Introduction
Team Building
I started out with tyranitar as weather is the dominant type of team this generation (never said best just said dominant) and i picked sandstorm. I ran tyranitar over hippowdon as i feel tyranitar has enormous bulk along with a grat movepool the only negative thing about tyranitar is he has no form of recovery (excluding rest)
I then wanted a sand abuser and i mean really what did you expect this guy is the best poke in the sand (ya ya whatever he is cheap) but he is effective at what he does and he is one of the best revenge killers in the game
I then saw a big fighting, water, bug weakness and wanted those covered. Jellicent had immunity to two of those weaknesses and resisted the third. Pretty good and a beast at stalling and or annoying the snot out of people and making them do the ever so common ragequit
Now noticing my ground type weakness i wanted an immunity in that. This guy is great at setting up due to multiscale and then even after one dragon dance he outspeeds latios, terrakion, and i believe even max speed thundurous
I then wanted someone who could make good use of the rain which scizor does. It turns his only weakness from a 4x weak to a 2x weak which is a really good help to scizor as he appreciates the help
i then did not know what i should do at this point so i went with another sand abuser Landorous seemed liek a good idea as he got a 1.8 boosted Earthquake making almost every earthquake he uses thats unresisted nearly super effective
I then changed Landorous to celebi as the raters pointed out my team had a pretty big Rotom-W weakness and so i built a special attacking celebi in to cover that and rain teams in general
At A Glance:
In Depth:
Tyranitar (M) @ Chople Berry Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 88 SAtk / 168 SDef
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Crunch
- Fire Blast
- Ice Beam
- Stealth Rock
I prefer running this tyranitar set as he then has over 400 special defense and can withstand most fighting type moves with the chople berry. I got stealth rock there as stealth rock is almost a must have on any team fire blast to get any steel, grass, or bug types who want to destroy tyranitar *cough ferrothorn, scizor cough* I have Ice beam there because an extremely common counter to tyranitar is Gliscor with ice beam he can take out opposing gliscor like that. I chose crunch over pursuit because honestly if your switching tyranitar into a latios or reunicles or something like that today they are going to assume you are running pursuit and are just going to stay in 90% of the time. So that is why i prefer crunch over pursuit. He covers most of his threats quite well especially when something burns him and thinks he is crippled and switch and then i still ko them with a special move. Usually i run him as a lead unless i am facing other weather teams if it is politoed i run scizor lead if it is ninetails i just sorta wing it because i dont know if the ninetails has will o wisp or not
Synergy
Bug-Jellicent, Scizor, Dragonite
Fighting-Jellicent, Dragonite, Celebi
Ground-Dragonite, Celebi
Steel-Jellicent, Scizor, Dragonite
Water-Celebi, Jellicent, Dragonite
Doryuuzu (Excadrill) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Swords Dance
- X-Scissor
Excadrill is my awesome (yet common) revenge killer. Honestly there is a lot of debate as to weather the adamant life orb or jolly air balloon set is better and i just gotta say the adamant life orb set gets crushed by jolly air balloon. Excadrill is a common poke and if you don't plan on building a counter to it even with your own excadrill then you can be in big trouble. He does take about a 40 attack toll by not running adamant but hey if the opponents adamant excadrill is getting kod and mine is still alive then i am happy and i will take that toll any day. Swords dance for the boost if i predict a switch or if i come in on ferrothorn, Earthquake for a powerful STAB that will do lot of damage no matter what even if resisted. Rock Slide for some coverage and flinching possibilities (and let me just say if you flinch from a rock slide it is not hax it has a 30 % chance of flinching so that aint hax) X-Scissor to counter things like reunicles, latios anything that is bug weak etc. Overall this is the standard excadrill set so not much to explain.
Synergy
Ground-Air balloon, Dragonite
Fighting-Jellicent, Celebi
Water-Jellicent, Celebi,Dragonite
Dragonite (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Fire Punch
- Roost
This is a standard Dragon dance set for dragonite but man is it effective. If he switches in at the right moment and the opponent switches the next turn i can get two dragon dances in because of multi scale. In the sand leftovers brings back and damage done from the sand so multiscale can still be in use even in the sand. Dragon dance is an obvious choice as this is a dragon dance set, Dragon claw for a hard hitting STAB move i prefer dragon claw over outrage so that im not locked into doing a move for a while i can still switch to the other move. Fire Punch to cover steels and such who think they can set up spikes and such on me and roost is for some excellent recovery. This guy can also let the opponent get their spikes and such up and use that as an oppertunity to setup himself. If he switches in on ferrothorn and they just decide to setup spikes then il be getting 4-6 dragon dances in depending on if he switches or not and or if he leech seeds or not. Pretty effective set the only thing he fears is if multiscale cant be used and the opponent has ice shard.
