All New UU Team Plz RMT

[Ich777ich]

Hey ya'll, my name is Ian and I have used this team for a while on the UU shoddy battle serve and it has done really well for me. Plz tell me whatcha think.
Highest Position on the UU Shoddy Battle Server: 4
An Overview:

Descriptions:
(Bold Moves are changed moves)

Uxie (BrockMyCock)@Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EV's: 252 HP, 32 Def, 224 Sp.Def
Nature: Bold
Moveset:
~Thunder Wave
~Psychic
~Stealth Rock
~U-turn​

Comments/Moveset: This is my lead and Uxie is a really kick ass one. Thunder wave is used over yawn for instant crippling of an opponent. Psychic is for a powerful STAB move that is needed. The only reason why I used Psychic over U-Turn is because it is more powerful. Stealth rock is used the turn after T-wave and a pretty obvius move. I swapped u-turn in for memento because it just gave my team better flow as well as was a reat move for scouting switches and allowing my pokemon free switch-ins.
EV's/Nature: 252 HP is for Bulk, Bold is for better Def. The Sp.Def ev's is for taking on the new spiritomb leads which allow uxie to be 3HKO'd by it's shadow ball.​

Raikou (Wildabeast)@Shuca Berry
Ability: Pressure
EV's: 6 HP, 252 Sp.Atk 252 Speed
Nature: Timid
Moveset:
~Calm Mind
~Thunderbolt
~Hidden Power Ice
~Substitute​

Comments/Moveset: Raikou is the best UU Electric pokemon and one of the best special sweepers in UU. Raikou's base speed and Sp.Atk allow it to do a lot of damage in the UU environmet. Calm mind is for boosting it's sweeping potential. Thunderbolt is for powerful STAB, and HP ice compliments it very well by providing that pseudo Bolt-Beam combo. I used hp ice over grass or fighting because it damages grass types and altaria who can otherwise come in easy on this set if Raikou didn't have it. At first I had Shadow Ball, but this Raikou then became susceptible to status, so Substitute is a great way to protect against it. Plus a SE shadpw ball does about as much as a STAB Thunderbolt, so I switched it. Shuca berry's main purpose is for Dugtrio, and if I CM'd on the switch then I can take the EQ and OHKO back with HP ice.
EV's/Nature: Special sweeping ev spread and timid for speed. Pretty standard.​

Rhyperior (Dosidon)@Life Orb
Ability: Solid Rock
EV's: 6 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Speed
Nature: Jolly
Moveset:
~Rock Polish
~Rock Slide
~Earthquake
~Megahorn​

Comments/Moveset: After Cresselia's bumping up to BL, I felt like Mismagius was kind of holding back my team offensively. So I decided to take it up a notch with a speedy, powerful sweeper. Rock Polish Rhyperior fit this role perfectly, and he takes out a lot of pokemon that team used to have trouble with, such as Fire types (Lacking a 4x Hidden Power), and it also helps take down pokes my team could have trouble with if their counters/checks are gone. Earthquake is a great ass move, hitting anything that doesn't resist it for great damage, and with STAB and a base 140 Atk stat it's a fun move to throw around. Rock Slide I felt was more useful on a RP Rhyperior because of the Flinch rate and how it has better accuracy then Stone Edge, because seriously, nothing is more annoying than having a sweep ended because of a move missing. Megahorn rounds the set out hitting every poke in the game for at least neutral damage and hitting the bulky grass, psychic, and dark walls (Like Tangrowth, Uxie, and Umbreon) for large damage. Though I miss the resistances/immunities Mismagius brought to the team, Rhyperior's ability to drive right through teams and take a couple of hits (Non Water and Grass of course) while doing it made him the better choice.
EV's/Nature: Pretty standard EV's for a RP Rhyperior. Jolly and max Speed allows it to outrun everything in the tier besides Electrode and certain choice scarfers. Max Attack for best sweeping potential and the rest put into HP.​

Azumarill (Pikablu)@Leftovers
Ability: Huge Power
EV's: 252 HP, 248 Atk, 8 Speed
Nature: Admant
Moveset:
~Substitute
~Aqua Jet
~Focus Punch
~Double-Edge​

