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Introduction
Hello and welcome to my team. My team was initially use a nice defensive core of skarmory and gastrodon and built from that. In my quest I also avoided use automatic weather users avoid being generic. My team is mainly hazard stall with cresselia, skarmory, heatran, gastrodon. The offense are setup sweeper dragonite if I need to break through stall and gengar that revenge kills and releases pressure of on my defence.
Heatran @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Calm Nature (+SpD, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Roar
With rain teams this thing does not get the usage it deserves, it has amazing bulk along with amazing special attack so it’s nothing to setup on making a solid defensive unit that compliments skarmory and gastrodon very well.
This is my first special defender it’s typing just suits gastrodon and skarmory bery well. It’s my main lead to get up rocks. I use lava plume over flamethrower to maybe get lucky with the status and earth power just for extra coverage. Roar is to counter things that do want to setup against heatran like resto-chesto volcarona. Flash fire also greatly helps my team so skarmory and scizor can play freely without fear of fire attacks.
Scizor @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Att / 4 Spe
Adamant (+Att, -SpA)
- Bullet Punch
- U-Turn
- Super Power
- Pursuit
This is a replacement for offensive dragonite. I switched dragonite to a bulky parashuffler to help with speed issues.
Scizor is always a fine addition to help any team. The four attacks on scizor is standard. U-turns for switch initiative and bullet punch for a priority to revenge kill. Pursuit to trap annoying pokemon like latios and espeon and super power just for damage. It's fire weakness is patched up with heatran and gastrodon on the special side and dragonite on the physical.
Skarmory @ Shed Shell
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Spikes
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Whirlwind
This is a defensive monster, sadly this Pokémon is as commonly used because of gliscor everyone is raving about but the dragon resistance I think gives it a notch above gliscor in defensive versatility.
This set is pretty standard spikes for sexy hazards, roost for recovery and whirlwind for phasing. I prefer brave bird over drill peck because in situations like Skarm vs conkeldurr brave bird is 2HKO while drill peck is 3HKO.
Shed shell is for magnezone which has become very popular these days so loosing skarmory to that makes me want to bash my head in.
Synergy wise it goes very well with heatran and gastrodon for my defensive cores while banded outrages for haxorus does less than 50% meaning nice roost stall until confusion sets in. Excadrill has nothing on this as well. I once got critical hit, flinch when it had 2+ attack with rockslide doing 76% which is the only time skarmory lost to excadrill.
Skarmory @ Leftovers
Trait: Storm Drain
EVs: 252 HP / 252SpD / 4 Def
Calm Nature (+SpD, -Att)
- Earth Power
- Scald
- Toxic
- Recover
Gastrodon didn’t seem like much to me at first, but when rotom became in pretty extremely common, I needed a perfect counter. With this rotom can’t touch me and provides great synergy with heatran and skarmory.
Gastrodon alongside heatran is one of my special walls. Toxic to out stall and cripple apposing stallers and recover to recover! Earth power is a very nice STAB while scald is there to get some burn hax but because I have toxic, scald’s usefulness is quite fulfilling since most steels are physically based and if they are, gastrodon needs to switch out ASAP. So maybe I might replace scald with surf.
Storm drain is also a great ability it has. Too my surprise gastrodon can sweep at +1 quite easily when there are no physical threats remaining.
Gengar @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Att)
- Substitute
- Pain Split
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
This thing is a beast of a revenge killer. It packs a lot of damage and completely messes with my opponent with substitute. Honestly I think gengar is the best substitute abuser out there aside from leech seeders or things with stupid abilities that gives it a lot of health back per turn *looks at gliscor and toxicroak*.
Gengar is a purely offensive special attacker, it’s amazing speed and special attack makes it a perfect revenge killer. Life orb hard is a must too keep offensive pressure and more OHKOs since this thing is a glass cannon. Substitute on predicted switches is great so I don’t have to play the prediction game when I want to attack or pain split.
Pain split is obviously needed with any LifeSub sets to be able to hide behind more substitutes and not die to LO recoil. Shadow ball is the main attack and focus blast is for solid coverage against steel and normal.
Aside from offensive capabilities, with its ghost typing it can block fighting moves aimed at heatran and gastrodon and rapid spin is not a problem now. Levitate is really awesome as well to block predicted EQ and not take spikes since in some situations Sand+LO+SP really racks up so spikes which genger would be weak to without levitate which just make this Pokémon useless really.
Timid is also a notable thing, without timid its revenge killing capabilities is greatly decreased.
Dragonite @ Leftovers
Trait: Mutliscale
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Dragon tail
- Substitute
- Roost
- Thunder wave
Dragonite is to me, the best dragon in OU. Its ability and defensive capabilities gives an advantage above the rest.
Dragonite is my physical sweeper. I have dragonite on my team since it ticked the boxes on my specific list on my 6th and final team member.
• Fire + Fighting resistance to counter infernape
• Bug resistance to counter my biggest threat volcarona
• Bulky and offensive
• Physically based
• Water Resistance
It was either this or garados. If I had garados it would open an opportunity for rotom to just wreck my team to pieces once gastrodon goes down.
This thing is truly the master of paralyze. Never before have I ever got off status and commonly as dragonite. Its EVs are training to completely stop infernape and other physical threats skarmory can't defend against. Dragon tail and thunder wave go together to parashuffle while roost bring me back to multiscale. Substitute is something to use when I phase in a wall that can't touch me so I can parashuffle without the fear of being attacked with ice beam when I am behind the substitute.
Thanks for reading my team. Feedback and constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.
