At a glance:
The opponent will think you are a crazy kid.
Concept:
Assist will only pick roar.
To do this, a team would have to be composed of the moves that cannot be picked by assist:
Chatter, Copycat, Counter, Covet, Destiny Bond, Detect, Dragon Tail, Endure, Feint, Focus Punch, Follow Me, Helping Hand, Me First, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Coat, Mirror Move, Overhead Throw, Protect, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Struggle, Switcheroo, Thief, and Trick
Now let us see how a team can be composed of such nonsensical moves to form a rather pleasing gimmick.
Riolu (M) @ Evolution Stone
Trait: Mischievous Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Copycat
- Protect
- Roar
- Overhead Throw
Luckily Riolu is a very cute pokemon.
Unlike Lucario, Who threatens a Swords Dance, Riolu's look just begs for the opponent to set hazards on it. And when they do, the game is sealed.
Though Riolu is cute on the outside, in the inside he has a mischievous heart. With the combo of mischievous heart and copycat, Riolu is guaranteed to set the hazard if the opponent does.
The strategy here is to protect the first turn if the opponent is a possible stealth rock setter. Use Copycat if they set the stealth rock.
Else, you should switch out and save Riolu for when they send out a pokemon such as Nattorei.
Riolu can also abuse Overhead Throw. Overhead throw can do minimal damage, but will help you scout the opponents team. Use Copycat to use another Overhead Throw after the first one, because Copycat picks the last move used, which is overhead throw in this case.
Riolu will be the only pokemon carrying roar on this team.
Since roar is the only move pickable by Assist on this team, Assist will always pick roar. It is that simple.
Abomasnow(M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Snow Warning
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Protect
- Focus Punch
- Sleep Talk
- Endure
Basically, I am using Abomasnow just for the weather.
Hail hits all types bar Ice for 6% damage.
In a weather based metagame, hail is the only weather that the opponent probably doesn't use.
Here is the strategy.
Send in Abomasnow for the Weather. If the opponent also has weather, then it is important to keep abomasnow alive.
Since they want to keep the weather as sandstorm, sending Abomasnow in on pokemon such as Hippowdon, Politoed, Tyranitar, not ninetales though, will force switches. Also, sending in Abomasnow on a pokemon which abuses other weather than hail will force them to switch back into the weather inducer.
These switches will give you a chance use Focus Punch. For this reason, you could also invest in attack on this abomasnow.
Ambipom (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Switcheroo
- Covet
- Thief
- Counter
Primary Sweeper. Do not send out Ambipom until late game, because that is when you will know who your main threats are and can deal accordingly with them.
Save ambipom for threats such as Regeneration pokemon and pokemon resistant to hail and/or have leftovers.
If you do the assisting correctly, these pokemon are the ones who will survive till the end.
Covet is the main attraction here. With 60 BP, it receives the boost from Technician, has STAB, and hits very hard with choice band.
Thief is for ghosts (which you can predict since assist will scout their entire team). It also gets a boost from Technician.
Switcheroo is for those pokemon with leftovers who you could not touch with no hazards out. Try to switch the band onto their leftovers pokemon.
Counter is highly unlikely to be used, but is stuck on there for lack of a replacement. It might come useful sometime.
derp (Wobbuffet[/SIZE="3"]) (M) @ Custap Berry
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 28 HP / 228 Def / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Counter
- Mirror Coat
- Destiny Bond
Derp. This wobbuffet has the opportunity to murder 2 pokemon if all plays out well.
Wobbuffet has the ability to remove 1 mono-attacker from play , especially when they carry a choice item of some sort (which I can choice onto them as well) . Wobbuffet can be used to kill a pokemon which cannot be killed by hail when you have no hazards.
Counter for physical attackers, Mirror Coat for special attackers, but wait! Custap berry???!!!
When wobbuffet is lower than 25% HP, which it usually is after an attack, it can use priority destiny bond to hopefully score another kill.
Toxicroak (M) @ Leftovers/Shuca Berry
Trait: Poison Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Counter
- Protect
- Me First
- Thief
Toxic spikes is a counter to this team, shortening the life span of Reparudasu.
Toxicroak will get rid of the toxic spikes.
