A Little Bit of Everything OU RMT

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A Little Bit of Everything: At a Glance

This is mainly a bulky offence with a little bit of stall, mainly coming from Zapdos, but also has speed in the form of Gengar, hence, a little bit of everything. The main point though is to counter everything and wear the opponent down. I have gotten a 1420-1500 rating with this team, something like a 1360 CRE. I have a few big weaknesses, coming from pokes that are not used too often, but I feel like if I fix my last pokemon slot, which right now is not working, it will be fine.

Swampert@Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
Nature: Relaxed
EVs: 252 hp 4 atk 252 def
-Earthquake
-Ice Beam
-Stealth Rock
-Protect/Roar

Standard lead Swampert. The main reason why I have this guy over other leads is his ability to come back in after he puts up rocks, or switch out without worries if he gets an unfavorable matchup. Ice beam for Aerodactyles that always taunt me as I proceed to 2HK0 them. EQ is just my standard stab move that can hurt Metagross and Heatran, along with just general damage late game. I like protect over Roar most of the time. It lets me scout leads trying to trick me, or random grass knots/hp grasses on other pokes. The only reason I have roar on there is I dont have any other phazer, which rarely hurts me because the things I usually want to phaze kill Swampert anyway.

Zapdos@Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
Nature: Timid
EVs: 248 hp 76 Spe 184 Spd
-Thunderbolt
-Subsitute
-Roost
-Toxic

Probably my favorite guy on the team. He comes in on something he walls like Scizor, or something he threatens with T bolt, subs on the switch, and then uses toxic behind the sub. From there I can sub a few times wearing them down, and roost after a couple subs. Bulky pokemon that normally wall Zapdos, get destroyed by Toxic. Blissey is forced to switch out, and this thing can kill both Gliscor and Zapdos, which normally would require both HP grass and ice. He usually ends up spreading toxic on 2-3 pokes and is very difficult to KO.

Machamp@Lum Berry
Ability: No Guard
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Hp, 4 spe
-Dynamic Punch
-Payback
-Stone Edge
-Substitute

Another poke with substitute who I play similarly as Zapdos in that it baits his normal counters. Once against, come in on something I scare, sub on the switch, and most likely Rotom/Dusknoir comes (I swear I see rotom 90% of matches, and they always come in on this guy) and I payback him. As he breaks through my sub. If I do not KO, the ghost uses WoW as my lum berry blocks it and gg ghost. Sub is also useful with Dynamic punch because I have a good chance of keeping it as the hurt them self in confusion. Stone Edge to finish of things like Gyarados.

Gengar@Expert Belt
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Hasty
Evs: 52 Atk, 252 Spe, 204 Sp Atk
-Shadow Ball
-Thunder Bolt
-Focus Punch
-Substitute

My final substitute bait user. This thing pretty much kills Ttar every battle, weakened Heatrans, or healthy non scarfed versions, and of course blissey, usually already weakened by Zapdos. Also can revenge kill ghosts, and sometimes get a free sub off them because they try to twave me. Expert Belt is there because I like having Gengar last a little and life orb kills him fast. Also if I get in Focus Punch vs. Softboil Blissey fight, I dont lose anything from it and Blissey just run out of PP.

Vaporeon@Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
Nature: Modest
Evs: 252 def, 252 Spa, 4 Hp
-Surf/Hydro pump
-Hidden Power Electric
-Wish
-Protect

Standard Vaporeon with added offense. I want my nuetral surf to hit hard, and my HP electric to seriously dent other bulky waters. This guy fits very will into my team because my pokes love wish support since they are usually too slow to have a purpose to switch in once dented. Also my main fire defence, countering Heatran perfectly. Works well with Zapdos' toxic as well with wish plus protect stalling against many poisoned pokes, while surfing the steels and poisons that can not be poisoned by my Zapdos. Just an overall solid support poke that can dish out serious damage coming from 110 base Spa.

Scizor@Choice Band
Ability: Technician
Nature: Adamant
Evs: 248 Hp 252 Atk 8 Spe
-U Turn
-Bullet Punch
-Super Power
-Pursuit

I need to find something better here for the last slot. Scizor is in here just because I need a priority move and something to take Draco meteor. Not going to bother explaining the most overused poke+set in the game right now. I used to have Metagross here for the same reasons, Draco meteor+priority+someone to take a trick.

2nd Post I am reserving for threat list.

 

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Bold for very dangerous, italicized for annoying.

Blissey – My pokes are not really bothered by Blissey. Gengar has focus punch, and Zapdos has toxic. Only poke bothered is Vappy in which case I switch to Machamp who can take a status with lum and sets up his sub.

Bronzong – Machamp can switch in, take the attack/hypnosis, sub to block another hypnosis or explosion, then dynamic punch to death. Vappy does fine against it too but does not like hypnosis.

Celebi–He will usually come in on my swampert, where I switch in to Zapdos. Hopefully he did not leech seed me but even so I win in a stall war using sub plus toxic to ruin its day.

Cresselia – Scizor works, so does gengar if hes is lower on hp. Zapdos can kill it as well.

