UU takes down OU with your help.

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At a Glance
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Hello!
Lemme start by saying you have no idea how much I would appreciate any input by anyone.

Ok, Summary Time: This team is mostly for fun I guess, but I'd like to see it be successful as possible. The basic concept is a Strictly UU Team that can play competitively against at least some OU Teams. Yes it will lose a lot, but any wins will be all the more sweet. Well, here we go.

Detailed Analysis
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Sudowoodo @ IDK Maybe focus sash to at least set up stealth rocks.
Rock Head Adamant 40 HP / 252 Atk / 216 Spe

Stone Egde/Ice Punch/Fire Punch/Low Kick/Hammer Arm
Stone Egde/Ice Punch/Fire Punch/Low Kick/Hammer Arm
Stealth Rocks
Explosion

Ok, My lead. This is basically designed to set up stealth rocks...but don't think it's just a sacrifice. First off, when someone sees sudowoodo in OU they will crap themselves, giving me the advantage. I believe that if an opponent has a swampert or a metagross they will switch them in expecting an easy set-up, so I plan on running wood hammer/fire punch as my first two moves. Earthquake may be better, but then what the hell am I to do against bronzong and skarmory? It explodes when it's done. I lose stab, but the type coverage is enough to justify it IMO. As an added bonus, the special def boosts from hippodowns or tyranitars helps pretty well if it would be facing a sandstorm team.

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Cloyster @ leftovers
Skill Link Impish [Need advice on a spread here. How about magic leftovers number, max or near max attack, and the rest defense?]

Icicle Spear
Ice Shard
Rapid Spin
Toxic Spikes

Well, aside from being a beastly garchomp counter, this thing can spin, lay spikes, and...well so maybe it can't hit very hard. But it can take hard hits, so it all works out. I'm pretty sure lucario would massacre this thing...along with many others, but it still has its uses, I'm open to replacement suggestions.
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Froslass @ Choice Specs
Snow Cloak Timid 6 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Ice Beam
Thunderbolt
Shadow Ball
Pyschic

Taken right out of the StratDex, there's not much to say about Froslass. Type coverage, STAB, and more type coverage. 110 Base Spd is nothing to laugh at, and great coverage combined with specs means big damage. Bullet Punch is unforgiving to this pokemon, but other than that, it can probably bring down at least one other pokemon if used correctly and when UU vs OU, you can't hope for all that much more.

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Linoone @ Salac Berry

Gluttony Adamant 108 HP / 252 Atk / 150 Spe
Belly Drum
ExtremeSpeed
Shadow Claw
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Well there's not much to say about this guy, after a belly drum it does serious damage against almost anything. The only thing it fears is a whirlwinding skarmory, so that 4th moveslot should be used to counter that. If its special attack wasn't so poor I'd put Tbolt, but it is. Rock smash seems like my only other option >.>

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Hitmonchan @ Expert belt
Iron Fist Adamant 6 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Spe

Close Combat
Ice Punch
Thunder Punch
Agility

Ok thanks foresty. After an agility, and with the help of expert belt, there is not much that isn't hit hard and fast by a bolt/beam variation +close combat. Hopefully I can get Hitmonchan to set up at some point and do some real damage afterwards after any sashers are already taken down.

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Golem @ Life Orb
Rock Head Adamant 6 HP/ 252 Atk/ 252 Spe
Rock Polish
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Explosion

***currently i would like to replace him to not have two rock types on the team. Unfortunately I can't think of anything better, He functions as something of a physical wall and late game sweeper, but I could use something more useful.

Ok, criticize away. Anything and i mean ANYTHING you say is appreciated.

Right now, I think any team with a bullet puncher can do some crippling damage to this team. Let me know anything else and possible solutions please. Open to team replacements most of the time.
 
Drapion-
CB Drapion really doesn't work at all in OU from my experience, he finds it hard enough as it is to hit hard in UU. Elemental fangs off that weak attack don't do favours to itself. Take it from me, I spent a long time trying to make Drapion work in OU and the strategy dex doesn't do it favours, your only choices are Bulky SD Drapion and full defense support Drapion. I assume you want an offensive SD Drapion so you might want to try these EV's.

