Hello guys, this is my second RMT thread, and I'll love to have some help from you!
My lastest team was pretty nice, but I lost too much time/offensive presence setting hazards up, just for a Mandibuzz to come and defog all my work out, in matter of seconds. That's why I decided to go for a really more offensive team, and it's working out. I know the early ladder is really easy, but I went 19-1, and if it wasn't for a Play Rough miss from my Mega Mawile, it'd be 20-0...
Edit: After a lot of misplays (being matched up with better players) I lost a couple of battles, but still, 31-9 and almost 1500
Edit2: After a lot more battles, with a couple of alts, I'm around the 1500 mark, sometimes I go up, sometimes I go down, but always there, between the 1450 and 1500 mark. Currently 40-20 in my main
Edit3: Completed 100 battles. 65-35, a that's the highest I reached, 1600.
Main problems after these battles:
One of the biggest problems to this team is Clefable. That CM Clefable, just rising her defence while destroying half my team with Moonblast/Flamethrower and whenever I do more than 50%, she restores her HP. I was thinking about using Iron Head instead of Fire Fang in my Mawile, but most of the Clefables are faster, and I'd lose a huge offensive presence (love to destroy all stell walls and scizors). I can switch Mawile for Bisharp, but I'll lose a lot of coverage (but I can use another mega, just don't know which).
Other problem for my team is Mega Venusaur. It's counterable, but it usually takes 1 or 2 of my pokemons out. I know I have Greninja with Extrasensory to deal 70%+ damage, but I can't switch in to Giga Drain, that way I need to keep damaging it until it takes my pokemon, switch to my greninja and pray for the Mega V to stay.
The last problem of this team, is not a specific pokemon, but a playstyle. This team gets destroyed by stall team. And since I don't have a defogger, I just get slowly damaged by the constant switch-ins I need to make, and lose. I've tried to use Defog Latios, but the offensive presence greninja brings to the team, is very important, but I can try him again if you guys think it's necessary.
If anyone can see a way to help me with these problems, and I don't care if your way needs to change half the team, as long as it works, I'll use it :)
While reading through this again, I realized I need to make this team more bulky, but I don't know who to switch and how to do it. Any help would be appreaciated :)
Enough talking, let's get to the team:
Rotom-Wash@Chesto Berry
Bold - Levitate
248 HP - 216 Def - 44 Spe
Hydro Pump
Volt Switch
Will-O-Wisp
Rest
The same old Rotom-W ChestoResto set. Well, why is it so overused ? Because it's freaking good. Rotom-W is an amazing physicall wall, that can easily switch-in into almost every physical threat in the game, tank it, burn it and volt-switch the hell out of there. Rotom-W has an amazing typing, having only 2 weakness, and I only need to be really afraid of Mold Breaker Excradill. The EV spread is to maximize bulk, while allowing Rotom-W to outspeed Jolly Azumarills, and the moveset is the (g)old ChestoResto.
Greninja@Life Orb
Timid - Protean
252 SpA - 252 Spe - 4 Att
Hydro Pump
Dark Pulse
Ice Beam
Extrasensory
Greninja is a really nice late game sweeper, with his fast movepool, and pretty huge speed. I'm using LO to go for full power, and with the Protean bonus, LO is a really nice choice for Greninja. All the moves are for coverage, and I'm not using U-Turn because I don't really need it, and I to have the ability to kill the Assault Vest Conkeldurrs that keep showing up every 2 or 3 games is really good. His role in this team is just to be sent in, revenge kill whatever it needs, and get ou, or just keep sweeping if it's possible. He's doing his job pretty well, I've tried others special attackers and they didn't work out as good as Greninja, but maybe was the team I tested them on it.
