Team Infanate Coverage

[Ice-Master]

Team Overview

At first glance im sure this seems like a group of randomly placed pokemon, but in reality their not. The team was made under the Idea of 'Perfect Coverage'. At first I did have that, I think the highest winning streak was 16 for this team, only countered by uncommon pokemon. But lately I have been going on losing streaks. So I need some help.

So, lets get this damn thing started.

Flygon @ Choice Band
Levitate
Jolly Nature
80 Hp/ 252 Atk/ 176 Spe
- U-Turn
- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Stone Edge

This may seem like an odd pokemon. The IV were for the Choice Scarf set, but I accidentally chose Choice Band, and it works great. It covers most types and anything it doesn't I can U-turn into something else. It has a problem with any lead with Ice shard, or an Ice move thats faster than it.

Weavile @ Choice Band
Pressure
Jolly Nature
252 Atk/ 252 Spe
- Ice Shard
- Pursuit
- Night Slash
- Brick Break

My revenge killer for the most part, but my decision for adding it was Psychic and Ghost coverage. Unfortunately, thats all it ends up being good for...and thats a bit of a problem. It usually cant stay out long, and because of its Choice Band, I cant hit anything for a super effective if Im locked in, and it tends to cost me one of my pokemon. But, this thing has saved my ass a bunch of times, so keep that in mind.

Infernape @ Life Orb
Blaze
Naive Nature
64 Atk/ 194 Sp Atk/ 252 Spe
- Close Combat
- Flamethrower
- Hidden Power (ICE 70)
- Grass Knot

Since this team is for coverage, I decided to run both Hidden Power and Grass Knot instead of Nasty Plot. The only time this thing doesn't do good is when I send it out as a replacement for somthing in a Choice lock, or when somthing unexpectedly switches into it. Other than that, its a stable pokemon.

Electivire @ Expert Belt
Motor Drive
Adamant Nature
252 Atk/ 252 Spe
- Cross Chop
- Ice Punch
- Thunder Punch
- Earthquake

I love this thing, if it isn't revenge killed, It can take out at least two pokemon, minimum, three with a Motor Drive boost. This thing can usually pull off a counter against Heatran. This is another stable pokemon on my team. But I need something to pull in electric attacks.

Lucario @ Choice Specs
Inner Focus
Timid Nature
252 Sp Atk/ 252 Spe
-Aura Sphere
- Vaccum Wave
- Hidden Power (ELECTRIC 70)
- Shadow Ball

This. Thing. Is. Beast. As long as it isnt my replacement for a Choice Lock then It can kill. It is my most stable
Pokemon in this team. The Hidden Power Electric is for a coverage on water types, which I dont have much of a coverage on. The only thing that could be changed, is the HP but only if I get other coverage for water.

Scizor @ Choice Band
Technician
Adamant Nature
252 Atk/ 252 Spe
- Bullet Punch
- Brick Break
- Pursuit
- U-Turn

*Sigh* I swear, this has got to be beast on anything but this team. Since all it ends up doing is using Bullet Punch, It doesn't cover much... If I had to choose one pokemon on this team to Replace, it would be this.

Summary:
Well, thats the team... Built to cover all it can. It even covers spped with the use of three priority stab moves. Ok, Flame away.
Also, do not suggest "Hey, you should add (Insert overly annoying overused Dragon/Tyrannitar type pokemon here), It will do great!'' I also built this team off of the idea of not using those pokemon.
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[Fuzznip]

Well, I can say that you have a pretty large Gyarados weakness. It can switch in on many of your Pokemon; Flygon, Weavile, Scizor, and Lucario are all set up bait for it.

I have one suggestion that you can use for your team. I think you should try using Porygon2. It helps take care of many threats to your team, especially Gyarados as it is one of the best counters towards it. Also, it takes good care of Heatran, Vaporeon, Jolteon, and some types of Salamence. The set would be this:

Porygon2 @ Leftovers l Trace
Bold nature l 252 HP / 216 Def / 42 SpA
Thunder Wave / Recover / Thunderbolt / Ice Beam

I think it really compliments your team as it can threaten many dangerous sweepers with its reasonable bulk. If you want to use it, I suggest you replace it instead of Scizor, since I think you aren't happy with it. I think you should try it.

 

[Ice-Master]

Well, I can say that you have a pretty large Gyarados weakness. It can switch in on many of your Pokemon; Flygon, Weavile, Scizor, and Lucario are all set up bait for it.

I have one suggestion that you can use for your team. I think you should try using Porygon2. It helps take care of many threats to your team, especially Gyarados as it is one of the best counters towards it. Also, it takes good care of Heatran, Vaporeon, Jolteon, and some types of Salamence. The set would be this:

Porygon2 @ Leftovers l Trace
Bold nature l 252 HP / 216 Def / 42 SpA
Thunder Wave / Recover / Thunderbolt / Ice Beam

I think it really compliments your team as it can threaten many dangerous sweepers with its reasonable bulk. If you want to use it, I suggest you replace it instead of Scizor, since I think you aren't happy with it. I think you should try it.

Ok, thank you. But what do you suggest I take out for it?

 

[Fuzznip]

Ok, thank you. But what do you suggest I take out for it?

As I said, you should replace Scizor with Porygon2, mainly because you don't see it helping you too much. Also, you already have a strong priority attacker (Lucario), so there's no need for Scizor in my opinion. You already have Infernape for a strong Fighting-type attack, Weavile as a stronger trapper with STAB Pursuit, and Flygon as a decent scouter.

 

[Ice-Master]

As I said, you should replace Scizor with Porygon2, mainly because you don't see it helping you too much. Also, you already have a strong priority attacker (Lucario), so there's no need for Scizor in my opinion. You already have Infernape for a strong Fighting-type attack, Weavile as a stronger trapper with STAB Pursuit, and Flygon as a decent scouter.

