SS OU Rate My Minecraft Sweep-Aid Team

DwemerSmith

DwemerSmith

Note: This team is partially practical, partially a joke. I want to make this team as viable as possible, and this is what I have so far.
Other suggestions for useful Pokémon that have Minecraft counterparts would be appreciated. The idea of this team is to aid my setup sweepers in sweeping by walling/eliminating their threats.

Spider (Ferrothorn) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Gyro Ball
- Spikes
- Toxic
- Leech Seed

Ferro is used in the typical manner of a Spikes setter. He also walls certain setup sweeper that he resists, like Hydreigon and Azumarill. Volcarona, Rotom-Heat, Togekiss, and the occasional Alolan Marowak are threats, however, but I have a check further down to all except Togekiss.

Wither (Hydreigon) @ Wise Glasses
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nasty Plot
- Draco Meteor
- Dark Pulse
- Roost

Hydreigon can act as a Draco Meteor Wallbreaker who then swaps out, or a setup sweeper that can also break walls with Meteor. Against a wall he can't handle, such as Toxapex, I would swap into someone who can, in this case someone further down. Also, the primary reason I chose him to be a wither was because, well, three heads...

ENDER DRAGON (Corviknight) @ Leftovers
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 28 Def / 228 SpD
Careful Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Defog
- Roost
- Iron Defense
- Body Press

Corvi was my only idea for an Ender Dragon besides Hydreigon, but he's my Wither. I decided to run an Iron Defense/Body Press set. Essentially, Defog is utility, Roost is recovery alongside Leftovers, and Iron Defense is equivalent to a Simple Bulk Up because my only attacking move is Body Press.

Blaze (Volcarona) @ Heavy-Duty Boots
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Fiery Dance
- Psychic
- Quiver Dance
- Bug Buzz

Volcarona is a classic setup sweeper, as well as my Toxapex/Amoonguss removal to ease times for Hydreigon. The only things that really pose trouble for it are Blissey and Chansey, which can be covered by Corviknight, as he has an immunity to Toxic as well as a high-powered Fighting move. Not many Pokémon can stop a +2 SpA Volcarona, which is why I run Fiery Dance over Flamethrower/Fire Blast. Psychic hits Toxapex, as well as Urshifu-RS and Keldeo, who pose problems with Water moves.

Creeper (Gigalith) @ Quick Claw
Ability: Sturdy
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Explosion

Gigalith is really just a meme at this point, but I tried to make it as practical as possible with Quick Claw giving a chance for a priority Explosion. Gigalith also has the highest base Atk stat in OU, which is why I chose him over a Pokémon that might look more like a creeper. He's actually been fairly effective at stopping setup sweepers because of their general frailty and Giga's Sturdy. If you have a better creeper-slot suggestion, I'm open to it.

Guardian (Cloyster) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Skill Link
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Icicle Spear
- Rock Blast
- Liquidation

Cloyster uses the classic non-Gen 7 set allowing it to get a Shell Smash and hit first against anything other than priority moves, which shouldn't be there on the swap-in. Liquidation is STAB as well as checking Volcarona's threats, Icicle Spear is Skill Link STAB, and Rock Blast hits Fire-types that threaten Corviknight and Ferrothorn but resist Water. It also hits most Water-types for neutral, where other options would hit for not-effective.

Thanks for reading this far and for your help!
 
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Hey, this team is cool and although it's based on a theme, I don't think that it can actually be too good while following that theme. Gigalith doesn't have the highest attack stat by a lot, that goes to haxorus, then rhyperior, then conk, then darm, then exca, sirfetch'd, and gigalith tied. So since that set's a meme pick, I thought to replace it with a more useful mon to cover what hurts the team. So my first recommendation is to change gigalith to tyranitar. It kind of also fits the theme, a big green hitter to represent a creeper. This mon is just more useful overall, and provides the team with a check to volcarona which can really hurt this team, and while this isn't a guaranteed check it still works to cover it. I just took the dex analysis and combined a few move choices from the WIP analysis.
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Rock Blast
- Stealth Rock
- Thunder Wave / Toxic
- Rest / Superpower

The second change I'd make is changing Cloyster to Clefable. This gives the team an actual urshifu switch in, something that can just click buttons on the team and win. Volc and hydreigon can outspeed, so paired with clefable it should be covered well enough to be manageable.
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
- Stealth Rock
- Knock Off

Smaller changes I made include the ferrothorn ev's, which was changed to max phys.def as the more standard set since it doesn't need to do that much damage, and changed the moves/item to the dex set. Corviknight was given U-turn, brave bird and Shed Shell to not be weak to magnezone, and iron defense isn't too useful of a move on corv rn, and brave bird just helps deal with hawlucha trying to set up, rillaboom trying to set up, etc. Finally Hydreigon was given Life Orb, since it adds more useful damage output when paired with roost, and flash cannon over dark pulse which is recommended on the dex for Pokemon like clefable and Togekiss. Here's an updated paste of the team, I tried to keep most mons from the original team, and if you can think of a minecraft mob that fits togekiss that'll keep the theme fully as well.
Edit: Pink and annoying, clef is def a shulker
https://pokepast.es/2527381603556c19
 
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Fc04 said:
Hey, this team is cool and although it's based on a theme, I don't think that it can actually be too good while following that theme. Gigalith doesn't have the highest attack stat by a lot, that goes to haxorus, then rhyperior, then conk, then darm, then exca, sirfetch'd, and gigalith tied. So since that set's a meme pick, I thought to replace it with a more useful mon to cover what hurts the team. So my first recommendation is to change gigalith to tyranitar. It kind of also fits the theme, a big green hitter to represent a creeper. This mon is just more useful overall, and provides the team with a check to volcarona which can really hurt this team, and while this isn't a guaranteed check it still works to cover it. I just took the dex analysis and combined a few move choices from the WIP analysis.
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Rock Blast
- Stealth Rock
- Thunder Wave / Toxic
- Rest / Superpower

