Adventure!

Rofellos

Hello everyone and welcome to my exciting beginning into the world of UU!
I will admit I've done nothing but fight in OU and lately although I may have solid teams and deadly pokes, I've been losing interest in the standards lately. I use to post in OU all the time but now I *need a change. I've decided to try something fun that allows me to use some of my favorite pokemon that I wouldn't dare to use in OU. I've done a lot of consideration and sine my playstyle is highly offensive I hope to get some suggestions to get me ready to try the world of UU so let's go look at the team!

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Impish
216hp/252def/40spe
Leftovers
Stealth rock
Leech seed
Earthquake
Wood hammer

Ever since diamond and pearl came out torterra has been my favorite grass type of all time, a spot that competes only with the new ferrothorn. When I looked at the list of uu pokemon and saw torterra a light went off. I use ferro on my ou team why not use the tortoise on my uu team? For the evs I took a little away from speed for hp. The poor guy is slow and I'm ok with that so as a tank I want more health an worry about speed for my other team members. Leech seed and stealth rock are my fav entry hazards. Eq and wood hammer are excellent stab and I wanted some raw power to fight off electric types and wood hammer for milotic especially, I've always hate milotic, and just because I've changed tiers doesn't mean my hatred has changed.

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252hp/252Spdef/4spatk
Bold
Leftovers
Rapid spin
Ice beam
Scald
Roar

Blastoise was included because I wanted a rapid spinner an a phazer. Having blastoise around helps me check other entry hazard guys. Roar was added to rack up hazard damage and to stop setup mons that use swords dance and such. Ice beam lets me handle the inevitable birds that I've seen in this area and scald can give me burn assistance.

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Rash
Life orb
252spatk/252spe/4def
Thunderbolt
Calm mind
Aura sphere
Hidden power ice

Even before I found my way to UU raikou has been my favorite electric legendary. I'm more of a cat person as well and the other two beasts that he forms a legendary trio with look like dogs, maybe entei is a lion? Either way when I used raikou for in game purposes I ran roar and thunderwave to use him for utility and phaze. But after reading so many articles and team builds I decided to use raikou the righty way. What I love best is that although this is a standard set raikou only needs one calm mind to start causing trouble. Hp ice comes natural I suppose but my intentions for it is so that if dugtrio comes sneaking around I won't be entirely helpless! Tbolt was considered with voltswitch for a short time simply because I love uturn effects buy I chose good stab and aura sphere now added for better coverage. I must add though I put the last Evs in defense rather than special defense. I'm thinking a lot of stab eq's and other physical fighters will be aiming to hurt the tiger so this is just my preference. I'm also considering modest over timid bc although I like speed I like raw power more.

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Life orb
252atk/252hp/4spe
V create
Brick break
Trick room
Fusion bolt

Victini was taken under advisement after I realized I did have quite a few slow pokes. This variant works like OU's trick room reuniclus, netting me some time to abuse my slow speed and adding more variety to the team. Especially since victini carries both brick break and fusion bolt for type coverage and v create I have heard is quite monstrous.

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Leftovers
Timid
252spatk/252spe/4hp
Hidden power fighting
Nasty plot
Substitute
Shadow ball

Now here is another chance for me to be excited about UU, mismagius! Along with torterra came a devlish little ghost that I fell in love with. However I've never used her in any competitive standing. But I know enough about her strengths to know if I'm going into UU I won't go without her! Her set has now changed to abuse uxies screens with np and substitute and now acts as my special sweeper!

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Impish
252hp/252def/4spdef
Light clay
Light screen
Heal bell
Reflect
Uturn

After looking at my team I noticed i have a ton of speedy offense. At first this spot belonged to dugtrio. In ou I use pursuit a lot and I like being able to trap unsuspecting pokes. But I decided that the one thing I've always wanted to use in ou was a dual screener but just never found time for it. So now as I begin my adventure into UU I thought it was time to try it. This is a standard set that I like considering uturn is a favorite of mine. Reflect and light screen give me piece of mind to let my tanks and sweepers fight longer. Heal bell is now here for extra insurance agaisnt status problems which I do not want running rampant.

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So there we have it, my first attempt at UU. I really like the fun factor in this format, I know I've always done ou but there's only so many times I can *see a tyranitar before I simply turn off my game and just give up. I feel that even if this team has some fixing to do, I've had more fun building in UU style than in ou. I'm really excited to start battling in this setting so I hope my first team will do well!

Threatlist
Moltres: I know he's top dog here so I need uxie to cut it's power and raikou to smash it.

Donphan: not lettin him spin away my hard work, go torterra!

