Volt-turn team!

[Aelsorm]

Hello,
I wanted to build a team based on Volt-turning.

TEAM PREVIEW:

TEAM:

Razor (Scizor) (M) @ Scizorite
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Defog
- U-turn
- Roost
- Bullet Punch
Bullet Punch is main STAB, boosted by Technician, that inflicts good amount of damage and also has the priority. U-turn is attack that gives important momentum in battle.
Roost heals Scizor... that's useful with his bulk. Defog is to get rid of opponent's rocks.
I choosed this Pokémon as a Mega over T-tar because the U-turn will get boosted damage without losing HP or locking into one move.

Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Earthquake
The Stealth Rocker, when it is needed. Also the Special Defender (Sandstorm provides him even better Sp.Def). With this Sp.Def he can take almost every Special Attack like a boss. He packs Pursuit for Talonflame, Lati@s etc. for guaranteed kill. Crunch is his main STAB and EQ is mainly against Aegislash and Heatran. Lefties is probably the best item for him. Assault Vest limits him very much and I could not be able to use SR, then the healing is always good to have.

Bosch (Rotom-Wash) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]
Volt Switcher. He packs Trick to cripple opponent's Pokémon. Hydro Pump is obviously main STAB, HP Ice is to deal with Dragons and more reliable way to get rid of Gliscor. Volt Switch, same as U-turn, gives the important momentum.
I decided to run him Scarfed because of his shitty speed. Max Spe and Sp.Atk to cause lot of problems to my opponent.

Trevenant @ Lum Berry
Ability: Harvest
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Leech Seed
- Horn Leech
- Rest
Common Trevenant. WoW is to cripple opponent, so Trevenant could take less damage. Leech Seed is little healing move. Horn Leech is main STAB with healing, that can help against uncommon things like Gastrodon and Swampert, but also with Rotom-W or just dealing neutral damage to gain extra damage in addition to Leech Seed and Burn.
Rest is obviously healing strategy with Lum Berry.
He is also one of the best Spin-Blockers, since he can easily take EQ and Rapid Spin from Excadrill, Scald from Tentacruel and everything from Forretress.

Garchomp (M) @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature
- Rock Slide
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Flamethrower
Well, this Garchomp is kinda special. I chose Dragon Claw and EQ as his two main STABs, then Rock Slide to deal with birds, it also helps against Togekiss, well and Flamethrower is here over Fire Blast (shitty accuracy - I keep missing ALL the times) and Fire Fang (still not 100 accurate and Physical, so I take Iron Barbs and Rocky Helmet damage) mainly against Ferrothorn and Scizor.

Angrybird (Talonflame) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Gale Wings
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Brave Bird
- U-turn
- Flare Blitz
- Roost
Well, first I wanted to play Choice Banded T-flame, but I had problem with fourth move and I have Rotom already Scarfed anyway so I dropped this idea. Brave Bird is main STAB, it profits from Gale Wings so I gain the priority. Flare Blitz is to deal with Ferrothorn and those-like Pokémon (also against Electric types and Steel types like Excadrill). U-turn over Swords Dance because of possible opponent's T-tar.
Lefties over Life Orb due to recoil (and I dont have so much time to Roost it).


Well I hope you will help me to make the team better!

Thx for possible helps and reading!

 

[Uberlox]

Hey there, I've been doing a lot of RMT rates lately, but want to try to improve my rates a bit more so I'm going to do this in a bit of a different style than I normally do. Official RMTers if I'm doing something wrong or if you have any other comments please message me, thank you very much.

Hey there Aelsorm!

Cool team, awesome FWG core and great synergy between pokemon! I don't see any clear threats right now, but I think that it should be noted that 4 of your pokemon have a 4x weakness. This could lead to easy sweeps by a pokemon with wide coverage, but not necessarily the greatest stats. A mix ttar could take down a lot if it has flamethrower, stone edge and super power. That would lead it to taking down 3 of your pokemon with extreme ease. One option for this could be replacing talonflame with mega charizard x and replacing m scizor with just regular scizor. Yes, you lose your priority hitting, flying, u-turner, BUT you make up for a lot defensively. However, this replacement could lead to some conflict with having 2 dragons on your team, but the only threat there is fairy, but your scizor takes care of those well, then you got the threat of clefable with moonblast and flamethrower, but that can be easily taken care of if you plan it right.

