Standard Singles with a Twist {OU RMT} - NEED HELP!
How i made the team:
Basically i started off with Bronzong and Snorlax and toyed around with the idea of what would go with it.
Originally i came up with these options:
Infernape
Timid CM Suicune
DD Gyarados / CB Gyarados
DD Lum Mence
LO / CS Starmie
Bronzong {TR}
Snorlax {CB}
Breloom
Heatran
Now obviously thats way too many pokemon. So this is what my team resulted as BEFORE salamence went uber.
Infernape
Suicune
Mence
Bronzong
Snorlax
Breloom
I then decided to swap out breloom since my foes mence coverage was weak (and my friend kindly made a nice bulky heatran to slaughter those annoying mence)
but yeah smogon went and made mence uber which:
Defeated the need for my heatran
Killed off a good sweeper and my Breloom Counter.
So that was annoying.
I had to then change my team around to try and suit the fact that ive lost an intimidate, lost a DD'er and lost a breloom counter.
This is what i came up with. { CHANGES IN BOLD }
Infernape (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Blaze
EVs: 52 Atk / 252 Spd / 204 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Fake Out
- Fire Blast
- Close Combat
- Stealth rock / CURRENTLY TESTING GRASS KNOT WITH AID OF SR BRONZONG!
Basically infernape is an epic lead stealth rocks for well.. you know xD switch in damage. It’s just how i like my infernapes. It works for me. Fake out for stopping the opponants leads and fire blast and close combat for coverage. Infernape manages to deal with Machamp by faking out, then fire blasting then switching out to gyarados for the BP then KO with waterfall.
it deals with anything else by either faking out then stealth rocking or switching depending on my foe.
Naive and the EVs allow for a nice spread and coverage which gives me some good offence capabilities when faced with leads.
Not much else can be said about infernape, its your standard lead which works well to set up whats needed. It can cause some well earned damage but even so, i think he deserves his place for his usefullness.
Suicune @ Life Orb Trait: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Electric]
this thing rapes like nothing ive seen before, after one CM there are few things in the metagame that can stop this monstrosity.
ive seen people try and trick it, send out zapdos's and vaporeons, salamences, flygons, the lot. All raped.
This was recently introduced to me by a glance over on smogon's suicune and the fact that i actually got owned by one of these just before reading it.. Clever me.
But more to the point Surf covers any fire types like infernape or heatran who want to intrude on my parade.
Ice beam OHKO's most celebi's after a CM or two which is ACE! along with pwning any breloom who wants to pop up and chat.
Hidden Power Electric is for those pain in the rear gyarados's who think they can set up on me cos i look like some sort of crocune!
As for why its on a team with trick room; it has immense coverage giving a wide variety of offencive capability and even in trick room, if needs be, can cause some good damage to the things quicker that it, if i choose to utilize it inside the trick room.
I was considering replacing with these:
Gyarados (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Atk / 192 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Dragon Dance
- Taunt
Jolly DD Gyarados... What a beast! This shatters walls and allows itself to set up by doing so and covers some of the weaknesses around my team like fire and fighting. It acts as a nice scizor counter and despite being jolly is still able to pull off some nice hits and KO’s. {Please Note: I have considered CB Gyarados as A) it takes loads of people by suprise and B) it rapes a lot of its counters like Zapdos :D}
DD gyarados is a major sweeper and replaces my mence loss nicely. He also helps counter anything which may wana take a good whack at my team like lucario.
OR
Starmie @ Choice Scarf / Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Hydro Pump
- Trick
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
Standard Scarf Starmie :D Quite a nice addition.
it provides some nice speedy KO's but may be swapped for a Life Orb'er.
Only problem is how good the foes prediction is :/
Bronzong @ Macho Brace
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Brave Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Gyro Ball
- Earthquake
- Explosion
Bronzong... The twist in my team, so to speak. I love this little guy since he throws my foes off by spinning in a nice trick room for them to eat up. I normally come in on a speedy annoying sweeper like azelf or flygon and set up through that. Then i have gyroball to slaughter them with and ofcourse a 0 Spe IV for maximum damage.
Ahh and some people have been wondering why the hell am i using a Trick Room on a team with things like DD Dragonite? Well... A) it catches many people off guard and B) they dont have to be used at the same time. Bronzong and Snorlax do a good enough job to not warrent an enter for a DD'er or the likes for 4 turns or so.
Plus it allows these two to move first for a bit :D
TESTING:
Snorlax (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Immunity
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Pursuit
- Fire Punch
Snorlax is bronzongs co driver so to speak, his partner in crime. With his choice band he acts as an amazing wall for things like starmie and suicune AND is able to deal immense damage to them when returning fire. When the trick room is up, thats when things get heated! Man this thing just RAPES when the trick room goes up, making OHKO’s left right and center to a lot of the pokemon in the metagame. I may consider swapping this for a Curse Lax however.
