Introduction
Nice video featuring Strong Fish being strong
Proof of Peak:
Proof of Peak:
Hai everyone, blinkie here with a Doubles RMT. After spamming TR for a while and doing OK with it, I got bored and I also got scared I would get counterteamed. So I decided to give Sand Offense a try because it seemed cool and was less mainstream than Sun and Rain. Eventually with the help of my frens in the Doubles Room on PS I built this team which I used to peak at #16 on the Doubles ladder. Blabla I don't know what to put in an introduction onto teambuilding process
Protip: If you steal this team try not to use it against someone who spams Rain for example I lost to Haruno even after dodging Muddy Water four times
My team started off with Tyranitar and Excadrill to form a Sandspam core. They also share a lot of weaknesses so they have good synergy.
Next I added Mega Diancie because it seemed like a strong mega for Sand and I like spamming spread moves, also Fairy coverage seemed cool.
I added Volcarona because
I added Hitmontop because I thought Fake Out seemed nice and so was Wide Guard and Quick Guard. Also was a pretty splashable mon in general. Nice to have a mon not weak to water as well.
I finally added the strong fish for a water resist. It was also pretty strong, so I put it in the front for the Intimidation factor. I switched Volcarona after Excadrill because having 3 water weak mons in a row seemed cool. I put Diancie in the back so hopefully people don't notice its my mega.
After suggestion from Philosophist, I decided to use Talonflame over Volcarona as it did much of what Volcarona could do while also providing strong priority and providing Quick Guard. I also changed Excadrill from Sash to Life Orb and Quick Guard to Feint.
In Depth
Strong Fish (Gyarados) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 208 Def / 48 Spe
Impish Nature
- Icy Wind
- Waterfall
- Protect
- Taunt
The Strong fish is strong. First of all his Intimidation factor makes the opponents not strong unless their name is Bisharp(or lol Milotic). Icy Wind hits targets like Landoge and Garchomp for stronk damage, and makes them slow as well(Bisharp and Milotic tho). You can also run Thunder Wave here if you're feeling lucky or you have trouble with Tailwind spam. Waterfall is so strong it needs no investment to have a 62.5% chance of OHKOing Blaziken. It is also STAB boosted and makes the fish pretty good at fishing for flinches. Protect is good when people try to use Electric moves on you and Taunt is good at messing up TR and random moves etc. This thing also lols at Landoge, Zard and Swampert, because it is too strong. Did I mention its my only water resist?
Protip: Bring Tailwind + fast Milotic and autowin against this team
Strong Dragon (Tyranitar) @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 192 Atk / 64 SpA
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Rock Slide
- Ice Beam
- Crunch
- Protect
Strong Dragon sets up Sand for the team. Also he is pretty slow so kinda checks TR. Shuca Berry to tank Excadrill EQ better, although maybe I should try Chople as well. Also Sitrus Berry spam is something only firehusky would do. The Special Attack EVs get on OHKO on Landoge or something. Rock Slide is pretty good spread move spam. Crunch is for Aegi cause I lost every time that showed up on my last team. Ice Beam for random mons like Landoge and Garchomp etc. You can run Fire Blast if random stuff like Ferrothorn and Scizor gives the team problems. Not much else to say don't try to leave this thing on Fighting-type moves unless you use Protect etc. You might wanna play safely with him if opponent has Sun and play recklessly with Rain(you autolose to this anyway) or Goodstuffs. I always think this thing is deadweight until Exca wrecks a team and then decide to keep him.
Protip: You can win by bringing a team that looks like Goodstuffs but then after getting rid of TTar use Hail to remove Sand.
Strong Mole (Excadrill) @
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head
- Protect
The Strong Mole can take advantage of the Sand. It is also the
Protip: Don't leave Excadrill in on Scalds even with unbroken Sash because it WILL burn you.
