Recently I was thinking about how weather dominated the OU metagame is. So I made this team under the idea that maybe weather isn't everything. Please comment, I love advice and discussion.
Breloom (Annoyance, wrecking ball)
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
Moves:
Spore
Mach Punch
Low Sweep
Bullet Punch
Nature: Jolly
May OU crumble under the might of not only the fastest spore user but the most powerful move in the game (Non recoil)- Breloom's bullet seed. Low Sweep is to be used when you predict a switch ensuring you outspeed their check. Not much else to say here- Mach Punch makes for an easy revenge kill and spore disables one of your opponents pokemon.
Alakazam (Special Sweeper)
Item: Focus Sash
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Special Attack, 4 Special Defence
Nature: Timid
Moves:
Focus Blast
Signal beam
Hidden Power Ice
Psyshock
Alakazam can wreck havoc with this set, outspeeding the vast majority of the unscarfed within the tier, can 2HKO almost the entire meta game. Psyshock is to laugh in the face of Blissey, hidden power Ice hits Dragonite, Salamence and Garchomp hard, while Signal Beam deals with fellow psychic types. Focus Blast is to be used against those wretched steel types. the wonderful thing about Alakazam is that entry hazards matter nothing to it's focus sash because of Magic Guard.
Dragonite (Physical sweeper)
Item: Lum Berry
Ability: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Attack, 4 HP
Nature: Adamant
Moves:
Dragon Dance
Dragon Claw
Fire Punch
Earthquake
Take that Salamence! There's a new dragon in town. Thanks to multiscale it's almost certain to pull off Dragon Dance making the undisputed best Dragon type within the tier. Fire Punch is to deal with Ferrothorn and Salamence both of which plague the tier while Earthquake allows me to destroy Heatran. Does suffer from needing Rapid Spin support to do anything better than any other dragon could.
Donphan (Rapid Spinner, Stealth Rocker)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Attack, 4 Defence
Nature: Adamant
Moves:
Ice Shard
Rapid Spin
Earthquake
Stealth Rock
What can I say about Donphan, what it lacks in the dealing with Spin Blockers department it makes up for in the fact it can have Stealth Rock on the same set freeing up another move on the rest of the team. Ice Shard deals with Dragonite and Salamence and Earthquake works as the Stab move of choice.
Sableye (Arghhhh!)
Item: Iron Ball
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP, 128 Special Defence, 128 Defence
Nature: Calm
Moves:
Willo-Wisp
Trick
Recover
Taunt
Ahhh if you can't beat them, join them. And while I liked Sableye before it became good in the 5th Generation. Pretty self explanatory. Trick disables Chlorophyll users and Special Attackers, While Willo-Wisp disables physical attackers. Priority recover prevents from being 2HKOed by the entire Metagame.
Rotom-Wash (Rain counter, Special Wall)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Special Defence, 248 HP, 8 Special Attack
Nature: Calm
Moves:
Volt Switch
Hydro Pump
Pain Split
Substitute
Easy enough to see the use off. Soaks up Special Attacks while been able to dish them back. Hurts most rain teams pretty badly, Pain Split works as a pseudo- recover. Hydro Pump works when it would be inconvenient to switch out.
Thanks for rating :), all advice wanted.
Breloom (Annoyance, wrecking ball)
Item: Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 4 HP
Moves:
Spore
Mach Punch
Low Sweep
Bullet Punch
Nature: Jolly
May OU crumble under the might of not only the fastest spore user but the most powerful move in the game (Non recoil)- Breloom's bullet seed. Low Sweep is to be used when you predict a switch ensuring you outspeed their check. Not much else to say here- Mach Punch makes for an easy revenge kill and spore disables one of your opponents pokemon.
Alakazam (Special Sweeper)
Item: Focus Sash
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Special Attack, 4 Special Defence
Nature: Timid
Moves:
Focus Blast
Signal beam
Hidden Power Ice
Psyshock
Alakazam can wreck havoc with this set, outspeeding the vast majority of the unscarfed within the tier, can 2HKO almost the entire meta game. Psyshock is to laugh in the face of Blissey, hidden power Ice hits Dragonite, Salamence and Garchomp hard, while Signal Beam deals with fellow psychic types. Focus Blast is to be used against those wretched steel types. the wonderful thing about Alakazam is that entry hazards matter nothing to it's focus sash because of Magic Guard.
Dragonite (Physical sweeper)
Item: Lum Berry
Ability: Multiscale
EVs: 252 Speed, 252 Attack, 4 HP
Nature: Adamant
Moves:
Dragon Dance
Dragon Claw
Fire Punch
Earthquake
Take that Salamence! There's a new dragon in town. Thanks to multiscale it's almost certain to pull off Dragon Dance making the undisputed best Dragon type within the tier. Fire Punch is to deal with Ferrothorn and Salamence both of which plague the tier while Earthquake allows me to destroy Heatran. Does suffer from needing Rapid Spin support to do anything better than any other dragon could.
Donphan (Rapid Spinner, Stealth Rocker)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP, 252 Attack, 4 Defence
Nature: Adamant
Moves:
Ice Shard
Rapid Spin
Earthquake
Stealth Rock
What can I say about Donphan, what it lacks in the dealing with Spin Blockers department it makes up for in the fact it can have Stealth Rock on the same set freeing up another move on the rest of the team. Ice Shard deals with Dragonite and Salamence and Earthquake works as the Stab move of choice.
Sableye (Arghhhh!)
Item: Iron Ball
Ability: Prankster
EVs: 252 HP, 128 Special Defence, 128 Defence
Nature: Calm
Moves:
Willo-Wisp
Trick
Recover
Taunt
Ahhh if you can't beat them, join them. And while I liked Sableye before it became good in the 5th Generation. Pretty self explanatory. Trick disables Chlorophyll users and Special Attackers, While Willo-Wisp disables physical attackers. Priority recover prevents from being 2HKOed by the entire Metagame.
Rotom-Wash (Rain counter, Special Wall)
Item: Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 Special Defence, 248 HP, 8 Special Attack
Nature: Calm
Moves:
Volt Switch
Hydro Pump
Pain Split
Substitute
Easy enough to see the use off. Soaks up Special Attacks while been able to dish them back. Hurts most rain teams pretty badly, Pain Split works as a pseudo- recover. Hydro Pump works when it would be inconvenient to switch out.
Thanks for rating :), all advice wanted.
