ORAS OU Hoopa gangam style

[Yagachi]

Hi everyone !

As I really like normal form Hoopa, I wanted to make something out of him. I tried several sets, but the most effective one was the assault vest set. Thanks to his interesting double type, his huge special defense and his decent HP, he is able to tank a lot of special sweeper, and answer with his large movepool. I really enjoyed playing normal Hoopa, and I wanted to build a team around him. Here is the team:​

Hoopa @ Assault Vest
Ability: Magician

- Focus Blast
- Energy Ball
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball

Modest Nature
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD​

>>Hoopa can wall heatran, Keldeo, Lati@s, Venusaur, Rotom, Serperior, Starmie, Thundurus, Gardevoir, etc...
At worst, he is 3HKO (timid latios with life orb deals 40% with a draco meteor), and he can OHKO all of them, except specially defensive Heatran (60-70% on focus blast) and serperior (70% on psychic). Mega venusaur has a 88% chance to die of psychic after stealth roc. Hoopa also protects my stealth rocks against some rapid spin users like starmie.

The major threat on the special side is gengar as he can OHKO him with shadow ball. As Hoopa can't tank a physical attack, i'll switch him out if I see a physical sweeper.

Landorus-Therian @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate

- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Knock Off

Impish Nature
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 8 SpD / 8 Spe​

>>Landorus-T is a great partner for Hoopa, as he is able to wall a lot of physical sweepers and can set up the stealth rock. The set is classic, I took the EV spread from smogon as I think it is very effective. He is a solid pivot for my team, I switch him in a lot and weakens the ennemy team with U-turn or Knock off. Weavile is a threat to Landorus, but he can't switch in safely, and I can send Keldeo to take care of him. Hoopa deals with mega-Slowbro, Rotom-W, mega-Venusaur. If my opponent choses to send a physycall wall like hypodown, I usually send Keldeo and force a switch.

Keldeo @ Life Orb
Ability: Justified

- Scald
- Secret Sword
- Hydro Pump
- Icy Wind

Timid Nature
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe​

>>Keldeo gives me a good resistance to dark types attack that Hoopa attracts. Nothing much to say about the EV spread and the set. I have double stab because scald helps me a lot against pokémons like azumarill that want to set up on him. Keldeo helps killing some steel pokemons that could give me problems in lategame.
Common switchs-in are bulky water type, Venusaur, Gardevoir, which Hoopa can all take care of, Azumarill and Gyarados, that I can try tu burn on the switch and outpseed them with Garchomp or sucker punch, and Tornadus-T, on which I'll try to hit him with Icy Wind on the switch to slow him and kill him aftewards.

Bisharp @ Life Orb
Ability: Defiant

- Knock Off
- Swords Dance
- Iron Head
- Sucker Punch

Jolly Nature
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe​

>>Another classic set, Bisharp is a potential solution to 4attacks gengar and mega-metagross. He gives my team (Hoopa) a ghost resistance, and his weakness are covered by his other teammates, mostly landorus and Hoopa. He can come on a defog for a free sword dance and manage to sweep a whole team on his own. Landorus can tank incoming fighting attacks, Keldeo can come on common switchs like Hippodown or landorus-T.

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Rough Skin

- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Dragon Claw
- Fire Blast

Naive Nature
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe​

>>The good old classic scarfchomp. He fits this team very well, as he can either revenge kill a pokémon, or finish a game on his own with outrage. His teammates handle steel-type pokémons very well, making the path clear for him. I choosed Fire blast in the first place because of ferrethorn, which was the only steel pokemon I had troubles to kill consistently, but I'm thinking about Stone Edge now, that helps a little bit against gyarados, a threat for my team.

Diancie @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body

- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power
- Protect

Naive Nature
EVs: 32 Atk / 224 SpA / 252 Spe​

>>And my mega pokémon is... Diancie ! This cutie hits very hard, helps me dealing with dragon attacks and makes huge holes in the opposing team, making the job easier for the rest of my team. Her vulnerability to Scizor and Metagross is covered by the rest of the team (Landorus/Keldeo/Bisharp), Hoopa takes care of Venusaur and the bulky water type (specially offensive).

Two big threats for my team are Tornadus-T and Gyarados. The first one hits very hard on the special side, and has access to Knock off that can OHKO Hoopa. The second one doesn't have a lot of threats and can set up his dragon dances without much fear.

Feel free to give any suggestion that could help me improving this really fun team.

 

[Snou]

Hi Yagachi! Really a great team, and the idea of abusing Assault Vest on Hoopa in his original form by also taking advantage on the immunities the Ghost type grants is very nice, altough it makes it weak to fast pursuitters like scarf Tyranitar. However I noticed several problems not really on the sets since they are good (except for landorus-T that should be faster, for example) but in some sinergies and the difficulty onto eliminating some dangerous threats.

One of these could be Manectric, considering that its only switch in onto him is Hoopa, and it must tank each time Tbolt+ Volt Switch, not to mention also that it could take advantage of the insta-volt switch and pursuitting easily by opening holes. For this reason I'd suggest you to add Raikou>Landorus-T and making also Garchomp Bulky. This would help you not only against electric (like for example LO Knock Off Thundurus, which could give you issues, expecially with Hp ice). But it would make you less weaker to pokemon like opposing Diancie, which you can only revengekill with scarfchomp, or with landorus if you didnt take already damages.

Raikou could also be a way to revengekill once and for all that nuisance of Manaphy, who, with a weakened Hoopa, could make one or two kills with a simple click of Tail Glow, on your team.

In case you dont want to considerate this fix, which could also help you to deal with Gyarados, whos dangerous for your team as you said, I suggest you to try Naughty Garchomp instead of the Naive you've chosen, since the speed of Garchomp is already good that these ones with scarf are outspeedable in a metagame like ORAS.

In order to increase my favoritism to suggest you Bulky Garchomp theres the presence of Metagross and Mega Scizor in the metagame, who could be difficult to take down, if not with a revenge kill from chomp (that it wouldnt even be ohko with fire blast in case of scizor)

I Hope I helped you, and gratz for the team :)

 

[Yagachi]

Thank you very much for your feedback !

On the paper it seems very interesting, the problem is see is that this will leave me with 3 weakness to earthquake and 0 resistance nor immunities, but maybe with the new spread garchomp will be enough to tank those hits.

I will do what you just proposed and come back with my opinion on it !

 

[Yagachi]

I tried playing with raikou and bulkychomp, and sadly it hasn't worked quite well.
The 3x weakness to ground makes me vulnerable to scarfchomp once my garchomp starts beeing in the red, and Raikou wasn't as useful for my team as Landorus-T, who helps me a lot against M-metagross.
Bulky chomp was strong, nothing much to say about him, but the lack of a powerfull Outrage-spam in the lategame was a problem.

I reverted those changes, and now i'm trying to run Stone edge on Garchomp, I hope it will help against gyarados.