SS OU Protective Pads Melm + Weavile

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Melmetal was the first Pokémon of choice because of personal preference, I wanted to give it a try. The teammates were chosen to help with some of its weaknesses such as magnezone to trap its checks like corviknight and skarmory. Ferrothorn and Landorus-t provide hazards that wear opponents down, they can also speed it up with leech + toxic. Teammates with momentum were chosen to provide as much opportunities for melmetal to come in. While weavile can take advantage of melm weakening Pokémon like ferrothorn, or buzzwole.

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Slowbro was said to be as a great melmetal partner, It provides future port but also can stand in the way of garchomp, excadrill, and urshifu-r which this team would otherwise struggle against. It forms a great core with ferrothorn as they cover many weaknesses they have. Along with intimidate support from landorus-t slowbro can be very hard to take down for opponents on the physical side. Future sight annoys the many Pokémon like toxapex, landorus-t, and skarmory which helps melmetal and weavile break through these pokemon.

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Landorus-t is pretty standard with the sp. def set that helps it check many special attackers, with 25 speed IV's to under speed mirrors to get a slower u-turn. It can help wear down Pokémon with stealth rocks and toxic and forms a volt turn core with magnezone who takes advantage of pokemon like torn-t, corviknight, and skarmory which take advantage of landorus-t. It provides the team with a reliable switch in to SD garchomp, zeraora, and thunder wave hex dragapult/specs dragapult.

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Weavile is the speed control of this team as otherwise the team is very slow, Jolly is needed to out speed stuff like tornaudus-t which would otherwise heavily pressure this team. It benefits from magnezone support in removing skarm, corviknight, and heavily weakening opposing melmetal. It also benefits the most from hazard stack to easily wear down Pokémon.
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Ferrothorn provides a lot of defensive utility such as beating tapu koko, tapu lele, and makes urshifu-r not want to click its surging strikes which this team would otherwise struggle against. Mixed was chosen to be able to still check zeraora, melmetal, and weavile but have a better matchup into pokemon like tornadus-t, tapu lele, and dragapult. Spikes really benefit this team as it becomes really hard for its checks to repeatedly come in with hazards especially when weavile threatens to knock off leftovers and heavy-duty boots.
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Magnezone forms a volt turn core with landorus-t and take advantage of Pokémon such as corviknight, skarmory and scizor checking the two main offensive threats. With specs it is also able to apply a lot of pressure in where there is no Pokémon to be trapped then abusing its high power to threaten Pokémon such as sp. def landorus-t, zapdos, and heatran.

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Some weaknesses of this team are:

:blacephalon: this breaks through most of my team and I rely on prediction to not lose a Pokémon every single time, especially scarf which out speeds my entire team and if it claims an OHKO then it can easily snowball.

:weavile: After repedatly hitting ferrothorn and melmetal with attacks it can easily snowball here as the team relies on these 2 pokemon to constantly keep it in check. While weavile has no opportunity to switch in at all since it is risking a lot such as getting knock'ed, taking a lot of chip damage, suffering a status, this has been the most managable by far.

Some replays of my team working:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1422504235 Hail MU
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8ou-1423037123 Kart Blace team
 
Love the team, offensive core with Prot Melm + Weavile seems super fun and specs Magnezone is something that isn't seen all that often, so a team like this that appreciates its coverage and breaking ability past Magnet Pull is great!
 
Hello HydreigonTheChild,

I am here to help you with your team and since I saw a massive weakness towards Blacephalon and also Volcanion, I want to help you out there to improve your current version, so you have a much much easier time to switch into these two top threats in the current metagame.

Major Changes:

:Hydreigon: > :weavile: Since your team lacks the counterplay to Blacephalon and Volcanion alike, I've decided to go with Hydreigon, as it can cover both Pokemon as well as it is able to cover Heatran, which means it gives your team a reliable answer to Heatran as well, which - in your previous version - was also missing, Slowbro being the only answer isn't good enough in the long run. Hydreigon has Flamthrower in its arsenal as coverage against opposing Steel-types like Ferrothorn, which could also be annoying to your team.

:Tapu koko: > :magnezone: I've decided to go with Tapu Koko over Magnezone, so you have some speed control on this team, furthermore Tapu Koko gives a reliable answer to Water-types such as Tapu Fini, Slowbro, Slowking, and Toxapex. Electric Terrain is a blessing here, as it powers up Melmetals Thunder Punch and makes it more threatening versus Corviknight.

