My BW OU team

Toothpaste

Hey guys. Im fairly new to competitve battling and after a huge learning curve and much trial and error this is the team ive come up with. still needs alot of work. id appreciate any advice you guys can give me =]



1. Scolipede @ focus sash
ability - poisont point
EVs - 252 speed/ 252 hp/ 4 attack
nature - jolly
- spikes
- toxic spikes
- megahorn
- rock slide

He may not look like much at first but ive been using him as a lead and hes been workin out great for me. Depending on if wanna stall em out with my walls or if i wanna sweep with my sweepers i either lay down spikes or toxic spikes. his decent speed plus the focus sash usually insures i can lay down at least two levels of spikes before he gets taken out. megahorn is for psychic leads mainly espeon who usualyl gets 1 hit KOed by it then i dont have to worry about my spikes getting bounced back by magic mirror or whatever that ability is. Rock slide is for flying or fire type leads i may decide to attack.

2. Darmanitan @ life orb
ability - sheer force
EVs - 252 attack/ 252 speed/ 4 hp
nature - adamant
- flare blitz
- superpower
-rock slide
- u-turn

I love this guy. he hits HARD!. i mainly use him as a revenge killer or to take down ferrothorn/ skarmory/ foretress things like taht with his flare blitz or snorlax/ blissey type pokes with his superpower. hes good at breaking walls and he learns u-turn which i love.

3. Aerodactyl @ focus sash
ability - pressure
EVs - 252 attack/ 252 speed/ 4 hp
nature - jolly
-taunt
- hone claws
-stone edge
- earthquake

my second favorite poke of all time. hes super fast so he can usually get a taunt off first no matter what if i need it. i gave him a focus sash so that hes pretty much garaunteed to get a hone claws off safely. this raises his accuracy for stone edge to 100 percent wich is deadly. since hes almost always going first at this point it doesnt matter if hes hanging on with his 1 hp cuz his got a boosted AND fully accurate stone edge and earthquake (great coverage) that are going first and can sweep a team.

4. Starmie @ life orb
ability - natural cure
EVs- 252 spec attack/ 252 speed/ 4 hp
nature - timid
- hydro pump
- thunderbolt
- ice beam
- recover

my favorite pokemon of all time. this is pretty much his standard set. great coverage with his moves, recover to keep him alive, natural cure to keep his status good. hes kinda the glue that holds my team together.

5. snorlax @ leftovers
ability- thick fat
Evs - 252 hp/ 252 spec defense/ 4 attack
nature - sassy
-curse
-rest
-crunch
- body slam

love this guy. special wall who can also hit hard. i bring him in against ghosts or psychics or pretty much most ice/ fire types too because of his ability. then i curse as many times as i can and attempt a sweep. ive swept many a teams with a snorlax that cursed 3 or 4 times

6. cofagrigus @ chesto berry
ability - mummy
EVs - 252 hp/ 252 defense/ 4 spec attack
nature - bold
-will o wisp
- rest
- calm mind
- shadow ball

physical wall. hes basically the exact inverse of my snorlax. hes meant to wall the things my snorlax cant like fighting types. he also nuetralizing strong phyiscal attackers by burning them with will o wisp. calm mind for him is used the same way curse is on my snorlax. the only problem this guy has that snorlax doesnt is that hes got nothing that can hit normal types so i usually end up having to switch out against them
 
hmm rapid spin not a bad idea. i usually like recover to make up for life orb damage but ill def try it out. what is heal bell and how could i fit it into the team?
 
Heal bell relieves your team of any status problems. Aromatherapy is a similar move. Blissey can learn both, and obviously it's the kind of special tank that could replace snorlax if you really had to.
I think you need to restructure your team and decide on stalls or sweepers. Obviously you could include both, but you need some better synergy between your pokemon.
 
Hi Toothpaste, I have a few things to say about your team.

