5th Gen OU RMT (Ranked #15 on Pokemon Online)

WDFAmatt

WDFAmatt

Hi guys, so here is my first post on Smogon. I thought it would be good to post a team of some kind, so I decided to post this OU team I've been Using. As far as I know, not many threats in the OU metagame have given me much trouble.
Achieving a ranking of #15 on the PO Smogon server felt really good. I stopped using this team once i got the rank #15 and been playing a lot of UU. I decided to retire this team, and get it out there for other people to use and/or test. Without further ado, here is the team!


Bronzong @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EV's: 252 HP / 88 Atk / 72 Def / 8 SAtk / 88 SDef
Sassy Nature ( + SDef - Spd)
- Stealth Rock
- Hidden Power (Ice)
- Earthquake
- Toxic

I'm using Bronzong as a lead now because not only can it set up stealth rocks, It can take hits on both sides of the spectrum. I can take a couple of Outrages from powerful CB Dragons, mainly Dragonite and Haxorus. Since I needed a pokemon who could take special hits (I got rid of Jirachi), I thought that Bronzong was a viable option as it can hit pretty hard as well as take hits better than Heatran could. Hidden Power Ice is here to hit not only dragons, but other big threats in OU such as Landorus and Air Balloon Excadrill; the latter is then 2HKO'd by EQ. I use Toxic over Gyro Ball because It doesn't provide much better coverage and despite it hitting hard with Bronzongs low speed and STAB, I wanted more status on my team and something to cripple walls or other bulky pokemon. I use the standard tank EV spread which I altered a bit, just to mazimize the defensive and offensive capabilities of Bronzong.

Virizion @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EV's: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+ Spd - SAtk)
- Calm Mind
- Giga Drain
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power (Ice)

So here is Virizion, the Special Sweeper of my team. I changed the set to a special set as I needed something to hurt Gliscor better as it could take any of my attacks and 2HKO with an Ice Fang, but I also needed a Special Sweeper so I could wreck my opponent with Dragonite and Virizion, respectively. This set is standard, but it gets the job done. It gets good coverage, but being incapable of hitting Volcarona for good damage is annoying, and Volc could potentially set up a Quiver Dance or 2, and wreck shop on my team. However, I hardly ever see HP Ground on a Volcarona, so hopefully I should be OK. Giga Drain and Focus Blast are really useful moves nowadays as not only do they get STAB, but Rain Stall has thrived in OU ever since the banning of Excadrill and Thundurus. HP Ice is to hit Dragons and Things like Celebi which is actually pretty threatening now. All in all, Virizion is amazing.

Gliscor @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EV's: 252 / 40 Def / 216 Spd
Impish Nature (+ Def - SAtk)
- Substitute
- Toxic
- Earthquake
- Protect

Due to the fact that Excadrill is an uber on Smogon now, I can use this SubToxic set again safely.
Few sets match this one in terms of pure FFFF factor. With Poison Heal and Protect, Gliscor has the potential to be one of the most annoying and effective Toxic stallers in the game. Plenty of traditional Gliscor counters are vulnerable to poison damage, leaving them helpless against the strategy behind this set.
I Just switch in on a physical attacker and safely set up a Substitute. Common switch-ins like Rotom-W or other bulky Waters will be outsped and poisoned. From that point on, it's basically a matter of wearing them down from Toxic damage. I now run Jolly and 216 Speed EV's to outspeed Jolly Lucario and as long as it doesn't have air balloon, I can EQ it to death. Earthquake is my only attacking move, but it's good against opponents weak to Ground.

