Set up -- then sweep! (OU RMT)

Werewolf

Team at a Quick Glance:
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Introduction:​
Hey guys, this is my 2nd err.... sorry 3rd RMT on Smogon, and one of my most successful ones. It has a record of 25-4. I named it Set up -- then sweep! because it has three Set up sweepers. So without more further ado, I present you the team.....​

In Depth!:​
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Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP/252Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- U-turn
- Roost
Comments: Gliscor is one of the best leads in OU. Why? It's fast, and bulky, can survive many hits. On top of it, it has a good support movepool. Set the rocks, then U-turn to a counter, or Earthquake. Roost is to get rid of the 4x Ice weakness for one turn and make Gliscor survive longer. Also takes Electric attacks aimed at Gyarados, and Gyarados returns the favor by taking the Water attacks aimed at him.
Synergy:
Water: Handled by Gyarados
Ice: Handled by Scizor.
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Tyranitar (M) @ Babiri Berry
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 6 HP/252 Atk/252 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Fire Punch
Comments: Tyranitar is a favourite of mine. Also one of the best in OU. He's the first of my set up trio, and he finds it pretty easy to set up, thanks to Babiri Berry. Dragon Dance boosts his only low stat, Speed, as well as his awesome Attack. Crunch the Rotom-A's, Azelf's, Gengar's and Starmie's, Stone Edge kills Heatran, Infernape, Gyarados, Salamence and Zapdos among many others, Fire Punch OHKO's Scizor and Forretress, and also puts a dent on Skarmory and Bronzong. Tyranitar helps Gengar alot, as does Gengar help Tyranitar setting up. How? Mostly CB'ers carry Pursuit, and when Gengar gets killed with Pursuit, Tyranitar comes in to set up.
Synergy:
Fighting: Handled by Gliscor, Gengar, Zapdos and Gyarados.
Ground: Handled by Gliscor, Gengar, Zapdos and Gyarados.
Bug: Handled by the whole team, obviously except Tyranitar.
Steel: Handled by Zapdos, Gyarados and Scizor.
Water: Handled by Gyarados.
Grass: Handled by Zapdos, Gengar and Scizor.
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Gengar (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
- Focus Blast
- Hidden Power [Fire]
Comments: Gengar is a great special sweeper. Unfortunately, Hidden Power Fire forces him to have a Speed IV of 30, thanks to which he loses the Speed tie to foe Gengar and Latias. Still, Gengar is a vital part of this team. Shadow Ball gives me STAB and the ability to OHKO Rotom-A and 2HKO Latias, a Sp.Def monster. Thunderbolt makes short work of Gyarados, Empoleon and Starmie, along with many other Waters. Focus Blast takes out Heatran and Tyranitar, foiling Tyranitar's attempts to Pursuit me. Same goes with Scizor, who gets OHKO'd by Hidden Power Fire, as well as Forretress.
Synergy:
Ghost: Handled by Scizor, Tyranitar
Psychic: Handled by Scizor, Tyranitar
Dark: Handled by Scizor, Tyranitar (seems Scizor and Tyranitar are best friends with Gengar...)
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Zapdos @ Life Orb
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Roost
- Thunderbolt
- Heat Wave
- Hidden Power [Grass]
Comments: Zapdos is a monster of a pokemon. It has a big movepool, which has a great offensive pool as well as an awesome defensive pool. Thunderbolt gets some good STAB, Heat Wave kills away Scizor, Forretress, Skarmory among many others, Hidden Power Grass is mainly for Swampert, who would otherwise wall this set, and Roost off the SR/Life Orb damage.
Synergy:
Rock: Handled by no one.... (though Rock types are weak against Gyarados, Scizor and Gliscor's STAB attacks)
Ice: Handled by Scizor
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Gyarados (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 Atk/4 Def/252 Spd
Jolly nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
Comments: In my teams, I usually choose only 4 pokemon. Why? Because Gyarados and Scizor already have a spot for them in the team. The 2nd of my set up sweepers, it is the most powerful in them (atleast I think that). It loves to come in on LeadApe too. DD is the main attack, Waterfall has a good STAB, as well as a nice flinch chance, Stone Edge handles Zapdos, Salamence, Dragonite and foe Gyarados among many others and Earthquake puts an end to the Electric types bugging Gyarados.
Synergy:
Rock: Handled by no one... (though Rock types are weak against his own STAB attacks, as well as Scizor and Gliscor's STAB attacks)
Electric: Handled by Gliscor
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Scizor (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Technician
EVs: 32 HP/252 Atk/224 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- Quick Attack
- Superpower
Comments: In my teams, I usually choose only 4 pokemon. Why? Because Gyarados and Scizor already have a spot for them in the team. Scizor is also the most used pokemon for a reason, that Bullet Punch tears team's apart. Scizor helps Gengar alot, as does Gengar help Scizor setting up. How? Same as the reason for Gengar helping Tyranitar. Bullet Punch for sheer power, Quick Attack for Gyarados and Zapdos, and Superpower makes short work of those Heatran who miss their Fire Blast or non-Scarf Magnezone
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Hope you had a good read!​
 
Hello. It was a pretty good read.

