WEAV + CMSPLIT MAGE RAIN
The quintessential rain setter, Pelipper. You should know the trick by now, it clicks U-Turn to pivot into threats, Roost if it needs to heal, and while it isn't the best at removing hazards, it can Defog in a pinch.
The classic partner to our rain bird. This Pokemon provides an Electric immunity and sets up hazards with Stealth Rock. Adamant is an option over Jolly, but the +Speed nature can come in clutch to outspeed a chipped Scarf Kartana.
When playing SM OU, I found that Latias-Mega is one of the best checks to rain in the tier. Thus, I wanted to build rain with a pursuit Pokemon and ended up on Weavile. Being fast outside of rain is a good quality, and Knock Off is always good.
Ferrothorn provides hazards for the team, in Spikes, and it also provides a solid defensive typing to lay back on for my more offensively inclined teammates. It is your Ash-Gren check.
The pivot, and hazard removal of the team. I chose Taunt over the usual Knock Off to prevent bulky foes like Gastrodon and Toxapex from recovering and to not weaken Weavile's Knock Off. It is a solid check for Grass-types, such as Kartana, and Tapu Bulu.
Last but not least, the Iron Bunny, Magearna. I felt like I needed extra help versus bulkier teams, and I also wanted a backup against Psyspam, which is why I chose this Pokemon. Since Ferrothorn, is the Ash-Gren check, this frees up Magearna to run a different set, in this case, being CM + Pain Split. Fairium-Z boosted Fleur Cannon is busted. Ban Magearna already.
I hope you enjoy using this team!
The quintessential rain setter, Pelipper. You should know the trick by now, it clicks U-Turn to pivot into threats, Roost if it needs to heal, and while it isn't the best at removing hazards, it can Defog in a pinch. The classic partner to our rain bird. This Pokemon provides an Electric immunity and sets up hazards with Stealth Rock. Adamant is an option over Jolly, but the +Speed nature can come in clutch to outspeed a chipped Scarf Kartana. When playing SM OU, I found that Latias-Mega is one of the best checks to rain in the tier. Thus, I wanted to build rain with a pursuit Pokemon and ended up on Weavile. Being fast outside of rain is a good quality, and Knock Off is always good. Ferrothorn provides hazards for the team, in Spikes, and it also provides a solid defensive typing to lay back on for my more offensively inclined teammates. It is your Ash-Gren check. The pivot, and hazard removal of the team. I chose Taunt over the usual Knock Off to prevent bulky foes like Gastrodon and Toxapex from recovering and to not weaken Weavile's Knock Off. It is a solid check for Grass-types, such as Kartana, and Tapu Bulu. Last but not least, the Iron Bunny, Magearna. I felt like I needed extra help versus bulkier teams, and I also wanted a backup against Psyspam, which is why I chose this Pokemon. Since Ferrothorn, is the Ash-Gren check, this frees up Magearna to run a different set, in this case, being CM + Pain Split. Fairium-Z boosted Fleur Cannon is busted. Ban Magearna already.I hope you enjoy using this team!
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Gallade-Mega
Heracross-Mega
Aggron-Mega
Venusaur-Mega
Gyarados-Mega
Garchomp-Mega
Slowbro-Mega
Pinsir-Mega
Aerodactyl-Mega
Abomasnow-Mega
Absol-Mega
Altaria-Mega
Ampharos-Mega
Audino-Mega
Banette-Mega
Beedrill-Mega
Blastoise-Mega
Camerupt-Mega
Gardevoir-Mega
Glalie-Mega
Houndoom-Mega
Manectric-Mega
Sceptile-Mega
Sharpedo-Mega
Steelix-Mega
Pidgeot-Mega
Paper is great speed control and helps a lot with the Rain matchup, especially against non-Zapdos rain. It can also Knock Off the Rocky Helmet of a lot of Flying-types so Mega Pinsir has an easier time throwing out Aerilate Returns.
Great sweeper that also can enable Mega Pinsir with coverage. This team uses Flamethrower to deal heavy damage to Skarmory so Kartana and Mega Pinsir thrive.
The big lion seemed like a great pick due to the access to Defog and Ground- Flying-type combo. Landorus-T is also a great pivot and uses HP-Ice to damage opposing Landorus-T to further enable Mega Pinsir breaking and Kommo-o sweeping.
