OU Balanced W/O Legendaries

So this is my first attempt at an OU team that I have beat my brother with quite a few times, but my friend challenged me to a battle so I would just like some help with critique. Just thought I would mention that we all play without legendaries, and I don't have wi-fi access, but I've tried to playtest against friends and such.
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Gliscor@leftovers
Hyper Cutter
252 HP/40 Def/216 Spe
Jolly nature
-stealth rock
-taunt
-earthquake
-roost (u-turn?)

Pretty much like the lead gliscor in the site, with maxed out speed to try and taunt before some slower leads and put down stealth rock.

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Umbreon@chople berry
Synchronize
252HP, 128Def, 128 SpD
Careful nature
-wish
-mean look
-baton pass
-pursuit

The team cleric, also good for BP mean look onto something that can easily set up on the trapped pokemon. Pursuit is their in case he gets taunted by a faster pokemon which is fairly likely due to his slow speed, in which case I'll just switch him out as quickly as possible unless I get trapped. I've found he works well with gliscor and gyarados because he draws out fighting pokemon that gyarados can set up on with mean look BP unless they have thunderpuch. He's pretty much the staple of my team, allowing me to trap pokemon then switch to counters and allow them to set up.

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Gyarados@life orb
Intimidate
252Atk, 252SpE, 4HP
Jolly nature
-Dragon dance
-waterfall
-earthquake
-ice fang

Gyarados is the DD beast on this team, having umbreon set him up with mean look BP and allowing him to DD to +2 or even +3 if i can manage it. I have ice fang instead of taunt or stone edge because of the lack of ice moves on my team, and it's useful for taking out garchomps or flygons. Maximum speed without scarfing was the direction I took, mostly because his moveset allows him to DD then take on quite a few pokemon without him being forced out.

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Infernape@life orb
Blaze
252 Atk, 252 SpE, 4HP
Jolly nature
-Close combat
-swords dance
-flare blitz
-U-turn

He's another physical sweeper, I plan on using him to break blissey and other special walls, and U-turn on anything he can't handle. I might get rid of something for mach punch but I can't decide what. Same as gyarados with jolly nature and SpE ev's for max speed without scarf. I'm not really worried about life orb and flare blitz recoil because I could pass wish off to him from umbreon, although he is still very frail so I might use leftovers instead.

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Togekiss@leftovers
serene grace
192 HP / 80 SpA / 236 Spe
modest nature
-nasty plot
-air slash
-wish (thunderwave?)
-aura sphere

Decided to get rid of bronzong for a special sweeper, decided on this set but I might use a gengar or something else. I might get rid of wish and put thunderwave. Then just use him as a nasty plot paraflincher and rely on that first wish from umbreon and leftovers to keep him healthy.

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Magnezone @ Leftovers
28 Atk/252 Sp. Atk 228 Spe
Modest Nature
-Thunderbolt
-Flash cannon
-Substitute
-Explosion

Right now I have him as a tank, with his resistances and substitute up he's fairly hard to take down, I've had the hardest time choosing his set, because everything other than T-bolt and thunderwave I'm a little unsure about. I was considering magnet rise but their are 3 guys on my team who are immune to ground, so it seems slightly unnecessary. I eventually opted for gyro ball instead of a wall because he could have trouble with ground pokemon and only having one attack that their immune to. I could also switch out something for explosion but I can't really decide.

So theirs my team, again I plan on using this against friends without legendaries, and I can't play online so if you would like to include things like that thank you but it's not necessary. Pretty much my team is based around BP mean look from umbreon to gyarados, gliscor or infernape so that they can set up or sweep. Bronzong and magnezone are their for support and sponge off some hits directed at my sweepers. I tried to make a type balanced team, with the weaknesses of pokemon mostly being covered by others so that they can all work together, like with gyarados and umbreon.

Alright thank you for your time :D

*edit, switched out bronzong and switched some of the sets and ev's that were suggested
 
Okay.. This team lacks power. Umbreon is bulky, but is too slow in my opinion. With very low attack, I don't really think umbreon can do much on your team. Gyarados and Infernape seem to be your only means of power. Without them, your team wouldn't be very good. How about try a choice scarf magnezone or something? If he's too slow, he can be OHKO by many of his weaknesses. Anyway, if you want that set, I would choose explosion over gyro ball. Bronzong is one of your attackers? I don't really think he's useful as an attacker. IMO, its a waste of his defensive capabilities. I think this team mainly lacks power. A CM suicune or DD dragonite can pretty much sweep this team..
 
Physical Magnezone doesn't work. Gyro Ball will not work. Try this:

Magnezone @ Leftovers
28 Atk/252 Sp. Atk 228 Spe
Modest Nature
-Thunderbolt
-HP Fire/HP Grass
-Substitute
-Explosion/Thunder Wave

Bronzong should focus on HP more.

