balanced parahax team

[ragazzo]

hello and good day!

It was about time that I build a team with a more general strategy instead of just putting six strong pokemon together and see what happened.

I decided to try an unconventional route and build the team around togekiss because it is an excellent bukly sweeper and some teams are not prepared for it.

That's about enough intro, so here is the team:

Jirachi @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Atk / 224 HP / 32 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Body Slam
- Iron Head
- U-turn

The best support for a togekiss sweep is paralyzation and when you think about paralyzation you think about jirachi. This set makes an excellent supporting lead. The first thing it does is setting up stealth rock. It then paralyses with body slam. Weaker pokemon are then paraflinchd to death or it can switch to a better counter with u-turn. U-turn is also useful for escaping magnezone. It can then later come back to paralyze something else.

Slowbro @ Leftovers
Trait: Regenerator
EVs: 252 Def / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
IVs: 19 spd (to be slower then conkeldurr)
Bold Nature
- Surf
- Psychic
- Thunder Wave
- Slack Off

Slowbro is my second paralyzer. With regenerator it can come in many times and paralyse a lot of pokemon. It is also my wall versus fighting types. It can beat most physical pokemon who don't cary a super effective move. Surf and Psychic are for dual stab and beat most of the pokemon it faces.

Terrakion @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge

I now have a supporting core. Now I need a more destructive wallbreaking core and who is more destrucive than terrakion? Terrakion forces many switches and can thus set up a substitute. Behind it's substitute it can boost its power with a sword dance or attack directly. Because of its awesome dual stab nobody likes to face a terrakion behind a substitute.

Hydreigon @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 HP / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Substitute
- Dragon Pulse
- Fire Blast
- Roost

My second wallbreaker is Hydreigon. Just like terrakion it doesn't have any problems setting up his substitute. Safely behind it it can fire of it's strong attacks at his counters who usely get heavely damaged in the progress. I choce hydreigon over latios for it's superior physical bulk, because it learns fire blast (latios has to go for hidden power fire) and because it can not be trapped by pursuit. It's rather slow speed doesn't realy matter because of the parasupport. I was thinking of changing it to the mixed attacker set.

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 HP
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge

I needed a revenge killer and garchomp does just that. There is not much to say about it. You know, it revenge kills setup sweepers and possibly sweeps later game. The attacks listed give it great coverage to do it's job.

Togekiss @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 4 SAtk / 252 HP / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Air Slash
- Aura Sphere
- Roost

And then we have togekiss. It can set up nasty plots while roosting damage away. There isn't much investment in special attack but this isn't a problem as he still hits hard after a nasty plot. Air slach and aura sphere give great coverage and air slash works great with serene grace and the parasupport from jirachi and slowbro. This also makes up for is speed issues.

That's pretty much all I can say. Comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time!

 

[deadflame]

I like your team. I wondered why you had Surf over Scald on Slowbro, until I realized it was to not conflict with Thunder Wave. I felt like a total derp, lol. I like Scarf Chomp, but personally, I feel like two Dragon moves mean you lose out on coverage. I would replace one of the Dragon Type moves with Fire Fang. I would also change Hydreigon to the mixed attacker set. I feel that it's offensive capabilities are better utilized with that set.

Hope I helped!

 

[Arcticblast]

Actually, instead of Fire Fang, you might want to use Dual Chop over Dragon Claw on Garchomp. Fire Fang is too weak to hit anything notable (a super effective Fire Fang is weaker than a neutral Earthquake, actually). Meanwhile, Dual Chop's double attack can bring Gengar to its knees - otherwise, your team struggles against Substitute Gengar. It's a 40 BP attack that hits twice, so it essentially has the same power as Dragon Claw. It's a little less accurate though, so think carefully.

 

[Viktor24]

I think you should change the Hydreigon set to the mixed attacker set(but keep roost).It's gonna work wonders specially with paralyze support.
Overall a good team.

 

[deadflame]

I was thinking Fire Fang specifically for Ferrothorn, Forretress, and Scizor.

 

[Arcticblast]

Togekiss and Hydreigon deal fairly well with Scizor, while both Hydreigon and Terrakion beat Ferrothorn and Forretress (as long as SR is up for the latter).

 

[ragazzo]

ok, thanks!
I will try the mixed attacker set on hydreigon.
I'm not going to use fire fang because steel types should be dealt with by others. Two dragon attacks are useful because dragon claw/dual shop is for revenge killing and outrage can be used to clean the last one or two weakened pokemon on my opponents team. I will think about dual shop over dragon claw. But to make up for it's accuracy, dual shop should be more useful more then ones out of ten times then dragon claw and I don't know it will. Articblast said it would be helpful against gengar (it will) but most gengar use disable and than garchomp will not be able to do anything. Anyway I will definitly give it a lot of thought.

Seriously thanks!

Oh, and i changed the speed IV of slowbro to 19. It is now always slower than Conkeldurr.