RMT

-Terywj-

Here is my team I'm constructing for OU.

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Aerodactyl @ Focus Sash
Jolly / Rock Head
252 Atk / 252 Spd / 6 HP
~Stealth Rock
~Rock Slide
~Ice Fang
~Taunt
My suicide lead who stops other Pokemon from bringing out Stealth Rocks. The Speed EV's along with Focus Sash allow me to throw up Stealth Rock first. This allows me to get rid of other annoying leads as well like Tyranitar and Azelf. I chose Rock Slide over Stone Edge because I favor accuracy and the potential to flinch is always nice. Nicknamed "Suicidyl."

Gallade @ Leftovers
Adamant / Steadfast
252 Atk / 252 Spd / 6 HP
~Close Combat
~Swords Dance
~Night Slash
~Psycho Cut
Gallade is the usually next arrival after Aerodactyl goes down. Since their lead is gone, I'm left to Dance up my Attack. An Adamant Psycho Cut STAB with 252 Atk EV's and 31 Atk IVs hits Tyranitar and Gengar hard. Night Slash cripples Pokemon who can withstand Psycho Cut, and Close Combat is his strongest STAB move. I could possibly swap out Leftovers for Life Orb for additional damage. Scope Lens is also an option because it increases Psycho Cut's insanity. Nicknamed "Katana."

Gyarados @ Life Orb
Adamant / Intimidate
252 Atk / 252 Spd / 6 HP
~Dragon Dance
~Earthquake
~Waterfall
~Stone Edge
Gyarados with his somewhat bulky performance comes in on stronger attacks that Gallade can't take. Then he starts to Dragon Dance up, and if he gets in even a few, very few Pokemon out there in the OU environment can stop him. Earthquake is an extremely hard-striking move. Stone Edge hits anything that is immune to Earthquake, and Waterfall is prefered over Aqua Tail for again, the accuracy factor. And similar to Rock Slide, they have the possibility of causing flinching. Nicknamed "Terror."

Jolteon @ Leftovers
Timid / Volt Absorb
252 Sp Atk / 252 Spd / 6 HP
~Wish
~Thunderbolt
~Shadow Ball
~Baton Pass
Jolteon has 2 major roles on this team. He along with Gliscor eats Thunderbolts that are aimed at Gyarados, and he provides much needed Wish support for Pokemon like Gallade and Gengar. His STAB Thunderbolt hits everything that is not Ground / Grass types hard, and Shadow Ball fills the void so he doesn't become Ground-type fodder. Nicknamed "Boltz."

Gliscor @ Leftovers
Impish / Sand Veil
252 HP / 216 Spd / 40 Def
~Earthquake
~Roost
~Aerial Ace
~Knock Off
Gliscor is sadly, my only wall at the moment. He takes Thunderbolts from Gyarados whenever Jolteon is not aruond. Knock Off serves to annoy Pokemon, especially Choice users and other walls. Earthquake and Aerial Ace are pretty decent moves for Gliscor, and being STAB it helps him take out other walls like Blissey. Roost along with Leftovers allow him to stay on the battlefield for longer. Nicknamed "Scissors."

Gengar @ Life Orb
Timid / Levitate
252 Sp Atk / 252 Spd / 6 HP
~Explosion
~Shadow Ball
~Focus Blast
~Energy Ball
Gengar is typically my late-game sweeper. He'll come as a fast Pokemon who can put them to sleep, and then wreak havoc on whatever is left. Shadow Ball is prefered as the main STAB over Sludge Bomb because of type coverage. Focus Blast compliments Shadow Ball's coverage, but Energy Ball could be used as well for eliminating those pesky Swamperts I see everywhere. He along with Gyarados help eat up Earthquakes for Gallade and Jolteon. With the wearing down by opposing attacks and Life Orb, Gengar is then set to do one thing...explode. Nicknamed "T3h sp00k."

I need a lot of help, so constructive criticism would be appreciated. I know it lacks walls and support, but I'm working on those. I'm also thinking of starting with a Ninjask.

-Terywj
 
I think you meant to put Jolly nature on Aerodactyl, Timid is +Spe -Att.
Anyway, I'd suggest Jolly nature for gallade so that it can outspeed 270 speed salamences and adamant lucario, replace psycho cut with either ice punch, stone edge or hypnosis, to take out salamence, gliscor and other dragons, stone edge takes out gyarados and salamence but means that gliscor walks all over gallade, hypnosis helps you catch potential counters on the switch and lets you shut down pokemon expecting you to switch and trying to set up, again, lucario and salamence are examples of this.

Energy ball is an odd choice for gengar but i can see you having alot of trouble with swampert, so replacing shadow ball with HP grass on jolteon might be better than putting energy ball on gengar since swampert is more likely to switch in on jolteon than gengar.

I haven't done much RMTing in a while so my ideas might not be the best, but i hope they helped.
 
Edit: Yeah I meant Jolly. xD

I lack Platinum for Ice Punch. If I had it I would've swapped Gallade for a Dancing Bullet Punching Scizor.

-Terywj
 
Aerodactyl: I'd recommend using EQ over Ice Fang. Generally, Leads are more susceptible to EQ then they are to Ice Fang (Metagross, Infernape, Heatran, Swampert) I don't think there are any leads that you'll be using Ice Fang against and Aerodactyl is more of a suicide lead, especially when you Taunt first.

