~Relicanth...the adapting OU terrorizer~
A few months ago, this team brought me to the peak of #27 on PokemonShowdown and no other team has accomplished that for me before and even now, this team still demolishes.
Aaaaaanyways...hey, guys! It's been a REALLY long time since I last made a RMT. Today, I am returning once again to write a new team that I've been a few months ago. I gotta say, I am quite pleased with it. So many months has passed and this team still manages to adapt itself different kinds of Metagame changes. It IS Relicanth after all, and the real life counterpart, the Coelacanth, has survived and adapted itself for millions of years.
ANYWAY! Enough of my pointless talk. Let us get to what I should be saying.
HOW THE TEAM WAS BUILT
The first and most obvious Pokemon will be Relicanth. Because I mean, duh, I wanted to build a team based on Relicanth, so obviously this thing goes first in my team. This is not a Relicanth team if there is no Relicanth. Common sense.
The next thing I'd like to use is a Hippowdon and why? Because I just felt like it and I wanna be a hipster and use him over Tyranitar. To be fully honest, I really have no clue why did I picked him for but now that I think about it, the sand helps raise Relicanth's Special Defense stats up since he is part Rock-Type after all.
I love Choice Band Dragonite. It's such an awesome yet, I love to come in and kill something right away with an Outrage. Plus, I do need a strong priority move, so...why not?
This team needs a water resisting Pokemon and a Steel-Type to take hits, set up hazards and even cripple some offensive Pokemon alongside with taking down strong Water-Types. Ferrothorn seems like the best option a standard player could have.
One water resisting Pokemon ain't enough. And I noticed my team is sort of vulnerable to Fighting-Types, so to keep this check, Latias comes into play. And along with Dragonite with me, this two fighting resisting Pokemon with two different purpose (offensive and defensive) matched really well together.
Lastly, we have Heatran. Another good offensive Steel-Type with a decent bulk. That is just I needed. Plus, I gotta be a bit more versatile. Fire attacks can hit troublesome Steel-Types hard and maybe bluff them too. Not to mention that it'll give me a Water, Grass and Steel core and he'll provide some great additional help which I'll get to it later on it's set.
And now that I am done talking about how the team was built around, let us talk about the sets of each of my Pokemon in this team.
THE SETS
Habataki (Hippowdon) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 12 SDef
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Roar
Hippowdon is now a must need Pokemon. Because of weather, sand is extremely helpful to slowly wear down my foes, this works rather well. He is also my main Pokemon to set up Stealth Rocks. With his mighty physical bulk, it makes tanking physical hits easy and I do not have Ice Fang, which can be quite a problem to a certain threat that I'll talk about later. But that is only because I needed to roar out any sort of Pokemon that can stall me all day and set up. Plus, this team is sort of a semi-offensive stall in a sense if you looked at my team structure. I do not want Tyranitar because he'll just be a Pokemon volunteering to make me lose. Plus, I got a perfect core to handle with threats and cover myself well.
Gouki (Dragonite) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
A Choice Band Dragonite has always been one of my favorite sets. There is no denying the truth that once the threats for Dragonite has been taken down or if my opponent is cornered, this thing will ravage just about a lot of things that come in my way. But Dragonite is usually never used unless Forretress or Ferrothorn is dead or badly weakened. I sometimes also try to send him in before I even send in Hippowdon for the automatic Sandstorm or before my foe sets up any Stealth Rocks in the correct time to preserve my Multiscale ability.
Zeronos (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 200 Def / 52 SDef
Impish Nature
- Leech Seed
- Power Whip
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
Like I said before, I needed something that can resist water attacks and take hits very well. Ferrothorn seems like a really good addition. With this custom EVs I put for my Ferrothorn since the late 2011, it is by far the most effective EV spread on my Ferrothorn I have ever had. If I try the standard spread, I will be more screwed than not. Leech Seed and Power Whip are pretty much self-explanatory since I am pretty sure everyone here knows by now that Ferrothorn needs these two moves the most out of any other. I have Spikes because why should I set up for Stealth Rocks if I already got a Pokemon that can set up that move. So Spikes works well to give my opponent extra damage when coming in. Thunder Wave is used to cripple any incoming or foes staying in against my Ferrothorn. With them crippled, it makes the job for my Dragonite, Heatran and Relicanth a lot more easier than before.
