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[dahbch]

(OU) First Competitive Team

This is my first competitive team that I have ever done, and I'll appreciate all comments and criticism. I am willing to change any move on any of these sets or add/remove pokemon with good reasons. BTW all of these pokemon are already trained.

Zoroark @ life orb
nature: timid
ability: illusion
evs: 4HP/252Spattk/252Speed
moves:
-night daze
-focus blast
-flamethrower
-taunt

His ability works perfectly with gengar because of their respective typings; however that is about it for the reason of having him on the team.

Whimsicott @ Eject button?
nature: Impish
ability: prankster
evs: 252HP/128Def/128Spdef?
moves:
-tailwind
-memento
-encore
-protect/ giga drain

He is on the team to give tailwind support and crippling pokemon with memento and encore. Memento and encore often force switch outs or are forced to take a hit/hits. I'm not sure on eject button but it helps for when i use tailwind and I automatically get a free switch.The reason for protect is to save his eject button from things like fake out and protect helps me choose between tailwind or encore; however, leftovers and giga drain is another possibility, but then I would have to change metagross's item

Gengar @ focus sash
nature: timid
ability: levitate
evs: 4HP/252Spattk/252Speed
moves:
-shadow ball
-focus blast
-destiny bond
-psychic

I love gengar he has the potential to KO many pokemon thx to his high speed and focus sash. destiny bond is to make sure to take someone down once he has used his focus sash. He has no problem taking out two pokemon on any team. The main reason why im considering psychic is because gengar hasn't been an effective counter to fighter types; he isn't capable of 2HKOing some fighting types with his stab shadow ball which is unfortunate and really dissapointing. He recently got embarrassed by a throh with payback on my last subway attempt with him.

Dragonite @ lum berry
nature: impish
ability: multiscale
evs: 252HP/4Attk/252Speed
moves:
-dragon dance
-roost
-fire punch
-dragon claw

Dragonite has no problem getting one dragon dance off and he is often capable of getting two. I believe a lum berry is necessary for sweepers because all of the status conditions people love to use. i can roost stall too on moves like stone edge that have low pp because roost 1/4 the power of ice and rock moves assuming he gets back to full health and is faster...he usually is after dragon dancing.

Metagross @ leftovers
nature: adamant
ability: clear body
evs: 4HP/252Attk/252Speed
moves:
-meteor mash
-earthquake
-bullet punch
-agility/zen headbutt

Metagross is currently on my team because of his awesome type coverage with dragonite. Im considering replacing metagross with a heatran and replacing fire punch on dragonite with thunder punch or possibly even earthquake. Unfortunately he can't get thunder fire or ice punch anymore.

porygon2 @ eviolite
nature: bold
ability: trace
evs: 4HP/252Def/252Spdef
moves:
-toxic
-ice beam
-discharge/ charge beam
-recover

Optional Pokemon

Volcarona @ ?
nature: calm
ability: flame body
evs: ?
moves:
-bug buzz
-flamethrower
-hp rock
-quiver dance

Zapdos @ ?
nature: timid
ability: pressure
evs: 128HP/128Spattk/252Speed
moves:
-heat wave
-thunder bolt
-roost
-substitute/volt switch/?

 

[Mayu808]

Zoroark could use the sash cause his defense isn't great.
I personally enjoy subseed whimsicott but your set works too, just maybe take protect for giga drain and use lefties.
Gengar should use a life orb so that when he does attack, he'll kill something before he dies, which doesn't happen as frequently as you think.
If your going to use a lum berry, you might as well run outrage, but you don't have to.
Use agility on metagross
For the last poke I'd use porygon2 because it's got great defenses and with trace, if you trace multiscale, that would just be awesome maybe try charge beam so you can get more spA
Sorry for the wall of text.

 

[dahbch]

Zoroark could use the sash cause his defense isn't great.
I personally enjoy subseed whimsicott but your set works too, just maybe take protect for giga drain and use lefties.
Gengar should use a life orb so that when he does attack, he'll kill something before he dies, which doesn't happen as frequently as you think.
If your going to use a lum berry, you might as well run outrage, but you don't have to.
Use agility on metagross
For the last poke I'd use porygon2 because it's got great defenses and with trace, if you trace multiscale, that would just be awesome maybe try charge beam so you can get more spA
Sorry for the wall of text.

I might put a life orb on zoroark because the focus sash/destiny bond combo works great on Gengar; my gengar has lower defences than my zoroark because of poor IVs too. The only reason why I don't like using outrage is because someone can easily send in a steel type and set up or kill dragonite while he is locked on outrage.
I like porygon2's trace as well...I'll go ahead and move him up to be part of the actual team. thx for your help

 

[Mayu808]

No problem also, is this for random wifi, or just regular wifi battles? Cause if it's regular wifi battles the there's no item clause and could put leftovers on everything. Oh, and for gengars last move, use psychic to kill fighting types.

 

[dahbch]

No problem also, is this for random wifi, or just regular wifi battles? Cause if it's regular wifi battles the there's no item clause and could put leftovers on everything. Oh, and for gengars last move, use psychic to kill fighting types.

As of right now this is just a random wifi team. I have no idea how to enter wifi tournaments and never had before. I changed gengar's last move to psychic; I was always leaning towards making that the last move, and now with your help it is official.

 

[Mayu808]

Well the only way to enter one is to look online or locally for someone holding one. There's also the vgc in California, pokemosh pit tournaments, and others. But if it's for random wifi you have to deal with that annoying item clause.

 

[dahbch]

Well the only way to enter one is to look online or locally for someone holding one. There's also the vgc in California, pokemosh pit tournaments, and others. But if it's for random wifi you have to deal with that annoying item clause.

Thanks for the heads up but I want be traveling anywhere for a tournament anytime soon and I'll be strictly random wifi unless I decide to join some online tournament.