Gen IV First UU Team :)

[Tha Collector]

Hi everybody!
im kinda new to competive battling, and i have already tested OU and NU, i like them both but now i will dip my feet into the UU Tier.
I am open to all suggestions, plz rip out my pkmn, take out many "useful" moves for better ones, plz do. Because i really love pokemon and i want to be the best i can ^^ btw im from sweden, so my english may be a litte bad but who cares xD

So here we go!

Team building process:

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Well, every team needs a lead, and i think Ambipom is really good at doing his job, getting rid of entry hazards and dealing high damage is just an awesome combo + the awesome move Fake out that will deal really mush damage on Ambipom.

I knew i needed a Spiritomb counter. Blaziken does this really well when absorbing Will-O-Wisps and dark type moves, while also dealing really good damage on many pokemon. Blaziken is my main swith-in to Spiritomb leads.

Here we have him, Donphan. Hes my main Altaria counter that can give blaziken some trouble but he is also my spinner and puts down the mighty Stealth Rock. Now Moltres isnt a problem anymore ;)

Venusaur is a beast, he blocks almost anything that is trown at donphan. He blocks Milotic, Slowbro, Azumarill and Poliwrath. Really great guy overall.

Really nothing Venusaur loses to was already blocked by my team.

Chansey = Blaziken
Registeel = Blaziken/Donphan
Moltres = Pretty much only stealth rock and an attack should be enough ;)

So i just decided that i would put in a Bulky water type so that a also finished my FWG Core that will be Milotic.

The only things that counter milotic really well is Venusaur and Ludicolo. With Chansey onboard, i get to wall the shit out of these things. Plus that im gaining a really good SP Wall.

**Team at a Glance:**

I did almost say everything in the team building process, so i may repeat myself ^^'



The Lead: Ambipom

Item: Silk Scarf

Ability: Technician
Nature: Jolly (+Spe -SPA)
252 ATK/4 SPD/252 SPE
Fake Out
Taunt
Low Kick
U-Turn

Why Ambipom?
Ambipom is an Awesome lead in almost any way. He may be used by almost all people in UU but i really like him. Its Ability deals really high damage with all my moves. Ambipom kan scout and taunt which is really awesome for a lead Pokemon. He really just is a "Hit and Run" Lead which means he only needs ATK and SPE. I chose Silk Scarf before Life Orb because i really don't like the life orb damage.

Moveset:
Fake Out: Daah, Ambipoms signature move, deals really high damage with STAB, Technician and Silk Scarf and causes the opponent to flinch, insane!
Taunt: Pretty much just block entry hazards from coming up.
Low Kick: Deals High damage on heavy pokemon like registeel and others, mostly here for type covrage.
U-Turn: Scouting, do i need to say more?

Synergy:
Fight: Venusaur

Mixed Attacker: Blaziken

Item: Life Orb

Ability: Blaze
Nature: Rash (+SPA -SPD)
4 ATK/252 SPA/252 SPE
Fire Blast
Superpower
Hidden Power Grass
Stone Edge

Why Blaziken?
Spiritomb counter and Sweeper is Blazikens job. just here to dish out high and fast damage ASAP. He kills off many evil threats to the team. with all his type coverage only one type hits him hard and thats psychic. That was kinda short but oh well xD

Moveset:
Fire Blast: STAB Life Orb. Dish out your high damage.
Superpower: same as fire blast.
Hidden Power Grass: Here for type coverage, hits water types and ground types.
Stone edge: Hits those annoying Flying types for super effective damage.

Synergy:
Psychic: Chansey, easially blocks those SP attacks.
Water: Venusaur, Milotic


The Supporter: Donphan

Item: Leftovers

Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Adamant
252 HP/252 ATK/4 SPE
Rapid Spin
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Stealth Rock

Why Donphan?
Donphan is my spinner, Stealth Rocker and optional attacker. Donphan is like the only viable spinner in UU therfore i chose him. He also acts as a Altaria Counter with the Stone egde. Also, Donphan has really good DEF. I Think Donphan has a lot going for him as a rocker and spinner and im expecting good from him :)

Moveset:
Rapid Spin: Blows away those pesky entry hazards, that is basiclly it.
Earthquake: STAB Attacking move, thats all.
Stone Edge: gives almost perfect coverage and hits Altaria right in the nuts.
Stealth Rock: well, its SR do i need to say more?

Synergy:
Grass: Venusaur, Blaziken
Ice: Milotic
Water: Milotic, Venusaur



The Special Attacker: Venusaur

Item: Life Orb

Ability: Overgrow
Nature: Timid (+SPE -ATK)
4 DEF/252 SPA/252 SPE
Leaf Storm
Sludge Bomb
Sleep Powder
Synthesis

Why Venusaur?
Venusaur is my SP attacking pokemon, he induces sleep, heals himself and have 2 powerful STABs. Awesome. He also block almost any Water type, this meaning Donphan can run wild. A Timid nature and maximized offensive stats because they give Venusaur the best chance to sweep. Even without the Defensive EVS Venusaur can easially take Surf, Hidden power and also Ice beam from milotic and blastioise.