Darmanitan is pretty slow to be an effective revenge killer, especially with an adamant nature. I reccomend a jolly nature instead if you insist on keeping the LO.

Conkeldurr can cause trouble for your team. Your two walls, Cofagrigus and Snorlax will have trouble since you can't WoW it because of Guts, and Conkeldurrs Payback+Drain Punch combo hits both Super-Effectively. Not to mention Conkeldurrs Payback hitting Starmie can really hurt, and Starmie doesn't pack Psychic to check it. I would suggest dropping a move on Starmie or Cofagrigus to make room for Psychic.

Since your team has 2 Pokemon utilizing FS, Rapid Spin on Starmie can really help you. I would drop Recovery to open a slot for RS.
 
tackjj said:
Heal bell relieves your team of any status problems. Aromatherapy is a similar move. Blissey can learn both, and obviously it's the kind of special tank that could replace snorlax if you really had to.
I think you need to restructure your team and decide on stalls or sweepers. Obviously you could include both, but you need some better synergy between your pokemon.
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Idk id rather have snorlax than blissey cuz he can also be a threat. And rest cures status problems anyway and i usually only use it after ive used enough curses or calm minds that im confident they can survive the sleep turns. Also ive given cofagrigus a chesto berry so he gets a free one so im not over concerned.

but when it comes to the stalls sweepers thing i almost always go for spikes so my sweepers have an easier time sweeping, but i still keep the walls to switch into and so i have some defensive pokemon cuz my three attackers are frail. sometimes if scolipede survives and i get a chacne to send him out again later i throw down toxic spikes just for fun
 
Max212 said:
Hi Toothpaste, I have a few things to say about your team.

Darmanitan is pretty slow to be an effective revenge killer, especially with an adamant nature. I reccomend a jolly nature instead if you insist on keeping the LO.

Conkeldurr can cause trouble for your team. Your two walls, Cofagrigus and Snwalls will have trouble since you can't WoW it because of Guts, and Conkeldurrs Payback+Drain Punch combo hits both Super-Effectively. Not to mention Conkeldurrs Payback hitting Starmie can really hurt, and Starmie doesn't pack Psychic to check it. I would suggest dropping a move on Starmie or Cofagrigus to make room for Psychic.

Since your team has 2 Pokemon utilizing FS, Rapid Spin on Starmie can really help you. I would drop Recovery to open a slot for RS.
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yea i used to have a slowbro with maxed defense and hp with surf pyschic thunder wave and slack off to counter fighting types such as conkeldurr. i had him instead of cofagrigus and he worked wonders against fighting types but i ended up switching to cofagrigus mainly for will o wisp. but i did like slowbro do u think i should switch back to him?

and maybe revenge killer isnt the best way to describe darmanitan, hes more of a wall breaker, plus a strong attacker with coverage my other ones dont have. i do like the raw power of adamant, but you say u wouldnt keep life orb if i have adament nature? y not and also wat would u give him instead?

and yea im definatley gonna give rapid spin a try
 
But now using Slowbro makes half of your team weak to Electric-Type attacks... I'm sorry but in all honesty, I am unable to help you any further. Your team lacks type synergy (ex: Major Electric Weakness), and the teams core doesn't compliment each other. Each Pokemon in your team performs well individually, but not as a team. I dislike having to change several Pokemon on a team, and that appears to be one of the only options.

Sorry, good luck and I hope your team racks up a lot of wins.
 
Max212 said:
But now using Slowbro makes half of your team weak to Electric-Type attacks... I'm sorry but in all honesty, I am unable to help you any further. Your team lacks type synergy (ex: Major Electric Weakness), and the teams core doesn't compliment each other. Each Pokemon in your team performs well individually, but not as a team. I dislike having to change several Pokemon on a team, and that appears to be one of the only options.

Sorry, good luck and I hope your team racks up a lot of wins.
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thanks anyways =[ well.. back to the drawing board i guess. gotta figure out wich pokes to replace
 
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