rate my mixed-tier rain dance team!

[Diamond Smoke]

This is my first posted team so here it is,

Lead- ninjask
ability: speed boost
item: damp rock
adamant nature


rain dance
baton pass
protect
x scissor

evs: 252 speed/ 4 hp/ 252 atk
this is a surprise for anyone thinking its going to be a swords dance baton passer, but instead it summons rain dance. I can then baton pass back with a small speed boost to either dragonite, or kingdra. Protect is for scouting and x scissor is there for the ever present threat of taunt.

special sweeper- kingdra
ability: swift swim
modest nature
item: life orb

hydro pump
ice beam
draco meteor
rain dance

252 sp atk/ 4 hp/ 252 speed

A perfect sweeper in rain, with a stab boosted hydro pump and back up draco meteor, kingdra can use the speed support from ninjask and rain dance to put good dents in the opponents team. rain dance is for just in case the rain stops, or a sand stream pokemon is sent out.

back-up mixed sweeper- Dragonite
ability: inner focus
naive nature
item: life orb/white herb

waterfall
roost
thunder
draco meteor

252 attack/126 special attack/ 126 speed

In the rain, Dragonite's waterfall is gonna hurt. Thunder and draco meteor backed by dragonite's workable sp. atk, can dent a team especially after a speed boost from ninjask. Roost is for recovery.

surprise sweeper-Toxicroak
ability: dry skin
adamant nature
item: black sludge

cross poison
x scissor
earthquake
stone edge

252 atk/ 252 speed/ 4 hp

A surprise sweeper for anything the team encounters. Earthquake and stone edge provide good coverage while helping against electric types benefitting from the rain too. cross poison is for stab and x scissor is for psychic types.

exploder- electrode
ability: static
timid nature
leftovers/salac berry

thunder
thunder wave
magnet rise
explosion

252 speed/252 sp. atk/ 4 hp
A nice member on a rain dance team mainly used to cover water types benefiting from the rain. thunder wave is to cripple an opponent even more, or set up the other sweepers on an opponent. and magnet rise is for a predicted earthquake, and explosion for when he's about to die.

late sweeper-feraligatr
ability: torrent
adamant nature
item: salac berry

waterfall
ice punch
dragon dance
substitute

252 speed/ 252 attack/ 4 hp

A nice late game sweeper who can substitute/dragon dance until red, let the salac berry activate and fire off stab torrent boosted waterfalls in the rain.

all images credited to phobucket. suggestions? comments?

 

[haunter]

Some of your descriptions are extremely lacking and should be expanded. Also, as this team contains OU Pokemon it goes in the "OU" section. Moving.

 

[Zebstrika]

I have a few things. (If this is a gen. 4 team, just look at the bold.)
1. If you are going to use Rain Dance (not Politoed) then more than just your lead should have it. 8 turns is not going to last anywhere near a full battle (unless someone forfeits).
2. Toxicroak should have some fighting move, like Cross Chop or Drain Punch. Drain Punch gives it absurdly high healing with Dry Skin and Black Sludge, while Cross Chop is strong, but inaccurate and has lower PP. I recommend Drain Punch.
3. Relating to your Toxicroak again, this is the reason that unless your team is almost all poison types or the holder is a Muk/Swalot with Sticky Hold, Leftovers>Black Sludge.
4. I hope you know Explosion got nerfed so it doesn't halve defense any more.
5. Your Dragonite is better off using Hurricane over Thunder, since Hurricane gets STAB and Thunder doesn't, making a huge difference. Also, Dragon+Water+Flying is only resisted by Emploeon, while Dragon+Water+Electric is resisted by just Nattorei, but Nattorei is much more common, much more physically defensive and still has about the same special defense.
6. Your Dragonite again; it has Inner Focus, which I find inferior to Multi Scale, which allows you to potentially survive Ice Shards, Stone Edges, etc.

