My First RMT (YAY ME!!!!)

[FlashDrive]

hello there smogon. long time lurker, first time poster. so forgive me if i do something wrong. that said, lets do this.

gen 5 is awesome. very awesome. i've made a bunch of teams, and while i liked all of them, this is my favourite one. ive won all but one battles with it, but i feel like it could be better.

The Team

RumbleRock
Golem @ Custap Berry
Sturdy
4 hp / 252 attack / 252 speed
Adamant
Stealth Rock
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Sucker Punch

Originally, this was a Gigaisu, but i replaced him with golem to test, and i like golem much more. STAB eq and sucker punch make him better at killing opponents than gigaisu was.
most of the time i can get up stealth rocks while my opponent does too, then i attack them while they attack me, but thanks to sturdy, i can kill them the next turn with my custap berry letting me go first. and then sucker punch whatever comes in. golem gets rocks up about 90% of the time, because if i predict the taunt, i go straight for an attacking move, and take them out, then abuse custap to get rocks up once the taunt wears off most of the time.

The King
Nidoking @ Life orb
Encourage
4 hp / 252 special attack / 252 speed
Timid
Earth Power
Fire blast
Thunderbolt
Ice beam

5th gen finally gave nidoking an ability he can abuse, and he does it well. This thing has great coverage, all of his moves benefit from encourage, and the life orb boosts them even more, without giving him recoil damage. It kills things. And a lot of the time i see people who apparently dont know about nidoking, and when they see me take out their heatran with earth power, assume im specs. then i kill their gyarados with thunderbolt. or their zapdos with ice beam.
The main thing people seem to have to kill Nidoking with is aqua jet users, or fact water types. which is fine by me, as i get a free switch to gastrodon.

Slugsworth
Gastrodon @ leftovers
Storm Drain
152 hp / 252 special attack / 104 defense
Modest
Boiling water
Ice beam
Earth power
Recover

Best. Bulky Water. Ever.
I'm running a slightly offensive version, because i was tired of not killing things, but his thing i still great. it can take all the water moves aimed at my ground types, and get +1 special attack from them. This means that it can effectively counter a lot of pokemon that my team would otherwise have trouble with, such as starmie, dragon dance gyarados and azumarill.

CLAMPS!
Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Poison Heal
4 hp / 252 attack / 252 speed
Jolly
Substitute
Fling
Earthquake
Acrobat

Come in against something gliscor walls, which is easy, since gliscor walls a lot of things, and set up a sub while they switch. fling toxic orb at whatever they send in, doing a small amount of damage, and toxicing it. then either attack, or switch to a pokemon who would better face the opponent.
now i have a pokemon who gets two times as much health back a turn as leftovers would give, even in sandstorm, is immune to status, and has a base power 100 100% accurate STAB move, and a base power 110 100% accurate stab move. The best part of this is that it can counter the ever popular Robooshin and Breloom.
I love this thing, but I'm not sure about the evs. it would be nice to get more bulk, but the speed and attack seems important. help here would be appreciated.

Monkgoose
Kojondo @ Choice scarf
Regeneration
220 attack / 56 special attack / 232 speed
Naive
U-turn
Hi Jump Kick
Me First
Stone edge

I needed a revenge killer for my team, and i couldnt find one that fit. untill i stumbled upon a kojondo page here. this thing is a great revenge killer. u-turn is great for killing off psychics, darks, or scouting, plus thanks to regeneration, entry hazards dont stop me from switching often. Hi jump kick is the powerful STAB move. its risky because of its recoil, but regeneration helps there too. stone edge kills flying and fire types, plus i dont really have better options.
Me First is what makes this thing so great. it can come in on an outraging dragon, and kill with a me first outrage. thanks to the naive nature and special attack evs, it can use me first to shadow ball gengar or shandeera (if i dont want to risk stone edge missing), or use draco meteor against those pesky dragons who arent outraging.

Ratchet
Chansey @ Evolution Stone
Natural Cure
252 hp / 252 defense / 4 special defense
Bold
Toxic
Seismic Toss
Wish
Protect

The originality i have! Chansey is a monster with evolution stone, becoming arguably better than blissey herself. i needed a wall here, and chansey is one of the best. i run the good old wish protect set because now that wish gives half of chanseys hp to the recipient, chansey can fully heal golem, nidoking,
gliscor or kojondo with just one wish, and give a good chunk back to gastrodon, who has recover himself. this means that i can reuse pokemon who are almost dead, and thanks to most of my team having good resistances or immunities, its relatively easy to pass wishes.


