Sandstorm, as standard as it gets. In the past I have usually used pokemon which I deemed to be underrated and try to surprise my opposition with unique sets. Occasionally it has worked out for me, but spent a lot of time at the bottom of the ladder trying to invent new interesting teams and sets, but fuck that, I made a typical sandstorm team which rocketed up in no time although hitting a plateau of around 1355 points… So, here it is…
Oh and I build the team around the usage statistics of the last three months of 2011, picking pokemon carefully to check the top 20 most used pokemon in OU, and will be using that as sort of a threat list.
Team Turd burger
Tyranitar @ Chople Berry
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature (+SpD, -SpA)
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Pursuit
- Stone Edge
Ok the EV’s are a bit inventive so could need some help sorting these out defensively; but a hasty nature and 208 speed EV’s allows me to outspeed common gliscors and OHKO with fire blast (FUCK YOU NOOBS RUNNING SCARF SCIZOR THOUGH… RAGE). But yeah, this beasty boy is the buns to my turdburger, the sandstorm creator. The great thing about tyranitar is it is so versatile, and this one can bluff quite a few sets, it can OHKO opposing specially defensive ttars with superpower, bluffing a choice scarfed set… opponent brings in scizor and BOOM HEADSHOT! Buggy goes down. Crunch and stone edge are of course mandatory STAB moves which are still powerful without EV investment in attack. Considerations: Pursuit over crunch, due to the speed investment it is slightly less bulky and is limited to how many draco meteors it can take from latios, I need to trap that bitch. Currently testing new set for physical offensive pressure while sponging more special attacks, namely to counter the troublesome trick room reuniclus, it also helps with gengar.
Celebi@leftovers
Natural cure, modest nature
252spa/200spe/56hp
-nasty plot
-giga drain
-hidden power [fire]
-psychic
MVP. What would I do without this little onion. It has a very important niche on my team in combating rain, and taking hits from terrakkion, rotom-w and the likes. This beasty boy really is the onion in my turdburger. Guess what? EV’s and set is STANDARD, although some like to run earth power over psychic but I have lots of ways I can deal with heatran and after a nasty plot it is a seriously powerful STAB move if giga drain just can’t cut it. Breloom in the rain can be troublesome for my team and psychic can OHKO whereas hidden power fire just isn’t powerful enough. I love catching pokemon on the switch with a psychic too, it does surprising amounts of damage. I don’t run recovery on this set since it has giga drain which does the job nicely. Celebi having access to natural cure is such a blessing too, since a lot of my pokemon are crippled by will-o-wisp, it’s a nice status absorber. Considerations: a slightly bulkier celebi, possibly a calm mind version purely because it serves such an important role I seem to rely on it a lot and sponges a lot of hits.
Heatran @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power Ice
The Second component to the infamous celetran core, the relish of my turdburger. Oh look, it’s a STANDARD heatran, plays a valuable role of giving my team some important resistances to lean back on, it’s a great teammate to celebi, sets up rocks so without it I’d have to run rocks on tyranitar which I don’t want to do. Since heatran is a component in my celetran core it can set up rocks easily after sponging an attack on the switch. Stealth rock can be extremely important when facing threats such as dragonite and volcarona but I don’t see the need for a spinblocker, I can usually play around it and just destroy the spinner. Since I USED to run stealth rock on tyranitar this spot used to belong to a resttalk set, it got a couple of ragequits and some funny responses, most people just said “wow”. Not sure if it was sarcastic but who gives a rats arse, it was a bit too gimmicky though and only works in very few situations. Considerations: Metal sound over protect, could be fun… NO, BETTER KEEP IT STANDARD. New set thanks to New World Order, offensive for opposing heatran and a second option for DD dragons, volcarona already checked by terrakkion so spdef heatran more redundant
Rotom-W@leftovers
Modest nature, Levitate
144hp/252spa/112spe
-Will-o-wisp
-Hydro pump
-Thunderbolt
-Pain split
Whats a STANDARD team without old Rotom-w eh? This guy… is the mayonnaise in my turdburger… fucking homemade mayonnaise… Yeah. There really isn’t much to say here, everybody knows what this guy does, I chose a will-o-wisping version over volt-switching version due to the offensive nature of teams these days, volt switching onto something like celebi usually gets predicted and gets an X-scissor in the face. BOOM HEADSHOT. Yeah, anyway its pretty common so I’m just gonna go straight to my considerations: Hidden power ice/volt switch or something over pain split, I don’t really get to use it much. I’m not running the most bulky rotom-w in the world because I prefer it to have a little more offensive prescence, if I get the chance to use pain split it can be OHKO’d next turn, so I’ll leave that slot up to you guys.
Landorus@life orb
Sand force, naïve nature
252spe/252atk/4hp
-Earthquake
-Stone edge/Smack down
-Hidden power [Ice]
-rock polish
DAMN I LOVE THIS THING. IT’S THE CHEESE TO MY TURDBURGER. The tastiest member of my team… The tastiest cunt nugget You’ll ever see! Anyway enough of that. Sand force + life orb = Extreme power, hmm what else is needed… speed, slap on rock polish, hmm, walled by gliscor, slap on hidden power ice and BOOM. This thing is awesome at clearing up mid-late game in conjunction with Terrakkion. It’s power surprises me, but when I think about it, Stab=1.5 sand force=1.3 life orb=1.3 totalling up to 2.1 I believe. After one rock polish it outspeeds (I think) every common scarfed pokemon in the OU metagame, so if it gets a rock polish up you will have a look in your eye like you haven’t been fucked in a year, and, it of course loves the stealth rock damage to ensure those essential OHKO’s. Considerations: None, I have tested out scarfed landorus in its place but this gets basically twice as many kills. As suggested from Delko, a smack down set would support my team nicely, so is currently being tested :)
Terrakkion@ Choice scarf
Justified, Jolly nature
252spe/252atk/4hp
-Close combat
-Stone edge
-X-scissor
-Earthquake
Finally, my revenge killer, it can kill so much in the current metagame it’s not even funny. It’s the shit in my turdburger, it crosses off most of the names on my threatlist due to its sheer power and amazing coverage. I chose scarf over banded because every team needs a scarfed revengekiller, and IMO life orb landorus was just too good to give the sack, so I slapped it on this bum pirate and never looked back. I’ve tried Band, and also sub sword dance terrakkion in its place but this seemed to fit better in my team. (I also like predicting and coming in on dark type moves for a pleasant boost for attack, some people tend to forget about its ability, it’s not the worst in the world)
There you have it. If you dislike any of my toppings or toppings qualities please refrain from Trolling and using curse words, people who use curse words are cuntwagons. But feel free to post any suggestions , I know, its not perfect… it could do with some bacon. Thats where you come in :)