Larc (Latias) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Dragon Pulse
- Roar
- Recover
Latias another really important Pokemon and in fact, she is the most used member in my team. Simply because this cute and a beauty of it's kind can actually take more hits than Ferrothorn. What Ferrothorn and Hippowdon cannot take, Latias can. And with her, she can also phaze away some Pokemon that decide to set up all over my face that can kill my Hippowdon. This set is also a Calm Mind + Dragon Pulse set to actually do some offensive job. I do admit, though, that the Calm Mind + Dragon Pulse moveset can 75% of the time, be totally useless since people will have their annoying Steel-Types such as Jirachi and Ferrothorn to defeat my Latias. Luckily, I just have a perfect counter for that...Heatran. Oh, and and Recovery is pretty self-explanatory, so I do not have the need to explain why is this move learned by my Latias for this team.
Core (Heatran) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Earth Power
This Heatran set...THIS. ALL OF THIS AND EVERY ONE ONE OF THIS!!! Yeah, this original Heatran set of mine...it just never fails to do work for me. All because nobody expect something like that from Heatran. He is also my other Steel-Type that I need to balance out my team a little bit more alongside with having fire attacks to defeat some Pokemon that are hard to kill. I believe that Modest nature is just more than enough to do lots of damage to my foe, so I do not need Timid and I did tried Timid nature before, and it turned out worse than I thought.
Super (Relicanth) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 158 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Double-Edge
There "she" is, the main attention to this team, Relicanth. This baby...I love it. I just simply do. Adamant nature Choice Band Relicanth is just so deadly, it'll likely 2HKO or OHKO anything that isn't bulky Steel-Types that comes in with his signature and popular move, HEAD SMASH!!! But yeah, that is his strongest move and my god, this is crazy, I swear. Waterfall is a pretty standard and the second only reliable STAB move for Relicanth. Earthquake is there to take down Steel-Types if possible and since I am Choice Band, it'll still do quite a dent. There are no other great moves for Relicanth, so Double-Edge just simply works and together with my Rock Head ability, I will not take any sort of recoil damage besides Life Orb damage. If there is something that a Head Smash, Waterfall or Earthquake cannot do, Double-Edge will be my best and safest option to go for. I gave it more special defense EVs because he already have a good enough Physical Defense bulk to begin with and that speed doesn't matter for Relicanth because he is slow as dead in the first place. I gave it some HP EVs just so that I can ensure more bulk and health to stay put and survive for as long as he can. Thanks to Sandstorm, Relicanth can work around with it together. There is also another thing that you should be taking note of: Relicanth is surprisingly my least used Pokemon. I just used it for the LOLs because I wanted to just build a team based on Relicanth and it still worked out well.
Now that you know everything about this team, let us move on to the threats section, shall we?
THREATS
Gengar is the epitome of pain in the butt. He is fast, he deals lots of damage and he is quite versatile. So meaning a Gengar with Shadow Ball + Hidden Power Fire + Focus Blast + Thunderbolt or something like that can end my team or wrecked half of my team before dying. The main solution in dealing against Gengar is by hoping he does not have Hidden Power Fire and Focus Blast will not kill my Ferrothorn or missed his attack, I quickly Thunder Wave it to cripple that dangerous threat so that I can have an easier time to kill it before he continues to dish out even more damage. Heatran is also my other option simply because he is bulky enough to usually take Focus Blast hits from even Life Orb Timid Gengars. If all else fails, this will be the time for Relicanth to come in and do some work. Modest nature Gengar is a confirm ALL OF MY LOLS, so he isn't going to be a trouble for me.
