Team Balance [RMT]

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At a Glance
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In Depth


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Bronzong @ Leftovers***Liberty
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 244 HP/44 Atk/152 Def/70 SDef
Sassy nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Gyro Ball
- Stealth Rock
- Hypnosis
- Earthquake

Bronzong is my utility and physical tank. He is my favorite lead because of his bulkiness and his ability to hit other leads for a lot of damage. Gyro Ball does tons of damage to frail, fast leads such as Azelf. Earthquake is for Infernape, Heatran and Magnezone on the switch. I usually Hypnosis first then I proceed to Stealth Rock because I like having my oponents lead sleep fast. Otherwise Bronzong has to take two hits. The EV spread allows 336 HP, which is a lefties number,306 in Def and 313 SDef for overall bulkiness. The remaining EV's were dumped in Atk.
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Zapdos @ Leftovers***Freedom
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 188 HP/144 Def/176 Spd
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Heat Wave
- Discharge
- Hidden Power [Grass]/Sleep Talk
- Roost

Zapdos is my physical wall and bulky special sweeper. Heat Wave deals with Lucario, Breloom and Heracross while Discharge is nice for that chance of Para. HP Grass is what I currently use and it is great at taking out Swampert but I am finding that Breloom is becoming more and more of a problem and I am tired of having to let one of my pokemon become set up foddler so Sleep Talk is my second option. Roost is to negate the flying type for one turn and it is for recovery. The EV's reach 353 HP, which is a lefties number, then I went with 176 Spe with a Timid Nature to outrun Lucario. I dumped 144 in Def for Defensive bulkiness.

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Scizor @ Choice Band***Crime
Ability: Technician
EV's: 120 HP / 248 Atk / 60 Spe / 82 SDef
Adamant Nature(+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- U-Turn
- SuperPower
- Pursuit

Scizor is the MVP of this team. He has been the centerpiece of my team for a long time now. Bullet punch coming from this guy is just about as strong as a priority move is getting in OU. Anytime you see Scizor you can pretty much tell that it has Bullet Punch. CB Scizor is on the rise which is always good because CBScizor escapes Magnezone and can have trapping ability. U-Turn is for scouting and gets a light hit on pokemon. SuperPower is for Heatran and steel/normal types. Pursuit is for stuff on the switch like Gengar and Starmie. The EV Spread hits 311 HP and 216 SDef which takes 50% from Gengar's Focus Blast. Then he can OHKO back with Bullet Punch. 60 Speed outpaces CBTar and Skarmory.

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Vaporeon @ Leftovers***Charity
Ability: Water Absorb
EV's: 188 HP / 252 Def / 68 SpA
Bold Nature(+Def, -Atk)
- Surf
- HP Electric
- Wish
- Protect

Vaporeon is my Wish supporter and helps out Scizor/Bronzong a ton. Wish+Protect allows me to have a pseudo instant recovery and it helps me with scouting/lefties recovery. Surf is stab and can 2HKO Scizor which is great since it discourages a switch. I originally had Starmie in this spot but DDLO Gyarados was a huge issue. Vaporeon also gives me a surefire Ape/Heatran/Gyarados counter. HP Electric KOs Gyarados while Gyarados can never KO. The EVs hit a lefties number.


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Snorlax @ Leftovers***Obesity
Ability: Thick Fat
EV's: 168 HP / 120 Def / 220 SpD
Careful Nature(+SDef, -SAtk)
- Curse
- Rest
- Body Slam
- Fire Punch

Snorlax is my special wall and main stall breaker. This dude rips stall teams that have lost their Celebi to Scizor up. I usually bait Celebi in by cursing until it uses Perish Song. Then after one turn I send in Scizor and start to use Pursuit since Celebi is usually faster and uses U-Turn Pursuit does normal switching damage. Then Snorlax can come in and sweep stall teams with ease only fearing a critical hit. Curse is to make him a monsterous tank. Rest is for recovery and for getting rid of status. Body Slam and FIre Punch is walled by Heatran but Vappy has that covered.

