My run on ladder this last year has been quite a blast. People who know me know I'm adamant on playing my own teams. It's not on purpose, really. I didn't know how to use these forums well. Anyways, building teams is certaintly a experience in this tier and one that I'm satisfied not to miss.
Jirachi @ Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 188 HP / 24 Def / 252 SpA / 44 Spe
Rash Nature
- Iron Head
- Doom Desire
- Grass Knot / Fire Punch
- Thunderbolt / Icy Wind
My latest creation. I may or may not spare SpA EVs to outspeed adamant gyarados. Did you know the 188 / 24 spread can
physically take on what max hp can clutch? Stuff like a +1 gyarados eq is what I mean. I wouldn't be surprised that's used somewhere in the tour scene, but I find it funny this is stuff I discover by myself. Anyways, using max SpA ddesire is pretty fun in tspikes or double hazards teams. It works like an extra attack that puts pressure on your opponent if rachi has something to threaten with an OHKO. Grass Knot essentially threatens the likes of pert and phan and tbolt threatens gyarados and starmie. Slotting fire punch and icy wind shouldn't be too difficult if you order the coverage in different ways in your teams. However, I feel that you'd need a more offensive approach (or EV spread) in this rachi to make fire punch work perfectly, such as 280 speed and 40 to 80 attack EVs can be fine.
Magnezone @ Leftovers
Ability: Magnet Pull
Hidden Power: fire
EVs: 252 HP / 48 SpA / 104 SpD / 104 Spe
Calm Nature
- Magnet Rise
- Discharge
- Protect
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Mirror Coat / Toxic / Explosion
The spread is quite possibly not my invention. Spdef magnezone has been mentioned before by sure. The SpA investment just makes me feel like discharge actually hits stuff. The real move here is mirror coat. Not a lot of pokemon get it and magnezone can use it to punish coverage pretty well and appreciate an use even when it doesn't trap something. Of course explosion is an option in more explosive teams and toxic if you feel you can pressure the likes of celebi with toxic just fine. Mirror coat has the flaw that it can be revealed in the wrong turn and it can cost you the whole battle without a proper patch, for which I'd recommend something fast with encore such as infernape or alakazam; get crazy. One core I have wanted to explore with this set is encore infernape + scarftar, because you basically become bulletproof to cmers.
Swampert @ Custap Berry
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 212 HP / 128 Atk / 168 SpA
Quiet Nature
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Outrage
- Hydro Pump
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
After the spore ban breloom has noticeably lost presence. Such a great thing, because this constant fear of breloom switching into swampert made it impossible to appreciate the unique option that is outrage. This specific set is specially good along with taunt pursuit ttar or maybe taunt magma heatran since you secure clef more reliably and keep momentum vs stall. Outrage may be lackluster vs deflati with this specific spread (but I don't care cuz I use it on draco spam.) Anyways, this is gonna be useful in draco spam mainly, since taking out latias is very useful to open up a sweep for dragonite, flygon or kingdra. 300 attack would be the minimum required to KO latias after rocks, but these calcs are not that relevant if your team is flexible.
Spiritomb @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 248 HP / 16 Def / 244 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Spite
- Will-O-Wisp
Certaintly I hate enduring the interactions of clef vs deftom in the stall mirror and with this set I sought to fix that with the auto-relaxation button that Spite provides. Just sit there and drain 6 pp out of anything you like with it. You gotta be careful to use it because spiritomb can be a bit weak to steamrolls and taunt basically inutilizes this. Other than that, I find this fun to load vs rotom stalls and balances.
Zapdos @ Magnet
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 80 HP / 252 SpA / 176 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 2 Atk / 30 SpA
- Thunderbolt
- Roost
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Thunder
I love the aesthetics of tiers like RBY and GSC Ubers and how these metas have evolved to become a
luck management fest. If you fear to miss thunder you fear to play the game; it's as simple as that. People will usually run heat wave in place of thunder and miss on the insane damage that thunder could impose on tanks like clefable and mons that can be tough for zapdos otherwise such as dragonite. Hp grass is preferred as in any other offensive zap variant, since you care about taking out tanks like swampert much more than gliscor, dnite or flygon. Life orb is an option if you want more power vs hippowdon. The agency is there; I know people will appreciate offensive zapdos more at some point of this metagame.
Cloyster @ Leftovers
Ability: Shell Armor
EVs: 252 HP / 32 Def / 216 SpD / 8 Spe
Bold Nature
- Spikes
- Rapid Spin
- Surf
- Explosion
Ultra niche option that is, in fact, much more threatening vs stall than starmie in a few aspects. Not only does it spin - it sets spikes, checks skarm and explodes on clefable. The spread can leave your opponent's mouths open in shock. Where is your starmie? Where is your infernape? Weren't they supposed to take out cloyster? No.
Venusaur @ Black Sludge
Ability: Overgrow
EVs: 252 HP / 144 Atk / 56 Def / 56 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Power Whip
- Leech Seed
- Knock Off
Venusaur is such a decent mon in this tier that I would dare to say its biggest flaw is getting overwhelmed by the most powerful mons just as tyranitar or metagross. Of course it also has a flaw on lacking physical power and the stat distribution could probably be better. Other than that, physical venusaur has unique properties in being able to wreck flygon nape u-turn cores, removing suicune without sacrificing itself and luring heatran. Sadly, venusaur would require a tad bit more of physical power to assure the KO on max hp heatran after rocks. The defense investment in this set is adjusted to have a 50% chance to survive +1 fire punch for ttar and the double crunch from scarftar. Leech seed and knock off are huge moves vs celebi, sub heatran and jirachi. These are all mons you appreciate weakening for your own rachi, lati or gengar.
might be the best specs 
eruption counter in the game
banded sacred fires in ubers