The Unadulterated Intimidou

[7th]

This is my first RMT, so bear with me.

Team reached low 2000's in ranking (Proxy hax button)
***disclaimer: ignore my terrible jokes/ puns throughout / grammar
Ill jump right in:

After reading some RMT's regarding the great combo that is rocky helmet chomp and ferro, I decided to try it out for myself.
When that fell through, the idea for this team came to light: Dual Intimidation Core

So the team begins with Gyarados and Lando-T...

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Landorus T- (male) @ Leftovers​

"Paws Up"​

EVs: 200HP, 60 Atk, 244 Def, 4 Spe​

(Adamant)​

-Earthquake​

-Stone Edge​

-U-Turn​

-Roxxx​

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My bread and butter Landorous set, with physical bulk as priority. I like Stone Edge over Toxic in this offensive meta. Rocks fit in well with the rest of the team. Can begin cycle of intimidate juggling, U-Turn giving partner lefties recovery on switch. (If you get the nickname reference, then you must be from Montana :)​

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Gyarados- (male) @Leftovers​

"King's Rock"​

Ability: Intimidate​

(Adamant)​

EVs: 252HP, 100Atk, 156Spd​

-Waterfall​

-EQ​

-Stone Edge​

-Dragon Dance​

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Even though it has intimidate, it's still a dd set. The mild bulk lets gyara shrug off the one or two hits necessary to set up. I've messed with the Speed and Attack investment and found a happy medium (Outspeeding standard non-scarfers after a single dd). Intimidate juggling with Landorus gives opportunity to set up. Stone Edge for Dnight and flyers, Quake mainly for jirachi (ok against ferro), and waterfall is his namesake. Have won many games with a sweep. (admittedly, often started with a key flinch)​

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At This point in teambuilding, I am terrified of a bolt beam core, and specs draco's... A special wall would be nice too.​

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Heatran (female) @leftys​

"HotHotHeat"​

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(Calm)​

Evs: 252HP, 32 SpA, 220SpD, 4 Spd​

-Lava Plume​

-Earth Power​

-Protect​

-Roar​

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Although the image was stolen from Smogon, this orginalish EV spread was not; takes hits, dishes out a little damage (and hopefully some burns), and speed bumps other Heatran. Protect is nice for choice users, as the obvious EQ can often be a U-turn, and Roar because I hate losing to volca/ baton pass.​

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The prevalence of rain in this meta drives me crazy... that, along with hazards. I literally get stressed out if i see the little rock icon on my showdown page, and this poke solves both of my problems...​

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Tentacruel (male) @ Black Sludge​

"Squidward"​

Rain Dish​

(Calm)​

EVs: 252 HP, 64 SpA, 176 SpDef, 20 Spd​

-Scald​

-Ice Beam​

-Toxic Spikes​

-Rapid Spin​

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When not working at the Krusty Krab, Squidward is busy keeping common rain threats at bay. Ice beam over another move because EVs allow it to outspeed Max Spd adamant breloom, Most Dnite, and Some Gliscor and Lando. Squid doesn't run defensive EVs because he has Spongebob and Patrick as the stars of his show (very poor reference towards Lando and Gyara)​

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I need priority, status, and some fighting stab...​

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Breloom (female) @Leftys​

"Fruit of the"​

Plumber​

(Adamant)​

EVs: 2 HP, 252 Atk, 252 Speed​

-Mach Punch​

-Bullet Seed​

-Spore​

-Swords Dance​

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Breloom takes an opposing poke out of the game right away. Although i originally messed around with a scarf and band set, I settled for longevity with lefties. (I might consider LO?) Breloom packs the priority I need to finish off most threats, and although his dual stabs are often resisted, a plus2 bullet seed/ mach punch does nasty damage to anything not named dragonite​

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Looking back I need quite a few bases covered to round out the team... Primarily SpAtk and Speed. I went right for a monster at both​

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Latios (male) @Choice Scarf​

