UU RMT

[babuforlife]

In all honesty, Im not that big a fan of this team anymore.. Good switching often ruins me, and Mismagmius eats this for lunch, whether it be subCM or the new taunt WOW version.. Hopefully the raters of Smogon can help fix this team and lead it to victory!

Purpose: To form a Yanmega, or Moltres sweep by taking out counters and supporting

Team:

Uxie @ Leftovers
252 HP, 176 Def, 80 SpDef Bold
-Thunder Wave
-Stealth Rock
-Psychic
-U Turn

In all honesty, im not too big on this lead.. I do appreciate the paralysis support as it helps my Moltres be faster than nearly all pokemon in the UU tier. The reason why Im so iffy about Uxie, is that he can't really do much to most UU leads. Roserade puts him to sleep. Registeel can just SR up with him, forcing me to bring in Donphan to spin, already putting me at a disadvantage. And against Arcanince leads, a thunderwave is a free turn for them. So i'd love to take suggestions on this lead, may it be replacing him, or changing his moveset or purpose.

Moltres @ Choice Specs
252 SpAtk, 252 Spd Modest
-Fire Blast
-Air Slash
-HP [Grass]
-U Turn

The real star of the show. I usually use air slash unless i've seen a bulky water already and the switch seems reasonable, then i use HP. Honestly i feel this is irreplaceable due to how powerful it is.. The only thing i feel iffy on is U turn, i never use it due to always firing off Air Slash or Fireblast. Also i was thinking about using life orb instead with roost over u turn, but im not certain if the power drop will be worth the slight amount of staying power.. some useful KO's are available with Specs, and i dont favor the recoil very much.

Donphan @ Lefties
252 HP, 252 Def, 4 Atk Impish
-Rapid Spin
-Earthquake
-Ice shard
-Assurance

The only reason why I keep him here is for the spinning, though another spinner could be good. He takes the rock and electric attacks thrown at Moltres well, so he is a good member theoretically. Not much to say except that I used to have him be my SR user but mismagmius would come in and i'd be done, which btw mismagmius is what destroys my team, I'd love to be able to beat it consistantly.. Not sure about the evs though, if i used more attack, then ice shard could be more useable.

Roserade @ Life Orb
252 SpAtk, 252 Spd Timid
-Sleep Powder
-HP Fire
-Sludge Bomb
-Leaf Storm

This used to be my lead, but I wasnt loving it very much, so I changed it to the Life orb sweeper version. I dont know if HP Fire is useful here, as it doesnt seem to help most of the time, and it lowers my speed. I do like its power though, and added sleep is wonderful. Not much to say except I wish spikes and sleep powder was useable, because moltres and yanmega both love the spikes support..

Honchcrow @ Life Orb
252 Atk, 252 Spd, 4 HP Adamant
-Sucker Punch
-Drill Peck
-Super Power
-Pursuit

My team has trouble with Chansey, so obviously a good pursuit user was required. He is also my only other attack user besides Donphan, whose attacks are lackluster at best.. Honchcrow also helps me with stall as I absolutley hate going against it.

Yanmega @ Petaya Berry
252 SpAtk, 252 Spd, 6 Def @ Modest
-Substitute
-Bug Buzz
-Air Slash
- Hp Ground

Yanmega is a beast when opposing steels are out of the way, which isnt too difficult with Moltres around. I love this Yanmega due to its sweeping potential and wonderful type coverage. The only problem is that I can't keep SR off the field all the time, so it makes things harder.

Final thoughts: I like the team, but it does have problems with SR. Im using donphan as my spinner, but it can't do the job every time especially against missy. Im not too sure about Yanmega either, I would prefer using someone who uses the Atk stat, as I already use too many SpAtks.. Hopefully you guys can solve some of my problems as I feel this team can be great with a little bit of help.

 

[reyscarface]

Hello! Well, first of all solid team, i like it and i have a very similar to this one.

In your lead problem, Uxie looks fine for this kind of teams that likes the paralisis support, but if you really want another lead, you can either try using a TrickScarf Uxie lead, which will render a lot of other leads unusable for later, like Registeel, Regirock, Steelix and those kind of bulky leads. while letting Donphan come in and spin. A set of Trick, Stealth Rock, Thunder Wave, Psychic can work very fine, and the EVs should be made so that you outspeed a Yanmega lead, which is max speed with a normal nature. You can play with the EVs to resist certain things like U-turns, or random water attacks for example.

If you do not want to use that, you can use a Kabutops lead, you lose Paralisys support, but you get a great and consistent lead that hits hard and can set-up SR. SR, Aqua Jet, Waterfall, Stone Edge is the set, and the EVs are 252 Att / 252 Speed / 4 HP with an Adamant nature.

LO Moltres is enough of a beast with the correct support, so i would totally recommend that you go with LO, but if you really need that much of Fire Power, keep it. Take into account the 4X weakness to SR Moltres has, and Donphan wont be able to Spin all the game, so you have to be extremely careful with that matter.

On Roserade, you could run, instead of HP Fire, which really sucks in UU, either HP Ice (only for altaria and maybe some flyers you cant KO with Sludge Bomb), HP Ground (Drapion, Registeel, Regirock, Steelix) which works as a HP Fire, but without the speed drop, or Synthesis, to get more durability in the game. Note: You are missing 4 EVs on your Roserade btw.

The other 2 sweepers look fine.

Into Donphan, Donphan looks good enough in your team, and assurance is doing around 70% to Mismagius, but if you feel iffy with it, you can use a Foresight Hipmontop. Foresight Hipmontop means you will be able to spin everything vs a stall team, and you will also be able to beat Mismagius and Rotom. Also, a Special Defensive Hitmontop easily beats Mismagius 1 on 1, thanks to Foresight.

Hitmontop @ Leftovers
Adamant 252 Atk / 96 SpD / 156 Hp
Intimidate or Technician, both work since you arent using a lot of priority, but its up to preferenc.
~ Close Combat
~ Foresight
~ Rapid Spin
~ Mach Punch / Bullet Punch

Thats all i can apport to your team, good luck and props on a very nice team!

 

[babuforlife]

One thing i've really been looking for is a spiker, but there arent many good UU spikers available besides Roserade, but sleep is too good to pass up.. Also, maybe im using it wrong, but Yanmega isnt working out all that great.. Wish support would be great too.. but I think I'd have to change the whole team around..

 

[reyscarface]

You can try changing substitute on Yanmega with Protect, and give it a Life Orb, mainly because it transforms a lot of 2HKOs into OHKOs.

 

[d2m]

You can try changing substitute on Yanmega with Protect, and give it a Life Orb, mainly because it transforms a lot of 2HKOs into OHKOs.

LO Yanmega isn't worth it, you die too quickly with SR up, if anything is a 2HKO, Yanmega is done. Subpetaya sacrifices a minute amount of power for the protection of a sub (which also protects you from status, mind you) and no loss of HP every turn.

For Uxie, drop U-turn for trick and give him a Choice Scarf. That'll help you "not doing much to leads" problem.