CLASH AT THE SUMMIT
Welcome Smogon! I have been battling for quite a while and I've lost my muse in OU. I found that the teir has become really boring and other teirs were like an adventure. I regained my intrests in LC and RU. I joined the teirs of UU and Ubers, but I could not find any real fun in OU. Everyone used the same couple of Pokemon and some weren't used really at all. Everyone used dragons. I thought to myself, what If I could Kill everyone's Dragons. There would be no boring sweeps from Dragonite, Salamance, Garchomp, or the rarer Haxorus. Looking through the teir list for OU, I found my eyes on an Ice type that made my dreams come true. It didn't have to just rely on sash and smash. It had a Choice Band and the attack Ice Shard. The Mamoswine would murder the dreaded dragons and allow me to begin a new team in OU. One where I find some new and old tactics. I never thought that I would use Celebi, Mamoswine, or Gengar, but I found myself wrong. Now, a true battle arises and the Dragons and my bounty hunters clash at the summit of battle.
I found a lot of success in CeleTran, a new core I hadn't tried. Gengar to me was SubDisable and SubDisable only, but I found a +3 attack variant working for me. I haven't played around with the team too much, but I have even found success in battling with Corona, a good friend who got me hooked on competative battling to an extent (He was playing PO and I was like I will download it and battle you. Then I just played regularly.). The first battle I played against him was 2-0 and It was my loss but the second battle came down to a 1-0 win for me with 14% HP with Keldeo Secret Swording a Weavile. The Team is overall a lot of fun and I really need to know what I should change. Thank you all for your time!!
TEAM BUILDING
Here is my team's all star. He gets rid of all those Dragon types that roam the battle feild. I chose a Choice Band variant because Life Orb tends to kill itself faster, or just make me really frail. That and Choice Band still gives me a huge boost of damage. He has Good coverage so I didn't find a reason not to use Mamoswine. What makes me mad is seeing so many Steel and Dragon Types. I find that both of these types are over rated to an extent. So why not try to get rid of both types? I know that to an extent that isn't possible with Skarmory and Ferrothorn being really sturdy physical walls and Mamoswine just has heavy attack. Back to the main point, Ground and Ice gets super effective damage to many threats such as Landerous, Dragonite, Garchomp, Gliscor, Heatran, Jirachi, and most importantly Salamance. Mamoswine may be slow to the chase, but Ice Shard makes sure I can OHKO most Dragons and 252 Spe and Jolly Nature can get rid of some defensive steel types.
I made note of a fighting and water type weakness as soon as I attempted to use Mamoswine. He has a Steel weakness, but I decided to wait until later to start covering that weakness. First things first, I decided I should run a hyper offensive sand team. So, I though Nasty Plot Celebi would be a good way to cover some of my weaknesses and it has a lot of viable recovery. Since I wanted to run a sandstorm team, I thought using Giga Drain and Recover on the same set with Leftovers would make Celebi last as long as possible. I noted to myself that Mamoswine may not be able to defeat certain steel types and Celebi will have problems with a Heatran, so I threw in Earth Power. Celebi is up to change, but now it still is effective.
Terrakion and Steel type Pokemon will serve a lot of trouble to Mamoswine. There is no doubt about this. So, I needed something fast and strong to get rid of some more pressure to Mamoswine. Keldeo and Celebi help put a lot of pressure on rain teams with their resistance to water type attacks. Hurricane users will serve some issure, but Hurricane shouldn't matter too much considering the main users are Volcarona and Dragonite, which can be defeated by Mamoswine through Stone Edge and Ice Shard respectivly. Keldeo is a nice addition to any sand team because he can set up and wreck opponent's rain teams as long as Keldeo's HP is relativly high. Even without Drizzle, Surf hits like a truck at +1 let alone +2. I noticed a huge weakness to Latias and other Calm Mind users. Keldeo and Celebi will have too much trouble fighting off these monsters. Its the fact that they are really fast and have high offensive special stats.
A Tyranitar with Choice Band solves this Calm Mind issue. I no longer have to worry about Latias and Latios too much with a hard Pursuit going through their face. Tyranitar is bulky, hits hard, and has good coverage in the attacks he has, so there is no reason to not use him as a wall breaker. He can beat some key threats that the team is weak to so overall, I don't have much problems with using him. Also he is the only real offensive Sandstream user.
Chandelure looked amazing to use. He is a decent counter to sun teams and he is a good spin blocker. He also gets rid of the huge Fighting weakness. There isn't many good special attacking ghost types so he is only one of my natural choices. Chandelure can set up substitute and wreck teams with his multiple special attacks so I had no problems with him. On facebook, myself and a couple friends fought if I should use Heatran and Gengar on the team so, I finally gave in to their advice.
