Hey smogon and welcome to my 2nd Ubers RMT. To cut a long story short, I have a perfect IV and nature multiscale Lugia on the way, and decided it was good enough to warrant a new ubers team that I can use in pvp and random battles, because it's highly unlikely random people will stick to OU format without prior contact. With that in mind, this team seeks to do 2 things: One) Use my Lugia correctly and find a way that it can fit onto this team, and 2) to counter common playthrough mons: these include Xerneas, Yveltal, P-Don and P-Ogre, and the 3 mega starters of ORAS, since it's extremely likely these will be in people's playthrough teams. So let's get into the team!
The team:
Lucario @ Lucarionite
Ability: Steadfast
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Bullet Punch
- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
- Ice Punch
Onto the first member of my team: M-Lucario. Besides being ridiculously cool looking, he does serve a massive purpose for me and that's to counter, or try to counter the fairies roaming Ubers. Besides the OU fairies, the only OU fairies to be added are Arceus-F, Mawile and Xerneas, all of which I counter with either steel or fighting, such as a guaranteed 2hko to Mawile with Close Combat, and a +2 Bullet Punch with a 92% chance to OHKO Xerneas that's HP Invested; an ohko if it's not. That makes Swords dance hugely necessary on this set, allowing it to wallbreak with a very respectable 355 speed, placing it just ahead of the OU contested speer tier and meaning I don't need to rely on speed boosting stats really. Also, just as an added bonus, it actually ohkos P-Don and P-Ogre with a +2 CC, which is ridiculous; I once went 5-0 with Mega Luc, and died when I hit Xerneas for 87% health with one Bullet Punch, so I know this guy can really put some work in. Not much to say about the EV spread or moveset for Lucario, I'm running Ice Punch just for coverage but if there's a better move somewhere else then let me know!
Groudon @ Red Orb
Ability: Drought
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 96 SpD / 58 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Lava Plume
- Roar
I needed someone who could soak fire and fighting, and with a fire resist, huge bulk, massive attack stat and the ability to set up rocks, P-Don deserved a place in my team (but really, who needs an excuse to use this guy?) The very small amount of speed EVs on this set allow me to outrun uninvested enemy P-Dons, allowing me to reliably 2hko defensive Groundons with the accuracy from Earthquake and the ability to outspeed those checks. I lumped most of the EVs into attack, as with an adamant nature it reaches 504 attack which is just dumb, and the rest into HP and Sp.Def to take advantage of it's massive bulk, allowing it to survive certain things such as a +2 Xerneas Moonblast among other defensive benchmarks. The role of P-don on my team is to set up rocks and be a water soak, a fire resist, and serve to use it's massive attack stat boosted Earthquake to pressure fire/steel types, keeping mons such as Aegislash (using Lava Plume to avoid King's shield) and Mega Blaziken away from my team. Lava plume is there because in the sun, he has a quite high special attack stat, letting him use this without the contact of physical fire moves, and since the sun doesn't boost accuracy I'm loathe to use Fire blast. Roar is there just for phasing, but with the utility of this team's status conditions such as Toxic, this can be quite an annoying and powerful move when combined with Stealth Rock.
Azumarill @ Choice Band
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 202 HP / 252 Atk / 50 Def
Adamant Nature
- Aqua Jet
- Waterfall
- Play Rough
- Superpower
Azumarill actually serves a very important benchmark on this team and that's to counter the physical dragons of Ubers. In particular, with a small investment to Defence, he survives a Dragon Ascent (though it does kill after SR, perhaps I need more Defence investmet) and it ohkos with Play Rough. If it misses, though, I'm done for. The other reason for picking Azumarill was that I needed a really good fire soak alongside P-Don to keep my Aegislash and Lucario running at 100% efficiency. It also becomes a perfect Mega Blazekin counter, resisting both it's stabs and being double effective with mine. So actually Azu becomes quite important to this team, filling in defensive holes and actually being a reliable (as reliable as you can be with 90% accuracy) physical dragon counter, though with one D-Dance M-Salamance does kill me, and M-Ray kills me after SR, so I think this slot needs touching up or replacing: It needs to counter dragons and be a fire and preferably a ground soak too.
Lugia @ Leftovers
Ability: Multiscale
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD
Bold Nature
- Aeroblast
- Recover
- Defog
- Toxic
I was really hyped to use my Lugia, and then when I went on Smogon I was really disheartened when I read that basically it's pretty shit and only fits on stall and some balanced teams. Since this is the mon I wanted to build around I really need this guy to work, as I've put in a lot of effort to attain him. I went with the smogon recommended build of fully defensive, as with multiscale intact it still has amazing specially defensive capabilities; it even takes a 3hko off Darkrai's Dark Pulse. Well, 2hko once M-scale is broken, but it really just walls almost everything. I went with a damaging move since I didn't want it to be walked over, but the combo of a hard hitting move, recover and toxic damage should make this, unless it's a steel mon, a really hard mon to take out. I went with recover over roost because recover doesn't get rid of my flying typing. This is the mon I'm so anxious to get right, so give me a heads up on how to use him.
Aegislash @ Leftovers
Ability: Stance Change
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Pursuit
- Iron Head
- King's Shield
- Night Slash
Aegislash actually fulfills a really important role in this team of countering psychic and ghost types, and a back-up check to fairies with iron head. Although it's weak to ghost, it can take the hit with the shield forme, then hit with a slow night slash, taking advantage of it's stance change to really hit hard to enemy ghost and psychic types. It also has pursuit, which is in the same boat as Night Slash as a slow attack, or gets priority when they switch out, making it an incredible Lati@s and Alakazam counter, and allowing it to do serious damage to Mew, Darkrai and the like. The big Lati@s counter is the real reason it's on the team, as well as being a back-up check to fairies such as Xerneas, wearing them down or even outright killing them to allow my team to clean-up and sweep.
Serperior @ Leftovers
Ability: Contrary
EVs: 252 SpA / 252 Spe / 4 Def
Timid Nature
- Leaf Storm
- Giga Drain
- Dragon Pulse
- Glare
Serperior is there to cover the lack of water coverage in this team; Namely to P-Ogre and Mega Swampert, two of the mons I need to cover in this team. Although P-Don does go to town on Serp with an ice beam, the combo of a boosted Leaf Storm and then a +2 giga drain on the next attack means I can make short work of him. Of course, if it's +2 before Kyogre comes in then it's dead anyway. Dragon pulse is there because I really needed a way of hitting the dragons alongside my Azumarill, and I went with glare over HP Fire simply because I wanted a way of spreading paralysis and the only mons I'd be able to hit with HP Fire are steel and grass types, all of which I have covered anyway.
Conclusion:
That's the team! I haven't played Ubers much at all, I'm basically still new to it and so don't know the sort of threats I will be coming up against. Since I won't be using it on showdown much and plan to create in on my copy of Omega Ruby, I need to use mons that are attainable to me, and also since I'm mainly using this team in PVP and with friendly battles on my game, some of the mons that are in ubers threat lists won't be present in PVP. Still, please rate, tell me how shit the team is, give me ways to make it better but basically I need to team to counter or at least check the mega starters and each of the legendaries from Gen 6 and I need the team to consist of mons I can actually attain. Thanks Y'all!
