You are Breloom weak! 39th on leaderbord! [OU]

Yes finally on the leaderboard again! This was on one of my ladder alts. Then when i were on that account i got tired of laddering so i made a new team and tried, sadly i forgot to change account so i directly started to go down in rank hilariously much. Sad story, lol dumb me. Let's get on to the team.

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@ Choice scarf
Jolly nature
EV: 80 HP|252 Atk|176 Spe

Trick
U-Turn
Stealth rock
Iron head

TrickRachi never gets boring. Now suicide leads are getting more common, a good chance for Jirachi to glance. I always lol on Tricking people scarf when they set up SR. Then i get up free SR and i have crippled they're lead, that's a good deal. Iron head 2HKOs both Aerodactyl and Azelf which is nice, and can do a bunch to most other leads. The only thing i hate is that some Swampleads and Grossleads EQ when i give them a Scarf. I don't now if i am supposed to call this a offensive lead but clearly it can attack. U-Turn is a great scouting move and Iron head is STAB. All this are just the standard Jirachi lead that you have seen so many times so i dont think i need to explain very much on this guy.



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@ Life orb
Adamant nature
EV: |252 Atk|252 Spe|

Dragon dance
Waterfall
Stone edge
Earthquake

This guy has nice synenergy in my team as four other guys are weak to Ground. It can come in on Earthquakes, Intimidate the attacker, and then set up a Dragon dance. This is really a early game sweeper. I didn't choose Ice fang because i don't feel like i like i need it. What Ice fang does is like, countering Salamence which Stone edge does just fine. Those EVs are like standard for full offensive sweeper. I kinda hate Bulky Gyarados so please don't suggest it. As this is'nt bulky Gyara Life orb >> Leftovers here.



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@ Choice specs
Modest nature
EV: |252 Sp.Atk|252 Spe|

Thunder bolt
Shadow ball
Signal beam
Hidden power fighting

This + Gyrados = <3. Gyarados gets the electric moves directed to me raising this guys HP. Choice specs boosts he's Special attack to 478 which can take down most pokemon. At first HP fighting might seem odd, but otherwise i would get so badly walled my Tyranitars who can answer back with Earthquake OHKOing me. Signal beam rapes Dragon all day long like Latias and it also have fun with Umbreon which i hate. By the way is it Thunderbolt or Thunder bolt?





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@ Life orb
Timid nature
EV:|252 Sp.Atk|252 Spe|

Shadow ball
Thunderbolt
Focus blast
Hidden power Ice

Don't come say "remove this, it just fills the same role as Jolteon!" This my late game cleaner and maybe the most important guy for the team. I usually run this set on all my teams because it's just so badass! I don't think there is a OU pokemon that resist all of he's attacks, please if you now any tell me. Hidden power ice over Fire because fire are just stupid. People says "oh Fire kills Scizor!" No? Scizors Bullet punch OHKOs me after Stealth rock, so think twice.


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@ Choice scarf
Modest nature
EV:|252 Sp.Atk|252 Spe|

Flamethrower
Earth power
Dragon pulse
Dark pulse

"I need a revenge killer". ScarfTrain works wonder is this team taking fire moves directed to Jirachi or Breloom. Flmaethrower have proved more usefull here as this isn't mean't to do huge amount of damage, it's mean't to revenge kill. Other than that there's not really that much to say about him. He has to 4x weaknesses water and Ground both being resisted by Gyarados and Breloom. Fighting moves can also go to Gyarados. I can't think of any other move that would suit here, except for maybe Exploision. But still no. I have tested it and just no.


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@ Toxic orb
Adamant nature
EV:|252 HP|252 Atk|

Spore
Mach punch
Focus punch
Seed bomb

"You are Breloom weak!" Yes you are. This guy can rip unprepared teams apart without a slightest problem. I can't belive why Smogon says Stone edge >> Mach punch, don't belive it. You might think "oh of course that's better so Gyarados and Salamence don't kil you." Lol. When they come in i have to switch out anyways because of Intimidate. For you who don't now how this work, i set up Spore on someone and then Focus punch, harder than that it isn't! Those EVs are because it would be totaly pointless to have speed on someone with one +1 move and one -1 move.
 
