Hello, my name's Garagara. I have a stupid need to make teams with a specific pattern, such as every poke evolving 3 times, or one being from every gen (plus 1 of whatever), or something dumb. This team was supposed to be all 3 evo pokes, and it almost is.
But during my stupidness, I actually developed a pretty good team with a certain playstyle that ended up working pretty well. I'm not a huge fan of hyperoffense, and I can't stand stall either. This one's kind of a mix of both. They're pretty much all slow, bulky pokes with a ton of priority. This team's gotten me pretty high on the ladder, I think the highest was around 100 on PO's dream world. And I don't spend much time at all on it, so I think it's pretty cool.
So, without any further wasting of peoples' time...
So yeah the teambuilding process made no real sense and took place over a long period of time. I'm also pretty terrible with EV's, and so the numbers are probably gonna be pretty lame.
Eelektross
@leftovers
252 hp/252 spa/4 def
Modest Nature
Levitate
Flamethrower
Grass knot
Thunderbolt
Volt Change
My usual lead. For a long time I tried to do the traditional thing, with SR leads, antileads, suicide leads, what have you. But team preview makes all this a lot more difficult, so most of the time predicting the right poke to lead with is all you really need to do, IMO. Anyways, I love this guy. He's pretty bulky, and has no weaknesses. For a while there haxorus was running a bit rampant, and with mold breaker he gave this guy problems, but I haven't seen them around that much. With these 3 move types, he hits a lot of stuff for unexpected SE damage, taking out nattoreis, scizors, gyaradoses, the genies (Minus landorus), rotom forms, and a few other things. Unfortunately he doesn't have many other special options, and I haven't had much success with a mixed or physical set. He's not useless or anything, but he miiight have to go. Maybe. The flying/electric resist and ground immunity is pretty important for my team, and no weaknesses, immunities to spikes/tspikes is also awesome.
Togekiss
@Choice Scarf
252 SpA/252 Spe/4 Hp
Timid Nature
Serene grace
Air slash
Trick
Flamethrower
Aura sphere
Yeah, I know, it's mean. But I don't feel too bad, simply because of its unpopularity and because Jirachi does the same thing, but is more OP, in my opinion. Anyway I really think trick is a must have on every team. There's so often that one poke that your team can't do squat to at the end of a match, when your counters to it are KO'd. Trick neuters everything, and I love it. It also makes a pretty mean lead a lot of the time, with it's high speed and hax, it's kind of a fail safe. There really aren't that many flying resists out there anymore, except steels and rocks, which is what the last two moves are for. They're rarely used though, unless the Scarf's already tricked, since I won't be staying in against Ttars or anything anytime soon.
Scizor
@Leftovers
252 Atk/252 Hp/4 SpD
Adamant Nature
technician
Swords Dance
Bullet Punch
Bug Bite
Aerial ace
Scizor. The man. Just the coolest poke ever. Ash should really think about getting one ' these bad boys. So yeah, the first of my priority users, and one of the best there is. There's not much to say about scizor that hasn't already been said. I do think that I'm going to change him up a bit though, make him more Specially defensive. Seems all scizors are going that way, and I may do the same. Friggen Latios needs to be banned again damnit. Scizor's kinda dieing though I think, with all the damn 5th gen threats out there. Jellicent is getting more popular, who Scizor hates, but I'm not sure if I want to put night slash on there or not. And gliscor/landorus take diddly from any of these moves too. So yeah, suggestions are welcome. Keeping scizor, for sure, but moveset can definately be changed.
Azumarill
@Choice Band
252 Hp/252 Atk/4 Def
Adamant Nature
Huge power
Aqua Jet
Ice punch
Superpower
Return
Yeah, he's actually pretty bulky, and yeah, Aqua Jet does a ton of damage, but Azumarill isn't that great. He's a great check against dory, urugamosu, anything else weak to water, but he's absolutely stopped cold by jellicent/most bulky waters. I like him because he's got the strongest jet around, and he's a 3 evo poke, but other than that he can be dead weight some games. Not to mention the prevalence of sun and rain teams. He actually does terribly against both, since sun weakens aqua jet and rain teams are full of water types and powerfull electric moves. Thinking about feraligatr, with encourage and swords dance, I bet his aqua jet's pretty mean too. Also the only poke on my team who cares about tspikes.
Conkeldurr
@Big Root
252 Def/252 Atk/4 SpD
Adamant Nature
Guts
Bulk Up
Drain Punch
Mach Punch
Payback
Ah, Conkeldurr. The baddassiest/scariest poke there is. I really don't like his name though. Seriously, both his prevos have way better names. Timburr and gurdurr are great. ANYWAYS, yeah he rocks your socks. Big Root might seem a little strange, but that extra drainage is awesome. And personally, I prefer payback to stone edge, taking out jellicent pretty handily. Not to mention guts, taking poison and paralysis like a champ and hitting haaard. This guys mach punch is insanely strong, and is another surefire dory kill. He's also very tough with maxed out def.
Reuniclus
@Life Orb
252 Hp/252 SpA/4 Def
Quiet Nature
Magic Guard
Trick Room
Psychic
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
And the coolest poke ever made. Seriously, he's so original, I love this little cutie. I still remember seeing him for the first time in that triple battle screenshot forever ago, and I was really hoping he's be awesome. I also thought he'd be grass/ghost, but w/e. This dude is the glue for my team. With the exception of togekiss and (Kinda) scizor, my team's all super slow, and all of them can take advantage of TR. Plus, with all the priority, all I really have to do is weaken the enemy team a bit for Reuniclus to do his thing, which is easier since they always go first and are guaranteed to do at least some damage. But even without their help, Jello here has 5 free turns of massacres if he can get TR up, which is really easy if you're not a dolt.
