Welcome to duel of the fates a duel weather team that I made, for a competition between serebians and smogonites, to which I have won. Not overly fond of duel weather myself but here we are. The little overview might overlap what I have said about the pokemon as it was origonaly written instead of indavidual pokemon comments.
Okay i'll add in a little overview of the team, we have the tradditional core of T/K/L, tyranitar abuses sand to kill keldeo and lando's counters. Sands role is for tyranitar to be specially bulky enough to kill the lati. Latias acts as a check to rain and was chosen over latias to keep up the heavy duty pressure on the enemy, should they switch they eat my hazards from skarmory, squeaking of skarmory, i am using a twist on the sucide set, the 252eves were recomened to me to tank kyurem-b and whirl wind it's sub away or set up custap if he attacks with lo fusion bolt. Now your thinking, why not ghost? Well thats simple, every rapid spinner has got something to dread if it dares spin on suicide skarmory! starmie, dies to tyranitar, fortress can't take the heat from hevay special attacks, tentacruel dare not show his face to latios and donpahn sucks, the dire need for hazards isn't dire for the team as the free kills this teams and damge penalties i'd enforce if they dare try it, who knows maybe they will loose an arm maybe a leg, but hey starfish can regerate their limbs right, so go ahead rapid spin, my tyranitar says hi. Politoed here is my other weather inducer and makes it rain so latias and keldeo can have fun, because lo damage is not fun, but 3 "stab" moves and no redidual damage ontop is and keldeo becomes an insanely powerful choice scarfer in the rain as well. poli has perish song to beat up kyurem-b's who sub, aprrently persh gose through sub so i am told, defensive in nature to last longer as the dominate nature, using toxic to stall here to take advatage of protect and hy pump to pump the opponent. landerous is simple enough, keldeo and tyranitar takes out/wears down his counters, so he sets up and sweeps like a champ and the rain sand means you'll have to guess his set, could the set be sheer force or sand force, either way i'll force you to make a choice you may regret later. tyranitars eves out speed jellificent and retain the bulk of the brute, move set as standard.
skamory@custap berry
timid
0 attack iv
252hp 252speed
spikes
taunt
steal rock
whirlwind
sucide lead skamory with a twist, he has eves in hp in order to sustain an onslot of kyurem-b with life orb fusion bolt. Other than that the spread is straight forward. 0 attack ivs i have no intention of attacking, speed to become a speedy spiker/Sr user of sorts, taunt to taunt enemy leads and whirlwind to get anything that tries to set up on me.
politoed@leaftovers
bold
252 hp 252 defence 6 speed
protect
perish song
hydro pump
toxic
going for defensive politoed here, mainly because sand is here to help tyranitar defeat the threats to keldeo and landerous-i, one thats done it's time to set up rain for latios and keldeo and i want something that will last and check a few threats and thats why politoed is running his standard defensive spread here. perish song is to trap anything that might set up a sub on the toad, hydro pump just hurts really hard and protect toxic is here to stall out in the event i have to, such as an enemy kyurem-b subbing on politoed.
tyranitar@choice band
adamant
100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spd
crunch
pursuit
super power
stone edge
It's ty-ran-it-ar, as a part of the K/T/L core of the team. Choice band is the natural choice as it really dose help the team, how? it destroys threats to keldeo and landerous-i, such as the lati and Cb makes it harder for thing's to switch in and threaten tyranitar with all that raw power it has. Eves are simple, speed eves allow tyranitar to out speed the jellyfish, 252in attack for some raw power and the rest in hp for extra bulk.
keldeo@chocie scarf
timid
252speed 252special defence 6hp
hydro pump
sacred sword
surf
hp ice
Scarf keldeo is the K part of my L/T/K core and he is here to check threats to the team such as terrakion if it tries to set up on tyranitar. The move set is simple enough, hp ice for dragons surf for relibility, hp for raw power and SS. Eves are simple, max speed and special and timid to outspeed a alrge proportion of the metagame with scarf.
landerous@life orb
252special attack 252speed 6hp
timid
focus blast
hp ice
earth power
rock polish
Landerous part of my L/K/T core, pretty standard special attacking rock polish set, once threats to the team are taken care of by the likes of tyranitar, keldeo and latios, land is free to set up and sweep.
latios@life orb
0 attack iv
timid
252special attack 252speed.
psyshock
draco meteor
surf
recover
Latios is my power house against enemy rain teams, had origonaly picked latias for that role but it was suggested the raw power of latios was worth more by melee. So here is the spread and it's here mainly to abuse the rain situation as latios is effectively granted 3 stab attacks under the rain. psyshosck helps against blissey, draco has raw power and surf gets good coverage and the pesudo stab I was talking about. 0 attack ivs cause I don't need them and the rest of the team can handle threats to latios.
