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my school tournament is in a few days, and a couple friends and I have been tweaking our teams. Right now my team is stomping their teams, but since the winner of this tourney gets a $60 Best Buy gift card and I really want to buy the new game in 8 days, I'd love some help from the people on smogon!

The idea for the team I made was to abuse the SpD boost from sandstorm rock pokemon. I've always felt like battlers don't give enough credit to what can be a tremendously boost. Anyway, here's my team (I'll try not to babble on too much from here on out)


Tyranitar @ life orb
sandstream
jolly (+Spe, -SpA) EVs: 0-4-126-0-126-252
-Stealth Rock
-Pursuit
-Rock Slide
-Superpower
good ol' Ttar... except not really. this is a kind of untypical Ttar that is used to scare opponents starters off. If they (namely Aerodactyl, Ninjask, Jolteon, other low defense pokemon) switch out in fear of rock slide or a nonexistent EQ, i get a chance to pursuit or free SR. Ttar also sets up the sandstorm I need to boost my teams SpD. I've used Swampert in this spot and it's been fine, but I'd prefer to keep a Ttar up front so Swampert can piss off people when I wall their ttar in its tracks.
I maxed out the speed here and put on superpower to one hit kill any ttar aside from a choice scarfer


Regirock @ leftovers
clear body
Careful (+SpD, -SpA) 252-36-0-0-220-0
-hammer arm
-rock slide
-explosion
-thunder wave
the title may have mislead you... I recently found out that sandstorm only work to boost rock SpD. Regardless, Regirock becomes the tankiest tank in existence when sand is in the air. Def: 200, SpD: 150, HP: 80 (unlike 20HP for Schuckle). rock slide and thunder wave can be very frustrating because of the flinch and paralyze hax. Regirock can take EQs from faster pokemon and then paralyze them or blow up. Hammer Arm checks anyone that thinks Ttar can beat out Regirock, as well as scares off a blissey that wants to heal its now crippled teammates. 252Atk252Spe EV Ttar takes 4, count em', FOUR hits to knock Regi down when leftovers are on, and Regirock's 100Atk explosion takes >%50 from ttar, OHKO's dragondance dragonite, and some wall-ing zapdos. A common lifeorb Heatran takes off < 20% with fire blast, that Metagross ALWAYS is OHKO'd by, and > 30% from HP grass.


Swampert @ quick claw
torrent
impish (+def, -SpA) Evs 252-124-128-0-0-0
-counter
-ice punch
-earthquake
-mirror coat/aqua tail
A mirrorcoat/counter set... because I want my victims to cry. Quick Claw is a weird item, but it's nice after swampert has taken two hits and might not survive a third. It's better to be lucky than good isn't it? Oh well, leftovers wasn't doing anything, so I put on the quick claw.


Scizor @ choice band
technician
adament (+Atk, -SpA) Evs 248-252-0-0-0-8
-U-turn
-Bullet Punch
-Superpower/Brick Break
-Pursuit
No one uses grass, but this team's origin ran regirock for registeel and milotic for porygon, and I didn't want to constantly be afraid of a roserade or shaymin or celebi screwing me over. (keep in mind this team isn't for shoddy, so only people with pokesav are going to have access to grass legendaries). This set isn't original at all, but with 591 attack and U-turn (105 power with tech boost and STAB) and bullet punch (90 power with tech boost, STAB, AND speed priority) it doesn't need to be. Scizor's types causes some bad mismatches for the other team and forces a switch out, which is fine by me since pursuit gets a tech boost to 75 base power. Superpower let's me counter Ttar, but I'm consider switching it to Brick Break (why don't I ever see Brick Break users?)
Not having double-hit on a technician set saddens me... but I'm not too sad with this Basas$ bug on my team.


Togekiss @ leftovers
serene grace
Modest (+SpA,-Atk) Evs 252-0-0-36-220-0
-nasty plot
-air slash
-aura sphere
-roost
Cutest pokemon that can fight. Also a good switch in for tanks that I can afford a hit from, because it lets Togekiss set up a nasty plot and OHKO or 2HKO almost any pokemon. 2HKO's aren't always bad with air slash because of the 60% flinch chance you get with Togekiss. I love having a thunder wave on this guy because it makes their chance of attacking at all, but instead I just aim to save togekiss to the later game when Registeel has paralyzed some dudes up for togekiss.