Strong Burd (Talonflame) @ Life Orb
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Naughty Nature
- Brave Bird
- Overheat
- Quick Guard
- Protect
As per Philosophist 's suggestion, I switched Volcarona out for Talonflame. All in all, Talonflame basically did everything Volcarona did but better. Stronk priority Brave Bird can be abused to help against TR and Rain, saving you from mons like Ludicolo and Abomasnow that would otherwise run over this team in their field conditions. Quick Guard also frees up a moveslot in Hitmontop. Overheat is nice for hitting the Steels that Volcarona was hitting like Scizor and co. Pretty helpful mon overall.
Protip: Omastar in rain kinda runs over this team without Hitmontop...
Strong Top (Hitmontop) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Atk / 60 Def / 60 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Wide Guard
- Fake Out
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- Close Combat
So yeah kinda standard set. Pretty helpful
Protip: Quick Guard is outsped by faster Fake Out so yeah when facing Kanga + Talonflame with Volc and Hitmontop don't Quick Guard and think you win.
Strong Rock (Diancie) @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 208 Atk / 48 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Protect
The mega of the team is also strong. Diamond Storm is super spammable and boosts Defense so you actually get really hard to kill. Can someone give me a better EV spread cause Moonblast and Earth Power are weak. Sand also boosts SpD to make it even harder to kill for example it can tank Deo-A Psycho Boost in Sand. Also can easily beat Zard outside of Sand, and Protect makes sure you mega safely. Really stronk mon in general unless Diamond Storm misses. Also Clear Body is actually pretty helpful so you don't get intimidated, and speed tier is really good. Diancie + Volc murders everything not using Muddy Water in rain. Decent answer to Bisharp as Earth Power OHKOs. Also works well as secondary cleaner if Exca dies.
Protip: Run Steel moves on all your mons like random Iron Head Terrakion and Steel Wing Talonflame.
Strong Moth (Volcarona) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 224 HP / 76 Def / 100 SpA / 108 Spe
Modest Nature
- Rage Powder
- Bug Buzz
- Overheat / Heat Wave
- Protect
Credit to Philosophist for suggesting Rage Powder Volcarona. I think its better than Amoonguss because it has offensive presence and isn't shut down by (insert mon with Safety Goggles). It hits Aegislash which is kinda helpful. Bug Buzz is helpful secondary STAB that doesn't drop your SpA, also it saved me in a match with Level 51 Cosmic Power Deo-D by getting a crit on it. Overheat is STAB that is your nuke. Also after using it you should probably switch out or spam RagePowder. Pretty good at killing random mons like Scizor Gene and Ferro. Use Protect when your opponent thinks you will RagePowder and uses Hydro or something on you. EVs do something idek cuz I just stole the set. The best part is when Flame Body burns random mons that try to use Fake Out on you, or Bullet punch on Diancie. Heat Wave as suggested by KyleCole can also be used over Overheat if you want even more spread moves. Unfortunately it lands weaker hits on a single target. However it does have the benefit of not dropping SpA after its use.
Protip: For some reason Rage Powder just doesn't work on Venu so save yourself the pain and Overheat it instead.
Volcarona can still be used on this team, but Talonflame(suggested by Philosophist) does most of what it does better, with access to Quick Guard, priority Brave Bird, and a decently strong Overheat as well. Flame Body and Bug STAB weren't really worth justifying use of Volcarona over Talonflame, so I made the switch.
Conclusion, Replays and Shoutouts
So yeah this is my team feel free to steal modify copypasta etc. You can probs peak higher than I did since I'm kinda bad at doubles. Also I will warn anyone who uses this again that it autoloses to rain so yeah only counterteam someone running Sun. Been fun playing Doubles instead of OU now also Doubles room on PS is gr8. Don't make crucial plays depending on Rock Slide cause you know it will miss. I guess that's the team. Now for shoutouts...