Regarding individual pokemon changes, I think that replacing pursuit with superpower to gain more coverage on ttar. I also suggest removing the rocky helmet from garchomp because it cant take much of a hit, so you could give more net damage if you add a life orb to it instead.

In conclusion, amazing team. Very great synergy between them, great team bulk while also having a lot of power. Just respond to me with what you think of the changes and we can further collaborate in order to make this team the best it can be. Thanks!

 

[Aelsorm]

Well, I've tried it and I must admit it works well.
To be honest I hate Life Orb, but I gave it to Garchomp and to my suprise it is amazing.

But I dont really feel so good about playing two dragon-types. I know it is probably dumb to feel like this way, because they dont even have same weaknesses (just the Dragon if I am not wrong), but it kinda feels uncomfortable.
Also playing the Scizor (I gave him Lefties now) without Mega is huge defense drop (140 -> 100) and it seems like he is little bit more unreliable Defogger.

I need to test it more, I will see.

Edited team

Razor (Scizor) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Defog
- U-turn
- Roost
- Bullet Punch

Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Earthquake

Bosch (Rotom-Wash) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]

Trevenant @ Lum Berry
Ability: Harvest
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Leech Seed
- Horn Leech
- Rest

Garchomp (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature
- Rock Slide
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Flamethrower

Charizard-Mega-X @ Charizardite X
Ability: Tough Claws
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature
- Dragon Dance
- Dragon Claw
- Flare Blitz
- Earthquake

 

[Uberlox]

Great, glad you like the life orb.

Regarding the two dragons, its not dumb to feel that way its completely reasonable, the fairy and dragon threat can be dangerous and it is kinda odd to some people. Charizard-X fits your team very very well, so im going to try to keep it for now. You have a few options for replacing garchomp, my suggestion is replacing it with special attacking landorous and using this set:

Landorous @ Life Orb
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Earth Power
- Psychic
- Focus Blast
- Sludge Wave

Yeah, its another pokemon with a quad weakness, but it works. It also helps protect against fairies with that sludge wave. Also, it helps balance out your overall physical team. Also, i suggest replacing the jolly nature of charizard-x with adamant for more power and sacrificing a bit of speed is okay with your new addition of the speedy lando. Regarding scizor, yeah it isnt as reliable with its lower defenses, however it can work well with its moveset, all it has to do is set up for char-x by defogging, u turning into char, allowing him to set up with a potential switch of the opponet and with that setup and good movepool, it will easily take out at least a few pokemon.

 

[Aelsorm]

I dunno, I kinda hate Landorus... and that Focus Miss... too low accuracy

 

[Uberlox]

If you REALLY dont like it you could go for like HP fighting or something, but focus blast is on nearly every landorous and for good reason.

 

[Aelsorm]

Since the last spot really agitates me, I tried little change...

Razor (Scizor) (M) @ Scizorite
Ability: Technician
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Defog
- U-turn
- Roost
- Bullet Punch

Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SDef
Careful Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Earthquake
Bosch (Rotom-Heat) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature
- Volt Switch
- Overheat
- Trick
- Hidden Power [Ice]

Trevenant @ Lum Berry
Ability: Harvest
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
Impish Nature
- Will-O-Wisp
- Leech Seed
- Horn Leech
- Rest

Garchomp (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Rough Skin
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd
Naive Nature
- Rock Slide
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Flamethrower
Azumarill (M) @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Huge Power
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Belly Drum
- Aqua Jet
- Superpower
- Play Rough


What do you think? Also lot of people suggest me to play Mega Manectric but I am not so sure about that.
I have a lot of problems caused by Conkeldurr and I guess Trevenant weakness to Knock Off (not just literal weakness, but even that berry loss) really matters.

I dunno if I should play Manectric, Rotom-H or Rotom-W. I am not sure about the last spot (at the time there is azumarill, but I dont really like belly drum set, I much more like Banded, but I already have rotom-H scarfed...) and then I am not so sure about Trevenant (although it is the best spin blocker that ever existed)