So yeah, that's the team. I might have to replace some pokes, but it's been doing pretty well thus far.
But during my stupidness, I actually developed a pretty good team with a certain playstyle that ended up working pretty well. I'm not a huge fan of hyperoffense, and I can't stand stall either. This one's kind of a mix of both. They're pretty much all slow, bulky pokes with a ton of priority. This team's gotten me pretty high on the ladder, I think the highest was around 100 on PO's dream world. And I don't spend much time at all on it, so I think it's pretty cool.
So, without any further wasting of peoples' time...
THE DUDES
So yeah the teambuilding process made no real sense and took place over a long period of time. I'm also pretty terrible with EV's, and so the numbers are probably gonna be pretty lame.
Eelektross
@leftovers
252 hp/252 spa/4 def
Modest Nature
Levitate
Flamethrower
Grass knot
Thunderbolt
Volt Change
My usual lead. For a long time I tried to do the traditional thing, with SR leads, antileads, suicide leads, what have you. But team preview makes all this a lot more difficult, so most of the time predicting the right poke to lead with is all you really need to do, IMO. Anyways, I love this guy. He's pretty bulky, and has no weaknesses. For a while there haxorus was running a bit rampant, and with mold breaker he gave this guy problems, but I haven't seen them around that much. With these 3 move types, he hits a lot of stuff for unexpected SE damage, taking out nattoreis, scizors, gyaradoses, the genies (Minus landorus), rotom forms, and a few other things. Unfortunately he doesn't have many other special options, and I haven't had much success with a mixed or physical set. He's not useless or anything, but he miiight have to go. Maybe. The flying/electric resist and ground immunity is pretty important for my team, and no weaknesses, immunities to spikes/tspikes is also awesome.
Togekiss
@Choice Scarf
252 SpA/252 Spe/4 Hp
Timid Nature
Serene grace
Air slash
Trick
Flamethrower
Aura sphere
Yeah, I know, it's mean. But I don't feel too bad, simply because of its unpopularity and because Jirachi does the same thing, but is more OP, in my opinion. Anyway I really think trick is a must have on every team. There's so often that one poke that your team can't do squat to at the end of a match, when your counters to it are KO'd. Trick neuters everything, and I love it. It also makes a pretty mean lead a lot of the time, with it's high speed and hax, it's kind of a fail safe. There really aren't that many flying resists out there anymore, except steels and rocks, which is what the last two moves are for. They're rarely used though, unless the Scarf's already tricked, since I won't be staying in against Ttars or anything anytime soon.
Scizor
@Leftovers
252 Atk/252 Hp/4 SpD
Adamant Nature
technician
Swords Dance
Bullet Punch
Bug Bite
Aerial ace
Scizor. The man. Just the coolest poke ever. Ash should really think about getting one ' these bad boys. So yeah, the first of my priority users, and one of the best there is. There's not much to say about scizor that hasn't already been said. I do think that I'm going to change him up a bit though, make him more Specially defensive. Seems all scizors are going that way, and I may do the same. Friggen Latios needs to be banned again damnit. Scizor's kinda dieing though I think, with all the damn 5th gen threats out there. Jellicent is getting more popular, who Scizor hates, but I'm not sure if I want to put night slash on there or not. And gliscor/landorus take diddly from any of these moves too. So yeah, suggestions are welcome. Keeping scizor, for sure, but moveset can definately be changed.
Azumarill
@Choice Band
252 Hp/252 Atk/4 Def
Adamant Nature
Huge power
Aqua Jet
Ice punch
Superpower
Return
Yeah, he's actually pretty bulky, and yeah, Aqua Jet does a ton of damage, but Azumarill isn't that great. He's a great check against dory, urugamosu, anything else weak to water, but he's absolutely stopped cold by jellicent/most bulky waters. I like him because he's got the strongest jet around, and he's a 3 evo poke, but other than that he can be dead weight some games. Not to mention the prevalence of sun and rain teams. He actually does terribly against both, since sun weakens aqua jet and rain teams are full of water types and powerfull electric moves. Thinking about feraligatr, with encourage and swords dance, I bet his aqua jet's pretty mean too. Also the only poke on my team who cares about tspikes.
Conkeldurr
@Big Root
252 Def/252 Atk/4 SpD
Adamant Nature
Guts
Bulk Up
Drain Punch
Mach Punch
Payback
Ah, Conkeldurr. The baddassiest/scariest poke there is. I really don't like his name though. Seriously, both his prevos have way better names. Timburr and gurdurr are great. ANYWAYS, yeah he rocks your socks. Big Root might seem a little strange, but that extra drainage is awesome. And personally, I prefer payback to stone edge, taking out jellicent pretty handily. Not to mention guts, taking poison and paralysis like a champ and hitting haaard. This guys mach punch is insanely strong, and is another surefire dory kill. He's also very tough with maxed out def.
Reuniclus
@Life Orb
252 Hp/252 SpA/4 Def
Quiet Nature
Magic Guard
Trick Room
Psychic
Shadow Ball
Focus Blast
And the coolest poke ever made. Seriously, he's so original, I love this little cutie. I still remember seeing him for the first time in that triple battle screenshot forever ago, and I was really hoping he's be awesome. I also thought he'd be grass/ghost, but w/e. This dude is the glue for my team. With the exception of togekiss and (Kinda) scizor, my team's all super slow, and all of them can take advantage of TR. Plus, with all the priority, all I really have to do is weaken the enemy team a bit for Reuniclus to do his thing, which is easier since they always go first and are guaranteed to do at least some damage. But even without their help, Jello here has 5 free turns of massacres if he can get TR up, which is really easy if you're not a dolt.
So yeah, that's the team. I might have to replace some pokes, but it's been doing pretty well thus far.
