Well this is my first RMT and I am going to give it my best. I have looked around for a good while and not new to battling.
So there is a tourny coming up here where I live and I am trying to be prepared. Now while the rules are very similar to online there are a few differences. First there is no sleep clause, item clause second swift swim and drizzle is not banned and neither is excadrill with sand rush. The only pokemon banned are
Arceus, Darkrai, Deoxy S,A, and regular, Dialga, Giratina, and O, Groudon, HO-OH, Kyorge, Kyrem-W, Lugia, Palkia, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Reshiram, and finally Zekrom
All abilities are allowed including all dream world. So with all that information being said here is the team I have come up with.
Politoed@ Left Overs
Drizzle
Evs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SpDef
Bold
Scald
Refresh
Perish Song
Protect
Ok so I chose a drizzle team. Of course I need politoed to bring the permanent rain. I wanted him very buly to last the whole match. I gave him scald as a nice stab and to possibly spread burns. Refresh is a move I have played around with for a long time on politoed and I have come to fall in love with it. When ever I get burned or a status my open assumes they won the weather war until I heal my self. Perish song for the baton pass teams that I hate and as well for the last stat upper pokemon. Protect is for two things. 1st to scout out what moves my opponent is using and to try to figure the set while also getting back that very important left over recovery health.
Tornadus-T@ Choice Specs
Regenerator
Evs: 4 Def/252 SpA/252 Speed
Timid
Hurricane
Air Slash
Focus Blast
Sleep Talk
I chose this guy for the trolly speed tier, good special attack, and its stab specs hurricane. I have him as a check to alot of pokemon but mainly breloom and volcorona. No pokemon enjoys coming in on a specs hurricane unless it is special defense jirachi. I obviouly had to give him hurricane as to the weather but I also gave him air slash for sun teams. I dont like taking chances on hurricanes n the sun. with air slashes 30% flinch hax this move tortues sun teams. Focus blast is mainly there for things like rotom-w and tyranitar, things that hurricane and air slash wont hit very hard. Lastly sleep talk is there for breloom or any other mon trying to put my team to sleep.
Genesect@ Life Orb
Download
Evs: 24 HP/252 SpA/228 Speed/4 SpDef
Modest
Rock Polish
Giga Drain
Ice Beam
Flame Thrower
I have loved this set ever since I have used it. I consider this set one of the most dealiest sets around. When genesect gets one boost he his gone. Giga drain is very important for life recovery but also for things like gastrodon, rotom-w, terakion while not worring about not having thunder bolt. Ice beam is for dragons and grass types while flame thrower is mainly for steels like ferrothorn , scizor and skarmory who he hits amazingly strong for in the rain still. Once genesects counters are gone genesect will sweep almost everytime.
Kingdra @ Life orb
Swiftswim
EVS: 252 speed / 252 sp.atk / 4 atk
Hasty
Hydro Pump
Draco Meteor
Outrage
Waterfall
Ok for all of you who saw this coming, yeah come on swift swim and drizzle. Kingdra to me is the king no pun intended in the rain. Both stabs are completely strong and only walled by ferrothorn. Hydro pump is for pure power while waterfall for the accuracy depending how I feel at the moment. Then with draco meteor and out rage it depends where in the game I am. If it is still early i will go for a draco so i am not stuck in an outrage to be set up on, while later in the end I will outrage to finish up the match. I just love how all his moves are stab with only really one weakness.
Toxicroak@ Black Sludge
Dry Skin
Evs: 244 HP/132 ATK/120 Def/12 Speed
Adamant
Bulk Up
Drain Punch
Sucker Punch/ Ice Punch
Substiute
I have toxicroak for a couple reasons. The main reason is because he is one of my favorite pokeomon but for this team he does a couple of things for me. First he is a great counter to manaphy and keldeo who can be a royal pain and secondly take care of ferrothorn who walls kingdra. I gave him bulk up because givin the chance he can win the game for me. Since I chose the bulky set he can take a lot more than usual. I gave him drain punch for recovery and stab. while in the rain with dry skin black sludge and drain punch, it takes so much just to bring this guy down. The second attack I keep going back and fourth between sucker punch and ice punch. While both are good they both serve different purposes. Ice punch is for gliscor who walls this set completely while sucker punch is a great priority and takes care of the l@ti twins really easily. Lastly substitute is to keep me from getting paralyzed/ burned so I can keep bulking up and possibly sweep or switch to the appropriate counter.
The last pokemon I have no idea who to put on my team. I am hoping you all can help me here where I can not think of anything.
My biggest concerns with this team are volt-turn teams and smash pas teams. I hope this is the right place for this. If not could some one direct me to the right place please.
