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zenrot March 13th, 2008 5:08 AM

First try at a weather Team, sandstorm
 
A sandstorm team, It's my first try at a weather team and I wanna see how I did.

Hippowdon @ Leftovers
Impish
Sand Stream
Effort Values: 252 HP, 252 Defense, 4Atk
Slack Off
Roar
Ice Fang
Earthquake

Starter to set up Sandstorm, and physical wall.

Tyranitar @ Life Orb
Adamant
Sand Stream
Effort Values: 252 Attack, 196 Speed, 60 HP
Stone Edge
Earthquake
Crunch
Ice Beam

Ice beam + life orb = win

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Adamant
Sand Veil
Effort Values: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP
Outrage
Earthquake
Crunch
Fire Blast

Revenge Killer Garchomp, a MONSTER in the sand.

Cradily @ Leftovers
Careful
Suction Cups
Effort Values: 252 HP, 164 Special Defense, 92 Defense
Toxic
Recover
Rock Slide
Energy Ball

Special Wall, added some defense so he isnt decimated by physicals

Heatran @ Choice Specs
Modest
Flash Fire
Effort Values: 252 Special attack, 204 Speed, 52 HP
Fire Blast
Earth Power
Explosion
Dragon Pulse (didnt get lucky enough for HP ice T.T)

My special attacker, not alot can easily switch on it.

Gliscor @ Leftovers
Impish
Sand Veil
Effort Values: 252 HP, 204 Defense, 52 Attack
Earthquake
Aerial Ace
Stealth Rock
Roost


Other than the starter (hippo) none of these pokemon are in any specific order for the team. Please let me know if it looks ok if I should change something.

Also, i know that muslce band SUCKS, but but i have 2 choice items already which can get kinda risky, if half of my pokemon are locked. If you can reccomend a better item please do.

luke March 13th, 2008 8:20 AM

With Life Orb + Adamant + Ice Beam on Tyranitar, I'm pretty you still have a OHKO on Gliscor and a 2HKO on Hippowdon / Donphan.

zenrot March 13th, 2008 8:49 AM

yeah you're right, i just figured that out. Thanks very much! I kind of want to change someone for a metagross, any thoughts?

Romo_Owens March 13th, 2008 10:24 PM

Replace Crunch with Stone Edge on Garchomp. Outrage does more damage than Crunch even on a super effective hit. The only pokemon crunch gets a bigger hit on than Outrage are Jirachi and Bronzong who are both hit harder by Fire Blast anyway. Plus Stone Edge gets great type coverage and destroys birds and bugs.

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Originally Posted by zenrot (Post 3398757)
yeah you're right, i just figured that out. Thanks very much! I kind of want to change someone for a metagross, any thoughts?

I don't think so. Metagross is a physical sweeper already covered by garchomp and tyranitar, and I believe that keeping both would be best and Gliscor makes a better physical wall. I think you should put in a swampert. Bulky waters are awesome and Swampert is immune to Sandstorm. Maybe you could replace it with Hippowdon because Swampert really is a fantastic physical wall and you could start with Tyranitar.

zenrot March 14th, 2008 4:56 AM

well, i have hippo and tyranitar so i have 2 weather starters. I wanna keep them both.

Johny_Hungry March 15th, 2008 6:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zenrot (Post 3398552)
A sandstorm team, It's my first try at a weather team and I wanna see how I did.

Hippowdon @ Leftovers
Impish
Sand Stream
Effort Values: 252 HP, 252 Defense, 4Atk
Slack Off
Roar
Ice Fang
Earthquake

Starter to set up Sandstorm, and physical wall.

Tyranitar @ Life Orb
Adamant
Sand Stream
Effort Values: 252 Attack, 196 Speed, 60 HP
Stone Edge
Earthquake
Crunch
Ice Beam

Ice beam + life orb = win

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
Adamant
Sand Veil
Effort Values: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP
Outrage
Earthquake
Crunch
Fire Blast

Revenge Killer Garchomp, a MONSTER in the sand.

Cradily @ Leftovers
Careful
Suction Cups
Effort Values: 252 HP, 164 Special Defense, 92 Defense
Toxic
Recover
Rock Slide
Energy Ball

Special Wall, added some defense so he isnt decimated by physicals

Heatran @ Choice Specs
Modest
Flash Fire
Effort Values: 252 Special attack, 204 Speed, 52 HP
Fire Blast
Earth Power
Explosion
Dragon Pulse (didnt get lucky enough for HP ice T.T)

My special attacker, not alot can easily switch on it.

Gliscor @ Leftovers
Impish
Sand Veil
Effort Values: 252 HP, 204 Defense, 52 Attack
Earthquake
Aerial Ace
Stealth Rock
Roost


Other than the starter (hippo) none of these pokemon are in any specific order for the team. Please let me know if it looks ok if I should change something.

Also, i know that muslce band SUCKS, but but i have 2 choice items already which can get kinda risky, if half of my pokemon are locked. If you can reccomend a better item please do.


MY sandstorm team is a little different as i run a Fortress for deffense... he is mad crazy with that...

Ok... maybe instead of Gliscnor you can run a Torterra for some more Sp Walling... and for some pretty decent sp. attking as well...

As for heatran you could try running this set

[email protected] Orb
Mild / Rash / Hasty / Naive Nature
56atk/252spatk/200speed
- Magma Storm
- Explosion
- Earth Power / Hidden power Electric
- Dragon Pulse

A Sp. Attker, that'll devistate w/ Explosion.

Empoleon @ Leftovers
Nature: Calm
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Ability: Torrent
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Stealth Rock/Yawn/Roar
- Grass Knot

Sp. Wall... I see as Yawn being the best choice for that thrid slot.

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
NAture: Adamant
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP
- Outrage
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Fire Fang

Garchomp @ Choice Scarf
NAture: Adamant
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 Attack, 252 Speed, 6 HP
- Dragon Claw
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Fire Fang

Take Full advantage of its attack... that show i see as best....


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