but I'm pretty sure he used something like this and it was quite an annoyance. Sludge Bomb poison in conjunction with Leech Seed is quite a bitch, and Venusaur is fast and pulls of LS very well. Also hits Exeggutor I guess. HP Fire for general coverage. I don't remember the rest of his team, but seeing a nice build with this mon included would be quite sexy (though if you're gonna min-max the teams, you're probably skipping the non-top 20 mons anyway).
Disgregard this, memory was shitty.
I believe a lot of the other viable-but-never-used Pokemon you can find hanging in the BL list are mostly mons you slot in later, and can't really build around, so I won't go ahead and suggest whole sets for them, but the noteworthy ones are probably Golem, Donphan, Houndoom, Alakazam, Raichu, Jumpluff, etc. There's also Clefable which is quite cool because of it's neat speed and one-turn recovery. also wtf does moltres do lol.
I don't wanna see anyone ever build around(?) this next set anyway, but it's so dumb I just have to showcase it.
Umbreon @ Leftovers
- Mean Look
- Rest
- Screech
- Swagger
Confusion mayhem. Shoutout to Thiago Rios for this gay piece of aids that drove me and probably more people nuts. Hilariously effective though, and I need to give props to Thiago for coming up with this lol. You either make it out as a powerhouse (assuming you're a physical attacker), or you die a brutal death looking at the face of a sleeping cat of doom. Rest outstalls Thunder's from the electrics, which is quite nice, so don't send those in for whatever reason. If you ever use it, nickname it Cased cuz I know he loves to play against this set.