Boss Revamp, Team Version 1.0

[R.B.G.]

AND THERE THEY ARE!

I've recently started laddering again, after my long timeout after my drop from #7 on the OU leaderboards. This is the team I'm CURRENTLY using for ladder matches and testing. Leave any comments, suggestions, challenges, and CONSTRUCTIVE criticisms in your replies. Thank you and good day, lawl.

TIME TO CHECK THEM OUT
Suicide lead Antidactyl @ Focus Sash

Stone Edge
Earthquake
Ice Fang
Stealth Rock
Jolly; 4 HP EV's, 252 Atk, 252 Speed
Purpose-This set really explains itself. Set up Stealth Rock and sweep for as long you can until Aero goes bye bye. As you may as noticed, Taunt is replaced on this set by Ice Fang, due to the fact that nowadays people will simply TBolt an Aero on the first turn, knowing usually that Aero will normally taunt. The fact that Taunt is becoming more and more predictable limits the effectiveness of the aforementioned Taunt set.

Specially based MixApe Life Orb Sweeper

Vacuum Wave
Flamethrower
Close Combat
Grass Knot
Timid; 64 Atk EV's, 192 Speed, 252 SpA
Purpose-Mixape, one of the best sweepers in OU, easily fits into my team. With support coming from four other members on my team, MixApe is truly a force to be reckoned with. One of the 3 pokemon on my team weak to Water-type moves, Infernape does come with its drawbacks, but its worth it. Vacuum Wave makes it into the set over Nasty Plot because of the fact that as soon as you use Nasty Plot, Infernape likely goes bye-bye to a super-effective attack.

Trap Passer Umbreon @ Leftovers

Baton Pass
Mean Look
Protect
Wish
Careful; 252 HP EV's, 4 Speed, 252 SpD
Purpose-The person who came up with trap passer Umbreon is second to only the guy who made cupcakes, Stallbreaker Gliscor, and Chuck Norris. Umbreon's defensive stats allow it to more than last the 3 to 4 turns it'll need to set up, hitting opponents with Mean Look, before Baton Passing to a counter. Umbreon is really good for setting up Gyarados, as long as my opponent doesn't have Thunderbolt.

Support Starmie @ Leftovers(To be replaced, considering Vaporeon, Breloom, Machamp, Lucario)

Rapid Spin
Surf
Ice Beam
Recover
Timid; 136 HP EV's, 156 Def, 216 Speed
Purpose-Starmie is one of the best OU spinners, along with Forretress. Unlike Forretress, Starmie has the stats built for a sweeper. Outspeeding every non-scarfed dragon pokemon there is, other than Rain Dance Kingdra, Starmie is able to OHKO Flygon, MixNite, and MixMence after Stealth Rock damage has taken its toll. Starmie has been part of the core of my team for a while now, replacing the Kingdra on the team I used to get to #7 on the OU leaderboards.

Gyarados @ Leftovers

Dragon Dance
Earthquake
Waterfall
Stone Edge
Naive; 72 HP EV's, 252 Atk, 184 Speed
Purpose-Gyarados is one of the most dynamic sweepers, and is part of my team's main defence against a +1 Salamence. Gyarados' stats and movepool allow it to sweep like a broom.

Stallbreaker Gliscor @ Leftovers

Taunt
Toxic
Earthquake
Roost
Jolly; 252 HP, 40 Def, 216 Speed
Purpose-This standard Gliscor set is as to Blissey and other walls as a sledgehammer is to well.......walls. Being able to take out any wall, you name it, even the Great Wall of Blissey, while able to wall itself, Gliscor earns its spot on my team. Taunt to break a walls' method of recovery(Blissey's Softboiled) and a cleric's mode of helping out its team(Blissey's Aromatherapy). Toxic smokes them out from behind those monster defenses, while you can Roost as its needed. EQ offers a STAB, Torment however, is a also a viable option.

Annoying Pokemon:

Gyarados-One Dragon Dance boost, and Gyarados is a moving Lamborghini without a driver. Unpredictable, explosive, and EXTREMELY volatile, this sea serpent makes all true Dragon-types run in fear. Holy hell.

Salamence-Despite several changes to my team, a boosted +1 Mence still keeps its status as a threat against my team. When Aero beats another lead, I usually return it to send it out against a Salamence. Outspeeding a +1 Salamence, and having the ability to Taunt is an added perk that comes with the Aerodactyl package. Not to mention the fact that Stone Edge/Rock Slide is usually an OHKO, always an OHKO when Stealth Rock is set up.

 

[Starbuck]

Salamence gets one DD and it sweeps this team. Scarfing your Latias and making it Timid will fix this, and you don't need Latias much anyway because you have Starmie to counter Infernape. Salamence in general is a huge problem for this team. On the Aerodactyl I suggest using Stealth Rock, Taunt, Earthquake and Rock Slide. Taunt to stop any other lead Stealth Rockers, Earthquake to deal with the overflowing Steel types and Rock Slide to abuse flinches and its accuracy is much better than that of Stone Edge. Crocune would plow through this team.

 

[3v3rnoob]

Why would you replace taunt with Ice fang for ninjask? Taunt goes through subs you know.

Anyway, Starbuck is right. Mence will come in, get a DD up, then have its way with the rest of your team. Personally, I'd get rid of HP fighting and get Draco meteor in that spot instead. The only pokemon that it hits harder than surf is Tyranitar, ant tbh, you're better off using grass knot if you really want the coverage.

