Hey guys. My 9th or so remake of this team. My last one got locked cause I got lazy with my descriptions, but I figured instead of trying to unlock it, just make a new one with the changes i had made. As usual, sorry about the wall of text, and lack of cool pictures <Apec and Dpec are special attack and defense respectively> I tried to make it balanced, in that being nothing can really screw over this team. like how trick/toxic fucks stalls.
At a glance:
Lucario
Flygon
Hippowdon
Skarmory
Scizor
Tyranitar
In depth (Ev's go HP/attack/defence/speed/Apec/Dpec
Lucario@Focus Sash (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Close Combat
Counter
Crunch
Extreme Speed
Probably my favorite lead in the world. The only thing I've ever had an issue with is my friends Focus Sash Gengar, for obvious reasons. The reason i love this so much is cause its alot of fun. The lead forces prediction from me at round one. This probably isnt strategically good, but Prediction is the funnest part of pokemon battles, and if i guess good, then Lucario can kill off half the team. In best case scenario, Lucario OHKO's their lead with Close Combat, then uses his reduced counter to take *alot* of damage from a physical attack and hit them with a double power counter, killing that, and extreme-speeding the next switch in, dealing respectable damage for the next in line as Lucario dies.
Flygon@choice Scarf (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Outrage
U-Turn
Fire Punch
Earthquake
Flygon is the only dragon I like. Salamance is good, but it's used so much everyone has some form of counter to it in the OU. Flygons dual immunities makes it easy to switch in, on thunderbolts and earthquakes, 2 very common attacks, and wipe them out next turn. In addition, it's an amazing revenge killer which is always nice to have.*edited* I'm ran Fire Punch instead of Fire Blast because it has better accuracy, and honestly, it was the stupidest thing I've ever done. I got walled by a fucking skarmory. The only thing flygon really has to fear is ice shard. Weavile/mamoswine are the only 2 poke's who can use it well, and i've encounter 2 or so mamoswines during my entire runs on OU ladder.
Hippowdon@Leftovers(252/24/56/0/0/176)
Roar
Stockpile
Earthquake
Slack off
Nicknamed Hippobitch by my friends, My hippowdon is an amazing stall/wall. After 1 stockpile, he takes around ~40% from an ice-beam from Starmie. his basic stratagey is to just shuffle teams around, racking up Stealth Rock and spikes damage, while regening the little damage he does take. Its very effective, but it gets fucked by trick and toxic. Alakazam is the biggest issue i've ran into, mostly because of the high speed, access to trick, and acess to Super Effective hits, though Gengar can too. This is a small problem though, as I've very rarely came across a *good* trick user. (being person, not pokemon). It's ev's are to give it better defense and allow for earthquake to do a little damage to neutral hits. Though i very rarely do anything but Roar spam. This also starts the sand storm.
Skarmory@Leftovers(124/0/56/76/0/252)
Stealth Rock
Spikes
Roost
Whirlwind
Another Phazing stall. I find that with the very large offense on this team, having to walls is helpful, and since most peoples immediate reactions to seeing a skarmory is to send out heatran, which is resisted by my Hippowbitch. After my Lucario does his work, I send out skarmory on the free switch (exceptions being when something with fire attacks killed my lucario) this allows me to get at least a free layer of stealth rocks down. his moveset I'm not sure about, I'm curios if i should drop spikes for something like brave bird. If the opposing player lets me set up rocks and at least 2 layers of spikes, i can kill his entire team without even bothering to send out sweepers. Unfortunately people usually aren't that dumb. and will switch in a fire type or something with fire attacks to hit him on the stealth rock, forcing my switch until that guy is dead. any thoughts?
Scizor@Choice band (200/56/0/0/0/252)
U-Turn
Bullet Punch
Superpower
Pursuit.
I have mixed feelings for my scizor. It's my main response to all ghost and psychic types, and allows me to deal with levitating steels after lucario dies. However, Everyone and their brother runs Scizor, and my build for him isnt exactly unique. In other words, its almost garunteed to be countered in every battle, limiting its uses to solely revenge killing. Which isnt exactly bad, it just make him not very versitile. I dont think i have to explain this too much, I mean, name one person who *hasn't* run this at one point. The EV's are there to let him take some special hits better. I think he can take a non stab flamethrower.
Tyranitar@Babiri Berry (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Dragon Dance
Crunch
Stone Edge
Aqua tail
Tyranitar is my sweep. He comes in at the end dragon dances and goes to town. I took this off of smogon, and I decided to run Aqua tail, because I have absolutely no water type attaks. Tyranitar also takes inthe +50% spec defence from sandstorm, making it much easier to set up. I try not to send him out until after all their fighting types are dead, because in honesty he cant take a hit from anything fighting typed.