Oh, didn't see you said that. Thank you again, and I will try it out

 

[Head Smash]

The IV were for the Choice Scarf set, but I accidentally chose Choice Band, and it works great.

I lol'd.

The pictures are great too. Where did you get them?

The first problem I see with this team is that you do not have a Stealth Rocker. On some teams, this is not too much of a problem, but your team has a fair-sized Gyarados weakness, so I think adding in a Stealth Rocker would be an excellent idea.

To this end, I would recommend replacing your Scizor for a Swampert. Someone suggested running Porygon2, and you can do so if you want, but I think Swampert would give your team more bang for the buck. It can even do a great job of countering Gyarados if you give it HP Electric. Swampert with a Relaxed nature and 252 HP/252 Def with the moveset Stealth Rock/Earthquake/HP Electric/Avalanche will allow you to kill both Salamence and Gyarados while still having an essentially effective Pokemon on your hands. This set gets decent coverage, as well. You can tailor the EVs as you see fit.

The Swampert named above makes a decent Heatran and Tyranitar counter, as well.

Choice Band Weavile is really mediocre, in my opinion, and I would recommend that you run a different Pokemon in its place. In order to keep with your theme of perfect offensive coverage, I would suggest running a variant of Tyranitar in place of Weavile. CBtar works pretty well, but since you have not had luck with CBScizor, I'm going to recommend that you use a Dragon Dance Tyranitar instead.

As it is now, you have no set-up sweepers, and Scizor can hit all of your Pokemon pretty hard (even Lucario!), so a DDtar with Babiri Berry and Fire Punch will help to patch up both of these problems. Now, you do add a 3x Ground weakness to your team by doing this, so in order to remedy that I would suggest also replacing your Electivire with Mixmence. If you really like Electivire, however, you can just play around the 3x Ground weakness; it's not going to end up being a big deal ultimately and can even give Flygon free U-turns!

Good luck with your team!

edit: I just noticed that you actually have a _4x_ Ground weakness with Tyranitar on your team. Since Infernape and Electivire cover many of the same things, I would really, really, really recommend using Mixmence on your team instead of one of the two.

 

[Umbreon Dan]

I couldn't help noticing that your team has four Choice pokemon. Few teams run more than three, and if Infernape and Electivire go down (not unlikely since both a vulnerable to hazards, low defenses, Life Orb in the monkey's case) then you are almost guranteed to lose. I also saw was that you don't have any stat-up sweepers. Without Nasty Plot, Infernape will have a harder time sweeping teams than usual, and the same goes for Elective. For that reason, I recommend keeping Scizor, but switching it to a Swords Dance variant. With Lucario capable of handling Scizor's usual counters, you'd probably have quite a bit more success with it than you are with a Choice Bander.

 

[Fuzznip]

I couldn't help noticing that your team has four Choice pokemon. Few teams run more than three, and if Infernape and Electivire go down (not unlikely since both a vulnerable to hazards, low defenses, Life Orb in the monkey's case) then you are almost guranteed to lose. I also saw was that you don't have any stat-up sweepers. Without Nasty Plot, Infernape will have a harder time sweeping teams than usual, and the same goes for Elective. For that reason, I recommend keeping Scizor, but switching it to a Swords Dance variant. With Lucario capable of handling Scizor's usual counters, you'd probably have quite a bit more success with it than you are with a Choice Bander.

If you're a good battler, you won't have a guaranteed loss with 4 Choice users. Some people have really good prediction and battling skills, and if he's one of them, I don't see a big problem with it.

If he sticks with the using Scizor, he will still have a big Gyarados problem, it won't be easy to take it down once it has received a boost or two. He needs something to threaten it, and Porygon2 is the best option to use on this team.

 

[Ice-Master]

I couldn't help noticing that your team has four Choice pokemon. Few teams run more than three, and if Infernape and Electivire go down (not unlikely since both a vulnerable to hazards, low defenses, Life Orb in the monkey's case) then you are almost guranteed to lose. I also saw was that you don't have any stat-up sweepers. Without Nasty Plot, Infernape will have a harder time sweeping teams than usual, and the same goes for Elective. For that reason, I recommend keeping Scizor, but switching it to a Swords Dance variant. With Lucario capable of handling Scizor's usual counters, you'd probably have quite a bit more success with it than you are with a Choice Bander.

I know, but I tried the pory2 already, and I like the team without Scizor

 

[Technicolor Apocalypse]

Like Umbreon Dan, I'm rather worried about the abundance of Choice pokemon on your team...In addition to Gyrados and possibly Tyranitar, I see Mamoswine as a large threat to this team...Electivire and Infernape seem to be serving the same purpose on the team, so It would be best to replace one of them (I would replace Infernape) with either a Wish user (Vaporeon, who can help with your Gyrados weakness, perhaps?) or the Porygon2 suggested by Fuzznip. Great suggestions were already made on this team, there is not much I can do to elaborate on these. Despite the unusual number of choice users, I like this team.

I hope I helped!

By the way, where did you get those pictures?

 

[Ice-Master]

Well, what I guess I forgot to mention is that this is mainly an offensive team...

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[Red Rain]

SR really is a must in today's metagame, so I'd advise slotting that in somewhere. Also, 3 Pokemon are weak to ground, and as Super Effective pointed out, either Electivire or Infernape could be replaced for Mixmence. I would replace Electivire due to Infernape's superior speed (and without a Water Pokemon to lure, Motor Drive activation will be rare.) Salamence will soak up your Ground weakness and will be able to powerfully hit common EQ users back with Draco Meteor.