Introduction
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Hi, I'm HO-OH_ on the uber leaderboard and this is the team that managed to get me to number 3 on the uber leaderboard. This intro is incredibly tl;dr so if you don't want to read random jiberish then skip this whole part. I've used this team for quite a while and I've loved using it as well as it's done an amazing job for me. I'm not trying to brag about showing that I managed to hit number 3 on the leaderboard; Im just trying to show how effective this team has been in this metagame as well as how well I've used it. This team still continues to work extremely well in this metagame and I'm sure it still will in metagame's to come. I started building this team around a month or so ago after my other uber team I had used very succesfully to hit number 22 on the leaderboard became outdated and started to get extremely boring to use. This team went through many stages and had so many changes in the lineup It's almost unbelieveable, but this is the final stage of the team, until I possibly get some suggestions from you guys at smogon. The title for this RMT is just random. The playstyle of this team is mainly all out offense with support from the right members in order to help the main sweepers on the team sweep extremely succesfully. The main sweeper on the team happens to be one of the most viable sweepers in all of the Uber tier at the moment; Swords dance Rayuaza. I don't really enjoy having most of my teams bog standard and ordinary but they just happen to always work extremely well and continue to function months after making them well when they're built like that. I always enjoy spending lots of time finding the best sweeper I can possibly find in a metagame and using it on a team to great success, though. In order to use this style effectively, you have to play smartly. You need to predict a lot, make odd decisions, and play very risky. This team is heavy offense so if you're good with something like stall I suggest not trying this team out. I make tons of RMT's on other sites, (not this one), and I'm going to have to say this might be one of my best ones ever because of the fact that I really love this team and the success that I've got from it. I'm very confident when using this team and have no problem at all facing even very experienced players with it and easily outpredicting them/winning. This team is basically the best uber team I've ever made and will probably always be the best uber team I've made despite my success with other teams I've made. I have lots of experience in the OU tier as well as quite a bit in UU and LC but I have to say I absolutely love the uber tier and everything about it. The pokemon you get to use, the way people battle, and the whole functioning of the metagame all together. If you have never played in the uber tier before, I strongly suggest that you do. In my opinion at the moment the uber tier has got the most solid metagame and It'll probably stay that way for quite a bit, especially considering how messed up UU/OU is right now. If you still are having problems figuring out how this team works, I'll explain how I play and how I play this team specifically. This team focuses around using a suicide lead effectively to get one entry hazard on the field, beat common other leads, then proceed to get one of my pokemon safely in. Once I take out most of the threats to my sweepers I bring out my lategame sweeper and finish the other team off. This team uses priority to effectively revenge kill things in order to finish off the other team lategame using the most effective lategame sweeper in the uber metagame. It's almost impossible to have a team where every single threat is checked, but when you try really hard to get most of the threats covered, it becomes a really solid team. To make a good offensive team you need to think of all of the things I've mentioned as well as have common knowledge of what it takes to make one in general. For the leaderboard accomplishment, I didn't actually just use this team for the whole time peaking that high, I used multiple teams, but this just happened to be the one I used the most. As you can see from the glance if you look below this before you read it, then you can notice my team has Two steels, 0 pokemon weak to stealth rock, 3 pokemon affected by toxic spikes, and 5 pokemon affected by spikes. While the t-spikes/spikes weakness may seem moderately bad, They are dealt with moderately easily. My RMT's aren't usually this big on other forums, but I decided to go all out on this one to really show how much I love this team. My team handles most threats in the uber metagame that are common and handles even most uncommon threats. I'd like some help to make this team possibly even better then it already is, though. All my pokemon are male on the team because of the fact that my teams are always sausage fest's. Since i'd say this is one of the best teams I've made for any tier I'd say this is going to be one of my best RMT's as well. I decided to base this RMT on a comic/now a movie that I really enjoyed reading/watching. Some people say the movie kinda ruined the comic but I actually really loved the movie as well as reading the comics. That series is Watchmen. It has one of the best storylines ever, amazing characters, incredible filiming (for the movie), and just is awesome overall. It's one of my favourite movies as well as my favourite comic even though I don't normally read comics. Well anyways, I'll be naming every member of my team after one of the characters in the comic/movie. Now that I've rambled on forever in this introduction and it's so extremely tl;dr it's hard to believe, I'm gonna move onto the actual team.
