Portuguese Blood! [OU RMT]

[Pking]

I have started to do this team on Smogon Team Builder, and it has had a lot of sucess xD It ranked me to CRE 1250. Sorry about my english and Rate My Team.

First Glance:

Through the Microscope:

@ Focus Sash
Adamant
Ev's: 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 Def
Ability: Snow Cloak
Moveset:
Stealth Rock
Earthquake
Ice Shard
Endeavor

This thing hits like a beast, 394 Attack, and 259 speed, Earthquake is the obvious powerful stab move, Ice Shard is extra protection against Salamence leads, Aerodactyls, Roserades... Endeavor, Focus Sash and Ice Shard is a great combination. I will not change this slot for anything! Stealth Rock gives extra support to the team who has some problems with Gyarados and things like him.

@ Leftovers/Expert Belt
Timid
Ev's: 252 SAtk, 252 Spd, 6 HP
Ability: Levitate
Moveset:
Substitute
Hypnosis
Shadow Ball
Hidden Power Fire/Focus Blast [Help Here!]

My substitute bait user. This thing pretty much kills Ttar every battle, weakened Heatrans, or healthy non scarfed versions, and of course blissey, with Focus Blast. Also can revenge kill ghosts, and sometimes get a free sub off them because they try to twave me. Expert Belt is there because I like having Gengar last a little and life orb kills him fast, and leftovers to help to the Substitute damage, i need help here. Also if I get in Focus Punch vs. Softboil Blissey fight, I dont lose anything from it and Blissey just run out of PP.

@ Life Orb
Adamant
Ev's: 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 6 Hp
Ability: Steadfast
Moveset:
Swords Dance
Close Combat
ExtremeSpeed
Crunch

This guy got a pretty straight forward swords dance move set and support from magnezone to pull it off. Close combat for its STAB power, extremespeed for revenge kills, and crunch to take care of everything else. I went back and forth a little on having an Adamant or jolly nature but in the end decided to use Adamant for extra power, life orb as the held item for that little extra damage. This guy is a little big beast.

@ Leftovers
Timid
Ev's: 252 Spd, 252 SAtk, 6 hp
Ability: Levitate
Moveset:
CalmMind
Dragon Pulse
Surf
Recover

This is a special sweeper/ Revenge killer, It's pretty standard and makes good coverage, I chose Surf over GK because I find it more useful. It's a really awesome pokemon for this team and one of my favourite OUs. This latias tears apart a lot of teams with its sheer force, it's a good wall breaker and a stall breaker. This pokémon with just +2 kills almost everything.

@ Choice Band
Adamant
Ev's: 168 Hp, 160 SDef, 252 Atk
Ability: Technician
Moveset:
Bullet Punch
U-Turn
Pursuit
Superpower

Compliments the team with its great typing allowing it to switch into plenty of attacks and help wear down the opposing team with the combination of sand stream, stealth rock and u turn. The spread allows it to survive 2 choice specs surf from Latias and ko with u turn at the cost of 10% original attack power. Bullet punch and quick attack provides a check for Salamence, Tyranitar and Gyarados somewhat. A good lure for typical switch ins, allowing key members to get a free switch or set up.

@ Leftovers
Careful
EV's: 118 Hp, 140 Def, 252 SDef
Ability: Thick Fat
Moveset:
Curse
Rest
Body Slam
Crunch

Curselax! One of the most dangerous pokemon in the game. He’s the special sponge in the team and after a few curses can take physical hits as well.
Body Slam is Snorlax’s attack of choice; it does decent damage to anything even before Snorlax starts cursing. I chose Crunch because it hits the Ghost types who resist BodySlam super effective or for neutral damage. Rest is there as it is Snorlax’s only recovery move and because it removes status effects.

 

[KnightoftheWind]

Your team is fairly weak to Infernape. For the varieties with Fire Blast / Close Combat / Grass Knot, you shouldn't have to much trouble with thanks to Latias, but the physically mixed varieties can prove to be incredibly tough to handle. If you switch Latias into a U-turn, it'll end up losing over half of its health and not only that, it'll give the opponent a free switch-in to their Latias counter. If it's a Scizor, it can then either kill your Latias as it switches out with Pursuit, or use U-turn to get another free switch into something else. As for your other Pokemon, Mamoswine and Snorlax are taken down by Close Combat, Lucario does seem like a decent option with ExtremeSpeed, but an unboosted ExtremeSpeed won't KO Infernape, and even if it is boosted, Lucario's sweep will be easily ended by Mach Punch. Scizor is manhandled by Overheat, whilst Infernape resists Bullet Punch, and Gengar can't even switch-in. This is a big problem for your team, and should be addressed.

Another big problem will have to be DD Gyarados. Your team provides it set-up in Lucario and Scizor locked into Bullet Punch, and you only pack a single Water resist in Latias, who can't do much to Gyarados and can be taken out by Stone Edge if it is slightly weakened. Once it sets-up, there isn't anything you can do to stop it, so Gyarados is a threat of great concern.

My suggestion to deal with both Infernape and Gyarados is to switch Snorlax with Vaporeon.

