Hello Smogonites, I am salamence1 aka salamence1100 on youtube, I have been in competitive battling for about 4 years now. I have made teams that have peaked as high as 2 (never made it to 1-__-) but now i'm stuck on trying to figure out how to make a salamence based team work. (I want it to be salamence based for my youtube channel) I have tried all the standard set, and finally I decided to make my own mence set that seems to be more effective and easier to use, but I can't seem to have the right support. So I am here to try to get advice from other people to point out weak spots that I can't seem to find...So here it goes...
Team Building...
Now In Depth...
Heatran (F) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Heatran has always been one of the best rocks users in the game, but with Air Balloon, he can use max speed and attack, and still get rocks up the proceed to knock out a pokemon or two. Stealth rocks are still very important, if there I don't get stealth rocks up dragonite and volcarona laugh at my team and manage to sweep easily. He also can be used to asorb fire type attacks aimed at breloom or scizor.
Starmie @ Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Hydro Pump
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Rapid Spin
Starmie has be deadly from gen 1 with its great speed and coverage he can still magage to sweep, although on my team he is mostly used to take care of hazards with rapid spin, or remove tornadus and lati twins since nothing else on my team can handle them too well. He also has great synergy with heatran and breloom making it part of a classic F/W/G core that isn't as effective as it once was.
Breloom (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 236 HP / 212 SDef / 60 Spd
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Spore
- Bulk Up
- Seed Bomb
- Drain Punch
Ah, Breloom, he's always been up there with my favorite pokemon from the time I first used him in emerald on the walkthrough, and I'm glad to say he's probably the best anti-weather pokemon out there right now, I simply love this set! and it fits in perfectly with my team, he covers sand and rain teams which take up at least 50% of the meta, and takes care of rotom-w + scizor and their U-switch core which is menas he's useful about 80% of the time. other then he gives me the grass portion of my F/W/G core.
Scizor (F) @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 244 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Superpower
- Pursuit
Yet another of my all time favorites, scizor is so easy to fit on a team with only one weakness, and a heap of resistence and the most powerful priority move in the game. Along with all these benifits he works really well with my salamence and very well with rotom-w in the famous U-switch core. I mainly use scizor for RKing with Bullet Punch, and removing threats like Momoswine, and weavile who threaten my salamene with ice shard, as well as terrakoin, Haxorus, and other potential scarf users. He is also my answer to hail teams, that could be trouble.
Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 112 HP / 252 SAtk / 144 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
So basically rotom-w takes care of skarmory, and rest talk gyara so I don' t have to worry about roar/whirlwind on my salamence. Rotom completes my U-switch core and provides superb synergy with salamence and scizor. will-o-wisp help make my team seem a little bulkier, and helps my salamence set-up easier. Hydro Pump removes heatran, and gliscor that wall scizor, and help scizor come in late game to clean up as well. over all he is kinda the glue to my team that helps make it all function. if I play stupid and loose rotom early in the game, it is much harder to win, even if I have a lead going.
Salamence (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 52 HP / 204 Atk / 24 Def / 24 SDef / 204 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Substitute
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
That picture shows what I wish they did with salamence, then he'd be able to seriously intimidate his opponets! But anyway, as you can see this isn't a standard set, So I'll explain the set for mence. Basically its like Sub+Ddance gyara, just with a little more speed, a little more power, and a little more bulk. I don't know why no one else was using him before I was, but I think it works great, all I need os to get one sub up and its game over. If rotom did his job and removed skarmory, and gliscor. It's very easy to use, and I find it more effective then the standard sets, but it doesn't like haxorus with dual chop, which I have scizor for. With bronzong in UU that means skarmory is the only poke in OU that resist the Dragon/Ground (I think) anyway basically salamence is the main sweeper, and the poke I built the team around, so it is unreplaceable. (the set can be changed if you don't think mine is a good one, but no changing the poke)
So there you have my team, please tell what you think I can do to improve it, and check out my youtube channel Salamence1100!
Team Building...
Well like I said I started with my favorite poke; salamence
salamence was who I built the team around. in order for mence to sweep, it is important to remove skarmory, rest-talk gyara, and some vaporeon. So I decided on trowing in the Rotom-W's bulky sweeper set
after I had these two together I thought that scizor would help with scarfed users such as terrakoin and some of the bulkier pokes like vaporeon as well as create great synergy with rotom-w and give me the way over used U-switch combo.
Now that I have my main offesive core together, I thought I would need to get my rocks user, I find that the most effective rocks user is offensive heatran. He also provided decent synergy, both deffensive and offensive, he can also remove a skarmory if he gets the chance.
