Fossils Attack!
At a Glance:
On to the team!
Tornadus (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Taunt
- Hurricane
- Focus Blast
Tornadus is usually my lead (when I say usual, I mean 99% of the time). Depending on the lead I usually Taunt or Rain Dance. Tornadus usually dies after like 3 turns into the match, but after rain is up he basically spams Hurricane like a boss.
I'm not really so sure about Modest or Timid here but generally, I don't care. If Tornadus leads (as I said, 99% of the time), he dies very quickly. While I wreck as much havoc as I can. Focus Blast is mostly filler (and because I don't know what else to run on Tornadus, I generally prefer him dying off quickly so I can bring in Omastar/Ludicolo/Kabutops and start smashing things up)
Jolteon (M) @Choice Specs --> Expert Belt
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Thunder
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Jolteon is one of the most crucial members of my team, bringing an Electric immunity to the table (this is important when 2 of your sweepers are weak to Electric). Jolteon can come in on choiced Electric attacks and scare them off. Earlygame, many people expect Jolteon to just Volt Switch immediately and send in their ground types, only to find their Flygon being smacked by a HP Ice to the face. Jolteon can also work as a great lategame sweeper, and if rain is still up he can spam ridiculously powerful Thunders. I haven't gotten much parahax with Thunder, but more of misshax (when rain isn't up). Shadow Ball is there as a way of beating Deoxys-D (plus it's arguably his best option for coverage, unless you want lolsignalbeam)
Omastar (M) @ White Herb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Grass]
Recently, you might have found me around on either PO, PS or the forums stating how awesome Omastar is. And no, I don't lie. Omastar really is that good. I usually start off immediately by a smash, and if rain is still up Omastar nets a ridiculous 800+ speed and has 700+ special attack, allowing him to easily 1-2HKO the entire metagame (except forbitcheggs Chansey), without spikes up. Hydro Pump is the obligatory STAB move, hitting Explosion-level power levels (I'd even say its OVER 9000 myself). Generally, if I play Omastar right, he can nab 2 KOs in a match. And the best part? Nobody, and I say, nobody, expects Omastar. Omastar can stomach an entire bunch of priority attacks and get a smash off. Omastar has a massive 100+ base defense, allowing him to essentially be a mini-Cloyster: take a physical/resisted choiced special attack, smash, outrun, rape. Omastar is usually the MVP of most of my battles and its funny to see people completely underestimate his ridiculous defense. I'm considering running Timid to outrun Scarf Darmanitan at +2, but I'm not sure if its worth it. The other thought right now is to change Hydro Pump to Surf, which allows me to fix my nonsense 80% misshax bullshit.
Ludicolo (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 8 HP / 252 SAtk / 248 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Giga Drain
Ludicolo is a pretty cool customer to be honest. His main business is to come in, rape as much as possible, setup rain if its down, continue raping. Surf and Giga Drain are great STABs and Ice Beam is excellent coverage. He generally ends up as my usual midgame sweeper, breaking through as much stuff as possible. I'm considering running Life Orb, but the extra 3 turns of rain granted by Damp Rock have proven to be useful so far.
Kabutops (M) @Damp Rock --> Life Orb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
-Rain Dance --> Swords Dance
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
-Knock Off --> Stealth Rock
No, you weren't going bonkers when you saw that last slot. Instead of running Swords Dance I'm running fucking Knock Off, of all things? Yup, Knock Off is there. I rarely use it as Kabutops already smashes a lot of stuff, but Knock Off is really cool for beating Chansey. Rain Dance allows me to continue the rain party, and with Kabutops's decent 80 Speed this isn't that hard to pull off. Stone Edge and Waterfall are pretty obligatory STAB moves. Even without setup, Kabutops has excellent Attack and can wallbreak to pave the way for an Omastar sweep (or sometimes, the other way round, Omastar paving for Ludicolo/Kabutops sweeps).
