Mind, Will and Power (Uber RMT)*

-Mind-

Hello smogon, I'm here to retire one of my uber teams that has passed its peak of performance.



The team:

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Mewtwo @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 40 Atk/252 Spd/216 SAtk
Hasty nature (+Spd, -Def)
- Focus Blast
- Trick
- Shadow Ball
- Selfdestruct

Mewto, with its high speed and considerable bulk works great as an anti-lead, shutting down the three most common leads: deoxys, Choice Scarf darkrai and Groudon. Deoxys will only get Stealth Rocks or one layer of spikes, darkrai is OHKOed by focus blast and groudon is crippled with trick. Focus Blast and Shadow Ball provide perfect coverage, hitting a large portion of the metagame super effectively, namely deoxyes, tyranitar (who doesn’t KO with crunch without CB) and dialga. Selfdestruct is likely a guaranteed kill

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Lugia @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP/8 Def/248 Spd
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Ice Beam
- Roost
- Thunder Wave

Standard set with Calm Mind instead of reflect and with thunder wave as the status of choice. Calm Mind was given the nod as with paralysis support, lugia can set up on Palkia and dialga. Lugia is my groudon / rayquaza check. Thunderwave was chosen as it is largely more beneficial in the current metagame, and with calm mind lugia can roost stall until the opposing palkia / dialga gets fully paralysed, then calm mind up. It can also stop lucario from sweeping the team if safeguard has not been initiated. While Lugia is mainly used as a physical wall and paralysis abuser, it can and will sweep unprepared teams if given the opportunity.

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Dialga @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP/2 Atk/140 SAtk/116 SDef
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Thunder Wave
- Stealth Rock
- Draco Meteor
- Flamethrower

Dialga provides the team with some much needed support. Stealth Rock is a standard nowadays and for good reason. Thunderwave on Dialga further contributes to the end goal of a kyogre or groudon sweep. Flamethrower stops forretress from spinning away the rocks and draco meteor hits everything else. It should also be noted that these two moves provide perfect coverage, hitting everything neutrally except for heatran.

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Palkia @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Spacial Rend
- Thunder
- Surf
- Fire Blast

Palkia, arguably the best revenge killer the uber metagame has to offer. This baby keeps a large majority of threats in check, kyogre and non-SD rayquaza being the main ones. Palkia can abuse either sun or rain and subsequently works well with both kyogre and groudon. What else can be said, just a great general check to a large portion of the metagame.
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Groudon @ Life Orb
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Rock Polish
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Stone Edge

Rock Polish Groudon
Groudon provides a much needed physical powerhouse and is our initial switch-in to blissey. Pretty standard set, Earthquake for STAB, dragon claw for lati@s and palkia (3HKO on Giratina) and Stone Edge for Lugia. Rock Polish was chosen over the other sets as this is meant to be used as a late game cleaner, once its counter have been weakened and/or paralysed. Groudon also provides a nice switch into tyranitar, which this team would otherwise have quite a few troubles against.
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Kyogre @ Choice Specs
Ability: Drizzle
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Surf
- Thunder
- Water Spout
- Ice Beam

Pretty standard specs set, you should know what it does by now. Waterspout to 2HKO nearly the whole metagame, surf for when low on health, Ice Beam hits rayquaza and quagsire and thunder hits opposing kyogre and lugia. Kyogre helps the team by provides weather support for palkia.




Credits:

Panamaxis-Thanks alot for helping me writings those discriptions!(My English sucks lol.)

Darknessmalice- Thanks for helping me with this team.

Pokemonelite2000- For the sprites.
 
This is a great team, and I can't think of anything really to say, but since you asked me, I'll ramble.

This team's lack of priority is not good. SubSeeders like Skymin and Jumpluff can come in on a free switch, set-up a Substitute, and not be stopped by your team. Jumpluff in particular can do massive damage to this team, as it outpaces everything under the sun. I don't really know how to stop this without changing the team around and messing up synergy, but you could feasibly use Scizor over Dialga and run supporting Groudon to set up Stealth Rock and have paralysis support to handle those faster Pokemon Dialga was getting.

Anyway, great team. I can't think of anything else to say, really.
 
This is a great team. I don't know what else to say. The one thing that I noticed is that you don't have a Dragon resist, but Lugia and Groudon can both handle a few Dragon Attacks while Palkia can revenge kill a Rayquaza after a DD. The team is very solid and I can't find anythign else wrong with it.
 
@kath

Yes, I usually predict and attack or go to lugia and break the sub.
And then dialga comes.

@muna

Thanks.
 
Why not Roost over Recover on Lugia? That way, if Groudon is slower (for example, SD Groudon), you are getting hit by a 150 BP EQ over a 200 BP Stone Edge. That's the main reason, but it also is useful to avoid taking SE damage from Ice attacks too.
 
I also agree that Roost would be better than Recover. If you're faster, when you roost, you lose your weaknesses to electric, ice, and rock. The only negative is that you can get hit by ground attacks, so the reward is much better than the price you pay for it.
 
Yeah Lugia is suppose to have roost, I told Mind to change it (he use to run recover)on the RMT, but I guess he forgot.
 