"Aion"​

(Timid)​

EVs: 4HP, 252SpA, 252Spd​

-Draco Meteor​

-Psyshock​

-HP Fire​

-Trick​

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Here is the set I really need to work on. Im afraid of ferro and scizzers so I'm packing HP fire. Trick is useful mid-game, and I like dual STAB. Need suggestions on this set (is scarf the right choice?)​

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And there you have it... My team. Let me run it back for ya:​

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The team has an intimidate core, that allows for setup with gyara and breloom. If they dont sweep, the core can stomach most hits, and dish out damage (I opted for moves over status). Latios can clean up late game when everything is weakened.​

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Threats: ​

-Ferrothorn- more or less walls most of my team in rain, and can stomach quite a few hits if Breloom is gone​

-Alakazam- focus sash threat can be pretty tough to beat if team is weakened​

-Celebi- very diverse, if nasty plot is present can be a pain​

-Other stuff I am forgetting​

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This is my first RMT and only second post here! Thanks for reading! Feedback would be awesome (and can someone tell me how to get those cool animated poks on here, as opposed to me copy pasting them from other people's articles!)​

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Thanks!!!!​

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[Plus]

Hello there.

For your Alakazam, Ferrothorn, and Celebi weakness which you have pointed out, one neat Pokemon you can try using is Sub + 3 Attacks Jirachi. Ferrothorn walls Jirachi, but really can't do anything to it when it is under a Substitute. This absolutely punishes teams with a combination of Fire Punch, Iron Head, and Body Slam which will cripple your opponent's teams with burns and paralysis while dealing decent damage to them. This is also the case with defensive Celebi, or even certain Nasty Plot variants, because many run one attack with Baton Pass nowadays -- and that one attack is usually Giga Drain or Psychic. As for Alakazam, this Jirachi kills it off in two hits with Body Slam, and with the 60% paralysis rate, you are usually more than likely to kill it off without it dealing substantial damage to you.

Another reason why Jirachi might be a good idea is because it really likes taking advantage of Intimidate. Earthquake users will deal less damage to Jirachi than before, and this extra bulk is great for letting you Body Slam and paralyze threats that would otherwise pick off Jirachi without it. I will admit though, if you were to use this Jirachi in place of Heatran, it would not fix your Ferrothorn issues. Just because Jirachi can set up on Ferrothorn doesn't mean that it's the most optimal solution to it. However, I will note that Roar Heatran isn't always the best way to take advantage of an Intimidate core. If you're spending so much time switching back and forth between Gyarados and Landorus to lower an opponent's attack, Heatran with a move that switches that very same pokemon out doesn't seem very assuring in theory. Using something that can take better advantage of such an opportunity seems like a better idea to me.

Running Toxic Orb Breloom with Focus Punch and Seed Bomb still hurts quite a bit, and is a safer switch in and response to Ferrothorn due to its immunity to status. While I realize that the SD set has much more sweeping potential and power, it's an option worth considering if you really do feel that this Ferrothorn problem is annoying. Also, it's not like SubPunch Breloom is a pushover either -- it hurts everything that does not resist it, and still packs a heavy punch to those that do resist.

Jirachi @ Leftovers
Jolly 252 HP/160 Atk/96 Spe
Iron Head/Fire Punch/Body Slam/Substitute

Breloom @ Toxic Orb
Adamant 12 HP / 252 atk / 244 Spe
Seed Bomb/Focus Punch/Spore/Subtitute

Your team seems solid enough that you can play around threats to your team probably even without my changes, but I think my changes will help you execute your gameplan better in terms of using pokemon that fare slightly better against Rain as well as using pokemon that are good abusers of Intimidation.

Good luck with the team. Hope I helped. =)

 

[7th]

Thanks a bunch for the review! So if i replace latios with Rachi, and take off mach punch breloom, I feel like I lose my only speed. But would that work on a team like This?
(Im kinda partial to breloom as is)