Ubers Strikes Again

Garganator

Hello. I would like to present next team, with which I landed on 36 place in Ubers. Anyway, I'm using this one if I face heavy stall, which sometimes shows up on higher places in ladder. Anyway, here's the team.

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Dialga @ Lum Berry

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 140 SpA / 116 SpD
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~ Stealth Rock
~ Thunder-Wave
~ Draco Meteor
 ~ Fire Blast

It's pretty standard lead. It sets up Stealth Rock and paralyse some foes. Draco Meteor is my choice as it OHKOes Darkrai and any Deoxys-S without Focus Sash. Lum Berry makes sure that Darkrai won't sleep me in first turn. Fire Blast is usable for Forry and Scizor, which switches quite often on that Dialga. Anyway, standard and effective one. But I'm thinking about replacing Lum Berry on Leftovers as I have Heracross here to absorb Dark Voids.

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Palkia @ Expert Belt

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 100 Atk / 156 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature (+Spe, -Def)
~ Focus Punch
~ Subtitute
~ Spacial Rend
~ Thunder

Ahhh... SubPunching Palkia. One of the best wallbreakers in Ubers and it deserves it's spot in this team. Switches on Kyogre quite comfortably, sets up Substitute and check what opponents plans to switch on me. If Blissey or Tyranitar, they're beaten up with Focus Punch. If Groudon, Spacial Rend 2OHKoes. Another Palkia is OHKoed by Spacial Rend. Thunder is mainly for Kyogre and Lugia. In other words nothing really switches safely on this guy. My favourite Palkia set.

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Darkrai @ Expert Belt

Ability: Bad Dreams
EVs: 134 Atk / 176 Spe / 200 SpA
Hasty Nature (+Spe, -Def)
~ Focus Punch
~ Subtitute
~ Dark Pulse
~ Dark Void

When opponent is happy that Palkia is dead and nothing threatens in wall breaking anymore, that Darkrai comes in late game and cleans up everything remaining of the field. Those attack EVs ensures, that Blissey is OHKOed by Focus Punch. Dark Pulse is solid as always STAB, and Dark+Fight has good as always coverage. Anyway, this guy is my next wall breaker and both Palkia and Darkrai deals with heavy in defensive way teams. But I'm ready to replace that Darkrai. It's good in his job, but I guess someone may fit here a bit more.

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Heracross @ Choice Scarf

Ability: Guts
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~ Close Combat
~ Megahorn
~ Stone Edge
~ Sleep Talk

One of the best Darkrai counters. It switches happily on Dark Void and from there kills it in one shot. Adamant Nature is neccesary, because it gives me a good shot to 2OHKO Lugia with SR up. With little prediction this guys threatens anything with only Skarmory, Forretress and Giratina effectively walling it. Heracross is solid choice for any Uber team if you need good, solid Darkrai counter. And with activated Guts hits as hard as Choice Band version. Also good and solid revenge killer.
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MewTwo @ Leftovers

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 220 Def / 32 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
~Reflect
~ Taunt
~ Recover
~ Ice Beam

My favourite version of MewTwo and it's beastly in physical walling. No SR weakness, higher speed, fast Taunt and much stronger Ice Beam. I prefer this guy then Lugia anytime soon. Speed EVs guarrantee that I'm outspeeding +Speed Nature Garchomp. It doesn't need more. My Groudon, Rayquaza, Garchomp and Giratina counter. Some of you may ask - why Ice Beam in place of Will-O-Wisp ? Reason is simple - I need to threaten those counters as fast as possible and I dislike shaky accuracy of WoW. And in this team Ice Beam is superior choice. Even without investment MewTwo easily OHKO Rayquaza and 2OHKO most Groudons. It's more then enough. Also that MewTwo takes maximum 65% of health from Adamant Swords Danced Rayquazas ExtremeSpeed without Reflect. Good, solid wall.

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Scizor @ Choice Band

Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP/ 56 Atk / 200 SpD
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~ U-Turn
~ SuperPower
~ Pursuit
~ Bullet Punch

CB Scizor and my only steel type to absorb some dragon attacks. With those EVs takes most special hits reasonably well. 56 Atk is enough to OHKO MewTwo and Latios/Latias on the switch with both U-Turn or Pursuit, if they switch out. U-Turn is great move for scouting and for easy answer for opponents moves. SuperPower is solid, fighting move, which OHKO many pokemon. Bullet Punch is much needed priority and this guy is my best switch on both Lati twins, Offensive MewTwo and Deoxys-A. Anyway, he's important member of my team being the only steel type here to absorb dragon attacks.