Now looking at team I'm lacking speed, and between scizor and rotom there's gonna be a lot of switching, and since mence is weak to stealth rocks, so a fast rapid spinner like starmie is just what I need. Starmie has good synergy with heatran, and can do some damge if given the chance. It was a no brainer to use starmie in this slot.
Now this last slot was the hardest, but I decided on Breloom, because he can pretty much take on sand and rain teams by himself, and not only that, but he fits in great with the over offensive and defensive synergy
after I had these two together I thought that scizor would help with scarfed users such as terrakoin and some of the bulkier pokes like vaporeon as well as create great synergy with rotom-w and give me the way over used U-switch combo.
Now that I have my main offesive core together, I thought I would need to get my rocks user, I find that the most effective rocks user is offensive heatran. He also provided decent synergy, both deffensive and offensive, he can also remove a skarmory if he gets the chance.
Now looking at team I'm lacking speed, and between scizor and rotom there's gonna be a lot of switching, and since mence is weak to stealth rocks, so a fast rapid spinner like starmie is just what I need. Starmie has good synergy with heatran, and can do some damge if given the chance. It was a no brainer to use starmie in this slot.
Now this last slot was the hardest, but I decided on Breloom, because he can pretty much take on sand and rain teams by himself, and not only that, but he fits in great with the over offensive and defensive synergy
Now In Depth...
Heatran (F) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Heatran has always been one of the best rocks users in the game, but with Air Balloon, he can use max speed and attack, and still get rocks up the proceed to knock out a pokemon or two. Stealth rocks are still very important, if there I don't get stealth rocks up dragonite and volcarona laugh at my team and manage to sweep easily. He also can be used to asorb fire type attacks aimed at breloom or scizor.
Starmie @ Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Hydro Pump
- Thunderbolt
- Ice Beam
- Rapid Spin
Starmie has be deadly from gen 1 with its great speed and coverage he can still magage to sweep, although on my team he is mostly used to take care of hazards with rapid spin, or remove tornadus and lati twins since nothing else on my team can handle them too well. He also has great synergy with heatran and breloom making it part of a classic F/W/G core that isn't as effective as it once was.
Breloom (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 236 HP / 212 SDef / 60 Spd
Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk)
- Spore
- Bulk Up
- Seed Bomb
- Drain Punch
Ah, Breloom, he's always been up there with my favorite pokemon from the time I first used him in emerald on the walkthrough, and I'm glad to say he's probably the best anti-weather pokemon out there right now, I simply love this set! and it fits in perfectly with my team, he covers sand and rain teams which take up at least 50% of the meta, and takes care of rotom-w + scizor and their U-switch core which is menas he's useful about 80% of the time. other then he gives me the grass portion of my F/W/G core.
Scizor (F) @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 244 HP / 252 Atk / 12 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- U-turn
- Superpower
- Pursuit
Yet another of my all time favorites, scizor is so easy to fit on a team with only one weakness, and a heap of resistence and the most powerful priority move in the game. Along with all these benifits he works really well with my salamence and very well with rotom-w in the famous U-switch core. I mainly use scizor for RKing with Bullet Punch, and removing threats like Momoswine, and weavile who threaten my salamene with ice shard, as well as terrakoin, Haxorus, and other potential scarf users. He is also my answer to hail teams, that could be trouble.
Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 112 HP / 252 SAtk / 144 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
So basically rotom-w takes care of skarmory, and rest talk gyara so I don' t have to worry about roar/whirlwind on my salamence. Rotom completes my U-switch core and provides superb synergy with salamence and scizor. will-o-wisp help make my team seem a little bulkier, and helps my salamence set-up easier. Hydro Pump removes heatran, and gliscor that wall scizor, and help scizor come in late game to clean up as well. over all he is kinda the glue to my team that helps make it all function. if I play stupid and loose rotom early in the game, it is much harder to win, even if I have a lead going.
Salamence (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Moxie
EVs: 52 HP / 204 Atk / 24 Def / 24 SDef / 204 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Substitute
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
That picture shows what I wish they did with salamence, then he'd be able to seriously intimidate his opponets! But anyway, as you can see this isn't a standard set, So I'll explain the set for mence. Basically its like Sub+Ddance gyara, just with a little more speed, a little more power, and a little more bulk. I don't know why no one else was using him before I was, but I think it works great, all I need os to get one sub up and its game over. If rotom did his job and removed skarmory, and gliscor. It's very easy to use, and I find it more effective then the standard sets, but it doesn't like haxorus with dual chop, which I have scizor for. With bronzong in UU that means skarmory is the only poke in OU that resist the Dragon/Ground (I think) anyway basically salamence is the main sweeper, and the poke I built the team around, so it is unreplaceable. (the set can be changed if you don't think mine is a good one, but no changing the poke)
So there you have my team, please tell what you think I can do to improve it, and check out my youtube channel Salamence1100!