Akane's OU Anti-Meta

[AkaneMizuki]

Team At A Glance

Jirachi

@Adamant Nature + Choice Scarf
72 HP/252 Atk/186 Speed
-Iron Head
-U-turn
-Stealth Rocks
-Trick

Jirachi is my all purpose lead. Iron Head is for those epic flinch haxes that stop Aerodactyl, Azelf, and other suicide leads. It also does roughly 33% to Infernape leads. When faced with Metagross or Heatran leads, I usually just set up stealth rocks, and then switch into Swampert to counter. Jirachi also makes for a good mid-game counter vs. Tyranitar or any set up walls such as Crocune.

Latias

@Timid + Choice Scarf
6 HP/252 Sp. Attack/252 Speed
-Dragon Pulse
-Thunderbolt
-Surf
-Trick

My "DD" counter. With timid nature, Latias takes out Salamence after 1 DD, and revenge kills the ones locked into outrage. I opted for Dragon Pulse over Draco Meteor to guarantee a hit (I've had DM miss at VERY bad times) Latias also gets the K.O. with thunderbolt on Gyarados after 1 DD. Surf is there to perform as an Infernape check, and revenge a weakened DD Tyranitar. Trick is for those wall switch ins that block the aforementioned attacks.

Tyranitar

@Hasty Nature + Choice Scarf
4 HP/252 Atk/252 Speed
-Superpower
-Flamethrower
-Pursuit
-Stone Edge

The third scarfer of this party. This Tyranitar set is a mix between, BaitTar and ScarfTar. With Tyranitar outspeeding the majority of his counters, this set ensures that there is a way to OHKO each one, and it can double as a handy revenge killer as well. Flamethrower is mainly for Scizors and Forretress who try to revenge kill or wall Tyranitar respectively. It can also pick off Lucario, 2HKO Breloom and Skarmory. Pursuit is for Gengar and Latias trapping, and occaisionally Rotom depending on whether I am burned from Will-O-Wisp or not. Stone Edge nets a wonderful K.O. on Zapdos and Salamence (revenge kills only). Superpower is mainly there for other Tyranitars or Blissey.

Gyarados

@Jolly Nature + Leftovers
156 HP/90 Atk/20 Def/240 Speed
-Waterfall
-Bounce
-Dragon Dance
-Taunt

This awkward EV set is one of the strong points of this set. It gives that surprise kill on Jolteons that switch in after seeing Leftovers and assuming a slow and bulky Gyarados. Bounce is mainly for Celebi, and dragons that resist waterfall. Taunt is possibly my favorite move on this entire set. It shuts down any Blissey that try to get a t-wave, or phazing Skarmorys, or Wishing Vaporeons, or Flinchhax Togekiss/Jirachi. The possibilities go on and on.

Gengar

@Timid Nature + Expert Belt
4 HP/252 Sp. Atk/252 Speed
-Shadow Ball
-Focus Blast
-HP Fire
-Energy Ball

Gengar's immunities has earned it a rightful spot on this team. Covering Jirachi and Tyranitar's weakness to ground, x4 Fighting weakness to Tyranitar, as well as shaking off weak Grass Knots directed at Swampert. Gengar also makes for a nifty Lucario counter since it is immune to Lucario's ExtremeSpeed while OHKO with HP Fire. Energy Ball's main purpose is to revenge opposing Swampert's that were attempting to Earthquake my Jirachi and Tyranitar. HP Fire is often used for baiting in Scizor.

Swampert

@Relaxed + Leftovers
252 HP/4 Atk/252 Def
-Earthquake
-Ice Beam
-Surf
-Roar

Swampert really watches Jirachi's back. Swampert counters the Metagross and Heatran leads that Jirachi cannot handle. Swampert can also handle DD Salamence with Ice Beam, Tyranitars are stopped by Swampert's threat of an Earthquake. Surf is mostly here for coverage. Roar is perhaps another useful trick Swampert carries. It helps scout potential counters and also reveals enemy Scizors so I can be more cautious before sending the defenseless Latias in.

Thank you for reading, please rate :)!


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[AkaneMizuki]

*bump* anyone?

 

[Plus]

Hello

While I don't particularly see any gaping holes in the team, the fact that your team as a whole can be easily exploited by SR + CB Scizor is pretty important. You have three choice pokemon, a Gengar, and Swampert. All three of those Choice Pokemon can give Scizor an opportunity to break down your team with U-turns, while Gengar and Swampert have to worry about Bullet Punches and U-turns respectively. Gyarados, while dealing with Scizor in theory quite well, is not going to like getting U-turned in the face, while taking SR damage and having to switch back out again. Sub Machamp can come in on Tyranitar and take out at least one member of your team, and can repeatedly do this when you use Tyranitar.

Firstly, is there something you outspeed with 184 evs in speed for adamant jirachi? I'm not too sure, however if not then try running so you hit past 394 speed and throw the rest in HP.

Without changing too much, I would consider using bait tar over scarf tar so you can fake scarf and kill off things much easier. I don't think you should be too concerned about SD Lucario if you have Gengar. Additionally, it hits harder with expert belt and outspeeds most of what you have described in the paragraph, namely most brelooms, skarmory, scizor, and forretress. Most scizor actually will u-turn if you fake the scarf effectively, so tbh this is more effective in getting kills. While you lose out on outspeeding Starmie and Latias and getting them with Pursuit, you have Choice Scarf Jirachi and Latias which do well against them. It's also not like you can't trap with with Bait tar anyways if you can bring it in safely as well. Give bait tar 232 speed, 252 attack, and the rest in Spatk so you outspeed opposing bait tar and get them with Superpower, and run Expert belt on your current set. Also, run Crunch over Stone Edge, as that is more efficient in killing defensive rotom and celebi.

Although Gengar is quite strong, perhaps you should consider running Rotom-h to better deal with Scizor and get a Bullet Punch resist in there. It could also act as your status absorber if you ran a Restalk variant, so it would stay in the game relatively long and dish out burns to threatening sweepers. It doesn't give any weaknesses but rather gains a resistance to Steel, which is pretty nice. For pokemon that Gengar likes to outspeed such as Salamence, you already have Jirachi and Latias who cover most of what your team fears.

Rotom-h @ leftovers
Timid 252 hp / 68 Def / 188 Speed
Thunderbolt / Will o Wisp / Rest / Sleep Talk

This rotom outspeeds standard Adamant Luke, so you won't lose out the Lucario response that you had with gengar. Instead, you can outspeed and Will o Wisp, survive the crunch, and finish it off with Tbolt. Rotom will increase the longevity of your team and will help give you more of a backbone to your team.

Good luck with the team!

 

[AkaneMizuki]

Hmm, Rotom is actually sounding pretty nice atm. I'll try it out and see how well it replaces Gengar. I'll also try out full bait tar. Thanks a lot for the rate

Edit: Going full on bait tar, was well worth the switch, i was getting more K.O.s overall then just a trapper pursuit T-tar. However i found that rotom doesn't really help my team as much as gengar does. I lose out on the HP Fire coverage along with the ability to OHKO swampert. Thnx again for the rate