Project What's His Last? NU Edition [Week 27 | Voting]

[tmacbalanced]

Mesprit @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Signal Beam
- Psychic
- U-Turn
- Ice Beam

Mespirit is a good supporting pokemon for Rhydon sweeping, it can bring in some momentum with U-turn which this team can use a lot of as it is pretty passive and it's good for constant switches with Garb's spike stacking. Also, Malamar can give this team a tough time, especially if it gets worn down so, that's why I added on signal beam so it can act as a soft check to Malamar. Mespirit can also act as a nice bulky pivot and can punch some holes for Rhydon as well as pull some u-turn shenanigans with Swellow.

 

[Oda]

Audino @ Audinite
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Wish
- Protect
- Heal Bell
- Knock Off

Nothing on this team appreciates Ice types or Rotom, which people have pointed out already, and MEga Dino provides a nice glue to this team with a SPdef set, seeing as we already have physically bulky mons in Gourg/Garb/Rhydon, plus it handles Specs Aurorus and Fire types better to put less pressure on Spdef PRin. I decided to go with Knock Off for general support and to knock off scary choice items from things like Aurorus to deal with them easier, plus this team already had some decent reponses to Malamar such as Rhydon, Gourg and Signal Beam Prinplup. Also this team hated status and had no status absorbers so a cleric is nice, and alot of members appreciated Wish support such as Prin, Rhydon, and Garb.

Note: Unless Kiyo uses Flamez Tank RP Rhydon I think the EVs aren't the proper ones for the RP set :] Tagging shadestep so he notices .

 

[Plaessy]

Regular rotom @ spell tag
ability: levitate
Evs: 4 def / 252 Spa / 252 Spe
Timid nature
- Will o wisp
- Hex
- Shadow Ball
- Volt switch

Looking at the team, i feel like a hex user called rotom would benefit it greatly. Something about spikestack is just screaming it to my face. Not a very professional analysis, but w/e.

Although, volt switch gives nice momentum with swellow for favorable situations, which is always nice.

 

[Shadestep]

sorry for not updating this earlier D:
you may now vote! 1 Vote per person, because of the lack of contributors :/

<- the team for reference
here are the contributors for this week!

FeeltheBern16 Pyroar

Winter's Howl Hariyama

tmacbalanced Mesprit

Oda Mega Audino

Plaessynplaeae Rotom

you can vote until mondaymorning / sundaynight!

 

[nv]

Oda's Mega Audino

 

[Orphic]

tmacbalanced

 

[Louna]

Oda's mega audino

 

[tmacbalanced]

Winter Howl with the Hariyama

 

[Rapture]

Plaessy's rotom

 

[Swagata]

Oda's Mega Audino

 

[AJB]

Oda Mega Audino

 

[Shadestep]

hey! sorry for not updating sooner, been really busy irl.
This weeks winner is Oda and his Mega Audino with an amazing amount of 4 votes. Grats! you will be added to the Hall of Fame.

Votes

Oda= 4 Votes
tmacbalanced= 1 Vote
Winter's Howl= 1 Vote
plaessynplaeae= 1 Vote

This weeks team is provided by lovely friend and NU Councilmember Shadowtags . thanks for that!

The team features SD Wisp Charizard, complemented by a Bulky Ground lure in Special Skuntank. Thunder Wave Musharna is a really cool 4th move on it, annoying opposing Skunks, Samurott, Zard, Sceptile, etc. Substitute Rhydon allows for easier Set-up vs. things like Ferroseed and Physical Skunk.

Sets 'n Stuff

Ferroseed @ Eviolite
Ability: Iron Barbs
EVs: 248 HP / 148 Def / 112 SpD
Relaxed Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Stealth Rock
- Gyro Ball
- Leech Seed
- Protect

Skuntank @ Shuca Berry
Ability: Aftermath
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power [Grass]
- Dark Pulse
- Defog

Rhydon @ Eviolite
Ability: Rock Head
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Substitute
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Rock Polish

Musharna @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 240 HP / 176 Def / 92 SpD
Calm Nature
- Thunder Wave
- Psychic
- Moonlight
- Healing Wish

Charizard
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Acrobatics
- Will-O-Wisp
- Roost
- Swords Dance

 

[erisia]

Samurott @ Life Orb
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Rash Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Aqua Jet
- Megahorn

Special Samurott completes a decent FWG core with Ferroseed and Charizard while also chipping away at walls to help Charizard and Rhydon potentially sweep. It also provides some extra Speed control with Aqua Jet and can get rid of Malamar with Megahorn, which can otherwise be very threatening against this team.

 

[GyRro]

Two things I think need adding to this team is immediate SpA presence since musharna will rarely be able to click psychic in it's supporting roll, and a general water check also seems key to stop ferroseed from being wittled easily by samurott, ludicolo, omastar etc.

Poliwrath @ Choice Specs
Ability: Water Absorb
EVs: 92 HP / 252 SpA / 164 Spe
Modest Nature
- Scald
- Ice Beam
- Focus Punch
- Vacuum Wave

Poliwrath provides all of this for this team, along with priority from vacuum wave which is always handy to finish off kills. Specs seems like the best choice, so it can threaten even bulkier threats more easily whilst still having the chance to be healed from healing wish from Musharna.

 

[Evan.]

sub rp don is a hot set good lord

uh the biggest problem w/ this team is probably its lack of speed and / or priority which makes it extremely difficult for this team to pressure faster offensive threats like tauros and sceptile that eclipse that base 100 speed tier. that being said, i think that scarf primeape is a decent fit in the last slot here since it provides some speed (and its strong enough to pressure the frailer faster stuff like swellow, sceptile, tauros, arch, etc), it /helps/ against mar w/ u-turn (not that much tho), has good synergy w/ skunk, and another mon to help weaken rocks and steels for zard isnt a bad thing either.

Primeape @ Choice Scarf | Defiant
252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe | Jolly
Close Combat | U-Turn | Stone Edge | Gunk Shot / Ice Punch

 

[AJB]

Swellow @ Choice Specs
Ability: Scrappy
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Boomburst
- Heat Wave
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Grass]

Swellow is a cool last mon for the squad as the team really struggles versus faster threats such as Sceptile, Tauros, and Pyroar and Swellow does a good job offensively checking them. Zard and Swellow have similar checks (Lanturn, Rhydon, Regirock etc) so Swellow's ability to weaken these pokemon with Boomburst/ HP Grass's helps Zard break through, while conversely Zard's ability to Wil-O-Wisp these targets can clear the way late game for Swellow. Overall Swellow is a really sick last mon here.

 

[Shadestep]

only 4 submissions this week which means everyone gets 1 Vote.

here's the team again so y'all won't have to scroll up the entire time:

erisia Samurott

GyRro Poliwrath

Can-Eh-Dian Primeape

Aurosis Swellow

voting will be up until sundaynight :)

 

[erisia]

GyRro

 

[AJB]

Can-eh-Dian

 

[Winter's Howl]

Can

 

[Jisoo]

can

 

[lolbro]

can

 

[Realistic Waters]

can the man

 

[Rapture]

for the record the last was agility + 3 attacks floatzel, voting erisia since he had the right idea.

 

[Sobi]

can