 

[ChaosNebula]

No Politoed? If you want a rain dance team, Politoed is required with the Drizzle ability. This way you free up some move slots, and add some more sweepers in. Dump Electrode for Ludicolo/Omastar/Kabutops. Politoed will provide your infinite rain.

 

[Showsni]

I assume this is a fourth gen team...

A little surprised your Electrode doesn't carry Rain Dance; it is one of the fastest things that can set it up, after all. I'd probably give it Damp Rock and Rain Dance. Leftovers and Salac Berry are pretty pointless on it; it's not bulky enough to warrant Lefties, and its already fast enough that Salac is redundant. It might also be worthwhile giving it Taunt and moving it to the lead position, to prevent the opponent from setting up Stealth Rock. I guess lead Electrode does telegraph your intentions a lot more than lead Ninjask, though.

You don't have all that many Pokémon to abuse the rain, it seems to me, other than the boost in power water moves get... Kingdra loves it, of course, but he's your only swift swimmer. I'd probably try and fit another swift swim Pokémon onto the team - something like Kabutops or Ludicolo.

Good luck!

 

[Diamond Smoke]

I have a few things. (If this is a gen. 4 team, just look at the bold.)
1. If you are going to use Rain Dance (not Politoed) then more than just your lead should have it. 8 turns is not going to last anywhere near a full battle (unless someone forfeits).
2. Toxicroak should have some fighting move, like Cross Chop or Drain Punch. Drain Punch gives it absurdly high healing with Dry Skin and Black Sludge, while Cross Chop is strong, but inaccurate and has lower PP. I recommend Drain Punch.
3. Relating to your Toxicroak again, this is the reason that unless your team is almost all poison types or the holder is a Muk/Swalot with Sticky Hold, Leftovers>Black Sludge.
4. I hope you know Explosion got nerfed so it doesn't halve defense any more.
5. Your Dragonite is better off using Hurricane over Thunder, since Hurricane gets STAB and Thunder doesn't, making a huge difference. Also, Dragon+Water+Flying is only resisted by Emploeon, while Dragon+Water+Electric is resisted by just Nattorei, but Nattorei is much more common, much more physically defensive and still has about the same special defense.
6. Your Dragonite again; it has Inner Focus, which I find inferior to Multi Scale, which allows you to potentially survive Ice Shards, Stone Edges, etc.

yea, this was a team I created a while back before white and black, but I am going to construct a black and white team to be rated. C:

No Politoed? If you want a rain dance team, Politoed is required with the Drizzle ability. This way you free up some move slots, and add some more sweepers in. Dump Electrode for Ludicolo/Omastar/Kabutops. Politoed will provide your infinite rain.

This was a team for heart gold and soul silver, but I can re create it to suit black and white. Thanks for the info about the politoed! I had no idea it can have drizzle.

I assume this is a fourth gen team...

A little surprised your Electrode doesn't carry Rain Dance; it is one of the fastest things that can set it up, after all. I'd probably give it Damp Rock and Rain Dance. Leftovers and Salac Berry are pretty pointless on it; it's not bulky enough to warrant Lefties, and its already fast enough that Salac is redundant. It might also be worthwhile giving it Taunt and moving it to the lead position, to prevent the opponent from setting up Stealth Rock. I guess lead Electrode does telegraph your intentions a lot more than lead Ninjask, though.

You don't have all that many Pokémon to abuse the rain, it seems to me, other than the boost in power water moves get... Kingdra loves it, of course, but he's your only swift swimmer. I'd probably try and fit another swift swim Pokémon onto the team - something like Kabutops or Ludicolo.

Good luck!

thanks! I'll work out the kinks in my team and adapt my strategy to suit black and white ^_^

 

[Bloo]

Some of your descriptions are extremely lacking and should be expanded. Also, as this team contains OU Pokemon it goes in the "OU" section. Moving.

It doesn't look like you've expanded your descriptions much, seeing as they're still quite terse. This warning was over a month ago as well. Lenghten your descriptions and PM me once you've done so.

By the way, don't double post; it's against the rules.