You slime!Speaking of things outclassed by Raikou... (I said for the sole fact that I knew it would piss you off. I realize that Raichu has its own niche.)
Anyway, I was going to say Manectric. While all of its stats are worse than Raikou's, and it can't run a Calm Mind set, but everyone know it gets the wonderful move called Switcheroo. And also unlike Raikou, it actually has a somewhat decent movepool, and when these things are combined, it can run a Choice set much better than Raikou. I would prefer Specs over Scarf personally.
You slime!
Pretty much. With Overheat/Flamethrower hitting Grass-types, Manectric can use HP Grass, which gives it much better coverage than Raikou. While it does get walled by Altaria without HP Ice (and still Chansey), it can use Switcheroo to cripple it (and Chansey).But I digress. Specs Manetric huh?
Besides Switcharoo, I would assume you would Manetric over Raikou because of overheat.
True, but Manetric and Raichu aren't "Outright" novelties. They can be useful in their own right. Now a novelty is using something like mixed Milotic or something random like that.The age old question of just how useful surprise/novelty sets are. Lose something, potential gains= risk.
To true. I myself wish Raichu was a bit faster. You can make good use of Raichu's sub punch set, something that isn't outclassed by Raikou at all.That's not novelty, that's just a very bad idea. Milotic doesn't have decent attack or a good physical movepool to take advantage of it, and it's not like it'll help it against any of its counters.
Manectric will have to get a lot of game-changing surprise Switcheroos to justify the fact that Raikou undermines its existence statistically. I've considered Raichu, but its only decent stat is speed, which rests at a modest base 100.
If you want an Electric type that does a great deal of damage or, furthermore, sweeps, you might as well use Raikou. When using the others, just make sure their unique "advantages" are important enough of an asset to the entire team that would warrant using them over the best special sweeper in UU.
But what if the Pokémon can only counter Gyarados because of its double Electric weakness? What if it can barely survive a hit, but outspeeds Gyarados and 2HKO's? Against Feraligatr, it barely survives the hit, but only hits Feraligatr once because of Aqua Jet.It could still work because many OU Pokemon have "little brothers" in UU, meaning a Pokemon with the same purpose and/or typing. For example, a Pokemon meant to counter Gyarados could counter Feraligatr, a Pokemon meant to counter Infernape could counter Blaziken, a Pokemon meant to counter Jolteon could counter Raikou, etc.
I love this absolutely dominates stall could you post ev's?Two sets on my fav. sweeper of my UU team: Clefable
Clefable @ Toxic Orb
Belly Drum
Facade
Fire Punch
Softboiled
and
Clefable @ Life Orb
Belly Drum
Double Edge
Fire Punch
Softboiled
The best thing about clefable is it's natural bulk and the ability magic guard. (No damage from LO or Toxic Orb)
The reason I add the Facade set is because Toxic Orb prevents you from being paralyzed which will end your sweep with clefable.