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SimPleeMe

Ok so I used to play pokemon a lot , then I stopped for a while after school started because I jsut didn't have the time. Just about a week ago I started getting back into it again since I have more time. I made a new team for platinum, tested it a few times, changed it, tested, and changed it again, and now this is the result. I definitely could use any comments/criticism/advice anyone has to offer and nothing on this team is set in stone, its all just testing, so help! :)

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Heatran@Focus Sash
Nature: Naive
Trait: Flashfire
EVs: 56Atk/200Spe/252SAtk
Explosion
Stealth Rock
Overheat
Earth Power

I didn't really know what to use for a lead, but this seems to working out pretty well. Sets up SR, then I either scout out wall/mence/something to explode on/just attack accordingly. I like the focus sash to get the SR guaranteed, but idk. Like I said its been workin decently, but I need something better. I want to use a different Heatran and lead with something else, but I', not sure yet.


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Salamence@Life Orb
Nature: Naive
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 129Atk/129SAtk/252Spe
Draco Meteor
Outrage
Earthquake
Flamethrower

Just started testing this thing out. I kinda like this version, although its kinda thrown together. It powers through a lot of stuff, and Draco Meteor ? Outrage has been working pretty well with countering certain special/physical walls, and the other 2 moves are more or less fillers and give some decent type coverage.


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Scizor@Choice Band
Nature: Adamant
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252Atk/252Spe/4HP
Bullet Punch
U-Turn
Superpower
Pursuit

Definately like this guy a lot. Since I just started playing again with platinum out, I am really seeing why bullet punch scizor is so good. I like the chioce band for some extra power and a CB'd bullet punch really cleans up a lot mid/late-game. Although, I have been considering switching over to the life orb version, not sure yet.

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Gyarados@Wacan Berry
Nature: Adamant
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 252Atk/252Spe/4HP
Waterfall
Ice Fang
Dragon Dance
Earthquake

Honestly, I just think this thing is amazing. I have used this on all of my teams for as long as I can remember. Its really standard, but I just love everything about it. Its so easy to switch in, especially with intimidate, Wacan Berry is so good because it with survive really any electric attack besides STAB'd thunderbolts from zapdos/jolteon. DDance IMO is the best set-up move, and with such good type coverage, Waterfall, EQ, Ice fang, it takes out so much. Although I do love it, as I said I have used it on all of my teams for so long, it is getting kinda old and I wouldn't mind replacing it and getting a new face in here.

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Machamp@Lum berry
Nature: Adamant
Trait: No Guard
EVs: 252Atk/252HP/4Spe
Dynamic Punch
Stone Edge
Substitute
Payback

I've always been dying to use Machamp, but never really got around to fitting him into any of my teams. Now that I finally am testing him, I am in love. This things beasts on so much. Generally I'll bring him in mid-game on a steel/blissey/something scared of him, and set up a sub, then take my free attacks on their switch in (many times they bring in ghosts anticipating the dynamicpunch, giving me a free payback), dynamic punch is just so good, confusion has one me tons of games. It was between Ice punch and stone edge, but I like stone edge to handle all the pesky flyers that come in on machamp. I went with Lum Berry because I like getting the easy switch in on status, and not being afraid to switch in on blissey because of twave, etc.

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Starmie@Expert Belt
Nature: Timid
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252SAtk/252Spe/4HP
Surf
Grass Knot
Thunderbolt
Ice beam

This guy is pretty random. A pretty strange Starmie I guess, no recover, no rapid spin, no choice item, just an expert belt and some attacks. I wanted something to give me a ride array of attacks, and since starmie has such a diverse move pool, I wanted to try it out, without cluttering it up with things like recover/rapid spin. I went with expert belt over life orb because I generally want this guy to stay in for the long haul, so I didn't want to deal with the 10% recoil. Surf for stab, boltbeam, and then grass knot for random swamperts thats try to wall it.
 
Your team lacks an electric resistance, which is pretty important, may I suggest a CB or Scarf Flygon over the random Starmie? Just follow the strategy guide on the set. Flygon can hit pretty hard now with outrage.

*I can't seem to find a OU team in RMT wihtout Heatran or Scizor. Is it just me?
 
While we're speaking of electrical resistance...


Electivire @ Expert Belt
Motor Drive
Hasty (+ Spe, - Def)
252 Atk/252 Spe
-Tpunch
-Cross Chop
-EQ
-Ice Punch/Flamethrower

People have paired this guy with gyarados for forever. Let me tell you a story...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat luxormaniac
"Once upon a time electivire was loved. Every team with a gyarados had one and cherished their beloved e-vire. Everything was happy in Electroland."
"But one day people who both had electivire started realizing that the other person had one too to go with their gyarados. So they learned to predict the switch in and hit hard with something else instead."
"Coming in on an attack was hard for poor E-vire, and he wasn't quite fast enough to finish his job. He died, and so did many others like him. The entire population declined in numbers, and to this day you will hardly ever see an electivire because of the Great E-vire Extinction."

The moral of the story? If electivire ever becomes popular enough again that people will expect it with gyarados, DO NOT USE IT.


No one would really expect it with starmie tho, although you might be replacing starm with this. Ice punch gets you dragon coverage, Flamethrower lets you OHKO scizor instead of 3HKO it with tpunch. Your choice. Hasty over adamant lets flamethrower do its job almost all the time- with stealth rock up its assured. You can switch tpunch out for tbolt and switch to mild (+sp.atk., - Def.) and move some Atk ev's to Sp. Atk to help break through physical walls. The choice is up to you.

Now- about scizor. I played with scizor the moment i noticed that every team had one, and from my experience i like this set:


Scizor @ Leftovers/Occa Berry
Technician
Adamant (+ Atk, - Sp. Atk)
252 HP/252 Atk
-SD
-Bullet punch
-Superpower
-Roost

My philosophy? Who needs speed ev's when your using a priority? instead, i make it bulkier. Switch into a scizor hater, SD, bullet punch away. Occa berry even lets you live to SD again, in a yachomp kind of way. Superpower gets you good coverage with bullet punch.

Hope i helped.
 
As mentioned before this team has a notable electric weakness and can fall prey to an offensive Zapdos.

I guess the big question for your team is how much you want Gyra to be a part of your team. If you want to replace him you could replace it with a Scarf-Flygon to take some Electric attacks or the predictable Thunder Wave that would give your team some problems.

Scarf-Flygon

Flygon @ Choice Scarf
Nature: Adamant / Naughty (Depends on if you extra power for Draco Meteor / Fire Blast)
Trait: Levitate
EV: 80 HP / 252 Atk / 176 Spd

-Earthquake
-Outrage
-Stonge Edge / Draco Meteor / Fire Blast
-U-Turn

Also an Electivire could work here as well (as posted by an earlier poster) since Electivire doesn't really run as rampant as it was a while ago and hardly anyone expects an Electivire with a Starmie.

As for Starmie, the role it seems to play in your team is as a late game sweeper so I'd recommend using Life Orb over Expert Belt due to all the passive damage that occurs in todays metagame (Entry Hazards, Weather Teams, etc.) it wont really take a decent shot unless you predict perfectly and the extra power can really be the difference between winning and losing the match.

Overall not bad just needs a little tweaking to bring out the most potential out of it.

Hope this helps.
 
change mixmences evs to 76atk 252spA 176 spe
this puts you at 308 speed, outrunning +natured base 90s, with 76 atk Earthquake will easily OHKO heatran, pump 252 evs into spA because mixmence loves to deal massive damage with draco meteor and do more damage to things like bronzong, outrage is just for another STAB and 2hkos blissey with SR
 
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