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[Element 115]

Rain Dance Team
At a glance:

Nature: Sassy
Item: Damp rock
Ev's: 252 hp/ 96 def/ 162 special def
Levitate

Stealth rock
Gyro ball
Earthquake
Rain dance

Bronzong does a lot of good things for this team. He can get stealth rock and rain dance up early (although not too often because of taunt). He has has extra ev's into special defense so he can take more punishment from special attackers. taking around 35% from timid heatrans, meaning special salamence cant touch him.

Nature: Bold
Item: Ligh clay
Ev's: 252 hp/ 136 def/ 124 Sdef
Levitate

Thunderbolt
Hydropump
Reflect
Lightscreen

hydropump works great with rain dance, and allows rotom to hit tyranitar hard and grounds. His main purpose is to counter steels switching in or out though, so outrage can roam free. Hydro pump and tbolt hits all the steels descently espeically heatran, who loves to go boom on kingdra. (this move set could use some work maybe. I know trick would be particularily useful.)

Nature:Naughty
Item: Life orb
Ev's: 90 hp/ 252 att/ 168 spe
Swift swim

Substitute
Dragon dance
Waterfall
Outrage

Outspeeds scarfed 100's right off the hop (assuming rain dance is in play).
If light screen and reflect are also in play, theres not a whole lot that can be done to stop him.

Nature: Modest
Item: Damp Rock
Ev's: 252/ spe/ 252 satt/ 4 hp
Swift Swim


Rain dance
Surf
Ice beam
Grass knot

My second rain dance user, and last special attacker on the team. Not much to say about him. If rain is in play he can kill, and revenge kill, very well. handles starmie, swampert, and performs honorably against even gyarados. enough said.

Nature:Careful
Item:Chesto berry
Ev's: 252 hp/ 96 special def/ 160 def
Water Absorb


Curse
Rest
Waterfall
Stonedge

With rain dance running all the time, i needed to make sure i had a pokemon that loved handling powered up water attacks from the oppenents side. quagsire does this and grants me and electric immunity at the same time. Pokemon like starmie who typically wield just surf and thunderbolt are absolutely uselss agaisnt him and allow me time to curse up. Rain dance gives waterfall an extra kick. The encore/counter set also worked well on quasire because physicals like scizor loves to come in on him and uturn out.
and i could catch pokemon trying to stat up against him with encore. So i havnt made up my mind about it yet, and im open for advice on the matter.

Nature: Adament
Item: Leftovers
Ev's: 252 hp/ 4 att/ 96 def/ 156 sdef
Dry Skin

Spore
X-scissor
Seed Bomb
Aromatherapy

Parasect loves the rain healing 18.5%, and is another water immune. and even though it's weak in ou, it handles the likes of celebi, and vaporeon (who are usually hp elec or ice beam) along with other psychics quite well. Seed bomb is useful but im wondering if pursuit would be more useful. But his main tool is spore, and with an immunity and 2xquad resistances he can get in spore, and cure status when needed (a key factor since T-wave ruins kingdra and ludicolo)

 

[Fuzznip]

Hi, just a few things I'd like to say.

Kingdra

There's no real use of using a Naughty nature on it, because you aren't using any Special attacks as far as I can see. I recommend you change it to a Jolly nature to keep the increased Speed.

Quagsire

I understand that you want a Water-type attack absorber, but I honestly think that Swampert will do a much better job at setting up Curse than Quagsire. It has really awesome SpD, so it can easily switch into Starmie and set up Curse. It has much better defensive stats as well. I think you should try it. Here's the set:

Swampert @ Leftovers
252 HP / 40 Def/ 212 SpD - Careful
-Curse
-Rest
-Sleep Talk
-Waterfall

One thing I would like to suggest you try using is Toxicroak. It also receives bonus health regain in the rain, which is really awesome for SubPunching Toxicroak. It can be a very powerful sweeper, and I think you should look into it. It also works well when you have screens in play, making its Substitutes harder to break. You could try replacing it with Parasect and see how it turns out.

 

[Sebastien Loeb]

For personal experience a Rain Dance team has to have at least 3 Swift Swimers, this type of team ago indeed work to defeat a Porygon2 or a Celebi with Thunder Wawe. You could try to decidedly replace Parasect with a Pokémon more profit to your strategy.

 

[Element 115]

yah kingdra isnt naughty, its supposed to say jolly, it used to be mixed and i didn't change it.

 

[Bloo]

I think that you should replace Parasect for Qwilfish. The reason why I say this is because sweepers in a Rain Dance team tend to get worn down by Toxic Spikes. Qwilfish fixes that problem because Qwilfish can absorb Toxic Spikes thanks to his part Posion typing. Qwilfish also resists Fighting which is always a good thing. You may have 2 Toxic Spikes immunities on your team, but they are all on your support Pokemon, and your sweepers themselves will be left vulnerable to Toxic Spikes significantly decreasing their ability to sweep. By running a SD Qwilfish over Parasect, you retain the ability to sweep with a deadly physical attacker with the ability to OHKO Celebi after an SD with a STAB Posion Jab and a strong Explosion to take out at least one Pokemon. Rain teams always have trouble with opposing stall teams, and especially teams that run Toxic Spikes. Currently, something such as a Roserade lead with Toxic Spikes would mean that you pretty much lose because your sweepers will not be able to stay alive long enough to do any significant damage to your opponents team because the effects of Toxic Spikes will eventually take its toll.

Try using Qwilfish, Life Orb, Adamant, 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe, Swords Dance, Waterfall, Poison Jab, Explosion. The STAB combo of poison and water is only resisted by two Pokemon: Tentacruel and Empoleon. This is not a problem because you can just simply explode to eleminate them both from the match. Qwilfish's poison type will prove to be extremely useful to you because it will absorb those pesky Toxic Spikes and will help you out against stall teams immensely and also prolong the life span of your sweepers. Qwilfish will help mainatin the offensive pace of the rain as it is a very capable sweeper that as potential to deal an immense amount of damage to a variety if Pokemon. For example, a Swords Dance boosted Waterfall OHKOes Skarmory while Rain is in play.

The obvious problem of a Rain Dance team are opposing weather conditions. Over Quagsire, you could try something that can support your team more while dealing with Abomasnow and Tyranitar easily. You could try Scizor. Scizor can function in this role as a stopper to Tyranitar and Abomasnow. Scizor can also learn Rain Dance also (quite a handy move), so consider adding that onto the set. Try Roost, Bullet Punch, and U-Turn coupled with Rain Dance. Not only does this support your team, but it gives you a great resistance on the team with reliable recovery. Add a Damp Rock on Scizor to make more use of Rain Dance as well. You only have two Rain Dance using Pokemon. Scizor will give you another one and will help that rain stay up as long as possible. Scizor can clean up late game with Bullet Punch, give a free switch-in to one of your sweepers with a slow U-turn, etc.

Do not bother with Earthquake on Bronzong, use Explosion instead. Most of the Pokemon on your team can deal with Fire-types that Earthquake on Broznong is meant to handle. Explosion will give one of your sweepers a free switch-in once you have Exploded on an opposing Pokemon. Explosion also allows you to take out a Pokemon that is troubling you as well. Everything else looks pretty standard. Just recognize your weaknesses and try your best to play around them.