Hey guys, its been a while since I posted a RMT, but I figure now is a perfect time while we are all still getting used to the changing meta. Just a quick note on how I made this team:
The main idea for the rest of the team is to be unconventional in order to wear down and lure in mons in order to get the necessary damage for sharpedo to sweep. I have had great success with this team, peaking on the around top 25, only to go down to some unfortunate circumstances/hax I couldnt play around. Additionally I have won a few OU room tournaments on PS, but yeah this is just something I want to share because once salamence and greninja get banned, I think I will need to change some things up, but until then here we go.
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Sharpedo @ Sharpedite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
So here is the deal, Sharpedo is not the best mega, its not even in the top 5. But that doesnt stop this team from destroying everything in site. Sharpedo completely destroys offensive teams with little support and still puts in alot of work against balance, it just requires more support. There is not much to talk about as far as the set goes because ice fang is the only optional move maybe to be replaced by hp fire, or poison jab. But I like ice fang at the moment to help with salamence.
Talonflame @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Taunt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Brave Bird
Talonflame is sooo perfect with sharpedo, because if we are facing an offensive team he can help wear down rotom-w by using willo/roost to get him down to about 50% which is in range of sharpedo's crunch. But his main job is when I realize the team I am facing is a stall team, the goal is basically to stallbreak, this set beats like every stall mon you can think of, especially since charx isnt common at all anymore. The only problem is mega sableye but that why i have clefable so yeah.
Garchomp @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
This is my physical wall/suicide lead depending on what team I am facing, it is supposed to help get rid of these pokemon
It is mainly just a surprising mon that helps widdle down mons that could hinder my sweep. You seriously have no idea how bulky this thing is as it basically takes on any physcial attacker that doesnt have a stab SE Ice move.
Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace
EVs: 252 HP / 108 Def / 148 SpD
Bold Nature
- Ice Beam
- Discharge
- Toxic
- Recover
P2 forms a nice core with garchomp as this thing can take on just about anything, mainly greninja salamence, latis, gardevoir, basically anything that takes out garchomp. I cant even tell you how versatile this thing is because it honestly is still surprising me with its ability trace. It switches in on greninja and now has protean and is a serious threat, gliscor? say hello to poison heal p2(which is unkillable btw), heatran? flash fire, perhaps the best of all is when it traces magnezones magnet lock, because I will commonly lure them in by setting up with clefable one CM, then switching to p2 and slowly killing them/stalling them out. Honestly this thing can even beat some variants of keldeo, long story short p2 is a God.
P2 eating shit up:
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Flamethrower
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
Clefable is my back up plan, and just an overall fantastic win condition. Mons like mega sableye give me alot of trouble otherwise. Stored Power lets me beat other clefable and basically all other Calm minders that think they can keep up with clefable. It has clutched me many games when my other members get haxed, or just fall short. It also serves as an additional switchin to rotom-w, latios, and can setup on a good amount of mons in the tier.
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Defog
- Earthquake
- Psyshock
Pretty basic, I just needed a keldeo check and a defogger. Hp fire is for ferrothorn and other steels because I dont have any fire type moves on this team. And what is a succesful team without a S rank mon right? But seriously this guy honestly doesnt do much, because sometimes I dont even need to defog and can just fire off some strong stabs.
I really just want you guys to try out this team, because its the first one Ive made by myslef in a while as I usually build with friends, and it is seriously a blast to use because its not just a bunch of overpowered boring mons on one team. So let me know what you guys think, Ill try and manage this very actively. Thanks for reading!
Import:
Replays:
First, I started with sharpedo I went with a very standard set because its the most effective imo, then I realized that against any sort of stall team sharpedo was going to need help, and alot of it, so that lead me to stallbreaking talonflame. From there on I realized I had weaknesses to things like azumarill, rotom-w, lando-t, bulky waters, so I engineered a new garchomp set that hasnt seen any action in quite some time, to help me deal with some pesky mons. Next came Porygon2 this is my catch all pokemon, or the glue, if you will. I mainly put on p2 because I needed help with greninja and salamence, but it performs many more roles(including reverse trapping magnezone). Then I needed defog and a better keldeo check, so there went latios, and finally I needed a nice secondary win condition against trickier balance teams so clefable made the cut.
