Rogue Team (OU)

Release

I call this the Rogue team because for a while now I have been wandering around the competitive scene, very much a noob, battling and coming up with strategies on my own and only using the smogon site to help me along. This team works well for me on the shoddy ladder.

Smeargle@choice scarf
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Trick
Spore
Rapid Spin
Destiny Bond
EVs: 252 speed, 252 defense
IVs: 0 in Special defense
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Own tempo

This makes any lead pokemon that stealth rocks hopeless (i.e bronzong, azelf). Trick on the stealth rock, spore on the switch and rapid spin away the rocks. Destiny bond is present due to the many amount of pokemon that try to down smeargle in one, hopefully it being faster than them or still has choice scarf. 252 EVs in defense so it isn't punished by priority moves and 0 IVs in special defense to maximise the chances of smeargle being KO'd when it uses destiny bond.

Gliscor@yache berry
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Sword Dance
Rock Polish
Baton Pass
Earthquake
EVs: 252 hp, 196 Sp Defense, 60 speed
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Hyper Cutter

I switch gliscor in if smeargle has put the lead to sleep. Sometimes the lead stays in giving gliscor time to set up and baton pass. If not gliscor has the defenses to take the hits (plus this gliscor is often mistaken for a stealth rocker). I gave the standard baton passer earthquake over taunt so if needs must it can do some sweeping of its own.

Kingdra@leftovers
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Rain Dance
Dragon Dance
Waterfall
Outrage
EVs: 252 attack, 180 hp, 76 speed
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Swift Swim

My Main sweeper, the one Gliscor mainly baton passes too. If gliscor fails it has the means to set itself up. It's a killer in battle and even the empoleons have trouble with a sword danced, rock polished kingdra. Its also good against sandstorm teams as it can cancel the weather effect and sweep the ones that would come out to set it back up and of course rain dance teams only help this guy.

Blissey@leftovers
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Aromatherapy
Calm Mind
Ice Beam
Softboiled
EVs: 252 hp, 252 defense, 6 sp defense
Nature:Calm
Ability: Natural Cure

Due to the many pokemon that try to paralyze and burn my sweepers a blissey with aromatherapy seemed a must. Toxic, Protect and Softboiled to get some unprepared pokemon down. I have decided to maximise blisseys natural stats so it stands a better chance vs the common calm mind latios. Im unsure about this pokemon though.

Jirachi@expert belt
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Iron Head
Thunder punch
Fire Punch
Ice Punch
EVs: 252 attack, 252 speed, 6 hp
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Serene Grace

This pokemon deals with sword danced scizor in one move, gyrados in one move, salamence in one move and many others. The typing allows me to even switch in take the hit and hit them back. The serence grace on thunder punch, fire punch and ice punch ain't too shabby either. And we all know how annoying jirachi is with Iron head :). With sword dance and/or rock polish from gliscor this pokemon is almost unstoppable.

Gengar@life orb
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Psychic
Thunberbolt
Shadow ball
Focus Blast
Nature: Timid
EVs: 252 sp attack, 252 speed, 6 hp
Ability: Levitate

The revenge killer. Psychic comes in useful against the common infernape and machamp and other fighting pokemon that hit super effectively 3 out of 6 of my team. Its often a surprise as well. Infernape leads that want to fake out and mach punch my smeargle often have to face gengar instead. The other moves give as good coverage as possible.

There you have it :) my team. My first team. My opinion is I think my team is too dependant upon jirachi to hit them usual OU threats. If she goes down its hard to recover from.

Please rate and advise. It would be much appreciated :)
 
Rain Dance Kingdra doesn't really match with the team.

Might want to replace Rain Dance with Sub to protect from status and possibly set up spome DD behind the sub and Swift Swim with Sniper because...well, without rain, Swift Swim is useless.

You can also replace Leftovers for a Lum Barry to heal from the confusion effect of Outrage, but Lefties is still an option to heal off Sub
 
I don't get why Smeargle would have the minimum Spdef, yet you max Def?

Kingdra having rain dance doesn't seem worth it since you don't even have another water attack on this team, and it weakens Jirachi's fire punch. Substitute is a better option for Kingdra not being on a Rain themed team, and with that in mind you should switch its ability to Sniper for a few extra crits.

Blissey needs an offensive move. Taunt completely ruins you, and Toxic won't work on several pokemon you're going to see often like Scizor and Gengar. Flamethrower would be a good option. Though if you're worried about Latias, use a Calm Mind Blissey, it's a much better solution.
 
First of all Emerald Blaze uber LOL @ your signature XD

Good point. And yea I think I will change rain dance for sub. and the ability with sniper. It would make me defenseless against weather teams though...

The reason smeargle has 0 IVs in sp defense is because almost all special attacks can take it down in one that way and making it easier to destiny bond and maxed defence for the physical priority moves.
 
Release said:
First of all Emerald Blaze uber LOL @ your signature XD

Good point. And yea I think I will change rain dance for sub. and the ability with sniper. It would make me defenseless against weather teams though...
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Your team isn't really hurt that bad by sandstorm. The only pokemon that is truly under threat by it is Gengar, but when you take account of life orb, pathetic defences, and stealth rock, he's not going to be survivng anyhting stronger than Explosion.

I agree with Chimera though.You need an offecive attack on Blissey. You could drop protect for Scismic Toss to cause set damage, or Ice Beam to hit Latios or other pokemons, but after around 1 or 2 CMs, Ice Beam does mearly nothing to it.
 
I'm going to change the whole blissey moveset except for aromatherapy. Blissey was always a question mark.
With calm mind or siesmic toss im not sure. I will be trying out both. Thanx for the advise :)
 
Hey, the EV's on your Gliscor are impossible, as a pokemon can only get up to 255 EV's in one stat.

I would take out Kingdra's rain dance as it is the only pokemon that benefits from it.

On your Gengar, take out Psychic, as Energy Ball or a Hidden Power hit with better coverage.
 
the only thinhs i think that really need a change is aromatherapy on blissey (sorry i know you just mentioned it but hear me out). I dont know about everyone's taste but heal bell and aromatherapy, but they only appeal me in a team with no rapid spinners (toxic spikes!!!) and resters, otherwise I'd go without.

also, whilst if gliscor manages to set up he would indeed be crazy but i think you should consider dropping a boosting move for roost, he just asking for mamo and weavile to ice shard him.
 
basically as everyone has said:

- Gliscors EVs... well that can't even happen

- Kingdra needs to drop Rain Dance. i suggest going with Sub and Lum Berrry. Kingdra's like this have ran through half my team after getting 1-2 DD's off

- Engery Ball, or better yet HP Fire/Ice > Psychic would give Gengar better coverage. however with LO he won't last long anyway so i say go Hasty > Timid and give him Explosion to go out with a bang ;)


btw, i like that Jirachi set... i never thought to use him as pure offense w/o CM actually. looks like it could be a very nice revenge killer with a Choice Scarf
 
Yes sorry made a mistake with the EVs on gliscor. Meant 196. Would be nice have the 296 though :P
My blissey set has now been modified to have calm mind and ice beam. Ive kept aromatherpy as i yet again needed it in the last battle I had. thunder waves all over the place. Energy ball on Gengar is a good idea. I'll be changing that too, but I do feel I need that attack vs fighting pokemon...?
 
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