Why a snorlax on this team? Well its obvious, pursuit counters starmie's and anything else with a funny idea of being able to KO snorlax from the special side of the spectrum AND because of the trick room, it just turns this Choice Banded beast into a sweeper mid game.
Dragonite @ Lum Berry
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Atk / 204 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Dragon Dance
Outrage
Stone Edge
Fire Punch / Earthquake / Thunder Punch
Fire Punch for breloom, Stone Edge / Thunder Punch for Gyarados and other Waters.
Mainly there to counter breloom's spore.
This guy is replacing Mence for the simple reason; he was taken from OU to Uber.. I was using mence as my counter for Brelooms and their spore's because of my lum berry and most people dont think that they can get KO'ed by dragonites dragon claw after switching in... {I hope they are wrong :L cos it didnt happen with mence}
This is where Mence would have been but i am considering using this:
Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
Taunt
Earthquake
U-turn
Roost
Ahh my favourite wall breaker. This is for any pesky Skarmory’s or Blisseys who want a bit of Taunt action. It allows me to prevent whatever they are doing and if i want, u-turn to a suitable counter. Roost allows me to fight with blissey for a bit if i want since i can freely heal and the little fat bitch cant! :D and ofcourse my earthquake loves to eat up meat like blissey :D
Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 220 Def / 36 Spe
Bold (+Def, -SpA)
Recover
Thunder wave
Leech Seed
Psychic
The final pokemon in this pain in the butt team. It hax’s and leeches health, its a brilliant little critter! Blisseys, you like stall? This thing went to Russia and STALLED YOU! Snorlax wants a try? PHA! *seeds* HEALTH IS MIEN! Sweepers wana KO? *twave* >=] u was bragging? xD
I love this guy so much for his stalling capabilities.
Ofcourse i had breloom before this:
Breloom @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 124 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Spore
Substitute
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
This guy used to come in late game and rape anything it could either survive or outspeed! i <3 you breloom and Miss you :'(
OR
I'm considering changing the version of heatran i had but making it scarfed.
like this:
Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Explosion
- Dragon Pulse
Pretty Standard tbh but still owns :)
i like it simply due to its explosion potential and coverage.
I still have:
Timid CM LO Cune.
CS / LO Starmie
Breloom
DD Lum Dragonite
Im considering replacing some of my pokemon with those.
Please aid me in suggesting what i can do.
How i made the team:
Basically i started off with Bronzong and Snorlax and toyed around with the idea of what would go with it.
Originally i came up with these options:
Infernape
Timid CM Suicune
DD Gyarados / CB Gyarados
DD Lum Mence
LO / CS Starmie
Bronzong {TR}
Snorlax {CB}
Breloom
Heatran
Now obviously thats way too many pokemon. So this is what my team resulted as BEFORE salamence went uber.
Infernape
Suicune
Mence
Bronzong
Snorlax
Breloom
I then decided to swap out breloom since my foes mence coverage was weak (and my friend kindly made a nice bulky heatran to slaughter those annoying mence)
but yeah smogon went and made mence uber which:
Defeated the need for my heatran
Killed off a good sweeper and my Breloom Counter.
So that was annoying.
I had to then change my team around to try and suit the fact that ive lost an intimidate, lost a DD'er and lost a breloom counter.
This is what i came up with. { CHANGES IN BOLD }
Infernape (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Blaze
EVs: 52 Atk / 252 Spd / 204 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Fake Out
- Fire Blast
- Close Combat
- Stealth rock / CURRENTLY TESTING GRASS KNOT WITH AID OF SR BRONZONG!
Basically infernape is an epic lead stealth rocks for well.. you know xD switch in damage. It’s just how i like my infernapes. It works for me. Fake out for stopping the opponants leads and fire blast and close combat for coverage. Infernape manages to deal with Machamp by faking out, then fire blasting then switching out to gyarados for the BP then KO with waterfall.
it deals with anything else by either faking out then stealth rocking or switching depending on my foe.
Naive and the EVs allow for a nice spread and coverage which gives me some good offence capabilities when faced with leads.
Not much else can be said about infernape, its your standard lead which works well to set up whats needed. It can cause some well earned damage but even so, i think he deserves his place for his usefullness.
Suicune @ Life Orb Trait: Pressure
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Calm Mind
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Hidden Power [Electric]
this thing rapes like nothing ive seen before, after one CM there are few things in the metagame that can stop this monstrosity.
ive seen people try and trick it, send out zapdos's and vaporeons, salamences, flygons, the lot. All raped.
This was recently introduced to me by a glance over on smogon's suicune and the fact that i actually got owned by one of these just before reading it.. Clever me.
But more to the point Surf covers any fire types like infernape or heatran who want to intrude on my parade.
Ice beam OHKO's most celebi's after a CM or two which is ACE! along with pwning any breloom who wants to pop up and chat.
Hidden Power Electric is for those pain in the rear gyarados's who think they can set up on me cos i look like some sort of crocune!
