Oh boy is it really time for me to build teams after so long? Yes. With barely any knowledge of the current OU metagame anymore, my best choice was my favorite tier that is also knows as UU.
Teambuilding process and thingies put in short
So our journey begins with Mega Sharpedo, and honestly speaking, I didn't know first why I wanted to build around it, I just felt like it.
Next thing I really wanted was someone to set rocks and just be overall something useful, so here comes Mamoswine
After noticing I didn't really have a spinner nor someone to sponge hits well, I went with AV Hitmontop
And as we can all see, I'm weak to a lot of things. Namely fighting, fairy and grass. Easy fix with Crobat
And of course because I'm bad I only now realized my electric weakness. Mamoswine didn't really do much considering it was a suicide lead. Also wouldn't mind having a counter against bulky water, mainly Crocune. This is where Heliolisk comes in.
Not really a fan of the 4 physical and 1 special mon split, and I'm missing a set-up sweeper, and I wouldn't miss the chance to use my favorite one, Reuniclus
The team did surprisingly good, but considering I was facing low ladder I didn't mind it much. Tho I did have some good matches against decent and some good players.
But the streak can only go for so long, every good UU player at this point is looking at this team like "You get destroyed by the best UU mon" which is namely Hydreigon.
After some researching I decided t replace Hitmontop since I never truly liked it in my team, and we shall meet Vaporeon.
Next thing I really wanted was someone to set rocks and just be overall something useful, so here comes Mamoswine
After noticing I didn't really have a spinner nor someone to sponge hits well, I went with AV Hitmontop
And as we can all see, I'm weak to a lot of things. Namely fighting, fairy and grass. Easy fix with Crobat
And of course because I'm bad I only now realized my electric weakness. Mamoswine didn't really do much considering it was a suicide lead. Also wouldn't mind having a counter against bulky water, mainly Crocune. This is where Heliolisk comes in.
Not really a fan of the 4 physical and 1 special mon split, and I'm missing a set-up sweeper, and I wouldn't miss the chance to use my favorite one, Reuniclus
The team did surprisingly good, but considering I was facing low ladder I didn't mind it much. Tho I did have some good matches against decent and some good players.
But the streak can only go for so long, every good UU player at this point is looking at this team like "You get destroyed by the best UU mon" which is namely Hydreigon.
After some researching I decided t replace Hitmontop since I never truly liked it in my team, and we shall meet Vaporeon.
Now to the real thing
Sorry about the picture sizes, I was lazy so all I did was make the bigger size max 500 ok
Starting off with the MVP of the team, mega sharpedo
A$AP Rocky (Sharpedo-Mega) @ Sharpedonite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Protect
Reason I wanted to build around this was because of it's simply amazing late-game sweeping abilitites.
Which is exactly why at the start of the battle my objective is to basically see what mons I need to weaken in order to win with Sharpedo.
EVs are obviously just for the maximum sweeping capability, and thanks to speed boost I can run adamant.
The dual STAB helps me destroy almost everything in the tier, and whatever I don't destroy with those I can kill them with Ice Fang. And finally we have protect to guarantee a speed boost at least once for us.
Which is exactly why at the start of the battle my objective is to basically see what mons I need to weaken in order to win with Sharpedo.
EVs are obviously just for the maximum sweeping capability, and thanks to speed boost I can run adamant.
The dual STAB helps me destroy almost everything in the tier, and whatever I don't destroy with those I can kill them with Ice Fang. And finally we have protect to guarantee a speed boost at least once for us.
Kendrick Lamar (Mamoswine) @ Focus Sash Ability: Oblivious
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Endeavor
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard
- Stealth Rock
Next we have a guy that fulfills actually quite a lot of roles.
First things first, it's the team's rocker and really good at that too as it forces quite a few switches.
It also serves as a lead, and a fairly good anti-lead, as generally it beats Azelf, some Infernape sets, Aerodactyl, Archeops etc all those leads with it's oblivious ability blocking taunt and who doesn't love the endeavor + priority used along with sash?
What's also good about Mamo is that it necessarily doesn't need to be a suicide stealth rocker lead. Out of all the mons in this team, Mamoswine scores the second most kills because it destroys walls and set-up sweepers. I was quite amazed when I wiped out half of my opponent's team with endeavor + ice shard spam.
Also provides electric immunity somewhat when I don't just let it die in the lead.
First things first, it's the team's rocker and really good at that too as it forces quite a few switches.
It also serves as a lead, and a fairly good anti-lead, as generally it beats Azelf, some Infernape sets, Aerodactyl, Archeops etc all those leads with it's oblivious ability blocking taunt and who doesn't love the endeavor + priority used along with sash?
What's also good about Mamo is that it necessarily doesn't need to be a suicide stealth rocker lead. Out of all the mons in this team, Mamoswine scores the second most kills because it destroys walls and set-up sweepers. I was quite amazed when I wiped out half of my opponent's team with endeavor + ice shard spam.
Also provides electric immunity somewhat when I don't just let it die in the lead.
Joey Bada$$ (Vaporeon) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 SpD
Bold Nature
- Heal Bell
- Protect
- Wish
- Scald
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 SpD
Bold Nature
- Heal Bell
- Protect
- Wish
- Scald
So if you chose to read my little teambuilding process thingymabobbie, you know this spot used to be for Hitmontop. Just pointing it out just in case ya feel?
So one beautiful day I got almost swept by a Hydreigon, and I decided that something had to be done about it
This is where Vaporeon comes in, as with the EVs it tanks a Draco from 45% to 52% which allows me to wish the next turn. And upon some laddering, I also noticed I take less than 50% from Dragalge's sludge wave so that's also nice n' poppin'.
