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Meruem · August 31, 2015

...sigh, i tried

anyway, i've been bored lately and school only starts in two weeks here, so I felt like giving this a try. gonna build some uu teams for you so that hopefully you get more into the meta. even if you don't get much into it, you can always enjoy using it ~~on the ladder~~ against someone on the server, or even on a small tournament. only have a few rules i'd like you to follow:

- only uu teams (no shit)

- only one team per person (sorry, this thread is probably not even gonna last very long anyway)

- please be creative. don't ask me for "a sticky web team", "stall", "trick room", "hyper offense", "x weather" or "a team with [insert pokemon name here]". give details on the set you want me to build around and, if possible, try to suggest a core.

- pay attention to what i mean by the above rule. being creative doesn't necessarily equal to suggesting stupid things. therefore, i refuse to build around shitty gimmicky mons like swoobat, special aerodactyl or, overall, things that get completely outclassed by other mons on the tier, such as raichu. please try not to suggest redundant cores either, such as darmanitan + entei.

that is all. i'll go to sleep now and start building tomorrow, so g'night! (feels weird to end a post like this though, so here's a ~~kawaii~~ HOT AS FUCK potato)

Hexagoen · August 31, 2015

okay...

something that revolves around the mighty power of mega absol >:]

usual stuff... hazards, wall, sweeper, gimmick mon... etc...

the twist: has to be mono dark. all the way.

have fun!

Reignited'Light · August 31, 2015

Hey MMM!

How does Salamence+Scarf Heracross sound? Sounds like a good offense core at first glance, although mught be weak to a lot of stuff in UU. Heracross beats rock and ice types while Mence is just a offense sweeper, lol. I think Banded Heracross puts in a lot of work as well with Guts. Change the moves if you want, as they are just copied smogon sets, lol

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Daniel Blackworth · August 31, 2015

Something that revolve around Mega Gardevoir

Add a wall, hazard, sweeper, wild card, and a support

Try making it as diverse as possible. Thanks

Meruem · August 31, 2015

On 8/31/2015 at 3:49 AM, Sinikuro013 said:

okay...

something that revolves around the mighty power of mega absol >:]

usual stuff... hazards, wall, sweeper, gimmick mon... etc...

the twist: has to be mono dark. all the way.

have fun!

sorry, but i count that as gimmicks, please dont do things like this from now on. anyway, if you really want a uu mono dark team with mega absol, it's not hard to think about what you'll need:

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this is a sample team i quickly made. not going to elaborate much on this one, i.e. how to use it, what mons to lead with, etc, since im tired and you broke the rules :<. but here, have it.

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i found it to be somewhat between standard balance and stall. anyway, hope you like it!

I will work on the other ones asap tomorrow :]]. By the way, Mr. Divergent, Gardevoir is OU, please check the UU tier banlist before suggesting another set/core.

Also, forget about the second rule, you can actually ask for 2 teams at most.

Chase · August 31, 2015

Milotic @ Leftovers
Ability: Competitive
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD
Modest Nature

Scald
Icy Wind
Protect
Recover

Chesnaught
Max HP/ Max Att/ rest in SpDef
Item: Assault Vest
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Bullet Proof
-Drain Punch
-Seed Bomb
-Power-Up Punch
-Rock Tomb

So, I just wanted to use AV Chesnaught and Competitive Milotic together.- before you call Competitive Milotic gimmicky - I just wanted to punish intimidate users such as Krookodile and Arcanine - and AV Ches works. I promise.

Meruem · September 1, 2015

On 8/31/2015 at 4:07 AM, Reignited'Light said:

Hey MMM!

How does Salamence+Scarf Heracross sound? Sounds like a good offense core at first glance, although mught be weak to a lot of stuff in UU. Heracross beats rock and ice types while Mence is just a offense sweeper, lol. I think Banded Heracross puts in a lot of work as well with Guts. Change the moves if you want, as they are just copied smogon sets, lol

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Salamence @ Lum Berry

Ability: Intimidate

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe

Naive Nature

- Dragon Dance

- Outrage

- Fire Blast

- Iron Tail

Heracross @ Choice Scarf

Ability: Moxie

EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe

Jolly Nature

- Close Combat

- Megahorn

- Knock Off

- Stone Edge

it is a pretty strong offensive core, which i had fun building around. though, i could never decide whether i wanted to take a more bulky approach or just go with hyper offense. the former could probably work, though it felt a bit weird. the latter was hard to work around, because the team would have way too many holes, as stall teams and powerful wall breakers completely destroyed it. in the end, this is what i came up with.

