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Porygon 2 has been around forever, but his lead potential is so great now: Pre-evo stone boosts his defenses, and Magic Coat is absolute hell for SR leads, among other things. I posted a full set in the single rates thread.

Porygon2 @ Pre-Evolution stone Trace / Analyze 236 HP / 116 Def / 72 SpA / 80 SDef or simply 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpA Bold - Discharge / Thunderbolt - Ice Beam - Recover - Magic Coat / Toxic This is an old set I'd like to bring up, as I think it can do great things again. Blue Ace...

Oh, jolly good then.

Steel walls such as Skarmory and Forretress have jobs more important than ever now with things like Ononokusu and Doryuzuu on the loose. Shanderaa will be relied upon heavily to take care of pokemon like Skarm though, who focus more on physical defense.

You seem to have most threats covered now as your synergy seems good, which is the most important thing I guess. I'm curious, how much does Night Shade on Dusclops do to standard bulky Starmie? I can't imagine it's very much, and Starmie does have Recover and Natural Cure to boot. I personally...

I considered Chomp, but I figured I didn't really need another choice user/set-up sweeper. Dragonite hits harder on both sides of the offensive spectrum with pretty much the same bulk of Garchomp. The rock weakness I have is counteracted by the 3 resists well enough, I think.

At a glance I can see that nothing really takes special attacks. Your sweepers may or may not be able to beat special sweepers but this seems like quite a glaring weakness. Forgive me for being too lazy to really come up with specific things that you have no answer to, but you get the message...

Seconding replacing Taunt on Sazando, as it's running LO anyway so you may as well go for coverage. Anyway, the team style seems to be like a lot of early ones (throw in a wall or two, then rely on Shandera and Ditto to take care of threats) which is by no means bad at this point. However, an...

Wide Guard is only really usable in Doubles, so assuming you wrote this set for standard play you can go ahead and ditch that altogether for U-Turn or something. If you don't opt for U-Turn though, I don't really see why you're running Regenerate over Reckless. Since this set is to "take out...

Yeah, Zoroark is most probably landing in OU because of its unique ability and respectable offensive ability. One thing that really screwed it up in early tests though was Stealth Rock: it took more/less SR damage than the pokemon it was copying, which is an obvious giveaway to [competent]...

Yes, it has already been mentioned. As I said, I'm still hesitant to run Multi Scale as it just doesn't seem to fit with an all out offensive MixNite, however useful it is.

Completely forgot about Intimidate on Zuruzukin, ugh. Anyway, guess I'm going with that over Overconfident as well. And yes, U-Turn with Regenerate is too good to ignore for now, so I'll stick with that. Multi Scale sounded good to me when I was considering Roost/Leftovers, but is it really...

The generation is still very new to competitive and thus different kinds of teams and styles of battling need to be tested (as well as the pokemon themselves) so here's my attempt. Forgive me if the EVs aren't well thought-out, they're what I have to work with at this point considering not much...

Not necessarily true; remember that it can still outspeed most offensive pokemon as well, who can't take hits like the listed defensive ones can. So while it may have been overhyped by some as a stallbreaker, it still looks like the number one threat this gen (as of now at least) because of its...

A quick comment: nothing can really take ice attacks, and while Shanderaa can probably kill most threats, it may be a bit scary to have nothing to take such a common attacking type. Offensive teams in the 4th gen relied heavily on resistances, so perhaps that will continue on now. Nice to see...

The thing is, how useful would this thing be apart from handling Shanderaa? Doesn't seem fit for a team slot just so you're not totally screwed over. As Blue Harvest said, there will probably be ways to create a team that can beat it when all the hype settles down.

With things like Shadow Tag Shanderaa, it's beginning to look like stall will take quite a small role in the 5th gen. This is big because stall, or at least bulk, was relied upon heavily in D/P/P. With the almost ridiculous power creep now though, it looks like a faster paced metagame is in...

Though I have no complete set atm, Kojondo seems like a great lead. Iirc its Attack/Speed is 125/110, which already shows you the potential hurt it can deal. Although its type gives it no advantage against Azelf, its ability is the key to this. Regeneration replenishes its HP by 1/3 when it...

Uh huh, unfortunately. Personally I only battle on Shoddy (and the new one at Smogon looks very promising) so it's only good news for simulator users. :/ Bliss remains a top tier special wall nonetheless.

I remember when Smogon unbanned Deoxys-s for a bit. Although it didn't quite revolutionize the way people built teams as Garchomp (who should be on this Ubers list, shouldn't it?), a LOT of people used it, and quite successfully I might add. I remember it to be one of the most annoying leads and...