Other than handling with those things, it also gives me access to heal bell which I really, REALLY needed before I swapped Hitmontop out.
Now here you're probably thinking "just use Florges you retard" and that's acceptable, but I just wanted to go with Vaporeon as I didn't want to catch an iron tail from Hydreigon and get 6-0'd by sludge wave spam.
I already explained the SpD EVs, and rest are really going to just HP and defense so I have around the same amount of defense on both sides and good amount of HP to pass those wishes.
Danny Brown (Heliolisk) @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hyper Voice
- Grass Knot
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hyper Voice
- Grass Knot
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Well, Mamoswine wasn't enough to cover for my electric weakness and let's be real Heliolisk barely does it either. But on the other hand, it serves as a counter to some bulky waters such as Crocune or Swampert
Also provided some specially offensive pressure to my team with the power of Life Orb and base 109 speed and special attack. Not to mention the coverage is great.
So volt switch is always nice to have for momentum, which is exactly why I have it over tbolt. Then there's hyper voice for hitting things like Rotom-H and overall it's a good middleground to have. Grass Knot for those annoying ground types such as swampert and hidden power ice is if somebody feels like making big boy plays and switches in dragons like mega sceptile and Salamence in.
But honestly speaking, this mon could be changed for Rotom-H, I'm just not so sure. I'll let you wiser people tell me if it's worth it or not.
Yelawolf (Crobat) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 248 Atk / 12 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Taunt
- U-turn
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 248 Atk / 12 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Taunt
- U-turn
Mbeedrill is always a problem in UU, or maybe that's just me. And at this point my fighting weakness is hitting the roof, same with grass weakness. But for my luck, this thing exists. Now this set may confuse some people, so let's get through it;
First things first, the EVs. 12 Speed EVs allows me to outspeed max speed timid Rotom-H as long as it's not scarfed. 248 HP EVs give me an odd number of health so I can switch into rocks 5 times and rest are just in attack.
Crobat is also fulfilling a bit of a weird role, as it is there to take hits and obviously path up my 2 major weaknesses, but it's also a wallbreaker with taunt and roost. And frankly, really good at it.
Infiltrator helps me with the substituting shenanigans and U-Turn gives momentum while giving me a pretty nice voltturn core with Heliolisk.
Then there's rocky helmet, which is literally just so beedrill doesn't do ham with the u-turn and it's nice residual damage overall on any physical attacker.
Big KRIT (Reuniclus) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast
Really, really standard calm mind set. When making the team I just looked at it like "Oh I'm not very weak to ghosts, dark nor bug" and felt like I needed a psychic type, not to mention I was missing a set-up sweeper.
So we have the boosting move in terms of CM, a recovery move (just try to guess which one it is), and a good STAB that helps against special walls like Blissey and opposing CM mons such as Suicune. I used to carry shadow ball as my coverage for doublade, but after Hydreigon tore my team bit by bit, I chose to go with focus blast that will hurt the stupid dragon when it switches in.
Why 4 EVs on speed when I'm running a mon that has base 30 speed? It outspeeds opposing Reuniclusses.
Threats and such :
Curse Snorlax - Jesus fuck I can't beat this unless I get an early taunt on it with Crobat or I have the option to endeavor it with Mamoswine. The thing is so fat and strong.
Hydreigon - As I explained, it swept through my team the one time I faced it. Can be dealth with depending on the set but can be hard to break if it's scarf and has Rotom-H in the same team.
Slurpuff - I really only faced this thing once and it didn't get to do anything as I taunted it with my Crobat before it drummed it's belly. But you already know that the moment it gets the belly drum up, it's over for me.
Mega Ampharos - *Trembles in fear*
Mega Aerodactyl - Not really a problem since it can be dealt with basically half of my team. But what really makes me cry is the hone claws set as it just sets up on reuniclus and proceeds to destroy everything if Mamo is down.
Hydreigon - As I explained, it swept through my team the one time I faced it. Can be dealth with depending on the set but can be hard to break if it's scarf and has Rotom-H in the same team.
Slurpuff - I really only faced this thing once and it didn't get to do anything as I taunted it with my Crobat before it drummed it's belly. But you already know that the moment it gets the belly drum up, it's over for me.
Mega Ampharos - *Trembles in fear*
Mega Aerodactyl - Not really a problem since it can be dealt with basically half of my team. But what really makes me cry is the hone claws set as it just sets up on reuniclus and proceeds to destroy everything if Mamo is down.
Shout out to no one because I'm a solo player
Importable thingy:
A$AP Rocky (Sharpedo-Mega) @ Sharpedonite
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Protect
Kendrick Lamar (Mamoswine) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Oblivious
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Endeavor
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard
- Stealth Rock
Joey Bada$$ (Vaporeon) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 SpD
Bold Nature
- Heal Bell
- Protect
- Wish
- Scald
Yelawolf (Crobat) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 248 Atk / 12 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Taunt
- U-turn
Danny Brown (Heliolisk) @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hyper Voice
- Grass Knot
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Big KRIT (Reuniclus) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast
Ability: Speed Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Waterfall
- Crunch
- Ice Fang
- Protect
Kendrick Lamar (Mamoswine) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Oblivious
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Endeavor
- Earthquake
- Ice Shard
- Stealth Rock
Joey Bada$$ (Vaporeon) @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 204 HP / 248 Def / 56 SpD
Bold Nature
- Heal Bell
- Protect
- Wish
- Scald
Yelawolf (Crobat) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 248 Atk / 12 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Taunt
- U-turn
Danny Brown (Heliolisk) @ Life Orb
Ability: Dry Skin
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hyper Voice
- Grass Knot
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Big KRIT (Reuniclus) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast