Nobody suspects the scarf Breloom inquisition!

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

This team has had a LOT of success on shoddy over the past week, I'm benching it for now and letting people play around with it.

My general strategy with this team is to spread status (easy enough leading with a Spore backed by 393 speed) and clean up once powerful threats have been neutered.

Breloom@Choice Scarf
Effect Spore, Jolly
28 HP, 252 Atk, 228 Spd
~Spore
~Superpower
~Seed Bomb
~Stone Edge

Far and away the best and coolest lead I have ever used, he consistently gets a reliable fast sleep to start the match on my terms, and comes back late game to revenge kill. Notable surprise KOs netted are DDTar, DDMence, Starmie, Yanmega and non-scarfed Heatran who think they have an easy kill only to be outsped and OHKO'd.
The only non-scarfed leads who outspeed this are Aerodactyl and Crobat, both of whom are easily handled by Swampert.

Rotom-H@Leftovers
Levitate, Bold
252 HP, 168 Def, 88 Spd
~Thunderbolt
~Shadow Ball
~Overheat
~Will-o-Wisp

An indispensable part of my defensive core, a reliable switch-in to bulky DD Gyara, CB Scizor and a multitude of fighting/ground attacks. The most common switch-in is TTar who will dislike getting burned. Lack of recovery could be an issue here.

Celebi@Life Orb
Natural Cure, Modest
110 HP, 220 SpAtk, 180 Spd
~Leaf Storm
~Thunder Wave
~Hidden Power Fire
~Recover

This Celebi is adapted from the Tinkerbell variant for OU, and works amazingly well. I decided to go with the Celetran combo as I had read good things about it. Absorbs status, spreads paralysis and takes out supposed counters like Lucario and Scizor. Quite often games have been won by timely stalling with recover. Leaf Storm is a surprise KO on Crocune and TTar.

Heatran@Choice Scarf
Flash Fire, Naive
4 HP, 252SpAtk, 252Spd
~Fire Blast
~Earth Power
~Explosion
~Dragon Pulse

Heatran gives me the second half of the amazing Celetran combo, perfectly complementing the forest pixie type-wise. Since I have three fire weaknesses, it is very easy to bait fire attacks and switch for a Flash Fire boost. This is my answer to Gar, Mixape and anything that tries to snag a DD, but I need to be pretty good with prediction before I commit to an attack.

Lucario@Life Orb
Inner Focus, Adamant
252 Atk, 4 def, 252 Spd
~Close Combat
~Extremespeed
~Crunch
~Swords Dance

There used to be a Salamence here, but I felt it was contributing the least to my overall strategy and I dislike being Stealth Rock weak (you will notice I have zero SR weaknesses on this team). Anyway, standard SD Luke, comes in on a crippled non-threat/Blissey/choiced Pursuit user and starts the sweep. I tend to play him very conservatively, only revealing my hand when I've removed major full stops to my sweep such as Mence/Gyara.

Swampert@Leftovers
Torrent, Relaxed
252 HP, 4 Atk, 252 Def
~Earthquake
~Ice Beam
~Stealth Rock
~Roar

An incredibly durable, powerful phazer with excellent coverage and the ability to set up rocks. Once things start getting paralyzed/put to sleep it comes in to wreak havoc, between roar shuffling and anticipating switch-ins it can be a real menace to face psychologically if you don't have an immediate counter.


So that's my team, my win ratio with it after seven days of semi-casual shoddy laddering was 70%, I dare you to do better!

Problem pokémon this team faces include Mixape, LO Gengar, any variant of Latias and HP Grass Zapdos.

Rate/comment :)

 

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

duly noted, thanks :)

 

[Itsuki]

Hello Gungnir85.

Choice Scarf Breloom is quite an effective lead I might say as I have used it in a past. Since the concept is to spread status I'll keep that in mind. I noticed that you look a reliable switch into Latias. She can come in on certain attacks from Swampert and Breloom and fire off Draco Meteors. None of your Pokemon enjoy taking a Draco Meteor except for, perhaps Heatran, who is 2HKOed by Surf. To remedy this problem I suggest using a Choice Scarf Tyranitar. I think replacing Heatran would be most beneficial as it just seems like its doing little for your team.

Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf | Sand Stream
Jolly | 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Crunch / Pursuit / Stone Edge / Superpower

Now looking over your team, Lucario is quite a big threat. If you decide to use Tyranitar it can set up on it as well as Breloom and do quite a number to your team. Fire-types, more specifically Infernape and Heatran seems to be a menace as only Swampert is your most reliable check. However if its an Life Ord sweeper, it seems like it could be good game as it is hard for your team to switch into a Fire Blast. Sticking to your theme I suggest a Thunder Wave Gyarados over Celebi. It provides a good switch into the three I've mentioned and can cripple them with Thunder Wave. It also has access to RestTalk enabling you to take on the threats much easier and making it a decent status absorber.

Gyarados @ Leftovers | Intimidate
Impish | 252 HP / 232 Def / 20 Spe
Waterfall / Thunder Wave / Rest / Sleep Talk

And my final note is to switch abilities from Effect Spore to Poison Heal on Breloom. It will help when you're up against Toxic Spikes and Effect Spore is rather redundant due to the status you're spreading anyways.

Hope I helped!

 

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

actually Heatran is pretty important for my team since it makes a really powerful defensive combo with Celebi :(

I will try a few games with a Scarftran and modified Celebi.

 

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

updated spreads.

 

[Darkvirus]

Ok so you have a rather solid team here but Specs/Scarf latias hives this team hell with just draco meteor and surf nothing from your team really want to be taking hits from it or it could cripple celebi or swampert with trick. to solve this i would agree with itsuki with swapping your heatran with a Scarf Ttar which will give you much needed cheak tolLatias, Lucairo, Bulky Gyrados,Starmie, Scarf Rotom, Infernape and Heatran. like itsuki i would suggest a nature and Ev spread of Jolly | 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe but with a moveset of Pursuit/Crunch/StoneEdge/Earthquake The reason for EQ is to get the OHKO revenge kill on Mixape.

In doing so would leave you with a Rather big weakness to Fire types like the alreayd mentioned Infernape To solve this i woud suggest a Wish Vaporeon doing this would gives you a solid cheak to Gyrados, Crocune And fire types Useing the Nature and EV spread of Bold | 188HP / 252 Def /68 Spe If you use a moveset of Wish/Protect/Surf/Hidden power electric, You will be providing your team with much needed wish support as with the change of swapping this for celebi you will lack any sort of recovery on any of your pokemonand will keep things like your Scarftar if you choose to change it and swampert able to keep switching into attacks