Moveset:
Leaf Storm: Venusaurs most powerful attack, with STAB and life orb it becomes really powerful.
Sludge Bomb: Basiclly just here for STAB.
Sleep Powder: Puts Opponent to sleep, IMO the best Special condition.
Synthesis: just for healing off damage taht my opoonent took many turns to deal :P

Synergy:
Fire: Blaziken, Milotic
Ice: Milotic
Psychic: Chansey



The Bulky Water:Milotic

Item: Leftovers

Ability: Marvel Scale
Nature: Bold
248 HP/252 DEF/8 SPE
Surf
Hidden Power Grass
Recover
Toxic

Why Milotic?
Milotic is a all-around defensive pokemon on my team, she is here to take hits from many other pokemon and toxic stall them out. I guess i have nothing more to say ^^'

Moveset:
Surf: STAB and good damage attack overall.
Hidden power Grass: Type coverage.
Recover: healing and toxic stalling
Toxic: Poison and stall

Synergy:
electric: Venusaur, Donphan
Grass: Venusaur, Blaziken


The Special Wall: Chansey

Item: Leftovers

Ability: Natural Cure
Nature: Bold
4 HP/252 DEF/252 SPD
Aromatherapy
Softboiled
Seismic Toss
Thunder Wave

Why Chansey?
Walling, walling and again walling. This cleric Chansey gives away Paralysis and heals off all of my teams special conditions while still dishing out damage. Chansey can take Special hits like a beast, with the bold nature and 252 EVs in DEF she goes up to 119 DEF which isnt that great but still not bad.

Moveset:
Aromatherapy: to heal your team, always when im running Wish blissey in OU, i always want a cleric one to heal of my conditions....
Softboiled: Heal yourself, keep stalling out your opponent with milotic toxic.
Seismic Toss: The only really good attackin move it can have. Just here to deal some Damage.
Thunder wave: Inflict status on your opponenent, i may consider toxic, but T-wave just has allways worked better for me.

Synergy:
Fight: Venusaur


That was all from me right now ;) plz help me and stuff ^^

See ya!

 

[Tha Collector]

Really? no replys? plz people, i really need help here!

bump

 

[Kodachrome]

I think it's a great team! Each of the pokemon have a defined purpose that was well thought out and can work with each others strategies as well. One of the biggest problems I have when building teams is synergy between the entire team, but you've managed to blow it out of the water.

 

[Runa]

I usually help out in NU battles, but I like to think I'm pretty decent at UU as well.

The first thing i noticed... Your team is mainly tank/stall/wallbreaker. Where are you High Priority sweepers like Alakazam or Espeon? Even a gimmick Toxicroak or Charizard.
You don't have to use JUST UU's. I mix my tiers even with OU battles.

Instead of running Milotic, you might want to think of using a Gastrodon. It has amazing coverage, movepool, and strengths. It's BARELY outclassed by Swampert, and it is definately more effective than Quagsire. Plus it's typing is greatly appreciated by your team. I run this set, personally:

Gastrodon @ Leftovers
Ability: Sticky Hold
CAREFUL* nature, with all 31 IV's (No Hidden Power needed for a phys set)
EV's: 210 HP, | 48 Def, | 252 Sp. Def
Moveset: Curse, Recover/Rest, Earthquake, Waterfall/Avalanche

I personally love this set. It takes out threats like Metagross and Bronon in OU, and even Blissey if i use it right. You can run recover if you have aromatherapy on your Chansey, or just risk the status and runn it anyway. You can use the powerful STAB of EQ, and the flinch hax of Waterfall. or you can benefit from the low speed after a curse or two, and get double boosted Avalanche to nail some pokemon hard. The set definately depends on your team.

Also, your chansey has interesting EV's. You could just go right for the Clefable if you want, Or use a blissey set on Chansey. If you go for Clefable, I'd run this set. (which, yet again, rips through OU in my case):

Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EV's: 248 HP, | 236 Def, | 4 Sp. Att, | 16 Sp. Def
Moveset: Wish, Cosmic Power, Charge Beam, Ice Beam

This set examplifies the classic BoltBeam strategy. If you come in on a pokemon that can't do anything to cleff, like a status inflictor or etc., you get a free CP in on the switch. The you wish, and CP, and wish, and CP, and wish, and CP. Till you have raised your defenses effectively. Don't over-do it unless you have a safe chance of gettting +5/+6. After you set up your defenses, you start Charge Beaming and rasing your spat (while also inflicting damage). And after a few beams, you can start mixing your attacks and throw volleys of BoltBeam at your foe.

