An Offensive RMT with some problems

[Randomdog]

I've been using this team on ladder for a couple of months now and its pulling together fairly well. My only issues are that its difficult to get round special walls as the team is too specially orientated and that the Gengar isn't pulling its weight enough, but more on that later. On with the team.

The Team At A Glance

The Lead

Aerodactyl (M) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Taunt
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Aerial Ace
Standard dactyl leads this team. Taunts most things and almost guarantees rocks. Earthquake is the main attack and Aerial Ace (which may seem like an odd choice) is purely to outspeed and OHKO opposing breloom leads

I have no real problems with how this lead is performing. Its one of my all time favorite leads and I'm happy with it

The Revenge Killer (who wants to retire)

Gengar (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I designed this set as a revenge killer but its not doing so well and often only serves the purpose of weakening things its trying to revenge on. However it does have a few advantages that make me want to keep it

Pros
- It has 3 immunities
- Its my only real answer to DDmence

Cons
- Its not very good at actually killing things
- Jolteon shares 2 of its moves and does them better than it
- Focus blast always misses and theres no alternative move

All in all I would like an alternative which can still deal with DDmence and come in on a fighting attack (which get directed at scizor and heatran a lot)

The 'Bulky' Sweeper

Latias (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Dragon Pulse
- Refresh
I love this thing, its a standard offensive CMlatias which uses Refresh over a secondary attacking move (used to be surf) The usage is simple. It can come in on loads of things with its great defenses and resists, Calm Mind a couple of times and sweep to high heaven. I needed Refresh on this set because it seems that everyone's answer to Latias is either thunderwave or toxic. A few days ago this was a GOOD answer to Latias. Now it isn't.

The Cute Little Puppy... I mean... um... The Support >.>

Heatran (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Explosion
- Dragon Pulse
Fantastic support for Scizor as it takes fire attacks and general utility pokemon. Not difficult to bring in at all and is also great Earthquake bait which lets Latias switch in for free. Its also useful late game where explosion almost guarantees a kill on anything heatran outspeeds. People always under-estimate the power of Fire Blast which can still knock good chunks of health out of things which resist it. Until I know a bit about my opponents team Dragon pulse is the main move I use. It doesn't have the risk of earth power and letting your opponent get an easy mence switch or (even worse) fire blasting an enemy heatran. It also does near guaranteed damage on whatever switches in letting me reveal and damage a heatran counter.

The Star Player

Jolteon (M) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Volt Absorb
EVs: 4 Def/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Shadow Ball
- Baton Pass
This thing is a star player. Specs-Stab-Thunderbolt can 2HKO almost everything and there's next to nothing in OU which can outspeed it unless it uses a scarf. It can also work really well as an early game scout with BP.

The main reason this thing has such sweeping potential is that its falling out of popular usage so people's teams just aren't prepared for it.

The Scizor

Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP/252 Atk/8 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- U-turn
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- Pursuit

Excellent backup sweeper and a Great early game scout. It might be the most OU of OU but It actually fits into this team a lot better than most. Things which hurt it either don't hurt Latias or Heatran allowing them a good switch. Its priority is also incredibly helpful when things like Gengar and Heatran just miss out on a kill.

 

[Objection]

If you want a replacement for Gengar that still deals with DDMence and adds a bit more physical power, you might want to try a CB Weavile:

Weavile @ Choice Band
Jolly nature
252 Attack/252 Speed/6 Sp. Def (not HP - an odd-numbered HP stat allows Weavile to switch in 4 times when SR is in play)
- Night Slash
- Ice Shard
- Brick Break
- Pursuit

Ice Shard allows you to let a Salamence get 6 Dragon Dances and still beat it as it is an OHKO without SR damage. Brick Break is a physical alternative to your Gengar's Focus Blast and can deal with special walls (especially Blissey) with ease. Night Slash gives you a reliable way of hitting other non-scarfed ghost-types. Finally, Pursuit can be used for pseudo-trapping, although this gives set-up sweepers like SD Lucario a free turn to set up. The only thing you lose by using this over Gengar is the ability to come in on a fighting-type attack, which is where this next piece of advice comes in.

Generally speaking, it is a bad idea to have more than one choice user on the same team and it is especially bad to have more than two. Because of this and to patch up the fighting weakness, I would suggest running a Rotom in Jolteon's place. Rotom-C is probably best because without a grass-type move somewhere, you will have huge problems with Swampert. All the same, I'm not sure which set would work best for you, so I'd take a look at these ones and pick one with Leaf Storm on it.

 

[Gasoline]

replace gengar for a good Rotom-A set. i reccomend:

Rotom-A@Choice Scarf
6hp/252Sp.atk/252speed
Modest/Timid Nature.
-Overheat/Leaf Storm
-Thunderbolt
-Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [ICE]

does the same job as gengar just probably better.