Comments/Moveset: The Sub puncher Azumarill is one of my favorite pokemon in the entire game because if it can pull off it's strategy it can demolish many pokemon. Come in on something you can kill with aqua jet, but sub the turn you get in so you can keep your sub the next turn (BUT make sure you can take their attack!), then AJ. Now your set with a sub to take on their next pokemon. Focus punch is a very powerful move that makes this set so strong. Double-Edge gives good type coverage with aqua jet, and the reason i used it over ice punch is because then i'm not straight up walled by water types, since focus punch only works if i'm behind a sub. Plus because Azumarill has such high HP it can take the recoil from Double-Edge really well. Overall, Azumarill is a pretty simple pokemon to use, and despite it's simplicity kicks ass.
EV's/Nature: 252 HP is to set up 101 subs, but with Azumarill's good 80 base defenses the subs are still pretty tough for taking on weak normal attacks. 248 Atk is for close to max power and the reaminder dumped into speed. The reason 8 speed is that it allows Azumarill to outrun all 4 Speed Ev'd base 50's. It allows my Azumarill to beat other sub punching azumarill because i'll go second, allowing me to wipe out subs and does not allow them to have a chance to focus punch.​

Meganium (Bronchiosaurus)@Leftovers
Ability:Overgrow
EV's: 252 HP, 16 Atk, 240 Def
Nature: Impish
Moveset:
~Synthesis
~Aromatherapy
~Earthquake
~Seed Bomb​

Comments/Moveset: This pokemon makes a great physical wall with it's good HP and great Defenes. Meganium is a very underrated pokemon that shuld be UU, but that's another story. I decided to change up the Meganium set from suggestions because they sounded more fitting. Synthesis is a great move on a Cleric/wall like Meganium so i added that as a more reliable way of restoring health than leech seed. Also, since my team HATES status, Aromatherapy is an awesome move on Meganium for curing me of any status's I might have encountered. Aromoatherapy allows me to be more reckless and offensive than before because if i get statused I still have Meganium to cure me of that. Meganium makes a great check to certain CM pokemon, like Raikou, Mismagius, and Slowbro. I went with physical attacks over special for taking down these CM pokemon that could otherwise set up on meganium. Seed bomb destroys mismagius's subs and doesn't take much froma boosted shadow ball, seed bomb takes large chuncks out of slowbro, and eq takes out raikou. Without Meganium my team would be very weak to DD feraligatr, but meganium stops it in it's tracks. Seed Bomb is a 2HKO on Feraligatr while a +1 Ice punch fails to 2HKO meganium back, sometimes fails to even 3HKO. Overall, Meganium is just a very strong defensive pokemon that stops a lot of pokemon from sweeping.
EV's/Nature: As mentioned earlier, the ev's allow meganium to not be 2HKO's by DD Feraligatr after +1. The 16 Atk ev's are just for an extra amount of power.​

Blaziken(Bursyamo)@Choice Scarf
Ability:Blaze
EV's: 252 Atk, 4 Def, 252 Speed
Nature: Adamant
Moveset:
~Flare Blitz
~Thunderpunch
~Superpower
~Earthquake​

Comments/Moveset: So yeah, that is the set i am running for this revenge killing Blaziken. My team still needs a revenge killer to take out those faster threats that threaten my team, like alakazam, sceptile, swellow, raikou, mismagius, or anything else. Flare Blitz is for STAB plus does a good amount in CM Cresselia. Superpower is a great move on Blaziken sporting STAB and is a great move for doing a lot of damage to Special walls or CM Raikou. The last two moves are mainly filler because I find myself mainly only using the first two. Earthquake takes out Fire types and Electric types and no recoil damage. Thunderpunch is mainly for a couple of pokes that resist Blaziken's STAB's, like Slowbro, Moltres, and the rare Charizard. I kinda just thought of this set, so any advice for that would be awesome. Blaziken would have been more effective before the tier changes, but with Cress coming down to UU means that this Blaziken will not be as effective as a revenge killer with that should be OU wall coming in on it's attacks. Didnt run a mix set because I didn't want to take away any of it's power. After using this set for some time, I have learned just how kickass this set does. Seriously, this thing either late game sweeps with Flare Blitz ( And when it gets into that last 3rd, Blaze activates and it just is killer). The scarf surprises many people, they might switch in something they shouldn't have, like an alakazam, thinking it can take it. But, sadly, they are wrong and end up dead.
EV's/Moveset: Basically standard, max speed and attack. Decided to run Adamant as I am still outrunning a lot of pokemon with scarf, plus porygon-z is mainly timid so it would outspeed me any way. Rest is put into Defense to take priority attacks better (Left with 1 hp one time so it was good i did that).​

Former team Members:​

The new tier changes astounded me to no end, why would they drop cress and z to UU while moving up two pokemon that worked as great counters against them. These 2 pokemon were awesome on my team, scarfkrow revenge killing very effectively, and Gallade after a SD finishing off teams as well as having a great priority move. It also led to porygon-z to being my special attacker as well as wall breaker over magmortar. I will never forget there service to my team.