How about an EV spread of 252 HP/128 Def/128 Sp. Def with a Relaxed nature?

Swords Dance does not work with U-turn on Infernape and any Pokemon, considering you lose all your boosts.

Your Gliscor and Umbreon's EVs are wrong.
They're both 252/126/126, when you can do 252/128/128 and get an extra point in both stats.

Gliscor should use an EV Spread of 252 HP/40 Def/216 Spe with a Jolly nature.

Good luck!
 
Okay.. This team lacks power. Umbreon is bulky, but is too slow in my opinion. With very low attack, I don't really think umbreon can do much on your team. Gyarados and Infernape seem to be your only means of power. Without them, your team wouldn't be very good. How about try a choice scarf magnezone or something? If he's too slow, he can be OHKO by many of his weaknesses. Anyway, if you want that set, I would choose explosion over gyro ball. Bronzong is one of your attackers? I don't really think he's useful as an attacker. IMO, its a waste of his defensive capabilities. I think this team mainly lacks power. A CM suicune or DD dragonite can pretty much sweep this team..

Well bronzong is more of a tank, taking a lot of punishment and using his average base atk stat of 89 to spam earthquake and gyro ball. Maybe I could use him as dual wall support with toxic (earthquake?) and explosion? My umbreon isn't really meant to attack anything however, pursuit is their just in case he gets taunted. His main role is to heal the rest of my team with wish and trap with mean look then baton pass to something that can set up on the trapped pokemon. His defensive stats are as high as possible so he doesn't get destroyed and he can't set up.

Physical Magnezone doesn't work. Gyro Ball will not work. Try this:

Magnezone @ Leftovers
28 Atk/252 Sp. Atk 228 Spe
Modest Nature
-Thunderbolt
-HP Fire/HP Grass
-Substitute
-Explosion/Thunder Wave

Bronzong should focus on HP more.

How about an EV spread of 252 HP/128 Def/128 Sp. Def with a Relaxed nature?

Swords Dance does not work with U-turn on Infernape and any Pokemon, considering you lose all your boosts.

Your Gliscor and Umbreon's EVs are wrong.
They're both 252/126/126, when you can do 252/128/128 and get an extra point in both stats.

Gliscor should use an EV Spread of 252 HP/40 Def/216 Spe with a Jolly nature.

Good luck!

I do like that magnezone set, just do you think it would work with flash cannon instead of hidden power? Only because I have a shiny and I'm not sure what his IV's are and I would really like to use him. I can do that with bronzong, do you think his moveset is alright though? Or should I do like dual walls or something. It's too bad infernape doesn't learn BP or I'd use that instead of U-turn, I just like U-turn cause it gets off some damage with his high atk and gets him out of there. What if I put mach punch in, and get rid of U-turn? Those EV's fail on my part :P math mistake, but could I just ask why those EV's on gliscor instead of full speed half atk, half HP?

Thx for commenting :D
 
In particular, I don't really like an Umbreon with Wish Baton Pass. But I've never really tried it out. I think Bronzong is actually a considerably good set now that I look at it. Perhaps Toxic should be used over Grass Knot... It depends on what you want to use. Grass Knot for waters is really meant for Swampert :l Bulky Suicune and Vaporeon are light, so it won't do that much damage. The main thing that's bothering me is Umbreon lol. I don't know why, I guess its just that I'm not used to seeing it. I do think you should change Magnezone's moveset however.
 
for Infernape, I'd recommend Adamant nature, I've used Jolly nature before and I find that a lot of the time, it leaves the opponent with minimal HP and you're wishing that you used adamant.
 
You should consider giving your Bronzong more HP evs like the first poster said as more hp WILL alow it to take hits better.

Also, I don't have calcs, but I'm fairly sure without any investment in SpAtt on Bronzong grass knot won't do much to bulky waters, even swampert can take one easily and just switch to something to resist. I'm not suggesting more evs in Bronzongs SpAtt stat, just replacing it with another move completely.

Also pokemon with any kind of bulk won't mind taking hits from your Bronzong with no investment in Attack evs.
 
Alright after some consideration I've decided to switch out bronzong, since he's really not doing much for my team. I was thinking another special attacker and was thinking about using an offensive nasty plot togekiss. He would have this set;

Togekiss@life orb
serene grace
192 HP / 80 SpA / 236 Spe
modest nature
-nasty plot
-air slash
-wish (thunderwave?)
-aura sphere

I was considering gengar as well, but I can't really decide. Mostly I'm just worried about getting walled by some physical walls and magnezone is my only special attacker. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what a good special sweeper could be for this team?
 
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