RMT: On the attack! (all offensive team)

[D3FAULT]

This team is full of power houses. No walling/stalling here at all.

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Pokemon:

Azelf @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 36 Atk/220 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Explosion
- Psychic
- Flamethrower
- Grass Knot

Azelf, one of my special sweepers and my starter. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do some damage to two main lead-ins. Those being Bronzong and Gengar. For Bronzong I'd use Flamethrower (I don't know how much damage it would do though, I haven't run anyway calculations) and for Gengar I'd use Psychic. That will OHKO if Gengar doesn't outspeed me. Uses Explosion once it becomes almost dead/useless.

Garchomp (M) @ Yache Berry
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 6 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Dragon Claw
- Swords Dance
- Fire Fang (Stone Edge/Crunch?)

If you don't understand this set, you need to play this game more. He fits well in almost any team, and works REALLY well in an offensive team. I know normally these have Fire Fang, but would Stone Edge/Crunch be any good, if not only for surpise purposes?

Gyarados (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 216 HP/16 Atk/176 Def/100 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Ice Fang
- Taunt

He's a BulkyGyara. Dragon Dance then sweep, hopefully. Taunt is there for several reasons, such as preventing me from getting put to sleep or getting hit with Thunder Wave and stuff.

Lucario (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 6 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Extremespeed
- Crunch?
- Swords Dance

SDLuke says "Hello". Only thing I'm not sure about here is Crunch. Suggestions?

Gengar (M) @ Wide Lens
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 6 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Focus Blast
- Hypnosis
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt

Another special sweeper. I have Wide Lens since both Focus Blast and Hypnosis have "meh" accuracy. He's probably my best swith-in when I see something come in whos purpose it is to EQ or use some fighting move against Lucario.

Infernape (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 24 Atk/232 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Flamethrower
- Close Combat
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Grass Knot

Mixape. Mainly a wall breaker, since walls can be a problem with these sort of teams. Both Blissey and Skarmory would have problems with him, which is definitley a good thing. I don't know how well he'd match up with the likes of Bronzong though.

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A threat that I can think of would be Bronzong. I think my only real counters are Inernape and Azelf. He could put Azelf to sleep, or EQ Infernape though, and I don't think that a single flamethrower from either of them will OHKO him.

Other walls can more than likely be handled by Infernape.

Weaknesses/resitances by type

 

[Vrolok]

It might be a silly suggestion, as I'm not too good, but would Thunder be better on a Wide Lens Gengar?

You should keep Crunch on Lucario to cover ghosts. Consider Nasty Plot on Azelf over Explosion, but that's up to you.

I'm assuming HP Grass is a typo for HP Ice.

 

[Jigo]

since azelf is a lead, you should consider using the nasty plot version. mainly because common leads like bronzong or gyarados will most likely switch out at the sight of azelf, giving u a chance to nasty plot.

and yes. crunch on lucario is to cover ghosts.

garchomp wants fire fang to take on steels like bronzong if he has to.

and infernape.... typo? if not, change it to HP ice.

gengar and gyarados look good.

 

[Wedge]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't an offensive team supposed to be able to just come in on something and hit it for the most amount of damage possible? I mean, over half your team has to set up before attacking. In offensive teams, you're supposed to get something in, smack something, get another thing in, smack something, and keep doing that. You have to to take the time to set up with many of your Pokemon, so you'll be letting things like spikes and stealth rock and status come in and ruin or strategy, or you'll be letting one of their Pokemon set up.

 

[Taylor]

Azelf won't OHKO Bronzong with Flamethrower, so an opposing Hypnosis or Gyro Ball will either render Azelf uselss, or even worse, OHKO it. I'm not a fan of Azelf lead, as the reason I mentioned in the last sentence, Tyranitar and Choice Scarf leads (notably Gengar and Heatran) are fairly common, and what Azelf can't OHKO unfortunately will in more situations than noneOHKO in return. Consider leading with Taunt Gyarados to take full advantage of Taunt on opposing Bronzong. In fact, if you replaced Azelf for Tyranitar, you could lure out the opposing Celebi/Starmie that counters your Gyarados, and predict it next time around and switch in Tyranitar to take them out with Pursuit/Crunch.

Gengar doesn't need Thunder for any particular reason other than inflicting that extra damage on Pokemon that are already OHKOed/2HKOed. I may be wrong, though, as I believe Vaporeon can't be 2HKOed through a stale Thunderbolt, where as Thunder can. Either way, I recommend you opt for Life Orb to grant that extra power - suiting the offensive style.

Hidden Power [Ice] over Hidden Power [Grass] - I'm sure that was accidental, as previously mentioned.

Being offensively orientated and with the given standard sets and EV spreads, it isn't one of those teams that are need of strict and useful advise.

 

[D3FAULT]

lol, yeah, the HP Grass on Infernape was a mistake. Why the heck would I have Grass Not and HP Grass. It's supposed to be Ice. I'll fix it.

@Vrolok: I want to keep Wide Lens, so yeah, I guess Thunder would be better. Thanks.

@jigokujin73: I don't really think I'm going to be keeping Azelf as lead, because of what Taylor said.

@Wedge: I guess so, but I think this will work better. If I do my switching in/predicting correctly, then I can take real advantage of moves like DD/SD. I think ultimately it just works better this way.. although I haven't tried both so I don't really know.

@Taylor: I think I want to keep Azelf, but if I DO replace it, I want to replace it with another special attacker. I don't think have 4 physicals, 1 special and 1 mix is good for keeping things "even" or whatever.

I will, however, considering making Gyarados my lead-in. The only problem is, I don't see him countering Bronzong or Gengar very well.

 

[Taylor]

He can Taunt Bronzong, rendering the opponents' initial plan useless and ineffective. He doesn't counter Gengar - never said he did.

Just because you have four physical options and only one and a half special attackers, doesn't mean you're at any kind of disadvantage. It may be uneven, technically, but it doesn't mean it's for the worse. There isn't a balanced physical/special split that you must follow.

 

[Wedge]

He can Taunt Bronzong, rendering the opponents' initial plan useless and ineffective. He doesn't counter Gengar - never said he did.

Just because you have four physical options and only one and a half special attackers, doesn't mean you're at any kind of disadvantage. It may be uneven, technically, but it doesn't mean it's for the worse. There isn't a balanced physical/special split that you must follow.

Adding on to this, if you do happen to come up against a Gengar, you can pretty much predict a Thunderbolt and switch to Garchomp -_-

 

[D3FAULT]

He can Taunt Bronzong, rendering the opponents' initial plan useless and ineffective. He doesn't counter Gengar - never said he did.

Just because you have four physical options and only one and a half special attackers, doesn't mean you're at any kind of disadvantage. It may be uneven, technically, but it doesn't mean it's for the worse. There isn't a balanced physical/special split that you must follow.

I just think that a lead needs to counter other common leads. But since Azelf doesn't even do a truly good job at it, at least Gyarados can do SOMETHING.

I know. I just like being balanced, lol. It's just a personal thing. Plus, if I have too many physical and both of my specials die, then a physical wall wrecks my team. If this team ends up sucking because of Azelf or something, I have a Tyranitar I can try to use.

I guess the only way to REALLY find out how this team is going to work is to use it in a wifi battle.

Anyway, thanks guys. I'll change those things and try this team out on Shoddy some more and see how it does there.

Adding on to this, if you do happen to come up against a Gengar, you can pretty much predict a Thunderbolt and switch to Garchomp -_-

Solid point.