Thank you all for your time and be critical.
So there is a tourny coming up here where I live and I am trying to be prepared. Now while the rules are very similar to online there are a few differences. First there is no sleep clause, item clause second swift swim and drizzle is not banned and neither is excadrill with sand rush. The only pokemon banned are
Arceus, Darkrai, Deoxy S,A, and regular, Dialga, Giratina, and O, Groudon, HO-OH, Kyorge, Kyrem-W, Lugia, Palkia, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Reshiram, and finally Zekrom
All abilities are allowed including all dream world. So with all that information being said here is the team I have come up with.
Politoed@ Left Overs
Drizzle
Evs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SpDef
Bold
Scald
Refresh
Perish Song
Protect
Ok so I chose a drizzle team. Of course I need politoed to bring the permanent rain. I wanted him very buly to last the whole match. I gave him scald as a nice stab and to possibly spread burns. Refresh is a move I have played around with for a long time on politoed and I have come to fall in love with it. When ever I get burned or a status my open assumes they won the weather war until I heal my self. Perish song for the baton pass teams that I hate and as well for the last stat upper pokemon. Protect is for two things. 1st to scout out what moves my opponent is using and to try to figure the set while also getting back that very important left over recovery health.
Tornadus-T@ Choice Specs
Regenerator
Evs: 4 Def/252 SpA/252 Speed
Timid
Hurricane
Air Slash
Focus Blast
Sleep Talk
I chose this guy for the trolly speed tier, good special attack, and its stab specs hurricane. I have him as a check to alot of pokemon but mainly breloom and volcorona. No pokemon enjoys coming in on a specs hurricane unless it is special defense jirachi. I obviouly had to give him hurricane as to the weather but I also gave him air slash for sun teams. I dont like taking chances on hurricanes n the sun. with air slashes 30% flinch hax this move tortues sun teams. Focus blast is mainly there for things like rotom-w and tyranitar, things that hurricane and air slash wont hit very hard. Lastly sleep talk is there for breloom or any other mon trying to put my team to sleep.
Genesect@ Life Orb
Download
Evs: 24 HP/252 SpA/228 Speed/4 SpDef
Modest
Rock Polish
Giga Drain
Ice Beam
Flame Thrower
I have loved this set ever since I have used it. I consider this set one of the most dealiest sets around. When genesect gets one boost he his gone. Giga drain is very important for life recovery but also for things like gastrodon, rotom-w, terakion while not worring about not having thunder bolt. Ice beam is for dragons and grass types while flame thrower is mainly for steels like ferrothorn , scizor and skarmory who he hits amazingly strong for in the rain still. Once genesects counters are gone genesect will sweep almost everytime.
Kingdra @ Life orb
Swiftswim
EVS: 252 speed / 252 sp.atk / 4 atk
Hasty
Hydro Pump
Draco Meteor
Outrage
Waterfall
Ok for all of you who saw this coming, yeah come on swift swim and drizzle. Kingdra to me is the king no pun intended in the rain. Both stabs are completely strong and only walled by ferrothorn. Hydro pump is for pure power while waterfall for the accuracy depending how I feel at the moment. Then with draco meteor and out rage it depends where in the game I am. If it is still early i will go for a draco so i am not stuck in an outrage to be set up on, while later in the end I will outrage to finish up the match. I just love how all his moves are stab with only really one weakness.
Toxicroak@ Black Sludge
Dry Skin
Evs: 244 HP/132 ATK/120 Def/12 Speed
Adamant
Bulk Up
Drain Punch
Sucker Punch/ Ice Punch
Substiute
I have toxicroak for a couple reasons. The main reason is because he is one of my favorite pokeomon but for this team he does a couple of things for me. First he is a great counter to manaphy and keldeo who can be a royal pain and secondly take care of ferrothorn who walls kingdra. I gave him bulk up because givin the chance he can win the game for me. Since I chose the bulky set he can take a lot more than usual. I gave him drain punch for recovery and stab. while in the rain with dry skin black sludge and drain punch, it takes so much just to bring this guy down. The second attack I keep going back and fourth between sucker punch and ice punch. While both are good they both serve different purposes. Ice punch is for gliscor who walls this set completely while sucker punch is a great priority and takes care of the l@ti twins really easily. Lastly substitute is to keep me from getting paralyzed/ burned so I can keep bulking up and possibly sweep or switch to the appropriate counter.
The last pokemon I have no idea who to put on my team. I am hoping you all can help me here where I can not think of anything.
My biggest concerns with this team are volt-turn teams and smash pas teams. I hope this is the right place for this. If not could some one direct me to the right place please.
Thank you all for your time and be critical.