Indirect damage is highly stressed on this team, and toxicroak has 1 attraction to its name: Poison Skin. With poison skin, you could switch Toxicroak in on leftovers Roobushin and there is a 20-30% chance it will contract poison after a drain punch. Toxicroak resists fighting type and with 252 defense impish, Roobushins drain punch only does 10-20 % damage! Toxicroak can also be sent in on other physical attackers.
Counter is extremely useful, since people will always try to use Earthquake on Toxicroak. Toxicroak can survive EQ from Doryuuzu and return a counter, before dying to the hail. Shuca berry can also be used for this reason.
Me First is useful against Roobushin mainly, to return 1.5 power drain punches.
Protect is there to scout moves and also deals another 6% damage to the opponent. On this team, 6% damages are crucial to victory.
Thief is important when using shuca berry. After your shuca berry activates and you kill the person using EQ with counter, you can now use thief to steal the opponents item.
Reparudasu (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Mischievous Heart
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Night Slash / Trickery
- Encore / Swagger
- Protect
- Assist
The Assistunt.
The strategy for Reparudasu is this:
Protect for those who do not have Leftovers, then Assist.
Assist for those who have leftovers, without protecting.
Note there are exceptions.
If you need to know what move the opponent will make, you should protect.
Hopefully you will get a useful encore.
Encore and Trickery may be used together if you encore a stat boosting attack move, such as Swords dancing doryuuzu.
Swagger and Trickery is a deadly combo, but you cannot assume that the opponent will get hurt by confusion, so it is risky.
Night Slash is reliable, but doesnt do much damage.
To try to save Assist/Protect PP, try to kill the pokemon in killing range when you can.
It may be a long fight if you have no hazards, but you may win in the end.
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Replacements:
Riolu-
Chatot @ Leftovers/ Life Orb (lol)
252 Timid
-Chatter
- Mirror Move
-Mimic/protect/endure/sleeptalk
-Mimic/protect/endure/sleeptalk
This would be another possible replacement for riolu.
It can reach 309 speed.
Chatter is good chance of confusion (which can be good or bad if they want to set hazards but you wont let them :( )
Lopunny @ Choice Band / Scarf / Specs
Klutz
252 speed JOLLY
Copycat
Focus Punch/ Mirror Coat/Overhead Throw/Protect
Switcheroo
Focus Punch/ Mirror Coat/Overhead Throw/Protect
Lopunny may actually be a good alternative to Riolu. With its great speed, it can switch a choice item to its opponent, hopefully when it is setting up hazards. Once the opponent realizes they are stuck on one hazard, you can copy cat it while they switch.
This will also put an end to those stupid rapid spin + stealth rock leads.
It has 105 speed, outspeeding almost all the stealth rock setters.
If you use lopunny, you will have to use Nidoqueen for your Roar source.
Murkrow @ Leftovers / Evolution Stone
Mischievous Heart
Mirror Move
Protect
Whirlwind
Thief
alternative to riolu. though riolu is more effective :P
cool guy 31337 set lol
Blaziken @ FOCUS SASH
Speed boost
-Counter
-Mimic/ Protect
-Mirror Move
- Roar
Focus sash counter is lethal to leads carrying earthquake. with speed boost, you can use protect to outspeed pokemon such as aerodactyl.
Wobbuffet-
Mew @ Choice Scarf:
Trick
Me First
Metronome / Focus Punch / Dragon Tail / Counter
Metronome / Focus Punch / Dragon Tail / Counter
Mew has many options. Tricking another scarf upon another leftovers is extremely useful.
Me First for a reliable attack.
Choroneko @ Leftovers:
Assist
Snatch
Thief
Protect
If you cant have enough assist, use choroneko. However, you will also have to change the set of Reparudasu to the same thing.
Snatch will steal the opponents stat boosts/ recover / wish. More troll than it is useful.
Toxicroak-
Nidoqueen
Ability : Poison Point
Focus Punch
Dragon Tail
Roar
Counter
Alternative to toxicroak. Poison point has more chance of poison I believe. Do not use roar if you already have somebody with it.
Abomasnow-
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Focus Punch
Dragon Tail
Counter
Protect/ Mimic / Roar / Sleep Talk
Tyranitar is a more supportive weather inducer, but the problem will be taking down steel types throughout the game.
For the other options, you can use roar if you dont have anybody who can.
The opponent will think you are a crazy kid.
