New Challenger: TEAM INTENSITY (UU)

[Fuzzyreaper]

Intensity [in-ten-si-tee] –noun, plural -ties
1.the quality or condition of being intense.
2.great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc., as of activity, thought, or feeling
3.a high or extreme degree, as of cold or heat.
4.the degree or extent to which something is intense.
5.a high degree of emotional excitement; depth of feeling: The poem lacked intensity and left me unmoved.

A team to surpass all others-a team to wipe the opposition away, a team of power, of strength, of concentration and extreme emotion- I bring you, TEAM INTENSITY!
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Pimpslap: Ambipom@ silk scarf
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Technician
252 speed / 252 atk/ 4 hp
-Fake out
-brick break
-u-turn
-shadow claw

Here is my lead. I throw him out, and use fake out. I can generally judge what kind of lead they are using depending on how much damage fake out inflicts. After fake out comes u-turn, and I send out an appropriate counter. If I feel like I can kill the poke that is currently out. I will try to, but mainly this guy is my scout. He might come in late game for another fake out and u-turn to soften an enemy poke up. Im beginning to see that Ambipom is far to predictable with fake out, and am considering finding a less predictable lead, possibly the other ambipom i have

Terminator: Drapion@ scope lens
Nature:Jolly
Ability: Sniper
252 atk / 252 speed/ 4hp
-swords dance
-night slash
-earthquake
-ice fang

Drapion. I love this guy, with 110 base defense he can take a hit, often allowing me a free swords dance. This is my pokemon of choice to send out after Persian or when I can predict a chance to switch in safely. One I have a swords dance up I can commence to sweep, using night slash for high powered critical hits.

Intensity:Typlosion@ choice scarf
Nature: Mild
Ability: Blaze
144 Atk / 252 SpA / 112 Spe
-eruption
-earthquake
-focus punch/ focus blast?
-Fire Blast

Typlosion is the heavy hitter for my team, and I like to bring him in after ive scoped out there team to check for those who would heavily resist him and hopefully gotten rid of any stealth rocks or spikes. At full health eruption has 150 base power, and along with his high sp.atk and choice scarf he can hit hard and fast. Earthquake is there for some coverage, along with focus punch for predicted stat ups etc. After typlosion is weakened, eruption is no longer that powerful. But along with the reduced hp comes Blaze, so I use fire blast to achieve the same powerful STAB

Apollo: Altaria @ Life Orb
Nature: Mild
Ability: Natural Cure
112 Atk/144 Spd/252 SAtk
-Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Earthquake
- Outrage

Mix sweeper with decent speed, chosen over seviper to help with ground weakness, and has a wide variety of attacks to help rip through bulky waters to aid in typlosion sweep

Wrecker:Registeel @ Leftovers
Nature: Careful
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP/100 Atk/156 SDef
- Iron Head
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Explosion/ toxic?

Covers Slowbros weakness's nicely and can set up stealth rock, alternative to meganium due to my team not having to worry to much about statues such as toxic spikes due to drapion. Counters Set up mismagius. Trying to get toxic in the set tohelp take down bulky waters to pave the way for a typlosion sweep.

Slowbro@leftovers
Nature: Bold
Ability: Own Tempo
252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
-Slack off
-surf
-psychic
-calm mind


This guy is a physical wall, but with great potential. Often enough I can score a free calm mind with this guy, and from there maybe a few more coupled with slack off. After a few calm minds this guy starts to shine, shrugging off nearly everything and dishing out heavy damage with STAB surf and psychic. The only problem this guy really has is with statuses, and ive considered swapping leftovers with lum berry, but then leech seed would start annoying him. --NEEDS A NICKNAME--

Uncertainties This are changes im thinking of making, but im not quite sure about Alternative Lead:

Ambipom@ focus sash/ leftovers?
Nature: timid
Ability: Technician
252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
-Nasty Plot
-Swift
-Baton Pass
-Substitute?

Id like to completely sweep teams with typlosion, and this guy could set him up for completely epic eruptions. If typlosion isnt able to come out due to a typing, i can pass the boost off to one to slowbro mabye and have him do some heavy hitting.

 

[Fuzzyreaper]

Coming soon: team building

Team Building
I saw fake out leads and it was love at first sight. I immediate picked Persian as my lead

Next thing i knew drapion appeared. One of my favoirte pokes, with an awsome move set i took it.

