John34645
Introduction
Hello Smogon community as you can probs guess I am greener then grass to smogon and this will be my first RMT and im going to ask that you have some patience and bere thru with me. The aim of this team is to force switch outs and to trap uses while racking up lots of toxic damage while still keeping good momentum and lots of revenge kill sweeping opportunities for gyrados
The Team:
Politoed @ Leftovers
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Sp Def
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Whirlpool
- Protect
- Perish Song
- Toxic
this is a new take on the standard defensive set in which ive replaced the scald with whirlpool. Why? Because it allows me to trap Pokémon and setup either toxic spikes on them or lets gyrados sweep them. This set has great synergy with my team as if politoed dies but manages to get up a perish song you can then use dugtrio to both kill the pokemon by protecting away and allow Doug to set up the ever needed stealth rocks.
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Sp Def
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Whirlpool
- Protect
- Perish Song
- Toxic
this is a new take on the standard defensive set in which ive replaced the scald with whirlpool. Why? Because it allows me to trap Pokémon and setup either toxic spikes on them or lets gyrados sweep them. This set has great synergy with my team as if politoed dies but manages to get up a perish song you can then use dugtrio to both kill the pokemon by protecting away and allow Doug to set up the ever needed stealth rocks.
Dugtrio @ Focus Sash
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Hp / 252 Spe
Adament (+Atk, -Spe)
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Reversal
- Stealth Rock
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Hp / 252 Spe
Adament (+Atk, -Spe)
- Protect
- Earthquake
- Reversal
- Stealth Rock
Dugtrio is a situational member of the team, when faced with opposeing weather pokemon such as tyranitar or ninetales he can usually OHKO them both in one turn. Outside of the weather dugtrio others use as a kamikaze rocks setup and as a trap killer for the ever present heatrans and volcaronas of the tier.dugtrio find his synergy with this team through his natural groun typing which provides and essential immunity to electric moves which would otherwise decimate this team, of which dugtrio can either dispatch of himself or be used to safely switch gyrados to deal with the pokemon.
Tentacruel @ Black Sludge
Trait: Rain Dish
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Rapid Spin
- Scald
- Toxic Spikes
- Protect
Trait: Rain Dish
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Rapid Spin
- Scald
- Toxic Spikes
- Protect
Tentacruel another essential member of this team for both endgame toxic stalling or spinning away those pesky entry hazards. Tentacruel Is an Essential Pokemon Being it either his amazing bulk or that fantastic ability tentacruel is a staple for this team in his ability to not also remove enemy hazards but for also being able to lay down his own toxic spikes while there setup switches out. Although tentacruels typing does add yet another layer of electric weakness his benefits far outway his fallings in his greatly needed supporting role and his walling capability. On a side note he holds black sludge so as to hurt any pokemon wanting to make him trick fodder.
Amoonguss @ Leftovers
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Spore
- Giga Drain
- Clear Smog
- Stun Spore
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Spore
- Giga Drain
- Clear Smog
- Stun Spore
Why oh why does he have Stun Spore over Sludge Bomb, simple Amoonguss isn’t some sweeper, Amoonguss is a wall. With a 4* resistence to grass type moves and a 2* resistence to electric moves and great bulk AND access to regenerator AND access to spore AND access to clear smog its no wonder why amoonguss is so essential to changing the momentum of a game in my favour (I know that was a terrible run on sentance). Amoonguss is all about switching in disableing a pokemon and allowing a safeish switch in and a –hopfully- sweep
Cloyster @ Focus Sash
Trait: Skill Link
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Spear
- Shell Smash
- Razor Shell
Trait: Skill Link
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 152 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Spear
- Shell Smash
- Razor Shell
Cloyster my primary sweeper capable even without support takeing out an entire team of dragonites :P. Why would I give cloyster a Focus Sash simple because his spdef stat his pitiful and all to many times I have prepared for a sweep only to find an idiot with a sp atk gyrados ruin my poor cloysters fun, with focus sash he now has a gaurentee of getting at least 1 shell smash. When faced with the common dragon/flying pokemon or dragon/ground cloyster quickly finds his enemies grovelling at his almighty priority S.T.A.B ed ice shard bringing them down. Thirdly although Cloyster may have yet another weakness to electric type moves this insanity is justified by his focus sash and the fact that any S.T.A.B ed sp Atk that hits for at least neutral damage would useually OHKO him. Why does cloyster have Razor Shell over Rock Blast? Because in the rain it gains an additional 1.5* boost as well as stab which rock blast gets neither, it also has a habit of aquireing the 1.5*- def on the opposition which only makes sweeping that much easier.
Gyrados @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adament Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Ice Fang
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adament Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Ice Fang
And finally we have the centerpice of the team. This set utilizes the weakening that residual wear and tear from toxic and cloyster should have presented to allow Gyrados to sweep teams after a sacrifice to the pokkemon gods (late game).Gary is a boss he doesn’t give to flying/water F***s about his teams yet another weakness to Electric moves he just roles in and waterfalls them to death even your 5 year old neighbour will agree this guy is a badass mofo. Gyarados generaly shouldn’t use anything other then waterfall unless outside of the rain of other exceptional cicumstances.
The Big Bad Threats
although this team does have many picitorial pokemon ie dugtrio and amoonguss If one of these pokemon was to somehow die (which totally never happens) then everything will fall to poo.many dangerous threats include other weather teams especially sun as venasaur w a stat boost becomes a boss of his own rights. This team suffers immensely at the hands of scarfed keldeo as no pokemon can outspeed it on this team. It gets its anus licked by other cloyster whom have access to rock blast alternately. This team also gets harassed by rain dance teams ie kingdra who with an extra turn up its sleeve gets prity dangerous especially considering its no outstanding weaknesses and its 4* resistance to water moves
Thank you for reading this RMT if you have any questions especially suggestions then either inbox me or just post a comment. Please rate and friend me :P im looking forward to becoming an active member of the smogon community