Okay i'll add in a little overview of the team, we have the tradditional core of T/K/L, tyranitar abuses sand to kill keldeo and lando's counters. Sands role is for tyranitar to be specially bulky enough to kill the lati. Latias acts as a check to rain and was chosen over latias to keep up the heavy duty pressure on the enemy, should they switch they eat my hazards from skarmory, squeaking of skarmory, i am using a twist on the sucide set, the 252eves were recomened to me to tank kyurem-b and whirl wind it's sub away or set up custap if he attacks with lo fusion bolt. Now your thinking, why not ghost? Well thats simple, every rapid spinner has got something to dread if it dares spin on suicide skarmory! starmie, dies to tyranitar, fortress can't take the heat from hevay special attacks, tentacruel dare not show his face to latios and donpahn sucks, the dire need for hazards isn't dire for the team as the free kills this teams and damge penalties i'd enforce if they dare try it, who knows maybe they will loose an arm maybe a leg, but hey starfish can regerate their limbs right, so go ahead rapid spin, my tyranitar says hi. Politoed here is my other weather inducer and makes it rain so latias and keldeo can have fun, because lo damage is not fun, but 3 "stab" moves and no redidual damage ontop is and keldeo becomes an insanely powerful choice scarfer in the rain as well. poli has perish song to beat up kyurem-b's who sub, aprrently persh gose through sub so i am told, defensive in nature to last longer as the dominate nature, using toxic to stall here to take advatage of protect and hy pump to pump the opponent. landerous is simple enough, keldeo and tyranitar takes out/wears down his counters, so he sets up and sweeps like a champ and the rain sand means you'll have to guess his set, could the set be sheer force or sand force, either way i'll force you to make a choice you may regret later. tyranitars eves out speed jellificent and retain the bulk of the brute, move set as standard.
skamory@custap berry
timid
0 attack iv
252hp 252speed
spikes
taunt
steal rock
whirlwind
sucide lead skamory with a twist, he has eves in hp in order to sustain an onslot of kyurem-b with life orb fusion bolt. Other than that the spread is straight forward. 0 attack ivs i have no intention of attacking, speed to become a speedy spiker/Sr user of sorts, taunt to taunt enemy leads and whirlwind to get anything that tries to set up on me.
politoed@leaftovers
bold
252 hp 252 defence 6 speed
protect
perish song
hydro pump
toxic
going for defensive politoed here, mainly because sand is here to help tyranitar defeat the threats to keldeo and landerous-i, one thats done it's time to set up rain for latios and keldeo and i want something that will last and check a few threats and thats why politoed is running his standard defensive spread here. perish song is to trap anything that might set up a sub on the toad, hydro pump just hurts really hard and protect toxic is here to stall out in the event i have to, such as an enemy kyurem-b subbing on politoed.
tyranitar@choice band
adamant
100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spd
crunch
pursuit
super power
stone edge
It's ty-ran-it-ar, as a part of the K/T/L core of the team. Choice band is the natural choice as it really dose help the team, how? it destroys threats to keldeo and landerous-i, such as the lati and Cb makes it harder for thing's to switch in and threaten tyranitar with all that raw power it has. Eves are simple, speed eves allow tyranitar to out speed the jellyfish, 252in attack for some raw power and the rest in hp for extra bulk.
keldeo@chocie scarf
timid
252speed 252special defence 6hp
hydro pump
sacred sword
surf
hp ice
Scarf keldeo is the K part of my L/T/K core and he is here to check threats to the team such as terrakion if it tries to set up on tyranitar. The move set is simple enough, hp ice for dragons surf for relibility, hp for raw power and SS. Eves are simple, max speed and special and timid to outspeed a alrge proportion of the metagame with scarf.
landerous@life orb
252special attack 252speed 6hp
timid
focus blast
hp ice
earth power
rock polish
Landerous part of my L/K/T core, pretty standard special attacking rock polish set, once threats to the team are taken care of by the likes of tyranitar, keldeo and latios, land is free to set up and sweep.
latios@life orb
0 attack iv
timid
252special attack 252speed.
psyshock
draco meteor
surf
recover
Latios is my power house against enemy rain teams, had origonaly picked latias for that role but it was suggested the raw power of latios was worth more by melee. So here is the spread and it's here mainly to abuse the rain situation as latios is effectively granted 3 stab attacks under the rain. psyshosck helps against blissey, draco has raw power and surf gets good coverage and the pesudo stab I was talking about. 0 attack ivs cause I don't need them and the rest of the team can handle threats to latios.
