Sweepers. RMT.

[CB-12]

SWEEPERS

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This is my team on Diamond and it's designed so that every Pokemon could potentially sweep though an entire team. There aren't meant to be any Walls or Tanks, just 2 Physical Attackers, 2 Special Attacker and 2 Mixed Attackers. Although, saying that, some of the these Pokemon have defensive capapbilities.

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Team at a Glance:

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Opening Pokemon:

Gengar @ Life Orb

Special Attacker

4 HP/252 Special Attack/252 Speed

~Hypnosis
~Thunderbolt
~Dark Pulse
~Shadow Ball

Prett standard Gengar opener. Put the opponent to asleep and either rip through them with Thunderbolt/Shadow Ball/Dark Pulse or switch into a Pokemon that can kill it. Which there are plenty of in this team. Full Speed EV's mean that it can out speed most openers to Hypnosis.

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Second Pokemon:

Heatran @ Choice Scarf

Special Attacker

4 HP/252 Special Attack/252 Speed

~Overheat/Flamethrower
~Earthpower
~Dragon Pulse
~Explosion

My own Heatran. I'm undecided on whether to have Overheat or Flamethrower, but other than that, it just ploughs through Physical Walls and if a Special Wall wants to come in then he Explodes. Heatran as has the ability to take hits, so it can get revenge.

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Third Pokemon:

Dragonite @ Leftovers

112 Attack/200 Special Attack/196 Speed

Mixed Attacker

~Superpower/Earthquake
~Draco Meteor
~Flamethrower
~Thunderbolt

MixNite is deadly. Simple as. It's hard to take down due to High Defences and has the stats to back up both Special and Physical attacks. I'm undecided on Superpower or Earthquake. I'm leaning more towards Superpower.

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Fourth Pokemon:

Infernape @ Life Orb

24 Attack/252 Special Attack/232 Speed

Mixed Attacker

~Close Combat
~Thunder Punch
~Grass Knot
~Flamethrower

Thunder Punch is really underated on MixNape as it hits Skarmory and Vaporeon which is becoming more popular. Close Combat takes care of Blissey and Grass Knot wards off Swampert. STAB Flamethrower can OHKO anything with rubbish Special Defences. This destroys Walls.

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Fifth Pokemon:

Gyarados @ Leftovers

156 HP/108 Attack/100 Defence/144 Speed

Physical Attacker

~Dragon Dance
~Waterfall
~Stone Edge
~Earthquake

Bulky Gyarados with Leftovers can sweep a team if it gets a Dragon Dance or two in due to being able to absorb hits from any Attacker. Earthquake. Waterfall and Stone Edge vary the moves to hit more types for more damage.

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Sixth Pokemon:

Metagross @ Life Orb

4 HP/252 Attack/252 Speed

~Meteor Mash
~Earthquake
~Explosion
~Thunder Punch

Thunder Punch punishes any Gyarados', Skarmories, Vaporeon's or Starmie's. Meteor Mash does loads of damage to anything really and like Heatran, it explodes when its about to die.

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Well thats my team, any help with movepools, EV's or Pokemon is appreciated.

I was considering some other Pokemon, namely: Swampert, Mamoswine, Tyranitar and Lucario. I can't get hold of a Salamence so please don't suggest that.

CB-12​

 

[titan11]

dakr pulse is really bad on gengar is doesn't get stab and has the same coverage as ghost just use focus blast.

you don't have any natures listed

hp ice > dragon pulse on heatran

i don't see the point in 252speed on metagross what do you want to outspeed?

 

[Bogmire]

agreeing with dark pulse being worthless on gengar. it gets the exact same coverage as shadow ball minus the STAB. With the drop in accuracy of hypnosis, it's not very reliable. you may want to give it a choice scarf and trick>dark pulse so you can screw up incoming gengar counters and SR leads.

thunderpunch is really pointless on infernape. close combat hits vaporeon and skarmory (who you should be using ft against) harder.

I almost think you'd be better off using the standard mixmence. I fail to see how dragonite does it's job better. 10 less base special attack, 20 less base speed. Draco Meteor hits water types harder than thunderbolt does so I don't see much point in that either. If you really want to keep mixnite I would replace tbolt with roost and maybe give it life orb for more of a punch. Superpower>earthquake is definately the better option on mixnite.

btw it'd be a lot easier to rate your team if you had included the natures.

 

[yadazhai]

It's alot easiler to sweep through teams if u have things that can set up. Gyarados is the only poke that can set up so if ur opponent out-predicts you, ur dead. consider putting nasty plot on infernape and try 252atk/128hp/128spd on metagross

Oh yeah, at the top, there's a pic of garchomp, but at the bottom u have a set for metagross

 

[Peachfuzz]

Offensive teams really need that support that Stealth Rock gives. I would use a Trick Metagross as a lead over Gengar. It allows you to set up Stealth Rock and Trick a Choice Scarf onto enemy walls, which would help a lot if your team runs into a stall team. That Metagross set is not doing much for you anyways.

I wouldn't be surprised if you have a bit of trouble every time Zapdos pops up. If only that Garchomp on top were allowed huh? I strongly advise you to use Tyranitar over Gengar. Choice Band with Stone Edge/Earthquake/Crunch/Pursuit would be great. Sandstorm also helps against enemy walls.

Something about bulky waters though. Seems as though your team is stopped pretty well by any bulky water. The cool thing is that you can lure bulky waters with both Metagross and Heatran and Explode, opening up A LOT of your sweepers. Most teams will only carry one, so that should be your plan to victory.

 

[panamaxis]

Dragonites advantage over Salamence is that it can OHKO blissey with superpower, whereas Salamence has to resort to birck break or superpower.