You may have noticed that the team has 4 ground types in it. however that isnt much of a problem. golem is a suicide lead, neither gliscor or nidoking are weak to grass, and gastrodon absorbs water. the only problem is that nidoking and gliscor are both weak to ice, and no one on my team resists it. however chansey can stall most ice users to death, gastrodon can kill most of the waters using ice moves, and kojondo can revenge kill ice types.
Mamoswine scares me, but i'm yet to face one. banded ice shard could take out a good chunk of my team, so suggestions on how to deal with mamoswine would be appreciated.

thats all, i probably did something wrong, but i can try to fix that later i guess.
please rate, and thanks for reading

 

[Plusle]

Hi! I don't see what you are acheving with this team. Most of it is Stall but you have Nidoking? Anyway your team has very poor synergy which a Stall team relies on. May I suggest changing Gastrodon and Golem for a Natorei and Burungeru core. This gives you Entry Hazards and a Rapid Spin blocker to prevent them from being removed. It also helps fix your teams poor synergy. Chansey and Gliscor are good Walls and Kojondo is a good revenge killer so keep them. Finally Nidoking is out of place and you are lacking a phaser so replace with Zapdos who fixes your synergy. Now with Natorei your big Mamoswine weakness is fixed making this a great team. Gl with your team.


Natorei

name: Spiker
move 1: Spikes
move 2: Stealth Rock
move 3: Power Whip
move 4: Gyro Ball
item: Shed Shell
nature: Sassy
evs: 252 HP / 60 Def / 196 SDef


Burungeru

name: Utility Counter
move 1: Boiling Water
move 2: Recover
move 3: Ice Beam
move 4: Shadow Ball
item: Leftovers
ability: Water Absorb
nature: Calm
evs: 252 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD

Zapdos
name: Physically Defensive
move 1: Thunderbolt
move 2: Hidden Power (Ice)
move 3: Roost
move 4: Roar
item: Leftovers
nature: Bold
evs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef

 

[Sir Koopaman]

This is a stall team?? Really, I think that a lot of Pokemon on your team could be replaced as you have a very large weakness to Electivire, as he will OHKO 1/2 of your team with HP Grass, but HP Ice will do similar, if not more damage. And his Cross Chop will 2HKO Chansey (assuming she doesn't recovers), and Thunderbolt will OHKO Kojondo if Electivire doesn't die to Hi Jump Kick. So I'd leave Chansey alone, but replace Golem for Nattorei, Nidoking for Kingdra, and Gastrodon for Swampert. Also, replace Kojondo for Skarmory. More detail will come later.

 

[FlashDrive]

I never really thought of the team as stall, more like semi stall. i like teams that can go offensive or stall depending upon the circumstances, and thats what i was going for. i'll test natorei over golem, but i like golem just because he can actually kill things once he's set up rocks, whereas natorei cant really.
and i dont think electivire is a problem, since ive never actually seen one with a plus speed nature, so gliscor can outspeed and kill with eq. swampert in my oppinion is inferior to gastrodon. recover, low weight (for grass knot) and storm drain means it can effectively counter pokemon swampert can't, such as starmie, who could be a real issue for my team otherwise.
nidoking i would like to replace though. hes kind of just there. he helps, but hes not focused with the rest of my team, so hes the one id most like to replace.

 

[MixedCalibur]

Why do you have Sucker Punch on a Custap Golem? Replace it with Explosion, because you have priority anyway.

name: Offensive
ability: Poison Heal
move 1: Fling
move 2: Earthquake
move 3: Acrobat
move 4: Protect / Taunt / Swords Dance
item: Toxic Orb
nature: Jolly
evs: 4Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Speed

That's the set you should be running. I think they're nearly identical.

This team lacks synergy, you may want to take a lot of Plusle's advice.

 

[Sir Koopaman]

This is a stall team?? Really, I think that a lot of Pokemon on your team could be replaced as you have a very large weakness to Electivire, as he will OHKO 1/2 of your team with HP Grass, but HP Ice will do similar, if not more damage. And his Cross Chop will 2HKO Chansey (assuming she doesn't recovers), and Thunderbolt will OHKO Kojondo if Electivire doesn't die to Hi Jump Kick. So I'd leave Chansey alone, but replace Golem for Nattorei, Nidoking for Kingdra, and Gastrodon for Swampert. Also, replace Kojondo for Skarmory. More detail will come later.

Kojondo should be replaced by Skarmory, because Skarmory is bulky, and that's better for semi-stall. Golm for Nattorei, because well, Nattorei's a better lead. Gastrodon for Swampert because Swampert's bulkier overall, and can ACTUALLY kill something. And Nidoking for kingdra because Kingdra's bulky and has better typing.

