Team Victorious Secret OU

[MEHOZ]

Yes, my team name is indeed team Victorious Secret, that just makes them extra sexy right?This is my second attempt at making a decent OU team. I've just recently gotten involved in the competetive pokemon battling scene and i've been owned left and right. Any suggestions will be taken into consideration and appreciated. Thanks for rating :D.


-Team Victorious Secret-

Swampert @ Leftovers
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 240 HP/ 216 DEF/ 52 SPA
Nature: Relaxed
- Earthquake
- Ice Beam
- Stealth Rock
- Roar

Lead Swampert, I set up SR and then get hit OR they switch giving me a free SR. Roar is for phazing late game. Ice beam is to handle all of the dragons this metagame holds, and the abundance of ground types. EQ is Generally for STAB and just hitting hard.

Magnezone @ Life Orb
Ability: Magnet Pull
EVs: 88 HP/ 88 ATK/ 248 SPA/ 84 SPE
Nature: Mild
- Thunder Bolt
- Flash Cannon
- Magnet Rise
- Explosion

Magnezone comes in on most steel types locks them in with magnet pull and sweeps them up with thunder bolt. Once they've been swept up I can either stay in once they send in an EQ'er and magnet rise OR switch into Flygon or Gyrados to absorb the EQ. Magnezone also does a great job of dealing with Tauntrados, and explosion is great on this set so once magnezone does his work taking out steels he can always go out with a bang.

Arcanine @ Life Orb
Ability: Intimidate
EVs:76 HP/ 252 ATK/ 180 SPE
Nature: Adamant
- Howl
- Extremespeed
- Flare Blitz
- Iron Head

Ah, Arcanine although he is UU, he works wonders in this team as a late game sweeper. I try to save him as long as i can so i can howl up late game and take out most of the weakened down pokemon with extreme speed. Iron head is just incase I run into trouble with a ground type, and Flare Blitz is for STAB and Increased coverage on Steel and grass types.(i am considering taking this poke out, any suggestions would be appreciated)

Flygon @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 80 HP/ 252 ATK/ 176 SPE
Nature: Adamant
- Earthquake
- Outrage
- Stone Edge
- U-Turn

Flygon is a great revenge killer, with STAB Earthquake and Outrage, he revenge kills most threats in the current OU metagame. Stone Edge is just for more coverage against Gyrados and to take out zapdos. U-Turn is for scouting and works well against pesky ice types, because then I can switch into Magnezone.

Gyrados @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 156 HP/ 108 ATK/ 100 DEF/ 144 SPE
Nature: Adamant
- Dragon Dance
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Taunt

I love Gyrados. He's great to switch into blissey or skarmory on, especially late game, so I can taunt them up and then when they switch it nets me a free DD. Waterfall is my go-to move most of the time, unless a pesky zapdos tries to switch in. Then I go for a quick Stone-Edge.

Scizor @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP/ 252 ATK/ 4 SPE
Nature: Adamant
- U-Turn
- Super Power
- Bullet Punch
- Pursuit

The number one sweeper... EVER. Scizor is a great revenge killer, he comes in on annoying psychic types and priority bullet punches away. He is also great as a late game sweeper when he's locked into Bullet Punch. Superpower over brickbreak because he is cb banded, and pursuit is great for right after swampert phazes, I can switch into scizor and most of the time they will want to switch out of what they have so I can pursuit it up.


Thanks for taking the time to read my post :D
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[Orcelot005]

Arcanine is pretty good in UU, but is outclassed by Heatran in OU.

Scarftran is the best set for Heatran, in my opinion. The other sets are only good for their suprise value.

Here's the set:

Heatran@Choice Scarf
Nature: Naive
EVs: 252 Speed/SpA, 4 Hp
-Fire Blast/Flamethrower
-Earth power
-Hidden power Ice/Grass (Depending on what you want to deal with. Grass is useful for hitting common switch ins such as Vaporeon hard, but Ice is useful for beating Salamence and other dragons.)
-Explosion

Now if you decide to go with Heatran, you can drop Flygon since you already have two good revenge killers in Heatran and Scizor. You seem to be lacking a mixed attacker. Maybe a Salamence could work?

