The Team Overview
Started off with choice-scarf Infernape. I wanted to theme a team around this pokemon because its good at two things
a) U-turning on incoming latias and starmie.
b) Revenege killing just about anything (like +1 salamence).
So now i needed his Partner in crime:
I had too choose between Heracross, Scizor, or Tyranitar for this spot. I decided to go with Heracross for three reasons:
a)Guts virtually makes Rotom-A a guaranteed scratch.
b)Heracross is the best of the three at breaking stall:
(Outspeeds and 2hko's with close combat: hippowdon, swampert, forretress, skarmory) WITHOUT GUTS!
c)Chose to go with 2 psychic weaknesses over two water weakness because pyschic attacks aren't too common.
Seems a little strange to trap psychic's with fighting types i know. But like i said, it works. Now that i had my stall breaking combo in play I needed to add a pokemon that could stop sweepers from setting up on choice heracross.
Although Zapdos isn't my salamance check it works to do 2 things.
a)Comes in on gyarados and lucario togekiss and forces a switch or a kill.
b)Starts toxic stall on the enemies crippled defense line. (Assuming infernape and heracross have had a chance to do their job). Anything that flies, falls victim to zapdos' toxic or t-bolt.
I still needed some special bulk on this team, namely something to take fire, ice and water attacks.
Cursepert. 297 special defense and 404 hp allows swampert to handle all three of these attacks with relative impunity. In fact, this thing can use mixmence and choice latias as setup fodder. As long as i rest off the initial draco meteor it will have to keep switching in and out, all in the meanwhile i can just curse up. The amount of flying types that switch in and out on this thing is rediculous. But besides that, he serves as a great late game sweeper, resists any other stalling pokes like heatran and zapdos completely (which would otherwise hurt this team), and shrugs off special attacks. He is still a perfectly good switch in to things like electavire and metagross too.
I've made Roserade special bulky so it can can switch in on starmie, bulky latias, blissey, magnezone, vaporeon, swampert, Jolteon, Tentacruel zapdos, Rotom-A...you get the point. Basically any water, electric, and some grounds and special walls. By doing this i get free status, toxic spikes and a chance to kill incoming scizor with HP fire. That and grass knot for water and ground types. One thing i notice is a lot of pokes that switch in like to go for the pursuit over the direct kill because they know how frail it is. This works out for them either way but it also gives me a chance to dent them huge (heavy ttar dmg, and a potential ohko if your scizor).
Heatran is here for overall coverage, providing the team with 11 resitances. He's also my first choice when switching in on U-turning scizor. and is the other key member for revenge killing pokes, especially ones locked in outrage like salamence. Toxic works great on incoming pokes too because they are usually flying types like salamence and gyarados and latias, but im beginning to think SR would be more valuable and should take up that slot So i've went ahead and made the change, and liking what i see.
In Depth Analysis:
Rash
Choice scarf
24 att/ 232 spe/252 spa
U-turn
Close Combat
Overheat
HP Ice
Adamant
Choice band
252 att/ 252 spe/4 hp
Pursuit
Close Combat
Megahorn
Stone Edge
Bold
Leftovers
248 hp/ 148 def/76 spe
toxic
thunder bolt
roost
substitute
Careful
Leftovers
252 hp/ 40 def/216 sdef
Curse
Waterfall
Rest
Sleep Talk
Calm
Black sludge
252 hp/ 136 sdef/120 spe
HP fire
Grass Knot
Sleep Powder
Toxic Spikes
Timid
Leftovers
252 spe/ 252 spa/4 hp
Fire Blast
Dragon Pulse
Earth Power
Stealth Rock
Threat List:
Machamp.
Infernape (both leads and nasty plot dent the team more then id like them too).
'Taunt' Gliscor.
Offensive Suicune occasionally.
Mamoswine
DD roost Salamence
These guys have given me trouble, any suggestions to help improve the team. i'd really appreciate it guys!
