So, I was playing PBR online last night and was totally raped by a crazy, ingenious team.
It was an all normal-type team with a Smeargle, two Purugly, and three others that I can't think of. From what I saw, the entire team was running only three different moves: Detect, Assist, and Explosion. Smeargle (who I assumed was up to no good so I attacked first) used Detect and its partner used Assist, which ended up being a STAB'd Explosion. It destroyed my leads. And then the next Pokemon the opponent sent out used the same tactic. I was in disbelief when it was over...I never saw it coming...
lol I actually built a similar singles team before... I never used it cause the Assisters are all kind of... well weak... but uh, I'm now just waiting for Assist Infernape and Assist Weavile also I might as well post this up here before someone goes on to steal my team >_> but anyway this was the team I used for the VCG, it ran pretty well... until this guy's Garchomp used Dig >__>
Dusknoir @ Leftovers
Careful Pressure
252HP - 80Defense - 176S.Defense (this may be inaccurate, since I made it two years ago, but I just checked and back calculated the stats and that's what I got)
Imprison
Protect
Ice Punch
Trick Room
I think this used the old Anti-spin spread of EVs, but basically it's a Ghost, and can take hits, but its main purpose was to stop Trick Room teams in its tracks by Imprisoning it right away, also with the benefit of Imprisoning Protect.
Gengar @ Focus Sash
Naive Levitate
252Attack - 252Speed - 4S.Attack
Shadow Ball
Energy Ball
Skill Swap (I didn't run this because back then Hypnosis had 70acc)
Explosion
The second half of the opening duo, these two are both Ghosts so unless you run into Fake Out Kanghaskhan, they won't have too many issues with flinching, I ran Hypnosis back then cause it was more useful, but now the accuracy drop and Heatran came in, so Skill Swap was what I shifted to, basically to absorb Heatran Lava Plumes. I put all the points into Attack, it put a ridiculously nice dent into a Metagross I was fighting.
Metagross @ Life Orb
Adamant Clear Body
252HP - 252Attack - 4S.Def
Ice Punch
Thunderpunch
Bullet Punch
Explosion
Ice Punch and Thunderpunch form the BoltBeam combo, Bullet Punch as Priority and Explosion is always welcome... after Dusknoir Imprisons Protect that is. I'm pretty sure you all see a trend here with Metagross and Gengar focusing on Explosion, coupled with a Ghost that prevents Protect, oh how I wonder what comes next.
Lucario @ Choice Scarf
Adamant Inner Focus
Close Combat
Crunch
Copy Cat
Me First (originally this was Roar, since Inner Focus allowed Lucario to lead up there with Gengar and Dusknoir was originally to have Lum Berry, but I put Me First cause I never got access to the Platinum moves so I never got Ice Punch...)
Ahh Lucario, it's my favorite part, almost no one expects a Lucario to pop up and Explode immediately. All in all this team is a team that's win or lose, but battle won't last longer than two minutes, disregarding lag, either I blow up all my Pokemon and win, or I blow up all my Pokemon and lose.
Also the order in the team is relatively important, although you can argue that it isn't, the reason why Dusknoir is IN FRONT of Gengar, is due to Gengar Levitating, in the case of my order, you can in fact scan the Abilities of possible Arena Trappers, because if Gengar was in front, Gengar can do what ever and then Dusknoir accidententally switches when the Dugtrio infact has Sand Veil or something, I mean it's somewhat useless, but hey it's good to get into that habit of nitpicking over the smallest things.
The few problems I see this team facing... is a team full of Ghosts, who aren't quite defensive so it's not totally an issue, a team that actually attempts to use Priority on Lucario, since that wrecks him, but at the same time puts your opponent into a bad place since a weak priority isn't going to be hurting much unless it's Mach Punch or something, the main issue I was afraid of at the time was a counter Imprison enemy, but most of them would have probably run slower Dusknoirs with Trick Room or something, so I should be able to outspeed them. I think there were issues with speedy sweepers too, but one Explosion tends to take them down so they weren't too threatening
I'm not too sure how useful this team is now since I've noticed the hype of Ubers being used in the new tournament, and Dialga and Giratina can get in the way.
