Right, so this is like my first RMT and my third topic ever so forgive me if something doesn't make sense.
I'll explain the title later.
That said, hello and thanks for stopping by! A while back, I realized that I'd beedn playing competitive pokemon since the gen 5 days, but only in OU. why not foray into the other tiers. SO. I took on the next not-scary-looking tier and decided to play it. I must say, I enjoy it more than OU, no stupid Rotom-Ws, Mega Loppunys, etc. Nice change of pace, I guess. But I've had some trouble teambuilding becauseimbadatit so I'd like to ask you all for some help, and without further delay....
The team at a glance:
Alright, lets begin.
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Cloyster @ Focus Sash
Ability: Skill Link
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Shell Smash
- Razor Shell
- Icicle Spear
- Rock Blast
First, we have Cloyster. The idea here is pretty simple, as the lead mon, Cloyster uses Shell Smash, eats a hit with focus sash, and unleashes hell with skill linked Icicle Spear and Rock blast, with Razor Shell for Water STAB. If left unchecked, it can ruin whole teams. Unfortunately, Mach Punch Infernape exists, but aside from that not much ruins him. Oh wait, there's one other thing but we'll introduce him later.
R.A.M. (Metagross) @ Life Orb
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Agility
- Earthquake
- Zen Headbutt
- Meteor Mash
The return of AgilityGross! I decided on full offense for him, although I considered investing those speed EVs in something like HP or Defense, to make it a little more of a wall, but it seems to work ok.
Sylveon @ Leftovers
Ability: Pixilate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 HP / 240 Def / 16 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Hyper Voice
- Calm Mind
- Psyshock
- Substitute
Ah, Sylveon. Worked well in OU for me, and works just as well, if not better, in UU. I don't see this set often, but I like it so here's the break down: Substitute + High HP + Passable defense + Great SPDefense (and calm mind) = wall. I figured that with a few calm minds, I wouldn't need to invest EVs in SPAttack, so they went into defense instead.
Cyanide (Crobat) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Infiltrator
EVs: 248 HP / 48 Def / 212 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Brave Bird
- Defog
- Poison Fang
- Roost
Bulky Crobat. Can't say I saw this coming back when I started playing pokemon and zubats were hellspawn in caves. One thing stands out here though, Poison Fang. No one ever uses Poison Fang, right? Yeah, that's true, but I wanted toxic AND an offensive poison move, and this was kinda the unholy love child of both. The 50% poison rate is okay, but it fails when needed sometimes.
At least I can laugh at the faces of those players who see me use my other three moves and thing the only thing left is toxic, so they try to send out their fairies to set up. If suggested, I'll probably switch over to toxic.
Mandi (Mandibuzz) @ Leftovers
Ability: Overcoat
EVs: 240 HP / 216 Def / 52 Spe
Impish Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Roost
- Foul Play
- Taunt
- Toxic
Mandibuzz was put in my second version of this team, the first verson containing Azelf and Mega-Sceptile instead of Mandi and Chandy. The enitre reason Mandibuzz is even on this team is because of this jerk.
As you can imagine, this thing^^^ screwed me over in many a battle before Mandibuzz joined. It functions primarily as a defensive wall/staller, and unlike my other bulky birb, this one has Toxic!
Chandy (Chandelure) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Shadow Ball
- Energy Ball
- Fire Blast
- Trick
And kinda last, but certainly not least, we have good ol' Chandy! I remember back when its HA was not released, and it was shadow tag, and it killed things dead. But these are different times. Chandy was included after I added mandibuzz, and realized that my team had a glaring weakness to ice moves (oh the irony). So I kicked out M-Sceptile and re-discovered Chandelure. Like the gen 5 days, Chandy is my revenge killer. Choice Scarf + High SPAtk makes things that are dying very, very dead. And Trick is there for those situations. You know the ones.
Chandy also carries energy ball, because Swampert exists in this tier.
And now, to explain the title. As I said earlier, I use to run azelf and a shiny Mega-Sceptile, which completed the blue theme.
Their data can be found here:
The Dual Screens support was nice, but it didn't help much with certain (doublade) pokemon. The rest of the team remained largely the same, except that Sylveon had Shadow Ball instead of Psyshock. Let me know if you think I should add any of them back in.
And finally, the known weaknesses.
Ice moves still kinda suck, but that's the price I pay for carrying two Flying types.
STEALTH ROCKS. And come to think of it, rock moves in general. Although they aren't really common in UU, 4/6 of my team members are weak to them.
Fire types. Don't pose much of a threat if cloyster is alive, but without it, they can kill off metagross and wall Sylveon. And if they carry wild charge (arcanine) or thunder punch(Infernie), they might just end one of the bulky birbs. Honerable mention goes to infernape, who can kill Cloyster too.
Doublade
Nothing else, yet, but that's why I'm making this. So you guys can rip it apart. Have at it.