My first team! YAY.. yayy... ya

Ven

Tyrian
  • 124
    Posts
    15
    Years
    • Seen Mar 19, 2011
    As the title says, this is my first team. Please be brutal, as I don't have much experience, and the more critique I get the more I'll know, and the less I'll get my ass kicked... Hopefully.

    Anti-lead/lead
    *image removed*
    Weavile

    Hasty Nature
    Focus Sash
    4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

    Fake-out
    Taunt
    Counter
    Icepunch

    Weavile is basically there to take out any suicide leads. Taunt stops most of them from using stealth rock hypnosis or trick, although there will be the odd infernape that will outrun it but meh. Fake-out will hopefully get rid of any focus sashes on aerodactyls, Infernape or Azelf.
    Ice punch is there for two things, one to take out aerodactyl, or any dragon pokemon that decide to sweep me. Counter should take out a A bronzong using gyroball. The taunt/counter strategy can also take out a leading Gyarados, who would start with dragon dance, or tyranitar, in which I would use counter before taunt.


    [PokeCommunity.com] My first team! YAY.. yayy... ya

    Skarmory

    Shell bell
    Impish nature
    252 HP / 64 Atk / 176 Def / 16 Spe

    Bravebird
    Roost
    Whirlwind
    Stealth rock

    This should come after weavile. If I get faced by the unexpected blissey, I'll use stealthrock then whirlwind it out, and switch in charizard. If push comes to shove, bravebird and roost are there to give it some offensive capabilities, if I become very desperate.

    *image removed*
    Mixzard
    Rash Nature
    Life orb
    60 Atk/ 252 SpA/ 196 Spe

    Fire blast
    Hidden power grass/electric (haven't finished the IV breeding, so iunno)
    Air Slash
    Focus punch

    I'm hoping to tear holes in their team with charizard. It's high Spa and Speed should take out a few walls, and usually someone will switch in a blissey, which will be met by a focus punch to the face. Hidden power should take out a Troublesome Gyarados or the odd kingdra if I'm lucky. Stealth rock has to be on, or else he's useless. Umbreon will support it and bring it back in, and scizor will revenge kill whatever comes in later.

    *image removed*
    Scizor Revenge!

    Choice band
    Adamant
    Technician
    248 Hp/ 252 Atk/ 8 Spe

    Uturn
    Bullet punch
    QuickAttack
    SuperPower

    Bullet punch is the main move here, STAB and Technician should boost its power, so it can take out a weekend opposing sweeper. Bullet punch gets 60% minimum on salamence, and can OHKO Gengar too. Uturn hits hard after STAB and lets it scout for counters. SuperPower lets it OHKO Magnezone and Heatran as they switch in. QuickAttack can effectively revenge kill anything Charizard leaves.

    [PokeCommunity.com] My first team! YAY.. yayy... ya

    Support Umbreon

    Leftovers
    Careful nature
    252 Hp/ 92 SpD/ 164 Spe

    Protect
    Yawn
    Wish
    Payback

    Umbreon is the water boy, no one really appreciates him, but it's fine, because in his eyes, he's getting his time to shine, and that's enough for him. Umbreon is there to support the cocky jock Mixzard. As soon as he's feeling the heat, Umbreon switches in, uses wish, and puts his problem to sleep, albeit using protect to keep himself safe.

    [PokeCommunity.com] My first team! YAY.. yayy... ya

    Sweep!

    Adamant
    Leftovers
    224 HP / 84 Atk / 200 Spe

    Dragon Dance
    Dragon claw
    Earthquake
    Roost

    He's really only there to take out other dragons, and with the right IV's and EV's, he should be able to outrun an opposing Salamence. Typical Dragon dancer. Earthquake should be able to counter a few fire types, or electric.
     
    Last edited:
    Ice Shard > Ice Punch on Weavile, priority for after the Counter. (I still am not a big fan of anti-leads but none the less)

    I would go Pursuit >> Quick Attack on Scizor, you want to be able to trap Scarf/Specs pokemon as well as Blissey.

    That Dragonite set is outclassed by Salamence in so many ways its not funny. The only reason to use Dragonite over Salamence is for Extremespeed, so put that on there somewhere or run Salamence.

    On Umbreon, shift those Spe EVs to Def, speed isn't really all that important for a support Pokemon.

    Um, Charizard....yeah. Uh, don't use it is as simple as I can put it. It is outclassed by every fire pokemon in UU and OU, its even outclassed by pokemon in its own NU tier. Use Heatran or even Magmortar has potential to do good in OU.

    Heatran @ Life Orb
    4 Atk / 252 Spe / 252 SpA
    Naive Nature
    -Explosion
    -Hidden Power [Grass]
    -Fire Blast
    -Earth Power

    Nearly perfect type coverage, Hidden Power [Grass] is for Pert. Fire Blast is for having amazing type coverage/STAB; Earth Power is for opposing Heatrans and Tyranitars, when a Blissey/Snorlax comes out just use boom on them.

    Magmortar @ Expert Belt
    84 Atk / 172 Spe / 252 SpAtk
    Mild/Naive Nature
    -Cross Chop
    -Fire Blast
    -Hidden Power [Grass]
    -Thunderbolt

    Covers just about everything in OU, Cross Chop garuntees a OHKO to Tyranitar as well as Lax and Blissey.

    Thats all I can spot for now, no glaring weaks I can see, although it looks like Offensive Suicune may cause you some problems or require a sacrifice to get rid of, but other than that it looks good.


    tl;dr

    Ice Shard Weavile
    ES on Nite
    Change Umbreon's EVs
    Drop Charizard for Tran or Mortar
     
    Wow, thanks. I'm gonna switch out charizard for mortar, as well as switch ice punch for ice shard. Although it seems like it'd be better to switch out nite for mence.
     
    You can use Charizard if you have a Rapid Spinner but otherwise no.

    You want Ice Shard on Weavile to because it pretty much OHKOs most of the things you will be hitting with Ice Punch anyway and you don't have to worry about opponents that upped their Speed or are Scarfed.
     
    Back
    Top