I don't like Hazards

Fuzhon

Note#2: Any suggestions to improve the team is very much welcome! There are many adjustments that I know I could make on it.
Note: I am currently ranked number 48 on Pokemon Online with 1327, and can definitely do better.
So hi, this my my first time that I'll be posting on Smogon, so I hope you'd treat me well ;D. How I thought of this team started when I thought how much I hated hazards to my team, and how badly it crippled my switching, especially of the fact that I love using choiced pokemon. There's a few obvious things that can either get rid of hazards, or prevent them, like taunt and rapid spin, but they can both be prevented. There is 1 move though, that can absolutely obliterate the setting up of SR and Spikes, being magic bounce. So everything I have in this team is based on the fact that I can abuse switching all day every day, with powerful attacking pokemon.
My Team!
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This was the first six that I chose to put together, it had great synergy and damage output and it seemed to satisfy.

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Due to many suggestions, and the overall better coverage I've decided to switch Sawk for Heracross, since it has great stabs with the same attack base and speed. Though, at times, Sawk would have been preferred due to the need of sturdy, but it's rare. Overall, Heracross is a better pick.

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Xatu (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Thunder Wave
- Roost
- Night Shade
- U-turn
This thing is so retarded in UU. With great typing and full investment into physical bulk, it just doesn't die to any physical attackers. All the current UU stealth rockers can't touch Xatu, aside from Empoleon, they basically aren't allowed to set them up with him around, and that's basically all he's here for, aside from the occasional reflecting a status back or twaving. U-turn allows switching to be that much more effective, to get you more of an advantage, though it is extremely fragile to special attackers.
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Heracross (M) @ Choice Band Trait: Guts
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Megahorn
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit

Heracross is just such a monster with a choice band, and ability to constantly to come in. It has a decent base speed, and has a monstrous attack stat, with great STABs that can hit on basically anything that comes in. Dishing out a choice banded Adamant close combat/megahorn completely obliterates anything, even if it's resisted! Heracross is such a monster~

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Alakazam (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
- Encore
Alakazam really is just there to be a revenge killer. It's my only real special attacker, and I don't even think it's really needed, but I can't think of anything else to replace it with. At first I tried Murkrow to break stall, but it was just too ass. Usually I just switch this into Slowbro to energy ball it to the face, and a last resort to kill those pesky set-up pokemons that got their setup.

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Mamoswine (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Snow Cloak
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Crash
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Mamoswine is great. It really is great typing for great stab, it hits like a truck, especially with life orb and the fact it can practically hit anything for great damage. Mamoswine is basically here to kill weakened pokemons, and Rotom-H. That thing annoys me to no end, especially when it switches into Xatu to Volt-switch or tbolt. But that's why Mamoswine is here! It's immune to t-bolt, but the will-o-wisp and over heat are annoying, just got to predict right. But yeah, Mamo is so good, powerful stab priority is win, especially with all those pory-gonzs running around.
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Victini @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Victory Star
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- V-create
- Fusion Bolt
- U-turn
- Zen Headbutt
Everyone knows that Victini's signature move V-Create is RETARDED. 180+ stab ? Who cares if its resisted, it's dead either way. Usually, it's handicapped by those hazards that people putup, but with Xatu here, there are none, with Victini being able to use its full potential. Many times, I find myself scared of running out of pp for V-Create, due to how much I get to use it. It really scares me, and makes me pity the opponent I'm versing.

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Empoleon (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Scald
- Grass Knot
- Roar
This was EXACTLY what I needed, a stealth rocker of my own and a great special wall. The typing makes it great to take hits, and hit back with a nice scald for the potential of burning the other pokemon. With Roar, nothing can setup on it. Paired with Xatu, it seems unfair how well they work together. Xatu is immune/resisted to the Empoleons possible greatest threats, fighting and earthquake, and Empoleon SPONGES ice moves, and takes even electric moves extremely well, seeing as it usually comes from the special side. It has great synergy, and it works well to counter those pesky slowbros and suicunes.
 
You should really find a way to throw a rapid spinner in there. Xatu may be able to handle most stealth rockers (most), but if someone throws a pursuit at you, having a plan B is really nice. I recommend a bulky Hitmontop over Sawk. Hitmontop with 252 hp/252 defense and intimidate can take a lot of punishment on the physical spectrum, and foresight lets him rapid spin against ghost types.

Also, Darmanitan hits harder (and faster) than Victini and learns U-turn. You may want to look into replacing Victini with Darmanitan (scarf/band depending on what role you want him to fill).

Coming from someone who ran Xatu for a long time, you may want to look into running something with heal bell. Sure, most status moves won't touch Xatu, but his utility dies after an unlucky Snorlax's body slam/any water type's scald. (this one is not as important as one and two, but worth considering if you can find something cool with heal bell)
 
Not relating to the team, but while I am a huge potty mouth myself on Smogon, I'm a bit offended by your constant use of retarded...