Porygon-Z @ choice specs
adaptability
Modest (+SpA, -Atk) Evs 0-0-4-252-0-252
-tri attack
-hidden power (fighting)
-dark pulse
-ice beam
x2 STAB... tri attack becomes 160 power, with a 60% chance of inflicting a status. The 160 becomes even better when you consider his 606 Special Attack can devastate teams. 31.9% - 37.8% on a typical Blissey with maxed out HP and Def plus the likely status tells people this guy means business. With the excellent tanks on my team I can't imagine a better pokemon for this spot, or for choice specs at all. Ice beam is for dragons, dark pulse is for ghosts that tri attack can't hit :( and HP fighting is for... YES: TYRANITAR!


All 6 of my pokemon are suitable counters for Ttar because everyone uses him. I don't know why he isn't an uber... I also use fighting to counter any other rock pokemon people might use to try to steal my SpD boost. Half of my team is weak vs. fighting, which I hate, but at the same time I think the SpD boost is worth it. Sometimes I have to let a pokemon or two faint in battle (typically Ttar and Swampert) to avoid switching in, but the team has still done well for me. I'm 4-1 with it so far.



Anyway, thanks for reading! This team has such an... unprofessional feel to it, which I really love, but I thought maybe some raters could help it out.
 
Yeah only rock types get the SpD boost in sandstorm...
You may want to use Regirock who gets base 200 defense and base 100 SpD and then the 1.5 boost on it. Much better in sand.
 
First of all, wat skool do u go 2? U guys openly hold POkemon Tourneys!!!! 0_0 lol
Second, i like the team. But i think ur making a crucial mistake on ur Swampter. Dnt get me wrong, Quick Claw is by no means a useless item. I must admit that it is rather nice to see ur opponents cry tears inside whenever u get a free hax of priority (which 4 sum reason seems to happen alot more often than just 18% of the time -_-). Nontheless, the hax is unrealiable. This is 4 two reasons. The 1st being the most obvious: ITS ONLY GONNA OCCUR 18% PERCENT OF THE TIME. It may seem like u hit more often then not, but still, it isnt that gud. If ur not gonna use leftovers as an item then fine, but u may wanna ditch the quick claw. Besides, speed isnt everything and for a Swampter, it doesnt have to be (1. bcuz u hav others in ur team 4 that, and 2. Swampter will lose to many Pokes anyway wen it comes down to speed. Its just not his game.) Oh..... and the second reason that the hax of quick claw is unrelaibale is bcuz Swampert is notorius for luring Grass Knot users (Pokes like iNfernape, Azelf, and even Alakazam would be good examples). This will without question OHKO ur swampert. and the chances of u getting to attack b4 them with QC is....... well, not so high -_-. So, yeah. i kno what I said earlier about the leftovers being optional, but yea, when it comes down to Swampert, its honestly the best item for it (Srry >_>). However, to see Magic Coat and Counter on a Swampert is very unsual; this is in fact my first time ever seeing it = and never once have i thought of utilizing it on a Swampter. So u will definitely be netting more 2HKO's then ur oppponent will likely want to believe. Other than that, i like the team and the rest of it is pretty solid. U should definitely win at ur skool and i hope u do win and get Pokemon B or W (im still conflicting over which onw to get 0_o????)
XD anyway, all in all i give this team a A- for consistency and overall balance. Nice dude!
 
By the looks of things I'm assuming there are no clause in this tournament. In that case, why don't you run 6 Brelooms?
 
okay, the rules were made today by some weirdo, and he says:

"no mew, ddeoxys, darkrai, celebi, phione, shaymin, jirachi, manaphy, arcues, wobbuffet, and garchomp.

and players may only use one of: Mewtwo, Kyogre, Dialga, Lugia, Groudon, Palkia, Ho-oh, Rayquaza, Giratina

It's three vs three until the final battle"

i assume this means i can use double team. anyone know where i can find a team to utilize double-team/ these ridiculous rules?
 
oh yeah! i forgot i was trying to use a glaceon last year like that!
swag x 1000!

any other bright ideas? right now i'm putting together a kyogre rain dance team and a mewtwo sweeper team for my friend
 
put rest and sleeptalk with the swampert and maybe remove the mirrorcoat and put in equake. rest.sleeptalk.equake.counter. or you can rwemove the quickclaw go for sitrus berry and keep your old moveset
 
I'd be inclined to abuse a scarf or specs Kyogre. Plus maybe a couple of Swift Swimmers, probably Kabutos and Ludicolo or something.

If going for evasion, I'd go with a Tyranitar + Gliscor + Sand Veil + Bright Powder + Double Team + Rayquaza or Dialga or something.. It's a lot less frail, just in case something does slip through.
 
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