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Hi, I'm HO-OH_ on the uber leaderboard and this is the team that managed to get me to number 3 on the uber leaderboard. This intro is incredibly tl;dr so if you don't want to read random jiberish then skip this whole part. I've used this team for quite a while and I've loved using it as well as it's done an amazing job for me. I'm not trying to brag about showing that I managed to hit number 3 on the leaderboard; Im just trying to show how effective this team has been in this metagame as well as how well I've used it. This team still continues to work extremely well in this metagame and I'm sure it still will in metagame's to come. I started building this team around a month or so ago after my other uber team I had used very succesfully to hit number 22 on the leaderboard became outdated and started to get extremely boring to use. This team went through many stages and had so many changes in the lineup It's almost unbelieveable, but this is the final stage of the team, until I possibly get some suggestions from you guys at smogon. The title for this RMT is just random. The playstyle of this team is mainly all out offense with support from the right members in order to help the main sweepers on the team sweep extremely succesfully. The main sweeper on the team happens to be one of the most viable sweepers in all of the Uber tier at the moment; Swords dance Rayuaza. I don't really enjoy having most of my teams bog standard and ordinary but they just happen to always work extremely well and continue to function months after making them well when they're built like that. I always enjoy spending lots of time finding the best sweeper I can possibly find in a metagame and using it on a team to great success, though. In order to use this style effectively, you have to play smartly. You need to predict a lot, make odd decisions, and play very risky. This team is heavy offense so if you're good with something like stall I suggest not trying this team out. I make tons of RMT's on other sites, (not this one), and I'm going to have to say this might be one of my best ones ever because of the fact that I really love this team and the success that I've got from it. I'm very confident when using this team and have no problem at all facing even very experienced players with it and easily outpredicting them/winning. This team is basically the best uber team I've ever made and will probably always be the best uber team I've made despite my success with other teams I've made. I have lots of experience in the OU tier as well as quite a bit in UU and LC but I have to say I absolutely love the uber tier and everything about it. The pokemon you get to use, the way people battle, and the whole functioning of the metagame all together. If you have never played in the uber tier before, I strongly suggest that you do. In my opinion at the moment the uber tier has got the most solid metagame and It'll probably stay that way for quite a bit, especially considering how messed up UU/OU is right now. If you still are having problems figuring out how this team works, I'll explain how I play and how I play this team specifically. This team focuses around using a suicide lead effectively to get one entry hazard on the field, beat common other leads, then proceed to get one of my pokemon safely in. Once I take out most of the threats to my sweepers I bring out my lategame sweeper and finish the other team off. This team uses priority to effectively revenge kill things in order to finish off the other team lategame using the most effective lategame sweeper in the uber metagame. It's almost impossible to have a team where every single threat is checked, but when you try really hard to get most of the threats covered, it becomes a really solid team. To make a good offensive team you need to think of all of the things I've mentioned as well as have common knowledge of what it takes to make one in general. For the leaderboard accomplishment, I didn't actually just use this team for the whole time peaking that high, I used multiple teams, but this just happened to be the one I used the most. As you can see from the glance if you look below this before you read it, then you can notice my team has Two steels, 0 pokemon weak to stealth rock, 3 pokemon affected by toxic spikes, and 5 pokemon affected by spikes. While the t-spikes/spikes weakness may seem moderately bad, They are dealt with moderately easily. My RMT's aren't usually this big on other forums, but I decided to go all out on this one to really show how much I love this team. My team handles most threats in the uber metagame that are common and handles even most uncommon threats. I'd like some help to make this team possibly even better then it already is, though. All my pokemon are male on the team because of the fact that my teams are always sausage fest's. Since i'd say this is one of the best teams I've made for any tier I'd say this is going to be one of my best RMT's as well. I decided to base this RMT on a comic/now a movie that I really enjoyed reading/watching. Some people say the movie kinda ruined the comic but I actually really loved the movie as well as reading the comics. That series is Watchmen. It has one of the best storylines ever, amazing characters, incredible filiming (for the movie), and just is awesome overall. It's one of my favourite movies as well as my favourite comic even though I don't normally read comics. Well anyways, I'll be naming every member of my team after one of the characters in the comic/movie. Now that I've rambled on forever in this introduction and it's so extremely tl;dr it's hard to believe, I'm gonna move onto the actual team.
