MBGGTE Team

[Michurro]

Yeah, if you were looking for a creative acronym well... there isn't one it's just the order of my team =P. But I've been on Serebii and got a lot of good criticisms. I changed out 3 out of my six Pokemon, and everyone got a moveset change. I'm feeling confident enough to show it here now to get final criticisms before I hopefully start battling.

Metagross w/Occa Berry- EQ, Bullet Punch, ThunderPunch, Explosion
252 HP, 252 Atk
Adamant

My new lead. It makes my team weaker to Ground and Fire Variants but the EV’s make sure Fire Types are taken out quick and ground variants will get Ploded or Bullet Punched. I left out Meteor Mash because I figured that Bullet Punch would help me in a pinch more, and although I get 2HKO’s on Tyranitar with EQ+BP instead or just Mashing, Bullet Punch ensures that it is basically HKO, and that Focus-equips are gone. Thunder Punch is to HKO Gyarados that tend to start along with Aerodactyls, and others. Occa Berry gives me a chance to KO a fire type of any type. Explosion is if all else fails and I get put against something that resists everything (Hippowdon, Swampert other bulky leads)

Bronzong w/Macho Brace– EQ, GyroBall, Rest, Stealthrock
252 HP,24Def., 104 Atk, 132Sp. Def
Relaxed

After Metagross does his job, Bronzong Stealth Rocks my team and proceeds to wall with solid attacks and ensures that anything less than a 2HKO will result in stalls, which is only possible through Fire Types, which would have been switched in and taken care of by Metagross. With Macho Brace, anything over 186 Speed will get a 150 Base Power STAB Gyro Ball with decent Atk EV’s to back it up. EQ is for everything else. As I explained before, Rest ensures 2HKO’s or less must take out Bronzong.

Gengar w/ Life Orb – Shadow Ball, Thunder bolt, Focus Blast, HP Ice
252Sp Atck, 252Spd
Timid

My main special sweeper when Electivire isn’t put into play. His job is basically to cleanup the mess bronzong and Metagross cause. I'm debating on whether or not to leave Focus Blast alone because almost every other Pokemon on my team has some type of counter against rock/steel variants, although the hit on blissey is nice. The accuracy is terrible in my view and I don't feel like having a whole match done in because a move missed. HP Fire is also an option for Fortress and Scizor although I don't know if I would be able to HKO a Mence, Chomp, or Dragon variants without HP Ice

Gallade w/Expert Belt- Close Combat, Psycho Cut, Night Slash, Ice Punch
252 HP, 252 Atk
Adamant

My physical sweeper I guess. He is bulky enough to take a hit, and then retaliate. Not fast enough to be used often, but if I’m in a tight spot, it will do good I think. Ice Punch is debatable, as Stone Edge is a definite option since I have 0 rock moves last I checked . I'm thinking of keeping Psycho Cut instead of Swords Dance because I don't think Gallade needs it. CC kills blissey, tyranitar, Rhyperior without it. Psycho Cut is a nice stab move when Im up against something that isn't weak to fighting but open for opinions

Togekiss w/Leftovers- Air Slash, Nasty Plot, Aura Sphere, Roost
252HP, 152 Sp. Atck,104 Spd
Modest

Well, Para-Flinch won't fit on this team too well. So I think this is the next best. On the off chance that I get Togekiss in I can just straight nasty plot depending on what I switch into and wreak havoc with flinchies =). This is a great setup for Electivire since it is my only Electric-hindered pokemon. Is substitute a decent move instead of roost, or is roost helping in the long run? I'm thinking if I get Togekiss in on a double switch, Sub would help but I donno

Electivire w/Expert Belt – HP Ice, Thunder Bolt, Flamethrower, Crosschop
36 Atk, 252 Sp. Atk, 220 SPd
Rash

My mixed-vire is here to deal with pesky Scizors which would other leave large chunks in my team. It’s not the fastest but it’s a standard Electivire that can hold ground in places Gengar misses, assuming I get a speed boost. The lack of EQ is disappointing but I can deal with it.

If anyone has a way for me to get a status move in, it would be greatly appreciated seeing as how that is something I'm lacking in since I replaced my Shuckle =(

 

[MegaKick]

although I am a gallade fan, i must say, as a pure attacker, I think he is outclassed by lucario who is faster, has superior typing, extreemspeed, and can go mixed
why does metagross have t-punch? meteor mash would be more usefull so you can KO azelf with mm and bullet punch so it only gets one turn
may post more later, gotta go now

 

[Michurro]

although I am a gallade fan, i must say, as a pure attacker, I think he is outclassed by lucario who is faster, has superior typing, extreemspeed, and can go mixed
why does metagross have t-punch? meteor mash would be more usefull so you can KO azelf with mm and bullet punch so it only gets one turn
may post more later, gotta go now

I picked Galalde because I thought he'd be more durable, and in the turn Lucario uses SD, Gallade would have finished off the opponent. But I think Lucario has advantages now that you brought it up. I never even thought of him.