Honchkrow and Gallade were removed due to the tier changes, and since then thegame has become much more Speciall attacking. Drapion was my original member in the 6th spot, but was removed due to lackluster speed and his mediocre attack even after a SD, but still did good with his 25% chance snipes. Magmortar did awesome for me, but due to porygon-z being dropped down to UU, he accomplished magmortar's niche better. However, I soon realized that cress was a major threat to my team, so I ran Mismagius. It can set up on cresselia and it is faster. Now with Cress out of the picture, i felt i didn't need Mismagius anymore and felt rock polish rhyperior was a great late game sweeper/early game opener.​

All were great choices and did well for me. *Sheds a tear*.​

So that's my team. Anyways, please tell me whatcha think of it. Thanks!​

UPDATE 3/6/10: Changed Rhyperior for Mismagius in case anyone wants to comment on this new team change.​

 

[iliketurkeybacon]

Nice team. I understand that Shuca Berry will allow Raikou to survive one Earthquake from Dugtrio, but if it switches in on a Thunderbolt, Raikou's Hidden Power Ice usually won't OHKO Dugtrio, meaning that the only way you can kill it is if you have already used Calm Mind once or Dugtrio is holding a Life Orb.

Shuca berry's main purpose is for Dugtrio, but it also allows raikou to CM on an EQ and then fire a boosted attack.

That doesn't really make sense, because Jolly Dugtrio outspeeds Timid Raikou, and since you don't have Substitute, there's no way you can Calm Mind and then attack before Raikou gets KOed, unless your opponent's Dugtrio is Adamant, which is unlikely and not a good thing to rely on.

Since you're already using Earthquake on your Magmortar, you may want to consider HP Grass instead of Water. Earthquake already covers Fire-types, and in UU, all of them have a Defense equal to or lower than their Special Defense. HP Grass allows you to get a super effective hit on Water/Ground types.

You might already know this, but Scope Lens is also a good item choice for Swords Dance Drapion, giving Night Slash an even higher critical hit rate to abuse Sniper with, allowing you to OHKO Venusaur (with the crit) before it uses Earthquake or Sleep Powder on you. Life Orb is fine if you prefer it though.

 

[LoveHate]

Cool team... however I can see Venusaur being problematic. Specifically a jolly max attack and speed Venusaur. This is why he laughs off Raikous attacks and can hit back with earthquake. He can put to sleep Uxie before he can psychic him. He outspeeds Magmortar. Barring a crit Drapion is being put to sleep or just Earthquaked. Azumaril is whipped by power whip and Meganium does laughable damage in return. To fix this I recommend tweaking your magmortar a little bit. Change the nature to Naive with a 26 Atk / 252 Specail Attack / 232 Spe This will allow you to outspeed all plus speed base 80s. This will help against not only Venusuar but likes of Gallade and blaziken.

 

[Ich777ich]

Nice team. I understand that Shuca Berry will allow Raikou to survive one Earthquake from Dugtrio, but if it switches in on a Thunderbolt, Raikou's Hidden Power Ice usually won't OHKO Dugtrio, meaning that the only way you can kill it is if you have already used Calm Mind once or Dugtrio is holding a Life Orb.



That doesn't really make sense, because Jolly Dugtrio outspeeds Timid Raikou, and since you don't have Substitute, there's no way you can Calm Mind and then attack before Raikou gets KOed, unless your opponent's Dugtrio is Adamant, which is unlikely and not a good thing to rely on.

Since you're already using Earthquake on your Magmortar, you may want to consider HP Grass instead of Water. Earthquake already covers Fire-types, and in UU, all of them have a Defense equal to or lower than their Special Defense. HP Grass allows you to get a super effective hit on Water/Ground types.

You might already know this, but Scope Lens is also a good item choice for Swords Dance Drapion, giving Night Slash an even higher critical hit rate to abuse Sniper with, allowing you to OHKO Venusaur (with the crit) before it uses Earthquake or Sleep Powder on you. Life Orb is fine if you prefer it though.

Lol yeah i had no idea what I was thinking when i wrote that about raikou vs. dugtrio. I know dugtrio wins the speed battle and can kill raikou if I don't have a CM boosted HP. It was late when I wrote this and I guess I was a little tired.

I have used scope lens on drapion, however, I found Life Orb to be more conisitent and reliable. A +2 night slash fails to OHKO Slowbro after stealth rock while holding a scope lens, so I just went with consistency, even though the risk might be worth it. Plus, people have told me scope lens i a luck item, even though i think that's pretty gay.

