Recent content by Birrywong

Hey guys, I've been messing around with this team in OU. It's centered around Noivern as an anti-lead. So far I'm finding it has decent switches and counters to a lot of OU threats, and I'm having heaps of fun with it. Just want to know what people who are much better at this game than I am...

I like the idea of dropping a setter and having a couple of pokemon that actually use speed. I think it improves the versatility of the team quite a bit. Keep this topic updated bro. I'll be keen to hear how this does on the ladder.

Just to throw it out there, that was someone else that suggested that. I'm not a big fan of spinning for TR. You guys all raise the very valid point that Talonflame needs it, which to be perfectly honest I didn't even think about. As for swapping gourgeist/tflame for cofag/lando, yea it...

It definitely has potential, but I don't think rapid spin is useful enough for TR teams unless you only ever use it outside of TR. I can honestly say I've never used Forretress though. I played around with a lead Skarmory for a while that wasn't too bad, and effectively would be doing the exact...

I like it! Couple of things though. First off, Reuniclus doesnt have Magic Bounce. It has Magic GUARD. Magic Guard doesn't stop status, it just prevents damage from passive sources (Burns, Poison, Hazards, Weather, Life Orb). If you ever see a smeargle he's still going to spore you in the face...

Talonflame seems a little out of place. Gale Wings means that it doesnt really care that trick room is up as long as it's using brave bird, but with trick room up you effectively make the other 3 moves invalid. I can definitely see it working, but TR is a touch counterproductive for talonflame...

. There isn't really. Snorlax is GOOD, but the way your team works you're better without him. It's like acestriker19 said. Basically this team is nearly optimised as far as TR goes. The only improvements that can be made are effectively just countering specific threats as you need them. In...

Snorlax is a beast, but he's a bit on the niche side because of physical fighting types being so common, and countering him so ridiculously hard. Running resttalk on him over curse the set above is quite nice. You basically rest on the last TR turn and then switch into a setter. Then if you...

Have you thought about running U-turn + speed EVs on him and running him as a fast offensive pivot between TRs? I've been running the EXACT same team you have, but with a gliscor doing that instead of Lando, and it's working pretty well. I expect if Lando was doing it instead it would probably...

Only works on physical attacks, and doesn't continue through switches.

I really like this team. Really REALLY similar to the main one I'm running at the moment. I run cofagrigus instead of Jellicent though, and that would've been the suggestion I gave you as well. Acestriker19's set it really strong, but I've found the HP Fighting nerf has made Will O' Wisp a...

Remember you still need the turn to get sun up before those numbers apply, which is a turn of Trick Room that you're effectively wasting. If you predict a switch and use the freedom to use sunny day, you might as well have used it to predict a coverage move and shoot for a KO. It's the same...

Scrafty being slow is an interesting comment. I assume you mean under trick room? Base 58 speed is well within spec for a TR sweeper. You'll get outsped by super slow pokemon if they are uninvested and running 0 speed IVs, but most of the time people run 31IVs on them anyway, which offsets it...

A Trick room team generally doesn't want more than 3 setters, because you rely a lot on the brute strength of your sweepers. Since mega hera is banned, the mega ampharos suggestion is a good one for a mega. Youre a tad heavy on the physical side as well so it wouldn't hurt to have ampharos in...