 

[george182]

Rotom's bulky defensive stats, decent speed, and typing allows it to be a really dynamic wall

A 0 hp ev, 0 defence ev lucario has more bulk than your rotom set, and lucario is definately not a decent wall. So saying he has "bulky defensive stats" is just wrong.

Rotom can only inflict 3 out of the 5 status, not 4, he can't sleep opponents or freeze them. Multiple status is normally pointless as you can't burn a paralysed poke, and you can't toxic a wall that has been paralysed, hence why I suggest using thunderbolt as accidental paralysing something you wanted to poison can screw you over.

Lead aerodactly is used because he is the faster SR + taunt pokemon. So if you don't have taunt, there is not much point in aerodactyl, I personaly that aero is useless anway as he is predictable, unless you desperately need to get rocks up while preventing the oponent.

"starmie OHKO's mix nite easy" it doesn't, it only has 8% chance to OHKO mix nite, so that's not "easy", but mix nite is rare, and you will probably have rocks up, so I'll let you off on this one.

"mix ape is one of the best sweepers in OU" mix ape is not a sweeper it's a wall breaker, that's why it's mixed.

So onto the suggestions, due to your DD weakness, I would suggest scarf flygon, over scarf latias. The reason I'm saying flygon is because he is not pursuit weak, and has acces to U-turn to help your team out, a set like this:

Flygon @ choice scarf
Jolly: 252 atk/252 speed/4 hp
- Outrage
- Stone edge
- Earthquake
- U-turn

This is the best flygon set imo, it can counter threats like DD mence, and stone edge is there as a back up to gyrados, and it you wanna kill mence, but don't wanna be locked into outrage. Flygon draws in walls and if you predict the switch, use u-turn and bring in infernape to OHKO threats like skarmory/forretress/swampert etc.

Now for the lead, for your team i would suggest lead metagross:

Metagross @ lum berry
Adamant
252 hp, 236 atk, 12 def, 8 speed
- Stealth rock
- Bullet punch
- Earthquake
- Explosion / Meteor mash

Metagross fairs well against the common leads, and can take out taunt leads such as aero with bullet punch, he has explosion so he can leave with a bang and you can bring in your next member easily. Lum berry means he can take a dynamic punch from machamp, get rocks up, then outspeed and OHKO with explosion. It also helps against sleep leads. You can switch to starmie and flygon/latias to take on fire leads such as heatran and infernape.

And finaly that rotom, I would swap him for a sweeper, that can take advanatage of the flygon + infernape combo and gliscor toxic-ing pokemon that switch into it, such as bulky waters. Therefore I suggest DD gyrados, with a set like:

Gyrados @ life orb/leftovers
Naive: 252 atk/184 speed/72 hp
- Dragon dance
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Stone edge

Gyrados fits in with the teams weaknesses and resitances, he has intimidate to stop physical attackers, and he has good attack and speed and great stats for sweeping. Life orb for more power, but if you put rapid spin on starmie then leftovers will take advanatage of gyrados' bulk. There is no point in max speed, at the moment he outspeeds starmie, and scarf tyranitar after a dragon dance. If outspeeding UU's like dugtrio and alakazam worries you then use max speed.

The reason I chose gyrados to replace rotom, is because they have a simular typing. At first this makes no sense, by gyrados resists fighting, steel and bug etc, so he can take on the threats that rotom would originally have take on.

If using gyrados I would suggest using rapid spin on starmie, flygon + metagross can take on dragons anyway.

Now I have suggested changing 3 pokemon, and I do understand this is rate my team, and not make my team. But I feel that aerodactyl, latias, and rotom do no work effectively on this team, and there are better members to suit your teams needs.

 

[R.B.G.]

I'v already replaced Latias with trap passer Umbreon, and I'm working on a Gyarados to replace Rotom.

 

[Ironhorn17]

You say your gliscor can beat any wall. He cant beat bronzong.

 

[R.B.G.]

You say your gliscor can beat any wall. He cant beat bronzong.

Bronzong is a bell, not a wall. Lulz, never thought about Bronzong, I have Bronzong covered however.

 

[Ironhorn17]

Im new at this but when I saw your gliscor I just thought bronzong.

 

[Sandal8]

(this is PP)

You say your gliscor can beat any wall. He cant beat bronzong.

Did you seriously just register an account to say that?

Aerodactyl:

Ice Fang isn't doing you much good outside of lead Gliscor; consider perhaps Fire Fang for surprising Scizor/Forry?

Umbreon:

Fix the EVs. You're running max SpA and Spe with a -Spe nature.
252 HP / 92 SpD / 164 Spe is the standard with a Careful nature; with this set, Scarf Latias, which looks like a huge pain for your team considering it outspeeds everyone and stops Infernape cold, only manages 35% - 41.4% with a Timid Draco Meteor, meaning you outstall it, even without Protect.

Otherwise, looks good. I think I can see Vaporeon giving you a lot of trouble, especially if it's carrying HP Electric, but everything else looks solid.

 

[corncake22]

Not much to add here but what does Umbreon do to check DDMence? Go with ScarfLatias or Flygon over Umbreon. On Aero run Taunt>Icefang. The only time you wouldn't Taunt first is on Jirachi, Machamp and Metagross maybe even switch if neccesary. George182 and Sandal8 has pretty much said what I need to say.

GL.