The Team
This is the a new team i have made based off of one of my old teams. This may seem like 6 OU pokemon thrown together with a common Infernape weakness but i laddered this team for a bit and was quite successful. Infernape hasn't given me any trouble at all. The team's name comes from the fact that i love transformers and 3 of my pokemon are steel. This team is basically a heavy offense team that bombards the foe one pokemon after another. I try to open a hole with my lead, then try to break walls with the wallbreakers and scout for any potential hazzards with scizor before unleashing luke. I don't know how good the syngery is but this team wins, so yeah =P Also, i'm not as good as a lot of the battlers on shoddy but i'm learning and i'm ready for any harsh criticism.
Team building process:
I started with Salamence because #1 wallbreaker is needed for an offense team
I added in scizor to cover for the dragon/ice weakness mence had.
I added in Gyarados because i know i needed something to cover Scizor, and a second wallbreaker is nice.
I needed someone who has the power to wreck havock while absorbing electric attacks. I first had Flygon but Flygon was just too weak, even though U-turn was sexy. I decided to settle on Latias because her Draco Meteor's rediculous, can boltbeam, and can screw over Blisseys with trick. I still alternate between Flygon and Latias though for fun.
I needed a lead. I wanted a bulkt lead so my top choices were Foretress, Swampert, Metagross. Even though Forre had RS, SR, and Explosion, i didn't like the idea of 2 x4 weak to fires. Swampert was my choice for a while until i got annoyed at the rising Roserade leads, Swampert is also just too slow. I ended up settling for Gross because he can set up rocks, do damage, and explode.
Finally i added in a cleaner. I tried many different pokemon but Lucario was the most sucessful due to his typing. SD luke is the best cleaner, period. If there's a better choice, please let me know.
Devastator
Metagross@Occa Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 228 Att / 12 Def / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
Earthquake
Bullet Punch
Stealth Rock
Explosion
Metagross@Occa Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP / 228 Att / 12 Def / 16 Spe
Adamant Nature
Earthquake
Bullet Punch
Stealth Rock
Explosion
Devastator because that decepticon is made up of the minicons, which is what metagross is; he is made up of beldums. Basically his job is to set stealth rock up and still do some damage.
I chose metagross because he's not as fragil as some suicide leads and he's a really reliable lead. Earthquake/Bullet Punch when seem fit and end his reign of terror with a bang. EQ+BP kills enemy leadtrans, leadnapes, or other lead grosses. BP kills lead dactyles and Tyrannitars. If i get taunted, i see if i can kill wharever taunted me and if i can't, i just switch or explode, depending on the situation. If i face an opposing swampert or hippowdon, i just explode so both teams don't get rocks down. I used to run a swampert before realizing this lead was superior.
His EV spread is to make sure he can survive a CB EQ from trio. The attack lets him do damage, and the 16 speed is to outspeed other leadgrosses.
He almost always gets rocks down and he's the vital member of my team. I fell in love with Gross leads as soon as i tried it. This is way better than swampert leads haha
Megatron
Salamence@Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 16 Att / 240 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
Draco Meteor
Outrage
Earthquake
Fre Blast
Outrage
Earthquake
Fre Blast
All hail Megatron. He's my wallbreaker #1 and the BEST wallbreaker in the game. He always does something important. On some really good days, he's killed 4 of the opponents pokemons by himself before. On his bad days, he only takes 1. He averages around 2 kills per game. He makes the necessary openings for my team to get inside. I wouldn't trade him for anything. Draco Meteor almost kills anything that doesn't resist it, and dents those who resist it. Outrage is for a "physical Draco Meteor". Earthquake for fires/steels and Fire Blast for the steels.
For his EVs: Max speed so he can at least speed tie other base 100s and the rest into attack/spec attack. A full forced Draco Meteor is always nice. The 16 att is something i don't fully understand, but a lot of people use this spread so i guess it works.
Barricade
Gyarados@Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 74 HP / 252 Att / 184 Spe
Adamant Nature
Waterfall
Stone Edge
Bounce
Dragon Dance
His EVs to maximize attack and to outrun base 115s after a DD.
