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Jirachi @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Serene Grace
Nature: Jolly
80 HP, 252 Attack, 176 Speed
-Iron Head
-Trick
-U-turn
-Stealth Rock

Trick can mess up the bulkier leads that suddenly become useless with a Choice Scarf. There's a 60% chance of Flinching suicide leads and Machamp leads to death. U-turn it there to get out if there's a bad match-up or just to do some damage while switching out after Rachi has done its job.


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Scizor @ Choice Band
Ability: Technician
Nature: Jolly
244 HP, 252 Attack, 12 Speed
-Bullet Punch
-U-turn
-Superpower
-Pursuit

A good check to most set-up sweepers with Technician-boosted Choice Band Bullet Punch. U-turn out when an opponent is forced to switch to do significant damage to just about everything, or just Pursuit if it's more important to hit the fleeing foe. Superpower to catch things like Heatran and Magnezone on the switch-in.


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Flygon @ Choice Band
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Adamant
4 HP, 252 Attack, 252 Speed
-Outrage
-Earthquake
-U-turn
-Stone Edge

Choice Band for surprise effect and to just nail everything hard. STAB Earthquake heavily damages everything that doesn't resist it or isn't immune. Outrage for secondary STAB and sheer power. U-turn for scouting and hit-and-run damage. Stone Edge to pick off things like Gyarados that it can't touch otherwise.


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Rotom-H @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
Nature: Bold
252 HP, 168 Defense, 88 Speed
-Thunderbolt
-Shadow Ball
-Pain Split
-Will-O-Wisp

A good check to Gyarados and most physical attackers. Will-O-Wisp cripples a lot of physical sweepers in the OU metagame. Thunderbolt for Gyarados and just a strong STAB. Shadow Ball for other Rotom and things immune to Thunderbolt. Pain Split for recovery.


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Tyranitar @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
Nature: Careful
252 HP, 40 Defense, 216 Special Defense
-Curse
-Rest
-Sleep Talk
-Payback

I felt like testing out a Cure Tyranitar, and found out that a lot of teams aren't prepared for it and even struggle with it. Its natural bulk with the given EV spread allows it to set up on a lot of common Pokemon in OU.


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Gyarados @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
Nature: Impish
156 HP, 72 Attack, 96 Defense, 184 Speed
-Dragon Dance
-Taunt
-Waterfall
-Stone Edge

Taunt allows it to set up on a lot of stall Pokemon that suddenly find themselves unable to set up or touch Gyarados. After a few Dances it can run through a team.
 
Heya Stix, how's it going.

As a fairly competitive battler I thought i'd give you my 2 cents of the team.

First off., I think trickrachi is a little too predictable these days. People predict and go to something to absorb it, while you pretty much miss the chance to get rocks up. Maybe replacing that with Lefties or something to fake the trick in the start of the battle allowing you to get free rocks while they overpredict. Every team needs a scarfer, and I just think you're lead is trying to do too many things at once, so i'd put the scarf on maybe another team member. Up to you.

CB gon hits hard but I don't think it hits hard enough, I honestly think putting a scarf on it would make it more useful to your team. Too many pokemon reach 328 speed or even higher. Plus, you can tie with other scarfers instead of having you lose every single time.

On rotom, I usually run 252 hp 252 def 6 speed. Just for a bulkier spread and noone really puts speed into it, more like def and sp def to balance out defenses. 6 speed makes you outpace rotoms with no speed and makes it alot bulkier.

That's all I really have to say, keep working at it bro, hope this helped a bit!
 
Hi Stix....I See a Decent Team Here.I Will Just Give Some Rates

A Combo Of Infernape And Lucario And Actually Beat This Team,To Remove That Weakness Of Yours,Scarf Flygon And That Will Do The Trick.Sigh,Skarmory Can Actually Make This Team Cry As 5/6 Of Your Pokemon Is Physical And Skarmory Can Just Phazer This Team( Bar Gyarados).To Remove That.

A Few Fixes Would Be Nice:

  • Use WishCM Jirachi > Tyranitar
    • As It Helps Healing Your Team Being A Special Sweeper And Helps Other Team Members By Wish Healing And Also Attack And Gives a Solid Check To Gyarados


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    Jirachi @ Leftovers
    Bold Nature
    Ev's:252 HP / 220 Def / 36 Spe
    Moveset:
    ~ Calm Mind
    ~ Wish
    ~ Thunderbolt
    ~ Psychic / Flash Cannon
  • Use The Ev Spread 252 hp/252 def/4 spd As Suggested By eaglesrock:
    • Rotom Actually Does Almost Everything For Your Team,It Can Die Fast Due To SS And Taking Damage,If You Are Using Jirachi,Then Feel Free Not To Change The Ev Spread

Now For The Lead If You Changed Ttar With Jirachi,I Would Recommend You Using Infernape Or Heatran Lead As They Always Get SR Up Or To The Extent Use Aero :)

Good Luck!
 
Just to reiterate I also think that Scarf Flygon will work much better than banded, although taking a significant power drop, ScarfGon provides a much better and faster revenge killer to go along side CB Scizor.

Also, I would suggest taking the trick mentality away from Jirachi because, as eaglesrock said, it is too predictable and most people do switch to a Pokemon to absorb the Trick. So, adding lefties or even an Expert Belt and replacing trick with Grass Knot or Tbolt, then switching the nature to naive/hasty will do the trick(no pun intended). As this way you get SE coverage over Swampert and Skarm, depending on the move you choose, since they both wall your team pretty hard.

I think that Tyranitar would be the most replaceable member of the team here since all of your other team members can take out anybody he is there to take out. So replacing him with an Infernape wouldn't be bad here. Specifically the Nasty Plot Ape found HERE as he can take out many threats to your team, namely revenge killers, with a +2 Vacuum Wave taking out the likes of Choice Scarf Heatran and Tyranitar with ease. Personally, I think you should use the moveset Nasty Plot, Flamethrower, Close Combat, and Vacuum Wave with a Naive nature as that way you can't get walled by Bliss(thanks to Close Combat) and since you already have CB Scizor you can get rid of the main check to this thing, Starmie.
 
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