Gen 3 Time to share this awesome team I've been using

Don't really play anymore, since all the servers suck now.

Celebi @ Leftovers ** Green
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 212 HP / 240 Def / 56 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Leech Seed
- Psychic
- Recover

Defensive tank. Forces bulky waters like CM Suicune, Milotic and Swampert to switch out. Says hi to anything with high hp. Laughs at Non stabbed ice beams, Ludicolo,Sceptile. Thought about replacing calm mind a few times to help with TTar, but thats what swampert and Suicune for. Enough defense to leech seed Salamence, Gyarados and Aero starters (if I so desire). Doesn't need 404 HP for seismic toss, beats the shit outta blissey anyway. This is my best pokemon. This moveset and spread is the best non uber pokemon in the game.

Swampert (M) @ Leftovers ** Mr. Mean
Trait: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 56 Atk / 100 Def / 8 Spd / 92 SAtk
Relaxed Nature (+Def, -Spd)
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Ice Beam
- Rest

Earthquake for Stab, HP Grass (what?) for other swamperts I *may* not need this since I've had Celebi on the team but it works, Ice beam to counter salamence, obviously. Another BoahDD/Tar counter. SAtk to 2ohko swampert

Suicune @ Leftovers ** Marco
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Rest
- Surf

No weak. I like HP Electric over Roar and Ice beam. Swampert is my beamer and is blissey, I don't need 3. 361 Defense. 320+ something Sdef after one CM. Hits skarm with the HP when it tries to roar. This thing dominates. I used to have magneton here, but this takes care of tyranitar and more. Scary :[

Blissey (F) @ Leftovers ** Sativa
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 200 HP / 252 Def / 56 SAtk
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Aromatherapy
- Ice Beam
- Softboiled
- Toxic

The best blissey set. Toxic > Thunderwave because this team doesnt fear metagross. Ice beam for gengar (also lols at FP GGar) so it doesnt have a chance. and plants and salamence/aero/whatever switch ins. Beats the shit outta zam and basically any Sp attacker with Toxic. Thats why I think toxic is a necessity

Dugtrio (F) @ Choice Band ** Doug
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Aerial Ace
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Bug]
- Rock Slide

Says what up to blissey, Switch into Celebis when <75% on their leech seed to blissey(one of the times low hp comes in hand)and HP Bugs. Finishes Magneton if I'm so unlucky to lose skarm. Finishes alot of things. It owns. Aerial ace for heracross

Skarmory (F) @ Leftovers ** Larry Bird
Trait: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Hidden Power [Flying]
- Rest
- Spikes
- Whirlwind

I toyed around with hidden power ground but decided against it after heracross 1v1d it and HP Ground on skarm just sucks. I'll admit I'm in trouble without Skarm, but I never let Skarm die.

My weaknesses:

Reversal/Endure Blaziken

CM/Crunch raikou. Only fear the crunch raikou

Substitute/Thunderbolt/HPGrass/Toxic [LOL, I saw it once] zapdos

Toxic/Sandstorm/spikes teams

How it handles standards.

Swampert: is countered by my swampert, suicune, celebi
Lax: is easily handled by leech seed.
Blissey: leech seed and Dug
Skarmory: I don't have big physical attackers so I just don't care about it. Suicune usually hurts it tho with a CM HP Elec
Starmie: Toxic stall it with blissey
Aero/Salamence/Flygon/Dragonite: Swampert
Tauntridos: Suicune


Overall this team has a great mix of defense and attack and is a force to be reckoned with. Thank you for looking. Have fun
 
With Suicune, Surf does more damage than HP to Skarmory.

EDIT: Yes, I know that that's not what it's there for, but you mentioned it against Skarmory so I thought I'd point it out.
 
Solid team with very defensive OU pokemons. I am not sure if you can handle timid Raikou easily; Celebi is a shaky counter not at full HP. Boah/CBTar is a easy switch in into quite a few pokemon, but you have very solid counter for it.
With a team with emphasis on defense; a loss of a wall will cause the loss of the team. Blissey is crucial to yours survival.

Bliss/Skarm/Cune/Swampert/Celebi = Tank
 

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You may not have a Skarm weak, but it can easily set up Spikes against your team and undermine your CM sweepers with its phaze + Toxic. Seeing how 5 / 6th of your team is affected by Spikes, defensive Spikers is a pain. Starmie over Suicune may not be so bad. Takes nonboosted Reversal just as well as Suicune, and could have the first hit against Gengar thinking it could bring something with Explosion / D-BOnd. It also has a chance against outspeeding most Raikou for a risky 2hko. Also useful finishing off DDTar with 1 DD up (so does Dugtrio, although there could be Jolly tars =p).
 
hpgrass raikou still wins. it's funny how celebi would end up wasting roughly 10 psychic pp's in one sitting and at that they can just go to tar or meta or something and later start again. it's kind of funny tbh.

add a rain dance kingdra somewhere, sandstorm teams with spikes will hurt you bad. i'm guessing swampert and suicune are horrible tyranitar counters taking 31% in with them.
 
Hmm yeah spikes looks like it should be a problem, but I've always been able to handle it some how. To take down this team you really need to have all the specific counters. When I see other skarms I set up spikes as well. Usually when Swampert and Suicune are weak- to take out boah I have to sacrafice someone to send in Doug and that pokemon breaks the sub. Any team is subject to logistics, just some are more susceptible to them than other.

I still stand that the only pogeymon this team really fear is Timid Raikou with crunch. I've fought HP Grass raikou before and I calm mind up with it and beat it with psychics and if the sub goes down I leech seed, and if he continues to sub they are not going to win. If it switches then I'll seed whatever it is and judge from there, we both lost PP but he most likely needed the Calm mind PP more than I did. Thank you for your analysis however
 
raikou is faster than celebi though. if you both CM up, raikou can sub to block leech seed, and after 8 psychics pressure will drain all the pp. unless sandstream is in play, celebi wont be beating raikou, and anyone using raikou knows not to use ttar on the same team.
 
This should be sticky'd. This is the primo example of the archetypal ADV wall team, though triotrio is usually replaced by Gegnarg.

Only problem I see is a CM bliss weak.
 
Well I remember someone asking about the HP electric on suicune. Well partly the reason is because suicune is always countered by water types and the Surf/Ice beam types are completely wrecked by Vaporeon and friends. Not only does this set handle those pokemon but it also takes care of Trauntridos and such who NEVER expect that and otherwise I'd have a Gyarados problem and basically a bulky water problem in general where my only option would be to seed and stall toxic with blissey.

But yeah no calm mind blissey weak here because Leech seed just hurts it way too much.

The SD/SB Celebi could be a problem if dugtrio doesn't ohko it with hp bug. This is also why I've been considering HPBug/rockslide-eq/Taunt-rockslide/DD Tyranitar over Dugtrio. I just dont have any urge with these current servers (kirby casino what?) to try it out. But yeah I never really toyed around with a 362 speed Dugtrio before so, he loses too much Atk to counter one pokemon, in which I'd rather be able to hit celebi as hard as I can with non stabbed HP Bug
 

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