The second change I'd make is changing Cloyster to Clefable. This gives the team an actual urshifu switch in, something that can just click buttons on the team and win. Volc and hydreigon can outspeed, so paired with clefable it should be covered well enough to be manageable.
Clefable @ Leftovers
Ability: Magic Guard
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
- Moonblast
- Soft-Boiled
- Stealth Rock
- Knock Off

Smaller changes I made include the ferrothorn ev's, which was changed to max phys.def as the more standard set since it doesn't need to do that much damage, and changed the moves/item to the dex set. Corviknight was given U-turn, brave bird and Shed Shell to not be weak to magnezone, and iron defense isn't too useful of a move on corv rn, and brave bird just helps deal with hawlucha trying to set up, rillaboom trying to set up, etc. Finally Hydreigon was given Life Orb, since it adds more useful damage output when paired with roost, and flash cannon over dark pulse which is recommended on the dex for Pokemon like clefable and Togekiss. Here's an updated paste of the team, I tried to keep most mons from the original team, and if you can think of a minecraft mob that fits togekiss that'll keep the theme fully as well. https://pokepast.es/2527381603556c19
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Maybe Sitrus Drum Azumarill over Clef to get Urshifu and Volcarona coverage?
Also I meant highest atk stat on a poke that knows explosion when I mentioned Gigalith, should I just use t-tar anyway?
And from my Showdown tests, Iron Press Corvi does serious work. Surprisingly, it's actually swept for me before.
 
DwemerSmith said:
Maybe Sitrus Drum Azumarill over Clef to get Urshifu and Volcarona coverage?
Also I meant highest atk stat on a poke that knows explosion when I mentioned Gigalith, should I just use t-tar anyway?
And from my Showdown tests, Iron Press Corvi does serious work. Surprisingly, it's actually swept for me before.
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I don't think azu is the way to go with this, the team has a massive zeraora weakness, and clef can at least take 1 plasma fists with super good pivoting between ferro and clef for chip and body pressing zera to weaken it. Also like I edited in, clef can still fit the theme of the team as a shulker, azu can maybe be like a rabbit but eh, I think clef just fits better overall. Azu can barely switch into urshifu, so clef works. As for ttar, I'd recommend it over gigalith just because it's a more consistent mon that's ou for a reason, it's stats are better overall and it's a good special wall for most things having a higher hp and sp.def. Corv with iron defense has never really worked imo, it just loses to too many things like ghosts, pex, clef, amoongus, etc. and the pivoting of uturn helps when your goal is to break with offensive mons in hydreigon and volc. The team is by no means perfect because theme teams are generally hard to make work, but I think this is solid enough for what you wanna get out of it just with some smart play around stuff like blissey, volc, urshifu, and especially zeraora.
 
Fc04 said:
I don't think azu is the way to go with this, the team has a massive zeraora weakness, and clef can at least take 1 plasma fists with super good pivoting between ferro and clef for chip and body pressing zera to weaken it. Also like I edited in, clef can still fit the theme of the team as a shulker, azu can maybe be like a rabbit but eh, I think clef just fits better overall. Azu can barely switch into urshifu, so clef works. As for ttar, I'd recommend it over gigalith just because it's a more consistent mon that's ou for a reason, it's stats are better overall and it's a good special wall for most things having a higher hp and sp.def. Corv with iron defense has never really worked imo, it just loses to too many things like ghosts, pex, clef, amoongus, etc. and the pivoting of uturn helps when your goal is to break with offensive mons in hydreigon and volc. The team is by no means perfect because theme teams are generally hard to make work, but I think this is solid enough for what you wanna get out of it just with some smart play around stuff like blissey, volc, urshifu, and especially zeraora.
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Keep in mind Corvi hits Blissey and Urshifu-SS for super-effective after 2 Iron Defenses, which it will be able to get off (+4 252 Def Corviknight Body Press vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Urshifu: 448-528 (131.3 - 154.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO, +4 252 Def Corviknight Body Press vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Blissey: 816-962 (114.2 - 134.7%) -- guaranteed OHKO), and I see SS a lot more than RS, but even if RS does come up, Volcarona can take care of him with Psychic, hitting first even at +0 against Timid and providing over 1/3 chance to OHKO (252 SpA Volcarona Psychic vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Urshifu-Rapid-Strike: 306-360 (89.7 - 105.5%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO). Even if whatever I use doesn't OHKO, Azumarill or Cloy (whichever I have for that slot) can take care of him. If it's Cloy, I can also set up in the process.
This is also assuming I run Def Corvi over SpD, which will wall Zeraora (252 Atk Zeraora Plasma Fists vs. +2 252 HP / 252+ Def Corviknight: 104-126 (26 - 31.5%) -- 0.4% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery). I made that calc with Corvi having used Iron Def. once and at 45% health, approximately what Zeraora would get him to after one Plasma Fists.
 
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what a cool theme lol, change gig to t-tar, give hyd specs, give ferro rocks over toxic, I like the rest
 
Ahah, the team is cool, as well as all the resources you'll need. We recently also collected a stack with friends and decided to play Minecraft, remember our childhood. And for us there was a problem to find high-quality servers, it's clear that you can create yourself, but you want a server with mini-games that are already fully ready, so as not to create from scratch. We found it https://minecraftservers.biz and we were lucky. 24-hour technical support, a friendly community, in general, everything for a pleasant game in Minecraft. We played all day, searched for diamonds, built our own houses, and even had to fight against an enemy clan, in general, it was fun.
 
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