So, I'm delving more and more into the UU game now, and taking a more careful look through the pokemon themselves. When I first started playing, I basically picked a team of the 6 sweepers that seemed to stand out to me most in discussions (scyther, swellow, ninetales, nidoking, hitmonlee and absol) and just went with it to see how it went. Obviously it didn't go very well. lol
But because of repeated trials, I started switching members, and eventually found better balance points. From the start I knew I was going for an all-offensive team, and after a while the team started to shape out with more even resistances for better switch ins, a more UU (rather than OU) mindset, and a game plan also. My most recent team was: Luxray, Swellow, Nidoking, Aggron, Scyther and Lapras.
Luxray was a poke of my own invention, born mostly from a desire to set a pace to the start of the game similar to how Gyara would. Lux of course is not gyarados, but I found did a great job of scouting in the opening game with the threat of offenses from both sides, and great amount of bulk and disabling ability with intimidate, paralysis and light screen.
Swellow and Scyther are great switches too and from Lux, and continue the offensive pace, scouting with U-Turn. Nidoking does most of the big hitting in early-mid, as almost nothing can switch in safely. It's basically my infernape/tyranitar. Aggron and Lapras are bulky sweepers who can both continue the pace and make crucial switch ins. This team has been working very well for me, and I win the majority of my battles (you can read it at work in the warstory I wrote, though Astro outplayed me there).
Of all these though, only Luxray was a truly unique set up. In my last battle with Astro though, I noticed I got mostly screwed by the sets he made which were odd-ball-- ScarfMoth and SupportRelicanth. Also Luxray has been by and far the most powerful asset to my team for a long while. This got me to thinking-- standards may dominate OU, but every UU player is cleanly aware that UU has far more threats and viable pokemon, and yet I still feel that it centers around far more pokemon than it should, probably mostly in part to a lack of experimentation by players, and the simple human inability to digest all the options available. That said, maybe we should try more?
With fall of wish hypno, I've been thinking of adding more special punch to my offensive game, and decided to do my own research instead of using standard sets. I was surprised at some of my findings:
For instance, did you know edit: sunflora has the strongest Leaf Storm in UU? Also, that the only commonly seen walls who resist leaf storm are its fellow grass types, and altaria, who are all weak to HP ice.
Did you know that Flareon has the 2nd most powerful Overheat next to camerupt?
I understand that this is the same thing that goes on everywhere in pokemon-- we can go on and on and list all the amazing things this or that BL can do, but are no where near bringing them up to OU. In the case of UU though, the "overlooked pokemon" seem to be comparatively, a lot stronger than BL pokes are to OU. I can't help but wonder how a pokemon built to fight ninetale's flamethower will like taking Overheat from a pokemon with 15 more base sp. ATK points (flareon).
Discuss?
But because of repeated trials, I started switching members, and eventually found better balance points. From the start I knew I was going for an all-offensive team, and after a while the team started to shape out with more even resistances for better switch ins, a more UU (rather than OU) mindset, and a game plan also. My most recent team was: Luxray, Swellow, Nidoking, Aggron, Scyther and Lapras.
Luxray was a poke of my own invention, born mostly from a desire to set a pace to the start of the game similar to how Gyara would. Lux of course is not gyarados, but I found did a great job of scouting in the opening game with the threat of offenses from both sides, and great amount of bulk and disabling ability with intimidate, paralysis and light screen.
Swellow and Scyther are great switches too and from Lux, and continue the offensive pace, scouting with U-Turn. Nidoking does most of the big hitting in early-mid, as almost nothing can switch in safely. It's basically my infernape/tyranitar. Aggron and Lapras are bulky sweepers who can both continue the pace and make crucial switch ins. This team has been working very well for me, and I win the majority of my battles (you can read it at work in the warstory I wrote, though Astro outplayed me there).
Of all these though, only Luxray was a truly unique set up. In my last battle with Astro though, I noticed I got mostly screwed by the sets he made which were odd-ball-- ScarfMoth and SupportRelicanth. Also Luxray has been by and far the most powerful asset to my team for a long while. This got me to thinking-- standards may dominate OU, but every UU player is cleanly aware that UU has far more threats and viable pokemon, and yet I still feel that it centers around far more pokemon than it should, probably mostly in part to a lack of experimentation by players, and the simple human inability to digest all the options available. That said, maybe we should try more?
With fall of wish hypno, I've been thinking of adding more special punch to my offensive game, and decided to do my own research instead of using standard sets. I was surprised at some of my findings:
For instance, did you know edit: sunflora has the strongest Leaf Storm in UU? Also, that the only commonly seen walls who resist leaf storm are its fellow grass types, and altaria, who are all weak to HP ice.
Did you know that Flareon has the 2nd most powerful Overheat next to camerupt?
I understand that this is the same thing that goes on everywhere in pokemon-- we can go on and on and list all the amazing things this or that BL can do, but are no where near bringing them up to OU. In the case of UU though, the "overlooked pokemon" seem to be comparatively, a lot stronger than BL pokes are to OU. I can't help but wonder how a pokemon built to fight ninetale's flamethower will like taking Overheat from a pokemon with 15 more base sp. ATK points (flareon).
Discuss?
