Latias Sweepan

[HXCMLG Pogeman Trainer]

Hello hello!

I'm a man that is bored, a very bored man indeed. Normally, I wouldn't ever be posting RMT's ever because there's no point. Yet, you see, I'm a very bored man and am just interested in what kind of feedback there would be for my latest team. So now that I've explained myself...

So I realize that in order to good now you have to have a general theme and strategy in order to win. I've been on a big break from competitive battling but I knew this much. The only problem being about this was that I didn't know what kind of poke I wanted to be sweeping with end game.

I eventually chose Latias.

Basically the team at a glance is a anti-lead, scizor, baitgar, tinkerbell, mixmence, and scarftas.

Breloom (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 30 HP/252 Atk/228 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Spore
- Stone Edge
- Superpower
- Seed Bomb

My Anti-lead! Oh and what a great one he is! It's actually not too common for me to get to spore multiple times in a battle. For some reason Blissey tends to stay in on this guy as well, it's a little confusing but I don't ever complain when I super power it back. It's just extremely versatile and can work well as a revenge killer.

He prevents rocks 90% of the the time. The other ten percent being fellow scarf leads, lum leads, and aero (who he falls one speed point under). Basically spore everything you see, if you see a Aero use a seed bomb as it taunt then seed bomb again as it sets up rocks.

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Scizor (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk/252 Def/4 SDef
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- U-turn
- Pursuit

Scizors here because he's fucking Scizor. Really, what team isn't using him?!

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Gengar (M) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt

Baitgar. He lures in Scizor and Tyranitars very well, and is very capable of killing them. I slapped expert belt on to fake out the possibility of being scarfed so people might try and get a free switch in on him. Works great on paper, so damn fragile tho'.

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Celebi @ Life Orb
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 46 HP/252 Def/212 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Thunder Wave
- Rest
- Leaf Storm
- Hidden Power [Fire]

Tinkerbell. Oh do I love this poke. Scizors continue to switch in on him only to get burned away. This poke is very standard, except I tweaked it a little bit. All the extra defensive bulk is too garauntee I can switch in on a scizors bullet punch, with rocks up, and still be able to kill it back.

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Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 84 Atk/208 Spd/216 SAtk
Mild nature (+SAtk, -Def)
- Draco Meteor
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast

When thinking about what would stop a latias sweep you can't help but to remember that any counter to a dragon is damn near killed in the process of countering it. So what better to set up a latias sweep than a latias sweep? Well since there's species clause, I settled for mixmence.

Who does a pretty damn good job at it.

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Latias (F) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 74 HP/184 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse
- Draco Meteor
- Trick
- Surf
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And the star of the show. He hits hard and all that jazz. Originally specs but I kind of hated heatran and wanted to be able to outspeed him no matter what he was.

I'll post the big list in a moment.

 

[HXCMLG Pogeman Trainer]

Meh, I'm not bored enough to do that massive big list of pokes and counters to them.

 

[Gorgonopsid Master]

well your team is quite weak to mixape so scarf flygon would a be a good replacement for salamence as it can outspeed and OHKO mince Flygon can only switch in on grass knot and fire blast/flamethrower however) and can also take out SD luk if they dont get a swords dance in

I dont reccomend having breloom as a lead as if you do put the pponent to sleep then you will switch out and so will they and so its a gamble there but if you stay in and try to spore the opponents other poke you will lose if you play sleep clause I reccomend a mixpert as your lead as it can counter common leads like metagross and heatran with ease. Hope this helped

 

[d2m]

Scizor NEEDS Technician for Bullet Punch to be effective. You have nothing that can take a hit from another Scizor other than yours, either. A CB Bullet Punch has a high chance of killing that gar, Salamence post rocks, Celebi and Breloom don't survive a U-Turn.

You also have nothing that can seriously dent Gyarados, he can DD up and sweep your team if he carries Ice Fang.

Put T-bolt on Latias over Draco Meteor for more coverage and to take out Gyarados. I'd suggest a Heatran over either Breloom or Gengar, he can take hits from the likes of Scizor and others and get a Flash Fire boost off of fire attacks aimed at scizor.

 

[HXCMLG Pogeman Trainer]

-Checks-

Holy fuck I actually forgot to make him technician.

Wow.

Just wow.

I always lol thinking about the kids who probably forget to turn it to technician

-Sigh-



Edit:
The lead does what it's supposed to do. Prevent rocks.


Can't Latias just scarf surf it? It'll take no damage in the process, the only fears I would have is if it's early game and they might have a scizor left.

So I guess testing flygon wouldn't be so bad.




@D2m-

Thanks again for catching that.

I'll do some play testing in a few with a heatran over gengar (generally weakest poke).