Stalls the Game, Skarmbliss's the game!

[L E A V E1]

I must say it, I am a sucker for skarm bliss. I mean, common, one's fat and pink...and the other one can fly with a steel shell, what's not to love! This team is roughly 36-1, my one loss being to 14 HP, meh <.<. Rate, Hate, Appreciate, just post.

Foretress @ Leftovers
252 HP, 162 Att, 96 Def
Sturdy ~ Relaxed
-Toxic Spikes
-Gyro Ball
-Explosion
-Rapid Spin

Foretress is an awesome lead. Not many things can penetrate it's high defensive exterior, except fire, it's worst enemy. Foretress sets the tempo for stall teams by laying down toxic spikes, and later in the game it can come in and explode. It is also my spinner.
Tell me your thoughts on Tentecruel over Foretress

Machamp @ Leftovers
252 HP, 252 Atk, 4 Def
No Guard ~ Adamant
-Dynamicpunch
-Stone Edge
-Sleep Talk
-Rest

Machamp is one of the most overlooked pokemon in the OU tier. It's ability to shrug off attacks and come back with a 100% Accuracy and 100% Confusion with a 100 Base power + STAB Dynamicpunch just shows it's beastlyness. Not many pokemon wall this thing either, they try to switch into a dynamicpunch, but of cours that won't work out, now you have a 50% chance of hitting yourself dummy. Anyway, stone edge hits ghosts like Gengar, and also takes down Gyrados while shrugging off a 1 Dragon Dance waterfall.

Swampert @ Leftovers
252 HP, 252 Defence, 4 Sp Attack
Torrent ~ Relaxed
-Stealth Rock
-Ice Beam
-Earthquake
-Roar

I love swampert, its hard not to put him on your team. The only thing is is that on this team, he ends up dying the most, due to his lack of healing, and playing a huge role in covering foretress. He lays down rocks, a huge part of stall, hitting everything, levitating or not. Ice Beam hits dragons that try to set up, and earthquake is a great filler. Also one of two phazers.

Skarmory @ Leftovers (That never gets old -.-)
252 HP, 252 Defence, 4 Attack
Keen Eye ~ Impish
-Spikes
-Whirlwind
-Roost
-Drill Peck/Brave Bird

Skarmory lays down spikes, a huge and probably the final aspect to stalling successfully. Skarmory is only weak to thunder and fire, making it quite a walling threat, and can finish off games by phazing the opponent into oblivion.

The Whore @ Leftovers
252 Defence, 252 HP, 4 Sp Attack
Natural Cure ~ Bold
-Seismic Toss
-Ice Beam
-Thunder Wave/Sing
-Softboiled

Gotta love this guy...or is it a chick? Well, you gotta love it, its pink, it smiles, but hell it is hard to take down. Also known as The best special wall in the game, blissey is really hard to take down. Did I mention it is hard to take down?

Dusknoir @ Leftovers
252 HP, 76 Def, 180 SpDef
Pressure ~ Careful
-Thunderpunch/Earthquake
-Shadow Sneak/Earthquake
-Will-o-Wisp
-Pain Split

To make sure mah rocks and spikes stay down, this guy was implanted. Covers the basic spinners, starmie, claydol, and donphan. Also can work as a special wall with blissey, taking all the fighting moves directed at her. Which move should be taken for earthquake, I need earthquake for ape, it annoys me and this is my only counter to it.

Thanks for reading, I understand it is boring, but it does get the job done. I havent noticed any HUGE weakness's, but if you find one please tell me.

 

[Slice n Dice]

Hi, have you ever heard the term"Don't waste evs?" Yea well, fixing spreads is your first priority, as well as a nature or two. Machamp is the first to be tweaked. Machamp needs to be able to take at least 1 boosted Garchomp Earthquake/Outrage, especially in a team like this that is easily wrecked by a skilled Garchomp user. Change the evs to 248 hp/ 144 attack/ 252 defense/ 8 speed. Able to take a Swords Danced Earthquake from Garchomp, and Outrage in most cases, while outspeeding [rare] 4 speed Blisseys in late game situations where you can't take a Seismic toss(8 evs won't hurt, seriously). Also run Ice Punch for the OHKO on Garchomp. Moving on, Blissey needs a Calm nature for the OU environment at this point; things like Nasty Plot Togekiss/Calm Mind Slowbro will rip apart your passive team with ease otherwise. Run 212 defense/252 sdef/ 42 hp with Flamethrower/Hp Ground/Toxic/Softboiled, which can stop Restalk Heatran that can be an issue with Swapert eliminated mid-late game. Skarmory can run 162 hp/ 252 def/ 96 attack so it can at least dent Gyarados and OHKO Yanmega. It still takes 40%> from Scarfcross's Close Combat, etc. Now for me to point out this team's true weaknesses...


Mixape kills you brutally with little-to-no effort, especially if it gets off a Nasty Plot on a predictable switch. The two pokemon that should be replaced are Forretress and Swampert without a doubt. The one pokemon that would help tremendously is Rapid Spin/Surf/Thunderbolt/Surf Starmie(172 hp/224 speed/114 satk). This covers Mixape excellently and also patches up your awful Gyarados weakness. Swampert can easily be replaced with a standard Stealth Rock/Ice Fang/Earthquake/Roost Gliscor because of your horrid Garchomp/CBcross/Swords Dance Lucario weakness. Since Gengar is still able to play mind games with your walls, you should replace Dusknoir with Restalk Spiritomb-252 hp/ 200 sdef/ 56 satk- Hp Fighting/Shadow Ball/Rest/Sleep Talk. With this as your Sleep absorber, you can replace Machamp with Swords Dance Lucario(Crunch over Bullet Punch). This can literally sweep the shit out of most teams with 2 or 3 layers of Spikes and Stealth Rock set up, assuming you have Swords Danced once. The replacement of Machamp is entirely up to you however, as you will not have a reliable CBtar switch in if it is taken out of the team. Those fixes should patch up this team's holes.


Good luck. My fixes not only will improve this team, but it will make the team more enjoyable to use in general :)
Note: It is difficult to make a successful stall team in OU at this point in the metagame. Sweepers this generation are known to tear through walls due to mixed movesets, stats, and unpredictability.

 

[Sorrow]

@ Slice dont mean to have worthless post here but im assuming you meant 96 atk where you have hp listed twice there. btw thats some good rating/fixing up there ;)

 

[Slice n Dice]

Yes, that was a typo, thanks for pointing it out. And well I'm a tutor for Smogon, guess that means you can expect good rates from me ^_^

 

[Sorrow]

with changes, it will be interesting to see what kind of lead he will have. although he was using forry as a lead which usually doesnt go over too well.

 

[Slice n Dice]

Forgot to mention the new lead. You have two options, L E A V E 1: Lead off with Restalk Machamp(if it stays over Luke) OR lead off with Gliscor if you decide to go Luke>Machamp.

 

[Sorrow]

oh yeah you listed surf twice on starmie too hehe. but anyways with the addition of the changes.. is he able to handle Calm Mind jirachi? it seems it can just setup on any of them pogeys and sweep.

 

[azntrumpet]

He can easily take CM Jirachi if he uses Dark Pulse/Calm Mind over HP Fighting/Shadow Ball, as the only thing that set has over this one is that it takes SD Lucario, and he'll have Gliscor for that.