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Best team to go with Serperior?

PlatinumDude

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  • To build on with what Dark Azelf said, Serperior is useless without the Contary ability, which reverses all stat changes that happen to it. The main reason why Contrary + Serperior is so good is because Leaf Storm would increase its Special Attack instead of decreasing it.

    Serperior's mediocre stats all-round, except for Speed, let it down otherwise, and without Contrary, there's little reason to use it over things like Ferrothorn, Mega Venusaur, and even Mega Sceptile.
     

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    And when you do get a Timid Contrary Serperior you basically want to team it up with stuff that beats Talonflame, bulky Grass types (especially Mega Venusaur), Mega Altaria, Unaware Clefable, and Heatran, Scizor+Ferrothorn, or Mega Charizard Y depending on its Hidden Power type, etc. Stuff to remove its checks and counters really. It's also good to have teammates that appreciate what Serp does for them/the team in return (checking offensive Water types, killing Mega Slowbro and Hippowdon, etc).
     
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    Well, if you really don't have the option of Contrary available to you (hint: ask in the Trade section of the forum), then you could still make it into some sort of a support mon with Dual Screens+Taunt+Giga Drain. Though, in that case Timid is still the way to go.

    Also keep in mind that this set is heavily outclassed by a ton of other supporters like Klefki, Thundurus and Meowstic (hint: higher Priority > high Speed), or anything that gets access to Steath Rock. But if you don't care for high level strategies, then it probably doesn't matter, anyway. :)

    As for team partners...you'd need Pokemon that can take advantage of Screens being up, so hard hitting stuff with only mediocre defensive stats are good options.
     
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