Anyways, I'm not entirely sure about Sawk being on the team. I suggest using Heracross over him, as his typing and movepool make him so much better for the UU environment

Heracross @ Choice Band (although you can use the Scarf set if you want)
Adamant/ Jolly
4 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Speed
-Close Combat
-Megahorn
-Stone Edge
-Night Slash/ Pursuit
 
verbatim said:
You should really find a way to throw a rapid spinner in there. Xatu may be able to handle most stealth rockers (most), but if someone throws a pursuit at you, having a plan B is really nice. I recommend a bulky Hitmontop over Sawk. Hitmontop with 252 hp/252 defense and intimidate can take a lot of punishment on the physical spectrum, and foresight lets him rapid spin against ghost types.
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The thing is, pursuit trappers don't do any damage to me, being so physically bulky. The most potent threat of a pursuit trapping pokemon is probably technitop with life orb, and at most pursuit without me switching out would do probably around 50 percent. I don't feel a need to switch out on a pokemon that can't even hurt me without me switching out, it's not like I'm going to attack a technitop, especially with the threat of sucker punch.I could just outstall them with roost. Then there's Krookodile! That can kind of do some damage, but it's so damn rare and not good that it just kind of shrugs my mind, and I've versed some, and most of the times I just predict when they'll switch in. Pursuit trapping isn't much of an issue. Also, With Hitmontop I just lose too much raw power that Sawk can dish out, making my team too overly defensive which I don't feel like playing especially in UU.
 
waterwarrior said:
Not relating to the team, but while I am a huge potty mouth myself on Smogon, I'm a bit offended by your constant use of retarded...

Anyways, I'm not entirely sure about Sawk being on the team. I suggest using Heracross over him, as his typing and movepool make him so much better for the UU environment

Heracross @ Choice Band (although you can use the Scarf set if you want)
Adamant/ Jolly
4 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Speed
-Close Combat
-Megahorn
-Stone Edge
-Night Slash/ Pursuit
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Hmmm.. That is VERY viable! Especially to absorb some statuses and do retarded amounts of damage. I'd have to try that out, though it is worse in the case of losing the sturdy viability of giving out more hits... I shall try it out!
 
Okay, pursuit is a bad example, however, everyone is bound to make mistakes in a while, and with Victini's life severely cut short by stealth rocks if you missperdict with Xatu, running a spinner is good insurance. As a secondary benefit, if things really go to hell (think, Swords Dance Bisharp) mach punch intimidate Hitmontop will save your team (no seriously, your team dies to Bisharp after one Swords Dance).


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verbatim said:
Okay, pursuit is a bad example, however, everyone is bound to make mistakes in a while, and with Victini's life severely cut short by stealth rocks if you missperdict with Xatu, running a spinner is good insurance. As a secondary benefit, if things really go to hell (think, Swords Dance Bisharp) mach punch intimidate Hitmontop will save your team (no seriously, your team dies to Bisharp after one Swords Dance).


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You forget the fact that I have a sturdy Sawk and a focus sashed Alakazam with encore bro=/
 
He has sub, also, would you rather hard counter him, or sac something in the process (also, Sawk<Heracross for reasons waterwarrior said).
 
I end up doing a whole sacing war when i battle, but usually ends up with my win, and it doesnt matter if he has sub, pp is pp.
 
Sr Crustle with stone edge/ X scissor beats xatu. I know because i use said Crustle. 2 se stabs will hurt, and if it gets a shell smash, your in trouble.
 
Just to mention, but you called magic bounce a move, while it's an ability ;)

Then, onto the team. I fully agree with waterwarriors choice to change sawk to heracross. Since i stepped in UU it's always been in my team.

I suggest you slightly change your Mamoswine. I use a Mamoswine with the same moveset, but with an Adamant nature and a Choice Scarf. The Adamant obviously raises your attack, and Choice scarf is (yes, even with Ice Shard which might seem unnecessary) very viable on Mamo.

for the rest there's not much else to say. I personally just don't like Victini because of its bitchy sig. move, I'd rather go for Arcanine. But that's not necessary to improve the team, so whatev.


Good Luck,

Cap'n
 
energy ball isnt very good coverage on alakazam, replace it with shadow ball, since it deals equally well with slowbro from your description, and attains perfect neutral coverage alongside focus miss.
 
Thanks for the suggestion guys! I've been currently testing heracross instead of Sawk, at times I lost cause I didn't have that sturdy, but at times the utility of heracross is great. It's been 50/50 so far so I don't know yet=/
 
I just checked, choice scarf (with or without adamant) Darmanitan's sheer force choice scarf Flare Blitz does more damage than choice scarf adamant Victini's V-Create, is only 5 speed slower (you lose to scarf 100's, most notably Flygon), and has a better drawback than V-Create necessitating you to switch out after every use. Darmanitan also has acsess to U-turn, an important move for such a hit-and-run oriented pokemon.



puregenius said:
lol yeh ur sawk sounds like a monster i would love to 10hko or 20hko something
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Sawk has a base attack of 125 and a base speed of 85, same as Heracross. The only thing separating them is Heracross's extra bulk/typing, guts, and access to Megahorn, which outshine Sawks access to sturdy.
 
verbatim said:
I just checked, choice scarf (with or without adamant) Darmanitan's sheer force choice scarf Flare Blitz does more damage than choice scarf adamant Victini's V-Create, is only 5 speed slower (you lose to scarf 100's, most notably Flygon), and has a better drawback than V-Create necessitating you to switch out after every use. Darmanitan also has acsess to U-turn, an important move for such a hit-and-run oriented pokemon.




Sawk has a base attack of 125 and a base speed of 85, same as Heracross. The only thing separating them is Heracross's extra bulk/typing, guts, and access to Megahorn, which outshine Sawks access to sturdy.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try out Darmanitan out, though I am a bit unsure due to the fact of the recoil, making it harder to use, and I also switch in Victini to certain hits too, cause despite it's terrible typing it has great stats to tank hits if necessary, though I will try it out! I'm also looking for something else that can help against Rotom-Hs... they urk me to no end, preferably to replace Mamoswine due to the fact that it seems to be the weak link in my team.
 
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