Threat list

Heracross - Heatran can kill him.

Latias - Jolteon can Signal beam it and Heatran can Dragon pulse

Infernape - Heatran can Earth power

Lucario - Heatran

Scizor - Heatran

Salamence- Heatran

Dragonite - Heatran

Gyarados (yay) - Gengar or Jirachi lols at this

Heatran - Gyarados can set up or Heatran can revenge kill

Kingadra - Heatran

Gengar - Jolteon

Starmie - Jolteon

Zapdos - Can be a bit tricky but Heatran can kill it

Blissey - Guess 3 times.....

Suicune - Jolteon

Machamp - Like all of my pokemons

Rotom - Gengar and Jolteon

Azelf - Gengar and Jolteon

Metagross - Heatran, next!

Jirachi - Heatran

Swampert - Gyarados can set up or Breloom can OHKO

Celebi(i) - This can be tuff but Heatran can Flamethrower

Gliscor - Gengar

Vaporeon - Breloom, Jolt and Gar

Tyranitar - Jolteon and Breloom

Flygon - Gengar, but this can be annoying

Brellom - Heatran

Skarmory - Heatran

Forretress - Heatran

Weavile - Heatran

Electivire - Heatran

Mamoswine - Everything

Jolteon - Different depending on the situation but usually this is easy

Porygon-z - Breloom

Tentacruel - Gengar and Jolteon

As you can see my team hasn't a nameworthy weakness which is nice
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volt absorb heals hp, it doesn't boost speed. That's motor drive. Heatran isn't 4x weak to water. Just a couple of corrections. Interesting breloom set though... But what bulky waters, apart from swampert, can it outspeed?
 
volt absorb heals hp, it doesn't boost speed. That's motor drive. Heatran isn't 4x weak to water. Just a couple of corrections. Interesting breloom set though... But what bulky waters, apart from swampert, can it outspeed?

Thanks for those corrections. Motor drive/Volt absorb this i'll fix. One thing is scary, i always thinks Heatran has 4x to Water. I don't now why. Any rates?
 
Hi.

Correction: Signal Beam does not hit Dragon type for super effective damage. That is just Latias because besides Dragon she's also Psychic.

At a first glance, the team seems to be having some troubles with DD Gyarados and DD Salamence. Let's see, Gyarados sets up on Jirachi's Iron Head, Heatran's Flamethrower/Earth Power and Jolteon's Signal Beam/HP Fighting; and except Jirachi, Salamence sets up on those Pokémon too, plus Breloom (after have used Spore).
After Gyarados gets one Dragon Dance, your only option is to Trick it with Jirachi, whether if you haven't done it already, and then your mons will get OHKOed one by one... Something similar happens with Salamence after a single Dragon Dance, though in this case you won't probably be able to Trick it if it's running a +Spd nature, which would mean "gg".

In my opinion, Jolteon seems to be the weakest link in the team; it doesn't help against Gyarados because you need to be Timid in order to outpace the Adamant one after one DD, and it also gives some opportunities to pokes like Salamence and Scizor for setting up (naming just a pair).
That said, I want you to replace it for ScarfLatias with the following set:

Timid nature | 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SpA
Draco Meteor | Thunderbolt | Surf | Trick

Latias counters extremely well the aforementioned threats, and also helps you to take care of Kingdra which could cause a lot of troubles for the team.

Having three Scarfers at this moment, I will make a couple of suggestions.
The first one will be to replace HP Ice for HP Fire and Thunderbolt for Protect on Gengar, in order to counter SD Lucario and not be afraid of choiced variants of TTar and Scizor. This set can be a problem for those two sometimes.
The second, will be to remove the Scarf from Heatran and use an offensive set with Life Orb, this one specifically:

Hasty nature | 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spd
Fire Blast | Earth Power | HP Grass | Explosion

This set does what Heatran needs to do very well: OHKO Swampert, OHKO Blissey and counter SD Scizor. The rest it's just extra power which is great while trying to clean the way for your sweeper Gyarados.