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first, i decided to go with something that could make use of salamence/heracross's wall breaking capabilities. i went with specs shaymin since it can put in a lot of work once things like blissey and fire-types that salamence can deal with are out of the way. it also gets access to healing wish, which is pretty good since both salamence and heracross could get weakened or status'd while attempting to sweep.

then, i noticed the team was pretty weak against ice/fire/fairy-types, so i thought a fire-type would have really good synergy with the rest of it. initially, i went with entei in order to focus on the team's wall breaking potential, but soon enough, i realized it was a bit redundant as heracross can already take care of the things entei is meant to counter. therefore, i switched to physically defensive arcanine, since the team also needed some bulk. in the end however (once i already had the two other 'mons) i went with physically defensive rotom-heat. i realize it's not as great as arcanine when it comes to physical defense, since arcanine gets access to intimidate and has a much higher hp stat. but one thing it could do that arcanine can't is cause switches and act as a nice pivot, which is great because bringing in heracross or shaymin isn't always easy.

next, a steel-type was a must, because the team had major weakness against rock/dragon-types and still ice/fairy somewhat. i chose to go with empoleon because i also needed some type of spinner or defogger. and for the last mon, i went with cobalion since it's a pretty solid uu mon which can fit in almost any team.

finally, you can adjust some other things to your preference. toxic is a nice option on empoleon over ice beam, if stall teams are too annoying to handle. you can also have rocks over ice beam and run swords dance on cobalion. volt switch over taunt is also not bad, for the same reasons i chose rotom-h over arcanine or, if sd cobalion, you can have either magnet rise or substitute instead of taunt. on salamence, i changed iron tail to earthquake since cobalion has coverage against fairy-types, and both rotom-h/empoleon can take them on as well. also, on shaymin i went with earth power and dazzling gleam for coverage against fire, poison and dragon-types, though, you can run air slash instead of the latter if you feel like opposing grass-types such as chesnaught and roserade are being a pain. you could also run psychic to potentially catch crobat if it switches in, however, none of these mons are too threatening, as empoleon and rotom-h should handle them pretty well. finally, another small thing you can change is salamence's ability, since moxie is pretty nice to sweep. id personally keep intimidate though, as it helps with keeping the overall team nice and bulky.

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On 8/31/2015 at 6:44 AM, Hilda said:

Milotic @ Leftovers

Ability: Competitive

EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD

Modest Nature

Scald

Icy Wind

Protect

Recover

Chesnaught

Max HP/ Max Att/ rest in SpDef

Item: Assault Vest

Nature: Adamant

Ability: Bullet Proof

-Drain Punch

-Seed Bomb

-Power-Up Punch

-Rock Tomb

So, I just wanted to use AV Chesnaught and Competitive Milotic together.- before you call Competitive Milotic gimmicky - I just wanted to punish intimidate users such as Krookodile and Arcanine - and AV Ches works. I promise.

competitive milotic isn't too much of a gimmick imo. in fact, if anything, it's even less of a gimmick than regular milotic since it gets outclassed by most water-types in the tier. the only problem with it is that despite being able to take advantage of common defoggers and intimidate users, it can't do much back to them, especially against things like empoleon. anyway, this is what i got for you. not sure if it matches your play-style much but i found it to be a pretty solid team, overall. by the way, i changed the sets up a bit and im going to explain why later on the team building process.

