Ultra's Offensive OU Team

[UltraPorygon]

After discovering competitive battling a few weeks ago, I decided to try creating my own team. It started off as 6 OU Pokémon randomly thrown in a team with no real purpose, but after many adjustements, it became much better and has destroyed a good amount of teams. I still think my team can be improved, so I have decided to post it here so the experts here can help me.

The purpose of this team is, like many offensive teams, to set up Stealth Rock, attack and tear apart the opponent.

Suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome.

Team At Glance:

In-Depht Analysis:

Alienware (Metagross) @ Lum Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP/236 Atk/20 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)

- Bullet Punch
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Meteor Mash

The lead of my team. Its Lum Berry allows it to deal with stat-inducing leads and its general bulkyness makes almost sure I will get Stealth Rock up. Bullet Punch, Earthquake and Meteor Mash allow it to attack other leads. Azelf and Aerodactyl can be teared apart with Meteor Mash followed by Bullet Punch.

If it needs to switch (such as with Trick leads), it can come back later and serve as a sweeper, scoring suprise kills with Bullet Punch.

Armageddon (Heatran) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Atk/252 SpA/252 Spe
Naive (+Spd, -SpD)

- Dragon Pulse
- Earth Power
- Explosion
- Fire Blast

The main revenge killer. Naive nature and Choice Scarf allow it to outspeed many Pokémons and attack back with one of its powerful attacks. Dragon Pulse is useful for revenge killing Dragons. Fire Blast can revenge kill many Pokémons and can even be spammed against unprepared teams.

Earth Power allow to counter Fire-types, especially opposing Heatrans. Finally, Explosion grants Heatran the ability to suicide kill and destroy Blissey, which is particulary useful against the deadly SkarmBliss combo.

Terminator (Scizor) (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 168 HP/176 Atk/160 SpD/4 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)

- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Superpower
- U-Turn

The classic Choice Band set. It can act as a revenge killer, a scout and a trapper. Its EV spread allows it to sponge special attacks and be able to hit back. With Pursuit, it can counters Latias and trap it, which, otherwise, would hit my team pretty hard. Bullet Punch is very powerful and allows to pick off weakened sweepers, as well as scoring surprise kills.

U-Turn can hit pretty hard thanks to STAB and grants the ability to scout and bring up counters. Finally, Superpower allows to destroy common switch-ins, such as Magnezone or Heatran. It is also the best option against opposing Scizors.

Toastery (Rotom-H) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP/160 Def/96 Spe
Bold (+Def, -Atk)

- Shadow Ball
- Overheat
- Thunderbolt
- Will-O-Wisp

My Rapid Spin blocker. Its bulkyness allows it to wall many Pokémon and counter-attack with powerful moves. Will-O-Wisp is particulary useful against physical sweepers, since their Attack is reduced by the burn.

Overheat allows to fry Skarmory which older versions of my team used to lack defense against. Thunderbolt and Shadow Ball are powerful and get STABed. They also allow some type coverage.

Alebrije (Flygon) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)

- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Outrage
- U-Turn

My secondary revenge killer. U-Turn allows it to scout and make prediction easier. Its Choice Scarf allows it to outspeed many other Pokémons. Earthquake and Stone Edge hit many Pokémons very hard, not to mention Earthquake is STABed.

Outrage is a very risky trump card, but can destroy an entire unprepared team.

Paradox (Breloom) (M) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 48 HP/252 Atk/208 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)

- Focus Punch
- Seed Bomb
- Spore
- Substitute

Man, I love this one! Poison Heal and Toxic Orb make a perfect combo, granting it an incredible recovery. It can render one of the opponent's Pokémon useless with Spore, and then attack the monstrously powerful STABed Focus Punch.

Seeb Bomb is also STABed and allows it to attack unprotected, not to mention it hits Ground and Water-types very hard. Substitute grants extra protection and allows to use Focus Punch even if the other Pokémon is awake or uses Sleep Talk.

Conclusion:

To conclude, here is a final look at my team:

This team has been going pretty good lately, but also has suffered defeats.