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Latias @ Leftovers***Pride
Ability: Levitate
EV's: 148 HP / 108 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature(+Spe, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Dragon Pulse
- Surf

Latias is my simple bulky CMer/Late game sweeper. I chose Surf in the last slot just to do damage against weakened Tyranitar and it still does decent damage to Scizor. Calm MInd boosts SAtk and SDef to sky high levels while Dragon Pulse/Surf is only resisted by Empoleon and Shedinja. Timid Nature to tie with Gengar and it hits 350. I have found the Defensive spread to be much more effective than the offensive spread. Recover is for recovery.

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Hope you enjoyed this team. Plz rate!
 
This team seems fairly balanced.

However you lack on obvious phazer. This means a BP team can easily set up and destroy most anything on this team. This includes a sub-lead zap which screws over bronzong and then agility passes and begins a disastrous chain. I would recomend either your classic roar-mixpert or a perish song/t-wave which prevents most sweepers from setting up.
 
Ok here goes.

I like the Bronzong, except i suggest explosion as a last dish move, which can easily KO most Pokemon, to replace either hypnosis or EQ. The reason i say hypnosis is because now it has 60% accuracy in platinum so u may find explosion more useful to decapitate things.

Zapdos is good, though i suggest sleep talk as u said, to counter all those sleep users.

Starmie, nothing to say really.

The scizor is a little different but i like the use of pursuit since scizor generally causes a ton load of switches. Also the STAB CB U-Turn is going to do a lot , even though sadly technician doesnt boost it.

Blissey is a fat blob as usual, but I dont think Aromatherapy and S-toss are compatible. Maybe change it for Ice beam or something.

Kindra is a good Outrage user, but I think you should give it Swift Swim , so you can counter the rare rain dance team. Since Kingdra is only getting crits 5% of the time, Sniper is kinda pointless.

Hope I helped.
 
Don't listen to them Urk, you don't NEED phazer. BP teams are rare and hardly ever work well even against a team without a phazer.

Bliss needs something to hit ghosts. Sub-gar and rotom aren't gonna be a lot of fun for you to play against without it. Drop either aromatherapy or s-toss in favor of ice beam. I don't think your team particularly needs aromatherapy as you shouldn't bring kingdra on something known to status anyways and it's the only member that really fears it. it's pointless to aromatherapy with t-spikes too.

Big salamence weakness. Flygon gives you problems too. Personally, I would run HP ice or even toxic on Zapdos to solve it. HP ice is obviously a bit more direct, but you would then lose coverage on the annoying swampert. Since mence is the no.3 in usage though (and I wouldn't be surprise if it rose this month), I would definitely deal with that first.

Either way, nice team. Deals with most threats in the metagame. I look forwad to playing you i the tutoring program :D
 
Bronzong is my main way of dealing with Salamence. I try to keep him alive for that reason only. Same for Flygon.
 
Hmm. I run a variant of this team with Latias. Except with Snorlax over Blissey and Vaporeon over Starmie. Vaporeon works well on this team cuz it can support Bronzong with Wish. I might edit the OP with that team because the results were very good.
 
The Urkman said:
Hmm. I run a variant of this team with Latias. Except with Snorlax over Blissey and Vaporeon over Starmie. Vaporeon works well on this team cuz it can support Bronzong with Wish. I might edit the OP with that team because the results were very good.
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That would be a good idea, though you'll have to give up your spinner. Personally, I don't like spinning anyways as there is no spinner with a reliable recovery move but starmie ad she gets killed by pursuit very easily. However, that changes when you're trying to sweep with something such as kingdra as toxic spikes really hurt (I just try to sweep with steels, levitators and flyers). It's up to you really.
 
You dont have a proper counter for gyarados who can easily dragon dance against most of your team particularly bronzong. I suggest you change starmie to vaporeon as they both counter similar threats. If you run hp electric on vaporeon. Then you dont need starmie anymore. Hope this helped. Alternatiely just put explosion on bronzong over hypnosis or eq preferably eq this will also help nicely against gyarados who should no longer be able to dragon dance with impunity.
 
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