Defensive Team OU

[Kujoshan]

I just recently made this team and it has owned almost every battle with at least 4 pokemon left and 2 not even used. There are some minor tweaks that i want to get adjusted which i will address later. Now for my team ENJOY :)

Team At A Glance:

And now for the details...

Gliscor(Gliscor)@Leftovers
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP, 40 Def, 216 Speed
Nature: Jolly
Earthquake
Taunt
Roost
Toxic

The point of using him as lead was to eliminate baton passer's and subbers with taunt and set up some status afflictions and for those who were immune I have earthquake to deal some damage to. Since gliscor is mainly defensive I need coverage for it's ice weakness as well as water. So I came up with this over night...

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Starmie(Starmie)@Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 156 HP, 252 SpDef, 100 Speed
Nature: Calm
Recover
Reflect
Surf
Thunderbolt

I wanted a special wall starmie, I had never seen one used before and idk why it's coverage carries it towards a special defender plus reflect can accommodate for it's physical weakness as well as any other of my pokemon. The 100 EVs in speed allow it to set up reflect before some of the slower physical attackers such as electivire, machamp, breloom, and scizor. The coverage provided by starmie hold a great help in covering gliscor's special weaknesses like abomasnow's blizzard or a leadcress/bliss ice beam (They appear trust me) or leadpert with ice beam.

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Togekiss(Togekiss)@Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 56 HP, 188 Def, 136 SpDef, 128 Speed
Nature: Bold
Roost
Encore
Wish
Air Slash

This little stinker provides coverage for grass and bug moves used against starmie as well as fighting moves used against bliss and registeel. Wish provides support in recovering pokemon without recovery moves such as scizor and registeel as well as some who are too low to risk the turn to recover such as starmie or gliscor (Blissey doesn't usually get that low and Registeel is used as a backup wall). Encore traps pokemon into sub or set up moves so that i can wish and switch into a pokemon who needs it. If the pokemon uses a damaging move or i predict that then i will switch into the according covering pokemon. Air Slash provides a little hax after bliss has twaved or gliscor has toxiced so i can just beat them down in the end. The speed EVs do provide a little outspeeding to breloom, machamp, or some tyranitars but is not necessary so please let me know if I should move those EVs into others or keep them there. The defensive EVs provide 300 in both stats.

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Scizor(Scizor)@Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 248 HP, 252 Attk, 18 Speed
Nature: Adamant
Bullet Punch
Bug Bite
Superpower
Pursuit

My revenge killer with durability. I was trying to think of a pokemon to put in my team that could actually do some good damage but still can absorb needed hits and came up with the best solution CBzor! :D I just decided to change U-Turn into Bug Bite so I could do alot more damage plus with that much damage I can take some serious damage out of pokemon who resist bug type and sometimes i can 2hko it plus it OHKOs abomasnow :D PERFECT! Like I said before Togekiss really helps out scizor with it's wishing because scizor usually get low on hp pretty fast.

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Blissey(Blissey)@Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 Def, 84 SpAttk, 172 SpDef
Nature: Calm
Softboiled
Seismic Toss
Ice Beam
Thunderwave

My beautiful special attack absorber. If it's special and not covered in this team this baby takes care of it. Ice beam works well against specially based Salamence or Flygon as well as breloom after twave and can outstall non-CM celebi. Gliscor, Scizor, and Togekiss cover for blissey's physical hinderences such as fighting moves, earthquake, stone edge, and meteor mash. On the other hand blissey can eliminate almost all of starmie's weaknesses such as gengar, rotom, azelf with u-turn, ludicolo, and roserade.

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Registeel(Registeel)@Leftovers
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP, 100 Attk, 156 SpDef
Nature: Careful
Stealth Rock
Thunderwave
Earthquake
Seismic Toss

This was mainly just a backup wall with the chance to spam twave some more teehee >:3. Stealth Rock can prevent some pesky returns of mence, shedinja, yanmega, togekiss, and such. Earthquake provides coverage to heatran and electivire. Seismic Toss was just to kill off some other pokemon. The only problem I have with him is he is completely useless against rotom so if you have any changes for him that'll change that and still keep it as productive or more than it's been in this team please do tell :).

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Weaknesses:
I've noticed some notable weaknesses that really caused me some trouble. Rotom has been a real pain, i was thinking about using shadow ball on bliss in place of seismic toss but seismic toss really does help outstall some troublesome walls if ya'll have any alternatives for this please let me know. Also, stat setups, DDtar especially, really take a toll to this team; one alternative I've come up with is replacing registeel with a SR(or Spikes)/Whirlwind Skarm or putting roar in place of either SR or Twave on registeel. If you have any other weaknesses you can point out with solutions to them please do tell. Thanks!

I hope I didn't waste your time thank you for reading and please do comment! :D

 

[Doctor Who?]

U-Turn on Gliscor breaks Sashes on Azelf and Aerodactyl because you can't hit them with EQ. Then you can switch in Scizor to Bullet Punch them into oblivion. So U-Turn>>Toxic on Gliscor.

If you really want Toxic use it on Blissey since you already have T-wave on Registeel.

 

[Itchni]

A problem with defensive teams is that with the highly offensive metagame that is D/P/P, it usually doesn't end up well for the defense. I would suggest replacing togekiss with rotom-a or dusknoir, starmie with forretress and registeel with skarmory and making blissey have toxic instead of twave. This would make it more defensive, along with abusing entry hazards.

Registeel is really a shit pokemon in the OU metagame because of the lack of recovery.

 

[Kujoshan]

toxic on gliscor also ruins sash entirely. I understand the whole u-turn thing but toxic really helps in the later part of the game but idk maybe il try that out

i think switching regi to skarm will help alot but togekiss serves as a wish support which has been sometimes the direct reason for these 6-0s and 5-0s because scizor wouldn't last half as long without it rotom and dusknoir cannot provide this very much needed strat as well as the defenses and ability that helps me parahax my way through sometimes a whole team. but ghost would be helpful for bliss so idk il think about that but not for toge replacement. as for starmie forretress would be rather helpful but i think it would serve better as a registeel replacement as starmie and bliss are the only real covers i have for fire I can't always depend on bliss to counter every type that i can't cover. so if i were to replace anything with those pokemon i would replace starmie with vap, toge with rotom, and then regi with skarm/foretress.

thanks though i will definitely consider these comments