Syngery
Ice-Jellicent, Scizor
Dragon-Excadrill, Scizor
Rock-Scizor,
Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Nasty Plot
- Psychic
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Rock]
Ahhh nasty plot celebi is so effective if the opposing rotom-w doesnt have hidden power fire. he can switch into those rotom get one nasty plot in and have fun attacking with 598 special attack and 327 speed (which imo is pretty good speed not great but good) Psychic is for those nasty toxicroak who are also common on rain teams Giga drain is for politoed, and Rotom-W and it also gives celebi some recovery which is really useful in todays metagame (being able to attack and recover on the same turn) Now hidden power for celebi is very debated as there are usually three options: fire, rock, and ice. I went with rock because it still handles those nasty dragons and it also handles fire types as well if opponents don't have a speed boosting nature or a scarf celebi can even outspeed infernape. I am considering changing it to hidden power fire but i honestly am just not sure what to do with that particular move on this guy.
Synergy
Bug-Scizor, Jellicent, Dragonite
Fire-Jellicent, Dragonite, Tyranitar
Dark-Tyranitar, Scizor, Excadrill
Flying-Tyranitar, Excadrill
Ice-Jellicent, Scizor
Poison-Excadrill, Scizor
Ghost-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Scizor (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Swords Dance
- U-turn
This is my swords dance scizor. At +2 from a swords dance he can 2hko some variants of Gliscor with bullet punch and at +6 he can OHKO any variants of gliscor with bullet punch. At +2 he can ohko politoed and i believe he can ohko rotom-w but il be honest i cant find a damage calculator that has generation 5 pokes with it (rotom-w changed types in generation 5 so...) U-turn il be honest doesn't get used a lot and im debating super power, and pursuit, and roost as well. He has over 700 attack at +2 along with STAB and Technician means this thing is going to be damaging you if you don't resist it and even if you do resist it your going to take alot of damage (unless your a dumb heatran) Jolly nature over adamant as 251 speed allows me to outspeed Modest non scarfed politoed (which is useful as most are specs) and this could use some rating as i don't know what i should replace U-turn with but i would like to replace u-turn
Synergy
Fire-Jellicent, Dragonite, Tyranitar
Jellicent (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Scald
- Taunt
- Recover
- Ice Beam
This is a pretty weird jellicent as most people look at it and immediately say replace ice beam with WoW but ice beam helps me out a lot on things like dragonite, salamence, latios, gliscor, etc. Yes scald can cripple most of those but even with the burn i want to be able to completely take them out. Which with ice beam he can usually do. taunt is for those ferrothorn who want to set up on me but can't recover is obvious as recovery is vital in todays metagame. Scald is there for a nice STAB move as well as burning capabilities. This guy gives my team a lot of the much needed support and resistances/Immunities. The ev spread is a defensive one to give him good coverage overall and make him just a bulky pain in the *insert your word of choice here* to deal with. Many people rage quit when they cant setup spikes and such and thats fine by me if they feel they have to ragequit that means they don't think their team can win and that makes me smile every time it happens.
Synergy
Grass-Celebi, Scizor, Dragonite
Electric-Excadrill
Ghost-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Dark-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Conclusion:
This is my team i hope you like it. If you don't like it then i hope you can give me a good rate so that you do like it. Overall it has served me well and i will be honest pokemon teams are all about playstyle as well. So there might be a suggestion or two that i don't take and please don't be mad at me for it that suggestion just might not fit my playstyle. So anyways thanks in advance and go smogon.