I realized i wasnt thinking very logically in building my team so i took a step back and glanced at it. I had 2 physical pokemon already so i decided on a specail sweeper. Recalling a beastly pokemon that had done heavy damage to my team an an earlier match i chose typlosion

Uh-oh already have a weakness to earthquake and stealth rocks gonna be a pain in the butt, so i choose a rapid spinner that could avoid earthquakes, and mabye inflict some status, Claydol.

Then i needed a defensive wall noticing that the majority of sweepers in UU are physical. i needed one to resist fighting as that was a weakness in my team. I saw slowbro, and loved it. I chose this set because i thought hey, hes a physical wall and after a few calm minds a decent specail wall and specail sweeper! rock on!

Speaking of walls, how is my team going to coup with them? I started looking for a wall breaker. I saw seviper, loved the fact that i could shrug off status's with shed skin, and the wide array of moves.

I noticed that Ambipom was UU now, and with a higher attack stat and equal speed, i opted for stronger fake outs

Looked into the team, really didnt like claydol at all and dropped him for specail wall probopass. Even this guy i want to replace becuase i want a spinner, but i just cant find a slot in my team to squeeze one in

I really have gone insane havent i? Why in the hell did i think i should put probopass in there? i dont know! So i opted to meganium because of good defenses and a resistance to ground. Id still like a spinner tho *grumble*

Upon suggestion i replaced seviper and meganium with altaria and registeel. Altaria has a better moveset and it faster then seviper, allowing me to really pummel at walls. Registeel was chosen because meganium want quite needed on my team to cure status and the such. I also needed a mismagius counter as it could set up on most of my team, also covers slowbros weakness's

 

[Fuzzyreaper]

Please someone?

 

[Trick Room]

@ Ambipom- I really hate this poke since is very predictible what ever set you try to run. It is always Last Resort+Fake Out for a Late game sweep, Your regular Starter set or a nasty plot + bast pass set. I think that you should not run fake out anti leads. With that I recommed ghost types like mismagius of something that can destiny bond and take down a attacking suicide lead and shut down none attacking lead with a simple taunt.
BUT if you want to keep him take off the pointless Shadow Claw and get taunt or Registell leads will be able to set up of you even though the are weak to a brick break.

@Drapion- I like the idea of a Drapion sweeping but not the way you try it. I sugest a set like 100HP/56Atk/100Spdf/104Spd
This gives you a huge bulky sweeper that doesn't give up much attack power it gives you 460 attack after a swords dance and you probably be able to get another one off since you can take hits so well.

@Typlosion-Your regular ScarfedPlosion. I like the idea the only this I recommend is to have overheat over fireblast. So after you are down and blaze is on you can overheat and pretty much kill everything even take out a max spdef max hp registeel + with a occa berry with blaze activate.

@Altaria-She is't meant to mix sweep. She is meant to support or DD sweep. That is all I have to say about that

@Registeel- I don't like Registeel that much since the only way to heal is to rest that it is not that great. Many people expect this set so I recommed you run a T-wave+S Toss Rest and Stealth Rock stall.

@Slowbro- No suprise at this set. I like slowbro so nothing much to say here.

Overal: This team is not very works. Lacking great wall that can break down a sweeper. My favorite Stall Wall is Gastrodon and I think that is the best wall in UU. If you dont like gastrodon i just think you NEED to have recover/ roosting/ slack off pokemon be able to wall pokemon properly.

 

[Fuzzyreaper]

@ Trick Room

Ambipom: Im probally going to swap leads, im considering a few at the moment

Drapion: Believe me, drapion does not need the changed ev set. I dont like the idea of him being so bulky and am loving this move set. I feel that the added defenses just arent worth it for the way my team functions-

Typlosion: Fire Blast vs. Overheat is a battle ive been fighting for a while now and am still debating, so far im leaning towards the fire blast side because of the higher chance for long sweeps.

Altaria: The mix sweeper is a supporting factor of my team, and i need it to break down bulky waters that would hamper typlosion. Originally i was running a mix seviper but he was to slow for the job

Registeel: Registeel hasnt faced extensive testing, and i may consider that change in moveset