The fastest of the slowest - ORAS RU

[Follow]

Hey there everyone, today I'm bringing you a team that I think is really original for this tier (actually, I love innovating in pokemon), which makes me feel really happy. I generally post one RMT per two weeks, and I always try to change the tier that I play, but I couldn't resist making another RU rmt, the new meta is just waaay better than the last one where cresselia and doublade were straight up walling the entire tier with the correct support. Anyways, I wanted to build my team around the biggest innovation you'll ever see in the RU tier, rock polish camerupt.Ah, and I posted a replay of this team in action in the status bar, so feel free to check it out, so let's go.

First of all.

Nicki (Jynx) (F) @ Focus Sash

Ability: Dry Skin

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

- Lovely Kiss

- Focus Blast

- Psyshock

- Ice Beam

At the start, I wanted to build a team with Jynx. Why Jynx? Well, I play A LOT of NU, and jynx has always been one of my favourite sash leads (Tomorrow's pokemon in the NU showcase is going to be jynx ), so I decided to try it out in RU. Lovely kiss is what really makes it one of my favourites, you put your target to sleep and start attacking, and repeat the process as your opponent sends out another pokemon. With doublade leaving, jynx is sooo much better, and I think it deserves more respect, some of my opponents can tell you that. The moves are simple, Psyshock over psychic to hit things like hariyama harder, ice beam is obvious, and focus blast is to hit steel types, though nasty plot is also a really good option.

Nicki Minaj has the worst physical defense ever , so I knew that something to take physical hits was really important, and then I was taking to consideration another fact: I love using hazard stacking offense, so I decided to run something to take physical hits and get spikes at the same time, there were only two options, qwilfish or garbodor.

Bloat (Qwilfish) @ Black Sludge

Ability: Intimidate

EVs: 252 HP / 232 Def / 24 Spe --> Speed creep to outspeed another Max defense Max HP qwilfish and other base 85 uninvested.

Bold Nature

- Toxic Spikes

- Spikes

- Scald

- Thunder Wave

Thunder wave support is really important for some of my team members. And being able to stack layers of spikes at the same time is one of the reasons I decided to run qwilfish over garbodor. And also for other reason, the water typing, it has good synergy with Jynx, being able to take fire types and all that.

And now I have a spike stacker..., fine, now I need something to set up rocks.

Wall-E (Bronzong) @ Leftovers

Ability: Levitate

EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD

Sassy Nature

IVs: 0 Spe

- Stealth Rock

- Gyro Ball

- Toxic

- Psychic

There's no better nickname for bronzong, this thing is straight up "walling" the new meta, it stops noivern, flygon, and has a key steel typing, it resists 9 types and also has 2 immunities, one of them being ground, so it has really great synergy with Bloat, since bronzong's fire weaknesses are covered by qwilfish.

With hazard stacking I decided to add three offensive mons.

Batman (Noivern) @ Choice Specs

Ability: Frisk

EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe

Hasty Nature

- Draco Meteor

- Hurricane

- Focus Blast

- U-turn

Gangster (Scrafty) @ Assault Vest

Ability: Shed Skin

EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 SpD

Adamant Nature

- Drain Punch

- Knock Off

- Ice Punch

- Thunder Punch

F.O.T.S. (Camerupt) @ Cameruptite

Ability: Solid Rock

EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe

Timid Nature

- Rock Polish

- Fire Blast

- Earth Power

- Hidden Power [ice]

I decided to innovate when I added three offensive threats, using AV scrafty and RP camerupt. Scrafty was my first option, since it resists ghost and dark types that can threaten jynx and bronzong, and with an assault vest +115 base defenses scrafty can be bulky af, it's the definition of a tank, it can take hits and hit hard at the same time.

Then I wanted something to hit really hard, but when I say really hard, I mean REALLY hard. Noivern is one of the new drops, and it's also one of my favourite pokemon from gen 6, what's the switch-in for a specs draco? Registeel? Bronzong? Bruh, I have u-turn. Focus miss is there if I have to hit steel types only for damage, but you'll normally spam hurricane and draco meteor, because they HURT.

Please, don't judge me, RP camerupt won me almost every single match. After one RP you are able to outspeed a lot of things, after 2 RPs you can outspeed everything (even things like scarf medicham). And HP Ice is for stuff like noivern and flygon. Ah, and when you see a noivern, remember to not mega evolve before knocking it out with hp ice (normal camerupt can outspeed noivern at +2, but mega can't ). A timid nature is necessary if you want to outspeed lots of things after 1 RP.

And that's it, this team has a really great type synergy, and I honestly can't see a particular weakness, but if you find it, please tell. I will be returning to the NU showcase tommorrow.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Follow