Roserade (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Rain Dance
- Giga Drain
- Weather Ball
Roserade provides vital Spikes support and a vital Grass resist, which is pretty important imo considering Tornadus just dies after earlygame. Rain Dance allows Roserade to be a Rain Dance supporter, and Giga Drain is an obligatory STAB attack as well as Roserade's form of recovery (because I couldn't run Leaf Storm with Spikes >.>) I was testing out Weather Ball over Sludge Bomb, when I ran into this situation in which WB probably saved me:
At a Glance:
So yeah, this team may look like another lame Rain Dance team, but hey, give me some credit! I actually made this team during the Abomasnow era, and I struggled for a while. And then the best piece of news happened: Abomasnow got banned! Yay!
Now for the original shit that I really don't care about:
One day I just happened to be sifting through my old teams when I found one that was centred around Rain Dance sweeping and a bunch of supporters, this was the original (which I haven't touched since... maybe when Hippowdon was still around?)
Yup, really random. I decided to just go ahead and say: screw this team, it looks terrible, I'm revamping it! Blastoise, Alakazam, Sableye and Empoleon all immediately got the sack, and I pretty much decided for fits and giggles to run Tornadus + 5 Swift Swimmers. And the 4 new replacements are...
It wasn't after a few battles that I realised: my team had quite the weakness to Electric attacks. Neutrality to attacks don't really do much for Kingdra and Ludicolo, so I swapped Kabutops for Specs Jolteon.
Jolteon was interesting, but my team had problems getting past Chansey, so I decided to try out Specs Manectric. Still the same concept as Jolteon, providing an Electric immunity to the table, but with Switcheroo to completely fuck all over Chansey.
Manectric worked to some extent but he pretty much pissed me off because he failed to secure the KOs that I needed and generally I'm a terrible player so I don't really have the prediction skills to pull off a successful Switcheroo against Chansey. Or maybe I wasn't ballsy enough. Whatever. I decided Manectric just wasn't right for me and I swapped back to Jolteon.
It had been a while afterwards but then prem went on PO and was talking about Pokemon Showdown and even posted the link to PS (if you are reading this prem a big shout out to you for posting that PS link :) I went on PS for a while and did a bit of laddering, even topping the UU ladder at one point (ok that was funny, because the ladder had only 12 people in it :P). I decided that Kingdra was just too much: I had been running a mixed set with Rain Dance/Draco Meteor/Waterfall/Ice Beam and its a matter of "i just can't get it right", plus everyone was using Chansey anyway. So it was like "oh fuck it, everyone runs rain dance with Kingdra, let's try NOT to run rain dance with Kingdra :DDD"
With that, Kabutops makes his grand return. During a battle, Kabutops and Omastar pretty much smashed a team by themselves, in which I coined the term 'Fossils Attack!'. And well, it stayed XD.
Abomasnow literally got banned a day after I changed to Kabutops, but eh :/
Qwilfish also kept dying so I decided to try out Roserade, for Spikes as well as a Grass type resist (yes I know Qwilfish gets Spikes but eh Roserade is pretty cool in her own right plus I need the Grass resist)
Now for the original shit that I really don't care about:
One day I just happened to be sifting through my old teams when I found one that was centred around Rain Dance sweeping and a bunch of supporters, this was the original (which I haven't touched since... maybe when Hippowdon was still around?)
Yup, really random. I decided to just go ahead and say: screw this team, it looks terrible, I'm revamping it! Blastoise, Alakazam, Sableye and Empoleon all immediately got the sack, and I pretty much decided for fits and giggles to run Tornadus + 5 Swift Swimmers. And the 4 new replacements are...
It wasn't after a few battles that I realised: my team had quite the weakness to Electric attacks. Neutrality to attacks don't really do much for Kingdra and Ludicolo, so I swapped Kabutops for Specs Jolteon.
Jolteon was interesting, but my team had problems getting past Chansey, so I decided to try out Specs Manectric. Still the same concept as Jolteon, providing an Electric immunity to the table, but with Switcheroo to completely fuck all over Chansey.
