Garchomp, Albacore
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Project What's His Last? V2 [Week 7 Voting]
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Week 1's winner is Garchomp suggested by Albacore ! You and your Pokemon will be added to the Hall of Fame!
Here is Week 2's Team! Credit goes for ABR for the team.
The team is based off of Mega Scizor, Raikou is added to give the team some momentum with Volt-Turn. Starmie is added to kill Fire types that threat Scizor and for a Rapid Spinner. Keldeo is added killing off Dark Types that threaten the team, and Landorus-Therian is added lastly to for being a Stealth Rocker. So What's His Last?
Here is Week 2's Team! Credit goes for ABR for the team.
Scizor-Mega (M) @ Scizorite
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP / 44 Def / 216 SpD
Careful Nature
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Pursuit
- Roost
Raikou @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Volt Switch
Starmie @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 240 HP / 16 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Thunderbolt
- Rapid Spin
- Recover
Keldeo @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Scald
- Secret Sword
Landorus-Therian @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- U-turn
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP / 44 Def / 216 SpD
Careful Nature
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Pursuit
- Roost
Raikou @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Calm Mind
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Volt Switch
Starmie @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 240 HP / 16 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Thunderbolt
- Rapid Spin
- Recover
Keldeo @ Leftovers
Ability: Justified
EVs: 56 HP / 200 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Substitute
- Calm Mind
- Scald
- Secret Sword
Landorus-Therian @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- U-turn
The team is based off of Mega Scizor, Raikou is added to give the team some momentum with Volt-Turn. Starmie is added to kill Fire types that threat Scizor and for a Rapid Spinner. Keldeo is added killing off Dark Types that threaten the team, and Landorus-Therian is added lastly to for being a Stealth Rocker. So What's His Last?
Klefki @ Leftovers
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
- Magnet Rise
- Play Rough
This team has lots of fast mons, but outside of that lacks speed control for scarfers and dragon dancers. Scizor has bullet punch but it isn't very powerful without investment or swords dance. Klefki's priority thunder wave cripples dragon dancers before they get out of control such as charX, Altaria that threaten this team as well as random scarfers and faster mons such as megaZam, megaLop etc which can also wreak some havoc.
Priority spikes are also fantastic for this team due to the large number of switches that VoltTurn causes, racking up significant damage to net easy late-game KOs with bullet punch.
Play rough is chosen over foul play as the team already has pursuit and knock off but other than Raikou's HP ice has no way to deal with dragons.
Finally, magnet rise to take advantage of ground types who resist thunder wave to allow klefki to set up more layers of spikes.
Klefki also offers decent defensive synergy with this team, with many resistances, in particular grass for Starmie and Keldeo.
SpD investment was chosen because earthquake being the main physical attack that scares Klefki is neutered by magnet rise, and the team already has Lando as a physical tank.
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Latias (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psychic
- Roost
- Healing Wish
I immediatly noticed that this team was pretty Charizard Y weak and can't do any damage to Mega Venusaur in any way. The first thing that came to my mind was Latias, that can easily win the 1v1 versus both. Psychic is preferred to Psyshock because it does more damage on Mega Venusaur, without having to drop the meteor every time, and on Charizard Y is a clean 2HKO anyways. Roost let Latias always switching on either, Draco is the powerful stab and finally Healing Wish is to support Raikou and Keldeo, since they lack of a reliable recovery.
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Talonflame
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Acrobatics
- Roost
- Taunt
- Will-O-Wisp
The first thing major problem I noticed with this team was a huge weakness to Flamethrower Clefable, who can 2HKO Scizor and just straight-up beats the rest of the team. The problem is even worse if it's an Unaware variant which easily switches into both Raikou and Keldeo, or a Physically Defensive variant which this Scizor spread is unable to HKO
Not only does Talonflame deal with Flamethrower Clefable very well, it also provides a relaible swcithin to Mega Charizard Y, a pretty big threat to the team, an good answer to Ferrothorn which is a massive pain for the team to deal with, a secondary Fairy resist in case Scizor gets overloaded, a secondary check to Bisharp which can easily sweep this team if Keldoe goes down, and a Stallbreaker which is something this team lacks.
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Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 28 HP / 252 SpA / 228 Spe
Timid Nature
- Overheat
- Flash Cannon
- Earth Power
- Stone Edge
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Hoopa-Unbound @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Magician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Hyperspace Fury
- Gunk Shot
- Fire Punch
- Zen Headbutt
So I noticed that this team has absolutely nothing for mega venusaur so I added hoopa-u as a counter to shit on mega venusaur. If keldeo was gone then ferrothorn would be a problem so I added fire punch on Hoopa to check it. Mega Zard,Clefable, and Mega Alt could be a problem so I added scarf to check both Mega zard and Alt and added gunk shot for clefable.
Terrakion @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Justified
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge
- X-Scissor
- Iron Head
This team is literally 6-0ed by +1 Volcarona or +1 Zard-X. Terrakion helps to solve the issue while also able to revenge kill Weavile, Mega Charizard-Y and Talonflame. Raikou and Keldeo helps to pressure Pokemon such as Slowbro and Hippowdon which Scarf Terrakion hates. Iron Head is used to get a stronger hit on Fairy-types.
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Talonflame, Albacore
Talonflame, Albacore
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