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On the Mend
Hey guys, its geerat from showdown and today I'm going to bring you one of my best OU teams, as you will see it is centered around that massive bug, volcarona. I have had a lots of success using it and I am not proud not say it but it's actually my first decent team in OU, even though I have made pretty good teams in other formats and peaked, so my GXE might suck. So enough self pity, now lets have a look at the team ::Proof of Peak ::
Team-Building ::
So, as I told you I wanted to make a team centered around volc, so obvio it is the first mon
So, as you will see I wanted hp ground on my volc over bug buzz so I pretty much had to remove latis consistently, so incomes ttar.
Now, I noticed how weak I was to keldeo and also wanted rocks so in came celebi.
As with volc I wanted to be pretty much rock proof + I wanted a hard counter to mega sableye and tank chomp, so diancie was a cool fit.
Till now even with celebi my sand matchup wasn't looking good, so washtom was kind of a fit + lando counter is always appreciated.
At last I noticed I had no hazard control, so I just added a starmie, seeing how good a matchup it had with most common rock setters
But with starmie, I just get pummelled by weavile, so since I had sand up, I thought why not get another win-con + fast rapid spin under sand, so finally I settled on excadrill.
Next up, we go the best part ;) ::
On the mend (Volcarona) @ Passho Berry
Ability: Flame Body
EVs: 40 HP / 252 SpA / 216 Spe
Timid Nature
- Quiver Dance
- Fire Blast/Fiery Dance
- Hidden Power [Ground]
- Giga Drain
As far as the set goes, you have quiver dance that basically defines this mon, then the main move on the set faire blast or fiery dance. You can choose fiery dance for that special attack increase but fire blast is better on a offensive set as it koes lando-t at +1 which fiery dance fails to do(pretty imp). Plus on a offensive set most of the times you will get volc to only +1 anyways. I actually like hp ground just not to be walled by spdef ran even at +6, as most of the teams don't exactly have counter for this mon except chanseys and heatrans. Atleast hp ground bops one of them. And at last passho berry + giga drain is a sweet combo to set up against some water types.
Monstaa (Tyranitar) @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 100 HP / 252 Atk / 156 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Superpower
- Pursuit
Tonka (Excadrill) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
Jewel (Diancie) @ Diancite
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 32 Atk / 224 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Moonblast
- Diamond Storm
- Earth Power
- Protect
Skye (Celebi) @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 84 SpD / 16 Spe
Bold Nature
- Giga Drain
- Recover
- Thunder Wave
- Stealth Rock
Ok, giga drain is the only move it needs to have a upper hand against hippo, rotom, keldeo etc. You could get cheeky and use psychic or earth power but its just not worth it. Now instead of baton pass, I opted for t-wave as for some reason people like to switch in their latis and tornadus(which is pretty much a liability once it gets paralysed). Stealth Rocks coz duh! This little guy has saved me in so many clutch situations that its not even funny.
Earthquake (Rotom-Wash) @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 Spe
Bold Nature
- Volt Switch
- Hydro Pump
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
So, I guess that's the team, now as far as the match up against top mons is considered ::
Awesome Replays ::
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-363313755 :: Ttar destroys stall while diancie cleans up
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-363632404 :: Again stall getting annhilated
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-363606197 :: Mega zam HO
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-363919655 :: Regen team lol
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-364353351 :: Volcarona saves the day
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-365103060 :: Volcarona sweeping against a rain team lol
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-370974472 :: Ttar breaks that sick chan-skarm core
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-370980711 :: Celebi baits in weavile
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-370987875 :: He puts a lot of pressure on me using entei and scarf lando but I finally pull through
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-368635383 :: Full pixies team..yay!
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-363914782 :: One of my fav replays where I broke stall
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ou-364281158 :: lol, he set up his char-x against banded ttar
So, my smobros thats the team, and those of you who have stuck around till here..here's something from me
So, guys rate the team, judge it and whatever and please tell me how can I improve it.
Have fun!!
I will post the importable in comments.
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