And thats my team. I want to swap out Skarmory and Scizor for a spiker and another wall. maybe a bulky water? Thoughts are loved. Thanks alot :3
Also, I tried to filter my language a bit. If i swore, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
At a glance:
Lucario
Flygon
Hippowdon
Skarmory
Scizor
Tyranitar
In depth (Ev's go HP/attack/defence/speed/Apec/Dpec
Lucario@Focus Sash (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Close Combat
Counter
Crunch
Extreme Speed
Probably my favorite lead in the world. The only thing I've ever had an issue with is my friends Focus Sash Gengar, for obvious reasons. The reason i love this so much is cause its alot of fun. The lead forces prediction from me at round one. This probably isnt strategically good, but Prediction is the funnest part of pokemon battles, and if i guess good, then Lucario can kill off half the team. In best case scenario, Lucario OHKO's their lead with Close Combat, then uses his reduced counter to take *alot* of damage from a physical attack and hit them with a double power counter, killing that, and extreme-speeding the next switch in, dealing respectable damage for the next in line as Lucario dies.
Flygon@choice Scarf (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Outrage
U-Turn
Fire Punch
Earthquake
Flygon is the only dragon I like. Salamance is good, but it's used so much everyone has some form of counter to it in the OU. Flygons dual immunities makes it easy to switch in, on thunderbolts and earthquakes, 2 very common attacks, and wipe them out next turn. In addition, it's an amazing revenge killer which is always nice to have.*edited* I'm ran Fire Punch instead of Fire Blast because it has better accuracy, and honestly, it was the stupidest thing I've ever done. I got walled by a fucking skarmory. The only thing flygon really has to fear is ice shard. Weavile/mamoswine are the only 2 poke's who can use it well, and i've encounter 2 or so mamoswines during my entire runs on OU ladder.
Hippowdon@Leftovers(252/24/56/0/0/176)
Roar
Stockpile
Earthquake
Slack off
Nicknamed Hippobitch by my friends, My hippowdon is an amazing stall/wall. After 1 stockpile, he takes around ~40% from an ice-beam from Starmie. his basic stratagey is to just shuffle teams around, racking up Stealth Rock and spikes damage, while regening the little damage he does take. Its very effective, but it gets fucked by trick and toxic. Alakazam is the biggest issue i've ran into, mostly because of the high speed, access to trick, and acess to Super Effective hits, though Gengar can too. This is a small problem though, as I've very rarely came across a *good* trick user. (being person, not pokemon). It's ev's are to give it better defense and allow for earthquake to do a little damage to neutral hits. Though i very rarely do anything but Roar spam. This also starts the sand storm.
Skarmory@Leftovers(124/0/56/76/0/252)
Stealth Rock
Spikes
Roost
Whirlwind
Another Phazing stall. I find that with the very large offense on this team, having to walls is helpful, and since most peoples immediate reactions to seeing a skarmory is to send out heatran, which is resisted by my Hippowbitch. After my Lucario does his work, I send out skarmory on the free switch (exceptions being when something with fire attacks killed my lucario) this allows me to get at least a free layer of stealth rocks down. his moveset I'm not sure about, I'm curios if i should drop spikes for something like brave bird. If the opposing player lets me set up rocks and at least 2 layers of spikes, i can kill his entire team without even bothering to send out sweepers. Unfortunately people usually aren't that dumb. and will switch in a fire type or something with fire attacks to hit him on the stealth rock, forcing my switch until that guy is dead. any thoughts?
Scizor@Choice band (200/56/0/0/0/252)
U-Turn
Bullet Punch
Superpower
Pursuit.
I have mixed feelings for my scizor. It's my main response to all ghost and psychic types, and allows me to deal with levitating steels after lucario dies. However, Everyone and their brother runs Scizor, and my build for him isnt exactly unique. In other words, its almost garunteed to be countered in every battle, limiting its uses to solely revenge killing. Which isnt exactly bad, it just make him not very versitile. I dont think i have to explain this too much, I mean, name one person who *hasn't* run this at one point. The EV's are there to let him take some special hits better. I think he can take a non stab flamethrower.
Tyranitar@Babiri Berry (4/252/0/252/0/0)
Dragon Dance
Crunch
Stone Edge
Aqua tail
Tyranitar is my sweep. He comes in at the end dragon dances and goes to town. I took this off of smogon, and I decided to run Aqua tail, because I have absolutely no water type attaks. Tyranitar also takes inthe +50% spec defence from sandstorm, making it much easier to set up. I try not to send him out until after all their fighting types are dead, because in honesty he cant take a hit from anything fighting typed.
And thats my team. I want to swap out Skarmory and Scizor for a spiker and another wall. maybe a bulky water? Thoughts are loved. Thanks alot :3
Also, I tried to filter my language a bit. If i swore, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.