Anyway, here's a team. I played with it many matches and I like it alot. It works most of times and only DDQuaza sometimes trouble it, but it doesn't have many opportiunities to switch in. Sometimes SubLatios may trouble this squad, especially when Scizor is dead, but I can play around it. I hope you like this one. Cheers.
 
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Garganator said:
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Dialga @ Lum Berry

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 140 SpA / 116 SpD
Modest Nature (+SpA, -Atk)
~ Stealth Rock
~ Thunder-Wave
~ Draco Meteor
 ~ Fire Blast

Good lead, not much else to say here, except consider Metagross as an SR lead, so you can deal with Dragon attacks more efficiently, although Dialga is pretty bulky.
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Palkia @ Expert Belt

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 100 Atk / 156 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature (+Spe, -Def)
~ Focus Punch
~ Subtitute
~ Spacial Rend
~ Thunder

Consider Bulk Up, Sub, Focus Punch, Outrage Palkia. It's a more Physical Palkia, and you can survive a lot of stuff thrown at you. You'll also do a lot of damage, considering people will invest Sp.Def EVs, considering most Palkia are Sp.Atkers.


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Darkrai @ Expert Belt

Ability: Bad Dreams
EVs: 134 Atk / 176 Spe / 200 SpA
Hasty Nature (+Spe, -Def)
~ Focus Punch
~ Subtitute
~ Dark Pulse
~ Dark Void

Try Life Orb or Leftovers over here. It'll help with the damage, since most Psychics are already KOed by STAB Dark Pulse.

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Heracross @ Choice Scarf

Ability: Guts
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~ Close Combat
~ Megahorn
~ Stone Edge
~ Sleep Talk

Sleep Talk is very interesting here, but you'll only be able to use it once since after then, Choice Scarf won't work with Sleep Talk. Interesting move though. Not much else to say here.
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MewTwo @ Leftovers

Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 HP / 220 SpA / 32 Spe
Timid Nature (+Spe, -Atk)
~Reflect
~ Taunt
~ Recover
~ Ice Beam

Physical walls are best left to something way more bulkier like Lugia or Metagross with Reflect. Lugia will help with your Groudon weakness, but Metagross can help you do some serious damage, and absorb Dragon attacks, like I said on Dialga.
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Scizor @ Choice Band

Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP/ 56 Atk / 200 SpD
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SpA)
~ U-Turn
~ SuperPower
~ Pursuit
~ Bullet Punch

CB Scizor is an absolute beast. 252 Attack is a must on any Scizor. then you can spread the EVs over HP or SP.Def. But if you do use Lugia over Mewtwo, then use Dual Screen Lugia, so you can drop the SP.Def EVs here and use 252 Hp/252 Atk/6 Spd.
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Good luck in Ubers.

- LB
 
Good lead, not much else to say here, except consider Metagross as an SR lead, so you can deal with Dragon attacks more efficiently, although Dialga is pretty bulky.
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I thought about Metagross, but 3 fire weaknesses with only Palkia resisting them doesn't sound too good. And Dialga has bulk to handle any fire hit. And that's the reason I need to stay with Dialga.
Consider Bulk Up, Sub, Focus Punch, Outrage Palkia. It's a more Physical Palkia, and you can survive a lot of stuff thrown at you. You'll also do a lot of damage, considering people will invest Sp.Def EVs, considering most Palkia are Sp.Atkers.
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Hmmm I think I'll try Bulk Up Palkia, but without Substitute. Palkia is not that bulky to waste 2 turns for sub and after that Bulk Up. After Bulk Up will have broken sub most of time, which is troublesome. But I guess maybe it works ? Dunno, time to test it.
Try Life Orb or Leftovers over here. It'll help with the damage, since most Psychics are already KOed by STAB Dark Pulse.
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Recoil with Sub was troublesome, but I guess Life Orb is better choice anyway, sometimes I felt that loss in power, especially on Focus Punch.