Vaporeon @ Leftovers
188 HP / 252 Def / 68 Spe
Wish / Protect / Surf / HP Electric

Your team seems to be more focused on heliping Lucario sweep than helping Snorlax sweep, since you have a Pursuiter to deal with fast Ghost-types and two Dark-weak so Lucario can get a free Swords Dance, whilst you don't have good ways to beat physical Fighting-types and phazers. I definitely think that Vaporeon is a much better fit on your team than Snorlax. It's a great 100% counter to Infernape and Gyarados with Surf and HP Electric respectively, and it provides good resistances to Fire and Ice, and an immunity to Water. Wish is also a handy move to have, as it allows you to recover Gengar's lost health from Substitute and gives Scizor a bit more staying power.

I don't really like your Gengar set either. Hypnosis is a very unreliable move with only 60% accuracy, meaning you'll end up missing a lot. I suggest running both Focus Blast and HP Fire instead of Hypnosis and one or the other, so you can beat both Scizor and Tyranitar in the same set.

You can't use that EV spread on Scizor, as it exceeds the 510 EVs limit. Just drop Scizor's Attack EVs to 180. With this EV spread, Scizor can easily switch into Psychics and Ghosts without taking much damage and can still hit hard with U-turn and Bullet Punch.

Good luck with your team.

 

[Pking]

Thanks, I'm going to try Vaporeon over Snorlax. Scizor ev spread was an error, anyway it has 180 as you said.

 

[Friar]

Hey there, pretty cool team you have started here!

I think Scarfing your Latias would be very beneficial for your team. It gives you the revenge killer to DD Pokemon such as Gyarados and Kingdra that you really struggle to deal with otherwise. In fact, Scarf Latias and CB Scizor cover just about every offensive threat in the game, giving you a lot more flexibility to work on setting up your own offensive strategy because if your opponent goes on the offensive, you can easily check them and get the momentum back. Usually Scarf Latias gets knocked for being Pursuit weak and easily killed. However, for your team, this is a good thing! If Latias gets Pursuited by a choiced Tyranitar or a CB Scizor, you can easily go to your own CB Scizor to get a risk free U Turn off, or if the time is right set up Lucario for an end game sweep. Here is the set:

Latias @ Choice Scarf
Timid / Levitate
4 HP / 252 Sp. Attack / 252 Speed
-Draco Meteor
-Surf
-Thunderbolt
-Trick

Besides revenge killing and giving Lucario set up time, Latias can Trick to screw with set up sweepers and stall teams.

On Lucario, I recommend using a Jolly nature. Your team is able to weaken most everything for Lucario late game, especially with Scizor as a partner, so a Jolly Nature is preferred for its ability to screw with opposing offensive teams. For instance, you have the ability to kill any Rotom that isnt scarfed, and you will outspeed almost all other Lucario, which really helps against opposing offense. The exact same moveset it good, just use a Jolly Nature.

Snorlax - This, in my opinion, is the weakest link. To use a CurseLax, you really need to center your team around the big fella, which your team does not. In addition, with Latias becoming a scarfer, you will need to add a set of resistances that you can rely on that are similar to have a bit if a defensive backbone. I think Starmie is the perfect fit. LO Starmie is one of the most dangerous Pokemon in the metagame, and I'm sure will be one of your most lethal sweepers. With Gengar and Latias (as well as your physical Pokemon) working to kill off Blissey, Starmie should have no problems sweeping. In addition, Starmie hits like a truck with good Special attack, high powered moves, and good type coverage. This alone might weaken things enough for even a Jolly Lucario to perform a breakaway sweep, if Starmie didnt beat him to it! While Starmie can simply KO most Pursuit users with Hydro Pump, if your opponent pulls out ScarfTar on Starmie on somthing, you can spam a U Turn or set up Lucario. However, these two should be dead at the hands of Gengar, so Starmie wont go down without causing quite a storm. Here is the set:

Starmie @ Life Orb
Timid / Natural Cure
4 HP / 252 Special Attack / 252 Speed
-Hydro Pump
-Ice Beam
-Thunderbolt
-Recover

Rapid Spin would be some nice support over Recover, but because you will relying on Starmie's resistances a great deal, you really need Recover to capitalize on Starmie's resistances and decent bulk.

Gengar - needs a set change in my opinion, to the new Sub Pain Split Gengar. This set is really tough to stop once it gets a sub and can kill off stuff like Scizor and Tyranitar with ease, which really helps Starmie and Latias. Just like Starmie, Gengar will serve as a backup sweep option should Lucario not be able to get the job done. Pain Split allows you to have your way with opposing Blissey because after two Pain Splits they are 2HKO'd by Focus Blast so they must continually use recovery moves while you can keep Substituting and Pain Splitting until they either run out of Recovery Move PP or you kill them off with Focus Blast. Pain Split also gives you a degree of survivability so you can survive into the late game to check things like opposing SD Lucario. Here is the set:

Gengar @ Life Orb
Timid / Levitate
4 Def / 252 Special Attack / 252 Speed
-Shadow Ball
-Focus Blast
-Substitute
-Pain Split

Again, the basically guaranteed kill on Blissey and the greater reliability is what makes this set preferable to yours.

Thats all I have, good luck with your team!