737373elj
Banned deucer.
Hi all!
I’m back again after what seems like MONTHS testing this Sylveon team. I just happened to see it one day, and I thought, why not create a team around it?
But the team isn’t doing well at all. So I decided to come back here again to ask the helpful Smogon people for advice. So here I am. And here’s the team if you want to help :)
The star
Lil Healing Fairy (Sylveon) @ Leftovers
Ability: Pixilate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Wish
- Protect
- Heal Bell
For those of you who also play UU, this little fairy must be familiar to you. The standard cleric set.
For OU players, one look at it should tell you it’s a cleric anyway. Heal Bell, Wish, these moves are only seen on clerics. And you should know the Wish-Protect combo too. Hyper Voice, after Pixilate, becomes a Fairy-type move and allows Sylveon to be a backup Fairy attacker. But try not to go on the Offensive with this Fairy, as it’s rather frail.
The other members
Ninja (Greninja-Ash) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Spikes
So here is my Spikes setter, and Water/Dark attacker. Another basic set.
I chose this set as Sylveon is exteremely weak to Steel and Poison attacks, and Ash-Gren is a very good check to one of the OU gods, Heatran, Steel-killer and Steel-type lord.
Not much to go through, as most of you have seen this ninja on the ladder far too often. Hydro Pump for Water attack, Dark Pulse for Dark, Water Shuriken for the boost it gets when it changes to Ash-Greninja. Self-explanatory. I chose Hydro Pump over Surf because I like the higher damage dealt by Hydro Pump.
Magical Mechanical Fairy (Magearna) @ Leftovers
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 248 HP / 28 Def / 232 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 6 Spe
- Heart Swap
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Flash Cannon
As mentioned, Sylveon is weak to Poison and Steel. Magearna counters Poison-types, especially the common Toxapex, and the occasional below B-rank Poison-types.
Yeah, this is another standard set. All my Pokemon use standard sets. So I’ll stop saying ‘this is a standard set’ if not it’ll drive you out of your minds :)
This one is the Heart Swap set. Personally, I like Heart Swap as a lot of Pokemon use stat-raising moves, and Heart Swap ruins it nicely :). Pain Split is useful when running low on health. Volt Switch is... for switching this Pokemon out for another Pokemon after the opponent has switched or attacked. Flash Cannon is for a Steel-type attack for Poison-types :)
Attitude Problem (Toxapex) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Scald
- Haze
- Recover
- Toxic Spikes
Toxapex is for tanking hits with its sky-High Defenses. Oh yeah, and setting Toxic Spikes.
Scald is for a Water-type move; a damaging move so it doesn’t get destroyed by Taunt. Haze destroys all stat boosts, and is just as useful as Heart Swap at destroying opposing Pokemon. Recover is for recovery. And I’ve said Toxic Spikes.
Vulcan (Heatran) @ Steelium Z
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flash Cannon
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
And we finally get to the most useful Pokemon. Actually, the two most useful Pokemon, the other is below :)
Heatran is the kill-all-Steel-types-except-itself OP ‘mon. Oh yeah, and the OU god. This guy helps destroy all other Steel-types apart from itself to make Sylveon’s life easier. This guy is also my Stealth Rock setter.
Not much to say here. Flash Cannon takes care of Poison-types. So yeah, this guy is also my Poison-killer :)
Magma Storm is for Fire-type STAB, and how I kill Steel-types. It’s so inaccurate however, so I’m planning on changing this to Lava Plume so that I COULD AT LEAST HIT SOMETHING!!!
Earth Power, if I’m certain I outspeed the opponent’s Heatran, could be used to kill opposing Heatrans. And other Steel-types. And Poison-types.
Earthy (Landorus-Therian) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- U-turn
The last Pokemon in this arsenal, Landorus-Therian kills Steel- and Poison-types easily. He is also my other Stealth Rock setter.
Ok, so I’ve said Stealth Rock. Earthquake works the same way as Earth Power on Heatran, killing Steel- and Poison-types. HP Ice is for coverage, and can deal a large amount of damage to Pokemon exteremely weak to Ice such as Lando-T and Garchomp. U-Turn does the same job as Volt Switch on Magearna.
Replays:
None at the moment. I forgot to save some replays. If you saved a replay with a Sylveon on the opposing team, reply this message with the replay because that is almost certainly me :)
Thanks for reading, and give helpful suggestions!
I’m back again after what seems like MONTHS testing this Sylveon team. I just happened to see it one day, and I thought, why not create a team around it?
But the team isn’t doing well at all. So I decided to come back here again to ask the helpful Smogon people for advice. So here I am. And here’s the team if you want to help :)
The star
Lil Healing Fairy (Sylveon) @ Leftovers
Ability: Pixilate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Wish
- Protect
- Heal Bell
For those of you who also play UU, this little fairy must be familiar to you. The standard cleric set.
