Introduction
Hey everyone, I decided to make a smogon account, I have heard of smogon before but most of the time I only go on smogon sets and tiers page. Today some guy on PO told me to join smogon and try to win a tour or frontier. I might try that out in the future but atm Im really disliking pokemon right now. Anyways today I wanna showcase a team that I've hit #1 with on PO, and had 3 shots to hit 1700 but all failed :(. As you can see from the team preview, this team is weak to hmm.... everything. Yes everything, nothing can take a fire/water/dragon attack, and nothing can switch into tornadus hurricane or thundurus thunders . The reason I think this team has any success is because the combination of deoxys+ghost, to me its like the biggest threat right now. I decide to make a trick room team with a stall-breaker/sweeping landorus along with rotom to take on rain teams somewhat. Initially I decide to troll around with the ladder with a trick room team, then surprisely I started winning battles after battles, I thought "hey this team could actually win" so I decided to fix up some weaknesses and hit #1, so here is my final version of a "troll team" .
The peak
Closer Look
Deoxys-D @ Red Card
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Spikes
- Magic Coat
- Taunt
This is deoxys set is to set up as much hazards as possible while preventing people from setting up. I ran calm nature so leads genesect will get an attack boost instead of SpecA because with +1 I think bug buzz can ohko me and I dont want that to happen. The item red card is there so I can set up rocks no matter what, yes even through espeon and xatu. For example if they lead with genesect and uturns to xatu/espeon, they item red card will force them to switch into a random pokemon, allowing me to get up rocks. If they direct switch to espeon or xatu, Ill just keep spamming the stealth rocks button and because of the red card they are force to switch out should they attack me, allowing me to set up rocks. I ran 0 speed evs to make sure im slower than xatu. This item has also save me alot in the past, say they lead with keldeo sets up sub, if I dont have a red card its gonna be really bad.
Cofagrigus (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Mummy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
- Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
This is my trick room sweeper and spin-blocker. This is prolly the only few ghost poke that can spin-block starmie and have some offensive momentum, however I dont think it can spin-block life orb ones in the rain. I found out that this guy is doing some work in OU while I was trolling with a trick room team so I decide lets use him. Bascially just set up trick room and nasty plot and do some huge damage to your opponent teams. Shadow ball and hp fight should hit everything for at least neutral damage.
Reuniclus (F) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 160 HP / 96 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
Another trick room user, this guy can hit teams pretty hard, life orb max attack is powerful allowing me to ohko almost everything that weak to it and even ohkos pokes that takes neutral damage. All I have to do is make sure jirachi and bulky steel pokes goes down, sets up trick room and pretty much end it there or do some huge damage to thier teams. Hazards is very important to this team because without them this guy will miss out some kills. I made up the defense evs along the way so I can survive +1 outrage from mence.
Landorus (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Rock Polish
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast
This is my rock polish landorus, the reason for this is because I dont really know what attacks to put for the 4th slot so I decide to run rock polish. This poke can break stall teams without chansey, although I think with hazards up, ( if they are running a stall teams I should get all my spikes and rocks up without a problem) chansey cant be switching into focus blasts to often. Rock polish is to set up on the switch or a poke that cannot harm him and allows him to outspeed every single poke in the metagame. Again hazards is very important because without them this guy tends to miss alot of kills.
Rotom-W @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Hydro Pump
My scarf rotom is probably my only answer to politoed, thundurus, tornadus and even sheer force landorus. Its also a nice switch into mamoswine because this is the only thing I have to switch into it. Volt-switch is for scouting purposes, hp ice is to hit dragons and hypropump is a strong stab water attack which im pretty sure all Rotom-W carries. Trick is for defensive teams where I wont be needing my scarf and to cripple chanseys. Without rotom this team would be soooo weak to water attacks. (even tho its already is)
Scizor (M) @ Iron Plate
Trait: Technician
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Bug Bite
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
This is the only physical hitters that I have on my team and the only priority that I have. I tired lucario but its too frail, tried dragonite but it makes my team super weak to swine, so this guy fits my team perfectly. The standard SD set is to set up on pokemon that cant hurt it like chansey/ferrothorn choiced dragons and pretty much start raping once its counters are gone
Conclusion
Yup thats the team that got me to the #1 spot. I have never made an RMT before and Im sorry if this is the worst #1 team/RMT ever. Anyways thanks for reading and good luck.
Imports
Deoxys-D @ Red Card
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Spikes
- Magic Coat
- Night Shade
Cofagrigus (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Mummy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
- Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
Reuniclus (F) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 160 HP / 96 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
Landorus (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Rock Polish
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast
Rotom-W @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Hydro Pump
Scizor (M) @ Iron Plate
Trait: Technician
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Bug Bite
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
Trait: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 128 Def / 128 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Stealth Rock
- Spikes
- Magic Coat
- Night Shade
Cofagrigus (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Mummy
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Hidden Power [Fighting]
- Shadow Ball
- Nasty Plot
Reuniclus (F) @ Life Orb
Trait: Magic Guard
EVs: 160 HP / 96 Def / 252 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Psychic
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Blast
Landorus (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Rock Polish
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Focus Blast
Rotom-W @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Volt Switch
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Hydro Pump
Scizor (M) @ Iron Plate
Trait: Technician
EVs: 236 HP / 252 Atk / 20 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Bug Bite
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower