Ok firstly this is a team I've been using for a short while. It's done pretty well with 6 wins and 1 loss (not bragging) but the time i lost i was walled completely by gyarados ( a Substitute, Flail, Waterfall, Dragon Dance set). I would like to improve my team and (if possible) to give me any suggestions to help me counter gyarados.
Jirachi:
Item: Choice Scarf
Nature: Adament
Moveset:
~ Iron Head
~ Thunder Punch
~ Trick
~ Stealth Rock
Ev's: 252 Att / 252 Spe / 6 Def
This is a slightly non standard jirachi. Basically i outspeed all non scarf leads and can flinch them with iron head or trick bulky leads (such as uxie or bronzong) and give them a choice scarf which they won't like. I can proceed to stealth rocks or switch after it's job is done and use it as a potential revenge killer later in the game. (I added thunder punch to possible revenge kill gyarados, he had fire punch before!)
Blissey:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Bold
Moveset:
~ Substitute
~ Flamethrower
~ Toxic
~ Softboiled
Ev's: 252 Hp / 252 Def / 6 Sp.Att
This blissey is a pretty good at stalling and does extremely well in my team. Many steel and ground types (Eg. Steelix) will switch into blissey expecting a thunder wave or toxic as i will substitute. Then i can proceed to flamethrower which also catches scizor of guard as they might switch in see'ing toxic. I can survive bullet punch from a scizor and a Choice scarf flygon outrage. This blissey can also be used to stall the enemy pokemon with toxic spikes up. (I had Ice beam instead of toxic before but i found that toxic can help me outstall flying types and pottentially stall zapdos.)
Togekiss:
Item: Choice Scarf
Nature: Modest
Moveset:
~ Air Slash
~ Tri Attack
~ Flamethrower
~ Aura Sphere
Ev's: 252 Sp.Att / 252 Spe / 6 Sp.Def
This guy is a great counter to Heatran as he can switch in on relative easy and outspeed with aura sphere. You might be thinking by now that this is a hax team but it's not. I barely use Tri attack and i am considering switching to hp-fighting because it hasn't been of any use or I'll switch to hp electric. (If i can breed it D:!) Togekiss has a LOT of power backing it up and mine has killed dusknoir, uxie, etc many times and has helped me revenge kill common threats such as heatran, gengar etc and can switch into most sp.att's with relative ease.
Scizor:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Adament
Moveset:
~ Swords Dance
~ Quick Attack
~ Bullet Punch
~ Brick Break
Ev's: 252 Hp / 252 Att / 6 Hp
This scizor is probably one of my best sets ever (not to custom :D)! I love it when infernape switches in on bullet punch or s-dance or tries to revenge kill and gets SMACKED in the face with a quick attack which ohko's :D! I've also faced a heatran in low yellow once and i had +3 attack (gyarados intimidate) and i ohko'd the heatran with quick attack (something bullet punch can't do) it's just a great move for scizor. I might consider switching brick break for x-scizor for celebi but i don't have problems with it at all. Brick break is just there for steel types to be worn down or for blissey and t-tar possibly. A filler move not really of much use and i will consider changing.
Tentacruel:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Calm
Moveset:
~ Toxic Spikes
~ Rapid Spin
~ Hidden Power [Electric]
~ Surf
Ev's: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Sp.Def
Standard tentacruel...not much to say. I play it smart with this guy and I've always gotten 2 toxic spikes up. Might not be early in the game but it's usually enough. Surf is just a all round decent stab and hp electric is another pathetic attempt by me (added after the encounter with gyarados [i had knock off before] to try and **** it over). Tentacruel is essential as his decent resistances and decent stats can wall quite a few threats and toxic spikes is a big help to my team allowing me to stall or allowing my sweepers (WHO ALWAYS GO FIRST) to finish off weakened opponents.
Cresselia:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Bold
Moveset:
~ Reflect
~ Moonlight
~ Psychic
~ Ice Beam
Ev's: 252 HP / 252 Def / 6 Sp.Def
A twist on the 'Support' smogon Cresselia. Basically this is a physical wall who can't be easily countered. He can take hits from the special side easily as well (thanks to max hp) and obviously walls physical attacks. This eased the pain of the sub gyarados with psychic breaking his subs but it did to much damage and i failed :D! (yes gyarados is a ngithmare to me!) I don't want to run charge beam 90 accuracy is meh on a staller and psychic is good stab. Ice beam ohko's mence and flygon who are pretty much dead if they face cresselia. Since i am easy Cb tyranitar/weavile bait i usually reflect first and predict the switch. If t-tar etc. come in i can switch to tentacruel (ty reflect) scizor, jirachi etc. The reflect aids greatly and they will often switch out allowing me to send in cresselia once again. Moonlight is there because tyranitar will come out late game after it see's scizor (hoping it dies) and hippowdon won't like my togekiss or my cresselia so i don't rely much on moonlight. Cresselia adds to my team another dimension, the possibility to stall (along with t-cruel and bliss).
Overall strategy. I mess up there leads with jirachi and switch into whatever appropriate or death fodder. I can take down all common pokemon pretty early so that's no problem and i just wait for an oppertunity to bring in tentacruel and toxic spikes. Once that's up it's game over as scizors 2 priority moves finishes off the weaker enemies. Blissey toxic's the flying types. And my scarfers finish off all the rest. I can also take to stalling as a backup encase something annoys me. Blissey can wall special hits all day and cresselia aids all my pokemon with reflect from common physical sweepers (lucario, t-tar other scizor) and it weakens close combat. I can still improve on this team greatly and would appreciate your help. If you can help me come up with a counter to gyarados (that i can incorporate well to this team) it would be fantastic. Thank you!
