InBlue- Weatherless balanced offense

Lemonz

Hey smogon! I'm lemonz. I've been playing since fourth gen, but I haven't exactly been arround the forums much. Anyways, since genesect got banned, I though it was the perfect time to build a team centered arround one of my favorite pokes: lucario.
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*TEAM UPDATED*
*Details will be added soon*
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Bronzong @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 84 Atk / 80 Def / 92 SDef
Sassy Nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Gyro Ball
- Hidden Power [Ice]
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Thundurus-T (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Volt Absorb
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Volt Switch
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
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Gengar (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Substitute
- Disable
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
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Lucario (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Justified
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- ExtremeSpeed
- Bullet Punch
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Latios (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Trick
- Surf
- Psyshock
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Garchomp (F) @ Lum Berry
Trait: Rough Skin
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Swords Dance
- Fire Fang


original team:

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Why dont you put T-spikes on Nidoqueen? thats the best thing about it. Otherwise you may as well use Gliscor or Nidoking. Try it over Ice beam. Also,make her Relaxed and consider Earthquake>Earth Power to hit stuff like Jirachi and Heatran harder.
Crobat is a bit of a weak link here,I guess he doesnt seem to be serving much of a purpose. If you want a stallbreaker,try Jellicent.
I like your offensive core,but once Latios is gone Tornadus-T shits bricks on your whole team. Scizor can become an issue too. Therefore i recommend Zapdos>Crobat. He may be underrated but he beats both Scizor and Tornadus-T and also smacks down on Keldeo.
For your Reuniclus problem,Jirachi could be a nice pick over Nidoqueen perhaps.
Also,in the current meta,Breloom outclasses Virizion unless you go mixed. Breloom also beats Mamoswine with mach punch and has works great with Latios and Lucario.
 
I feel like a rock-polish metagross with zenheadbutt, earthquake and meteormash would sweep this team with no problem. Metagross are not exactly common, but I just wanted to point out how much of a weakness your team has to psychic types. There are many things that you could probably do about this. But what I recommend is following what the darkerones was saying and switch out Crobat with a standard volt switch zapdos and take virizion out and ass a garchomp.

~ Swords Dance
~ Outrage
~ Earthquake
~ Stone Edge / Fire Fang

That moveset for the Garchomp would probably be best with a lumberry of yache berry. Which ever you prefer. But it is your choice whether to listen to me or not.

I like the synergy of you team, keep it up!
 
Not sure if I can "ass" a garchomp lol.

Im gonna do some testing with the advice you two have given me so far.
Here's the changes Im trying:
-Crobat->Scarf Thunderus T
-Virizion->SD Chomp
-Nidoqueen w/ Toxic Spikes and EQ over Ice beam and Earth power with adjusted nature and EVs

I like the zapdos idea, but Thunderus looks pretty cool too, and kind of keeping in theme with the blue colour I got going.
 
Hey there mate, just want to say that Lucario is also my fav! On to the team...

If Psychic and dark tanks are giving you problems then what I would suggest is perhaps Volcarona. Ill show you what a Quiver Dance Volcarona can do against some Tanks

252 SpA Life Orb Volcarona Bug Buzz vs. 192 HP / 0 SpD Reuniclus: 452-533 (110.51 - 130.31%) -- guaranteed OHKO

252 SpA Life Orb Volcarona Bug Buzz vs. 248 HP / 0 SpD Slowbro: 476-562 (121.11 - 143%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Onto Lucario...

Have you ever considered Air Balloon? Now I understand Life orb lucario is a beast but most of the time a swords dance adamant lucario can sweep as it is. With the protection against Earthquake you can swords dance against a mamoswine or even CC it.

Im still new to the game, but hopefully I helped. Best of luck and keep us updated on how the team goes!
 
Found out changes make me extremely weak to mamo.

Trying bronzong over nidoqueen.

@Takion

Lucario setting up isn't much of a problem so the air baloon isn't really needed, and the power is needed for extremespeed to kill certain things.

volcarona seems nice, but hitting psykics aren't the problem, it's taking a hit from them. Also, I don't have a spinner, so volca would get killed really quick. For this reason, I'm trying bronzong.

I appreciate your opinion though.
 
+1 for using nidoqueen and crobat.

I like special luke but w/e
Honestly , you might consider switching luke out with something that can deal with psychics.
 
Hey there, nice team!

At first, I'd use Latios with Draco Meteor, Surf and Trick, Thunder and Dragon Pulse aren't a very useful moves. Then, I'd use Bullet Punch in place of Crunch on Lucario, Jellicent and Slowbro aren't a big problem for this team and with Bullet Punch you can hit Terrakion and Gengar, for example. Finally, I found a weakness to Tornadus-T (you can only revenge kill it with Latios) so I'd use Special Defensive Rotom-W in place of Crobat, it's, in my opinion, the most useless pokèmon in your team.

Hope it helped, good luck!

Rotom-W set:

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Rotom-W @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 56 SAtk / 200 SDef / 4 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split

~Alexander
 
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