Hey this is my very first team, I was just battling on Pokemon Online and it seemed good enough so I thought I would spread the wealth to other noobs like me, enjoy.
Team creation
I know I wanted a weather team because they used some very good sweepers such as kingdra blaziken and excadrill. After drizzle and swift swim got banned kingdra got crippled so no rain team for me. Then blaziken got banned and sun just isnt worth it without blaziken so that left sand.
Now the choice of either Tyranitar or Hippowdon. I like my leads to not have many weaknesses so I went with Hippowdon.I utilized a physical bulk spread of
Fatboy (Hippowdon) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Roar/Ice Fang?
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
this set walls any physical attacker has reliable recovery in slack off and sets up rocks, it also phazes but usually I dont have the time on a team like this so I am considering Ice Fang over that though it does help when something sets up cough*Excadrill*cough
Now I made my Hippowdon Physically bulky so now I needed a special wall
and Ferrothorn seemed perfect
SpikyVag (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Rocky Helmet
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Gyro Ball
- Leech Seed
- Spikes
- Power Whip
You may notice a lack of leftovers on this set it is because ferrothorn ablity iron barbs every time a physical attack hits the opponet loses 7/24 of their health very nifty to stop a sweep. also this set can set up hazards specifically spikes also it drains opponets with leach seed.
With my walls in place I now needed some sort of Sandstorm abuser. With all the crying about people being swept by Excadrill I decided to use it before it gets banned aswell.
Death (Excadrill) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Swords Dance
- X-Scissor/Brick Break
Excadrill is just amazing at its job if only it was in 4th gen it would have put garchomp to shame. With sand rush and 88 base speed it reaches a nifty 550 speed outspeeding every non scarfed or boosted pokemon in the game! I could have gone with jolly to speed tie other Excadrill but the extra power from adamant is awesome. X-Scissor is its best coverage move hitting pretty much anything resisting Rock Slide and Earthquake Super effectively thought brick break kills other Excadrills. If I can get a swords dance its good game
With my team so lacking in coverage I knew I needed something with a different style of attacking and once I saw Reuniclus I was hooked.
Fetus (Reuniclus) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SAtk
Modest Nature
- Calm Mind
- Focus Blast
- Recover
- Psychic/Shadow Ball
Reuniclus Is Awesome, The trick room set is godly but calm mind recover is very good aswell. it has horrible 4 moveslot syndrome it needs all 6 moves trick room recover calm mind focus blast shadow ball and psychic are all very good moves. I run life orb for free 30% extra damage. he is a good coverage mon and destroys any stall style team
Now I needed another check to sweepers and a priority user, it is the epitome of generation 4 Scizor!
GangBanger (Scizor) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Swarm
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Superpower
- U-turn/Bug Bite
Evs are to max attack and speed tie other scizor rest into Hp, any speed is futile with a base of 60 and it gets priority so it has no need. Overall a good pokemon could change U-turn to Bug Bite for more power the switching is very nice though. Usually bring in on some steel dark mon and kill with super power, very nifty.
and Lastly my most controversial one. The Former Uber Garchomp
Garchomp (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Outrage
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
- Aqua Tail
To me this new meta has so much speed creep Garchomps only viable set is Scarfchomp I run Hasty so Fire blast doesnt get any weaker. I basically spam outrage like a pimp and hope for a late game sweep. I did have a Landorus Over this so I could change back but man the feeling when I sweep someone with Outrage is awesome.
So yeah any comments, Criticism is cool.
*Don't turn this into an Excadrill or Garchomp is Uber thread*
Team creation
I know I wanted a weather team because they used some very good sweepers such as kingdra blaziken and excadrill. After drizzle and swift swim got banned kingdra got crippled so no rain team for me. Then blaziken got banned and sun just isnt worth it without blaziken so that left sand.
Now the choice of either Tyranitar or Hippowdon. I like my leads to not have many weaknesses so I went with Hippowdon.I utilized a physical bulk spread of
Fatboy (Hippowdon) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Roar/Ice Fang?
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
this set walls any physical attacker has reliable recovery in slack off and sets up rocks, it also phazes but usually I dont have the time on a team like this so I am considering Ice Fang over that though it does help when something sets up cough*Excadrill*cough
Now I made my Hippowdon Physically bulky so now I needed a special wall
and Ferrothorn seemed perfect
SpikyVag (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Rocky Helmet
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Gyro Ball
- Leech Seed
- Spikes
- Power Whip
You may notice a lack of leftovers on this set it is because ferrothorn ablity iron barbs every time a physical attack hits the opponet loses 7/24 of their health very nifty to stop a sweep. also this set can set up hazards specifically spikes also it drains opponets with leach seed.
With my walls in place I now needed some sort of Sandstorm abuser. With all the crying about people being swept by Excadrill I decided to use it before it gets banned aswell.
Death (Excadrill) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Swords Dance
- X-Scissor/Brick Break
Excadrill is just amazing at its job if only it was in 4th gen it would have put garchomp to shame. With sand rush and 88 base speed it reaches a nifty 550 speed outspeeding every non scarfed or boosted pokemon in the game! I could have gone with jolly to speed tie other Excadrill but the extra power from adamant is awesome. X-Scissor is its best coverage move hitting pretty much anything resisting Rock Slide and Earthquake Super effectively thought brick break kills other Excadrills. If I can get a swords dance its good game
With my team so lacking in coverage I knew I needed something with a different style of attacking and once I saw Reuniclus I was hooked.
Fetus (Reuniclus) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SAtk
Modest Nature
- Calm Mind
- Focus Blast
- Recover
- Psychic/Shadow Ball
Reuniclus Is Awesome, The trick room set is godly but calm mind recover is very good aswell. it has horrible 4 moveslot syndrome it needs all 6 moves trick room recover calm mind focus blast shadow ball and psychic are all very good moves. I run life orb for free 30% extra damage. he is a good coverage mon and destroys any stall style team
Now I needed another check to sweepers and a priority user, it is the epitome of generation 4 Scizor!
GangBanger (Scizor) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Swarm
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit
- Superpower
- U-turn/Bug Bite
Evs are to max attack and speed tie other scizor rest into Hp, any speed is futile with a base of 60 and it gets priority so it has no need. Overall a good pokemon could change U-turn to Bug Bite for more power the switching is very nice though. Usually bring in on some steel dark mon and kill with super power, very nifty.
and Lastly my most controversial one. The Former Uber Garchomp
Garchomp (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Hasty Nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Outrage
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
- Aqua Tail
To me this new meta has so much speed creep Garchomps only viable set is Scarfchomp I run Hasty so Fire blast doesnt get any weaker. I basically spam outrage like a pimp and hope for a late game sweep. I did have a Landorus Over this so I could change back but man the feeling when I sweep someone with Outrage is awesome.
So yeah any comments, Criticism is cool.
*Don't turn this into an Excadrill or Garchomp is Uber thread*