One last nitpick, try Bounce out instead of EQ on Gyarados, it OHKOs Bold max. HP / max. Def Celebi 100% of time and the 30% of paralysis is very interesting.

Feel free to ignore or try the changes out. Good luck.
 
Jolteon can simply be changed to timid and murder gyrados. I would look at the item/move selection of it though. Expert belt jolteon is great to mess with people and still does respectable damage. Since you are using hp:fighting and shadow ball there's really no point in using signal beam, so it can be replaced by pretty much anything unless you really want to OHKO celebi. Baton pass or fake tears maybe?
 
Okay, back from my rating hiatus. Let's see what I can do.

You have a glaringly obvious weakness to Agiligross. Since Agiligross cannot be Intimidated and commonly carries Thunderpunch, Gyarados has absolutely no hope. Your so-called "counter" Heatran, is outsped and easily OHKOed. Breloom and Gengar have to hope that Meteor Mash misses, and Jolteon/Jirachi take hefty damage from Earthquake. For this reason, I suggest changing TrickScarfRachi to standard LeadPert. Swampert is a fabulous check to Metagross, as the only hope is for Metagross is to explode on you, which ends a sweep in itself. Jirachi is a good lead, but in this case, you need a Metagross counter.

UltraOffensiveDos is nice when you can set up, but durability is lacking. Try TauntDos with the same EV spread, allowing you to push past phazers and status users that you won't always kill in one hit, such as Swampert, Skarmory, among others. You'll find it easier to sweep against bulky teams with this set addition.

Flygon is very very problematic. With some simple scouting early with U-Turn, it can set up sweeps on you as Gengar is nowhere near being able to take STAB Outrage. Gyarados sort-of works, but you better hope that Flygon isn't carrying Thunderpunch, which is increasing in popularity. Another threat that you could easily struggle with is Celebi. Nobody, I repeat, NOBODY- is noobish enough to leave Celebi in on a Heatran. Celebi can beat down Gyarados, and Jolteon's Shadow Ball won't OHKO. I suppose Gengar works, but with Gengar switching into a risk of paralysis, and Jolteon forcing itself into a non-STAB move with poor coverage, this issue could be recurrent.

Jolteon just isn't quite right. The primary issue is that Jolteon should never be Modest. It absolutely needs Timid, as considering how fragile it is, it needs to be able to abuse it's stellar base speed to the furthest extent. Signal Beam is very weak on this moveset, since the only thing you are hitting harder is Celebi. This could, however, be an answer to your Plant-fairy problems. Shadow Ball hits Latias harder, anyway. Hidden Power Fighting just doesn't work. you can't even OHKO Tyranitar, and you positively need Hidden Power Grass to get past Hippowdon and Swampert.

Heatran needs a rearrangement here. Dark Pulse offers no worthwhile coverage at all, since most ghosts will be hit harder by my next suggestion: Fire Blast. With Flamethrower, you can't even OHKO Bronzong, and Fire Blast is about as sweepy as you can get with such incredible power and speed. Speaking of speed, change Modest to Naive. You need as much speed as you can get with your 77 base, and without it you can't outrun Jolteon and Aerodactyl, who will do hefty damage. Also, since you already added Fire Blast over Dark Pulse, replace Flamethrower with Explosion. It rips Blissey to shreds, and lets you go out with a bang when Heatran isn't looking so hot *no pun intended*.

Okay, unless you made the changes with natures earlier, Starmie outspeeds and OHKOs everybody except Swampert and maybe Jolteon. This is really just reinforcement for those changes.

Overall, it's a par effort. Good luck, I hope I helped.

EDIT: Setsuna's Latias suggestion looks promising as well.
 
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