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Change Log
- Deoxys-A > Dialga as a lead
- Wobbuffet > Blissey
- Scizor > Jirachi
- Kyogre > Latios
Team Building Process
This team building process was quite long, and took quite a while to finally reach the point you can see the team as right now. The team went through many stages as well as a lot of changes were made way before I posted this RMT. The team started out with one pokemon that I wanted to build the team around; and it just happened to be one of the most viable sweepers in the uber tier at the moment. I originally was going to use DD rayquaza like I've seen people use before in the past, but I've used SD rayquaza much more and prefer it over DD rayquaza so it wasn't hard to decide on which set to use. So after Picking the first pokemon the team looked like this;
Next thing when building the team I had read on smogon was that rayquaza makes an extremely good pair with Wobbuffet. Wobbuffet walled a lot of stuff that could try and revenge kill rayquaza and proceed to take those things out with counter/mirror coat. Wobbuffet can revenge kill things in an odd way and support rayquaza extremely well. When thinking of rayquaza sweeping, wobbuffet easily lets him do it better. Wobbuffet can easily take out groudon as well as encore stuff like resisted attacks on rayquaza so rayquaza can then switch in and get a free SD off the switch. Wobbuffet can also take out stuff like scarf dialga/scarf palkia who are extremely annoying to a rayquaza sweep. The team then looked like this;
Now that I had rayquaza and wobbuffet I had to think of what to put onto the team next. Scizor makes a great pair to wobbuffet and rayquaza being able to revenge kill tons of things and easily pursuit trap stuff. Scizor can kill wobbuffet with a boosted super effective u-turn after wobbuffet possibly kills something on my team which really helps rayquaza sweep not having annoying wobbuffet around. Latios/Latias could be annoying to wobbuffet/rayquaza with good prediction so scizor also effectively checked both of them and managed to revenge kill tons of things that annoyed them as well. Scizor can easily work much better in the uber tier then he can in OU which makes him a great asset to this team. Now after adding wobbuffet, rayquaza, and scizor the team looked like this;
Now I had wobbuffet, Scizor, and Rayquaza. I was at three pokemon and had three left to go. After adding those three I needed to think of the next pokemon for the team. I looked through my team for a bit, and after a while I noticed my team was groudon weak as well as needed a wallbreaker and something to effectively just hit a lot of the uber tier for SE damage and hit stuff really hard. After thinking for a while and trying out different things I decided on using Specsogre. Specsogre fit very well as it hits a lot of the uber tier extremely hard and for super effective damage. Kyogre can Break down walls by hitting stuff super hard and checks physically defensive walls like skarmory/forretress who can be very annoying. This spot originally had belonged to a few different things, at first I was using support groudon, then I decided to use TauntCM mewtwo, then finally decided on specsogre. Now the team looked like this;
The next step in my team building was actually the easiest step. I completely forgot while building the rest of the team that my team lacked entry hazards as well as a lead. Scizor/rayquaza really like stealth rock in order to secure a lot of OHKOs and hurt stuff like lugia every time it switched in to wall rayquaza. Stealth rock is needed on almost every single offensive team and mine especially really enjoys it. I have tried many different leads over all of my time in the uber tier, and had actually never used Deoxys-A. Deoxys-A seemed like a good choice since it could beat a lot of other common leads as well as succesfully set up SR, and if it survived til lategame it could wreak havoc. Now after adding Deoxys-A the team looked like;
Now after that long process I only had one step left to do. My team was almost done and I had 5 members so far but realized I probably had a few weaknesses to check. My team lacked a revenge killer, and was completely open to SD lucario and SD rayquaza. I was using palkia in this spot originally, then decided to try the odd choice of scarfjirachi, but neither of them worked. Palkia was severely crippled by an extremespeed from either of them and couldn't switch in safely. Scarfrachi just didn't do a single thing other then revenging those two so he seemed like a weak link. After a while of thinking and switching things around, I decided to use Scarf dialga who I've used before to great success. Now the final team looked like this;
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In Depth look
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Deoxys**Dr Manhattan
Focus sash | Pressure
6 HP | 252 Atk | 252 Spe
Naive (+ Spe, - Sp def)
Deoxys-A is surprisingly a really great lead. I've used tons of other leads in the past including Groudon, Deoxys-E, Forretress, Mewtwo, Mew, and dialga. Deoxys-A really stood out the most being able to succesfully beat other common leads and set up SR. Deoxys-S may be the preferred suicide lead in Ubers, but Deoxys-A has a few superior qualities, namely its Attack stat, a priority move, and Mirror Coat. Deoxys-A works extremely well on offensive teams who really like stealth rock as most of the time it ensures that you will get SR on the field.