Concept:
Assist will only pick roar.
To do this, a team would have to be composed of the moves that cannot be picked by assist:
Chatter, Copycat, Counter, Covet, Destiny Bond, Detect, Dragon Tail, Endure, Feint, Focus Punch, Follow Me, Helping Hand, Me First, Metronome, Mimic, Mirror Coat, Mirror Move, Overhead Throw, Protect, Sketch, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Struggle, Switcheroo, Thief, and Trick
Now let us see how a team can be composed of such nonsensical moves to form a rather pleasing gimmick.
Riolu (M) @ Evolution Stone
Trait: Mischievous Heart
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Copycat
- Protect
- Roar
- Overhead Throw
Luckily Riolu is a very cute pokemon.
Unlike Lucario, Who threatens a Swords Dance, Riolu's look just begs for the opponent to set hazards on it. And when they do, the game is sealed.
Though Riolu is cute on the outside, in the inside he has a mischievous heart. With the combo of mischievous heart and copycat, Riolu is guaranteed to set the hazard if the opponent does.
The strategy here is to protect the first turn if the opponent is a possible stealth rock setter. Use Copycat if they set the stealth rock.
Else, you should switch out and save Riolu for when they send out a pokemon such as Nattorei.
Riolu can also abuse Overhead Throw. Overhead throw can do minimal damage, but will help you scout the opponents team. Use Copycat to use another Overhead Throw after the first one, because Copycat picks the last move used, which is overhead throw in this case.
Riolu will be the only pokemon carrying roar on this team.
Since roar is the only move pickable by Assist on this team, Assist will always pick roar. It is that simple.
Abomasnow(M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Snow Warning
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SDef
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Protect
- Focus Punch
- Sleep Talk
- Endure
Basically, I am using Abomasnow just for the weather.
Hail hits all types bar Ice for 6% damage.
In a weather based metagame, hail is the only weather that the opponent probably doesn't use.
Here is the strategy.
Send in Abomasnow for the Weather. If the opponent also has weather, then it is important to keep abomasnow alive.
Since they want to keep the weather as sandstorm, sending Abomasnow in on pokemon such as Hippowdon, Politoed, Tyranitar, not ninetales though, will force switches. Also, sending in Abomasnow on a pokemon which abuses other weather than hail will force them to switch back into the weather inducer.
These switches will give you a chance use Focus Punch. For this reason, you could also invest in attack on this abomasnow.
Ambipom (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Technician
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Switcheroo
- Covet
- Thief
- Counter
Primary Sweeper. Do not send out Ambipom until late game, because that is when you will know who your main threats are and can deal accordingly with them.
Save ambipom for threats such as Regeneration pokemon and pokemon resistant to hail and/or have leftovers.
If you do the assisting correctly, these pokemon are the ones who will survive till the end.
Covet is the main attraction here. With 60 BP, it receives the boost from Technician, has STAB, and hits very hard with choice band.
Thief is for ghosts (which you can predict since assist will scout their entire team). It also gets a boost from Technician.
Switcheroo is for those pokemon with leftovers who you could not touch with no hazards out. Try to switch the band onto their leftovers pokemon.
Counter is highly unlikely to be used, but is stuck on there for lack of a replacement. It might come useful sometime.
derp (Wobbuffet[/SIZE="3"]) (M) @ Custap Berry
Trait: Shadow Tag
EVs: 28 HP / 228 Def / 252 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Counter
- Mirror Coat
- Destiny Bond
Derp. This wobbuffet has the opportunity to murder 2 pokemon if all plays out well.
Wobbuffet has the ability to remove 1 mono-attacker from play , especially when they carry a choice item of some sort (which I can choice onto them as well) . Wobbuffet can be used to kill a pokemon which cannot be killed by hail when you have no hazards.
Counter for physical attackers, Mirror Coat for special attackers, but wait! Custap berry???!!!
When wobbuffet is lower than 25% HP, which it usually is after an attack, it can use priority destiny bond to hopefully score another kill.
Toxicroak (M) @ Leftovers/Shuca Berry
Trait: Poison Skin
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Counter
- Protect
- Me First
- Thief
Toxic spikes is a counter to this team, shortening the life span of Reparudasu.
Toxicroak will get rid of the toxic spikes.
