Recovering sweepers OU team by Cristianynikol

SpikeBolt

Hey, you may have seen me in showdown, so I posted a RMT on smogon just to get some improvements. Here's the team:


Gengar @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 202 Spd / 252 SAtk / 54 HP
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
- Pain Split
- Thunderbolt

I love a Sub-Gengar. He really trolls by hitting the opponent hard with life orb tbolt and sball. If his hp goes down, Pain split or sub will do it. He is a mix of sweep/Suber and he would make an alright first party pokemon.

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Jolly Nature
- Outrage
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw

This guy is my main Dragon-Type sweeper. He first attacks, then switches out, make him my scout. Different, but ok.

Heatran @ Choice Specs
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Flamethrower
- Earth Power
- Dragon Pulse
- Dark Pulse

Another choice pokemon. He is pretty much the same as Gchomp, but he I'snt a scout. I'll try to keep him in there for as long as possible, but he's weak to Blissey, which ill switch to Terrakion for.

Blissey (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Toxic
- Flamethrower

Blissey is my wish passer. I found his most helpful when heatran was low or if gengar needed an extra boost. She also makes a very good wall, countering Ferro and Scizor aswell with fthrower.

Starmie @ Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Surf
- Psychic
- Ice Beam

Life Orb sweeper. You could say she's better with choice specs, but here's why not. Starmie has alot of weaknesses. In the team, I've added 2 many choice and scouts, so Starmie I found was the better mixed type attacker. He counters dragons with ice team, surf with heatran, psychic with gengar and thunderbolt whit whoever!

Terrakion @ Leftovers
Trait: Justified
EVs: 4 Spd / 252 Atk / 252 HP
Adamant Nature
- Substitute
- Rock Polish
- Close Combat
- Stone Edge

Last resort sweeper. Leftovers lets him recover from heavy attacks. Terra helps wall electric types which the team is weak to. He is also a attacker. I sub, then polish and sweep.
 
Hi SpikeBolt, I like the fact you've decided to post you team here. It's always nice to see new ideas and teams. I'd like to help you focus your ideas and strategies better in order for you to refine your team. Lets start from the top, shall we?

Gengar

Gengar's strength lies in Both a combination of it's typing and it's high offensive power. It has the ability to switch in to many offensive and defensive threats in order to set up for a dangerous ride for the opponent.

In order to maximize it's strengths, and minimize the impact of its horrible 60/60/75 defenses, it's almost always best to have an EV spread of 252 special attack and 252 speed. Unless those 54 EVs in health are for a specific reason, you should be running the standard. (Not to mention that 202 EVs is not divisible by 4, which means you are wasting 2 EVs that could be put into health if you were planning to do some such wizardry.)

Another point to maximizing it's strengths is that it has access to better typing coverage outside of Shadow Ball/ Thunderbolt. The reason that Focus Blast is ran on every single set on the Strategy Pokedex is because with it and Shadow Ball together, Gengar gains perfect neutral coverage. With this Gengar becomes a much larger threat then before, no longer being walled by odd Pokemon such as Ferrothorn.


Garchomp


Garchomp has always been good. He was banned from OU into Ubers at one point during the DPPt era and only became weaker because the meta shifted during Black and White. He's still a monster inside and out of the sand, but his weakness to ice has made him a liability when against rain teams that so often have ice beam users.

His choice scarf set is especially useful for revenge killing and getting rid of mean people. In a good set for ya there.

However, I personally would recommend Dual Chop over Dragon Claw, because substitute is an overpowered ability and will always be a problem for anyone ever. It's a really good move that's underrated.

Heatran

Heatran is just OP. I don't ever play him. He'll be strong no matter what you do and will always make people cry.


Blissey
Probably the strongest dedicated special wall in the game. 'Nuff said.

Your set is completely walled by Heatran. Heatran is OP. You may want to change out flamethrower for something else. Seismic toss or Thunderbolt or something. I don't know.


Starmie

Starmie is a cool Pokemon. It has access to rapid spin (which you don't really need) High offensive stats, Natural Cure, and other tricky magical stuff. But she's also really squishy. Tha makes it hard for her to switch in on things that many others that could take her place could. Right now she kind of fights with Gengar and Heatran for usefulness.

I would suggest switching her out for someone more bulky, or someone who can take a hit and then counter attack. Up to you who that is.

Terrakion

See Heatran: just replace the word Heatran with Terrakion.

I hope you consider or at least read this! Good luck!
 
I would try to add longer descriptions, maybe an intro, and a team-building process if you want to get more attention.

First off, your Starmie. You've got two other Special Attacking Pokèmon, so I'd change up Starmie's moveset to become more of a defensivemon, perhaps something like this:

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Starmie @ Leftovers
Natural Cure, Modest (+SpAtk, -Atk)
252 HP/4 Sp Atk/252 Spd
~Scald
~Ice Beam
~Recover
~Rapid Spin

This Starmie is similar to the one on Smogon's analysis, save for the nature - you seem to like a more offensive play style, so sacrificing a little Speed for Special Attack may be worth it in the long run (the official analysis suggests Timid). Additionally, this Starmie carries Ice Beam, helping to patch up your weakness to Dragons a bit, and Rapid Spin, helping with Stealth Rocks and Spikes (five of six of your Pokèmon take damage from Spikes).

Additionally, I would suggest Heatran changing Dark Pulse -> Hidden Power Ice. With HP Ice, he can score a lot more coverage than with Dark Pulse, seeing as you have others to take on Psychic and Ghost types, and HP Ice also helps to deal with Dragons more.
 
Here is the new team:

Gengar @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
- Pain Split
- Focus Blast

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Jolly Nature
- Fire Fang
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
- Dual Chop

Lucario @ Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Vacuum Wave
- Dark Pulse
- Dragon Pulse

Blissey (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 Def / 252 HP / 4 SAtk
Bold Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Toxic
- Water Pulse

Starmie @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 HP / 4 SDef
Modest Nature
- Thunderbolt
- Surf
- Recover
- Rapid Spin

Ninetales @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP
Timid Nature
- Hypnosis
- Nasty Plot
- Flamethrower
- Energy Ball
 
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