Rate my first OU team please

eleonhardt

This is my first attempt at a team
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Tyranitar @ Chesto Berry
252 HP / 32 Atk / 224 SpD
Adamant
31 HP / 31 Attack / 31 Speed
~ Stone Edge
~ Pursuit
~ Earthquake
~ Stealth Rock

I chose Tyranitar to serve as my lead because I like his ability and his attack stat is better than Hippowdon's. His main purpose is to summon a sandstorm and shut down other common leads by breaking their focus sashes with Sandstorm. Late-game he will serve as a Special wall and is a good counter to ghost and psychic sweepers.
I'll have to switch Tyranitar out if he is facing any of his 6 weaknesses.

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Scizor @ Life Orb
252 At / 252 Spe / 4 HP
Adamant
31 Attack / 31 Speed
~ Swords Dance
~ Bullet Punch
~ Superpower
~ Bug Bite

I chose Scizor for this team because of his typing and priority move Bullet Punch. Scizor is meant as a late game sweeper, but I have found him reliable as team support with weakening my foes. If threats (Fire type) have been removed then I'll fire off a Swords Dance and Bullet Punch everything to death.
If a fire type switches in, I'll switch to Starmie.


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Starmie @ Leftovers
136 HP / 156 Def / 216 Spe
Timid
~ Rapid Spin
~ Surf
~ Thunderbolt
~ Recover

I chose Starmie to be my main team support because of the Natural Cure ability, which is great for getting rid of toxic spikes. Starmie can heal status ailments and HP and counter the types that are super effective against my teammates. Thunderbolt is for other water types and Skarmory. Starmie can also serve as my physical wall and can be very powerful if the foe doesn't resist its attacks.

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Heatran @ Choice Scarf
4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive
~ Fire Blast
~ Earth Power
~ Hidden Power Electric
~ Dragon Pulse

Heatran is Scizor's partner and will switch into all fire types and kill them off with Earth Power. Hidden Power Electric for super effective water types, Fire Blast for STAB. I need a replacement for Dragon Pulse, perhaps Magna Storm.

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Metagross @ Leftovers
252 HP / 244 Def / 12 Spe
Adamant
~ Light Screen
~ Meteor Mash
~ Earthquake
~ ThunderPunch

Metagross is here as a tank as a powerful physical attacker. He provides great type resistances, and massive attack and defenses. The set is on par with his good type-coverage, and Light Screen is there for SpD coverage. I'm considering replacing something with Bullet Punch. ThunderPunch is necessary for Water types and Skarmory but for pretty much everything else I'll use STAB Meteor Mash.

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Mamoswine @ Choice Band
252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly
31 HP / 31 Attack / 31 Speed
~ Earthquake
~ Ice Shard
~ Stone Edge
~ Superpower

I chose to add Mamoswine to the team because of his high base attack stat, priority moves, and good variety. He'll be used as a backup physical attacker and is good for countering electric types that switch into Starmie. Earthquake will be my primary attack for super-effective and neutral damage, and the others are there for super effective/priority damage. I'll save for second-to-last if I can, but he'll go out earlier if he needs to counter an electric type.
 
You have a huge fire weakness. Maybe Replace one of your pokemon with a bulky Arcanine, which also gives this team SOME shred of defense. I know ttar takes Flamethrower, but leads fall quickly sometimes. If your not going to take my sudgestion you should at least try to preserve ttar until lategame.

Good luck with the team though, it's not bad.

Also, may I ask where you got the pictures? I've heared people thanks smogon for them so I don't know lol.
 
I was thinking about adding a Timid Houndoom to absorb Fire attacks or something like that. Which pokemon would you suggest removing? I just found the pictures by doing a google image search on the pokemon.
 
i think a swampert would cover up your fire weakness pretty well, and not only that he is immune to electric,which your empoleon and starmie are weak against.
 
Infernape rips right through this team, especially if it has Grass Knot. I'd suggest running either a RestCM Suicune or a bulky DD Dragonite in place of your Empoleon, since Empoleon is not going to be very successful unless it has a full team of support.
 
Ulysses said:
Infernape rips right through this team, especially if it has Grass Knot. I'd suggest running either a RestCM Suicune or a bulky DD Dragonite in place of your Empoleon, since Empoleon is not going to be very successful unless it has a full team of support.
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Starmie out-speeds and KOs with Surf.

I think an Infernape-Scizor Combo can be deadly to this team, as Scizor can pursuit Starmie, and then Infernape can proceed to sweep.

Starmie should be replaced with Vaporeon, who is a good counter for Mixape and Gyarados, and can also provide valuable Wish support. Rapid Spin is not necessary as you have no Pokemon weak to stealth rock on this team.

Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Bold Nature
EVs: 252 HP/244 Def/12 Spe
-Wish
-Protect
-Surf
-Hidden Power Electric

Good luck
 
How about I replace Empoleon with:

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Heatran @ Choice Scarf
4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive
~ Fire Blast
~ Earth Power
~ Hidden Power Electric
~ Dragon Pulse

He did really well on the team on Shoddy, I haven't lost yet.
 
I agree with you replacing empoleon for tran and it just so happend i was gonna suggest that :P anyways I think you should replace mamo with a swampert maybe because pert resists electric atks and acts as a general wall.

Good Luck!
 
Very good team however you are weak to fire and fighting alot. Would not suggest a Houndoom because that would just make your fighting weakness more of a problem. Heatran definately fits in perfectly with his flash fire. I still don't get your purpose is this supposed to be a sand team? Maybe you should take out someone and put in Magnezone who can trap steels and still stay in the storm w/out damage.

and btw the images are from http://www.arkeis.com/home.htm
has loads of awesome artwork

and also can you guys RMT please
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72032
 
fausty616 said:
Very good team however you are weak to fire and fighting alot. Would not suggest a Houndoom because that would just make your fighting weakness more of a problem. Heatran definately fits in perfectly with his flash fire. I still don't get your purpose is this supposed to be a sand team? Maybe you should take out someone and put in Magnezone who can trap steels and still stay in the storm w/out damage.

and btw the images are from http://www.arkeis.com/home.htm
has loads of awesome artwork

and also can you guys RMT please
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72032
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A Sandstorm team doesnt have to have all pokemon that resist SS, in fact it shouldnt. The point of SS is to help break walls.

Also his Fire/Fighting weakness is handled by Starmie, so Heatran wont help in that problem, though Tentacruel could be an option over starmie for bulky.

I recommend using the Heatran set "HeaTrap" over Agiligross because you say he is your support member though Agiligross is not support, but a sweeper

But the HeaTrap set can come in, use Magma Storm, then handle the pokemon its facing accordingly since it is trapped, providing valuable support

Im going to suggest putting Rotom-A over Mamoswine because Mamo doesnt exactly do much for the team, while Rotom-A can provide Spin Blocking and Counter most physical threats including Scizor and Tyranitar, while providing you with a check against bulky waters.

(I suggest the Standard Rotom-H set)
 
If you are going to run heatran over empoleon it would help just because your team has/had a massive magnezone weakness. If you're not going to use heatran then you should put shed shell on your sizor who is usually set up bait for magnezone.
 
well yeah it doesn't need all pokes that resist ss but it helps to have 2/3 or so resist it also i still keep my argument that a zone would help standard set with sub, tbolt, hp fire and explosion
also like what NotGay said you are weak to zones so a slightly differently ev'ed zone could help you kill zones with hp fire if your other pokes cant deal with it
 
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