Dragonite @ Choice Band
Trait: Multiscale
EV's: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature ( + Atk - SAtk)
- Outrage
- ExtremeSpeed
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch

So I replaced my Latias with a Dragonite because, man, it does a lot of work. It can hit really hard right off the bat, and gets really great coverage as well as a powerful priority move ;). Dragonite can also hand most Rain and Sun teams well. Outrage is the strongest move on this set, 2HKOing nearly everything in the OU Metagame. ExtremeSpeed can be used to pick off frail pokes who may take entry hazard damage as well as a bit of prior damage. Like I said before, Dragonite gets great coverage with EQ and Fire Punch. EQ can check Jirachi's that usually run special walls sets, whilst Fire Punch can OHKO Ferrothorn and 2HKO Skarm after SR damage. One thing to mention is that since most people may use pokemon that set up entry hazards first (Team Preview), Dragonite can work effectively as a lead; Forretress, Ferrothorn, Skarmory, Tyranitar, etc are all common hazard users and Dragonite can deal with the formers by using Fire punch, while the latter is OHKO'd by EQ.

Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Flash Fire
EV's: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature ( + Spd - Atk)
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Dragon Pulse
- Hidden Power (Grass)

Since CB Haxorus and SD Lucario are some of the biggest threats to this team, I finally found a check to these threats in Chice Scarf Heatran. A good thing about Scarfed heatran is that lots of players don't expect it and I calculated that CB Haxorus' Outrage 2HKO's Heatran. Since It's a 2HKO, lots of players will stay in and try to KO Heatran with another Outrage, thus allowing me to Dragon Pulse the Haxorus for the KO (I think that's the case anyway). Overheat can hit hard with a high SAtk stat, Earth Power can hit steel and fire types that are common in the OU Metagame. Dragon pulse is for more coverage and to hit the dragons that dominate the metagame too. HP Grass is to hit Gastrodons, Quagsires, Swamperts, Jellicents, etc for lots of damage and other bulky waters for good damage.

Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EV's: 112 HP / 252 SAtk / 144 Spd
Modest Nature (+ SAtk - Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split

And finally, we have Rotom, the final pokemon on my team. I changed the set to the Standard set as I can take hits nicely and hit back hard with either one of my STAB attacks (I can also get switch advantage with Volt Switch). Will-O-Wisp is to cripply Physical attackers that could injure my team badly; I may use will-o when I predict a switch to something like Dragonite or Haxorus.
Pain Split is to gain my HP back which I tend to use against things such as Chansey or Blissey due to their high HP stat. Hydro Pump hits a lot of stuff in OU for high amounts of damage, such as Fire, Ground and Rock types and some frail attackers that don't like taking hits from powerful moves.

So this is the team guys, I hope you liked it, If so, tell me what your opinions are on it, see if there is anything that I could change, and peace!
NOTE: Threatlist coming soon.
 
You look like you'll have issues with CM Virizion. That can be solved by replacing Substitute with Psyshock on Latias. Otherwise, good team.

This is my primary picture resource. Just copy and paste, or do the little "insert picture" thingy, but I always copy and paste. Hope I helped not just with the team, but with its presentation.
 
Jirachi can deal with CM Virizion pretty well since they usually carry lefties and if i get the paralysis with body slam i can finish virizion off with a couple of iron heads ;)
 
You can run HP Ice without sacrificing one Speed IV.

30/31/30/31/31/31 or 31/30/30/31/31/31 can give you HP 70 and 31 Speed IVs. (Hp/Atk/Def/SpAtk/SpDef/Spd)
 
Nice team here. Although I really think that a substitute / disable Gengar would work very well on this team. SD Lucario actually is pretty annoying and even though Latias is running some heavy defensive evs, it can still run right through you with ice punch. After a boost, ice punch can do tons of damage to Gliscor, close combat can ko Heatran and Jirachi, while extremespeed picks off the rest. Not only does substitute / disable Gengar provide you with a good check to Lucario, but it also gives you the ability to soften up threats such as choice banded Scizor and Jirachi so that Latias will be able to sweep much more easily later in the match. Virizion is a good member for you to run Gengar over, as swords dance Virizion also lures in Scizor and Jirachi so Gengar can fulfill this role while checking Lucario as well. Even though you lose a water resistance, between scarf Rotom-W and Latias, your team handles most drizzle based teams well.

