Silent Storm
Achieving Perfection
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- 17
- Years
- Age 33
- United Kingdom
- Seen Jan 27, 2021
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OK, it's time for me to post yet another RMT. From the last two RMTS I posted, you think of me as an bulky offensive player using slow leads like Swampert and Heatran (on smogon but I left that site for a better site), this my most used playing style as I prefer fast hard hitting Pokemon or set up and sweep Pokemon like Salamence and Gyarados.
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At first glance this is what you would call a standard, boring unoriginal team, though it is standard, it works and that is good enough for me.
The basic strategy for this is rather simple and straight forward, I use my Lead Metagross to set up Stealth Rocks and take from here, the most common thing would be for me to take out their lead or switch into something like Gyarados, set up and attempt to sweep, unleashing one devastating attack after another, I have been able to break the game early 90% of the time using this method and I love it.
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As you can see, this is rather a standard line up would you would typically see on an offensive team, a quick glance would tell you I lack CBzor, which I generally don't want to add now, my main reason being that I don't like having two scarf users and adding the CBzor would make my team look like somebody else's team which would lead people to believe that I copied this from them, which I don't want people thinking, meh though, believe what you want, as I don't care as this team is mostly a compilation of my favorites.
(At the time of posting this I had Lucario over Scizor, but Scizor still isn't a CBzor).
Enough talk now to get to the point.
Ability: FLASH FIRE
EVs: 4 Atk | 252 SAtk | 252 Spe
Nature: Naive
- Earth Power
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Explosion
Heatran as a Lead, not only is he slow but he is weak to common attack types like Fighting and Earthquake, rather simple really, as this is an offensive team, I felt it would be best I used Heatran as a lead without Scarf, why you ask? Well lets put it like this:
- The common leads in OU are Bronzong, Azelf and Metagross, surprisingly enough, this Lead is not threatened by any of them, which is quite good considering the only attack that can harm him here is Earthquake which is taken care of by Shuca Berry, so I am setting up Stealth Rock without fear here.
- Using frail leads imo is not a good idea, if their sole purpose is to set up Stealth Rock and then explode then there really isn't much point as you are basically down 1 Pokemon if the opponent switches into a Ghost and how are you going to feel if none of his team players mind Stealth Rock? Heatran like Metagross is a great lead because they are not frail, a sturdy lead is a powerful one.[
- Heatran, thanks to Flash Fire takes care of members weak to fire moves like Scizor, so already I have a Pokemon that supports one vital member on the team.
Ability: INTIMIDATE
EVs: 74 HP | 252 Atk | 184 Spe
Nature: Adamant
- Dragon Dance
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Waterfall
For the move set I went with Earthquake/Stone Edge/Waterfall/Dragon Dance, Earthquake was here to handle the likes of Meta and Magnezone, Waterfall for powerful STAB and Stone Edge to hit flying types harder, which also deals with the likes of Dragonite and Salamence, this is one of my most powerful sweepers which is usually the next player out when Heatran has had his run.
Ability: LEVITATE
EVs: 4 HP | 252 SpA | 252 Spe
Nature: Timid
- Surf
- Recover
- Draco Meteor
- Refresh
I have never used Latias like this before, the last one I used was some Flame Orb set that was only able to pass burn on one players Pokemon, though it was largely because of my inexperience, I didn't like the whole concept anyway so now I am trying something new.
Latias is a psychic dragon that provides me some nice resists coupled with decent offense, Latias is now my Status absorber as Status really hurts this team, in the future I might consider adding Psycho Swift so I can ruin my opponent even more but for now, Refresh is working well for me and I don't feel like changing the set up for this set.
Ability: TECHNICIAN
EVs: 252 Atk | 246 HP | 12 Spe
Nature: Adamant
- Pursuit
- Bullet Punch
- Superpower
- U-Turn
Scizor gives this team much needed Priority to this which is helpful when Latias/Weavile and Mamoswine are lurking around, though I have be careful of Mamo's monstrous Earthquake, the rest of the move set is obvious, Superpower for strong offense, U-turn for scouting and Bullet Punch for powerful STAB and with the EVs, Scizors survivability is increased.
Ability: LEVITATE
EVs: 16 HP | 20 Atk| 252 SpA | 220 Spe
Nature: Timid
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt
- Explosion
- Hidden Power [Ground]
I originally had Scarfgar here but over time, he was not performing as well as he could on my team so I replaced him with the standard Azelf set with HP Ground over fighting.
HP Ground > Fighting mainly cause it scores key kos against the likes of Heatran which walls this set completely, further more, Azelf is similar t Deoxys-E only that he has more attacking power in exchange for speed, which is still impressive, this scores two KOs thanks to Explosion.
Ability: LEVITATE
EVs: 16 Atk | 240 SpA | 252 Spe
Nature: Naive
- Draco Meteor
- Brick Break
- Outrage
- Fire Blast
In around October I think, RaikouLover and some guy (Iceyman or something like that) posted a Salamence set that utilized the infamous OutrageMeteorMence combo with Flamethrower/Fire Blast and Earthquake, now this combo caught my eye immediately as the Dragon + Fire + Ground combo gave Salamence unparalleled coverage if you don't know, this set was declared the new "MixMence". Anyways moving on, I decided to go on Shoddy and try this new baby out and I was thoroughly not impressed with his performance, as he never got me a single KO AT ALL.
Now after this I ditched him in favor of MixNite, that was able to sweep unsuspecting teams on the Suspect and Standard ladder, then people started catching on and he never swept as well as he could have.
Few weeks later, I decided to try a new set while adding more speed to Salamence, less attack and more special attack and we have what we see here as one the main killers of the show, thanks to the speed boost, Salamence is not only able to beat unboosted Mences, but he is also able to out speed most threats in the Metagame and score 2HKOs.
He serves as my Wall and Stall breaker, though not ass good as Nite imo, he has speed, which this teams welcomes, moving on to the threat list
Offensive Threat List
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