Hello everyone, I'm a long time player that is not really all that great in the game. In order to make that jump in quality I need a good team and well, my low score in the ladder may be a signal that I dont have one (or maybe I just suck................. or both).
English is not my first language so if you see a mistake in the text Im really sorry, dont hesitate to correct them or tell me.
I wanted to do a team around Zard Y. I didnt use him in X/Y so I thought that it could be interesting:
Charizard (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Flamethrower
- Solar Beam
- Focus Blast
- Roost
The spread is the standart, so really no big deal explaining everything about it. The team is mostly build around it.
Tyranitar (M) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 6 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Pursuit
- Ice Punch
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
Ttar is realy usefull eliminating some anoying counters to zard y, so he was the first pokemon that went to my mind. In my opinion choice band is really restrictive and with an expert belt you can archive some interesting K.O.s like againts 80% Hp latios if they dont switch and you can make think your oponent that hes banded.
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Surf
- Defog
- Recover
I needed a defoger and the offensive preasure of latios complements well with the rest of the team. Figting resistance helps balancing the team even more.
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 6 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I needed something that could work as a pivot for my team, its not a secret that landorus is excellent. I usually prefer slower pivoters and I found this set in a smogon premiere league team (I would like to give credit to the player that made the set but i cant find it soo, well fantastic job man). I decided to try it and its phenomenal. Beats the standart landorus, oposing garchomps, zygards, can dent chansey taking away her item and still does his job as a pivot.
Greninja (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Gunk Shot
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Ice Beam
Set up sweepers can ruin my day so I decided to use protean greninja, fast priority and a powerfull attack againts fairys helps keeping the team together. Ice beam is another opcion againts the ever common landorus and can check some other pokemons weak to it.
Tapu Fini @ Leftovers
Ability: Misty Surge
EVs: 248 HP / 10 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nature's Madness
- Ice Beam
- Defog
- Taunt
After playing some games I discovered that my team was weak to zygard, stall, figthing types and set up sweepers so Tapu fini is the glue that keeps my team together vs those mons. The set is based on the standart Fini but changed in order to help me agiant those things mentioned earlier.
In conlusion:
By the way my highest score in the ladder was like 1350 I dont know if that helps lol.
English is not my first language so if you see a mistake in the text Im really sorry, dont hesitate to correct them or tell me.
I wanted to do a team around Zard Y. I didnt use him in X/Y so I thought that it could be interesting:
Charizard (F) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Blaze
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Flamethrower
- Solar Beam
- Focus Blast
- Roost
The spread is the standart, so really no big deal explaining everything about it. The team is mostly build around it.
Tyranitar (M) @ Expert Belt
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 6 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Pursuit
- Ice Punch
- Stealth Rock
- Stone Edge
Ttar is realy usefull eliminating some anoying counters to zard y, so he was the first pokemon that went to my mind. In my opinion choice band is really restrictive and with an expert belt you can archive some interesting K.O.s like againts 80% Hp latios if they dont switch and you can make think your oponent that hes banded.
- The surprise factor has been usefull and if the matchup is against stall laying stealth rocks is an unexpected and effective anser to it.
- This Ttar is able to take both earthquake and thousand arrows from garchomp and zygarde (even if hes banded or just did a dragon dance) and K.O. them with ice punch.
- Both pursuit and stone edge are bread and butter attacks that complement well the set.
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Draco Meteor
- Surf
- Defog
- Recover
I needed a defoger and the offensive preasure of latios complements well with the rest of the team. Figting resistance helps balancing the team even more.
- Waterium Z is able to hurt both Ttar, Heatram and magearna(to some extent) common answers to latios.
- The rest of the move set is the standart offensive defoger.
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 252 HP / 6 Def / 252 SpD
Relaxed Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- U-turn
- Hidden Power [Ice]
I needed something that could work as a pivot for my team, its not a secret that landorus is excellent. I usually prefer slower pivoters and I found this set in a smogon premiere league team (I would like to give credit to the player that made the set but i cant find it soo, well fantastic job man). I decided to try it and its phenomenal. Beats the standart landorus, oposing garchomps, zygards, can dent chansey taking away her item and still does his job as a pivot.
Greninja (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Gunk Shot
- Dark Pulse
- Water Shuriken
- Ice Beam
Set up sweepers can ruin my day so I decided to use protean greninja, fast priority and a powerfull attack againts fairys helps keeping the team together. Ice beam is another opcion againts the ever common landorus and can check some other pokemons weak to it.
Tapu Fini @ Leftovers
Ability: Misty Surge
EVs: 248 HP / 10 Def / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Nature's Madness
- Ice Beam
- Defog
- Taunt
After playing some games I discovered that my team was weak to zygard, stall, figthing types and set up sweepers so Tapu fini is the glue that keeps my team together vs those mons. The set is based on the standart Fini but changed in order to help me agiant those things mentioned earlier.
In conlusion:
- I like this team but its really weak to eletric and fairy types offensive team spaming those attacks feel almost imposible to stop (looking at you tapu koko),
- The games against rain can be dificult too,
- Magearna if able to set up can destroy the whole team,
- Set up sweepers like mega medicham, mega pinsir, mega gallade, are really dangerous
- Fighting type attacks are difficult to deal with.
By the way my highest score in the ladder was like 1350 I dont know if that helps lol.