A unique team that is guaranteed to make your opponent go WTF.

Prof.Stephanie

As the title says fellow Smogonites ok so at first I was thinking about using a Trap team, but than I was like na that won't work so than I keep brainstorming and thought what if I use Double Intimidation + Trapping which is what I did.




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Staraptor @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 240 Def / 228 HP / 40 Spe
Nature: Jolly
~ Featherdance
~ Aerial Ace
~ Roost
~ U-Turn

Ok people say hi to Bulky Staraptor created by Bologo. The idea behind this set is to abuse lowering your opponent's attack this works great against most common physical leads such as Tyranitar, Gyarados (Taunt less), Salamence, and several others the thing is Bulky Staraptor does not threat anything so when its time to get out I will use U-Turn on slower Pokemon and switch out on faster Pokemon and bring in one of my trappers.




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Magnezone @ Leftovers
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 252 SpA / 172 HP / 84 Spe
Nature: Modest
~ Magnet Rise
~ Hidden Power Grass
~ Thunderbolt
~ Substitute

A lot of times this has happened " Opponent switches in Skarmory, My Staraptor use Featherdance, Opponent's Skarmory used Stealth Rock, My Staraptor used U-Turn and now bring in Magnezone." So Magnezone handles that and its hard to take out if it has done its job, trapped a Pokemon, and has used Substitute and Magnet Rise. Hidden Power Grass is for Swampert since Weavile will handle my Garchomp problem also even better when it is locked in Outrage.




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Dugtrio @ Life Orb
Ability: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 6 SpD
Nature - Adamant
~ Sucker Punch
~ Earthquake
~ Aerial Ace
~ Stone Edge

Works great against weakend Pokemon Sucker Punch is a nice weapon against a weakend Dusknoir going for a Shadow Sneak.




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Hitmontop @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 6 SpD
Nature: Impish
~ Mach Punch
~ Rapid Spin
~ Toxic
~ Stone Edge

Hitmontop works great with Staraptor doing double intimidation well Hitmontop is my rapid spiner. Mach Punch is here for quick kills on the likes of Pokemon such as Tyranitar and Weavile while Toxic will aid it in the fight against Dusknoir and Spiritomb. Stone Edge is for Gyarados and with double intimidation + Featherdance it won't be doing much.




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Weavile @ Choice Band
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Atk / 216 Spe / 40 HP
Nature: Jolly
~ Ice Shard
~ Pursuit
~ Brick Break
~ Aerial Ace

Weavile does not exactly have an ability that traps Pokemon, but it does seem like it when you come in and Pursuit the hell out of Gengar, Azelf, and weakend Starmie or even get an Ice Shard on a Garchomp locked in on Outrage. Aerial Ace is for Fighting Types such as Infernape, Heracross, and Machamp while Brick Break will be helpful against Tyranitar, Blissey, and other Weavile.




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Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 6 Def
Nature: Calm
~ Acid Armor
~ Batton Pass
~ Wish
~ Surf

My favorite Water Pokemon ok with this moveset Vaporeon is able to make Staraptor even more annoying, Hitmontop take hits even better, and let Magnezone surive an Earthquake and or get a Magnet Rise in and hide behind a Substitute that will take all sorts of physical moves and allow you to sweep. Wishpassing isn't bad either it helps out Hitmontop and my trappers.
 
This team is horribly weak to Lucario. It just OHKOs everything after a single SD. Garchomp, Gyarados and Deoxy-S to a lesser extent sweep your team. Also I don't know why you picked Starraptor and Hitmontop as your Intimidaters when you have stuff like Salamence and Gyarados to pick from. The uniqueness factor is kinda overrated IMO. I also don't know why you would Featherdance a Skarmory which has Shed Shell half the time.

Well since you are trying to make a trap team you should keep Magtrio. You should really try to cover up those weaknesses though. Acid Armor passing is really hard and your team is weak to special attacks anyways which doesn't help it either. Putting HP electric and Ice beam over Acid Armor and Baton Pass on Vaporeon right away solves the problem with Gyarados and somewhat with Garchomp. Use the standard EV+Nature also. Weavile could only revenge kill it, so if it ever switched then it gets something else when it switches in.