I never really thought of the team as stall, more like semi stall. i like teams that can go offensive or stall depending upon the circumstances, and thats what i was going for. i'll test natorei over golem, but i like golem just because he can actually kill things once he's set up rocks, whereas natorei cant really.
and i dont think electivire is a problem, since ive never actually seen one with a plus speed nature, so gliscor can outspeed and kill with eq. swampert in my oppinion is inferior to gastrodon. recover, low weight (for grass knot) and storm drain means it can effectively counter pokemon swampert can't, such as starmie, who could be a real issue for my team otherwise.
nidoking i would like to replace though. hes kind of just there. he helps, but hes not focused with the rest of my team, so hes the one id most like to replace.

Yes Nattorei can, and if Nattorei's slower than everything, it can kill a lot of stuff with Gyro Ball. And yes, some people has a +Speed Electivire, just not too often. Swampert is better than Gastrodon because it has a couple of good stats, while Gastrodon has none. And for Starmie, Nattorei with the moves Stealth Rock/Leech Seed/Spikes/Power whip can really hurt it, as it has a super-effective move and is resistant to all of its major moves bar Ice Beam, but it still has this gigantic Sp.D stat so it can take some hits.

 

[masterful]

Techniloom can really mess up your team, as Grass hits neutrally across all your pokes, and if it uses Rock Tomb or Spore on your Gliscor, your only Fighting resist, he can take it out pretty easily.

 

[FlashDrive]

Techniloom can really mess up your team, as Grass hits neutrally across all your pokes, and if it uses Rock Tomb or Spore on your Gliscor, your only Fighting resist, he can take it out pretty easily.

gliscor can come in, sub while loom spores, activating toxic orb. i can fling it then, or just go straight for an acrobat if i already flung it. plus, nidoking outspeeds loom and can ko, since it resists mach punch. but im testing kingdra over nidoking, so that doesnt really count.

 

[Jaroda]

Techniloom falls to even unboosted Acrobat and with Toxic Orb it is immune to sleep. It's the perfect counter really. I'd simply replace Substitute for Protect though. Taking no damage and healing in one turn is better than subbing and having it break the same turn. And you don't have to worry about status anyway. Ludicolo in the rain is the real threat, as it hits everyone but Chansey.

 

[MasterX]

your team is really weak to any pokemon carrying ice and grass and is decently strong. Empoleon can beat most of your team with agility,ice beam and grass knot if chansey is dead. Electivire can also kill your chansey and most of your team with its great movepool to cover alot of types. You should change chansey to blissey because it has higher spdef and usable spatt. your golem is also likely to die from the start without doing anything because a lot will outspeed and kill in one hit

 

[FlashDrive]

your team is really weak to any pokemon carrying ice and grass and is decently strong. Empoleon can beat most of your team with agility,ice beam and grass knot if chansey is dead. Electivire can also kill your chansey and most of your team with its great movepool to cover alot of types. You should change chansey to blissey because it has higher spdef and usable spatt. your golem is also likely to die from the start without doing anything because a lot will outspeed and kill in one hit

Golem has sturdy to keep him alive, and then priotiry with custap berry to kill an opponent. or sucker punch.
Electivire is outsped and ko'd by Gliscor almost all of the time, since evire almost never runs +speed natures and max speed.
Grass Knot doesn't do much to Gastrodon because of it's low weight (one of it's advantages over swampert), and can kill empoleon with earth power.
Chansey over blissey because the spdef is almost the same, and the defense is better. and I'm not running any special attacks (nor do i want to), so the spatt stat is meaningless.

 

[MasterX]

Golem has sturdy to keep him alive, and then priotiry with custap berry to kill an opponent. or sucker punch.
Electivire is outsped and ko'd by Gliscor almost all of the time, since evire almost never runs +speed natures and max speed.
Grass Knot doesn't do much to Gastrodon because of it's low weight (one of it's advantages over swampert), and can kill empoleon with earth power.
Chansey over blissey because the spdef is almost the same, and the defense is better. and I'm not running any special attacks (nor do i want to), so the spatt stat is meaningless.

blissey has better defense than chansey and 30 base points higher in sp def and 5 higher in Hp so no matter how you put it Blissey is better than chansey

 

[guanlong]

blissey has better defense than chansey and 30 base points higher in sp def and 5 higher in Hp so no matter how you put it Blissey is better than chansey

Evolution stone.

Anyways, your team is...odd. You claim to be running semi-stall yet ~2 of your team members are offensive? You should also switch sucker punch with explosion on golem in spite of the nerf.