Gengar sets up substitute and can hit many things hard with his blazing speed and high special attack. Heatran serves as a Sun team counter and finishes off the team with his many resistances. Together, they can do whatever Chandelure could dream of doing so there is no real point in not using these two. They have good synergy and thats what counts. Gengar lets me have immunity to fighting type attacks so overall, I am fine with using these two. The major reason I do use these two is because Chrona and I got in an arguement on using them. I was planning on using Chandelure and Latios but Gengar and Heatran do the job better.
IN DEPTH
Permafrost @ Choice Band
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Spear
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Breaking Subs, Dragons, and specially defensive steel types, Mamoswine can check a variaty of threats. He gets rid of the Troublesome Dragonite and Volcarona and the stalling Heatran and Jirachi. Rock and Ground coverage is the standard I set for the Mamoswine to have and the Ice stab attacks add much needed coverage for my wall breaker. I tend to use my Mamoswine as a revenge killer so to speak. He almost always gets his job done. Its nice to know that Dragon Types don't really have priority attacks so it creates a safe barrier for my Ice Shard to hit these Dragons.
Terraforming @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Recover
- Nasty Plot
- Giga Drain
Beating Rain and sand alike, Celebi finds his home abusing his massive healing moves and sweeping after a single Nasty Plot. Celebi with Nasty Plot makes rain teams quiver. That and Giga Drain is a massive stab. Sun teams are really hard for Celebi hers so, Earth Power does the job well. Sand comes with loss of HP, so having Leftovers, Giga Drain, and Recover on this set makes Celebi a safe attacker. I never really played with Celebi before and I don't know much about what Celebi is more effective so help would be useful! I just find that his speed is low so I tend to sweep safely with Keldeo.
Our Last Hope @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Secret Sword
- Surf
Sword fighting steed behind a rock doll sounds a bit absurd at first glance, but when it murders your team, you can only go home crying. Keldeo serves as a late game cleaner and sweeper. Keldeo is my favorite Pokemon and he synergizes well with Tyranitar. What really makes Keldeo most useful on this team is Substitute. It allows multiple Calm Minds and Leftovers can counter the Sandstorm damage so his sweep can be a lot longer. I find that he works well against sand and rain teams. Tyranitar can't stand his Secret Sword and surf makes a pain in the neck once your at +1 STAB and Drizzle boosted. He just needs a little support for Jellicent and he is all fair game.
Armageddon @ Choice Band
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Superpower
The Tyranitar that allows me to get rid of the Lati twins. Most importantly, He defeats the ever present stall warts. He can beat Reniclus, Deoxys Defense, Heatran, Jirachi, and Blissey. I love using a bulkier Tyranitar so a lot of HP and the rest of my evs put in special defense after max Attack makes Tyranitar has decent bulk (considering Sandstorm will allow x1.5 Special defense). This Tyranitar allows me to beat the all time threatening Kyurem-B and Cloyster. When it comes to
Author Of All Sin @ Black Sludge
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Sludge Bomb
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
Gengar serves as a spin blocker and special sweeper. Even without a boost, Gengar can check a variaty of threats. Substitute allows Gengar to last as long as possible and Focus Blast and Shadow Ball lets me hit the majority of all threats for neutral damage. I used Sludge Bomb because Chancy and Blissey can get posioned so I can stall her out if the threat comes up and grass Pokemon will fail to Gengar. Disable seemed lack luster due to taunt so Sub+3 attack Gengar leaves me with reliability and a good damage output.
The Last Stand @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Substitute
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I also like using Substitute on Heatran as well. Hidden Power Ice lets me hit most Dragons hard, plus there is a Dragon resist on Heatran. Heatran lets my team have a counter to Sun. Earth Power is to defeat other Heatran and Fire Blast is the STAB of choice. Maximum special attack lets me hit furiously and this molten dog will secure some needed OHKOs to things like Ferrothorn. Heatran even covers a good majority of my weaknesses. He covers almost all of Gengar and Celebi's weaknesses. Even the rare hail teams have problems with this beast.
CLOSING WORDS
Thank you for reading through my RMT. I am sorry to those before who saw a half finished page. I accidently hit Submit New Thread before finishing. Please rate the team with as much constructive chritisicm as you feel needed. I find that this team is one of my favorites so far so I want it to be as epic as possible! Have a good day and Dungeons is out!