In still don't see the point of your Intimidate and Feather Dance idea. Without any entry hazards switching isn't very risky for the opponent and again you are weak to special attacks. I would go on and replace Hitmontop with Gliscor. Gliscor with U-turn+Knock Off does a better job of trying to trap stuff and also can get rid of anything with Shed Shell. It gets rid of your Lucario weakness and helps againt Garchomp. You really don't need spinning that much on this team since the Toxic Spikers should be trapped anyways and you have no ways to really beat Ghosts quickly.

If you want a Staraptor lead use a Scarf set or something thats less gimicky and more likely to work. I guess any sweeper with U-turn is okay here. Anyways most of the feared sweepers to your team have a stat up move so you don't need Intimidate that much again. Infernape would be harder for your opponent to wall and you can trap its main 2 counters anyways. Well thats about it.
 
Please read the part as it switches in also yeah I notice the lucario thing although Hitmontop should be able to hanlde it with Mach Punch if I invest a few attack EVs considering Gliscor and why Staraptor and Hitmontop. Hitmontop rapid spins and you don't know how well that Staraptor takes hits my friend.
 
Prof.Stephanie said:
Please read the part as it switches in also yeah I notice the lucario thing although Hitmontop should be able to hanlde it with Mach Punch if I invest a few attack EVs considering Gliscor and why Staraptor and Hitmontop. Hitmontop rapid spins and you don't know how well that Staraptor takes hits my friend.
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Sorry, but I really just don't like the Staraptor set, but if it works for you... Anyways a spinner that gets hit by Toxic Spikes is usually a bad idea. Also revenge killing shouldn't be your answer to a huge threat like SD Lucario. If you wanted to Spin then you could use Starmie over Vaporeon then leave use Gliscor over Hitmontop.
 
Eh, like Ryo said, either make your Staraptor lead Choice Scarf or Choice Band. If you REALLY want to use that set THAT badly, at least put Brave Bird over Aerial Ace. Scrap Hitmontop; put in Gliscor instead. Use standard HP Electric / Ice Beam / Surf / Wish Vaporeon instead, it covers threats much better. With Vaporeon and Gliscor, you've got Garchomp nailed. You could also try RestTalk Bronzong instead of Gliscor to help with your Deoxys-e problems and still cover your Garchomp problems. Other than that, I don't see anything else you can do.
 
CB Tyranitar will still put quite a dent in your Staraptor.

CB T-tar Stone Edge after 1 Fether Dance
276-326

After 2
186-216

A 2hko even If you Roost wisely. So don't count on that thing handling T-Tar like you said.

Lucario kind of destroys your team. You may want to consider Gliscor over Staraptor for this reason. Plus, it adds Stealth Rocks to your teams arsenal.

I also see a huge Gengar week. Between Focus Blast, Hp Ice, and Thunder Bolt alone 5 of your Poke can be OHKOed or 2HKOed in the case of Vaporeon (depending on the held item). I mean Weavile can take a Scarf Gar, but it wont be taking any Focus Blasts from a Scarf Gar. If you feel as though Weavile does the job, if not, I'd consider a Bronzong with Light Screen over Vaporeon. I mean, what are you passing Acid Armors to anywho?
 
The fact that your opponent's Skarmory is using Stealth Rock speaks volumes about how good your opponents are :P.

Jolly CB Duggy > Adamant Life Orb Dugtrio. Really.

Your Hitmontop's out of place. I know lowering Attack is cool, but a switch negates it. Yup. So you should have some Rocks up, at least.

Vaporeon is wasting so much potential as a defensive clutch Pokémon, but no he's passing some random Defense boosts to something.

Weavile is not a Chomp counter and never will be. HP Grass Magnezone isn't smart; this isn't RSE.

Just random comments. Sorry, I can't help you much, but I'm not that big a fan of your team. Nothing can take a hit except Magnezone sometimes; Staraptor is pretty gimmicky (granted, Bologo is the king of gimmick), your Hitmontop is random and out of place when you should be using a bulkier Spinner, Vaporeon's wasting space... your team's messed up.
 
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