Another OU Rain Team (Featuring Thundurus-T)

Another OU Rain Team (Featuring Thundurus-T)

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Hi, this is my first RMT, so I apologize for any mistakes. I've been using this team for a while in Showdown. Also, I used it (and I lost) against Stallion in the 1rst round of the inaugural BW2 OU. I will not accept any suggestions, my team is perfect.

Nah, just joking, please feel free to comment and suggest anything

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Forretress @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Spd
- Rapid Spin
- Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Gyro Ball

My physical wall, Forretress is almost a swiss army knife, stealth rock, spikes, rapid spin, all in just one pokemon. It can wall opossing mamoswine, breloom (after spore), scizor, ferrothorn, tyranitar (without fire blast), etc. I choose gyro ball over volt swith because thundurus-t and mamoswine are too common, and gyro ball is more reliable as an attack.

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Scizor @ Leftovers
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Bug Bite
- Roost
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch

Standard bulky sword dance scizor, it can easily set up on a resisted attack and then sweep an unprepared team with boosted bullet punches. Some of the threats that he cover in my team are lati@s, deo-d, reuniclus, alakazam, mamoswine, celebi, chansey, blissey, etc. I know he has the same weakness to fire that forretress, but politoed help to remedy that.

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Politoed @ Choice Specs
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Focus Blast
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump
- Surf

Well, what do you expected? You can't make a OU rain team without politoed. Specs are used to maximize the power, achieving a OHKO to standard scizor with hydro pump, and hitting for 80% to breloom (OHKO with spikes). Ice beam is for those pesky dragons like latios, dragonite, hydreigon and mence. Focus blast nails ferrothorn in the switch and OHKO most tyranitars even with sand. I choose surf on the last spot to have a more reliable water attack, but I'm considering to change it fo HP grass, to hit gastrodon harder.

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Thundurus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Thunder
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast

I made this team just to play with this new toy, and I was not dissapointed. With a scarf, thundurus-t is a great revenge killer, or just a late game sweeper spamming thunders. Thunder is for max power, and the 30% of paralysis is always welcome. Volt switch is great for scouting, but one must be always careful to not waste it in a inmunity if the opponent switch. HP ice makes for pseudo BoltBeam coverage, and Focus Blast hit ferrothorn and tyranitar (althought thhe accurracy is always an issue).

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Mamoswine @ Life Orb
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Crash
- Earthquake

Another physical sweeper/revenge killer. Pretty much a standard mamoswine. Ice shard revenge kill any dragon locked in outrage, regardless of any speed boost it may have and the therian forms. Earthquake and Icicle Crash are reliable STAB moves. Stone edge is mostly a filler, but can be useful against gyarados and volcarona.

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Latios @ Expert Belt
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Psyshock
- Draco Meteor
- Recover
- Surf

Last but not least, Latios. I choose it over others dragons beacause he has the highest speed, along with Latias, and has more offensive presence that her. Draco Meteor hits like a truck to anything that doesn't resist it. Surf hit almost any steel type, except ferrothorn, and psyshock hit fighting types and the pink blobs harder that anything else. I do not run HP fire, because in the rain it's too weak, instead I use recover, to make Latios last longer.

Threats:

Sun teams: With 2 fire/bug types in my team, ninetails can come very easily. Volcarona is specially troublesome, because it can switch in forretress before I can set up SR and after just one Quiver Dance it outspeed my entire team.

Latias: Scizor is my only mon that can win easily against the common CM set, because, without prior damage, mamoswine fail to OHKO her with Ice Shard, and I have to force a speed tie with Latios

Chansey: While Mamoswine can 2HKO Blissey, the only member of my team that can beat Chansey 1 vs 1 is Scizor

Defensive Celebi: Again, my only team member that can win is Scizor and Mamoswine (althoght the last must be careful on the switch)

Gyrados: It can set up on Forretress, Scizor and Mamoswine (Stone Edge may fail to KO) and after two dragon dances, outspeed and sweep all my team

Jirachi: That thing is just too unpredictable. Scizor can set up on most sets, but must be careful of fire punch and parahax. Forretress can wall most physical sets, but is set up bait to the CM variants. Mamoswine can OHKO with Eathquake the Specially defensive set, but must be careful of Iron Head, Flash Cannon and Body Slam. Thundurus 2HKO all sets with Thunder, but can be crippled with Body Slam

I will probably expand the list later

Forretress @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Spd
- Rapid Spin
- Spikes
- Stealth Rock
- Gyro Ball

Scizor @ Leftovers
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 40 Atk / 216 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Bug Bite
- Roost
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch

Politoed @ Choice Specs
Trait: Drizzle
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Focus Blast
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump
- Surf

Thundurus-Therian @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Thunder
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast

Mamoswine @ Life Orb
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Crash
- Earthquake

Latios @ Expert Belt
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Psyshock
- Draco Meteor
- Recover
- Surf

Well, that's all for now. I apologize if I made any grammatical error. Thanks for reading!
 
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