And last but not least, Washing Machine. Rotom-W is another great pivot that has access to Defog, but Rotom-W also makes the Rain matchup far more manageable, using Will-O-Wisp to burn Ferrothorn and Mega Swampert and pivotting around the rest of the team with Volt Switch and punishing Mega Swampert trying to Volt-Block with a Rain-boosted Hydro Pump.
Volt-Switch from Zapdos is a perfect fit for both Gallade-Mega and Kyurem-Black. Indeed, Zapdos will easily pivot on pokemon such as Heatran, Kommo-o, Toxapex or Latias-Mega, allowing us to keep the pressure with our offensive core. Moreover, Zapdos provide key-elements for the team such as a fight-resist, a ground immunity and a counter to Scizor-Mega. Finally, Static can slow down Choice Scarf user such as Landorus-Therian or Kartana or fast pokemon such as Lopunny-Mega, Excadrill under Sand or Swampert under Rain; which is obviously insane for Gallade-Mega here.
Because Aggron has no recovery, I needed a Wish passer to help Aggron checking physical threats on the long run. Clefable came naturally to support Aggron as a wish passer. I prefer Clef to Chansey due to Magic Guard, having a wish passer not threatened by hazards is huge, and going for Chansey makes you prone to build passive teams. Classic Clef, nothing to add.
I love this mon(who woulda guessed). Acts as a check to medicham/lopunny mega and is able to abuse passive pokemon that rely on toxic, leech seed or burns to beat pokemon. Finds ample opportunity to set up on a lot of aerodactyls more passive answers.
I love utility gliscor with u-turn, it is the best last move on it imo. The 100 defense helps vs mega charizard x, mega mawile, tyranitar and excadrill which pose big threats to the team, the speed is to creep 254 speed pokemon.
Another set with big 4mss; you just can't fit glare and knock off on defog serp. Knock off hits chansey, heatran and celesteela to remove their vital items and synthesis lets us try stay healthy. The evs let serperior live a rain boosted waterfall into an ice punch from full cos we are a bit rain weak.
And lastly we have pex. this mon switches into so much, and then beats it. toxic spikes are good for weakening tangrowth and slowbro among many other pokemon for aerodactyl and reuniclus, haze is another way to stop setup sweepers from beating us and scald burns everything that cant be poisoned.
This team was originally designed with Tapu Fini in this slot, but once I realized that this team isn't particularly rocks weak per se and slotted on scarf Serperior I started worrying more about dealing with bulkier teams. Hence, SubCM Keldeo as a gren/non psychic volc check and "stallbreaker" vs fat.
The last piece of the zapdos fini rachi core(in which fini ultimately was swapped out). Psychic check, often uses Iron Head to chip down stuff like fini and mag that can check a lot of the offensive mons on the team. Wish is super nice for stuff like scarf serp(which often struggles with being able to last throughout a game) as well as for Keldeo.
completes the core trapping the likes of Celesteela and Skarmory and alleviates some offensive pressure on Pinsir to catch Ferrothorn. Endure+Custap berry enables to trap safely opposing Kartana and gets surprising chip-damages/KOs on many threats like Tapu-Lele or Hawlucha. 
Generally, my Heatran test is if I need Heatran to cover Toxapex and Chansey, I’ll run magma storm + taunt, and if I don’t, I‘ll run lava plume + toxic. the plume/toxic combo lets Heatran really annoy a lot of pokemon, as there aren’t many pokemon who are comfortable avoiding both a burn and a toxic. Notice: this is a Heatran set that loses to CM Clefable, so make that a target for scarf trick/hastily utilize sludge bomb to avoid that from being a big issue.
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Cool little guy with the tech of Hidden Power Electric so you can fry that annoying bird in the rain MU.
Our boy is off the chain in the stall MU. Seriously, what are they gonna do?
This guy is the dry cleaners, no need to worry about rotom-w shenanigans with this bad boy. Chloro sweeper who can chip pex for Houndoom later (or vice-versa).
if it traces Chloro... (just trade with lele!)
- z-rock to get zapdos/torn-t for mega heracross, but it also gets strong damage vs. Mega latias, Mega Scizor, and Hawlucha trying to set up infront of Bulu. Speed is for Rotom-W, hp/spd is to take hits from Greninja and Koko.