Here is an Importable code for those who wish to use the team:
Welcome Smogon! I have been battling for quite a while and I've lost my muse in OU. I found that the teir has become really boring and other teirs were like an adventure. I regained my intrests in LC and RU. I joined the teirs of UU and Ubers, but I could not find any real fun in OU. Everyone used the same couple of Pokemon and some weren't used really at all. Everyone used dragons. I thought to myself, what If I could Kill everyone's Dragons. There would be no boring sweeps from Dragonite, Salamance, Garchomp, or the rarer Haxorus. Looking through the teir list for OU, I found my eyes on an Ice type that made my dreams come true. It didn't have to just rely on sash and smash. It had a Choice Band and the attack Ice Shard. The Mamoswine would murder the dreaded dragons and allow me to begin a new team in OU. One where I find some new and old tactics. I never thought that I would use Celebi, Mamoswine, or Gengar, but I found myself wrong. Now, a true battle arises and the Dragons and my bounty hunters clash at the summit of battle.
I found a lot of success in CeleTran, a new core I hadn't tried. Gengar to me was SubDisable and SubDisable only, but I found a +3 attack variant working for me. I haven't played around with the team too much, but I have even found success in battling with Corona, a good friend who got me hooked on competative battling to an extent (He was playing PO and I was like I will download it and battle you. Then I just played regularly.). The first battle I played against him was 2-0 and It was my loss but the second battle came down to a 1-0 win for me with 14% HP with Keldeo Secret Swording a Weavile. The Team is overall a lot of fun and I really need to know what I should change. Thank you all for your time!!
TEAM BUILDING
Here is my team's all star. He gets rid of all those Dragon types that roam the battle feild. I chose a Choice Band variant because Life Orb tends to kill itself faster, or just make me really frail. That and Choice Band still gives me a huge boost of damage. He has Good coverage so I didn't find a reason not to use Mamoswine. What makes me mad is seeing so many Steel and Dragon Types. I find that both of these types are over rated to an extent. So why not try to get rid of both types? I know that to an extent that isn't possible with Skarmory and Ferrothorn being really sturdy physical walls and Mamoswine just has heavy attack. Back to the main point, Ground and Ice gets super effective damage to many threats such as Landerous, Dragonite, Garchomp, Gliscor, Heatran, Jirachi, and most importantly Salamance. Mamoswine may be slow to the chase, but Ice Shard makes sure I can OHKO most Dragons and 252 Spe and Jolly Nature can get rid of some defensive steel types.
I made note of a fighting and water type weakness as soon as I attempted to use Mamoswine. He has a Steel weakness, but I decided to wait until later to start covering that weakness. First things first, I decided I should run a hyper offensive sand team. So, I though Nasty Plot Celebi would be a good way to cover some of my weaknesses and it has a lot of viable recovery. Since I wanted to run a sandstorm team, I thought using Giga Drain and Recover on the same set with Leftovers would make Celebi last as long as possible. I noted to myself that Mamoswine may not be able to defeat certain steel types and Celebi will have problems with a Heatran, so I threw in Earth Power. Celebi is up to change, but now it still is effective.
Terrakion and Steel type Pokemon will serve a lot of trouble to Mamoswine. There is no doubt about this. So, I needed something fast and strong to get rid of some more pressure to Mamoswine. Keldeo and Celebi help put a lot of pressure on rain teams with their resistance to water type attacks. Hurricane users will serve some issure, but Hurricane shouldn't matter too much considering the main users are Volcarona and Dragonite, which can be defeated by Mamoswine through Stone Edge and Ice Shard respectivly. Keldeo is a nice addition to any sand team because he can set up and wreck opponent's rain teams as long as Keldeo's HP is relativly high. Even without Drizzle, Surf hits like a truck at +1 let alone +2. I noticed a huge weakness to Latias and other Calm Mind users. Keldeo and Celebi will have too much trouble fighting off these monsters. Its the fact that they are really fast and have high offensive special stats.
A Tyranitar with Choice Band solves this Calm Mind issue. I no longer have to worry about Latias and Latios too much with a hard Pursuit going through their face. Tyranitar is bulky, hits hard, and has good coverage in the attacks he has, so there is no reason to not use him as a wall breaker. He can beat some key threats that the team is weak to so overall, I don't have much problems with using him. Also he is the only real offensive Sandstream user.
Chandelure looked amazing to use. He is a decent counter to sun teams and he is a good spin blocker. He also gets rid of the huge Fighting weakness. There isn't many good special attacking ghost types so he is only one of my natural choices. Chandelure can set up substitute and wreck teams with his multiple special attacks so I had no problems with him. On facebook, myself and a couple friends fought if I should use Heatran and Gengar on the team so, I finally gave in to their advice.