Hey Smogon this is a team that i have been building and testing for the past three weeks or so. So far it has done quite well i currently have a rating of 1236 on the smogon server online (it isn't good but it isn't horrible either) It is still increasing though. This team has gone through ups and downs so far it peaked with a ranking of 65 with a rating of 1286 then it has gone down since then but it is back on the rise. This team has also been rated on the #ratemyteam convo it wasn't a lecture or anything but it did get rated by a bunch of raters there. This team is my best team ever since the garchomp ban (that thing completely screwed my team over) but i managed to build a pretty successful team with the help of some raters on that tab stated before. So without furtherado here is my team
I started out with tyranitar as weather is the dominant type of team this generation (never said best just said dominant) and i picked sandstorm. I ran tyranitar over hippowdon as i feel tyranitar has enormous bulk along with a grat movepool the only negative thing about tyranitar is he has no form of recovery (excluding rest)
I then wanted a sand abuser and i mean really what did you expect this guy is the best poke in the sand (ya ya whatever he is cheap) but he is effective at what he does and he is one of the best revenge killers in the game
I then saw a big fighting, water, bug weakness and wanted those covered. Jellicent had immunity to two of those weaknesses and resisted the third. Pretty good and a beast at stalling and or annoying the snot out of people and making them do the ever so common ragequit
Now noticing my ground type weakness i wanted an immunity in that. This guy is great at setting up due to multiscale and then even after one dragon dance he outspeeds latios, terrakion, and i believe even max speed thundurous
I then wanted someone who could make good use of the rain which scizor does. It turns his only weakness from a 4x weak to a 2x weak which is a really good help to scizor as he appreciates the help
i then did not know what i should do at this point so i went with another sand abuser Landorous seemed liek a good idea as he got a 1.8 boosted Earthquake making almost every earthquake he uses thats unresisted nearly super effective
I then changed Landorous to celebi as the raters pointed out my team had a pretty big Rotom-W weakness and so i built a special attacking celebi in to cover that and rain teams in general
At A Glance:
In Depth:
Tyranitar (M) @ Chople Berry Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 88 SAtk / 168 SDef
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Crunch
- Fire Blast
- Ice Beam
- Stealth Rock
I prefer running this tyranitar set as he then has over 400 special defense and can withstand most fighting type moves with the chople berry. I got stealth rock there as stealth rock is almost a must have on any team fire blast to get any steel, grass, or bug types who want to destroy tyranitar *cough ferrothorn, scizor cough* I have Ice beam there because an extremely common counter to tyranitar is Gliscor with ice beam he can take out opposing gliscor like that. I chose crunch over pursuit because honestly if your switching tyranitar into a latios or reunicles or something like that today they are going to assume you are running pursuit and are just going to stay in 90% of the time. So that is why i prefer crunch over pursuit. He covers most of his threats quite well especially when something burns him and thinks he is crippled and switch and then i still ko them with a special move. Usually i run him as a lead unless i am facing other weather teams if it is politoed i run scizor lead if it is ninetails i just sorta wing it because i dont know if the ninetails has will o wisp or not
Synergy
Bug-Jellicent, Scizor, Dragonite
Fighting-Jellicent, Dragonite, Celebi
Ground-Dragonite, Celebi
Steel-Jellicent, Scizor, Dragonite
Water-Celebi, Jellicent, Dragonite
Doryuuzu (Excadrill) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Sand Rush
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Swords Dance
- X-Scissor
Excadrill is my awesome (yet common) revenge killer. Honestly there is a lot of debate as to weather the adamant life orb or jolly air balloon set is better and i just gotta say the adamant life orb set gets crushed by jolly air balloon. Excadrill is a common poke and if you don't plan on building a counter to it even with your own excadrill then you can be in big trouble. He does take about a 40 attack toll by not running adamant but hey if the opponents adamant excadrill is getting kod and mine is still alive then i am happy and i will take that toll any day. Swords dance for the boost if i predict a switch or if i come in on ferrothorn, Earthquake for a powerful STAB that will do lot of damage no matter what even if resisted. Rock Slide for some coverage and flinching possibilities (and let me just say if you flinch from a rock slide it is not hax it has a 30 % chance of flinching so that aint hax) X-Scissor to counter things like reunicles, latios anything that is bug weak etc. Overall this is the standard excadrill set so not much to explain.