Stealth Rock set up is your first priority when facing slower leads like Groudon. Superpower is used for hitting Darkrai, who is slower than you bar Choice Scarf, and Tyranitar for OHKOs. ExtremeSpeed picks off faster opponents like Deoxys-S and Choice Scarf Darkrai, and Focus Sashed Pokemon. When going up against Deoxys-S, you should always use ExtremeSpeed first, as most Deoxys-S will Stealth Rock first, letting you 2HKO it, as it won't KO you. Mirror Coat is the surprise on this set, though. When faced against a Kyogre lead, Mirror Coat first, because it will use Water Spout which you can bounce back for an OHKO.
The ev spread is pretty standard, 6 HP is filler, 252 Atk gives deoxys maximum damage dealing capability especially with superpower/extremespeed and deoxys' massive attack stat, 252 Spe lets him tie with other Deoxys-A as well as beat some slower scarfed leads or just slower non scarfed leads.
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Scizor**NiteOwl
Choice Band | Technician
200 HP | 56 Atk | 252 SpD
Adamant (+ Atk, - Sp atk)
Scizor is extremely good on uber teams, and does almost better then he does in OU. There are a ton of psychic/dark types in the uber tier and scizor loves hitting them hard. Scizor can hit a lot of the uber tier for SE damage and succesfully pursuit trap a lot of things. Pursuit can put Deoxys-A, Mewtwo, and Latias in a tough position. Pursuit will spell doom for Deoxys-A regardless of whether it switches or not (unless Deoxys-A is carrying Hidden Power Fire). Both Mewtwo and Latias are 2HKOed by Pursuit if they stay in on Scizor. If Latias attempts to escape, Pursuit and Stealth Rock will put Latias at low enough health to be KOed by Stealth Rock when it switches in next. Max Attack Scizor will always OHKO both Latias and Mewtwo as they switch from Pursuit, as long as they have taken damage from Stealth Rock beforehand. Finally, max Attack Choice Band Scizor has the bonus of being able to destroy a fleeing Choice Scarf Shaymin-S with Pursuit, as long as it as switched into Stealth Rock once, as the combination of Pursuit and two switches into Stealth Rock will destroy Shaymin-S. With these Pokémon being eliminated by Pursuit, Scizor can allow several teammates to have an easier time sweeping. Scizor does 52%-61% with a bullet punch to shaymin-s and 47%-55% to rayquaza.
U-turn is a great move in the uber tier especially on scizor. It lets him scout and escape from things like wobbuffet who might try to switch in on a bullet punch and counter you to death. Bullet punch is what makes CBscizor a huge threat. Bullet punch gets a technician boost, STAB, and a boost from choice band making it do huge damage even with only 56 atk evs. Superpower hits stuff like dialga hard and just gets good coverage overall. Pursuit helps trap a lot of the uber tier and wreak havoc.
The evs on this set are pretty standard for an uber choice bander, The special defense evs allow scizor to survive a thunder from latios/latias, takes most special dragon/ice attacks extremely well, and gives really good bulk on the special side. Scizor can survive almost every ice beam/thunder from any kyogre with these special defense evs as well. 56 Atk allows scizor to still do a bit of damage with a choice band and succesfully revenge things. 200 HP gives him a good number and good bulk on both sides making switching in much easier.
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Rayquaza**The Comedian
Life orb | Air Lock
6 Sp atk | 252 Atk | 252 Spe
Jolly (+ Spe, - Sp atk)
I really love Swords dance rayquaza. Dragon Dance is often used to compensate for Rayquaza's below average Speed, boosting its Attack along the way. However, Swords Dancing will let Rayquaza boast a massive Attack score of 876; unfortunately, it has no way of boosting its mediocre Speed. However, this set is a monstrously powerful physical sweeper thanks to Rayquaza'a priority move, ExtremeSpeed. ExtremeSpeed always OHKOs Darkrai, and with help from Stealth Rock, a +2 Life Orb ExtremeSpeed has around a 87% chance of OHKOing 4 HP / 0 Def Timid Palkia and a 79% chance of OHKOing 4 HP / 0 Def Mewtwo, all of which are significant KOs. Rayquaza is the star of the show and does his job extremely well. I love using SD rayquaza because if a stall team isn't ready for it, It gets torn apart. I can easily come in on something like forretress or blissey and either scare it off or just get an SD and sweep their whole team.
