Scizor the Cowboy[RMT]

[~helios~]

After getting some help from a friend and doing some changes to the team, I came with a different team built around scizor (H)

TEAM BUILDING
First I chose SD scizor because it´s too pro

Then I chose scarf ttar in order to trap rotom and to kill zapdos and magnezone

Later, I added mixmence in case ttar got burned, paralyzed. Its job is to kill zapdos finish swampert and kill gliscor. It also helped me to kill skarm

I needed a check for gyarados and salamence and chose scarfstarmie

I needed an effective lead, so I chose Azelf.

I liked the idea of dual screens in order to let scizor SD, so I chose jirachi

But I was pretty annoyed of how popular was becoming sub-sweeper gengar and added bronzong with heavy spD evs.

TEAM

Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 176 HP/ 82 atk /252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Explosion
- Taunt
- Stealth Rock
- U-turn
Standard lead. Frankly I don’t like the lead, but it does its job. Azelf taunts slower pokemon, then lays SR, afterwards, it explodes. U-turn is here to scape from other azelfs.
EVS: they´re simple, max speed to be as fast as possible and max HP to take hits a bit better, like MM from metagross, ice beam from swampert...
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Bronzong @ Light Clay
Ability: Heatproof
EVs: 252 HP/56 Atk/24 Def/176 SDef
Sassy nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Light Screen
- Reflect
- Explosion
- Earthquake
Dual screener zong. Gyro ball lets me break the subs of STRONGar, and earthquake to break the subs of magnezone and jirachi.
EVS: 252 hp is obvious. 176 spD is a jump point. LO timid gengar does 45 % of damage with HP fire. 56 atk lets me do a minimum of 24.6 % to sub CM rachi which will let me break its sub. 26 def may be helpful in the future.
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Starmie @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Natural cure
EVs: 6 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Ice beam
- Trick
Starmie is my check for gyara and salamence. Surf for STAB, thunderbolt for gyarados, ice beam to kill mence and trick to cripple special walls like blissey or snorlax.
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Salamence (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 6 Atk/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Naive nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Draco Meteor
- Fire Blast
- Roost
- Outrage
Wall breaker salamence. It lets me kill zapdos and skarmory, it also heavily hurts heatran. DM for power, FB to kill skarm, brick break for type coverage and roost for survivility since it wont be living SR+LO+SS.
EVS: 252 SpA lets me do 75 % to physical zapdos, which is an OHKO after rocks. 252 speed to speed tie other positive 100´s, and 6 att to hit luke.
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Tyranitar (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 6 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Stone Edge
- Pursuit
- Crunch
- Earthquake
Scarf ttar. It´s here in order to kill zapdos celebi and to trap lati and rotom. Stone edge to kill zapdos, pursuit to trap, crunch for STAB and EQ to hit jirachi. The reason I run EQ > super power is that I was so angry that sometimes I cant OHKO nape, also I wanted to do more damage than crunch does to jirach (I f*cking hate jirachi)
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Scizor (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 184 HP/252 Atk/72 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Bug Bite
- Brick Break
- Bullet Punch
- Swords Dance
My SD scizor. It´s my late-game sweeper once all the counters are killed it can easily sweep. SD to reach to an incredible atk stat, bullet punch for STAB priority, brick break for type coverage and bug bite to kill bulky waters.
EVS: 252 atk is obvious: hit hard. 72 spd lets me be faster than base 70´s by 2 points. 184 hp is for bulkiness.
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I´m looking for good rates please ;)
thanks to arkeis for the images

 

[MegaKick]

outrage over brick break, neutral outrage does more than a super effective brick break.
Explosion over earthquake on brongzong so scizor can come in safely.
Will possibly edit later

 

[Alan]

You want Max Attack on Azelf, not Max HP, makes explosions more powerful, and why does it matter how much damage moves do to you? you have a focus sash. its better to have the powerful explosion.

Echoing what uberiffic said as well.

 

[~helios~]

outrage over brick break, neutral outrage does more than a super effective brick break.
Explosion over earthquake on brongzong so scizor can come in safely.
Will possibly edit later

hmm you´re right about the outrage.

and I may consider put explosion, but over gyro ball because EQ es important to kill magnezone,one of the biggest counters of scizor (most of them come in my bronzong thinking they can trap and kill me)

And Alan, I want azelf to come after the lead fase, take the SR damage and explode in something like blissey (making sure it doesnt use protect) this may happen when there´s a lead, like metagross who will attempt to kill me with MM+BP before I even lay rocks.

BUT I may consider adding some atk evs. How about this spread? 176hp/252spe/82 atk metagross´ MM does 73.7% - 87.2 % enough to take the SR damage in the switch