Aaah yes. I remember this team.

Here's the changes I made to this team when I tested it. I gave Mewtwo Ice Beam for Groudon. Trick doesn't work against Groudon if it holds a Chesto Berry.

Lugia's EVs should be 252 HP / 8 Def / 248 Spe. This will outrun Jolly Rayquaza.

Kyogre should be Timid. This is to at least speed tie with the many 90 base speed Ubers.
 
darknessmalice said:
Aaah yes. I remember this team.

Here's the changes I made to this team when I tested it. I gave Mewtwo Ice Beam for Groudon. Trick doesn't work against Groudon if it holds a Chesto Berry.

Lugia's EVs should be 252 HP / 8 Def / 248 Spe. This will outrun Jolly Rayquaza.

Kyogre should be Timid. This is to at least speed tie with the many 90 base speed Ubers.
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Yes I change the ev's, but not ice beam for trick, because most hold lum, and if they hold chesto they eq most time. And then I go to Lugia and twave the pokemon who's coming in.

edit: come on people rate more.
 
-Mind- said:
Yes I change the ev's, but not ice beam for trick, because most hold lum, and if they hold chesto they eq most time. And then I go to Lugia and twave the pokemon who's coming in.

edit: come on people rate more.
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The point of Chesto is if Groudon is Tricked, it can still paralysed the opposing lead, because the Chesto Berry won't heal paralysis, but a Lum Berr will. Using Earthquake contradicts that purpose. If they had a Lum, I can understand why they would Earthquake, but not Twaving with a Chesto doesn't make sense.


Anyways, you could try this.

Scrap the Mewtwo lead, because it's very suspectable to Wobbuffet and Scizor. Use the Dialga set as a lead, but with Chesto in place of Leftovers.

This gives us a free teamslot. It could be used for Latias. This team doesn't have a Pokemon to take special Dragon attacks from the likes of Palkia and Dialga. Jirachi and Scizor could also do this, but the raw popularity SpecsOgre made me feel this teamslot is best served by Latias. Lugia could take Spacial Rend, but it's HP should be conserved for Groudon and Rayquaza. As well, Latias is the best counter to CM Giratina-O, who otherwise gives this team problems.

Palkia is at least a decent switch in to SpecOgre, however, so if you feel this threat is handled well, you could use Rayquaza, whose Extremespeed can pick off weakened Palkia, amongst every other Pokemon. I would also argue that two CM Pokemon aren't a good idea for this team. So if you use Latias, you may want to replace CM on Lugia with Reflect.
 
darknessmalice said:
The point of Chesto is if Groudon is Tricked, it can still paralysed the opposing lead, because the Chesto Berry won't heal paralysis, but a Lum Berr will. Using Earthquake contradicts that purpose. If they had a Lum, I can understand why they would Earthquake, but not Twaving with a Chesto doesn't make sense.


Anyways, you could try this.

Scrap the Mewtwo lead, because it's very suspectable to Wobbuffet and Scizor. Use the Dialga set as a lead, but with Chesto in place of Leftovers.

This gives us a free teamslot. It could be used for Latias. This team doesn't have a Pokemon to take special Dragon attacks from the likes of Palkia and Dialga. Jirachi and Scizor could also do this, but the raw popularity SpecsOgre made me feel this teamslot is best served by Latias. Lugia could take Spacial Rend, but it's HP should be conserved for Groudon and Rayquaza. As well, Latias is the best counter to CM Giratina-O, who otherwise gives this team problems.

Palkia is at least a decent switch in to SpecOgre, however, so if you feel this threat is handled well, you could use Rayquaza, whose Extremespeed can pick off weakened Palkia, amongst every other Pokemon. I would also argue that two CM Pokemon aren't a good idea for this team. So if you use Latias, you may want to replace CM on Lugia with Reflect.
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Thanks I'll try it, btw how do we handle bliss then and with scarfmewto deoxys-s only gets one layer of spikes up what's important too.
 
-Mind- said:
Thanks I'll try it, btw how do we handle bliss then and with scarfmewto deoxys-s only gets one layer of spikes up what's important too.
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Blissey isn't too worrying. You're going to be saving Groudon for late game, and it'll have no problems removing the pink blob. Early game, SpecOgre can potentially damage her, assuming it is sufficiently healthy and avoids Thunderwave. Draco Meteor on Palkia in place of Spacial Rend could force Blissey to use Softboiled more often, and provide your team more free swtiches.

Deoxys-S is a gamble. If Deoxys-S Taunts you while you use Flamethrower, it'll only get SR up. If it uses SR straight off the bat, it will get SR and one layer of Spikes up. However, you will have one perfectly healthy Pokemon.that can easily provide SR and paralysis support at some point in the game.
 
I'm kind of concerned with you having both groudon and kygore on your team. You would most likely work better with your team if you picked a weather effect and stuck with it.
 
well since you asked nicely...

there's really not too much to change here, this team has an answer to most everything. of course ubers is more about how you play and "circumstances". that said, you should play it carefully against wobb since you rely on your scarfers to revenge most dragons. also sub giratina is probably annoying too, it has trouble switching in but once its in it can cause trouble.
 
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