:tornadus-therian: > :ferrothorn: Tornadus-T is the Defogger for this team, helping out with giving this team a reliable Kartana answer alongside answers to Tapu Bulu and Rillaboom. It can also help with Knock Off to remove items and with Regenerator it's a reliable Defogger on top.

Minor Changes:

:landorus-therian: I only changed the EV spread so it can outpace Pokemon in the 240 Speed range, which is a blessing here. It is the Stealth Rock setter and with Toxic it can cripple Pokemon such as Zapdos, which otherwise can be annoying for this team to deal with.

:melmetal: Since you need a switch in to Pokemon such as Choice Specs Tapu Lele, Dragapult, and Kyurem, Assault Vest Melmetal can help here. It has its Stab move in Double Iron Bash and Earthquake as well as Ice Punch and Thunder Punch, which gives it a threatening way to be a danger to many Pokemon in the tier.

:slowbro: Since your team lacks a Weavile answer besides Melmetal and Tapu Koko, I have changed Slowbro to Colbur Berry + Body Press to immediately threaten Weavile. It can also threaten Pokemon such as Ferrothorn and a plethora of other Steel-types with Body Press and immediately make a great damage output on them, which can help the entire team in the long haul. I have kept Future Sight to allow that progress can be made in the battle.

Team for the Import (Pokepaste): https://pokepast.es/d21dfa63dbea2acb

Conclusion: Your teams weakness to Blacephalon and Volcanion was very hefty so I changed it to give you answers to both threats with Hydreigon. Tapu Koko and Tornadus-T provide the team with necessary momentum and Speed control, whereas Assault Vest Melmetal can check Tapu Lele, Kyurem, and Dragapult in a pinch, alongside specially defensive Landorus-T. Tapu Koko can threaten Weavile, Corviknight, and Skarmory, which otherwise would be annoying to this team, whereas Slowbro can lure in Weavile with Body Press to immediately get rid off it means your team has it less tough versus it.

Hope you will have fun with that team and have a great day trying it out! :blobwizard:
 
Katy thanks for the reply and the team. Just a question? Did you leave the 25 IV's on landorus' intentionally or is that on accident. The weavile problem seems to exist just not as big, since if it gets pivoted in then it still does the same things and a switch to slowbro gives a feeling that something is up, or is it me just thinking of the worst case scenario
 
Katy thanks for the reply and the team. Just a question? Did you leave the 25 IV's on landorus' intentionally or is that on accident. The weavile problem seems to exist just not as big, since if it gets pivoted in then it still does the same things and a switch to slowbro gives a feeling that something is up, or is it me just thinking of the worst case scenario

Smth screwed up the IVs on Lando, make it 31 and change the spread to EVs: 248 HP / 12 Def / 156 SpD / 92 Spe to be exacty, sorry didn't see that first. Oh the 40 defense invest on Koko is to survive a +4 Ice Shard after Rocks from Adamant Weavile so you have some Breathing Room there too :)
In overall Weavile - when you play a bit agressive - sgould not get that many opportunities to have a safe space vs this team in overall.
 
Katy with non Pads melm, do you double iron bash unless you know the items of the opponent, since smth like CM clefable can bait it to DIB into a helmet corviknight. Last one is about Tapu lele or the choiced ones, Melmetal seems to be the only one who can switch in more than twice, so how do you prevent smth like corviknight or landorus-t pivoting it in.
 
since smth like CM clefable can bait it to DIB into a helmet corviknight.

You can play agressively since you can basically predict the incoming corv and catch it with a thunder punch, furthermore you can double switch into tapu koko to prevent that from happening that corviknight catches you.

Last one is about Tapu lele or the choiced ones

Tapu Lele is dealable with Landorus-T, AV Melm, and Hydreigon, since it has to lock itself into either Psychic or Moonblast you can catch that and if it locks itself into Focus Blast Lando and Torn can stomach that hit just fine, same with Tapu Koko which can put pressure on the opposing team and keep up momentum afterwards. Furthermore if Lele decides to lock itself into Psyshock its also p stomachable by Lando-T and Melmetal.
 
Smth screwed up the IVs on Lando, make it 31 and change the spread to EVs: 248 HP / 12 Def / 156 SpD / 92 Spe to be exacty, sorry didn't see that first. Oh the 40 defense invest on Koko is to survive a +4 Ice Shard after Rocks from Adamant Weavile so you have some Breathing Room there too :)
In overall Weavile - when you play a bit agressive - sgould not get that many opportunities to have a safe space vs this team in overall.

If I'm not wrong on the set, doesn't 240 HP with SpD investment maximize its bulk?
 
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