Started off with choice-scarf Infernape. I wanted to theme a team around this pokemon because its good at two things
a) U-turning on incoming latias and starmie.
b) Revenege killing just about anything (like +1 salamence).
So now i needed his Partner in crime:
I had too choose between Heracross, Scizor, or Tyranitar for this spot. I decided to go with Heracross for three reasons:
a)Guts virtually makes Rotom-A a guaranteed scratch.
b)Heracross is the best of the three at breaking stall:
(Outspeeds and 2hko's with close combat: hippowdon, swampert, forretress, skarmory) WITHOUT GUTS!
c)Chose to go with 2 psychic weaknesses over two water weakness because pyschic attacks aren't too common.
Seems a little strange to trap psychic's with fighting types i know. But like i said, it works. Now that i had my stall breaking combo in play I needed to add a pokemon that could stop sweepers from setting up on choice heracross.
Although Zapdos isn't my salamance check it works to do 2 things.
a)Comes in on gyarados and lucario togekiss and forces a switch or a kill.
b)Starts toxic stall on the enemies crippled defense line. (Assuming infernape and heracross have had a chance to do their job). Anything that flies, falls victim to zapdos' toxic or t-bolt.
I still needed some special bulk on this team, namely something to take fire, ice and water attacks.
Cursepert. 297 special defense and 404 hp allows swampert to handle all three of these attacks with relative impunity. In fact, this thing can use mixmence and choice latias as setup fodder. As long as i rest off the initial draco meteor it will have to keep switching in and out, all in the meanwhile i can just curse up. The amount of flying types that switch in and out on this thing is rediculous. But besides that, he serves as a great late game sweeper, resists any other stalling pokes like heatran and zapdos completely (which would otherwise hurt this team), and shrugs off special attacks. He is still a perfectly good switch in to things like electavire and metagross too.
I've made Roserade special bulky so it can can switch in on starmie, bulky latias, blissey, magnezone, vaporeon, swampert, Jolteon, Tentacruel zapdos, Rotom-A...you get the point. Basically any water, electric, and some grounds and special walls. By doing this i get free status, toxic spikes and a chance to kill incoming scizor with HP fire. That and grass knot for water and ground types. One thing i notice is a lot of pokes that switch in like to go for the pursuit over the direct kill because they know how frail it is. This works out for them either way but it also gives me a chance to dent them huge (heavy ttar dmg, and a potential ohko if your scizor).
Heatran is here for overall coverage, providing the team with 11 resitances. He's also my first choice when switching in on U-turning scizor. and is the other key member for revenge killing pokes, especially ones locked in outrage like salamence. Toxic works great on incoming pokes too because they are usually flying types like salamence and gyarados and latias, but im beginning to think SR would be more valuable and should take up that slot So i've went ahead and made the change, and liking what i see.
In Depth Analysis:
Rash
Choice scarf
24 att/ 232 spe/252 spa
U-turn
Close Combat
Overheat
HP Ice
Adamant
Choice band
252 att/ 252 spe/4 hp
Pursuit
Close Combat
Megahorn
Stone Edge
Bold
Leftovers
248 hp/ 148 def/76 spe
toxic
thunder bolt
roost
substitute
Careful
Leftovers
252 hp/ 40 def/216 sdef
Curse
Waterfall
Rest
Sleep Talk
Calm
Black sludge
252 hp/ 136 sdef/120 spe
HP fire
Grass Knot
Sleep Powder
Toxic Spikes
Timid
Leftovers
252 spe/ 252 spa/4 hp
Fire Blast
Dragon Pulse
Earth Power
Stealth Rock
Threat List:
Machamp.
Infernape (both leads and nasty plot dent the team more then id like them too).
'Taunt' Gliscor.
Offensive Suicune occasionally.
Mamoswine
DD roost Salamence
These guys have given me trouble, any suggestions to help improve the team. i'd really appreciate it guys!