Garchomp@Choice Scarf
Jolly Naive - Rough Skin
252 Att - 252 Spe - 4 SpA
Earthquake
Outrage
Stone Edge
Iron Head Fire Blast
Garchomp is a machine. He was present in almost every team I made, just because he's so damn good. I've used him with a SD build, then tried a Mega-Garchomp one, used a BandedChomp too, but none of them was able to get so many kills than ScarfChomp gets. The usual Garchomp always gets switched out if any ice type, or a pokemon that might have a ice type switches in, or is revenge killed by any fast special sweeper after he's damaged, but ScarfChomp laughs at Gengars/Greninjas/Alakazams switches in. The only problem of course is the locked move issue, that I need to be aware of, but normally it's something you can go around, and just predict to not waste that turn. His moves are just for pure coverage, EdgeQuake combo sharing no resistances, Iron Head to deal with fairies if necessary, and Outrage for that huge STAB (specially when fairies and stell types are already down). I was using Fire Fang but it only real function was to OHKO Genesect, but i don't think it's worth it, but I'm open to suggestions. The EV spread is the only possible, and I just have to say that I love him, the amount of surprise kills he gets is amazing.
1st edit: Changed Iron Head for Fire Blast, and Jolly for Naive. Iron Head was to deal with fairies but it'd do the same amount or less than EQ/Stone Edge would do to all the fairies in the metagame. As CassiusYT pointed out, this set was totally walled by Skarm/Ferro/Forre and Fire Blast OHKO or 2HKO most of them, while surprising OHKO Scarfed Genesects
Mamoswine@Focus Sash
Landorus-Therian@Leftovers
Jolly Naive - Intimidate
248 HP - 172 Def - 88 Spe
Stealth Rock
Earthquake
Stone Edge HP Ice
U-turn
I was using a Focus Sash Mamoswine and it was good, but not that good. He got the job done, but it was almost always a suicide lead, and playing 5vs6 is not a good thing. As Fried Rhys stated, Landorus-T would be a good replacement, being better than Mamoswine in almost every aspect, while being able to abuse the Intimidate ability and create a little Volt-Turn core with Rotom-W. After the few game I've played, Landorus is a really good, does his job as a pivot and can lay stealth rocks easily too. Only thing I'm not sure are the EV spread, the one I'm using are for more bulk, but I don't if it's the optimal set.
1st edit: I went for HP Ice to deal with those boring Gliscor, because they're being a pain in the ass for my team.
Conkeldurr@Assault Vest
Adamant - Guts
252 Att - 244 SpD - 12 Def
Drain Punch
Mach Punch
Ice Punch
Knock Off
Until a couple of days ago I still hadn't used Conkeldurr, and then I decide to try him. Oh god, he's good. He is extremally bulky, can take everything, even some psychic or flying moves that was supposed to kill him. With his guts ability he eats burns and just loves when someone tries give him some status. His movepool is really nice, with the great recovery from Drain Punch, a priority move to kill weakned foes, Ice Punch to hit dragons and specially Gliscor and the Knock Off to hit ghosts while hitting hard and disabling every Scarf/Band/Leftover users. The EV spread is to maximize both bulks (he gets 229 def and 227 SpD) and the Assault Vest is there to help the SpD get there.
Mawile@Mawilite
Adamant - Intimidate
252 Att - 128 HP - 128 Spe
Play Rough
Sucker Punch
Fire Fang
Swords Dance
Mega-Mawile, oh wow, why haven't I tested you before. I just gave him a try for the first time, today, before building this team, and I'm sad, that I take that long to use him. Whenever Mega-Mawile comes into the field (usually to force a switch or to lower the opposing pokemons attack because of the Intimidadate) and almost every team can get a free SD, and then it's almost gg. If Mawile gets a SD up and has a full HP, very few things can counter him, and in this 20 games I've played with the team, he managed to get like 4 or 5 team sweeps after the SD. The EV spread is the one in the analisys tread, I don't really know what it has this speed, that's why I'm open for suggestions on this lol. And I've been using Knock Off, but I already have Knock Off in the Conkeldurr, already have a dark move for Mawile, that's why I'm going for Fire Fang.