I'll try out the idea for Magmortar because that sounds like it be better. I'll give it some runs on Shoddy for-sure-z's.

Thanks.

Cool team... however I can see Venusaur being problematic. Specifically a jolly max attack and speed Venusaur. This is why he laughs off Raikous attacks and can hit back with earthquake. He can put to sleep Uxie before he can psychic him. He outspeeds Magmortar. Barring a crit Drapion is being put to sleep or just Earthquaked. Azumaril is whipped by power whip and Meganium does laughable damage in return. To fix this I recommend tweaking your magmortar a little bit. Change the nature to Naive with a 26 Atk / 252 Specail Attack / 232 Spe This will allow you to outspeed all plus speed base 80s. This will help against not only Venusuar but likes of Gallade and blaziken.

Thanks for your concern with venusaur, however, I don't know what you mean about magmortar. His nature is Hasty, so he already beats Venusaur with the speed EV's, as well as Gallade and Blaziken. It even beats Modest Moltres. And I ran with the def drop on Magmoratr with hasty to keep his actually pretty good Sp.def still solid.

 

[IronBullet]

Hello
Nice team, Magmortar isn't as bad as it's made out to be.

1.Run HP Grass on Magmortar as bacon said, for better coverage.
2.For Raikou, run Substitute over Shadow Ball. It helps to lessen prediction and a STAB Thunderbolt does almost as much as an SE Shadow Ball anyway. It also protects you from status.
3. Speaking of status, your team hates it, especially Paralysis. Hence I suggest replacing Leech Seed and Sub on Meganium with Synthesis and Aromatherapy. It really needs the recovery as you rely on it to deal with a lot of pokes.
Gl.

 

[Ich777ich]

Yeah I agree with Bacon, and thanks a lot man, i'll be sure to make some changes. I'll post again with the new team.

 

[pokemon]

You dont have a reliable revenge killer. I would recommend slapping a scarf onto Magmortar and making your revenge killer. It has a very diverse movepool so it can surprise many threats. The only thing you would worry about is a CB Aqua Jet from Azumarril, but you could just switch into your own Azumarril and set-up.

 

[Ich777ich]

You dont have a reliable revenge killer. I would recommend slapping a scarf onto Magmortar and making your revenge killer. It has a very diverse movepool so it can surprise many threats. The only thing you would worry about is a CB Aqua Jet from Azumarril, but you could just switch into your own Azumarril and set-up.

I actually do not like using magmortar as revenge killer because of how hard to get in he is, with SR and all. A pokemon like magmortar is much more effective for taking out walls and slower sweepers in one hit. But i know I need a better revenge killer. Any ideas i could use? Like something to replace drapion?

 

[WoOoShoOo!!]

Hi, this team is pretty good. But I'm not going to do a full rate right now. Just something that would certainly get your attention. On Drapion, your using Sniper, means that your going to abuse Critical's. To fully use Sniper I suggest make Drapion hold Scope Lens, it raises the critical hit ratio by one stage. One more thing, I suggest Aqua Tail > Cross Poison. What? It has a lot of power. 90(Aqua Tail) - 105(STAB Cross Poison). Not only it gives you another STAB move, but it also has a high Critical hit Ratio. Afraid of Rhyperior? Hey, you said that your using this guy for late game sweeping. So, Rhyperior should be dead on that part. Raikou carries HP[Ice], Magmortar carries HP[Grass], Azumarril's Focus Punch and Aqua Jet, and Meganium's Seed Bomb. So, yeah... I hope this helps! Good Luck!

 

[Ich777ich]

Hi, this team is pretty good. But I'm not going to do a full rate right now. Just something that would certainly get your attention. On Drapion, your using Sniper, means that your going to abuse Critical's. To fully use Sniper I suggest make Drapion hold Scope Lens, it raises the critical hit ratio by one stage. One more thing, I suggest Aqua Tail > Cross Poison. What? It has a lot of power. 90(Aqua Tail) - 105(STAB Cross Poison). Not only it gives you another STAB move, but it also has a high Critical hit Ratio. Afraid of Rhyperior? Hey, you said that your using this guy for late game sweeping. So, Rhyperior should be dead on that part. Raikou carries HP[Ice], Magmortar carries HP[Grass], Azumarril's Focus Punch and Aqua Jet, and Meganium's Seed Bomb. So, yeah... I hope this helps! Good Luck!

It is a hard decision, just because cross poison does not hit any pokemon supereffectively besides grass types lacking a poison secondary types. But i love the idea of abusing Sniper with cross poison and Scope lens. I made a poll on it just to see how others feel. Thanks for the idea.