Sleep Talk is very interesting here, but you'll only be able to use it once since after then, Choice Scarf won't work with Sleep Talk. Interesting move though. Not much else to say here.
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Sleep Talk works 2 rounds after sleep. Heracross don't stay longer on battlefield anyway ;). And with activated Guts ANYTHING 2OHKoes Rayquaza and Stone Edge obviously OHKoes.

Physical walls are best left to something way more bulkier like Lugia or Metagross with Reflect. Lugia will help with your Groudon weakness, but Metagross can help you do some serious damage, and absorb Dragon attacks, like I said on Dialga.
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I replaced Lugia for that MewTwo. Lugia was just a sitting duck, slowing my team. And 1on1 it was just useless. And SR weakness didn't help here. That MewTwo handles any version of Groudon, trust me. Only ParaDancer is annoying, but it can handle it anyway. It laughs on Rock Polish. It also happily switches on CB EQ, Reflect and Recover damage. With Reflect it's sturdy as hell and even without it it's bulk is surprising. And Lugia invest in speed, not defences most of times so this MewTwo has similar defence to Lugia. Thanks for advice, but Lugia dissapointed me completely here. With Metagross I can't handle Rock Polish Groudon anytime soon.
CB Scizor is an absolute beast. 252 Attack is a must on any Scizor. then you can spread the EVs over HP or SP.Def. But if you do use Lugia over Mewtwo, then use Dual Screen Lugia, so you can drop the SP.Def EVs here and use 252 Hp/252 Atk/6 Spd.
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That Scizor with those statistics OHKOes anything that I need. It's like defensive TTar - it's more suited to handle hits and scout then just for raw power. Most Dialga is OHKOed by SuperPower, Darkrai can't handle the hit. Groudon takes 40% from U-Turn. And I need those EVs to handle dragon attacks. But dual screener here doesn't sound bad, probably I'll try to use Double Screen MewTwo and try that Scizor variant.

Thanks for advice. Some of your propositions are interesting, I'll try them. But I'm saying no for Lugia, this team is quite offensive and Lugia just makes me slower. Any other ideas ?

EDIT: Strange, for me it worked 2 rounds. I'm sure of it.
 
With Dialga as a lead sporting Lum Berry and Thunderwave, it'll cripple most Darkrai permanently - most Darkrais are leads, and very few Uber teams have Cleric support. Heracross is unnecessary. I would replace him with Lugia. Once Rayquaza gets a DD up, your toast. Scizor is the only poke that has a chance against Ray, but it may find the opportunity to land an Overheat.

You have two subpunchers. This seems largely unnecessary to me, as both of those pokes are Blissey bait anyways. The team spot could be replaced with anything. I would replace him with Timid Specs Kyogre. His Water Spout is infamous and a threat to any team. It provides a very strong attack to your team; your team lacks hard hitters, and Specs Ogre fills in that patch nicely. As well, Rain helps your team. Palkia appreciates the boosted Thunder acuracy and Lati@s' HP Fire will do half damage to Scizor, enabling him to survive. This is very helpful when considering Heracross and Darkrai aren't on the team for them anymore. Scizor can also survive weaker Mewtwo Flamethrowers in the rain.
 
With Dialga as a lead sporting Lum Berry and Thunderwave, it'll cripple most Darkrai permanently - most Darkrais are leads, and very few Uber teams have Cleric support. Heracross is unnecessary. I would replace him with Lugia. Once Rayquaza gets a DD up, your toast. Scizor is the only poke that has a chance against Ray, but it may find the opportunity to land an Overheat.
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The main problem is that without Heracross if Darkrai comes late game, I'm in serious trouble. And people on higher places in ladder use Darkrai as a lead more rare then in the past. I put Heracross, because I had huge Darkrai weakness. Scizor can handle it, but if it looses some HP, I'm in trouble. DDQuaza never made a sweep on me and that MewTwo survives on full health one Outrage. But I agree that if it switches on Heracross, it's troublesome, so I think replacement isn't bad. But Lugia... Darkrai will be too troublesome and without Heracross nothing would handle Nasty Plot version, especially with Substitute. And really, Lugia in my opinion is overrated. Maybe I'll try here defensive Groudon. Not sure yet.

About subpuncher - I know it's quite unique, but it works. But I guess I'll replace Darkrai on Kyogre. Thanks for your rate anyway.
 
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