Well, this is my team! I'm open to any kind of suggestion, and will appreciate any kind of help you can offer me.
My lastest team was pretty nice, but I lost too much time/offensive presence setting hazards up, just for a Mandibuzz to come and defog all my work out, in matter of seconds. That's why I decided to go for a really more offensive team, and it's working out. I know the early ladder is really easy, but I went 19-1, and if it wasn't for a Play Rough miss from my Mega Mawile, it'd be 20-0...
Edit: After a lot of misplays (being matched up with better players) I lost a couple of battles, but still, 31-9 and almost 1500
Edit2: After a lot more battles, with a couple of alts, I'm around the 1500 mark, sometimes I go up, sometimes I go down, but always there, between the 1450 and 1500 mark. Currently 40-20 in my main
Edit3: Completed 100 battles. 65-35, a that's the highest I reached, 1600.
Main problems after these battles:
One of the biggest problems to this team is Clefable. That CM Clefable, just rising her defence while destroying half my team with Moonblast/Flamethrower and whenever I do more than 50%, she restores her HP. I was thinking about using Iron Head instead of Fire Fang in my Mawile, but most of the Clefables are faster, and I'd lose a huge offensive presence (love to destroy all stell walls and scizors). I can switch Mawile for Bisharp, but I'll lose a lot of coverage (but I can use another mega, just don't know which).
Other problem for my team is Mega Venusaur. It's counterable, but it usually takes 1 or 2 of my pokemons out. I know I have Greninja with Extrasensory to deal 70%+ damage, but I can't switch in to Giga Drain, that way I need to keep damaging it until it takes my pokemon, switch to my greninja and pray for the Mega V to stay.
The last problem of this team, is not a specific pokemon, but a playstyle. This team gets destroyed by stall team. And since I don't have a defogger, I just get slowly damaged by the constant switch-ins I need to make, and lose. I've tried to use Defog Latios, but the offensive presence greninja brings to the team, is very important, but I can try him again if you guys think it's necessary.
If anyone can see a way to help me with these problems, and I don't care if your way needs to change half the team, as long as it works, I'll use it :)
While reading through this again, I realized I need to make this team more bulky, but I don't know who to switch and how to do it. Any help would be appreaciated :)
Enough talking, let's get to the team:
Rotom-Wash@Chesto Berry
Bold - Levitate
248 HP - 216 Def - 44 Spe
Hydro Pump
Volt Switch
Will-O-Wisp
Rest
The same old Rotom-W ChestoResto set. Well, why is it so overused ? Because it's freaking good. Rotom-W is an amazing physicall wall, that can easily switch-in into almost every physical threat in the game, tank it, burn it and volt-switch the hell out of there. Rotom-W has an amazing typing, having only 2 weakness, and I only need to be really afraid of Mold Breaker Excradill. The EV spread is to maximize bulk, while allowing Rotom-W to outspeed Jolly Azumarills, and the moveset is the (g)old ChestoResto.
Greninja@Life Orb
Timid - Protean
252 SpA - 252 Spe - 4 Att
Hydro Pump
Dark Pulse
Ice Beam
Extrasensory
Greninja is a really nice late game sweeper, with his fast movepool, and pretty huge speed. I'm using LO to go for full power, and with the Protean bonus, LO is a really nice choice for Greninja. All the moves are for coverage, and I'm not using U-Turn because I don't really need it, and I to have the ability to kill the Assault Vest Conkeldurrs that keep showing up every 2 or 3 games is really good. His role in this team is just to be sent in, revenge kill whatever it needs, and get ou, or just keep sweeping if it's possible. He's doing his job pretty well, I've tried others special attackers and they didn't work out as good as Greninja, but maybe was the team I tested them on it.