Alternatively, you could run a similar set, but make it phsyically orientated. And run Belly Drum, and physical moves. Like.. Body Slam and or Fire Punch. Or just run the standard "BlisseyCleff" set.

Those are a couple Ideas, but you could go either way really. What your team honestly needs is some more high priority sweepers and less stall/tank/wallbreaker. Also maybe edit your chansey (or sub in a cleff), or sub in a tanker like Gastro somewhere as well (Maybe instead of Milotic??).

If you make some minor changes to your team, pertaining to typing and etc., as well as adding those sweepers (like Alakazam, Espeon or Floatzel), Than I think it should do generally well.

If you have any further questions, or need help with teambuilding or etc., just toss a PM my way. ^___^

 

[Tha Collector]

@Runa
Thanks so much for the rate! i will definatly consider Gastrodon.
i know i have very much stall here, i only got 2 like, Attackers (Venusaur and Blaziken)
But i dont really see what you mean with a "Blissey" set, maybe you mean the Wish set? well i really wanted my Chansey to be a Cleric, cause i Hate special conditions. But, i may consider Cleff aswell.

 

[Runa]

@Runa
Thanks so much for the rate! i will definatly consider Gastrodon.
i know i have very much stall here, i only got 2 like, Attackers (Venusaur and Blaziken)
But i dont really see what you mean with a "Blissey" set, maybe you mean the Wish set? well i really wanted my Chansey to be a Cleric, cause i Hate special conditions. But, i may consider Cleff aswell.

By a Blissey set, I mean using the Clefable/Chansey with a EV/Moveset similar to a Blissey.l Basically a UU Blissey. (so to speak)

Also, Yeah you might want to sub some more sweepers if you could. It would help with the attacking aspect of your team.

Cleff and Chansey work basically the same in UU. Just Cleff has more options. It's a little less defensive, and has some better attacking stats. Which is why if you run Cosmic Power, and force a switch, You get a nice defensive boost on the ensueing free turn. After which you an set up even more. Any pokemon can work like this really, even a 5th gen Deoxys-D, or Rankurusu. So it's a good strategy to take into consideration. (You could also do a CM Espeon if you want priority, AND setup stats.)

 

[black_cotton]

Hey first welcome to smogon. A few things i would like to add here.

I noticed that you lack prority moves, so fast sweepers like mismagius/alakazam/ swellow may be a problem once that milotic and other walls are weakened late game, just to put into pesperctive:

A nasty plot mismagius will do a minimum of 74% with thunderbolt to milotic and the same amount to venusaur with shadow ball assuming that she nasty plotted on the predicted switch.

This and the fact that:
1-she can easily set up a substitute on chansey, your special wall. And chansey literally does not touch her.

2-Nothing on your team outspeed her.

3- the only poke that speed-ties with her, ambipom, only can manage to use a resisted u-turn which deals 23,7%~28,2%. Which is pathetic, is roughly a 50/50 chance to break the sub :/

Since mismagius and other fast pokes seems like a problem you need to play around them via sacrificing a poke and revenge killing. This can be achieved by having priority and/or a scarf poke.

My suggestion to try to solve your problem is change Blaziken item to choice scarf. Cause honestly he is not fast enough, and since you are using a non + speed nature, he misses the important 80 base speed tier in UU. But with a scarf he becomes a powerfull revenge killer thus solving your problems.
Consider this set:

Blaziken
Rash-Choice Scarf
84 atk/184 s.atk/240 speed
Fire blast
Superpower
Thunder punch
HP Ice

So with that out of the way you may also consider Assurance on donphan instead of Stone Edge, simply cause it does more damage to ghost types trying to block your rapid spin.

One last thing, change chansey nature to Calm, she does not gain anything in terms of walling by having a +def. nature, on the other side the calm means that she can take some of the tiers strongest special assaults better. If i remember correctly it deals with random special stat upers sweepers like houndoom a lot better.

That all i can think for now. Hope to have helped and good luck.

 

[Runa]

I agree with what Black Cotten said. It's like I said, you definately need some speed in this team. You get crapped on my scarfers and high speed sweepers.

Blaziken could work, but my suggestion would be to run a moveset with 3/4 phys., and the remaining move to be Fire Blast. Since fire blast is a high powered move and doesn't need to work off of high Sp. Att to deal damage.

You could also help Blaziken out, but adding a pokemon sorta like Dugtrio or Jolteon (but under a UU definition of course). The same way, as using high speed to revenge kill. So maybe something like Espeon or etc.

Also, I agree with putting Payback/Assurance on your Donphan. It helps it deal more damage with a wider type coverage.

 

[PrinceMush01]

Maybe you should give Ambipom Return or Double Hit? Anyway, awesome UU team!