This is my first competitive level Pokémon team, I hope you guys like it and rate it as you would anyone else.
The Idea/Theme of this team is “Fight Fire With Fire” A good mixture of two Ph Sweepers and two Sp Sweepers with opposite weaknesses, and good spike support with a great variety of attacks to take down lots of different Pokémon efficiently, Although the big downside is going without a written in stone, tank and healer.
Team Gänémyte:
Magnezone @ Magnet
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Sp Attack / 252 Speed
Modest Nature
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power [ICE]
-Magnet Rise
-Explosion
First off when I made my team I was looking for a electric type simply put because they have only one x2 weakness, then I started thinking about sweepers I know I need a good sweeper that can carry its own weight if I wanted to be successful in any tournament (Which I do plan on using this team In). Well then it narrowed down to Raikou, Jolteon, Electivire, and the MOAB Magnezone. Magnezone as my starter was in a way bold in my opinion, most would pick Salamence, Lucario, or some other Ph Sweeper as a starter due to the ability to take in buffs the first round, and that’s exactly how I use Magnezone to my fullest, due to its whopping thirteen resistances I decided to make it fourteen and remove my greatest threat by using Magnet Rise, Most People will use Sword Dance, Dragon Dance, ect to give me the free opportunity to use Magnet Rise then usually would have opened up with Earthquake 9/10 times giving me a HUGE advantage the first two turns. Now breaking it down to my choice of attacks in specific. Thunderbolt will be my main attack due to the fact it will drop pretty much all water types but Swampert, Quagsire, and Whiscash, Not just every water type but Gyarados in particular. Magnet Rise is self-explanatory. Hidden Power [ICE] to some seems pointless but with 90% of people using Salamence and Garchomp along with many other Dragon, Flying, Grass, and Ground Pokémon now days, it is rather useful as it is hard to come by a team without one of those traits. Finally yet most importantly Explosion simply said it is for when there is no turning back I am within KO reach and I need to take someone out with me.
Gyarados @ Wacan Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
-Waterfall
-Ice Fang
-Earthquake
-Dragon Dance
Your everyday average Dragon Dance Gyarados, Oh yeah I went there.
I’m going to cut to the chase on this one, Ph Sweeper Dragon Dance Gyarados. Waterfall - Good solid reliable Ph Attack. Ice Fang – To take out those things they call Garchomp, and those other Pokémon with wings, and can’t forget one of my all time favorites Torterra, Ok you get the point, Earthquake to take out all steel Pokémon that won’t die to WF and IF, Last but not least Dragon Dance good solid buff to make Gyarados even more deadly.
Gengar @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Sp Attack / 252 Speed
Timid Nature
-Shadow Ball
-Hidden Power [GRASS]
-Focus Blast
-Explosion
Yep, it’s a Gengar….
First off Shadow Ball, Decent reliable STAB coverage. Next off is Hidden Power [GRASS], most of you are think well why Grass? Is this guy serious? Yes I am, Grass covers a huge gap in my team with the split of moves I’ve put into place grass is going to be deadly. For instance Swampert he is a huge issue for many teams, not for me anymore because of Grass I can easily KO him in one hit and putting the EVs and nature into account I can outrun Swampert to the kill saving half my team from sure destruction. Focus Blast the unreliable power house move, It’s like a Russian made Nuke, Shadow Ball and Focus Blast covers all types of Pokémon as far as I am concerned there is absolutely no Pokémon in all four generations that is resistant to both fighting and ghost. In addition, Explosion the good old-fashioned Kamikaze move.
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sandstream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Attack / 4 Speed
Careful Nature
-Stone Edge / Aerial Ace
-Stealth Rock
- Roar
-Rest
This here is one of a kind. I’ve used this before and been successful, here is the breakdown, Stone Edge / or Aerial Ace. I have two of these one with Aerial Ace and one with Stone Edge. Stone Edge is usually the one I will use unless I know I’m going to be seeing some Grass / Fighting or If I know Gengar can take care of the Fighting and Gyarados will take out the Grass, It really depends on if I want to be risky or not there both great moves but one doesn’t miss, and one kills the common Pokémon, Steel. Stealth Rock and Roar are self-explanatory, Rest for when it comes down to Tyranitar and Blissey ECT.
