Sub Toxic Mantine
Requested by: pancake
Built by: Shaneghoul
I had a decent amount of trouble building this team, mainly because the team usually ended up being quite fighting weak, due to mant being an awful fighting check but also taking up a slot as a flying type. Due to this I shuffled through a fair few versions of this team before I settled on one that I really liked, being this one. Ferro Rupt Mantine is an amazing defensive core providing hazard stacking and checking nearly everything while rotom supplements them very well providing a tauros answer, secondary flying + fighting resist, spin blocking support and most importantly speed. At this point I was still feeling worried about fighters, especially gurdurr as it had a pretty easy time against rupt + ferro and neither mant nor rotom could switch in. Thus I added colbur cm mesprit, this a really a fun set that's great for catching people off guard and works incredibly on hazard stack. Finally I still felt I was lacking a bit of speeding and cleaning prowess and with the majority of weaknesses covered tauros seemed like a very safe fit providing great speed, wallbreaking prowess and just doing tauros things that only tauros can do. The team is fairly weak to swellow but thankfully that mons really fallen off recently (not sure why) and if necessary it can be played around w/ clever predictions and there are multiple revenge killing routes. Other then that there really isn't much it struggles with bar maybe abomasnow, but that doesn't get in on anything. A few of the odd set choices; bullet seed ferro deals with opposing sub mantines which were formerly a problem, nearly always breaking the sub. Wisp on rupt is imo the best option on this team allowing you to cripple rhydon and regi aiding tauros' sweep. At a glance hazards look annoying however it's quite manageable as setters don't get many opportunities and w/ only 2 spike weak mons hazards aren't all that threatening in practice. In terms of mant's roll on this team it serves as a great balance breaker answering to gastro, poli and lix for tauros while weakening lanturn giving rotom an opportunity to clean, especially with hazard support. Not really much else to say, hope you enjoy and good luck!
Requested by: pancake
Built by: Shaneghoul
Mantine @ Leftovers
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 8 HP / 248 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic
- Scald
- Air Slash
- Substitute
Ferroseed @ Eviolite
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 124 Def / 136 SpD
Careful Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Spikes
- Gyro Ball
- Bullet Seed
- Leech Seed
Rotom @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Volt Switch
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball
- Trick
Camerupt @ Leftovers
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Lava Plume
- Will-O-Wisp
Mesprit @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 1 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 SpD
- Calm Mind
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Hidden Power [Ground]
Tauros (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Rock Climb
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast
- Iron Tail
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 8 HP / 248 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic
- Scald
- Air Slash
- Substitute
Ferroseed @ Eviolite
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 124 Def / 136 SpD
Careful Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Spikes
- Gyro Ball
- Bullet Seed
- Leech Seed
Rotom @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Volt Switch
- Thunderbolt
- Shadow Ball
- Trick
Camerupt @ Leftovers
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Lava Plume
- Will-O-Wisp
Mesprit @ Colbur Berry
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 1 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 SpD
- Calm Mind
- Psychic
- Signal Beam
- Hidden Power [Ground]
Tauros (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Rock Climb
- Earthquake
- Fire Blast
- Iron Tail
I had a decent amount of trouble building this team, mainly because the team usually ended up being quite fighting weak, due to mant being an awful fighting check but also taking up a slot as a flying type. Due to this I shuffled through a fair few versions of this team before I settled on one that I really liked, being this one. Ferro Rupt Mantine is an amazing defensive core providing hazard stacking and checking nearly everything while rotom supplements them very well providing a tauros answer, secondary flying + fighting resist, spin blocking support and most importantly speed. At this point I was still feeling worried about fighters, especially gurdurr as it had a pretty easy time against rupt + ferro and neither mant nor rotom could switch in. Thus I added colbur cm mesprit, this a really a fun set that's great for catching people off guard and works incredibly on hazard stack. Finally I still felt I was lacking a bit of speeding and cleaning prowess and with the majority of weaknesses covered tauros seemed like a very safe fit providing great speed, wallbreaking prowess and just doing tauros things that only tauros can do. The team is fairly weak to swellow but thankfully that mons really fallen off recently (not sure why) and if necessary it can be played around w/ clever predictions and there are multiple revenge killing routes. Other then that there really isn't much it struggles with bar maybe abomasnow, but that doesn't get in on anything. A few of the odd set choices; bullet seed ferro deals with opposing sub mantines which were formerly a problem, nearly always breaking the sub. Wisp on rupt is imo the best option on this team allowing you to cripple rhydon and regi aiding tauros' sweep. At a glance hazards look annoying however it's quite manageable as setters don't get many opportunities and w/ only 2 spike weak mons hazards aren't all that threatening in practice. In terms of mant's roll on this team it serves as a great balance breaker answering to gastro, poli and lix for tauros while weakening lanturn giving rotom an opportunity to clean, especially with hazard support. Not really much else to say, hope you enjoy and good luck!