Spiritomb: he's high on defense but I won't let him scare me. Need to be careful with mismagius and moltres.

Dugtrio: I've done my best to give the team hp ice, grass, and whatnot to punish him for trying to trap.

More threats to come as folks educate me about UU!​
 
Hey,

I'm also pretty new to UU, but I'll try to help you out. First off, you should always be running Scald over Surf on deffensive orientated Pokemon like your Blastoise. With 0 SAtk investment the 5 extra bp is negligble and the 30% burn rate is a great bonus.

I problem I see with your team is the lack of speed. Scarfers and speedy Pokemon like Rotom or Sceptile will give you problems. I can't really think of a suitable replacement to combat this so I'll recommend a simple tweak of replacing Will-O-Wisp with Thunder-Wave.

Your team looks like it might have a hard time against Chansey so I recommend using Trick Room Victini over Moltres. Victini gives you variety when it comes to your attacking arsenal and the Trick Room variant can also remedy your teams lack of speed. Max HP/Atk with a movset of | V-Create | Fusion Bolt | Brick Break | Trick Room | should be fine. (0 Spd IVs).

I don't really see the point of Memento on Uxie when you have U-Turn to free up your sweepers. I think Heal Bell would benifit your team much more as your main walls are vunerable to Toxic Spikes and status is every in UU.

gl!
 
Hmm didn't really want it to be a trick room team but maybe I'm going about tuis the wrong way? I could use a better hazard guy like ferroseed and maybe ass aggron or rhyperior. We both are making our first attempt here and I really don't know enough about UU! I need edjamacation!
 
Looks like a nice team all around!

Firstly, I dont think you have noticed but you have no physical attackers except Torterra which has no Atk EVs. Like Brizznetz said, using a Victini instead of Moltres should fix this problem.

Next, I suggest using this set on Mismagius: Nasty Plot/Shadow Ball/Substitute/HP Fighting. This set takes advantage of Uxie's dual screens allowing Nasty plot to be set up easily. Along with perfect coverage with Ghost and Fighting attacks, Mismagius will have a sub to make sweeping easy.

For Raikou, a set of Calm Mind/Aura Sphere/Thunderbolt/HP Ice gives perfect coverage. Aura Sphere will force you to use a Rash nature but it gives you a great move.

Another possible change is to make Blastoise special defensive since Torterra takes physical hits nicely.

Good luck bro!:):):)
 
Dnite! Hah haven't seen you post in forever but thanks for the advice. But if I use that moveset then don't I lose on a status move? Kinda was hopin for wil o wisp or thunderwave. And isn't aura sphere one of the special event moves for raikou?
 
Haha.....I know I haven't posted in a while.....at least I'm active now unlike some people(*cough*darkerones*cough*). Its mainly cuz of the piles of homework my teachers gave me.

With dual screens, setting up is really easy. You should take advantage of this and use some set-up move. Also, without much defensive investment, Will-o-wisp isn't gonna help much.

And yes, Aura Sphere is an event move.
 
Ugh I know dark didn't even help finish our joint team! And I dunno if I got the event raikou might have to trade for that one. I also considered choice band rhyperior or ferroseed in here. If trick rooms my game rhyperior really does come to mind
 
Adding Trick Room Victini doesn't nessasarily make you team a Trick Room team. It's kind of like Trick Room Reuniclus in OU. It's used to shut down hyper offensive teams and it gives slower teams like your a speed advantage at times without having to give up speed IVs/EVs.

But if you don't like the idea you could use the standard scarf set :)
 
Oh no I do like the idea! But yea I shoudlve realized about reuniclus. I'll have to test it out and make some changes to the thread. But now I'm worried about ground weakness. Maybe I should switch some evs on tort for atk?
 
Ground weakness? You have two Pokemon with Levitate, Torterra for a resist, Raikou has HP Ice and Blastoise who can take most ground attacks. You also have dual screens so even with two ground-weak Pokemon, ground moves are nothing to worry about.
 
Well I keep running it through team builder programs and victini, blastoise, And raikou would take neutral to bad damage although you are right I did use hp ice for a reason. Just anxious about dugtrio working too much like magnezone. Also should mismagius be changed to life orb before I start writing in changes?
 
I guess leftovers could work since I would be using nasty plot but I think I'll use life orb. Torterra provides health with leech seed so the recoil would be worth it for hitting harder.
 
The team looks pretty well rounded. I do notice one thing though, Aura sphere is an event move on Raikou, and the only Nature that event raikou had was I believe, Rash. So either you'd have to change the nature or change the move.
 
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