Gengar sets up substitute and can hit many things hard with his blazing speed and high special attack. Heatran serves as a Sun team counter and finishes off the team with his many resistances. Together, they can do whatever Chandelure could dream of doing so there is no real point in not using these two. They have good synergy and thats what counts. Gengar lets me have immunity to fighting type attacks so overall, I am fine with using these two. The major reason I do use these two is because Chrona and I got in an arguement on using them. I was planning on using Chandelure and Latios but Gengar and Heatran do the job better.
IN DEPTH
Permafrost @ Choice Band
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Spear
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Breaking Subs, Dragons, and specially defensive steel types, Mamoswine can check a variaty of threats. He gets rid of the Troublesome Dragonite and Volcarona and the stalling Heatran and Jirachi. Rock and Ground coverage is the standard I set for the Mamoswine to have and the Ice stab attacks add much needed coverage for my wall breaker. I tend to use my Mamoswine as a revenge killer so to speak. He almost always gets his job done. Its nice to know that Dragon Types don't really have priority attacks so it creates a safe barrier for my Ice Shard to hit these Dragons.
Terraforming @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Recover
- Nasty Plot
- Giga Drain
Beating Rain and sand alike, Celebi finds his home abusing his massive healing moves and sweeping after a single Nasty Plot. Celebi with Nasty Plot makes rain teams quiver. That and Giga Drain is a massive stab. Sun teams are really hard for Celebi hers so, Earth Power does the job well. Sand comes with loss of HP, so having Leftovers, Giga Drain, and Recover on this set makes Celebi a safe attacker. I never really played with Celebi before and I don't know much about what Celebi is more effective so help would be useful! I just find that his speed is low so I tend to sweep safely with Keldeo.
Our Last Hope @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Secret Sword
- Surf
Sword fighting steed behind a rock doll sounds a bit absurd at first glance, but when it murders your team, you can only go home crying. Keldeo serves as a late game cleaner and sweeper. Keldeo is my favorite Pokemon and he synergizes well with Tyranitar. What really makes Keldeo most useful on this team is Substitute. It allows multiple Calm Minds and Leftovers can counter the Sandstorm damage so his sweep can be a lot longer. I find that he works well against sand and rain teams. Tyranitar can't stand his Secret Sword and surf makes a pain in the neck once your at +1 STAB and Drizzle boosted. He just needs a little support for Jellicent and he is all fair game.
Armageddon @ Choice Band
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Superpower
The Tyranitar that allows me to get rid of the Lati twins. Most importantly, He defeats the ever present stall warts. He can beat Reniclus, Deoxys Defense, Heatran, Jirachi, and Blissey. I love using a bulkier Tyranitar so a lot of HP and the rest of my evs put in special defense after max Attack makes Tyranitar has decent bulk (considering Sandstorm will allow x1.5 Special defense). This Tyranitar allows me to beat the all time threatening Kyurem-B and Cloyster. When it comes to
Author Of All Sin @ Black Sludge
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Sludge Bomb
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
Gengar serves as a spin blocker and special sweeper. Even without a boost, Gengar can check a variaty of threats. Substitute allows Gengar to last as long as possible and Focus Blast and Shadow Ball lets me hit the majority of all threats for neutral damage. I used Sludge Bomb because Chancy and Blissey can get posioned so I can stall her out if the threat comes up and grass Pokemon will fail to Gengar. Disable seemed lack luster due to taunt so Sub+3 attack Gengar leaves me with reliability and a good damage output.
The Last Stand @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Substitute
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I also like using Substitute on Heatran as well. Hidden Power Ice lets me hit most Dragons hard, plus there is a Dragon resist on Heatran. Heatran lets my team have a counter to Sun. Earth Power is to defeat other Heatran and Fire Blast is the STAB of choice. Maximum special attack lets me hit furiously and this molten dog will secure some needed OHKOs to things like Ferrothorn. Heatran even covers a good majority of my weaknesses. He covers almost all of Gengar and Celebi's weaknesses. Even the rare hail teams have problems with this beast.
CLOSING WORDS
Thank you for reading through my RMT. I am sorry to those before who saw a half finished page. I accidently hit Submit New Thread before finishing. Please rate the team with as much constructive chritisicm as you feel needed. I find that this team is one of my favorites so far so I want it to be as epic as possible! Have a good day and Dungeons is out!
Here is an Importable code for those who wish to use the team:
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Armageddon (Tyranitar) @ Choice Band
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Superpower
Our Last Hope (Keldeo) @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Calm Mind
- Substitute
- Secret Sword
- Surf
Terraforming (Celebi) @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Recover
- Nasty Plot
- Giga Drain
The Last Stand (Heatran) @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Earth Power
- Fire Blast
- Substitute
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Permafrost (Mamoswine) @ Choice Band
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Ice Shard
- Icicle Spear
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
Author Of All Sin (Gengar) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Sludge Bomb
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