I went overheat > earthquake because with overheat I can easily kill scizor and foretress/skarmory as well as any other bulky steel that may be troublesome. It also helps partially break stall. Overheat still hits super hard with rayquazas amazing base sp atk even with a -sp atk nature and no investment. Swords dance is obviously for boosting. Dragon claw is mainly there for giratina instead of waterfall since I have kyogre to handle groudon. Extremespeed is awesome with SD for priority and easily sweeping whole teams after a swords dance.
252 Atk is standard, same with 252 spe. I went jolly > adamant to outspeed anything that is ev'd at a point to outspeed adamant SD rayquaza. Jolly just also seems better in order to outrun slower scarfers. Life orb really gives rayquaza a huge boost after an SD which can be very helpful and helps secure some OHKOs on things.
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Wobbuffet**Rorschach
Leftovers | Shadow Tag
28 HP | 228 Def | 252 SpD
Calm (+ Sp def, - Atk)
It's wobbuffet. With little prediction, or none at all if Encore is used, Wobbuffet can guarantee at least one kill against a Choiced Pokémon (preferably a Pokémon with Choice Scarf). Choose Counter if your opponent is clearly a Choiced physical attacker, or Mirror Coat if it's a Choiced special attacker. If it's a Pokémon without a Choice item, simply use Encore and proceed from there since your opponent can't switch out. Tickle wobbuffet works amazingly with scizor/rayquaza as It easily lets scizor revenge kill something after a tickle or two, and lets rayquaza set up extremely easily on a weakened pokemon. Tickle helps wear down things like lugia and easily OHKO them with rayquaza who would normally be a huge threat to rayquaza sweeping.
Encore works amazingly with wobbuffet as I can encore things like groudon into an EQ and then proceed to switch into rayquaza and get a free swords dance from it. Encore easily lets me set up with anything and sweep. Tickle works amazingly with a pursuit user like scizor since you can tickle something like lugia and when you pursuit it since it will obviously switch, It will never survive, and when it stays in it won't be able to do anything with lowered attack and defense.
The given EVs are fairly obvious, since Wobbuffet has a massive base HP stat and poor defenses. The 28 HP EVs allow Wobbuffet to gain maximum Leftovers recovery and, with a Calm nature, allows it to survive a Modest Kyogre's full powered Water Spout and OHKO back with Mirror Coat. Calm is emphasized over Bold because of the concentration on special attackers in Ubers.
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Kyogre**Silk Spectre
Choice Specs | Drizzle
6 HP | 252 Sp atk | 252 Spe
Timid (+ Spe, - Atk)
Specsogre hits so hard its unbelieveable. A full health waterspout with rain up does around 50% to blissey with a timid nature. Nothing can really switch in safely to kyogre, especially with the right prediction. Kyogre fit into this spot very well being able to check groudon who my team was very weak to without it. Timid lets Kyogre outspeed other Kyogre, Groudon, most Dialga, some Palkia, and Lugia. When using kyogre, I usually ice beam before knowing the opponents whole team since two of the most common kyogre switch ins happen to both be 2HKOd by it. Using a pursuit user like scizor it lets me take out latias which leaves the opponents team completely open to a specsogre sweep. Almost all of kyogres counters are checked by scizor, showing how good the synergy between the two is. Kyogre does its job extremely well and can easily sweep with the right support.
Waterspout hurts just about anything that switches into it at full health, especially with a rain and specs boost. Ice beam is for checking stuff like shaymin/latias/latios who would normally switch in to take a surf/waterspout from kyogre. Thunder checks stuff like opposing kyogre who can be extremely annoying to my team as well as hits stuff like skarmory hard. Icebeam/Thunder allows for a boltbeam combo of sorts and water/electric/ice allows kyogre to hit almost all of the uber tier for neutral damage.
252 Spe allows kyogre to outrun most groudon, lugia, and modest kyogre with a timid nature. 252 sp atk is there for maximum damage dealing capability and hitting stuff extra hard. 6 HP is filler. Kyogre is amazing and works extremely well on this team.