I see you will be having a hell of a lot of trouble with Gyarados, seeing as all of your Pokemon who can actually do good damage against it, are all OHKOed after Stealth Rock. Even Stone Edge will get Zapdos. Due to the addition of Latias to the metagame, offensive Zapdos just isn't all that spectacular. Latias resists all of its attacks and can hit hard with Draco Meteor. Zapdos also gives you two Stealth Rock weak Pokemon. To this end, I think replacing Zapdos with Rotom-A would be very beneficial.

Rotom-A @ Leftovers
Nature: Bold / EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
~ Thunderbolt / Will-O-Wisp / Rest / Sleep Talk

This is a very common set, and for good reason. It gives you a great counter to Gyarados and Scizor, while also checking multiple OU Pokemon. Will-O-Wisp is very useful against Tyranitar (another Dragon Dancer you may have trouble with). Rest and Sleep Talk gives you a status absorber and just keeps Rotom-A alive much longer.

Something else I suggest is changing Gliscor's EV spread and nature. Jolly with max HP / max Spe makes you faster than most lead Jirachi who aren't holding a Choice Scarf, while also outspeeding even Jolly Lucario. This is important because Lucario could otherwise smack you hard with an Ice Punch. This EV spread also outpaces Adamant DDMence, meaning, if necessary, you can Taunt it so it can't Dragon Dance and then U-turn away.

I can also see Latias being a real headache. It can 2HKO Tyranitar and Scizor with a Life Orb Surf, since both lack HP or SpD EVs. Altering Scizor's EV spread a bit will help with this. 200 HP / 128 Atk / 176 SpD / 4 Spe is a fairly complicated EV spread, but the point is to give Scizor enough Special Defense to counter Latias. With this EV spread, Roost becomes much more appealing. Quick Attack can be replaced pretty easily. Good luck.
 
~Hey there~

Your team looks pretty good and solid. So far, I haven't seen a lot of threats or problems this team may have. The fix above is pretty good, and I would go with that one. I just want to mention that Mamoswine and MixApe can cause you a lot of trouble. You can handle them but they are a serious threat.

Nice RMT btw :P.
 
Solid team, however I do have a few nitpicks. Firstly I would change Zapdos to more specially defensive variant to deal with Latias and many other special sweepers aswell.
Zapdos@Leftovers
Calm nature
248 HP / 224 SpD / 36 Spe
Roost Discharge
Toxic Hidden Power {Ice}
Discharge is more beneficial than thunderbolt due to the higher paralysis rate, also Zapdos is going to be sweeping much anyway so the power drop doesn't matter.
Secondly you don't need another priority move on scizor as you already have bullet punch and seen as bullet punch gets stab the power is usually the same. Replace quick attack with pursuit so you can trap ghost pokemon.
Apart from that good team!
 
Hey Fire Wolf,

Look like a pretty decent team, my recommendation would probably be is to change Gliscors Uturn into taunt because you don't want Zapdos to be hitting any rocks, so put taunt over Uturn on Gliscor.

Looks like a pretty good scizor, one thing is though, put Bug bite over Quick attack because it'll do alot of damage even though it does resist, Since it's stab and it still has the ability of tech, and the power of the move is 60, so it'll be doing a bunch.

For Gengar you might want to change 1 move, put Subsitute over Thunderbolt since you already have Zapdos also because when you see a pokemon or for example Scizor coming with a bullet punch you're probably going to die, so put sub for the Scizor and Hidden power Fire for it to work out correctly. Also, change Life orb for Black Sludge.

Good day.
 
MetaNite, thanks for the suggestions, I'm testing Rotom-C > Zapdos, put Jolly on Gliscor, the EV's you said for Gliscor and Scizor, but I can't get Roost on my Scizor..

AndyD1994, at first, I used to have a Defensive Zapdos, same as the one you told, but it failed horribly.

Chileno4Live, I've had no problems dispatching MixApe, who gets OHKO'd by Tyranitar's Stone Edge, Gyarados' Waterfall and Earthquake, a +2 Quick Attack from Scizor, Shadow Ball from Gengar OHKO's it as does Zapdos' Thunderbolt. Mamoswine also gets killed by Scizor's Bullet Punch, Zapdos' Heat Wave and Gyarados' Waterfall.

Tenzuku, I prefer Quick Attack over Bug Bite because it hits Gyarados, Zapdos and Infernape harder. I received a Bullet Punch from a foe Scizor to Gengar and it didn't KO, and the Scizor was OHKO'd. I don't want Gengar to survive long, because it's frail, that's why I put Life Orb over Black Sludge/Leftovers. It hits pretty hard, thanks to Life Orb.

People, you think my team is weak to Latias. That is wrong. Unboosted Surf's from Latias to Tar do like 39%, and take a Crunch in return. Scizor also kills Latias from a +2 Bullet Punch. Gengar also 2HKO's with Shadow Ball.

Thanks for the rates!
 
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