Manectric worked to some extent but he pretty much pissed me off because he failed to secure the KOs that I needed and generally I'm a terrible player so I don't really have the prediction skills to pull off a successful Switcheroo against Chansey. Or maybe I wasn't ballsy enough. Whatever. I decided Manectric just wasn't right for me and I swapped back to Jolteon.
It had been a while afterwards but then prem went on PO and was talking about Pokemon Showdown and even posted the link to PS (if you are reading this prem a big shout out to you for posting that PS link :) I went on PS for a while and did a bit of laddering, even topping the UU ladder at one point (ok that was funny, because the ladder had only 12 people in it :P). I decided that Kingdra was just too much: I had been running a mixed set with Rain Dance/Draco Meteor/Waterfall/Ice Beam and its a matter of "i just can't get it right", plus everyone was using Chansey anyway. So it was like "oh fuck it, everyone runs rain dance with Kingdra, let's try NOT to run rain dance with Kingdra :DDD"
With that, Kabutops makes his grand return. During a battle, Kabutops and Omastar pretty much smashed a team by themselves, in which I coined the term 'Fossils Attack!'. And well, it stayed XD.
Abomasnow literally got banned a day after I changed to Kabutops, but eh :/
Qwilfish also kept dying so I decided to try out Roserade, for Spikes as well as a Grass type resist (yes I know Qwilfish gets Spikes but eh Roserade is pretty cool in her own right plus I need the Grass resist)
Tornadus (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Taunt
- Hurricane
- Focus Blast
Tornadus is usually my lead (when I say usual, I mean 99% of the time). Depending on the lead I usually Taunt or Rain Dance. Tornadus usually dies after like 3 turns into the match, but after rain is up he basically spams Hurricane like a boss.
I'm not really so sure about Modest or Timid here but generally, I don't care. If Tornadus leads (as I said, 99% of the time), he dies very quickly. While I wreck as much havoc as I can. Focus Blast is mostly filler (and because I don't know what else to run on Tornadus, I generally prefer him dying off quickly so I can bring in Omastar/Ludicolo/Kabutops and start smashing things up)
Jolteon (M) @
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Thunder
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Jolteon is one of the most crucial members of my team, bringing an Electric immunity to the table (this is important when 2 of your sweepers are weak to Electric). Jolteon can come in on choiced Electric attacks and scare them off. Earlygame, many people expect Jolteon to just Volt Switch immediately and send in their ground types, only to find their Flygon being smacked by a HP Ice to the face. Jolteon can also work as a great lategame sweeper, and if rain is still up he can spam ridiculously powerful Thunders. I haven't gotten much parahax with Thunder, but more of misshax (when rain isn't up). Shadow Ball is there as a way of beating Deoxys-D (plus it's arguably his best option for coverage, unless you want lolsignalbeam)
Omastar (M) @ White Herb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Grass]
Recently, you might have found me around on either PO, PS or the forums stating how awesome Omastar is. And no, I don't lie. Omastar really is that good. I usually start off immediately by a smash, and if rain is still up Omastar nets a ridiculous 800+ speed and has 700+ special attack, allowing him to easily 1-2HKO the entire metagame (except for
Ludicolo (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 8 HP / 252 SAtk / 248 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Giga Drain
Ludicolo is a pretty cool customer to be honest. His main business is to come in, rape as much as possible, setup rain if its down, continue raping. Surf and Giga Drain are great STABs and Ice Beam is excellent coverage. He generally ends up as my usual midgame sweeper, breaking through as much stuff as possible. I'm considering running Life Orb, but the extra 3 turns of rain granted by Damp Rock have proven to be useful so far.
Kabutops (M) @
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
-
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
-
No, you weren't going bonkers when you saw that last slot. Instead of running Swords Dance I'm running fucking Knock Off, of all things? Yup, Knock Off is there. I rarely use it as Kabutops already smashes a lot of stuff, but Knock Off is really cool for beating Chansey. Rain Dance allows me to continue the rain party, and with Kabutops's decent 80 Speed this isn't that hard to pull off. Stone Edge and Waterfall are pretty obligatory STAB moves. Even without setup, Kabutops has excellent Attack and can wallbreak to pave the way for an Omastar sweep (or sometimes, the other way round, Omastar paving for Ludicolo/Kabutops sweeps).