Frenzy
Scizor@Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Att / 8 Def
Adamant Nature
Bullet Punch
Super Power
U-Turn
Pursuit
Frenzy is seen as the little scout who tries to cause trouble. That is exactly why he's scizor. Scizor is my revenge killer/scout. I think y'all have seen enough of scizor to know his powers. He traps enemy Ghosts/Latias with pursuit. He can also clean up with bullet punch. Super Power 1 htis Blissey, Heatran, Magnezone, and others. U-turn lets him take big chunks out of enemey pokes while scouting. He also absorbs the ice/dragon attacks aimed at my dragons and the bug attacks aimed at Latias.
For his EVs, max attack is needed. The HP lowers residul damage and the 4 def makes sure that he looses the speed tie to other Scizor so when they superpower, i get to take advantage of their defense drop.
Starscram
Latias@Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
Draco Meteor
Thunderbolt
Surf
Trick
This is Starscream: All Decepticons, mobilize. Yeah, she's (lol) Starscream. She's starscream because she's fast, sleek, and hits hard. Draco Meteor for the strongest Draco Meteor in OU. TB/Surf for coverage, and finally Trick so screw up the enemy's walls. I guess you can call her a wallbreaker in a sense but she's more of a revenge killer if anything. A of people expect Specs so they don't expect this beats to outrun a +1 speed mence. Very awesome.
I added in Surf because the coverage Ice Beam gives is too redundant with Draco Meteor
Her Evs is just max attack/max spA
I used to run a scarfed Flygon here and i still do sometimes, depending on mood.
Bonecrusher
Lucario@Life Orb
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Att / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
Sword Dance
Close Combat
Extreme Speed
Crunch
My finisher. Stat up and go. Self explanatory IMO. I'm looking to see if i can find a better finisher and some of the other choices i had in mind were Azelf, Infernape, Tyrannitar, or others but i choce Luke. If there's a better choice, please tell me =P
Sword Dance is the deadly set up move. Close Combat is rediculously powerful on anything who doesn't reists it because of the +2 from SD, the high basepower, and STAB. Extreme Speed is used to pick off the weaker foes that resist CC. Crunch is for the psychics/ghosts.
Yep, this is my team.
Threat list:
Aerodactyl: Metagross>that
Alakazam: People still use this? >_>
Azelf: I think Scizor or a scrafed DM can handle it. never had problems.
Blissey: Latias+trick=gg
Breloom: I usually do damage while he sleeps, then switch to a counter like mencwe
Bronzong: Repeated u-turns from scizor or explode on gross if it's a lead.
Celebi: Scizor, mence, or luke
Cresselia: Never had troubles, i guess i can trick or use luke
Donphan: Gyarados
Dragonite: Both of my dragons outspeed
Dugtrio: never had problems so i wouldn't know
Dusknoir: Scizor
Electivire: it sucks
Empoleon: Gives me trouble, i try to have latias take the hit and TB
Flygon: scarf latias outspeeds or i use scizor
Forretress: Salamence
Gengar: Scizor or scarf latias
Gliscor: Ice beam with latias or gyarados
Gyarados: TB with latias. Even after 1 DD, i'll out speed.
Heatran: EQ with salamence.
Heracross: Scizor >that >_>
Hippowdon: Explode with gross first turn
Infernape: On paper, it seems it'd give my team trouble, but i haven't gotten trouble yet.
Jirachi: If it's a scarf chi that tricks, i switch into mence to get the scarf, otherwise i EQ
Jolteon: Trouble :(
Kingdra: Scarf Latias outspeeds even after 1 DD. I fear RD ones though
Latias: Speed tie at the worst, scizor at best
Lucario: Mence, gyara, idk
Machamp: Never been a lot of trouble
Magnezone: Trouble, it kills my scizor a lot. Mence > zone
Mamoswine: Scizor
Metagross: Idk, he's too good.
Ninjask: lol BP team
Porygon-Z: Luke
Rhyperior: Idk, a lot of things work on him.
Rotom: Crunch luke or scarf latias if the rotom is scarfed and outspeeds luke.
Salamence: Latias outspeeds after 1 DD
Scizor: My worst nightmare, i guess flamethrower with mence
Smeargle: Everything works >_>
Snorlax: Luke
Starmie: Scizor if trapped on a bad move or latias TB
Suicune: Trick then TB
Swampert: Explode with gross on turn 1
Tentacruel: TB with latias
Togekiss: Scizor? idk
Tyrannitar: Hard to handle, it traps my latias. I guess scizor or mence
Vaporeon: Trick then TB
Weavile: Scizor
Zapdos: Latias>Zapdos