For OU players, one look at it should tell you it’s a cleric anyway. Heal Bell, Wish, these moves are only seen on clerics. And you should know the Wish-Protect combo too. Hyper Voice, after Pixilate, becomes a Fairy-type move and allows Sylveon to be a backup Fairy attacker. But try not to go on the Offensive with this Fairy, as it’s rather frail.
The other members
Ninja (Greninja-Ash) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Spikes
So here is my Spikes setter, and Water/Dark attacker. Another basic set.
I chose this set as Sylveon is exteremely weak to Steel and Poison attacks, and Ash-Gren is a very good check to one of the OU gods, Heatran, Steel-killer and Steel-type lord.
Not much to go through, as most of you have seen this ninja on the ladder far too often. Hydro Pump for Water attack, Dark Pulse for Dark, Water Shuriken for the boost it gets when it changes to Ash-Greninja. Self-explanatory. I chose Hydro Pump over Surf because I like the higher damage dealt by Hydro Pump.
Magical Mechanical Fairy (Magearna) @ Leftovers
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 248 HP / 28 Def / 232 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 6 Spe
- Heart Swap
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Flash Cannon
As mentioned, Sylveon is weak to Poison and Steel. Magearna counters Poison-types, especially the common Toxapex, and the occasional below B-rank Poison-types.
Yeah, this is another standard set. All my Pokemon use standard sets. So I’ll stop saying ‘this is a standard set’ if not it’ll drive you out of your minds :)
This one is the Heart Swap set. Personally, I like Heart Swap as a lot of Pokemon use stat-raising moves, and Heart Swap ruins it nicely :). Pain Split is useful when running low on health. Volt Switch is... for switching this Pokemon out for another Pokemon after the opponent has switched or attacked. Flash Cannon is for a Steel-type attack for Poison-types :)
Attitude Problem (Toxapex) @ Black Sludge
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Scald
- Haze
- Recover
- Toxic Spikes
Toxapex is for tanking hits with its sky-High Defenses. Oh yeah, and setting Toxic Spikes.
Scald is for a Water-type move; a damaging move so it doesn’t get destroyed by Taunt. Haze destroys all stat boosts, and is just as useful as Heart Swap at destroying opposing Pokemon. Recover is for recovery. And I’ve said Toxic Spikes.
Vulcan (Heatran) @ Steelium Z
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flash Cannon
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
And we finally get to the most useful Pokemon. Actually, the two most useful Pokemon, the other is below :)
Heatran is the kill-all-Steel-types-except-itself OP ‘mon. Oh yeah, and the OU god. This guy helps destroy all other Steel-types apart from itself to make Sylveon’s life easier. This guy is also my Stealth Rock setter.
Not much to say here. Flash Cannon takes care of Poison-types. So yeah, this guy is also my Poison-killer :)
Magma Storm is for Fire-type STAB, and how I kill Steel-types. It’s so inaccurate however, so I’m planning on changing this to Lava Plume so that I COULD AT LEAST HIT SOMETHING!!!
Earth Power, if I’m certain I outspeed the opponent’s Heatran, could be used to kill opposing Heatrans. And other Steel-types. And Poison-types.
Earthy (Landorus-Therian) @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- U-turn
The last Pokemon in this arsenal, Landorus-Therian kills Steel- and Poison-types easily. He is also my other Stealth Rock setter.
Ok, so I’ve said Stealth Rock. Earthquake works the same way as Earth Power on Heatran, killing Steel- and Poison-types. HP Ice is for coverage, and can deal a large amount of damage to Pokemon exteremely weak to Ice such as Lando-T and Garchomp. U-Turn does the same job as Volt Switch on Magearna.
Replays:
None at the moment. I forgot to save some replays. If you saved a replay with a Sylveon on the opposing team, reply this message with the replay because that is almost certainly me :)
Thanks for reading, and give helpful suggestions!
Sylveon @ Leftovers
Ability: Pixilate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Wish
- Protect
- Heal Bell
Greninja-Ash @ Choice Specs
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Spikes
Magearna @ Leftovers
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 248 HP / 28 Def / 232 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 6 Spe
- Heart Swap
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Flash Cannon
Toxapex @ Black Sludge
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Scald
- Haze
- Recover
- Toxic Spikes
Heatran @ Steelium Z
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flash Cannon
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
Landorus-Therian @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- U-turn
Ability: Pixilate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA
Bold Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Wish
- Protect
- Heal Bell
Greninja-Ash @ Choice Specs
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Spikes
Magearna @ Leftovers
Ability: Soul-Heart
EVs: 248 HP / 28 Def / 232 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 6 Spe
- Heart Swap
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Flash Cannon
Toxapex @ Black Sludge
Ability: Regenerator
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
- Scald
- Haze
- Recover
- Toxic Spikes
Heatran @ Steelium Z
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Flash Cannon
- Magma Storm
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
Landorus-Therian @ Leftovers
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 112 Def / 144 Spe
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- U-turn
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