You're Trapped! [Gen 5 OU RMT]

Nice team. My best recommendation for Jellicent would be switching into Tyranitar if you think your opponent will use Sub, and switch back to Jellicent when he tries to take advantage of that second turn. It'll set you down two turns, but you'll at least start wearing on him with Sand. Afterwards, even if Hex/Water Spout isn't doing much, you'll at least make it difficult to prop up another sub with sand wearing him down behind it. *USUALLY* Gyarados are extremely predictable and will use their first turns trying to boost.

Another recommendation is turn Jellicent into your second Trick Room user. It sounds redundant with Reuniclus, but that might be an advantage if people think the psychic fetus is the only one supplying the Trick Room. In one turn, slow Jelli has made Dragon Dancing pointless until the Room is gone and is able to spam almost guaranteed first turn Water Spouts/Hex (Or Shadow Ball to lower SpDef) or pave the way for a switch to Reuniclus while your opponent tries to counter or switch himself.

It's not much, but short of taking the easy way out and trading to a different wall, your team is good with a little bit of mind games.

Noob question.

Why is Return being run on Doryuuzu over Rapid Spin / X-Scissor? If Earthquake is the move of choice in nearly every situation, Rock Slide covers the majority of Flying-types that switch in (and for those that resist it, Return tends to do just as poorly as X-Scissor) and X-Scissor could cover the Psychic-types that carry Levitate (and not miss on Ghost-types).

Gymnotide said:

Noob question.

Why is Return being run on Doryuuzu over Rapid Spin / X-Scissor? If Earthquake is the move of choice in nearly every situation, Rock Slide covers the majority of Flying-types that switch in (and for those that resist it, Return tends to do just as poorly as X-Scissor) and X-Scissor could cover the Psychic-types that carry Levitate (and not miss on Ghost-types).

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Its Excadrills best option against Gliscor, Rotom-W, Breloom and Virizion.




That Jellicent set is rather bad tbh. Hex is unreliable to say the least, use Shadow Ball and then Surf over Water Spout with a defensive spread. Though Rotom-W will probably be alot better in its spot. The fighting resist you lose out on wont matter that much as you can always replace Meinshao for Landlorus with HP Ice whom essentially does the same thing lure wise and benefits from sand.

192 HP / 64 Def / 252 S.Atk on Reuniclus lets you avoid a 2hko from LO Scizors Bullet Punch iirc.

The main problem i can see here is that you lack Stealth Rock so its not really a surprise Gyarados is problematic. Id look to try and make Tar mixed. (Pursuit/Ice Beam/Blast/SR)

Hope this helps a little.

Let me tell you that Rotom-W can be an excellent teammate if you're up for it. The most common Pokemon that switch into Rotom-W are the Lati@s, Ferrothorn, and Virizion. With your your team, you can Pursuit Latios before it causes trouble, trap Ferrothorn, or get a free TR off Virizion. It also works as a decent check for Excadrill should Magnezone's Balloon be popped.