Blue Team GO!

[aRCTIC 45]

Hey there, thanks for rating my team. Overall this is a team i have been improveing. It started out as my first team ever with my fav pkmn (I still have 3 in the team) and have been changing it and perfecting it. My greatest threat has one name: breloom, probably because i never know how to kill him. Oh i forgot, that wasn't my teams greatest fear, actually deoxys-s is. Please rate my team, Be harsh, be cruel, but please leave good critics and uggstions. Thanks

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Metagross @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 152 HP/252 Atk/104 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Meteor Mash
- Agility
- Earthquake
- Thunderpunch

This is my lead and i really love it. Shuca berry allows me to have a free agility, then i can kill almost any lead. Tyranitar goes down real quick with him. Im not sure if i should stick with thunderpunch or go for explosion which could help me with those that i cant kill
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Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Hyper Cutter
EVs: 252 HP/4 Atk/252 Def
Impish nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Roost
- Stealth Rock
- Aerial Ace

Gliscor is my wall, specially from heracross. I recently changed ice fang for aerial ace. This is because i was having severe trouble whenever i faced a breloom. i lied killing ddmence and garchomps trapped in outrage with ice fang but it was always 2HKO and i runned great risks.

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Azelf @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 32 Atk/220 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- U-turn
- Grass Knot
- Flamethrower
- Psychic

Azelf is my special sweeper. Basically coverage for everything I cant hit with the other pokes. U turn allows me to run away from almost anything. Choice scarf is great, nothing beats me in speed. Changed to modest. i leave evs the same but im thinking of puting the remainder 32 into def or spdef

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Spiritomb (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP/4 Def/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Hypnosis
- Calm Mind
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power [Fighting]

This ones all about luck. Whenever i get to sleep someone i have a free calm mind and can defend and kill after. The two moves allow greater coverage plus i can kill blissey (eventually after some hits)

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Heatran (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP/96 Def/100 SAtk/60 SDef
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power

ah! a red infiltrate, well, heatran can take servarl hits and can absorb hypnosis, sleep inducing moves like spore, which i must say i hate completely thanks to breloom. His my least favorite. would be fine to change him.

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Empoleon (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP/4 Spd/252 SDef
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Grass Knot
- Roar

Sometimes he saves the day, sometimes he dies but overall is one of the best of my team. Roar is for the most hated suicune who always ruins my plans! salemence, dragon killer. his groound weakness sometimes costs a bit.

Thank you for rating my team!

 

[speedwobbles225]

Azelf reason as to why Azelf is EV'd and natured like that?

U-turn isn't really for the damage, its for scouting, I would just go modest, so it doesnt take away from his alright spec defense.

 

[aRCTIC 45]

Azelf reason as to why Azelf is EV'd and natured like that?

U-turn isn't really for the damage, its for scouting, I would just go modest, so it doesnt take away from his alright spec defense.

U-turn allows me to run away from , say, persuit and deal damage, the speed evs is so that i can outran ninjask and other fast pokemon which are always a problem. i put the remaining ev's in attack so that u turn could hit a bit harder.

 

[DT]

U-Turn is really just to get outta there on dark types not really for dmg just add the points to sp.atk and it should be modest natured lower a defense stat hurts the already fragile azelf

 

[Sharpteeth]

...No...I mean, U-Turn is horrible damage anyway, it's only used to scout. If you wanted to deal damage, you could go ahead and use Explosion over U-Turn. 32 Attack EVs is only 8 more attack points, and it really won't matter except against extremely frail stuff. The nature is more debatable, Rash is OK since you have to choose between his offense or is defense.

Umm...Heatran doesn't work extremely well with both Rest-Talk and Life Orb, your best bet would be to either try defensive with Leftovers or offensive with Dragon Pulse (awesome type coverage) and Explosion (boosted by Life Orb, it can pretty much destroy anything not named Ghost, Steel or Rock). Also worth noting, you have a triple Ground weakness. I think the most expendable member of the team is Empoleon, you already have quite a lot of special attackers, thus it's less useful.

Edit: Donovan posted before me. The "No" is directed at you , 91Ale.

 

[Khyl]

If you want to keep true to the "blue" nature of your team, you could switch out Heatran for a physical attacker that resists Earthquake. (Gyarados comes to mind.) Thus getting rid of your overuse of special attackers and earthquake weak, and keeping true to the "blue" theme.

 

[aRCTIC 45]

i mean i have 36ev attack + rash nature so that i can kill deoxys-s with u-turn. Im really afraid of him. I really am not sure about gyara, which set would be best for this team? will i be as effective countering bronzong or should i keep heatran(with explosion and dragon pulse)?