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so, the team turned out to look very different from what i pictured in the beginning. the first thing i thought about was having cleric support, mainly for chesnaught, but even milotic would appreciate it if it ever got hit by a toxic. i decided to go with florges since it has pretty nice synergy with chesnaught. i then noticed a steel-type would be really handy, as most of the team's weaknesses would get covered. since i still had no mega, i went with aggron, because, overall, it's a pretty nice utility mon in uu. it also had good synergy with florges, which was a plus. after that, i chose to run drapion because toxic spikes would be really handy to wear down opposing mons which chesnaught and milotic might have trouble dealing with. this is what the team looked like at this point:

i then noticed i had no reliable spinner/defogger yet, and i tried to fit in every single possible hazard controller i could, but nothing would fit in enough with the team. after trying to change a lot of things (tried running many things like camerupt, nidoqueen, cofagrigus, gligar, rotom-h) and never coming up with something, i decided to start from scratch.

this time, i went with gligar from the beginning so that this wouldn't be a problem in the future. i chose it over other defoggers because of the good type synergy it has with milotic. then, i put rotom-h in the team not only to form a grass/fire/water core, but also because the team was pretty weak against ice/fairy/flying-types. plus, rotom-h's volt switch and being able to mess up physical attackers helped milotic and chesnaught a lot too. then i added doublade to help with the resistances, since it's typing is great and it fit in the team really easily because of that. finally, i added umbreon for cleric support, for the reasons mentioned earlier.

as i said in the beginning, i changed up the sets a bit: on milotic, i found icy wind to be pretty weak in power and unnecessary. i dont see the power decrease being worth that speed drop at all, so i put ice beam over that, so that it can hit dragons and grass-types much harder. i also dont see any point in running protect. milotic isn't meant to scout, not to mention that umbreon can already do that, if you really feel like it's necessary. i can understand the lefties recovery, but that applies to about any pokemon. i instead gave it toxic (or dragon tail, choose which one you prefer) so that it can reliably take care of other water-types, or just things it can't hit very hard. on chesnaught, i replaced stone miss with rock tomb, for more power. again, the speed drop is probably not going to be useful to catch things like crobat and aerodactyl on a switch, since they'll still be able to outspeed. rather than that, surprising them with a powerful stone edge could get you a ko after rocks, which is pretty nice. i made those changes from my own pure experience, so you can change all of it back to how it was if you want to. the team is yours :].

finally, here are some other small things you can change if you want to: you can run u-turn over stealth rock on gligar, if you feel like rocks arent a must, though personally, i would keep them. especially if you choose to run dragon tail on milotic. on doublade, you can go for a specially defensive set if you want to (with toxic over sd and rest/talk if you want that as well). though, it really lacks in power, so i wouldnt recommend it.

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that's about it, hope you two like the teams :]].

Jelly · September 1, 2015

fatcroak and rd megapert pls (np luke if u want >: ))

Edited September 1, 2015 by Jelly

Reignited'Light · September 1, 2015

lookin' like a really solid uu team bro. Don't care about w/e weaknesses. Salamence beats all!!!
thanks bro

Odybld · September 1, 2015

Give me an Agility Mega Amphy and Shaymin (scarfed or speced) to kill all bulky Scald spammers and more, and add DD Feraligatr without Aqua Jet if possible. I love playing offensively.

Meruem · September 2, 2015

On 9/1/2015 at 2:04 AM, Jelly said:
fatcroak and rd megapert pls (np luke if u want >: ))

so i ended up making two teams because i had many options and didnt know which to go with. the first one focuses more on the rain (no luke) and is mostly hyper offense, while the second one has luke and is slightly more balanced, with some things that benefit from the rain a bit.

this is the first one:

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since this is the more rain oriented team, the first thing i wanted was a special sweeper that is able to abuse it. i went with heliolisk since it can take care of common physical walls swampert might struggle to deal with, such as slowking, doublade and forretress. in return, swampert handles umbreon, blissey and florges pretty well, which is pretty nice. then, i wanted another swift swim sweeper, and since it's not very prevalent in uu anymore, i picked kingdra. for the same reasons as heliolisk, it has pretty nice synergy with swampert and toxicroak.

after that i decided to add bronzong to the team since it benefits from the rain a lot and can set up rocks, which are pretty useful. i gave it rain dance and a damp rock to aid the rain sweepers too. furthermore, bronzong can take care of special wall breakers like shaymin, which the rest of the team might struggle to deal with. finally, i added gligar because it has really good synergy with the rest of the team, as most of its team mates can take water/ice-type attacks which gligar cant. plus, it can take care of common physical walls which threaten the team quite a bit. i also gave it defog since hazards are very common in uu and they could turn out to annoy the rest of the team.