Salamence@Life Orb
Nature: Naughty
EVs 232 Attack, 24 SpA, 252 Speed
-Fire Blast
-Outrage
-Earthquake
-Dragon Dance

If you choose to add Salamence that would leave two of your pokemon weak to stealth rock so it might be nice to add a rapid spinner in there somewhere, although I don't know how you would fit it in.

Hope this helps you a little.

 

[macle]

He is using a physical Arcanine so Heatran doesn't outclass it at all.

One problem in your team is that the only special moves you have are from Swampert and Magnezone who don't really hurt physical walls much. Changing Arcanine to something like a special based mixape can help your team break stall easier.

 

[Orcelot005]

Eh, good point. I still think Heatran would be a good replacement for Flygon, though. I definatly agree with the Infernape suggestion.

 

[Oddish On Fire]

Since you say that Arcanine works great as a late-game sweeper, let me suggest to you Lucario instead, as Howlcanine is greatly outclassed by SD Lucario as a late game sweeper in OU.

Lucario @ Life Orb 252 Spe/252 Atk/4 Def Adamant Nature

-Swords Dance
-Extreme Speed
-Close Combat
-Ice Punch/Bullet Punch/Stone Edge/Crunch

 

[xWOLFYx]

Since you say that Arcanine works great as a late-game sweeper, let me suggest to you Lucario instead, as Howlcanine is greatly outclassed by SD Lucario as a late game sweeper in OU.

Lucario @ Life Orb 252 Spe/252 Atk/4 Def Adamant Nature

-Swords Dance
-Extreme Speed
-Close Combat
-Ice Punch/Bullet Punch/Stone Edge/Crunch

This is exactly what I was going to suggest in place of Arcanine. The only drawback to using Luke here is that every good team is prepared for Luke and thus have ways of stopping it. But, even prepared teams can get swept by him, he's just that effective. If he gets in at just the right time or crits your only counter, it can mean gg. Also, Luke has much better coverage than that Arcanine. Fire / Steel / ExtremeSpeed will do negligible damage to something like Heatran or a bulky water, while Luke has a chance at beating many pokes, depending on which move you give him in the final slot (i.e.: Crunch / Stone Edge / Ice Punch).

 

[Oddish On Fire]

This is exactly what I was going to suggest in place of Arcanine. The only drawback to using Luke here is that every good team is prepared for Luke and thus have ways of stopping it. But, even prepared teams can get swept by him, he's just that effective. If he gets in at just the right time or crits your only counter, it can mean gg. Also, Luke has much better coverage than that Arcanine. Fire / Steel / ExtremeSpeed will do negligible damage to something like Heatran or a bulky water, while Luke has a chance at beating many pokes, depending on which move you give him in the final slot (i.e.: Crunch / Stone Edge / Ice Punch).

Well, I think that every team prepared to deal with Lukey Luke can deal with Arcanine even easier.

 

[mc2094]

Well I agree with the replacement of arcanine. Having Lucario though isn't what I feel would work best. This team already has enough trouble with scarf rotom-h that adding lucario will often be a waste. I personally don't think you need a dedicated late game sweeper so I would agree with the suggestion of scarftran in its place. Next you should replace scarfgon with mixmence.

Salamence@Life Orb
Naive
16 Atk/252 Spe/ 240 SAtk
-Draco Meteor
-EQuake
-Flamethrower
-Outrage

This is standard stuff but will work really well. It will help weakening bulky waters who give this team some trouble. Wall breaking at its best.

Next we need to fix up Scizor. Don't run 252 HP EVs as that will give you one less turn to switch in due to sr. A spread of 248 HP/ 252 Atk/ 8 SDef should work. This team has trouble against Latias also so I would actually use a bulkier spread to ensure the KO from pursuit. Something like 76 HP/ 252 Atk/ 8 Spe/ 172 SDef should work.

Swampert also needs a fix. 252 HP/ 228 Def/ 28 SAtk is the proper spread. The one listed in the strat. dex is outdated and is meant to handle Garchomp.Gl

The number one sweeper... EVER.

Garchomp, Deoxys-s(sort of)

 

[MEHOZ]

what about if i dropped Arcanine for a MixMence, i really would like to keep flygon on the team, because he is my favorite PoKe, so I'm just wondering if a mixmence would fit well in the team instead of arcanine.