Metagross has ThunderPunch for the Gyarados/Aero leads, but you're right about Azelf. This is so confusing >.<

Thanks, I'll try to revise my team for these points =)

 

[Abutorn]

Hey I got a message, so I'm here to rate. On Metagross you might want to change your EVs first of all, Speed is needed 252 HP / 236 Atk / 12 Def / 8 Spe. Next thing is your moveset on your current Metagross. You need to take off Thunder punch and put down Stealth Rock reason being is that Gyarados doesn't lead that often at all and you shouldn't be worried about it if it does you still have explosion. You're just wasting Metagross as a lead and just adding one other pokemon as a SR when LeadMetagross priority is to set up Stealth Rocks.

Now what I currently notice that strikes out the most is that you have 2 things currently weak to Fire and you have nothing to resist it, the other thing that isn't so important but still pretty big is that you have nothing to resist water. The other thing is that your team gets swept by common Dragon dancers namely Salamence and Gyarados So you definitly something on your team that can outspeed either of those pokemon with one Dragon dance. Since Bronzong has no use anymore since I recommended to put Stealth rock on Metagross I recommend you change Bronzong into the common Choice scarf Latias, amazing revenge killer, resists Fire and water and it'll help your team overall. The EVs and moveset for Scarf Latias:

Latias @ Choice Scarf
Nature: Timid
EVs: 4 Hp / 252 SpAtt / 252 Spd
Moveset: Draco Meteor, Trick, Surf, Thunderbolt

Gengar looks almost fine, Scizor can come in and just destroy it with Bullet punch or pursuit, but you won't be able to know so what I recommend you change on this Current pokemon is make it a MysticGar by Replacing Hidden power Ice and Thunderbolt and just put Protect and Hidden Power Fire, Latias already took care of those Bulky waters and Dragons types so you'll be alright with MysticGar. Gallade isn't such a great Physical Sweeper it is BL but that's it Lucario for example can do the same thing you're asking for in your description. Not even that but it can also setup Swords dance and it's Adamant speed hits 279 which is what you're asking for. So try the EVs and moveset:

Lucario @ Life orb
Nature: Adamant
EVs : 4 Hp / 252 Att / 252 Spd
Moveset: Swords Dance, Extreme Speed, Close Combat, Crunch

Ok you don't really need Vire, I'm not going to replace it because replacing more pokemon might change your team way too much causing you to possibly fail, You don't really need its ability since you don't have anything on your team weak to Electric. There's a lot of pokemon that can Take care of scizor, Like Rotom, Gliscor etc.

Good luck in the future and you might want to check Battling 101 sometime.

 

[Michurro]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH! Everything you said made perfect sense now I see the holes in my logic. Wow, thank you so much... I don't know what to say =).

 

[corncake22]

Ok I got your message and your team needs a good rate.

Ok first off all of your pokemon can use 508 out of 510 of the EVs. Looks like you are missing 4 for most of your pokemon.

Metagross-Go with what Abutorn said. Try a Lum berry if you suffer spore lead problems.

Bronzong-You don't really need this thing and I recommend Rotom-H. 156hp/100 SpA/252speed. Scarf with Shadowball/Thunderbolt/Overheat/Trick or HP ice. The reason for HP ice is too block salamence sweeps. Thunderbolt for gyarados. Shadowball for ghosts. Overheat for the scizors. +4 can't KO this bulkier spread I discovered and works great for me.

Gengar-I agree with MysticGar.

Gallade-You can go for luke but you can go for Gallade since I know you like Gallades :D SwordsDance/CC/ShadowSneak/Icepunch or stone edge. The reason I have shadowsneak because Gallade is slow and slow things likes to have priorty. Gengar and Alakazam get raped by +2 Shadowsneak so you can't be weakened so your sweep won't end early. And for the rare dugtrio in OU shadowsneak +2 can also KO. Its nice to have some BL in a OU team. Luke is very gay.

Togekiss- Secondary sweeper and a powerful one indeed. Togekiss can take a good amount of SpA attacks. Just be wary of SR damage a 25 percent can be alot in the long run.

Electivire- This is not the best because it lacks to KO anything semi bulky. I recommend replacing this with a Scizor counter seems like you need one. You can try Heatran/Infernape/Magenzone just pick one you want.

Most of all good luck :D