This is a really effective offensive core I've made recently and its gotten me to rank 15 on the ladder
It revolves around Adaptability Ursaring with Arena Trap Sceptile:
Sceptile @ Life Orb
Ability: Arena Trap (Inherits from Trapinch)
Evs: 4 Hp / 252 SpAtk / 252 Speed
Timid Nature
- Giga Drain
- Earth Power
- Substitute
- Toxic
I haven't seen anyone using this sceptile set but it works amazing in this metagame. The main counters to ursaring are steels, ghosts, and unaware pokemon like rhydon and suicune which this set takes care of for the most part. The major ghost type threat I've seen recently is gengar who loses levitate due to sheer force. Because of this, Sceptile traps, outspeeds, and ohkos gengar with earth power, same with rhydon with giga drain. Sub and toxic are for unaware suicune who cant break the sub with scald and always lose if running recover over rest (Also of note - Sceptile usually outspeeds after +1 speed if they aren't running many speed EV's on a quiver dance set). Also useful just for avoiding status in general. Not only this but arena trap sceptile outspeeds and ohkos so many threats like terrakion, non levitate magnezone and non specially defensive heatran to name a few. Overall just a very useful pokemon to have on a team.
After proper support Ursaring can sweep unprepared teams with ease with extremespeed, ohkoing many threats without hazards and even more after.
Ursaring
Life Orb
Ability: Adaptability (Inherits from Mega-Lucario)
Evs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Speed
Adamant Nature
- Extremespeed
- Facade
- Drain Punch
- Swords Dance
I haven't taken the time to check speed tiers so ill take suggestions there, I'm thinking of moving the speed Evs to Hp since I find I only ever use extremespeed and swords dance. This set i think may have been posted already but I'm too lazy to check. Anyways this thing kills almost everything that doesn't resist it and especially after prior damage, making the perfect late game sweeper.
I also always make sure to run a spike setter with this core so I'm aware of levitators like heatran and magnezone that would otherwise ohko sceptile after being immune to earth power.
These two pokemon themselves run into trouble from faster extremespeed users like Pinsir, Lopunny and Altaria but there's more than enough pokemon slots left to add some checks to these.