Synergy
Ground-Air balloon, Dragonite
Fighting-Jellicent, Celebi
Water-Jellicent, Celebi,Dragonite
Dragonite (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Fire Punch
- Roost
This is a standard Dragon dance set for dragonite but man is it effective. If he switches in at the right moment and the opponent switches the next turn i can get two dragon dances in because of multi scale. In the sand leftovers brings back and damage done from the sand so multiscale can still be in use even in the sand. Dragon dance is an obvious choice as this is a dragon dance set, Dragon claw for a hard hitting STAB move i prefer dragon claw over outrage so that im not locked into doing a move for a while i can still switch to the other move. Fire Punch to cover steels and such who think they can set up spikes and such on me and roost is for some excellent recovery. This guy can also let the opponent get their spikes and such up and use that as an oppertunity to setup himself. If he switches in on ferrothorn and they just decide to setup spikes then il be getting 4-6 dragon dances in depending on if he switches or not and or if he leech seeds or not. Pretty effective set the only thing he fears is if multiscale cant be used and the opponent has ice shard.
Syngery
Ice-Jellicent, Scizor
Dragon-Excadrill, Scizor
Rock-Scizor,
Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Nasty Plot
- Psychic
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Rock]
Ahhh nasty plot celebi is so effective if the opposing rotom-w doesnt have hidden power fire. he can switch into those rotom get one nasty plot in and have fun attacking with 598 special attack and 327 speed (which imo is pretty good speed not great but good) Psychic is for those nasty toxicroak who are also common on rain teams Giga drain is for politoed, and Rotom-W and it also gives celebi some recovery which is really useful in todays metagame (being able to attack and recover on the same turn) Now hidden power for celebi is very debated as there are usually three options: fire, rock, and ice. I went with rock because it still handles those nasty dragons and it also handles fire types as well if opponents don't have a speed boosting nature or a scarf celebi can even outspeed infernape. I am considering changing it to hidden power fire but i honestly am just not sure what to do with that particular move on this guy.
Synergy
Bug-Scizor, Jellicent, Dragonite
Fire-Jellicent, Dragonite, Tyranitar
Dark-Tyranitar, Scizor, Excadrill
Flying-Tyranitar, Excadrill
Ice-Jellicent, Scizor
Poison-Excadrill, Scizor
Ghost-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Scizor (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Technician
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Swords Dance
- U-turn
This is my swords dance scizor. At +2 from a swords dance he can 2hko some variants of Gliscor with bullet punch and at +6 he can OHKO any variants of gliscor with bullet punch. At +2 he can ohko politoed and i believe he can ohko rotom-w but il be honest i cant find a damage calculator that has generation 5 pokes with it (rotom-w changed types in generation 5 so...) U-turn il be honest doesn't get used a lot and im debating super power, and pursuit, and roost as well. He has over 700 attack at +2 along with STAB and Technician means this thing is going to be damaging you if you don't resist it and even if you do resist it your going to take alot of damage (unless your a dumb heatran) Jolly nature over adamant as 251 speed allows me to outspeed Modest non scarfed politoed (which is useful as most are specs) and this could use some rating as i don't know what i should replace U-turn with but i would like to replace u-turn
Synergy
Fire-Jellicent, Dragonite, Tyranitar
Jellicent (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Water Absorb
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Scald
- Taunt
- Recover
- Ice Beam
This is a pretty weird jellicent as most people look at it and immediately say replace ice beam with WoW but ice beam helps me out a lot on things like dragonite, salamence, latios, gliscor, etc. Yes scald can cripple most of those but even with the burn i want to be able to completely take them out. Which with ice beam he can usually do. taunt is for those ferrothorn who want to set up on me but can't recover is obvious as recovery is vital in todays metagame. Scald is there for a nice STAB move as well as burning capabilities. This guy gives my team a lot of the much needed support and resistances/Immunities. The ev spread is a defensive one to give him good coverage overall and make him just a bulky pain in the *insert your word of choice here* to deal with. Many people rage quit when they cant setup spikes and such and thats fine by me if they feel they have to ragequit that means they don't think their team can win and that makes me smile every time it happens.
Synergy
Grass-Celebi, Scizor, Dragonite
Electric-Excadrill
Ghost-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Dark-Tyranitar, Excadrill, Scizor
Conclusion:
This is my team i hope you like it. If you don't like it then i hope you can give me a good rate so that you do like it. Overall it has served me well and i will be honest pokemon teams are all about playstyle as well. So there might be a suggestion or two that i don't take and please don't be mad at me for it that suggestion just might not fit my playstyle. So anyways thanks in advance and go smogon.