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Since ORAS has been playable all the attention has been on the new megas. This is understandable, especially with beasts like Salamance and Slowbro being so dominant in OU, and even truly terrible pokemon like Beedrill suddenly becoming usable. But the new move tutors will have just as much, if...

I've been using a Specs Politoed, and it completely wreaks the opposition in the same way in gen 6 as it did in gen 5. Its really easy to use, just switch in to a resisted attack or something slower than you and press Hydro Pump. It can be even more effective in some ways, as there is less...

The advantage Mega Manetric has over Jolteon is the movepool of each. Manetric has huge variety, while Jolteon is restricted to electric moves, nerfed HPower, and shadow ball. The only thing wrong with Mega manetric is that it takes up a mega slot.

I like this as a core Azumarill@ Splash plate Huge power Adament 168HP/252Att/4Def/84Speed Bellydrum Aqua Jet Waterfall Playrough Ferrothorn@ leftovers/Rocky Helmet Iron Barbs Relaxed 252HP/48Def/208SpDef Leech seed/TWave protect/Power whip/Bulldoze (For Magnezone on the switch) Stealth rock...

The general theory is to have 3-4 pokemon who can set it up, 2-4 hard hitting sweepers who can take advantage of suddenly being faster than everything, and maybe a pokemon with priority/choice scarf for when there is no Trick room up. The sweepers can also set up TR as well. Configorous and...

I can see some underwhelming threats in standard suddenly becoming Ubers or even banned altogther. Bellydrum ESpeed Linoone seems like a good bet. CB Last resort Ambipom sweeps whole teams as well. Snorlax likes Inverse battles as well, as it can now have a Return/curse/rest/sleeptalk set...

The Sub set should use leftovers, as the recoil damage plus sub plus possible hazards will take its toll. LOrb is the better option on any set without sub.

I run a trick room team, and also use Prygon 2, conkuldur and Reuniculis. They are beasts. I use Fear smeagle as my lead, and it often sweeps 2-3 pokes when the opponent doesn't know what they're doing. NP Configorus is a great fighting counter, and a brilliant abuser and set upper of TR...

I've peaked at number one using my flying team, if you want to look at another team for ideas then I posted it on this site a while ago. While Skarmory is decent at blocking blizzards it is not completely reliable. My skarmory is physical based, and walls nearly all rock attacks, as well as...

I have spent most of my time playing pokemon in 3 tiers; UU, Ubers and Monotype. Recently I got bored of them and decided to have a go in the RU tier. I started doing what I always do and created a stall team. This lasted until I realised two things. First I had no idea what the dominate...

Lioone can learn shadow claw. It depends what you need to beat, ghosts or bulky waters/rocks. My togekiss has max speed/SAtk. You can vary it if you want though, it depends on how much you want to use trick. You could always remove trick and go with a pure attacking set with 4 damaging moves...

You may have problems switching Lioone into choice shadow balls since you have a normal team and your opponent would have to be stupid to do that. One of the best ways to get him in is to set up dual screens. There is also the issue that steel types wall him, and even in non steel type teams...

I tried that, but it only did a half decent job against the ice hits that were causing me problems, and I lost a reliable switch in to stone edges and other physical moves, including Weavile's ice punch. I need Skarmory to be my solid physcal wall.

I love Monotype battles. To try to find a team of one type that can defeat all other type teams is an interesting puzzle. This team has evolved for a while now and has now peaked at #1 on the ladder. It has also won all but one tournament it has been entered in. I chose a flying team because I...

Hippopotas leads need focus sash. Most of the time they don't stay alive long enough to use leftovers. Your registeel does nothing to steel/poisons, but you already know that. PP Stalling must be pretty dull though. I've been experimenting with various pokemon in my uu sandstorm team as well...

That's quite a few good suggestions, thanks guys. I agree that cradily has more firepower than shuckle (what doesn't?), but shuckle is there to mess up the opponent's stratagy which it does really well. Sub punch azumarril is a threat than can cause lots of damage, whenever I see one i just...

I've been playing on Smogen for a while now and tried various teams and Pokemon in that time. Despite lots of attempts I have only managed to create one team that I feel is actually good, which is this uu sandstorm team. After playing around a bit on smogen I noticed that things like Hail and...

This is the first team that i've actually thought about in OU. Apart from the odd experiment I've spent most of my time in UU developing UUsandstorm teams, stall teams, etc. While I have a fair understanding of UU, I have less knowledge of OU, and so would like some advice on my team. It's meant...