Introduction
Hello and welcome to my team. My team was initially use a nice defensive core of skarmory and gastrodon and built from that. In my quest I also avoided use automatic weather users avoid being generic. My team is mainly hazard stall with cresselia, skarmory, heatran, gastrodon. The offense are setup sweeper dragonite if I need to break through stall and gengar that revenge kills and releases pressure of on my defence.
Heatran @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash fire
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpD / 4 Spe
Calm Nature (+SpD, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Roar
With rain teams this thing does not get the usage it deserves, it has amazing bulk along with amazing special attack so it’s nothing to setup on making a solid defensive unit that compliments skarmory and gastrodon very well.
This is my first special defender it’s typing just suits gastrodon and skarmory bery well. It’s my main lead to get up rocks. I use lava plume over flamethrower to maybe get lucky with the status and earth power just for extra coverage. Roar is to counter things that do want to setup against heatran like resto-chesto volcarona. Flash fire also greatly helps my team so skarmory and scizor can play freely without fear of fire attacks.
Scizor @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Att / 4 Spe
Adamant (+Att, -SpA)
- Bullet Punch
- U-Turn
- Super Power
- Pursuit
This is a replacement for offensive dragonite. I switched dragonite to a bulky parashuffler to help with speed issues.
Scizor is always a fine addition to help any team. The four attacks on scizor is standard. U-turns for switch initiative and bullet punch for a priority to revenge kill. Pursuit to trap annoying pokemon like latios and espeon and super power just for damage. It's fire weakness is patched up with heatran and gastrodon on the special side and dragonite on the physical.
Skarmory @ Shed Shell
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Spikes
- Brave Bird
- Roost
- Whirlwind
This is a defensive monster, sadly this Pokémon is as commonly used because of gliscor everyone is raving about but the dragon resistance I think gives it a notch above gliscor in defensive versatility.
This set is pretty standard spikes for sexy hazards, roost for recovery and whirlwind for phasing. I prefer brave bird over drill peck because in situations like Skarm vs conkeldurr brave bird is 2HKO while drill peck is 3HKO.
Shed shell is for magnezone which has become very popular these days so loosing skarmory to that makes me want to bash my head in.
Synergy wise it goes very well with heatran and gastrodon for my defensive cores while banded outrages for haxorus does less than 50% meaning nice roost stall until confusion sets in. Excadrill has nothing on this as well. I once got critical hit, flinch when it had 2+ attack with rockslide doing 76% which is the only time skarmory lost to excadrill.
Skarmory @ Leftovers
Trait: Storm Drain
EVs: 252 HP / 252SpD / 4 Def
Calm Nature (+SpD, -Att)
- Earth Power
- Scald
- Toxic
- Recover
Gastrodon didn’t seem like much to me at first, but when rotom became in pretty extremely common, I needed a perfect counter. With this rotom can’t touch me and provides great synergy with heatran and skarmory.
Gastrodon alongside heatran is one of my special walls. Toxic to out stall and cripple apposing stallers and recover to recover! Earth power is a very nice STAB while scald is there to get some burn hax but because I have toxic, scald’s usefulness is quite fulfilling since most steels are physically based and if they are, gastrodon needs to switch out ASAP. So maybe I might replace scald with surf.
Storm drain is also a great ability it has. Too my surprise gastrodon can sweep at +1 quite easily when there are no physical threats remaining.
Gengar @ Life Orb
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Att)
- Substitute
- Pain Split
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
This thing is a beast of a revenge killer. It packs a lot of damage and completely messes with my opponent with substitute. Honestly I think gengar is the best substitute abuser out there aside from leech seeders or things with stupid abilities that gives it a lot of health back per turn *looks at gliscor and toxicroak*.
Gengar is a purely offensive special attacker, it’s amazing speed and special attack makes it a perfect revenge killer. Life orb hard is a must too keep offensive pressure and more OHKOs since this thing is a glass cannon. Substitute on predicted switches is great so I don’t have to play the prediction game when I want to attack or pain split.
Pain split is obviously needed with any LifeSub sets to be able to hide behind more substitutes and not die to LO recoil. Shadow ball is the main attack and focus blast is for solid coverage against steel and normal.
Aside from offensive capabilities, with its ghost typing it can block fighting moves aimed at heatran and gastrodon and rapid spin is not a problem now. Levitate is really awesome as well to block predicted EQ and not take spikes since in some situations Sand+LO+SP really racks up so spikes which genger would be weak to without levitate which just make this Pokémon useless really.
Timid is also a notable thing, without timid its revenge killing capabilities is greatly decreased.
Dragonite @ Leftovers
Trait: Mutliscale
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Impish Nature (+Def, -SpA)
- Dragon tail
- Substitute
- Roost
- Thunder wave
Dragonite is to me, the best dragon in OU. Its ability and defensive capabilities gives an advantage above the rest.
Dragonite is my physical sweeper. I have dragonite on my team since it ticked the boxes on my specific list on my 6th and final team member.
• Fire + Fighting resistance to counter infernape
• Bug resistance to counter my biggest threat volcarona
• Bulky and offensive
• Physically based
• Water Resistance
It was either this or garados. If I had garados it would open an opportunity for rotom to just wreck my team to pieces once gastrodon goes down.
This thing is truly the master of paralyze. Never before have I ever got off status and commonly as dragonite. Its EVs are training to completely stop infernape and other physical threats skarmory can't defend against. Dragon tail and thunder wave go together to parashuffle while roost bring me back to multiscale. Substitute is something to use when I phase in a wall that can't touch me so I can parashuffle without the fear of being attacked with ice beam when I am behind the substitute.
Thanks for reading my team. Feedback and constructive criticism is greatly appreciated.