And remember, criticism and suggestions are welcome!

Change Log:

- Moved the Defense EVs on Metagross to Speed and changed Explosion to Meteor Mash.
-Moved 8 Defense EVs to Speed on Rotom-H.
- Changed Stone Edge to Substitute on Breloom.
- Changed Swords Dance Scizor to a Choice Band Scizor set.
- Changed the Occa Berry on Metagross to a Lum Berry.
- Changed Scizor's EV spread.
- Changed Flygon's Jolly nature to an Adamant nature.

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[ENZ0]

Nice team, I see you have good synergy going but I feel I can make it better.

Starting off with a nitpick on Metagross I want to suggest changing the predictable explosion for meteor mash. Since the only pokemon you will really need explosion for is Swampert, which is needed for setup bait for Breloom. By changing to MM you will kill Azelf leads, Dragonite leads, and other random leads, and hit harder late game not being pressured to blow up. I also suggest taking the def evs and throwing them into speed to outspeed the standard Metagross leads. I would suggest swapping occa for a lum berry, but none of your pokemon are affected by the TS set by Roserade so they're no problem.

Next, I want to recommend taking some def evs on Rotom and put them into speed with a spread of 252 HP | 160 Def | 96 Spe to outspeed Subzone, Bait Tar, and all the other pokemon in this speed range. If you want to have a second check to SD Luke I want to recommend changing your set to the Defensive Substitute from the smogon analysis, but I personally don't want you to lose the necessary defense on your primary tank.

Moving onto Breloom I want to suggest having substitute over stone edge since you want to more efficiently use focus punch, minimize prediction, and gain more momentum in battle.

Finally, you might want to change your Scizor set to the CB set to trap the dangerous Latias that counters your Breloom and hit your team hard. This is the CB set I recommend Scizor @Choice Band 168 HP | 176 Atk /|160 SpD | 4 Spe, which will help you take those draco meteors from Latias more efficiently and other special hits from Gengar, Starmie, and Scarf Rotom. I want to point out that this is more of a personal decision since you might like Scizor as a setup sweeper and already feel comfortable around Latias. Also, you cover primary threats nicely so there is no need to change your pokemon completely, driving you away from the primary idea behind the team.

Well hope these changes help and good luck!

 

[UltraPorygon]

Thank you for your suggestions! I will be applying most of them right now.

Latias hasn't caused problems to my team so far, I will keep Scizor as a setup sweeper and only change it if it becomes necessary.

For the Lum Berry on Metagross, I will say no, since most of the leads I come across try using Fire-type attacks against Metagross. Still, if I start running in many status-inducing leads, I may switch to a Lum Berry.

 

[ginganinja]

Got your PM
Well this team is pretty good but a few minor nitpicks can help.
Firstly why not Fire Blast on Flygon?
I know that you have a Heatran and Rotom to fire of fire attacks but otherwise skarmory will wall the hell out of you. This is very important as if you opponient runs stall and has built up entry hazards then you will have to be constantly switching flygon out to hurt skarmory. A well played SkarmBliss combo can really put the hurt on this team.

I would like to see a Mixmence here as it can help against stall. Threatening both Skarmory and Blissey. Breloom does not seem to be working on this team as I can only really see him checking Vaporeon and Swampert.

Anyway its a moior nitpick as the team looks great anyway.

 

[UltraPorygon]

First of all, thank you for your suggestions. I find them pretty good, but Breloom has really been helping my team lately. Still, I may change it to a MixMence if it starts causing problems.

Regarding SkarmBliss, I just investigated about it, and found it could be countered by Heatran and Metagross (I think I could even counter it with Breloom if I predict correctly, but I may be wrong). Stone Edge on Flygon is one of the few reliable ways I have to counter Gyarados.

Still, remember I will apply your changes if I run in too much trouble with SkarmBliss.

 

[UltraPorygon]

A couple of updates: Yesterday, I ran across my first SkarmBliss combo. Heatran easily destroyed Blissey with Explosion, and Skarmory fell to my new Choice Band Scizor's Superpower. This cancels my plans for a MixMence unless I start running in trouble with the SkarmBliss combo or stall.