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Dialga**Ozymandias
Choice Scarf | Pressure
6 HP | 252 Sp atk | 252 Spe
Timid (+ Spe, - Atk)
Deoxys is a great choice scarfer for a few reasons, It can beat SD lucario, SD rayquaza, and many other stat boosters. Dialga is a great revenge killer, and happens to be the glue of my team. He holds everything together being able to check two of my massive weaknesses I would have if Dialga wasn't on my team. Dialga has amazing typing, making him easily switch into any attack other then focus blast on darkrai, and OHKO back with a STAB draco meteor. Some people may wonder why I'm running a purely special set when dialga's attack stat is decent as well, but it just happens to be that dialga's special movepool is so much better then its physical movepool. I ran timid with dragon pulse over outrage with hasty since I have things on my team that kill blissey with ease so outrage isn't really needed. When running dialga you should try to have checks for things like scarfchomp who can outrun and OHKO with EQ, which is why I have a solid check to garchomp.
Draco Meteor hits things really hard and gets STAB on Dialga as well as hurts a lot of stuff when running 252 Sp atk. Dragon pulse is the secondary dragon attack on the set that I decided to run instead of outrage so I don't have the side effects of my special attack dropping if I ever happen to pull off a lategame sweep with Dialga, or if I wanna ensure that I can OHKO something without having to risk it with draco meteor, I use dragon pulse. Fire blast hits things like scizor/lucario who dialga is one of my main checks to. Thunder is mainly for kyogre and any other bulky water. It also hits lugia for super effective damage.
The ev spread is completely standard and there isn't much to explain; It's just the standard scarfdialga from smogon. 252 Sp atk is for maximum damage dealing capability, 252 Spe is for outrunning specific threats with a choice scarf, and 6 HP is filler.
In Depth look
Deoxys**Dr Manhattan
Focus sash | Pressure
6 HP | 252 Atk | 252 Spe
Naive (+ Spe, - Sp def)
- Superpower
- Extremespeed
- Stealth rock
- Mirror Coat
Deoxys-A is surprisingly a really great lead. I've used tons of other leads in the past including Groudon, Deoxys-E, Forretress, Mewtwo, Mew, and dialga. Deoxys-A really stood out the most being able to succesfully beat other common leads and set up SR. Deoxys-S may be the preferred suicide lead in Ubers, but Deoxys-A has a few superior qualities, namely its Attack stat, a priority move, and Mirror Coat. Deoxys-A works extremely well on offensive teams who really like stealth rock as most of the time it ensures that you will get SR on the field.
Stealth Rock set up is your first priority when facing slower leads like Groudon. Superpower is used for hitting Darkrai, who is slower than you bar Choice Scarf, and Tyranitar for OHKOs. ExtremeSpeed picks off faster opponents like Deoxys-S and Choice Scarf Darkrai, and Focus Sashed Pokemon. When going up against Deoxys-S, you should always use ExtremeSpeed first, as most Deoxys-S will Stealth Rock first, letting you 2HKO it, as it won't KO you. Mirror Coat is the surprise on this set, though. When faced against a Kyogre lead, Mirror Coat first, because it will use Water Spout which you can bounce back for an OHKO.
The ev spread is pretty standard, 6 HP is filler, 252 Atk gives deoxys maximum damage dealing capability especially with superpower/extremespeed and deoxys' massive attack stat, 252 Spe lets him tie with other Deoxys-A as well as beat some slower scarfed leads or just slower non scarfed leads.
Scizor**NiteOwl
Choice Band | Technician
200 HP | 56 Atk | 252 SpD
Adamant (+ Atk, - Sp atk)
- Bullet punch
- U-turn
- Pursuit
- Superpower
Scizor is extremely good on uber teams, and does almost better then he does in OU. There are a ton of psychic/dark types in the uber tier and scizor loves hitting them hard. Scizor can hit a lot of the uber tier for SE damage and succesfully pursuit trap a lot of things. Pursuit can put Deoxys-A, Mewtwo, and Latias in a tough position. Pursuit will spell doom for Deoxys-A regardless of whether it switches or not (unless Deoxys-A is carrying Hidden Power Fire). Both Mewtwo and Latias are 2HKOed by Pursuit if they stay in on Scizor. If Latias attempts to escape, Pursuit and Stealth Rock will put Latias at low enough health to be KOed by Stealth Rock when it switches in next. Max Attack Scizor will always OHKO both Latias and Mewtwo as they switch from Pursuit, as long as they have taken damage from Stealth Rock beforehand. Finally, max Attack Choice Band Scizor has the bonus of being able to destroy a fleeing Choice Scarf Shaymin-S with Pursuit, as long as it as switched into Stealth Rock once, as the combination of Pursuit and two switches into Stealth Rock will destroy Shaymin-S. With these Pokémon being eliminated by Pursuit, Scizor can allow several teammates to have an easier time sweeping. Scizor does 52%-61% with a bullet punch to shaymin-s and 47%-55% to rayquaza.