Alakazam is another serious threat here. He is just as versatile, fast and strong as Gengar. Meaning that he can do just as much havoc to my team as Gengar. While not as scary as Gengar, the one set that can make things really bad is if he is carrying Focus Sash. He can just simply Trololol wreck my team like there is no tomorrow. A smart player that has a Pokemon that can resist Extremespeed will take advantage of the sand by switching out Alakazam then into a Pokemon that can take an Extremespeed, then let the Sandstorm break my multiscale and thus, making my life much more harder. Another problem is most of Alakazams can heavily dent or even kill my Dragonite with a single Psychic granted that my Multiscale ability isn't in effect. I have tested this before too and know Alakazam will sure OHKO my Ferrothorn with Focus Blast and 97% of the time sure OHKO my Heatran too. He will most likely OHKO my Relicanth too. Luckily he still falls in down his knees to me because of prediction and the teamwork of Dragonite and Latias.
Conclusion
While it this team has the 2 most deadliest threats I could think of for this team right now, this team still manages to overcome them and climb my way to the top if I actually try. The whole team structure was not build seriously. It was intentionally for the LOLs and to see how will it work out for me just by simply putting whatever I feel like that might somehow work for me and provide me some fun. This team is certainly a weird but yet working wonders. I would highly recommend you try this team out. You will sure have lots of fun with it if you know how to use it properly.
Please do feel free to leave a ratings for it! I really love to hear your words about this team. It makes me feel like heaven...ha ha. Yeah. I do hope you enjoyed reading this RMT and if you do read everything all the way to the bottom right here, I applaud you and thank you very much and I would be even more appreciated if you give a rating for it. This thread will continue to be updated by me if I noticed something missing or needs to be fixed/corrected.
Thanks, and have a nice day, everyone!!! ^_^
Importable:
A few months ago, this team brought me to the peak of #27 on PokemonShowdown and no other team has accomplished that for me before and even now, this team still demolishes.
Aaaaaanyways...hey, guys! It's been a REALLY long time since I last made a RMT. Today, I am returning once again to write a new team that I've been a few months ago. I gotta say, I am quite pleased with it. So many months has passed and this team still manages to adapt itself different kinds of Metagame changes. It IS Relicanth after all, and the real life counterpart, the Coelacanth, has survived and adapted itself for millions of years.
ANYWAY! Enough of my pointless talk. Let us get to what I should be saying.
HOW THE TEAM WAS BUILT
The first and most obvious Pokemon will be Relicanth. Because I mean, duh, I wanted to build a team based on Relicanth, so obviously this thing goes first in my team. This is not a Relicanth team if there is no Relicanth. Common sense.
The next thing I'd like to use is a Hippowdon and why? Because I just felt like it and I wanna be a hipster and use him over Tyranitar. To be fully honest, I really have no clue why did I picked him for but now that I think about it, the sand helps raise Relicanth's Special Defense stats up since he is part Rock-Type after all.
I love Choice Band Dragonite. It's such an awesome yet, I love to come in and kill something right away with an Outrage. Plus, I do need a strong priority move, so...why not?
This team needs a water resisting Pokemon and a Steel-Type to take hits, set up hazards and even cripple some offensive Pokemon alongside with taking down strong Water-Types. Ferrothorn seems like the best option a standard player could have.
One water resisting Pokemon ain't enough. And I noticed my team is sort of vulnerable to Fighting-Types, so to keep this check, Latias comes into play. And along with Dragonite with me, this two fighting resisting Pokemon with two different purpose (offensive and defensive) matched really well together.
Lastly, we have Heatran. Another good offensive Steel-Type with a decent bulk. That is just I needed. Plus, I gotta be a bit more versatile. Fire attacks can hit troublesome Steel-Types hard and maybe bluff them too. Not to mention that it'll give me a Water, Grass and Steel core and he'll provide some great additional help which I'll get to it later on it's set.
And now that I am done talking about how the team was built around, let us talk about the sets of each of my Pokemon in this team.
