Revised DP Team

[Taishaku]

The last build I used featured two Walls. After playing, I realized Walling did not suit me. So I rebuilt my team, focusing around Sweepers and Wall-Breakers.

Heracross@Choice Scarf
252 Attack 252 Speed 6 Defense
Jolly, Guts
-Megahorn
-Close Combat
-Stone Edge
-Pursuit

Lead, very fast. He now has Pursuit to hunt down Psychics.

Gengar@Life Orb
252 Special Attack 252 Speed 6 HP
Modest, Levitate
-Shadow Ball
-Thunderbolt
-Giga Drain
-Destiny Bond

Special Sweeper. Anything I can't handle is removed with Destiny Bond. Giga Drain to keep Life Orb going once and awhile, it's like a Recover that only works on SE and 100% Pokes.

Starmie@Leftovers
252 Special Attack 252 Speed 6 HP
Timid, Natural Cure
-Surf
-Thunderbolt
-Ice Beam
-Rapid Spin

Boltbeamer and adhoc Rapid Spinner. I don't plan on ever staying in to Recover.

Vaporeon@Leftovers
252 Defense 140 HP 118 Special Defense
Relaxed, Aqua Absorb
-Surf
-Substitute
-Baton Pass
-Wish

WishPasser. Relaxed so it can tank for Starmie and Gengar before BPing.

Dugtrio@Choice Band
252 Attack 252 Speed 6 Special Defense
Adamant, Arena Trap
-Earthquake
-Stone Edge
-Aerial Ace
-Night Slash

Trapper; kills any electric Poke except Zapdos pretty much and Heracrosses; a revenge-killer if anything. I use Night Slash over Sucker Punch because I don't care if I can outrun a Weavile with it (not much else is faster), I'll switch out of those messes.

Infernape@Life Orb
156 Attack 100 Special Attack 252 Speed
Hasty, Blaze
-Thunderpunch
-Close Combat
-Flame Blast
-Grass Knot

Wall-Breaker. TPunch for Gyarados and Milotic (I have Stone Edge or Earthquake on practically every other Pokemon on my team, no worries), Grass Knot for Swampert, Flame Blast for Skarmory, and Close Combat for Blissey and Snorlax.

 

[aquasuicune]

Dugtrio's still going to get hit by a lot of pokemon if it's adamant. I think you should go jolly. After all, you do have a choice band to boost his attack.

 

[koda]

I think this is going to inspire me to drop Blissey from my team. I only ever included it because people told me I needed Blissey or Cresselia, but I see plenty of people who obviously know their stuff posting teams without a cookie-cutter special wall.

Thanks.

 

[Taishaku]

Dugtrio has 120 base speed. It's main targets (Magnezone, Raichu, Tyranitar that's stuck on Stone Edge, CB Heracross, Jolteon, Bissey; anything weak to Dark/Flying/Ground/Rock with low Defense and/or HP) are either going to totally outstrip it or just simply won't outrun it. The ones that can outstrip it (Jolteon, Scarfcross) are either trapped on their Choice rock or ill-equipped to handle Dugtrio. Jolly will not let me outrun Jolteon or Scarfcross; if you say Weavile, shutup, I have no business fighting Weaviles with a Dugtrio. On the other hand, an Adamant Dugtrio with full Attack EVs can easily 2HKO a Blissey or Tyranitar (If it's pure Attack-Speed EV Tyranitar, OHKO).

I usually switch into Vaporeon against a Ground/Rock/Fire type, force them to switch into something with Electric, then switch into Dugtrio, absorbing the hit and trapping them.

Dugtrio is also a good Wobuffet counter if you stick on Substitute and Toxic.

Blissey is good if you know how to use her. The best way is to switch her in to tank a hit, then switch out, thus resetting Choice Band movesets. If they have nothing but Specials left, you can sit inside, Toxic them or something, and Softboil spam.

 

[Taishaku]

Does anyone have anything to add?

 

[aipomkong]

What switches into Salamence's Draco Meteor and isn't ohko'd?

also lacks a solid gyarados counter. recover-less starmie is not a reliable gyara counter

 

[Penquin]

I would use Gyrados instead of Vaporeon.