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updated to edit Landorus and Vaporeon's movesets, as well as replace hippowdon with BKC's recommended Tyranitar

I get the idea of the Magnezone you suggested, and am I assuming correctly that it should replace Reuniclus? I like the look of it, and the team would very much benefit from the addition of an Electric attacker, thanks for the input! At this point, I think I'll likely replace Reuniclus with...

Hey, Smogon, haven't been on in a while, and after a period of absence, I returned to find Excadrill banished to Ubers! This weekend my college's gaming club is hosting a convention, and some friends of mine and I are looking to host a "challenge the Elite 4" sort of event within it, so I was...

Victory Star only boosts other pokemon's accuracy in doubles, so Tentacruel won't get the boost if you're playing singles, which it looks like you are. Therefore you shouldn't be running Blizzard, and generally Tentacruel gets far better utility out of Scald. That said, if you're trying to go...

Also, if you're going to be using SpecsJolt, you should run a Timid nature, since it's a shame not to capitalize on Jolteon's best trait: it's blistering Speed.

Hydreigon is only in the Dragon egg group, and therefore cannot breed with Smeargle, so it just can't get both moves. Also, I think we're overlooking the fact that, simply, his team isn't a stall team. Curse Golurk is still not a good idea since spinblockers are meant to stay around for a...

If your Landorus and Skarm go down (and they could easily fall to a fast boltbeamer like Starmie if Landorus hasn't gotten up a rock polish), the rest of your team is very vulnerable to being swept by Jolly Excadrill. I'd switch yours from Adamant to Jolly to at best speed tie, since its speed...

Fair call once again, Benlisted. I think, more likely than not, that there wouldn't be a huge difference between the two berries, but that definitely gives Chesto Berry the edge imo. @Adrian: Also, just a quick english issue, "draught" is a different word than "drought". Right now you're saying...

You might get more mileage out of Lum + Rest on Tropius (or you may want to straight up replace Tropius with Exeggutor; I'm pretty sure he's generally a better Harvest abuser). And Golurk is not a safe switch-in for Tyranitar, since most Tyranitar you'll encounter will either just switch if...

Why do you have Rain Dish on your Tentacruel when you're not running Drizzle Politoed? It doesn't make any sense. I know it's meant to be a counter to rain teams, but it's a little silly to assume that it will 6-0 all rain teams, since most teams out there, rain or otherwise, pack at least a...

Aah thanks for the clarification, I've never used it so I wasn't sure. That's irritating, but yeah use Morning Sun over Rest. That's really irritating, it would make Leafeon so much more useful. Maybe Lum Berry Rest Harvest on Tropius?

Generally, the most common way a stall team would deal with subs is through phazing. Also, I'm noticing a dearth of entry hazards on your team. As it stands now, you only have Toxic Spikes which, while good, shouldn't be your only hazard. The way most stall teams function is by stacking hazards...

Okay, a few things about your Heatran: 1) Eruption is only legal with a Quiet nature, since it was only available as an event move and that event Heatran only came with that nature. 2) If you're using a scarf on Heatran you should really be using a speed-boosting nature, such as Timid 3) HP...

using Psycho Boost on Deoxys-D is a really bad idea, to put it bluntly. Firstly, Psychic has historically never been a good mono-attacking type, even with STAB, due to the prevalence of Tyranitar in the metagame, though it may become more useful with the influx of Fighting types. Secondly, using...

Bump. I've updated the team with the suggested Hippowdon, and would love to see what the community thinks of the updated team model.

you don't really need a relaxed nature on Forretress if you're not using Gyro Ball, since its primary use over something like Impish, or in this case, Bold, is to power it up. In this case, since Volt Switch is the only attacking move you're running on it, you should use Bold, since, even though...

If you want to use something that's good for fast STAB special Ice attacks, you would do much better using Froslass. As it is, Cryogonal is not the most offensive pokemon out there, and your use of HP Dark specifically is a bad idea, since Dark is one of the worst Hidden Power types to use...

Okay, so what it's looking like to me is that I'll be running this over Tyranitar: Hippowdon @ Leftovers Impish 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD - Earthquake - Stealth Rock - Slack Off - Roar Though I can acknowledge that Ice Fang would be really solid in the last slot for countering Dragons as well...

@Mode2Xplode: Actually Ferrothorn's Grass type evens out Steel's Ground weakness, but I see what you mean about Ttar and Exca, which is part of why I'm liking Hippowdon to replace Ttar. To everyone: any thoughts on move selection in indefinite slots?

@ginjaninja: That's what I thought. At this point I know that 3 of Hippowdon's moves would be EQ, SR, and Slack Off, but I can't decide between Ice Fang and Roar for the last slot and I can't decide between being physically or specially bulky. Thoughts? @scarfwynaut: At first glance I'd agree...