 

[Marvin10]

If you are trying to stop the whole jolly max speed max attack Venusaur from wrecking you, try running a moltres over Magmortar, I find it usually works better, and the earthquake from Venusaur will always do 0 % damage to you (a little joke there). Try a Scarfed or Specs set. But otherwise i see it as a good team

 

[Ich777ich]

Thanks for your worry, but Magmortar outspeeds Venusaur with the hasty nature, so I'm not worried about the whole Joly Venusaur thing. Also I'm going to add a couple of things so *bump*(I think that is right).

 

[pokemon]

Sadly Honchkrow and Gallade are BL so they are banned from UU. So maybe try a scarf Blaziken as a revenger. Its got good coverage and very powerful STABs.

 

[Ich777ich]

Sadly Honchkrow and Gallade are BL so they are banned from UU. So maybe try a scarf Blaziken as a revenger. Its got good coverage and very powerful STABs.

Yeah, unfortunately i just realized that. Lol, just like that, my top 2 choices are gone. Well until further testing I'm going to go with Drapion for the time being. Scarf Blaziken would get me some revenge kills, but I'd have to put it at jolly to outspeed scarf Porygon-z and hope that it is modest. I guess I am going to need to put up a couple more choices on it. So, *bump*...i think that is how it works.

 

[pokemon]

Actually I would recommend swapping Magmortar with Porygon-Z. A Sub-Nasty Plot set with Salac Berry or just a plain old Nasty Plot set. Now that P-Z is UU its better than Magmortar. I would recommend the plain old Nasty Plot set. NP, Tri Attack, Dark Pulse, HP fighting. Unresisted coverage and download or adaptability is up to you. Then you would replace Drapiom with a Scarf-Blaziken.

Blaziken@Choice Scarf
Jolly 252 Atk/ 252 Spe/ 4 Hp

Flare Blitz
Superpower
Thunderpunch
Stone Edge/Earthquake


Outspeeds swellow and OHKOs. A very good revenger overall.

 

[Ich777ich]

It's okay, but it doesn't take care of my cress problem, but I will definitely try out the porygon-z. Thanks again man.

@pokemon: Hey man, those choices you recommened are doing great for me so far. I'll change the team again later, but now i'm tired, i'll do it tomorrow morning lol. Thanks again man!
I went 19 and 1 with this team! Freakin awesome!

 

[Olliert]

If you are looking for a good revenge killer, I personally run Scarf Mismagius; the set:

Mismagius @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
- Trick

In my opinion, this is the best choice scarfer in the entire tier and for a number of reasons. Probably the main one is swellow. At the moment, your Blaziken can easily be picked off by a swellow quick attack but mimagius, being immune, outspeeds swellow and kills it with Tbolt. On top of this, Mimagius with a scarf outspeeds almost everything, even things such as Rain Dance sweepers which is my reason for using it over rotom. Mimagius can also act as a sort of Spin Blocker on an offensive team like yours and despite you only having SR this always comes in handy. Finally trick is the other reason i would suggest Missy over Blaziken. Trick allows you to cripple a member of an opposing stall team which you may have difficulty with atm. It also allows Mismagius to not just be a pain whereas all a stall team has to do when blaziken comes in is switch to cress and set up screens or CM or w/e.

Overall, i feel Mismagius will be a much better option over Blaziken. You expressed a problem with cress and despite this by no means being a total fix for it, it certainly helps with not giving cress free turns as blaziken does. Just a note though, if you use mismagius, you have to rely on azumarill to combat houndoom as mismagius can't really revenge kill it like blaziken can due to half of them carrying sucker punch. Hope I helped!

Errm yeah it does raise the number of special attackers on your team but i don't necessarily think that is a bad thing. The fact is that a lot of the threats in UU are now special just like in OU but with physical threats. Building up special threats can also help to take down special walls so another of your sweepers can sweep. It's no good having all your special sweeper take down one special wall to have your final sweeper be physical. Ofcourse you can change porygon z to add more 'balance' to the team as there are a lot of physical threats that are very viable in the tier but considering mismagius is mostly used as a revenge killer anyway, i don't think it really matter. Sorry this reply is so late btw! (this is the reply to the message you sent to me)

 

[Ich777ich]

@seven7xenon- Actually, I tried swapping in mismagius for proygon-z, but since my team doesn't have a major RD weakness, I decided to go with the CM set. Plz tell me whatcha think of that. It has been doing really well for me and I'm at 16th and still moving up. Oh yeah, *bump*. Make that 10th lol. And make that 4th.