THE SETS
Habataki (Hippowdon) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 12 SDef
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Roar
Hippowdon is now a must need Pokemon. Because of weather, sand is extremely helpful to slowly wear down my foes, this works rather well. He is also my main Pokemon to set up Stealth Rocks. With his mighty physical bulk, it makes tanking physical hits easy and I do not have Ice Fang, which can be quite a problem to a certain threat that I'll talk about later. But that is only because I needed to roar out any sort of Pokemon that can stall me all day and set up. Plus, this team is sort of a semi-offensive stall in a sense if you looked at my team structure. I do not want Tyranitar because he'll just be a Pokemon volunteering to make me lose. Plus, I got a perfect core to handle with threats and cover myself well.
Gouki (Dragonite) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
A Choice Band Dragonite has always been one of my favorite sets. There is no denying the truth that once the threats for Dragonite has been taken down or if my opponent is cornered, this thing will ravage just about a lot of things that come in my way. But Dragonite is usually never used unless Forretress or Ferrothorn is dead or badly weakened. I sometimes also try to send him in before I even send in Hippowdon for the automatic Sandstorm or before my foe sets up any Stealth Rocks in the correct time to preserve my Multiscale ability.
Zeronos (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 200 Def / 52 SDef
Impish Nature
- Leech Seed
- Power Whip
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
Like I said before, I needed something that can resist water attacks and take hits very well. Ferrothorn seems like a really good addition. With this custom EVs I put for my Ferrothorn since the late 2011, it is by far the most effective EV spread on my Ferrothorn I have ever had. If I try the standard spread, I will be more screwed than not. Leech Seed and Power Whip are pretty much self-explanatory since I am pretty sure everyone here knows by now that Ferrothorn needs these two moves the most out of any other. I have Spikes because why should I set up for Stealth Rocks if I already got a Pokemon that can set up that move. So Spikes works well to give my opponent extra damage when coming in. Thunder Wave is used to cripple any incoming or foes staying in against my Ferrothorn. With them crippled, it makes the job for my Dragonite, Heatran and Relicanth a lot more easier than before.
Larc (Latias) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Dragon Pulse
- Roar
- Recover
Latias another really important Pokemon and in fact, she is the most used member in my team. Simply because this cute and a beauty of it's kind can actually take more hits than Ferrothorn. What Ferrothorn and Hippowdon cannot take, Latias can. And with her, she can also phaze away some Pokemon that decide to set up all over my face that can kill my Hippowdon. This set is also a Calm Mind + Dragon Pulse set to actually do some offensive job. I do admit, though, that the Calm Mind + Dragon Pulse moveset can 75% of the time, be totally useless since people will have their annoying Steel-Types such as Jirachi and Ferrothorn to defeat my Latias. Luckily, I just have a perfect counter for that...Heatran. Oh, and and Recovery is pretty self-explanatory, so I do not have the need to explain why is this move learned by my Latias for this team.
Core (Heatran) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Earth Power
This Heatran set...THIS. ALL OF THIS AND EVERY ONE ONE OF THIS!!! Yeah, this original Heatran set of mine...it just never fails to do work for me. All because nobody expect something like that from Heatran. He is also my other Steel-Type that I need to balance out my team a little bit more alongside with having fire attacks to defeat some Pokemon that are hard to kill. I believe that Modest nature is just more than enough to do lots of damage to my foe, so I do not need Timid and I did tried Timid nature before, and it turned out worse than I thought.
Super (Relicanth) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 158 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Double-Edge
There "she" is, the main attention to this team, Relicanth. This baby...I love it. I just simply do. Adamant nature Choice Band Relicanth is just so deadly, it'll likely 2HKO or OHKO anything that isn't bulky Steel-Types that comes in with his signature and popular move, HEAD SMASH!!! But yeah, that is his strongest move and my god, this is crazy, I swear. Waterfall is a pretty standard and the second only reliable STAB move for Relicanth. Earthquake is there to take down Steel-Types if possible and since I am Choice Band, it'll still do quite a dent. There are no other great moves for Relicanth, so Double-Edge just simply works and together with my Rock Head ability, I will not take any sort of recoil damage besides Life Orb damage. If there is something that a Head Smash, Waterfall or Earthquake cannot do, Double-Edge will be my best and safest option to go for. I gave it more special defense EVs because he already have a good enough Physical Defense bulk to begin with and that speed doesn't matter for Relicanth because he is slow as dead in the first place. I gave it some HP EVs just so that I can ensure more bulk and health to stay put and survive for as long as he can. Thanks to Sandstorm, Relicanth can work around with it together. There is also another thing that you should be taking note of: Relicanth is surprisingly my least used Pokemon. I just used it for the LOLs because I wanted to just build a team based on Relicanth and it still worked out well.