U-turn is a great move in the uber tier especially on scizor. It lets him scout and escape from things like wobbuffet who might try to switch in on a bullet punch and counter you to death. Bullet punch is what makes CBscizor a huge threat. Bullet punch gets a technician boost, STAB, and a boost from choice band making it do huge damage even with only 56 atk evs. Superpower hits stuff like dialga hard and just gets good coverage overall. Pursuit helps trap a lot of the uber tier and wreak havoc.
The evs on this set are pretty standard for an uber choice bander, The special defense evs allow scizor to survive a thunder from latios/latias, takes most special dragon/ice attacks extremely well, and gives really good bulk on the special side. Scizor can survive almost every ice beam/thunder from any kyogre with these special defense evs as well. 56 Atk allows scizor to still do a bit of damage with a choice band and succesfully revenge things. 200 HP gives him a good number and good bulk on both sides making switching in much easier.
Rayquaza**The Comedian
Life orb | Air Lock
6 Sp atk | 252 Atk | 252 Spe
Jolly (+ Spe, - Sp atk)
- Overheat
- Swords Dance
- Dragon claw
- Extremespeed
I really love Swords dance rayquaza. Dragon Dance is often used to compensate for Rayquaza's below average Speed, boosting its Attack along the way. However, Swords Dancing will let Rayquaza boast a massive Attack score of 876; unfortunately, it has no way of boosting its mediocre Speed. However, this set is a monstrously powerful physical sweeper thanks to Rayquaza'a priority move, ExtremeSpeed. ExtremeSpeed always OHKOs Darkrai, and with help from Stealth Rock, a +2 Life Orb ExtremeSpeed has around a 87% chance of OHKOing 4 HP / 0 Def Timid Palkia and a 79% chance of OHKOing 4 HP / 0 Def Mewtwo, all of which are significant KOs. Rayquaza is the star of the show and does his job extremely well. I love using SD rayquaza because if a stall team isn't ready for it, It gets torn apart. I can easily come in on something like forretress or blissey and either scare it off or just get an SD and sweep their whole team.
I went overheat > earthquake because with overheat I can easily kill scizor and foretress/skarmory as well as any other bulky steel that may be troublesome. It also helps partially break stall. Overheat still hits super hard with rayquazas amazing base sp atk even with a -sp atk nature and no investment. Swords dance is obviously for boosting. Dragon claw is mainly there for giratina instead of waterfall since I have kyogre to handle groudon. Extremespeed is awesome with SD for priority and easily sweeping whole teams after a swords dance.
252 Atk is standard, same with 252 spe. I went jolly > adamant to outspeed anything that is ev'd at a point to outspeed adamant SD rayquaza. Jolly just also seems better in order to outrun slower scarfers. Life orb really gives rayquaza a huge boost after an SD which can be very helpful and helps secure some OHKOs on things.
Wobbuffet**Rorschach
Leftovers | Shadow Tag
28 HP | 228 Def | 252 SpD
Calm (+ Sp def, - Atk)
- Mirror Coat
- Counter
- Encore
- Tickle
It's wobbuffet. With little prediction, or none at all if Encore is used, Wobbuffet can guarantee at least one kill against a Choiced Pokémon (preferably a Pokémon with Choice Scarf). Choose Counter if your opponent is clearly a Choiced physical attacker, or Mirror Coat if it's a Choiced special attacker. If it's a Pokémon without a Choice item, simply use Encore and proceed from there since your opponent can't switch out. Tickle wobbuffet works amazingly with scizor/rayquaza as It easily lets scizor revenge kill something after a tickle or two, and lets rayquaza set up extremely easily on a weakened pokemon. Tickle helps wear down things like lugia and easily OHKO them with rayquaza who would normally be a huge threat to rayquaza sweeping.
Encore works amazingly with wobbuffet as I can encore things like groudon into an EQ and then proceed to switch into rayquaza and get a free swords dance from it. Encore easily lets me set up with anything and sweep. Tickle works amazingly with a pursuit user like scizor since you can tickle something like lugia and when you pursuit it since it will obviously switch, It will never survive, and when it stays in it won't be able to do anything with lowered attack and defense.
