Balanced OU PWNAGE!!!

[CREAM_93]

hi all, i've had success with many stock standard teams but even with all the wins i've racked up i feel unsatisfied as using these teams gets increasingly more boring and i've led to using much more fun teams such as the rarely seen sunny day and trick room. Much more fun IMO. Yet recently helping out a friend make a team that was easy to use i ended up really enjoying the team and decided i'd use it myself. I would normally go for bulky offense but this team slided more towards a more balanced team. This team i find is a lot more fun to use than some of the more generic stuff, this style uses alot more careful planning, timing, resistances and switching and jirachi is always fun to use!!!


AT A GLANCE

The team involves many bulky pokemon with key resistances and support options, and lethal special and physical sweepers. Overall, quite balanced and effective, easy to use and most of all its fun to use!

NOW IN DEPTH

THE LEAD

Swampert @ Leftovers
Trait: Torrent
Nature: Relaxed
EVs: 240 HP / 216 Def / 52 SpA
- Surf
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Protect

Standard lead set with mixpert starts which has been a favourite of mine for a while. Stealth Rocks is very important providing some useful OHKO's for Gengar in particular who otherwise will faint if he fails to do so. I usually have Ice Beam with Earthquake for coverage when not leading but dual STAB in swamperts case still providses good coverage and generally better coverage against the common leads. Protect is funny when Meta or Zong thinks they can explode on me.

THE BULKY WATER

Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Trait: Water Absorb
Nature: Bold
EVs: 188 HP / 252 Def / 68 SpA
- Surf
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Wish
- Protect

The standard Wish Bulky Water set, and in tie with Jirachi, this team is practically incapable of faintage! Covering many potent threats able to take out the rest of the team, Gyarados, Infernape as major threats. It still picks up where celebi left off, providing useful checks to many yet more support for the team in Wish as earlier mentioned, credits to Haunter for picking up on this.

ALL OUT SPECIAL SWEEPER

Heatran @ Life Orb
Trait: Flash Fire
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spd
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Dragon Pulse
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Catching unwary Swamperts by suprise feigning Dragon Pulse over Hidden Power whilst the enemy thinks i have explosion as the 4th slot is their first mistake. I have tested Expert Belt to fake Specs as it gets good coverage but i generally prefer the constant boost. Keeps many threats at bay and destroys many others:, Scizor is a prime example. The only trouble is HP from life orb and resist hits but Jirachi can usually cover this.

SPECIAL REVENGE KILLER

Gengar @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
- Hidde Power [Fire]

Never been a fan of this pokemon since Scizor ran loose, but by my friend's request he wanted this pokemon and that was it. However, after using it I must say it's definately not unusable and has been helpful picking up the scraps late game just as Scizor would but it does have troubles with the same red metallic bug. I do love how his amazing special movepool lets me hit anything uner the sun for good damage though, he's definately an asset to the team.

PHYSICAL REVENGE KILLER

Scizor @ Leftovers
Trait: Technician
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
- Bullet Punch
- Brick Break
- Swords Dance
- Roost

Earns this role on most teams for many reasons for most teams and that's because he's bloody good at it. Yet even still this breed IMO is the best Scizor their is, as he beats other Scizors with his impressive all around bulk and still maintains the same attack force that more defensivly inept Scizors provide. Leftovers, 252 HP EVs and Roost are the crux to the set increasing survivability many times over. The famous Swords Dance Bullet Punch combo is not at loss, and Brick Break is all that is needed to finnish up where Bullet Punch leaves of. A vital revenge killer for the team.

SUPPORT AT IT'S FUNNEST!

Jirachi @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
Nature: Impish
EVs: 240 HP / 160 Def / 76 SpD / 32 Spe
- Iron Head
- Body Slam
- U-turn
- Wish

Possibly the most important member of the team. HP often dwindles as the battle progresses and it's this little fairy's job to Wish them back to respectible health. Furthermore the paralysis provided by Body Slam is paramount to allow my powerful sweepers such as the Cele-Tran combo to constantly outrun and sweep despite their average speed. Wish-Turn is paramount and Para-Flinch is hallarious, Jirachi of this breed could fit in many teams and my team needs him more than the air they breathe...

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Well there's the team! Rate / Hate / Love / Steal

A word of note, the team has already been sent off to my mate and this team is for personal use. If you believe Gengar should be swapped let me know because I would like the full opinion of all raters regardless of what how they wish to rate my team. This is not to say I believe Gengar should be swapped, but just because my friend wanted it in his team shouldn't rule out the opinion of raters who may think otherwise...

Don't be afraid to leave a comment however big or small, any and all help and / or constructive criticism is much appriciated!!!
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[haunter]

Hi,

looking at yuor team I noticed two potential problems:

1) Gyarados: Celebi can't counter bounce variants and after a DD it can outspeed and almost ohko every of your pokemons, and even non bounce variants can give you troubles considering the low HP investment.

2) Infernape: you have to predict perfectly, switching Heatran on predicted fire moves and Gengar on close combats. Gengar itself can revenge kill it, but that means that you'll usually have problems with Ape.

I'd suggest to add something like Vaporeon somewhere, maybe over Celebi or Heatran. The standard defensive set seems ideal for this team:

Vaporeon@leftovers
nature: bold
EVs: 188 HP / 252 Def / 68 SpA
-surf
-hidden power [electric]
-wish
-protect

being able to counter 2 of this team's top threat looks like a good reason alone to try it.

Anyway, I would never replace Gengar on this team, it's a very useful revenge killer and it may be your only hope against Lucario, considering that even Celebi takes up to 72% from a +2 Lucario ES.

Good luck!

 

[Cherub Agent]

Timid over Naive nature on Heatran. It's fine for your opponent to think you have Explosion, but he won't see your nature XD, so Timid is better, unless you want to take more damage from specal attack :P Also, I don't see any need to switch out gengar: he makes a great special sweeper, and you have 4 resists to Bullet Punch, an immunity and a resistance to superpower... but you''l be in trouble if he uses pursuit, but if you can predict the pursuit, you can go for the OHKO with HP Fire

 

[CREAM_93]

I'd suggest to add something like Vaporeon somewhere, maybe over Celebi or Heatran. The standard defensive set seems ideal for this team:

Thankyou for that one Haunter, I have noticed the Lucario weakness but haven't versed Infernape with this team yet TBH, how odd... Celebi was good but Heatran was better, walling threats, checking and firing off steroid powered attacks all over the show so Vaporeon swapped Celebi. Once again thanks for that one...

Timid over Naive nature on Heatran. It's fine for your opponent to think you have Explosion, but he won't see your nature XD

Hahahahahaha, I didn't even see that one, I think I must have wrote naive just out of habit after Heatran conviniently fitting into a majority of my teams.

Thanks for the rates so far, since haunters enlighting post the team seems to be quite instantly patched up, not to say i will continue take some more advice whatever is put on the plate...