Sharpedo @ Sharpedite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
So here is the deal, Sharpedo is not the best mega, its not even in the top 5. But that doesnt stop this team from destroying everything in site. Sharpedo completely destroys offensive teams with little support and still puts in alot of work against balance, it just requires more support. There is not much to talk about as far as the set goes because ice fang is the only optional move maybe to be replaced by hp fire, or poison jab. But I like ice fang at the moment to help with salamence.
Talonflame @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Taunt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Brave Bird
Talonflame is sooo perfect with sharpedo, because if we are facing an offensive team he can help wear down rotom-w by using willo/roost to get him down to about 50% which is in range of sharpedo's crunch. But his main job is when I realize the team I am facing is a stall team, the goal is basically to stallbreak, this set beats like every stall mon you can think of, especially since charx isnt common at all anymore. The only problem is mega sableye but that why i have clefable so yeah.
Garchomp @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
This is my physical wall/suicide lead depending on what team I am facing, it is supposed to help get rid of these pokemon
Lando-t- A very common lead and it will either be scarfed, and usually u-turn out while I get up rocks and take about 30% of his health with the rocky skin damage, or he is the sr bulky set and he gets toxiced and I get my rocks up, and he usually will still u-turn out taking the damage. Since scarf is most common, every single time it comes in he will either get locked into earthquake, which can be taken advantage of, or he is taking a bunch of damage.
Azumarill- This garchomp set beats azu 1v1 Here is a calc:
252+ Atk Huge Power Azumarill Play Rough vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 266-314 (63.3 - 74.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Garchomp eats this attack up then eqs it for the kill in combination with the rocky damage
Rotom-w- gets toxicd and widdled down in conjunction with the toxic damage, protect stalling, and stealth rocks damage, and this is perfect because rotom only needs to be at 50% for sharpedo to take him out, not to mention sharpedo also has protect to get another toxic turn in.
Lopunny (mega)- This is my personal favorite, because it will usually fake out then ice punch in order to prevent rocks, but in actuality it can live ice punch EVERYTIME even after fake out, so you can choose to either get up rocks or just kill the lopunny and try and get rocks up later.
252+ Atk Lopunny Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 280-332 (66.6 - 79%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(This is obviously with the attack boost mega gets)
Metagross(mega)- Another mon that may think it has the coverage move to OHKO garchomp only to get destroyed after the ice punch and killed with earthquake.
252+ Atk Metagross Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 292-344 (69.5 - 81.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO(also with attack raise)
Azumarill- This garchomp set beats azu 1v1 Here is a calc:
252+ Atk Huge Power Azumarill Play Rough vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 266-314 (63.3 - 74.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Garchomp eats this attack up then eqs it for the kill in combination with the rocky damage
Rotom-w- gets toxicd and widdled down in conjunction with the toxic damage, protect stalling, and stealth rocks damage, and this is perfect because rotom only needs to be at 50% for sharpedo to take him out, not to mention sharpedo also has protect to get another toxic turn in.
Lopunny (mega)- This is my personal favorite, because it will usually fake out then ice punch in order to prevent rocks, but in actuality it can live ice punch EVERYTIME even after fake out, so you can choose to either get up rocks or just kill the lopunny and try and get rocks up later.
252+ Atk Lopunny Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 280-332 (66.6 - 79%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
(This is obviously with the attack boost mega gets)
Metagross(mega)- Another mon that may think it has the coverage move to OHKO garchomp only to get destroyed after the ice punch and killed with earthquake.
252+ Atk Metagross Ice Punch vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Garchomp: 292-344 (69.5 - 81.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO(also with attack raise)
Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace
EVs: 252 HP / 108 Def / 148 SpD
Bold Nature
- Ice Beam
- Discharge
- Toxic
- Recover
P2 forms a nice core with garchomp as this thing can take on just about anything, mainly greninja salamence, latis, gardevoir, basically anything that takes out garchomp. I cant even tell you how versatile this thing is because it honestly is still surprising me with its ability trace. It switches in on greninja and now has protean and is a serious threat, gliscor? say hello to poison heal p2(which is unkillable btw), heatran? flash fire, perhaps the best of all is when it traces magnezones magnet lock, because I will commonly lure them in by setting up with clefable one CM, then switching to p2 and slowly killing them/stalling them out. Honestly this thing can even beat some variants of keldeo, long story short p2 is a God.
