Wonderland - A Hatterene Psychic team
Hi everyone! I've been lurking around the monotype community for about a year now, and decided it's about time I do my own RMT. Now since this is my first, I only collected a couple replays(from 1 ssnls series), and didn't bother trying to peak ladder. I did put the team through many, many test battles and got an alt to 1500. I drew inspiration from a lot of different psychic builds, notably Decem's Bronzong Psychic. In the end, I just wanted to try out Hatterene, which lost its luster even though it was so potent pre CT. After playing around with the Mad Hatter, I have come to love it so much, and I don't think the introduction of Tapu Lele makes it any less viable.Team Building Process
Obviously I wanted to build around Hatterene, so it was the natural first pick.
Glowking is really nice as a spdef wall and poison typing, which allows it to absorb tspikes for Hatt.
Added the other slowtwin, it's a really nice pivot and physical wall that patches up glowking quite nicely.
Chose zong as my rocker over Jirachi since it has Levitate, which is really good against mons like SubSD Bulu, SubRoost Kyurem, and SD Glastrier.
Victini is one of the best offensive mons on Psychic, can't go wrong with this.
Latias provides emergency defog and healing wish, while acting as much needed speed control for my team.
Sets
Mad Hatter (Hatterene) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Draining Kiss
- Psyshock
- Trick Room
I'd always loved the Mad Hatter when I read the book by Lewis Caroll, and I also love Hatterene just as much in the current metagame. Its cm set is capable of cleaning many different types with support and chip from its teammates. Notable mus include Dragon, Fighting, Poison, Water - the list goes on. It obviously isn't foolproof, Hatt has to set up on the corrent pokemon, and has to be used very conservatively for it to do its job as well. I was considering using HDB over Lefties, but then decided that Slowking + Latias should meet the bare minimum of hazard removal, opting for Lefties instead. Maximum Defense on Hatterene allows gives it more opportunities to set up, and gives the team an easier time against Pokemon like the Urshifus, Gapdos, and Zeraora.
Tweedledum (Slowking-Galar) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Psyshock
Slowking-G is a really underated mon in my opinion, it has a poison typing, insane special defense, regenerator, and a solid movepool as well. It helps against almost any special attacker, bar the scary dark and ghost types like Spectrier and Moltres. AV makes it even fatter, and combined with regen, it can constantly come in and out of the battlefield. Sludge Bomb is very spammable, spreading poisons, and in conjunction with Flamethrower to hit steels + EQ for tran, king can spread a lot of chip throughout the game, especially against Pokemon that lack solid recovery, like Ferro and Tran. For my psychic stab, I chose Psyshock over Future Sight, as fsight doesn't do much, especially on a team without Tapu Lele to abuse it. Psyshock also lets you hit Pokemon like Volcarona.
Tweedledee (Slowbro) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Slack Off
- Teleport
Slowbro is essentially a must have on any Psychic team. Its access to Teleport, a high base defense, and Regenerator makes it an excellent pivot, and partner to Slowking. I chose the standard Slowbro, using my filler move as Ice Beam. Beam lets you hit Dnite and prevents pult from using you as setup bait, which I find incredibly good for psychic, a type that struggles against these pokemon a lot.
The Caterpillar (Bronzong) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Iron Head
- Body Press
- Toxic
When I was using Decem's Bronzong Psychic with fog Mew and Scarf Lele, I was very confused as to why there was a bell on the team. After some more games done with Bronzong, I've come to love it just as much as Hatterene. Levitate is insanely good on this, handing it a ground immunity without any electric weakness. It lets you have a more comfortable time against SubRoost Kyurem and many other ground spammers that Jirachi fumbles to. It also relieves pressure off of Slowbro. Iron Head and Body Press hit what they need to, and Toxic allows you to cripple walls and pokemon you are unable to dent.
Chesire Cat (Victini) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- V-create
- Bolt Strike
- Dazzling Gleam
- Energy Ball
Another concept taken from Decem
, I added Belt Victini onto the team next. Now I can't stand using Band Victini, which does considerably worse against types like Flying and Steel, where Victini theoretically breaks the defensive core, but can't due to protect scouting. V-Create and Bolt Strike are very standard on Victini, but then I added Energy Ball to nuke Pokemon like Cloyster or Swampert on the switch, and Dazzling gleam which hits dragons like Kyurem and Hydreigon.
Queen of Hearts (Latias) (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psychic
- Defog
- Healing Wish
I used Scarf Latias to cover up my last slot. This was mainly thanks to its nice utility which it can fit onto its scarf set, notable Healing wish and Defog. I originally had trick over Defog, but after struggling against Spikes and Webs stacking teams, I changed it to defog. Healing Wish is really nice for both Victini and Hatt, essentially giving them another chance to get on the field. I also considered Psyshock over Psychic, but settled on Psychic due to Hatterene and Glowking both already having shock.
Threatlist
Ghost types are a royal pain in the ass to deal with, and they all have very little counterplay on a zamless team.
I also noticed my team struggles a lot more against Bisharp Steel compared to a regular Psychic team, as I got rid of terrain on this team. This mon being on the opponents team is pretty much an autoloss unless slowbro can burn it.
While the spikers themselves aren't too hard to deal with, when multiple layers are applied it gets very annoying. Decem's Zong Psychic had taunt defog mew, which circumvents this problem, but my only hazard control is Scarf Latias' defog.
Other than that there are no notable threats( there is obviously more that I lose to but they are the normal threats you'd find psychic struggling with, I only listed Pokemon I now have a harder time against.
Alright so that's all I have!
Here's the importable to my team, any feedback/extra testing is appreciated :3
Mad Hatter (Hatterene) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Draining Kiss
- Psyshock
- Trick Room
Tweedledum (Slowking-Galar) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Psychic
Tweedledee (Slowbro) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Slack Off
- Teleport
The Caterpillar (Bronzong) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Iron Head
- Body Press
- Toxic
Chesire Cat (Victini) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- V-create
- Bolt Strike
- Toxic
- U-turn
Queen of Hearts (Latias) (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psychic
- Defog
- Healing Wish
Ability: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Draining Kiss
- Psyshock
- Trick Room
Tweedledum (Slowking-Galar) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Sludge Bomb
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Psychic
Tweedledee (Slowbro) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Slack Off
- Teleport
The Caterpillar (Bronzong) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Iron Head
- Body Press
- Toxic
Chesire Cat (Victini) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Victory Star
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- V-create
- Bolt Strike
- Toxic
- U-turn
Queen of Hearts (Latias) (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Psychic
- Defog
- Healing Wish
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