Adamant HP-156, Atk-176 give you maximum Black Sludge recovery if you want it and an extra point of attack. Speed depends on you, 80 spd lets you outspeed every big bulky threat you'd want to and can anyway including most DD Gyara and T-tar. 148 spd however ensures you outspeed even 252 spd Gyara (if theres such a thing) and max speed Breloom. Everything left over goes into defense. As for moves, SD + 3 moves of your choice is all you need.

Brick Break + Night Slash/Crunch gives universal coverage leaving room for a support move or extra coverage. But what you pick as your attacks is 100% upto you.


Drifblim-
Drifty never needs max special defense, its a waste. At the very most it only ever needs 164 SpD EV's, any more doesn't really let it survive anything significant. I hope thats a typo and you meant special attack. Replace Focus Sash for a Sitrus Berry if its not though, its less prone to getting messed up by Stealth Rock and still activates Unburden immediately.

Plus Drifblim actually gets some really nice recovery due to its high HP base. Either HP Flying or Shadowball are perfectly acceptable I find, they both hit things Drifblim wants to hurt thankfully. In my own experience Driblim actually fairs better with a bulky spread in OU than the flimsy things people throw out normally. But if your running Hypnosis than that isn't necessary.


Froslass-
Ghosts aren't weak to Psychic. This isn't Gengar.


Linoone-
I don't need to do a damage calc to tell you that Adamant T-bolt won't even scratch Skarm. You have 122 special attack, what exactly do you think you can even hurt in the entire game with 122 special attack?


Hitmonchan-
Scarfchan is good early on once you're sure you have no Sash user to deal with but if its late cleanup than Expert Belt/Agility on Hitmonchan is more effective.


Golem-
Not much to say about it, late game cleanup.


Overall-
You have horrendous issues with your team synergy. It looks like you just slapped together a team of sweepers straight out of the strategy dex. Most of your guys here are Choice users or glass cannons who can't take a hit and worse still are forced to switch constantly. You lack SR, any form of Rapid Spin, phazing, safe switches, real support besides Drifblim. I highly suggest to take Drapion, Drifblim and one of your other sweepers and try rebuild the team around them from the ground up.
 
I am using a UU team in OU as well, and I'd say make Drapion a Restalker and give it lots of Special Defence, otherwise Gengar can run through your team pretty and deoxys-e more so.
 
Haha wow forgot linoone was adamant xD Foresty thanks so much and your right about that part at the bottom haha. Ok I'l make some switches and repost later. And yes that was a typo on drifblim. And wow i forgot the only reason gengar was weak to psychic was because of poison XD haha ok UU vs OU round two coming up next.

On a side note, i really do want a way to hit skarmory hard with linoone and something tells me rock smash won't do the trick, so advice on that please.

Took out Drifblim and Drapion...deciding on anyone else to replace.
 
Well, I'm pretty sure the pursuit/extremespeed combo is banned in standard play, if someone else can confirm this for me.
 
No offense but your resistances just got even worse with Drifblim and Drapion's removals, you now have 4 Pokemon completely weak to Fighting.

Anyway what you can do if you're keeping Linoone is run Giga Impact, it'll do upto the regions of 61-71% damage on full defensive Skarm. E-Speed maxed out does around 30-38% so you have a small chance of a 2HKO. Although I imagine you'd be phazed before you could pull off the second attack though. To be honest Bronzong is far more dangerous being on every single team nearly.

You already have 3 sweepers in the form of Linoone, Hitmonchan and Froslass so Nidoqueen could replace Golem to reinforce defenses. It gives some great resistances and defenses, can Stealth Rock, Toxic Spikes and it can take hits like a champion.

It also gives you a means of dealing with Lucario since none of the common Lucario's sets use EQ and therefore can't 2HKO a defensive Nidoqueen. You can use Ice Punch/Earthquake or Earth Power/Ice beam as your attacks giving you 2 free slots for support moves.
 
Thank you VERY much foresty the help you are giving me is unbelievable :D. Yeah I know the fight weakness thats why I wanted to remove Golem. And btw, doesn't shadow claw hit for neutral damage on bornzong? So with max attack it can do a lot of damage. Yeah I'll definitely look into nidoqueen.

I know having a ghost isn't enough fighting coverage, but with prediction i can send in froslass here and there on fighting attacks. That makes up at least a little ground.
 
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