Dusknoir @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Defense / 4 Sp Defense
Impish Nature
-Will-O-Wisp (Of Course)
-Shadow Sneak
-Calm Mind
-Pain Split
Dusknoir, The little less common defensive walls you run into but effective. W-O-W- I am using WoW to keep attackers under pressure if they are constantly being hammered on not only by me but also by their selves, they are less likely to succeed. Shadow Sneak is self- explanatory; Due to Dusknoir’s pitiful speed and low damage this attack is basically icing on a cake, Doesn’t make much of a difference with it but without it the whole setup would be bad. Calm Mind is to make up for the Shadow Sneak, and my Low Sp Defense. Pain Split is a recovery move for those of you that don’t know it binds both Pokémon’s HP into one making death inevitable. Most of you are probably thinking why Dusknoir? Truth is, he is cool, and he is a good mixture of support and defense.
Salamence @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
-Earthquake
-Dragon Dance
-Outrage
-Roost
What? Did you actually think there was going to be a team without a Salamence? Good old Salamence Adamant Nature; Salamence equals Outrageous. Outrage this is my shoot to kill move after I have used Dragon Dance of course, and if they are not weak to Earthquake. Roost comes into play after using Outrage to make up for any lost health and the confusion. Earthquake pretty basic I tend to use it on allot of my Pokémon that can cover Flying and Bug Pokémon, an it’s always necessary on Pokémon that use Dragon moves because the only type of Pokémon resistant to Dragon is Steel, which is weak to Earth.
Well that just about sums up my team and how I am going to use it; Note that things very that is why I did not get into detail with the game strategy. Im going to use Magnezone first to burn down Gyarados, Tyranitar, and many other openers that fit the category, Gengar is kind of a opposite of Tyranitar so if he dies I use Gengar, After Magnezone dies its Gyarados. Like I said before this team is based off opposites and positives “Fight Fire With Fire” = Great coverage, Great Damage. Overall, I have eleven different attacks to hit every Pokémon in the game with at least x2 weakness (With the exception of Spiritomb and Sableye) and all together I have 41 resistances that covers every type in the game, that includes 8 immunities and Five x4 resistances. This only leaves me with 20 Weaknesses, and only 4 of them are x4 weaknesses.
Thanks for your time.
The Idea/Theme of this team is “Fight Fire With Fire” A good mixture of two Ph Sweepers and two Sp Sweepers with opposite weaknesses, and good spike support with a great variety of attacks to take down lots of different Pokémon efficiently, Although the big downside is going without a written in stone, tank and healer.
Team Gänémyte:
Magnezone @ Magnet
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Sp Attack / 252 Speed
Modest Nature
-Thunderbolt
-Hidden Power [ICE]
-Magnet Rise
-Explosion
First off when I made my team I was looking for a electric type simply put because they have only one x2 weakness, then I started thinking about sweepers I know I need a good sweeper that can carry its own weight if I wanted to be successful in any tournament (Which I do plan on using this team In). Well then it narrowed down to Raikou, Jolteon, Electivire, and the MOAB Magnezone. Magnezone as my starter was in a way bold in my opinion, most would pick Salamence, Lucario, or some other Ph Sweeper as a starter due to the ability to take in buffs the first round, and that’s exactly how I use Magnezone to my fullest, due to its whopping thirteen resistances I decided to make it fourteen and remove my greatest threat by using Magnet Rise, Most People will use Sword Dance, Dragon Dance, ect to give me the free opportunity to use Magnet Rise then usually would have opened up with Earthquake 9/10 times giving me a HUGE advantage the first two turns. Now breaking it down to my choice of attacks in specific. Thunderbolt will be my main attack due to the fact it will drop pretty much all water types but Swampert, Quagsire, and Whiscash, Not just every water type but Gyarados in particular. Magnet Rise is self-explanatory. Hidden Power [ICE] to some seems pointless but with 90% of people using Salamence and Garchomp along with many other Dragon, Flying, Grass, and Ground Pokémon now days, it is rather useful as it is hard to come by a team without one of those traits. Finally yet most importantly Explosion simply said it is for when there is no turning back I am within KO reach and I need to take someone out with me.
Gyarados @ Wacan Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
-Waterfall
-Ice Fang
-Earthquake
-Dragon Dance
Your everyday average Dragon Dance Gyarados, Oh yeah I went there.