Psycho Cut doesn't affect TTar. >_> Anyway, the analysis says that Life Orb is necessary on Gallade to get the OHKOs on some Pokemon. (Gyarados, Rotom-A, Swampert to name a few) However, without Ice Punch, Heracross does this set better. Since you can't get Ice Punch, I'd recommend replacing Gallade with him. Heracross has higher speed, defense, HP, and Megahorn. Something like this set would be better.

Heracross
Jolly | @ Life Orb | 252 Atk, 252 Spd, 6 SpDef | Guts
Megahorn / Close Combat / Stone Edge / Swords Dance

However, Lucario is a better fighting type who can use Swords Dance so over both Heracross and Gallade, I'd recommend Luke but Luke isn't like Gallade or Heracross in that the way you bring them in and how they sweep is different. I'd still recommend Luke over Gallade initially but if you want a more bulky Swords Dancer who is more similar to Gallade then go with Heracross.

Gliscor: Unless you really want to get rid of opposing Breloom and Heracross, I'd change Aerial Ace over to Stone Edge. It provides greater type coverage and a stronger attacking option against anyone Levitating or Flying type. I also wouldn't count on this guy taking Thunderbolts unless they're coming from Choice users since Pokemon commonly carry the Elec + Ice attacking combination.

For Joleteon, I know this would be a totally different strategy, but changing him to the SubPass set would be great since you have so many team mates who resist Ground and who would love a Sub (Gyarados, Gengar)

There isn't much use in giving Explosion to Gengar without investing in Atk and giving him a -Atk nature. If you keep the Timid Nature then switch Explosion over to something like Hypnosis, Thunderbolt or some type of Hidden Power (Fire or Ice). Going out with Explosion won't help you if it's weaker then STAB Shadow Ball or a Super Effective Focus Blast.

A problem I see with this team is opposing DDGyarados. Right now, he can come in on Gliscor or Gallade, DD, and then depending on whether he has Ice Fang or Stone Edge, sweep a good part of your team. If he has Stone Edge and a +Spd nature, then he covers your whole team. To remedy this, I recommend either changing Gengar to a Choice Scarf version or changing Gallade (if you keep him on the team) to a defensive set while utilizing a Status move such as WoW or TWave.


Hope I helped, good luck!
 
Suicidyl as an Aerodactyl name. Don't you love PokePuns? ;D

I can understand your reasoning for not using Stone Edge. But using Earthquake in conjunction with Rock Slide is better than Ice Fang. Leads like Infernape, Metagross, Heatran (darn Shuca Berry), etc. are hit harder by Earthquake. And rare leads like Salamence (courtesy of Intimidate) and Hippo (courtesy of bulkyness) take nothing from Ice Fang.

I feel that Gallade is a bit too weak on the Physical side to be dancing up early-game. If you are going to SD with him, you should wait till late game where his counters are weakened or non-exsistance, and scout out your opponent's team. Gallade is considerably slow, and because you lack Choice Scarf and are using a neutral nature, it won't help. Because he has a pretty bad HP and DEF, he won't take hits like... a Machamp would. I would consider replacing Swords Dance with Ice Punch and changing his item to a Choice Scarf. He will still pack a good amount of damage, and can be a nice revenge killer.

I'll have to do a damage calc on top OU threats, but I'm not sure of LO pushes any +1 2HKO's to 1HKO's. Leftovers would add bulk and help restore SR damage.

Gyara + Jolt? Where have I seen this before... oh. GyaraVire. ;D

I'm pretty sure the set on Jolt is fine. It would be nice to pass Subs to your team members, because a lot of them aren't very "bulky".

I would change your set to this, because Heracross is nowhere to be seen in this metagame, and Earthquake can hit Infernape, if that is what you wanted AA for.

Gliscor @ Leftovers
Impish / Sand Veil
252 HP / 216 Speed / 40 DEF or 40 ATK
~ Swords Dance
~ Roost
~ Earthquake
~ Stone Edge

It serves as a sweeper/wall, who can outspeed Adamant Lucario, get a clean OHKO with Earthquake, and not be OHKO'd by a +2 Extremespeed. As long as Lucario doesn't have Ice Punch, this is your best bet against it. You won't outspeed it, but Earthquake can probably OHKO an Infernape, if Flamethrower doesn't KO you first.

Energy Ball is a very odd choice on Gengar. Even though you are already getting Electric coverage on Jolt, I would put Thunderbolt over Energy Ball, since you will be doing more sweeping with this over Jolteon. I would also suggest putting Sub over Explosion and Petaya Berry over LO. If you get Blissey out of the way with Gallade, you can get a clean sweep with Sub + 3 attacks.

I feel you have a big Swampert weakness. A user above me suggested this as well, but you might want to put HP Grass on Jolteon, to lure in Swampert with a TBolt and deliver a swift OHKO.

EDIT: If you can't get Ice Punch on Gallade, you can always trade someone on the Smogon forums to teach it to your Gallade. I don't think there are many other options that cover Fliers and Dragons, other than Stone Edge.
 
Yeah I ended up nixing Ice Fang for Earthquake on Aerodactyl anyways. I'm still gonna stick with Rock Slide for now.

Oh wow, I never considered having someone Platinum tutor it for me. *Facepalm*

For Jolteon, I'll probably do the SubPass set seeing as my other sweepers are not on the bulky side.

Wouldn't Gengar just outspeed Swampert anyways and hit it with Energy Ball? The only reason I say that is because I can't do IV's, Hidden Power and the like. >.<

Thanks a bunch for the help guys. :)

-Terywj
 
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