Still pretty Volcarona weak. The easiest fix to this would be to run roar over earth power on Heatran while shifting to a specially defensive spread with leftovers. This will allow you to more reliably check Volcarona as you will be able to roar it out and in the case of last 'mon Volcarona, simply use toxic. Latias really needs a spread of 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe and a timid nature. This allows you to use Latias as another decent switch into calm mind Virizion. Maximum speed is also all around useful as it gives you a decent switch into some other threats such as Infernape and even Terrakion in a pinch. Also, Rotom-W would do really well running hidden power fire over ice. Although hidden power ice hits dragons, its really worth it to have hp fire to prevent Ferrothorn from spiking senselessly all over you. Also, a spread of 112 HP / 252 SpA / 144 Spe and a modest nature is good on Rotom-W as it gives you some good power while still maintaining some degree of bulk. gl.
 
Thanks, I will test all this stuff out. I have yet to run into SD Luc, but Gengar sounds like a good option. Volcarona hasn't really cause this team much trouble, but roar was what I had actually originally used lol. Eventually, I never really used roar for anything, and this team has been rated by Faladran, and he mentioned that using toxic could help, which I ran ever since. Even if CM Virizion is at +3 Special Attack, At +2 Attack with my Virizion I can OHKO with CC. Jirachi Can Check Virizion pretty well, as If it paralyzes with Body Slam, I can hopefully finish off Virizion with 2 Iron Heads. If I get rid of HP Ice, I will have no Ice type moves on my team and those are really necessary for dragons. And I want a decent RK that can take on certain threats. But still all good stuff, will try it out ;)
 
@WDFAmatt: I like your team a lot and would like to try it on single random wifi battles. Jirachi however can't enter random battles so I was wondering who you would chose instead. As a role of special defender I would probably use Gallade.

Something like this, what do you think?
Gallade @ Life Orb
240 Hp/ 40 Atk/216 Sp Def/12 Spd
Carefull
- Bulk Up
- Drain Punch
- Ice Punch
- Shadow Sneak

Also:
- How do you handle a choiced garchomp/haxorus?
- Conkeldurr could cause you trouble i think.

Sorry about all the questions, but I would like to fully understand your team and test it before I actually rate it. It would be stupid to give comment otherwise.
 
ShakeItUp: Hate to disappoint, broham, but since neither are physically based, so both get 2HKO'd by that nasty ass dragon Haxxo. Switching Heatran to a specially defensive set, and changing Jirachi to a physical Zong could solve that problem straight up. And Zong has the added benefit of checking SD Lucario, a Pokemon pointed out earlier that can give you problems. I hope I helped more than ShakeItUp did, that guy is a jerk :D
GLB.
 
just ran some damage calcs, and jirachi can take at least 2 outrages from cb Haxorus. if it gets paralysed by body slam, i can hopefully kill off haxorus with some iron heads and maybe some parafusion hax if i get it ;)
 
First thing, you have 3 choiced pokes. That's not good at all so I'd switch Dragonite to a Dragon Dance varient and then change Rotom to the Standard Variant.
Also I'd make Virizion the Calm Mind Variant so you have a physical and special sweeper to wreck your opponent.
All in all solid team otherwise
Hope I helped :]
 
I'd suggest replacing fire blast on heatran with overheat and flamerthrower with hidden power (grass)

reason: Once you use a move the guy will realise it's choiced, you will have to switch out anyway so you should just use overheat for more power. Also flamethrower purely for lucario is a bit excessive and a waste of a moveslot. hidden power grass can be good on unsuspecting gastrodons/quaggys/swamperts/politoeds/jellicants etc etc coming in on you. If you change gliscors EV's to 252hp/40def/(rest in speed i forgot number) you can outspeed lucario's ice punch so you got nothing to worry about. [jolly nature] although probably wouldn't work as well with your toxic stall set in hindsight.
 
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