No hide tag this time so I can flood your alerts:
firehusky for being a cool but bad fren
Recreant for encouraging firehusky do do a 1k and what does mah face mean
-Clone- awesome fren(not firehusky style shoutouts)
Aragorn the King because everyone gives you shoutouts and Victim of the Week is cool
boltsandbombers awesome fren
Karxrida awesome cool dude
Celticpride cool fren
Kurona awesome fren
AM cool fren and awesome mod as usual
Philosophist for helping me build the team and being a cool fren
alexwolf cool mod that didn't let me make a Silly Things You've Seen on the Ladder
Jukain awesome fren
Laga Widdly_Scuds farticblaster SpaceBass and qsns for helping me when I was new at doubles
Shoutouts to everyone else in the Doubles Room that I probably forgot about
Shoutouts to random people I haxed to death with flinches
Shoutouts to anyone that wants them
Some replays if you want to see them:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206173232
Game vs #1 player on ladder
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206186074
Try to ignore the chat on this game lol
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206745419
The rating was not that high but featured a kinda interesting squad
Importable
Thanks for taking the time to read this :]
You might wanna read this now
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/mega-gyarados-and-friends-1k-rmt.3528279/
You're welcome firehusky for shameless advertisement
-blinkie
So yeah this is my team feel free to steal modify copypasta etc. You can probs peak higher than I did since I'm kinda bad at doubles. Also I will warn anyone who uses this again that it autoloses to rain so yeah only counterteam someone running Sun. Been fun playing Doubles instead of OU now also Doubles room on PS is gr8. Don't make crucial plays depending on Rock Slide cause you know it will miss. I guess that's the team. Now for shoutouts...
No hide tag this time so I can flood your alerts:
firehusky for being a cool but bad fren
Recreant for encouraging firehusky do do a 1k and what does mah face mean
-Clone- awesome fren(not firehusky style shoutouts)
Aragorn the King because everyone gives you shoutouts and Victim of the Week is cool
boltsandbombers awesome fren
Karxrida awesome cool dude
Celticpride cool fren
Kurona awesome fren
AM cool fren and awesome mod as usual
Philosophist for helping me build the team and being a cool fren
alexwolf cool mod that didn't let me make a Silly Things You've Seen on the Ladder
Jukain awesome fren
Laga Widdly_Scuds farticblaster SpaceBass and qsns for helping me when I was new at doubles
Shoutouts to everyone else in the Doubles Room that I probably forgot about
Shoutouts to random people I haxed to death with flinches
Shoutouts to anyone that wants them
Some replays if you want to see them:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206173232
Game vs #1 player on ladder
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206186074
Try to ignore the chat on this game lol
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/smogondoubles-206745419
The rating was not that high but featured a kinda interesting squad
Importable
Strong Fish (Gyarados) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 208 Def / 48 Spe
Impish Nature
- Icy Wind
- Waterfall
- Protect
- Taunt
Strong Dragon (Tyranitar) @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 192 Atk / 64 SpA
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Rock Slide
- Ice Beam
- Crunch
- Protect
Strong Mole (Excadrill) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head
- Protect
Strong Burd (Talonflame) @ Life Orb
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Naughty Nature
-Brave Bird
-Overheat
-Quick Guard
-Protect
Strong Top (Hitmontop) (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Atk / 60 Def / 60 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Wide Guard
- Fake Out
- Quick Guard
- Close Combat
Strong Rock (Diancie) @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 208 Atk / 48 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Protect
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 208 Def / 48 Spe
Impish Nature
- Icy Wind
- Waterfall
- Protect
- Taunt
Strong Dragon (Tyranitar) @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 192 Atk / 64 SpA
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Rock Slide
- Ice Beam
- Crunch
- Protect
Strong Mole (Excadrill) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Iron Head
- Protect
Strong Burd (Talonflame) @ Life Orb
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Naughty Nature
-Brave Bird
-Overheat
-Quick Guard
-Protect
Strong Top (Hitmontop) (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Atk / 60 Def / 60 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Wide Guard
- Fake Out
- Quick Guard
- Close Combat
Strong Rock (Diancie) @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 208 Atk / 48 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Diamond Storm
- Moonblast
- Earth Power
- Protect
You might wanna read this now
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/mega-gyarados-and-friends-1k-rmt.3528279/
You're welcome firehusky for shameless advertisement
-blinkie
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