The rise and Fall of Life Orb Latias. [OU RMT].

[dialga_438]

The rise and Fall of Life Orb Latias. [OU RMT]. FIXED.

My team at a glance :

The close up view:

Azelf @ Choice Scarf
Naive nature
252 SpA, 252 Spd
- Thunderbolt
- Flamethrower
- Trick
- Explosion

The lead. EVERYONE expects SR'ing Azelf and try to Taunt, and this gives me a free attack. Thunderbolt and Flamethrower give superb coverage, hitting a lot of things for SE damage. Psychic is for STAB, and Explosion is for a last dich attempt to kill a poke.

Weavile @ Choice Band
Adamant nature.
252 Att, 252 Spd.
- Night Slash
- Brick Break
- Ice Shard
- Pursuit

Weavile, one of the staples of my team. This guy is a real BEAST, KO'ing most of what it sees. Night Slash, Ice Shard and Ice Punch for STAB, use Ice Shard if you are scared that your opponent might outspeed, or Ice Punch for a more powerful STAB move.

Jolteon @ Life Orb
Timid nature
252 SpA, 252 Spd
- Thunderbolt
- HP ICE 70
- Shadow Ball
- Substitute

This guy is awesome. All I have to do is set up a Substitute and proceed to sweep from behind it. Thunderbolt for STAB, HP ICE 70 for dragons and Shadow Ball for ghosts. With the given EV's, it reaches an awesome 394 Speed.

Heatran @ Choice Scarf
Naive nature
252 SpA, 252 Spd
- Fire Blast
- Dragon Pulse
- Earth Power
- Explosion

Heatran, a superb special sweeper. With Choice Scarf, it reaches 417 speed, outspeeding and OHKO'ing Choice Scarf Hercross with Fire Blast.
Fire Blast is for STAB and power.Dragon Pulse is for those pesky dragons,
Earth Power for other Heatran and T-Tar and Explosion as a last dich attempt to deal some damage.

Zapdos @ Life Orb
Modest nature
252 SpA, 252 Spd
- Thunderbolt
- Heat Wave
- HP ICE 70
- Roost

Wow, this guy packs some serious power. Thunderbolt for STAB, Heat Wave for coverage, HP ICE 70 for dragons and Roost for healing.

AND NOW FOR THE STAR OF OUR SHOW, LO LATIAS.

Latias @ LIFE ORB
Modest nature
252 SpA, 252 Spd
- Dragon Pulse
- Calm Mind
- Recover
- Surf

Trust me, you soo do NOT want to be hit by one of this guy's attacks. It rips through teams. Dragon Pulse for a frighteningly powerful STAB, Calm Mind to power up the sweep,Recover to heal off LO recoil and Surf hitting Infernape and T-Tar very hard.

So, proceed to RMT.

 

[wildfire393]

Hm... Honestly, there are problems with this team. For one, you have only one physical attacker and 5 Special Attackers, meaning that if your one Physical attacker can be killed, Blissey can defeat your entire Team (though it has to dodge Explosions from Heatran/Azelf).

For another thing, you have three separate Choice Scarf Pokemon. This seems like a very bad idea, as it means much of your team is easily locked in to attacks (and thus foiled by prediction), which further aids you being screwed over by stall in general (as they can force switches upon switches). Additionally, one of those Pokemon (Weavile) outruns a very large number of things already, and has Ice Shard for those he doesn't. Why not just slap a Choice Band on him instead to boost his power? Additionally, Pursuit seems like a better option than Night Slash (or Ice Punch), as it allows him to knock out pokemon on the switch out, which helps your Blissey problem somewhat. I would also suggest dropping one of your special Pokemon for a Mixed Attacker or wallbreaker, possibly Mixmence, NP Mixape, or Mixed Togekiss.

You list Attack EVs on Zapdos, even though he does not have any attacks. Those should probably be Speed.

The final thing of note is that have only a single non-attacking move on your team. Non-attacking moves really are quite good. Honestly. They make the difference in the game. Especially since a lot of the moves you are using are very narrow and/or redundant, and the Pokemon have better options available. Zapdos should have Roost over Extrasensory, as it will aid his longevity and Extrasensory provides pretty terrible coverage honestly. Latias should likely drop Energy Ball for Recover, and probably should lose Thunderbolt for Calm Mind. After a Calm Mind, Latias is an incredibly powerful attacker, and Surf/Dragon Pulse hits all but 1 OU Pokemon for at least Neutral. Azelf would greatly benefit from Trick and Stealth Rock.

 

[mikmenis]

I don't get the idea of scarf+Ice shard Weavile... Weavile outspeeds stuff already enough and has a priority attack so....?. using scarf itself is not bad idea, it might suprise for example some DD-dragons those have +1 speed but the combo with Ice shard is strange...

 

[husk]

On jolteon if you set the Atk and Def IVs to 30 and everything else to 31 it gives you HP Ice 70 also...this way you have 394 speed.

 

[RainDance]

Are you crazy i don't know why you have 3 choice scarfers, theres no tricker even well tricker's aren't necessary but your gonna have to do a whole lot of switching i would suggest azelf at focus sash keep heatran the scarfer and change weavile to expert belt.

 

[Pombo]

use Ice Shard if you are scared that your opponent might outspeed,

outspeed Scarfvile? Lol use Pursuit against weakened scarf azelfs and the like, because they will try to outspeed/run away from your ice Shard, and the will die in both ways.

Extrasensory for Infernape and co.

Extransensory is 80 bp, right? 80x2 = 160, right? Thunderbolt is 95x1.5=142.5, right? Infernape can't take a LO Tbolt from a 252 Modest Zapdos, right? Roost will nullify LO effects and improve endurance, right? EVs in Zapdos Attack are useless so you will move them to speed, right?

Lol, wish bliss just owns your team, scouting heatran explosion (since its scarfed, if you dont explode, you cant change the move). Weavile is the only thing that can kill it, but i doubt a non stab BB will kill it.... even when fire from a 125 Base Attack (not to mention the weakness to SR, which unallow many switch-ins).

Ok, how to solve these problems, if you are too lazy to read:

1-change the EVs from zapdos to Def/HP/Speed. Speed is preferable.
2-CBZor is better than scarfvile, for the revenge kill topic, for the strenght topic, and for the team help topic
3-CM Latias over this latias. Cm Surf, DP, and Roost/Recover.
4- Roost Zapdos, because else a well put lucario can kill you.
5- I would drop both Hp-Ice and LO from Jolteon and put Charge Beam and Lefties. This way you can get both switch ins with volt absorb AND use sub to force switch outs more frequently.

 

[CntTchtis]

Too offensive, there are 3 Choice Scarfer, and 3 Life Orbers. Your team lacks any non-attacking move, and LO Latias isn't a good idea since Latias is more defensively oriented. Why would you ever run Ice Shard on a Choice Scarf Weavile, its like there was no thought behind this team.

Extrasensory is rediculous, T-Bolt does plenty of damage, and Zapados usually scares away those guys. I can't really give a full rate since this team doesn't have a lot of thought behind it, and giving it a full rate would be a waste of my time, until you test this team, which I see no evidence of, and you get a better understanding of the metagame as this shows a clear lack of experience in it.

Note: excuse me for any mistakes I may have made as this is coming from my Blackberry.

 

[dialga_438]

Thanks for the help guys. I've edited my post. Please continue to RMT.