Garchomp@Choice Scarf
252 Att - 252 Spe - 4 SpA
Earthquake
Outrage
Stone Edge
Garchomp is a machine. He was present in almost every team I made, just because he's so damn good. I've used him with a SD build, then tried a Mega-Garchomp one, used a BandedChomp too, but none of them was able to get so many kills than ScarfChomp gets. The usual Garchomp always gets switched out if any ice type, or a pokemon that might have a ice type switches in, or is revenge killed by any fast special sweeper after he's damaged, but ScarfChomp laughs at Gengars/Greninjas/Alakazams switches in. The only problem of course is the locked move issue, that I need to be aware of, but normally it's something you can go around, and just predict to not waste that turn. His moves are just for pure coverage, EdgeQuake combo sharing no resistances, Iron Head to deal with fairies if necessary, and Outrage for that huge STAB (specially when fairies and stell types are already down). I was using Fire Fang but it only real function was to OHKO Genesect, but i don't think it's worth it, but I'm open to suggestions. The EV spread is the only possible, and I just have to say that I love him, the amount of surprise kills he gets is amazing.
1st edit: Changed Iron Head for Fire Blast, and Jolly for Naive. Iron Head was to deal with fairies but it'd do the same amount or less than EQ/Stone Edge would do to all the fairies in the metagame. As CassiusYT pointed out, this set was totally walled by Skarm/Ferro/Forre and Fire Blast OHKO or 2HKO most of them, while surprising OHKO Scarfed Genesects
Landorus-Therian@Leftovers
248 HP - 172 Def - 88 Spe
Stealth Rock
Earthquake
U-turn
I was using a Focus Sash Mamoswine and it was good, but not that good. He got the job done, but it was almost always a suicide lead, and playing 5vs6 is not a good thing. As Fried Rhys stated, Landorus-T would be a good replacement, being better than Mamoswine in almost every aspect, while being able to abuse the Intimidate ability and create a little Volt-Turn core with Rotom-W. After the few game I've played, Landorus is a really good, does his job as a pivot and can lay stealth rocks easily too. Only thing I'm not sure are the EV spread, the one I'm using are for more bulk, but I don't if it's the optimal set.
1st edit: I went for HP Ice to deal with those boring Gliscor, because they're being a pain in the ass for my team.
Conkeldurr@Assault Vest
Adamant - Guts
252 Att - 244 SpD - 12 Def
Drain Punch
Mach Punch
Ice Punch
Knock Off
Until a couple of days ago I still hadn't used Conkeldurr, and then I decide to try him. Oh god, he's good. He is extremally bulky, can take everything, even some psychic or flying moves that was supposed to kill him. With his guts ability he eats burns and just loves when someone tries give him some status. His movepool is really nice, with the great recovery from Drain Punch, a priority move to kill weakned foes, Ice Punch to hit dragons and specially Gliscor and the Knock Off to hit ghosts while hitting hard and disabling every Scarf/Band/Leftover users. The EV spread is to maximize both bulks (he gets 229 def and 227 SpD) and the Assault Vest is there to help the SpD get there.
Mawile@Mawilite
Adamant - Intimidate
252 Att - 128 HP - 128 Spe
Play Rough
Sucker Punch
Fire Fang
Swords Dance
Mega-Mawile, oh wow, why haven't I tested you before. I just gave him a try for the first time, today, before building this team, and I'm sad, that I take that long to use him. Whenever Mega-Mawile comes into the field (usually to force a switch or to lower the opposing pokemons attack because of the Intimidadate) and almost every team can get a free SD, and then it's almost gg. If Mawile gets a SD up and has a full HP, very few things can counter him, and in this 20 games I've played with the team, he managed to get like 4 or 5 team sweeps after the SD. The EV spread is the one in the analisys tread, I don't really know what it has this speed, that's why I'm open for suggestions on this lol. And I've been using Knock Off, but I already have Knock Off in the Conkeldurr, already have a dark move for Mawile, that's why I'm going for Fire Fang.
Well, this is my team! I'm open to any kind of suggestion, and will appreciate any kind of help you can offer me.
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