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HistoryofStone: I value the early aggression more than the early stealth rock. Stone edge handles Dragonite fine and Flygon isn't particularly threatening. A waterfall or something will hurt it good enough. I'll consider grass knot on Celebi although I haven't had problems with leaf storm...

--------------------------- RT138 --------------------------- Metagross @ Lum Berry Ability: Clear Body EVs: 220 HP/248 Atk/20 Def/20 Spd Adamant nature (+Atk,-SpAtk) - Bullet Punch - Earthquake - Explosion - Meteor Mash --- For this team I started off by choosing a lead. I wanted something...

Consider charge beam on Jolteon. You get a 54% chance for a +1 boost every time you use it. Just use it when it'll force a switch or kill the pokemon that is in, then potentially get much stronger sweeping potential. You'll gain the OHKO on bulkier pokemon. You lose the guaranteed kill on...

ginganinja: I know what a rain team is and how it works. I've made them before and I've seen the perfection of standard rain. This is a "small rain" team. You criticize the team for not devoting itself to rain, but I have a challenge to that. In any rain team the first thing the player does...

Between Azelf and Kingdra the rain won't last long enough to hinder Heatran very often. Heatran won't OHKO a Blissey often with explosion (assuming leftovers), but that's not really that big of an issue. Blissey will have to be in top notch shape, and recover the moment it is hit to not die to...

Really a mixed Kingdra is viable too. It's just a matter of preference. While the mixed Kingdra doesn't have a problem with Blissey, it does have its sweeping potentials cut in a lot of ways compared to the special sweeper set. It relies on outrage and draco meteor a lot, while the special...

Some time back I was playing rain dance teams a lot. It was really fun and effective but then someone perfected the team and I lost interest. However there was still one idea I had that could make rain dance teams different. Instead of the standard three swift swimmers rain dance sweep dream...

Psychic is a bad idea against Machamp. He'll take a chunk of damage and you'll get taken out. Explosion is a superior choice against Machamp, or switching out. Only something like choice specs psychic would be worthwhile against Machamp. You could give leftovers/substitute a try on Heatran...

I've played quite a few games with the team and I'm going to say I like it like it is right now. Psychic and fire blast instead of one or the other and explosion is actually working out really well. I can take a chunk out of a pokemon's health before going down and then that gives me the...

palkia the ultimate being: I might replace fire blast with psychic since it is more powerful and accurate. Calm mind and nasty plot won't be used because Azelf won't sweep very well with priority users around early game and this Azelf is just designed to suicide lead. Rotom-H would use a fire...

A team... ========================================= ========================================== Azelf @ Focus Sash Ability: Levitate EVs: 4 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk) - Stealth Rock - Taunt - Fire Blast - Psychic --- Azelf gets me ahead in a lot of the games I play. True...

Try an Azelf lead with taunt instead or a Metagross lead. Your team has no stealth rock weaknesses so I don't really see Aerodactyl being very necessary at all. Azelf performs the same task most of the time and is nearly always a lot more useful.

I've thought dual screens are not only a strategy that could probably lead to a better kind of team but also something that is really fun to play around with...really really fun. I've been messing around with a gimmicky dual screen team for a bit and I made this one to be slightly more...

Scarf Jirachi does not stop jolly DD Salamence. If you lose the speed tie you lose the game. I've won games like that before. And jolly nature on DD Salamence is a smart move too.

Instead of Torterra try: Breloom @ Toxic Orb / Poison Heal / Adamant 44 HP / 252 Atk / 212 Spd Substitute / Stone Edge / Focus Punch / Spore How it works is you simply send it in against something that isn't going to kill it and spore. Whatever takes the spore will fall to sleep and have to...

This is the best DD Dragon in the game for cleaning up: Salamence @ Life Orb EVs: 232 Atk / 24 SpA / 252 Spd Nature: Naive Dragon Dance / Outrage / Fire Blast / Earthquake If you don't want a cleaner set use bulky DD Dragonite and send it in when... 1) They'll have to switch and 2) They have...

If you want a seriously scary NU sweeper go with Ursaring. With a speed boost from Ninjask Ursaring can rip through pokemon like it's on its way to a box of cereal in someone's refrigerator. Replace Regigigas with Slaking. Slaking is more beastly than Regigigas is and way better on top of...

The fastest way to beat the game is to just blast through it with Infernape and grab the legendary pokemon on the way (assuming you should be getting it). Add 2 HM slaves and you're done. But then that's extremely boring so... Starter / Gyarados / Garchomp / Starmory / Bibrael / X

I never really saw what was so bad about Dugtrio. He can often sweep a team if they don't have any ground immunities or faster/priority pokemon. He can also usually get one revenge kill throughout the game and come back to do a little bit of suicide damage. Plus my team is really good at...

Wow I bet that thing is powerful. I'll give it a try the extra defense does compensate a lot for the speed drop. Thanks for the suggestion; Metagross is a beast I love him. Blissey is a 2HKO with ice beam against Dugtrio and I always scout for ice attacks. If they have a Blissey on their team...