The given EVs are fairly obvious, since Wobbuffet has a massive base HP stat and poor defenses. The 28 HP EVs allow Wobbuffet to gain maximum Leftovers recovery and, with a Calm nature, allows it to survive a Modest Kyogre's full powered Water Spout and OHKO back with Mirror Coat. Calm is emphasized over Bold because of the concentration on special attackers in Ubers.
Kyogre**Silk Spectre
Choice Specs | Drizzle
6 HP | 252 Sp atk | 252 Spe
Timid (+ Spe, - Atk)
- Ice beam
- Thunder
- Water Spout
- Surf
Specsogre hits so hard its unbelieveable. A full health waterspout with rain up does around 50% to blissey with a timid nature. Nothing can really switch in safely to kyogre, especially with the right prediction. Kyogre fit into this spot very well being able to check groudon who my team was very weak to without it. Timid lets Kyogre outspeed other Kyogre, Groudon, most Dialga, some Palkia, and Lugia. When using kyogre, I usually ice beam before knowing the opponents whole team since two of the most common kyogre switch ins happen to both be 2HKOd by it. Using a pursuit user like scizor it lets me take out latias which leaves the opponents team completely open to a specsogre sweep. Almost all of kyogres counters are checked by scizor, showing how good the synergy between the two is. Kyogre does its job extremely well and can easily sweep with the right support.
Waterspout hurts just about anything that switches into it at full health, especially with a rain and specs boost. Ice beam is for checking stuff like shaymin/latias/latios who would normally switch in to take a surf/waterspout from kyogre. Thunder checks stuff like opposing kyogre who can be extremely annoying to my team as well as hits stuff like skarmory hard. Icebeam/Thunder allows for a boltbeam combo of sorts and water/electric/ice allows kyogre to hit almost all of the uber tier for neutral damage.
252 Spe allows kyogre to outrun most groudon, lugia, and modest kyogre with a timid nature. 252 sp atk is there for maximum damage dealing capability and hitting stuff extra hard. 6 HP is filler. Kyogre is amazing and works extremely well on this team.
Dialga**Ozymandias
Choice Scarf | Pressure
6 HP | 252 Sp atk | 252 Spe
Timid (+ Spe, - Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Dragon pulse
- Fire blast
- Thunder
Deoxys is a great choice scarfer for a few reasons, It can beat SD lucario, SD rayquaza, and many other stat boosters. Dialga is a great revenge killer, and happens to be the glue of my team. He holds everything together being able to check two of my massive weaknesses I would have if Dialga wasn't on my team. Dialga has amazing typing, making him easily switch into any attack other then focus blast on darkrai, and OHKO back with a STAB draco meteor. Some people may wonder why I'm running a purely special set when dialga's attack stat is decent as well, but it just happens to be that dialga's special movepool is so much better then its physical movepool. I ran timid with dragon pulse over outrage with hasty since I have things on my team that kill blissey with ease so outrage isn't really needed. When running dialga you should try to have checks for things like scarfchomp who can outrun and OHKO with EQ, which is why I have a solid check to garchomp.
Draco Meteor hits things really hard and gets STAB on Dialga as well as hurts a lot of stuff when running 252 Sp atk. Dragon pulse is the secondary dragon attack on the set that I decided to run instead of outrage so I don't have the side effects of my special attack dropping if I ever happen to pull off a lategame sweep with Dialga, or if I wanna ensure that I can OHKO something without having to risk it with draco meteor, I use dragon pulse. Fire blast hits things like scizor/lucario who dialga is one of my main checks to. Thunder is mainly for kyogre and any other bulky water. It also hits lugia for super effective damage.
The ev spread is completely standard and there isn't much to explain; It's just the standard scarfdialga from smogon. 252 Sp atk is for maximum damage dealing capability, 252 Spe is for outrunning specific threats with a choice scarf, and 6 HP is filler.
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Threat list
The Ubers:
The Non-Ubers:
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Conclusion
Overall this team has been very fun to use and has lead me to a lot of success. This RMT is mainly to retire this team as well as show it off and possibly get some suggestions to make it better then it already is. I hope you read all of my RMT and will possibly give me some good suggestions in order to make this good team better then it already is.
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Overall this team has been very fun to use and has lead me to a lot of success. This RMT is mainly to retire this team as well as show it off and possibly get some suggestions to make it better then it already is. I hope you read all of my RMT and will possibly give me some good suggestions in order to make this good team better then it already is.
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