Ok thanks for reading and feel free to post any suggestions :)!
Jirachi:
Item: Choice Scarf
Nature: Adament
Moveset:
~ Iron Head
~ Thunder Punch
~ Trick
~ Stealth Rock
Ev's: 252 Att / 252 Spe / 6 Def
This is a slightly non standard jirachi. Basically i outspeed all non scarf leads and can flinch them with iron head or trick bulky leads (such as uxie or bronzong) and give them a choice scarf which they won't like. I can proceed to stealth rocks or switch after it's job is done and use it as a potential revenge killer later in the game. (I added thunder punch to possible revenge kill gyarados, he had fire punch before!)
Blissey:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Bold
Moveset:
~ Substitute
~ Flamethrower
~ Toxic
~ Softboiled
Ev's: 252 Hp / 252 Def / 6 Sp.Att
This blissey is a pretty good at stalling and does extremely well in my team. Many steel and ground types (Eg. Steelix) will switch into blissey expecting a thunder wave or toxic as i will substitute. Then i can proceed to flamethrower which also catches scizor of guard as they might switch in see'ing toxic. I can survive bullet punch from a scizor and a Choice scarf flygon outrage. This blissey can also be used to stall the enemy pokemon with toxic spikes up. (I had Ice beam instead of toxic before but i found that toxic can help me outstall flying types and pottentially stall zapdos.)
Togekiss:
Item: Choice Scarf
Nature: Modest
Moveset:
~ Air Slash
~ Tri Attack
~ Flamethrower
~ Aura Sphere
Ev's: 252 Sp.Att / 252 Spe / 6 Sp.Def
This guy is a great counter to Heatran as he can switch in on relative easy and outspeed with aura sphere. You might be thinking by now that this is a hax team but it's not. I barely use Tri attack and i am considering switching to hp-fighting because it hasn't been of any use or I'll switch to hp electric. (If i can breed it D:!) Togekiss has a LOT of power backing it up and mine has killed dusknoir, uxie, etc many times and has helped me revenge kill common threats such as heatran, gengar etc and can switch into most sp.att's with relative ease.
Scizor:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Adament
Moveset:
~ Swords Dance
~ Quick Attack
~ Bullet Punch
~ Brick Break
Ev's: 252 Hp / 252 Att / 6 Hp
This scizor is probably one of my best sets ever (not to custom :D)! I love it when infernape switches in on bullet punch or s-dance or tries to revenge kill and gets SMACKED in the face with a quick attack which ohko's :D! I've also faced a heatran in low yellow once and i had +3 attack (gyarados intimidate) and i ohko'd the heatran with quick attack (something bullet punch can't do) it's just a great move for scizor. I might consider switching brick break for x-scizor for celebi but i don't have problems with it at all. Brick break is just there for steel types to be worn down or for blissey and t-tar possibly. A filler move not really of much use and i will consider changing.
Tentacruel:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Calm
Moveset:
~ Toxic Spikes
~ Rapid Spin
~ Hidden Power [Electric]
~ Surf
Ev's: 252 HP / 120 Def / 136 Sp.Def
Standard tentacruel...not much to say. I play it smart with this guy and I've always gotten 2 toxic spikes up. Might not be early in the game but it's usually enough. Surf is just a all round decent stab and hp electric is another pathetic attempt by me (added after the encounter with gyarados [i had knock off before] to try and **** it over). Tentacruel is essential as his decent resistances and decent stats can wall quite a few threats and toxic spikes is a big help to my team allowing me to stall or allowing my sweepers (WHO ALWAYS GO FIRST) to finish off weakened opponents.
Cresselia:
Item: Leftovers
Nature: Bold
Moveset:
~ Reflect
~ Moonlight
~ Psychic
~ Ice Beam
Ev's: 252 HP / 252 Def / 6 Sp.Def
A twist on the 'Support' smogon Cresselia. Basically this is a physical wall who can't be easily countered. He can take hits from the special side easily as well (thanks to max hp) and obviously walls physical attacks. This eased the pain of the sub gyarados with psychic breaking his subs but it did to much damage and i failed :D! (yes gyarados is a ngithmare to me!) I don't want to run charge beam 90 accuracy is meh on a staller and psychic is good stab. Ice beam ohko's mence and flygon who are pretty much dead if they face cresselia. Since i am easy Cb tyranitar/weavile bait i usually reflect first and predict the switch. If t-tar etc. come in i can switch to tentacruel (ty reflect) scizor, jirachi etc. The reflect aids greatly and they will often switch out allowing me to send in cresselia once again. Moonlight is there because tyranitar will come out late game after it see's scizor (hoping it dies) and hippowdon won't like my togekiss or my cresselia so i don't rely much on moonlight. Cresselia adds to my team another dimension, the possibility to stall (along with t-cruel and bliss).
Overall strategy. I mess up there leads with jirachi and switch into whatever appropriate or death fodder. I can take down all common pokemon pretty early so that's no problem and i just wait for an oppertunity to bring in tentacruel and toxic spikes. Once that's up it's game over as scizors 2 priority moves finishes off the weaker enemies. Blissey toxic's the flying types. And my scarfers finish off all the rest. I can also take to stalling as a backup encase something annoys me. Blissey can wall special hits all day and cresselia aids all my pokemon with reflect from common physical sweepers (lucario, t-tar other scizor) and it weakens close combat. I can still improve on this team greatly and would appreciate your help. If you can help me come up with a counter to gyarados (that i can incorporate well to this team) it would be fantastic. Thank you!
Ok thanks for reading and feel free to post any suggestions :)!