I also changed my Scizor to a Choice Band set, and it is now working much better, not to mention it traps threats such as Latias. Still, I think the EV spread could be made better, suggestions are welcome.

And finally, to everyone reading this post, do you think my team needs a Rapid Spinner? If so, which one?

Remember, criticism and suggestions are welcome!

 

[DropTheNuke]

As a team, this is great, but you still have to watch out for DDGyarados. The Standard 3-attack offensive Dragon Dance takes 66.5% - 78.5% from Flygon's Stone Edge. There is a chance to OHKO if stealth rocks are up. However, Stone Edge only does 53.5% - 63.2% to BulkyGyara, allowing it to get 2 Dragon Dances (one on the switch, one on the Stone Edge) and sweep the rest of your team. Also, if you lock Flygon into EQ and Gyarados switches in, you're pretty much done for. If you go Adamant on Flygon, you will be able to take down Offensive Gyara almost guaranteed.

 

[mox]

I have a question though, how does this team far against the occasional baton pass teams or sandstorm teams?

 

[Kippokc]

i suggest considering giving Metagross a Lum Berry.

i use the same set except that i give my Metagross a Lum Berry to fend off those annoying sleep inducer starters and gurantee atleast stealth rock.

I also recommend Explosion! :D well, cause its cool exploding on a DDgyara trying to set up on you or just to break an annoying wall :P

 

[ENZ0]

I want to recommend using the spread for Scizor I stated before, Scizor @Choice Band 168 HP | 176 Atk /|160 SpD | 4 Spe, which will help you sponge more efficiently special attacks especially draco meteors from Latias that you don't want to lose to, Starmie, Gengar, and many more hard, special hitters.

 

[UltraPorygon]

As a team, this is great, but you still have to watch out for DDGyarados. The Standard 3-attack offensive Dragon Dance takes 66.5% - 78.5% from Flygon's Stone Edge. There is a chance to OHKO if stealth rocks are up. However, Stone Edge only does 53.5% - 63.2% to BulkyGyara, allowing it to get 2 Dragon Dances (one on the switch, one on the Stone Edge) and sweep the rest of your team. Also, if you lock Flygon into EQ and Gyarados switches in, you're pretty much done for. If you go Adamant on Flygon, you will be able to take down Offensive Gyara almost guaranteed.

Very good point, I will now change Flygon's nature to Adamant.

I have a question though, how does this team far against the occasional baton pass teams or sandstorm teams?

Well... since I have never faced a Sandstorm team, the only thing I can say is that only 2 of my Pokémon are affected by Sandstorm. If I come across one, I will post here and say if it went well or not and eventually think of changes. Still, my best help are the people here at Smogon, so if you have a suggestion, go ahead and post it!

About Baton Pass teams, I have both lost and won against them, but I know my team can be improved to be able to stand better against them.

i suggest considering giving Metagross a Lum Berry.

i use the same set except that i give my Metagross a Lum Berry to fend off those annoying sleep inducer starters and gurantee atleast stealth rock.

I also recommend Explosion! :D well, cause its cool exploding on a DDgyara trying to set up on you or just to break an annoying wall :P

First of all, thanks for your suggestions. I will, after posting this, change the Occa Berry for a Lum Berry. Still, I may revert back if problems start happening because of that.

Sorry, I know Explosion is cool, but, like Torrent said before, Meteor Mash is generally more useful, less predictable and allows me to destroy Azelf and Aerodactly before they can put Stealth Rock (assuming they use Taunt the first turn and Meteor Mash doesn't miss).

I want to recommend using the spread for Scizor I stated before, Scizor @Choice Band 168 HP | 176 Atk /|160 SpD | 4 Spe, which will help you sponge more efficiently special attacks especially draco meteors from Latias that you don't want to lose to, Starmie, Gengar, and many more hard, special hitters.

Thank you, I will change the EV spread after posting this.

 

[mox]

Another question, how do you handle a gliscor though?