I’m going to cut to the chase on this one, Ph Sweeper Dragon Dance Gyarados. Waterfall - Good solid reliable Ph Attack. Ice Fang – To take out those things they call Garchomp, and those other Pokémon with wings, and can’t forget one of my all time favorites Torterra, Ok you get the point, Earthquake to take out all steel Pokémon that won’t die to WF and IF, Last but not least Dragon Dance good solid buff to make Gyarados even more deadly.
Gengar @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Sp Attack / 252 Speed
Timid Nature
-Shadow Ball
-Hidden Power [GRASS]
-Focus Blast
-Explosion
Yep, it’s a Gengar….
First off Shadow Ball, Decent reliable STAB coverage. Next off is Hidden Power [GRASS], most of you are think well why Grass? Is this guy serious? Yes I am, Grass covers a huge gap in my team with the split of moves I’ve put into place grass is going to be deadly. For instance Swampert he is a huge issue for many teams, not for me anymore because of Grass I can easily KO him in one hit and putting the EVs and nature into account I can outrun Swampert to the kill saving half my team from sure destruction. Focus Blast the unreliable power house move, It’s like a Russian made Nuke, Shadow Ball and Focus Blast covers all types of Pokémon as far as I am concerned there is absolutely no Pokémon in all four generations that is resistant to both fighting and ghost. In addition, Explosion the good old-fashioned Kamikaze move.
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sandstream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Attack / 4 Speed
Careful Nature
-Stone Edge / Aerial Ace
-Stealth Rock
- Roar
-Rest
This here is one of a kind. I’ve used this before and been successful, here is the breakdown, Stone Edge / or Aerial Ace. I have two of these one with Aerial Ace and one with Stone Edge. Stone Edge is usually the one I will use unless I know I’m going to be seeing some Grass / Fighting or If I know Gengar can take care of the Fighting and Gyarados will take out the Grass, It really depends on if I want to be risky or not there both great moves but one doesn’t miss, and one kills the common Pokémon, Steel. Stealth Rock and Roar are self-explanatory, Rest for when it comes down to Tyranitar and Blissey ECT.
Dusknoir @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Defense / 4 Sp Defense
Impish Nature
-Will-O-Wisp (Of Course)
-Shadow Sneak
-Calm Mind
-Pain Split
Dusknoir, The little less common defensive walls you run into but effective. W-O-W- I am using WoW to keep attackers under pressure if they are constantly being hammered on not only by me but also by their selves, they are less likely to succeed. Shadow Sneak is self- explanatory; Due to Dusknoir’s pitiful speed and low damage this attack is basically icing on a cake, Doesn’t make much of a difference with it but without it the whole setup would be bad. Calm Mind is to make up for the Shadow Sneak, and my Low Sp Defense. Pain Split is a recovery move for those of you that don’t know it binds both Pokémon’s HP into one making death inevitable. Most of you are probably thinking why Dusknoir? Truth is, he is cool, and he is a good mixture of support and defense.
Salamence @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Attack / 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
-Earthquake
-Dragon Dance
-Outrage
-Roost
What? Did you actually think there was going to be a team without a Salamence? Good old Salamence Adamant Nature; Salamence equals Outrageous. Outrage this is my shoot to kill move after I have used Dragon Dance of course, and if they are not weak to Earthquake. Roost comes into play after using Outrage to make up for any lost health and the confusion. Earthquake pretty basic I tend to use it on allot of my Pokémon that can cover Flying and Bug Pokémon, an it’s always necessary on Pokémon that use Dragon moves because the only type of Pokémon resistant to Dragon is Steel, which is weak to Earth.
Well that just about sums up my team and how I am going to use it; Note that things very that is why I did not get into detail with the game strategy. Im going to use Magnezone first to burn down Gyarados, Tyranitar, and many other openers that fit the category, Gengar is kind of a opposite of Tyranitar so if he dies I use Gengar, After Magnezone dies its Gyarados. Like I said before this team is based off opposites and positives “Fight Fire With Fire” = Great coverage, Great Damage. Overall, I have eleven different attacks to hit every Pokémon in the game with at least x2 weakness (With the exception of Spiritomb and Sableye) and all together I have 41 resistances that covers every type in the game, that includes 8 immunities and Five x4 resistances. This only leaves me with 20 Weaknesses, and only 4 of them are x4 weaknesses.
Thanks for your time.