Indirect damage is highly stressed on this team, and toxicroak has 1 attraction to its name: Poison Skin. With poison skin, you could switch Toxicroak in on leftovers Roobushin and there is a 20-30% chance it will contract poison after a drain punch. Toxicroak resists fighting type and with 252 defense impish, Roobushins drain punch only does 10-20 % damage! Toxicroak can also be sent in on other physical attackers.
Counter is extremely useful, since people will always try to use Earthquake on Toxicroak. Toxicroak can survive EQ from Doryuuzu and return a counter, before dying to the hail. Shuca berry can also be used for this reason.
Me First is useful against Roobushin mainly, to return 1.5 power drain punches.
Protect is there to scout moves and also deals another 6% damage to the opponent. On this team, 6% damages are crucial to victory.
Thief is important when using shuca berry. After your shuca berry activates and you kill the person using EQ with counter, you can now use thief to steal the opponents item.
Reparudasu (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Mischievous Heart
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Night Slash / Trickery
- Encore / Swagger
- Protect
- Assist
The Assistunt.
The strategy for Reparudasu is this:
Protect for those who do not have Leftovers, then Assist.
Assist for those who have leftovers, without protecting.
Note there are exceptions.
If you need to know what move the opponent will make, you should protect.
Hopefully you will get a useful encore.
Encore and Trickery may be used together if you encore a stat boosting attack move, such as Swords dancing doryuuzu.
Swagger and Trickery is a deadly combo, but you cannot assume that the opponent will get hurt by confusion, so it is risky.
Night Slash is reliable, but doesnt do much damage.
To try to save Assist/Protect PP, try to kill the pokemon in killing range when you can.
It may be a long fight if you have no hazards, but you may win in the end.
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Replacements:
Riolu-
Chatot @ Leftovers/ Life Orb (lol)
252 Timid
-Chatter
- Mirror Move
-Mimic/protect/endure/sleeptalk
-Mimic/protect/endure/sleeptalk
This would be another possible replacement for riolu.
It can reach 309 speed.
Chatter is good chance of confusion (which can be good or bad if they want to set hazards but you wont let them :( )
Lopunny @ Choice Band / Scarf / Specs
Klutz
252 speed JOLLY
Copycat
Focus Punch/ Mirror Coat/Overhead Throw/Protect
Switcheroo
Focus Punch/ Mirror Coat/Overhead Throw/Protect
Lopunny may actually be a good alternative to Riolu. With its great speed, it can switch a choice item to its opponent, hopefully when it is setting up hazards. Once the opponent realizes they are stuck on one hazard, you can copy cat it while they switch.
This will also put an end to those stupid rapid spin + stealth rock leads.
It has 105 speed, outspeeding almost all the stealth rock setters.
If you use lopunny, you will have to use Nidoqueen for your Roar source.
Murkrow @ Leftovers / Evolution Stone
Mischievous Heart
Mirror Move
Protect
Whirlwind
Thief
alternative to riolu. though riolu is more effective :P
cool guy 31337 set lol
Blaziken @ FOCUS SASH
Speed boost
-Counter
-Mimic/ Protect
-Mirror Move
- Roar
Focus sash counter is lethal to leads carrying earthquake. with speed boost, you can use protect to outspeed pokemon such as aerodactyl.
Wobbuffet-
Mew @ Choice Scarf:
Trick
Me First
Metronome / Focus Punch / Dragon Tail / Counter
Metronome / Focus Punch / Dragon Tail / Counter
Mew has many options. Tricking another scarf upon another leftovers is extremely useful.
Me First for a reliable attack.
Choroneko @ Leftovers:
Assist
Snatch
Thief
Protect
If you cant have enough assist, use choroneko. However, you will also have to change the set of Reparudasu to the same thing.
Snatch will steal the opponents stat boosts/ recover / wish. More troll than it is useful.
Toxicroak-
Nidoqueen
Ability : Poison Point
Focus Punch
Dragon Tail
Roar
Counter
Alternative to toxicroak. Poison point has more chance of poison I believe. Do not use roar if you already have somebody with it.
Abomasnow-
Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Focus Punch
Dragon Tail
Counter
Protect/ Mimic / Roar / Sleep Talk
Tyranitar is a more supportive weather inducer, but the problem will be taking down steel types throughout the game.
For the other options, you can use roar if you dont have anybody who can.