P2 eating shit up:
252 SpA Life Orb Latios Draco Meteor vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 165-195 (44.1 - 52.1%) -- 16% chance to 2HKO
252 SpA Life Orb Gengar Sludge Wave vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 121-144 (32.3 - 38.5%) -- 97.4% chance to 3HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 139-165 (37.1 - 44.1%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
-1 252 Atk Aerilate Salamence Return vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 93-111 (24.8 - 29.6%) -- 0.5% chance to 3HKO after Stealth Rock(Mega Salamence)
232 SpA Pixilate Mega Gardevoir Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 135-160 (36 - 42.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 Atk Tough Claws Mega Charizard X Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 154-183 (41.1 - 48.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Mega Charizard Y Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2 in Sun: 187-222 (50 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO(this does alot, but cmon)
252 SpA Choice Specs Keldeo Secret Sword vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 246-290 (65.7 - 77.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Life Orb Gengar Sludge Wave vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 121-144 (32.3 - 38.5%) -- 97.4% chance to 3HKO
252+ Atk Choice Band Talonflame Brave Bird vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 139-165 (37.1 - 44.1%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO after Stealth Rock
-1 252 Atk Aerilate Salamence Return vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 93-111 (24.8 - 29.6%) -- 0.5% chance to 3HKO after Stealth Rock(Mega Salamence)
232 SpA Pixilate Mega Gardevoir Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2: 135-160 (36 - 42.7%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 Atk Tough Claws Mega Charizard X Flare Blitz vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 154-183 (41.1 - 48.9%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
252 SpA Mega Charizard Y Fire Blast vs. 252 HP / 152 SpD Eviolite Porygon2 in Sun: 187-222 (50 - 59.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO(this does alot, but cmon)
252 SpA Choice Specs Keldeo Secret Sword vs. 252 HP / 104+ Def Eviolite Porygon2: 246-290 (65.7 - 77.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Flamethrower
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
Clefable is my back up plan, and just an overall fantastic win condition. Mons like mega sableye give me alot of trouble otherwise. Stored Power lets me beat other clefable and basically all other Calm minders that think they can keep up with clefable. It has clutched me many games when my other members get haxed, or just fall short. It also serves as an additional switchin to rotom-w, latios, and can setup on a good amount of mons in the tier.
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Defog
- Earthquake
- Psyshock
Pretty basic, I just needed a keldeo check and a defogger. Hp fire is for ferrothorn and other steels because I dont have any fire type moves on this team. And what is a succesful team without a S rank mon right? But seriously this guy honestly doesnt do much, because sometimes I dont even need to defog and can just fire off some strong stabs.
I really just want you guys to try out this team, because its the first one Ive made by myslef in a while as I usually build with friends, and it is seriously a blast to use because its not just a bunch of overpowered boring mons on one team. So let me know what you guys think, Ill try and manage this very actively. Thanks for reading!
Import:
Sharpedo @ Sharpedite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
Talonflame @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Taunt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Brave Bird
Garchomp @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace
EVs: 252 HP / 108 Def / 148 SpD
Bold Nature
- Ice Beam
- Discharge
- Toxic
- Recover
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Flamethrower
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Defog
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psyshock
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Protect
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
Talonflame @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Taunt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Brave Bird
Garchomp @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Toxic
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
Porygon2 @ Eviolite
Ability: Trace
EVs: 252 HP / 108 Def / 148 SpD
Bold Nature
- Ice Beam
- Discharge
- Toxic
- Recover
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Flamethrower
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
Latios (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Defog
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psyshock
Replays:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-182422500
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181918974
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181914108
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181912330
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-182212788
(tourney win)http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-182832975
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181918974
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181914108
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-181912330
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-182212788
(tourney win)http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/orasou-182832975
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