Set: Physical Sun Abuser
Venusaur@Life Orb
Ability: Chlorophyll
Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -SAtk)
52HP/252 Atk/204Speed
- Sleep Powder
- Swords Dance
- Power Whip
- Earthquake/Return
The ideal partner for this set is Drought Ninetails but even team mates with Sunny Day+Heat Rock are fine. Sleep Power is always an amazing move on Venusaur and this set makes no exception. After you put something to sleep you can start to set up Swords Dance and sweep with an immensely powerful STAB Power Whip. Earthquake/Return are Venusaur's best option to hit Pokémon that resist Grass type moves. Adamant nature and 252 Attack EVs were chosen to maximize offensive power and with 204 Speed EVs it is able to outspeed base 100 Pokémon with positive nature and holding a Choice Scarf.
Yea I've been using a similar set on the Pokemon Online alpha testing for gen 5, and it worked very well.
More specifically, I had:
Adamant @ leftovers,
Swords Dance/Sleep Powder/Earthquake/Seed Bomb
Paired with Ninetails obv.
Gave it just enough speed to outspeed choice scarf garchomp in the sun, and put the rest into attack and HP.
What's great about venusaur is that it can power up with SD, start firing off eq's and seed bombs, and then use sleep powder when a supposed 'counter' is switched in, lol.
Also, it fits beautifully onto sun teams. The reason being that my sun team had three fire types (Ninetails, Urugamosu, and Victini) so opponents were often likely to switch in a water pokemon. In that case, Venusaur was a natural switch for me, and then i could start setting up.
Also, sun teams in BW need an answer for when the opponent brings in politoed, and venusaur is a natural answer - hes great because he works in both weather conditions.