A Semi-Noob's RMT

[GaZZuM]

This squad wont really see too much online action (but it will see some), rather being used against my friends IRL

At A Glance:

The Squad

Gengar @ Wide Lens
Levitate
EVs: don't know :/
Nature: Hasty

- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
- Destiny Bond

Sweeper-ish. I realise Hasty isn't great and I don't have the EVs but that's because I evolved it from the Haunter you get via trade early in the game, It still does the business though. Shadow Ball obviously has STAB and eliminate's anything it gets Super Effective over, Thunderbolt gives good type coverage and Focus Blast hits Steels and Rocks HARD. Destiny Bond is the insurance policy, works wonders switching into an Outrage after a Dragonite scores a KO with it. Overall, a solid lead (IMO).

Flygon @ Life Orb
Levitate
EVs: 252 Atk, 252 Sp. Atk
Nature: Naive

- Flamethrower
- Draco Meteor
- U-Turn
- Earthquake

MixGon. Naive is the obvious nature for MixGon, especially when you're looking to sweep and utilise U-Turn. U-Turn works with Draco Meteor which is obviously all about raw power and owning other dragons. Flamethrower increases the team's type coverage (as well as hitting Flygon's big rivals -ice types- hard) and Earthquake gets STAB and does what EQ should.

Weezing @ Black Sludge
Levitate
EVs: 252 Def, 252 HP
Nature: Bold

- Thunderbolt
- Flamethrower
- Will-O-Wisp
- Explosion

The Physical Wall. Will-O-Wisp makes Physical sweepers feel inadequate as well as anyting that may fancy it's chances to wall and hit Physically for average damage (Dusknoir, Skarmory etc.) Flamethrower and Thundebolt feed off Weezing's pretty wide Special movepool and also make it an attacking threat in the right situation. Explosion explodes real nice.

Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Water Absorb
EVs: 188 HP, 252 Def, 68 Sp. Atk
Nature: Bold

- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Wish
- Protect

Wish-Pass/Semi-Wall. More-or-less the standard Vaporeon. Bold nature helps even out Vaporeon's Sp. Defence and Defence to similar levels, allowing it to be more versatile. Surf/Ice Beam is every water type's staple move duet and Protect assures the Wish HP-Gain and counters switched in Leaf Storms.

Lucario @ Life Orb
Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Spe
Nature: Adamant

- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
- ExtremeSpeed
- Stone Edge

SDLuke. Fills a gap in power my Weavile left. Weavile was fine but lacked stopping power. ExtremeSpeed kills opposing sweepers with bad defence after a Swords Dace and Stone Edge hits anything with a weakness like a freight train. Swords Danced Close Combat does the job for STABing and hurting almost anything.

Togekiss @ Leftovers/Lum Berry (undecided)
Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Sp. Def, 252 Sp. Atk, 4 HP/Speed (not final)
Nature: Modest

- Air Slash
- Thunder Wave/Roost
- Aura Sphere
- Nasty Plot

Sweeper/Special Wall. Thunder Wave more-often-than-not will force the switch which is my chance to use a Nasty Plot, otherwise Nasty Plot comes first with Roost obviously incase things get a little heavy. Serene Grace gives Air Slash stupidly excellent Flinching potential, and after a Nasty Plot becomes hard to take for anything without a resistance. Aura Sphere completes the type coverage as well as hitting Rock types for Super Effective.

 

[GaZZuM]

Bumpage

 

[Chileno4Live]

For the Gengar lead, use Focus Sash. It'll help you with Destiny Bond. I think your team looks pretty solid besides that. I'm not sure if MixGon would help, but í'm sure a ScarfGon will as you got the Suprise Factor with you. Use it to kill those Pesky Dragons like Chompy.

 

[Chinese Dood]

For Togekiss, with TW, go with Leftovers, and with Roost, go with Lum. I think that's the best way to go.

I think the team is pretty solid... other than being a bit slow since Flygon has no Speed EVs (Naive with no EVs makes it able to barely outspeed +Speed base 70 speed pokemon only) and Lucario is adamant and isn't extremely fast. Not a huge deal though probably.

 

[Kopakalaka]

I noticed you used 256 EVs. That's not possible to my knowledge. Each stat caps at 255 EVs. 256 would make a stat point difference in the end.

Your Flygon also won't be very fast.

 

[GaZZuM]

yeah my bad, i typed 256 instead of 255 ^_^;

I suppose I COULD have given Flygon more speed but I really wanted to maximise it's damage potential.

In a recent battle I did get outsped quite alot, which was irritating, but most of my team can take 1 or 2 hits so it wasn't as big a disability as I espected.

SDLuke turned out to be quite slow though, even WITH maxed out speed EVs... irritating :/

 

[Xrinix]

You should try to use a Flygon with the Choice scarf set, that will become a revenge killer for your team and resolves its speed problem.

 

[Bourbon]

yeah, tbh, 259 speed (how much your flygon has atm) is pretty lackluster. At least give it 280, 285, or even 290.

 

[bolt.]

Make weezing relaxed for harder hitting explosions.

Togekiss wants roost and thunder wave, so you can hax your opponant for as long as possible and for as many turns in a row as possible.

Gengar would be better with a sash, wide lens is almost pointless without hypnosis. Using an item that only helps out 1 move is a petty bad idea.

You need better ev spreads on gengar, togekiss and flygon. (4 more evs on weezing wouldn't hurt either) Look on the analysis for better spreads.

 

[GaZZuM]

Alright, Gengar's Wide Lens will go for Focus Sash.

bolt, your Togekiss suggestion makes good sense but that will only leave me with 1 attacking option unless you're suggesting I scrap Nasty Plot?