Roserade (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Rain Dance
- Giga Drain
- Weather Ball
Roserade provides vital Spikes support and a vital Grass resist, which is pretty important imo considering Tornadus just dies after earlygame. Rain Dance allows Roserade to be a Rain Dance supporter, and Giga Drain is an obligatory STAB attack as well as Roserade's form of recovery (because I couldn't run Leaf Storm with Spikes >.>) I was testing out Weather Ball over Sludge Bomb, when I ran into this situation in which WB probably saved me:
Start of turn 3
Omastar used Shell Smash!
Omastar's Defense fell!
Omastar's Sp. Def. fell!
Omastar's Attack sharply rose!
Omastar's Sp. Att. sharply rose!
Omastar's Speed sharply rose!
Omastar restored its stats using White Herb!
The foe's Dusknoir used Sunny Day!
The sunlight turned harsh!
The sunlight is strong!
Start of turn 4
Omastar used Ice Beam!
The foe's Dusknoir lost 56% of its health!
The foe's Dusknoir fainted!
The sunlight is strong!
Dopamine sent out Sawsbuck!
Start of turn 5
The foe's Sawsbuck used Horn Leech!
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Omastar lost 282 HP! (100% of its health)
Omastar fainted!
Omastar had its energy drained!
The foe's Sawsbuck is hurt by its Life Orb!
The sunlight is strong!
TM16LightScreen_8 sent out Roserade!
Start of turn 6
The foe's Sawsbuck used Swords Dance!
The foe's Sawsbuck's Attack sharply rose!
Roserade used Weather Ball!
It's super effective!
The foe's Sawsbuck lost 90% of its health!
The foe's Sawsbuck fainted!
Omastar used Shell Smash!
Omastar's Defense fell!
Omastar's Sp. Def. fell!
Omastar's Attack sharply rose!
Omastar's Sp. Att. sharply rose!
Omastar's Speed sharply rose!
Omastar restored its stats using White Herb!
The foe's Dusknoir used Sunny Day!
The sunlight turned harsh!
The sunlight is strong!
Start of turn 4
Omastar used Ice Beam!
The foe's Dusknoir lost 56% of its health!
The foe's Dusknoir fainted!
The sunlight is strong!
Dopamine sent out Sawsbuck!
Start of turn 5
The foe's Sawsbuck used Horn Leech!
It's super effective!
A critical hit!
Omastar lost 282 HP! (100% of its health)
Omastar fainted!
Omastar had its energy drained!
The foe's Sawsbuck is hurt by its Life Orb!
The sunlight is strong!
TM16LightScreen_8 sent out Roserade!
Start of turn 6
The foe's Sawsbuck used Swords Dance!
The foe's Sawsbuck's Attack sharply rose!
Roserade used Weather Ball!
It's super effective!
The foe's Sawsbuck lost 90% of its health!
The foe's Sawsbuck fainted!
Tornadus (M) @ Damp Rock Trait: Prankster
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Taunt
- Hurricane
- Focus Blast
Jolteon (M) @ Choice Specs
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Thunder
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Omastar (M) @ White Herb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Grass]
Ludicolo (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 8 HP / 252 SAtk / 248 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Giga Drain
Kabutops (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rain Dance
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Knock Off
Roserade (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Rain Dance
- Giga Drain
- Weather Ball
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Taunt
- Hurricane
- Focus Blast
Jolteon (M) @ Choice Specs
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Thunder
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Omastar (M) @ White Herb
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Shell Smash
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Grass]
Ludicolo (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 8 HP / 252 SAtk / 248 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Giga Drain
Kabutops (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rain Dance
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Knock Off
Roserade (M) @ Damp Rock
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Rain Dance
- Giga Drain
- Weather Ball
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