As for why its on a team with trick room; it has immense coverage giving a wide variety of offencive capability and even in trick room, if needs be, can cause some good damage to the things quicker that it, if i choose to utilize it inside the trick room.
I was considering replacing with these:
Gyarados (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Atk / 192 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Dragon Dance
- Taunt
Jolly DD Gyarados... What a beast! This shatters walls and allows itself to set up by doing so and covers some of the weaknesses around my team like fire and fighting. It acts as a nice scizor counter and despite being jolly is still able to pull off some nice hits and KO’s. {Please Note: I have considered CB Gyarados as A) it takes loads of people by suprise and B) it rapes a lot of its counters like Zapdos :D}
DD gyarados is a major sweeper and replaces my mence loss nicely. He also helps counter anything which may wana take a good whack at my team like lucario.
OR
Starmie @ Choice Scarf / Life Orb
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Hydro Pump
- Trick
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
Standard Scarf Starmie :D Quite a nice addition.
it provides some nice speedy KO's but may be swapped for a Life Orb'er.
Only problem is how good the foes prediction is :/
Bronzong @ Macho Brace
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Brave Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
- Trick Room
- Gyro Ball
- Earthquake
- Explosion
Bronzong... The twist in my team, so to speak. I love this little guy since he throws my foes off by spinning in a nice trick room for them to eat up. I normally come in on a speedy annoying sweeper like azelf or flygon and set up through that. Then i have gyroball to slaughter them with and ofcourse a 0 Spe IV for maximum damage.
Ahh and some people have been wondering why the hell am i using a Trick Room on a team with things like DD Dragonite? Well... A) it catches many people off guard and B) they dont have to be used at the same time. Bronzong and Snorlax do a good enough job to not warrent an enter for a DD'er or the likes for 4 turns or so.
Plus it allows these two to move first for a bit :D
TESTING:
Snorlax (M) @ Choice Band
Trait: Immunity
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 SDef
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Pursuit
- Fire Punch
Snorlax is bronzongs co driver so to speak, his partner in crime. With his choice band he acts as an amazing wall for things like starmie and suicune AND is able to deal immense damage to them when returning fire. When the trick room is up, thats when things get heated! Man this thing just RAPES when the trick room goes up, making OHKO’s left right and center to a lot of the pokemon in the metagame. I may consider swapping this for a Curse Lax however.
Why a snorlax on this team? Well its obvious, pursuit counters starmie's and anything else with a funny idea of being able to KO snorlax from the special side of the spectrum AND because of the trick room, it just turns this Choice Banded beast into a sweeper mid game.
Dragonite @ Lum Berry
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Atk / 204 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Dragon Dance
Outrage
Stone Edge
Fire Punch / Earthquake / Thunder Punch
Fire Punch for breloom, Stone Edge / Thunder Punch for Gyarados and other Waters.
Mainly there to counter breloom's spore.
This guy is replacing Mence for the simple reason; he was taken from OU to Uber.. I was using mence as my counter for Brelooms and their spore's because of my lum berry and most people dont think that they can get KO'ed by dragonites dragon claw after switching in... {I hope they are wrong :L cos it didnt happen with mence}
This is where Mence would have been but i am considering using this:
Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature (+Atk, -Spd)
Taunt
Earthquake
U-turn
Roost
Ahh my favourite wall breaker. This is for any pesky Skarmory’s or Blisseys who want a bit of Taunt action. It allows me to prevent whatever they are doing and if i want, u-turn to a suitable counter. Roost allows me to fight with blissey for a bit if i want since i can freely heal and the little fat bitch cant! :D and ofcourse my earthquake loves to eat up meat like blissey :D
Celebi @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 220 Def / 36 Spe
Bold (+Def, -SpA)
Recover
Thunder wave
Leech Seed
Psychic
The final pokemon in this pain in the butt team. It hax’s and leeches health, its a brilliant little critter! Blisseys, you like stall? This thing went to Russia and STALLED YOU! Snorlax wants a try? PHA! *seeds* HEALTH IS MIEN! Sweepers wana KO? *twave* >=] u was bragging? xD
I love this guy so much for his stalling capabilities.
Ofcourse i had breloom before this:
Breloom @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 124 HP / 252 Atk / 132 Spe
Adamant (+Atk, -SpA)
Spore
Substitute
Focus Punch
Seed Bomb
This guy used to come in late game and rape anything it could either survive or outspeed! i <3 you breloom and Miss you :'(
OR
I'm considering changing the version of heatran i had but making it scarfed.
like this:
Heatran (M) @ Choice Scarf Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Naive Nature (+Spd, -SDef)
- Lava Plume
- Earth Power
- Explosion
- Dragon Pulse
Pretty Standard tbh but still owns :)
i like it simply due to its explosion potential and coverage.
I still have:
Timid CM LO Cune.
CS / LO Starmie
Breloom
DD Lum Dragonite
Im considering replacing some of my pokemon with those.
Please aid me in suggesting what i can do.