Dusknoir- Usually baited by my Machamp and severely weakened or killed by him, but might cost the machamp. If he gets lucky and gets in for free, then he becomes very annoying. Zapdos is usually my switch in then, to wear it down and Gengar to finish it but I have to predict around it.

Forretress – I usually switch in with Gengar who can put up a sub and block rapid spin, but he does get to set up on me for a couple of turns, but most think an hp fire is coming and switch out. If not then I have to deal with giving him a 3HKO from behind my sub.

Gliscor – Vaporeon easily handles it with surf. Zapdos can out stall it easily unless he is the SD baton passing variant in which case I get screwed. Swampert can ice beam but roost could ruin that for me.

Gyarados - Vappy owns it with out a problem, Zapdos too.

Hippowdon – I have not seen this for a very long time, not sure why. Vappy can kill it, Swampert beats it with ice beam, Zapdos can toxic.

Jirachi – If it is a scarf variant then I can usually out predict it with protect help and switch Scizor to U turn out but somewhat of a problem. Now a CM Jirachi absolutely murders me. Comes in on Zapdos, gets in a calm mind and then I pretty much lose instantly. 6-0s my team. My only hope is swampert EQing it after surviving a psychic and then finishing it off with weak shadow ball. I dont see it often but when I do it is good game.

Rotom-A – Similar to Dusknoir but much easier.

Skarmory – Zapdos, Gengar

Snorlax – A sleep talk curser can be a pain but then those only have one attack, so gengar usually is immune. If it has no sleep talk Swampert roars, and if it has no rest either Zapdos counters.

Suicune – Zapdos can come in and spam t bolt if it is early enough. Swampert can get lucky on sleep talk and phaze, gengar can also spam t bolt.

Swampert – Zapdos toxic.

Tyranitar – Gengar baits it. Zapdos can fair pretty well against it with some luck. Swampert beats it.

Vaporeon – My vappy owns it.

Offensive Threats:

Azelf – Have only seen lead verions of these where I will switch to Scizor and bullet punch/puruit/u turn. If it fire blasts me it means its got 1 hp left and I have to bite the bullet.

Breloom – The focus punch+seed bomb+sub set is ok. I can counter it with gengar after he sleeps someone or if he comes in on gengar, machamp or zapdos they sub to block the spore. Now a sub seeder, destroys me. None of my pokes that are faster than it can beat it. He is just as bad as Jirachi for my team.

Empoleon- I have a couple tbolt running around and vappy helps too.

Gyarados –Vappy, Zapdos.

Heatran – Vappy, machamp can survive its attack and OHKO back.

Infernape – Never faced one before but Vappy can survive anything and OHKO back. Swampert can survive anything but grass knot. Zapdos can kill of a weakened one surviving anything as well, and gengar can revenge kill it.

Jolteon – Non hp grass variants die to swampert, and zapdos can out toxic a specs variant. The sub types dont have a specific counter but I get around them pretty easily.

Latias – Scizor can usually handle most latias sets. Zapdos can as well. Gengar can play the 50-50 game and machamp lures them and paybacks.

Kingdra – DD variants can be phased, and can be dynamic punched. Outrage can be played by scizor till it confuses itself. Vappy walls it but does not hurt it back much, but with LO damage and hp electic it usualy wins.

Lucario – Zapdos finishes of weakened ones. Gengar can finish of weakened SD lukes too. The other types once I know about them dont do much.

Machamp – Gengar hurts it. Zapdos finishes off weakened ones. My own Machamp can compete with it. Usually costs me a poke to take down though.

Magnezone – Scizor gets screwed, but then thats it.

Metagross – If the lead does not have grass knot, I SR and EQ to beat it. If it does thats really sucky. Vaporeon beats them if they dont have thunderpunch, and Zapdos walls most of them. Machamp beats them too.


Salamence - Zapdos makes him outrage where i switch to scizor. Swamper is fine against anything but Draco meteor.

Scizor – He kills my gengar usually but other than that he is not hard to get around and can not do serious damage to my team.

Starmie – Starmie can be annoying. If I am very weakened she can sweep me but Zapdos, and Vaporeon if healthy enough usually do fine, Scizor can kill of weakened ones or just a healthy scizor can u turn to kill it.

Weavile – Scizor

Zapdos – My own Zapdos beats it with toxic.

 

[Sheshi]

I am still trying to comprehend what your team actually is trying to achieve. Its Heavy Offense with Stall? The two don't work that well together.

However just as a note, your Zapdos is a Timid Nature but its EV'd to be Specially Defensive. So I suggest using a Calm Nature and perhaps replacing Toxic with HP Ice.

To the below post: You mean Bulky Offense.

 

[e697]

I think you missed the point of Zapdos. Toxic lets it beat things it normally cant. I do not have problems with dragons, and Gliscor is beat by Toxic anyway. You can look at the smogon entry for Zapdos on why the evs are like that, but I got it from there.

By heavy offence I meant it has bulky pokes that can deal some high damage with their moves. The point is to wear the opponent down with all the counters I have to their pokes and eventually lure a kill to blow a hole through there team to take control.