Now that you know everything about this team, let us move on to the threats section, shall we?
THREATS
Gengar is the epitome of pain in the butt. He is fast, he deals lots of damage and he is quite versatile. So meaning a Gengar with Shadow Ball + Hidden Power Fire + Focus Blast + Thunderbolt or something like that can end my team or wrecked half of my team before dying. The main solution in dealing against Gengar is by hoping he does not have Hidden Power Fire and Focus Blast will not kill my Ferrothorn or missed his attack, I quickly Thunder Wave it to cripple that dangerous threat so that I can have an easier time to kill it before he continues to dish out even more damage. Heatran is also my other option simply because he is bulky enough to usually take Focus Blast hits from even Life Orb Timid Gengars. If all else fails, this will be the time for Relicanth to come in and do some work. Modest nature Gengar is a confirm ALL OF MY LOLS, so he isn't going to be a trouble for me.
Alakazam is another serious threat here. He is just as versatile, fast and strong as Gengar. Meaning that he can do just as much havoc to my team as Gengar. While not as scary as Gengar, the one set that can make things really bad is if he is carrying Focus Sash. He can just simply Trololol wreck my team like there is no tomorrow. A smart player that has a Pokemon that can resist Extremespeed will take advantage of the sand by switching out Alakazam then into a Pokemon that can take an Extremespeed, then let the Sandstorm break my multiscale and thus, making my life much more harder. Another problem is most of Alakazams can heavily dent or even kill my Dragonite with a single Psychic granted that my Multiscale ability isn't in effect. I have tested this before too and know Alakazam will sure OHKO my Ferrothorn with Focus Blast and 97% of the time sure OHKO my Heatran too. He will most likely OHKO my Relicanth too. Luckily he still falls in down his knees to me because of prediction and the teamwork of Dragonite and Latias.
Conclusion
While it this team has the 2 most deadliest threats I could think of for this team right now, this team still manages to overcome them and climb my way to the top if I actually try. The whole team structure was not build seriously. It was intentionally for the LOLs and to see how will it work out for me just by simply putting whatever I feel like that might somehow work for me and provide me some fun. This team is certainly a weird but yet working wonders. I would highly recommend you try this team out. You will sure have lots of fun with it if you know how to use it properly.
Please do feel free to leave a ratings for it! I really love to hear your words about this team. It makes me feel like heaven...ha ha. Yeah. I do hope you enjoyed reading this RMT and if you do read everything all the way to the bottom right here, I applaud you and thank you very much and I would be even more appreciated if you give a rating for it. This thread will continue to be updated by me if I noticed something missing or needs to be fixed/corrected.
Thanks, and have a nice day, everyone!!! ^_^
Importable:
Habataki (Hippowdon) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 12 SDef
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Roar
Gouki (Dragonite) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
Zeronos (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 200 Def / 52 SDef
Impish Nature
- Leech Seed
- Power Whip
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
Larc (Latias) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Dragon Pulse
- Roar
- Recover
Core (Heatran) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Earth Power
Super (Relicanth) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 158 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Double-Edge
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 244 Def / 12 SDef
Impish Nature
- Earthquake
- Slack Off
- Stealth Rock
- Roar
Gouki (Dragonite) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Outrage
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
Zeronos (Ferrothorn) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 200 Def / 52 SDef
Impish Nature
- Leech Seed
- Power Whip
- Spikes
- Thunder Wave
Larc (Latias) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Dragon Pulse
- Roar
- Recover
Core (Heatran) (M) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Earth Power
Super (Relicanth) (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 158 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Head Smash
- Waterfall
- Earthquake
- Double-Edge