on swampert, i decided to go with a standard bulky spread that can outspeed timid sceptile and scarf chandelure in the rain. if you want to, you can run 176 evs to outspeed aerodactyl as well, or max speed evs and a jolly nature so that fast scarf users like mienshao and infernape don't stop you from sweeping.

on toxicroak, you can have sub over gunk shot if you want, though do note you'll lose coverage against fairies like florges, so be careful with that. sucker punch is essential for priority, since toxicroak is slow without speed investment, but knock off is a decent option if that doesn't trouble you.

finally, on heliolisk, grass knot is a pretty good option over surf, since the team already has enough water coverage. it allows you to take care of water/ground-types which normally threaten swampert and toxicroak.

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at this point, i was mostly glad with this team, but i still wanted to have lucario in the team. also, if there was one thing that annoyed me a bit about it, was that the offensive cores were a bit redundant at times (for instance, even if heliolisk can take care of things like vaporeon, toxicroak could already handle them anyway).

enter the second team:

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this one focuses more on the bulk and slowly wearing down the opponent, rather than on the rain aspect. the first thing that came to my mind was that i needed a cleric, since status stops swampert, croak and luke from sweeping. i went with umbreon because it has really good type synergy with toxicroak, since the latter can take care of fairies for umbreon, while umbreon takes care of annoying psychic-types. then i decided to add standard sd doublade, to reliably take on physical attackers while dealing some nice damage. it especially pairs well with toxicroak since it takes on annoying psychic-types (mainly cm users) which toxicroak has to rely on predicting with sucker punch to beat. finally, since i still had no hazard controller, i decided to throw in togetic since it's an extremely bulky mon overall and it further helps with wearing down the opponent's team so that luke/croak can sweep at some point.

the changes to swampert and toxicroak from before still apply, if you like them better that way. on togetic, i chose baton pass for pivoting, which allows it to safely bring in the three main wall breakers. though, you can give it toxic (to cripple certain annoying walls) or thunder wave (so that toxicroak can outspeed things it normally wouldnt be able to). you can also give it heal bell and give umbreon toxic. on doublade, specially defensive w/ toxic can also work, though i'd keep it as it is.

finally, you can replace vaporeon with umbreon, since they do pretty much the same. doing that won't change the team much, but fire-types are kind of an issue, since the only resist you have is swampert. as for the vaporeon set, you can make it standard cleric, or give togetic heal bell and give vaporeon either toxic or roar, if opposing set-up sweepers are annoying. you can also have bronzong instead of doublade, if you feel like you need rocks. rain dance is optional on this one, since the team doesn't rely too much on it to win, so you can have lefties and run earthquake/protect instead. and you can have gligar over togetic, just like on the first team. this is how the team will look like if you choose to do that:

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On 9/1/2015 at 2:33 AM, Odybld said:
Give me an Agility Mega Amphy and Shaymin (scarfed or speced) to kill all bulky Scald spammers and more, and add DD Feraligatr without Aqua Jet if possible. I love playing offensively.

tried to make it as offensive as possible while keeping some bulk (which is always necessary). im going to list a few things you can change later if you want to.

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team building process:

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sorry for the wait, hope you like 'em guys :].

EDIT: so it's been two days and i'm enjoying this so far. i'd really appreciate some feedback from you guys on a few things:

1. do you like the way i present the teams?

2. should i list threats that the teams might have trouble dealing with?

3. should i also show you some replays of me using them on the ladder?

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Odybld · September 2, 2015

Personally, I think you need to get some sleep man. The time of that edit is bad for you health and wellbeing I like the team other than the fact that my physical and special walls are both weak to SR. Other than that, I'll change the speed settings on Gatr and Amphy to hit max speed propably, unless they can spare some leftover EVs without missing on any speedtier. I'm also worried about Mega Aero a bit, I think it's faster than Gatr after one Dance. Arcanine can really break Mega Bees balls with the drops and the Helmet. Maybe I'll make it more offensive, perhaps add Crunch to say hi to Cresselia and Reuniclus and do them some chip damage? Intimidate and the Helmet though, I like them more than Entei.

I really have a great respect for these superfast megas though. Defog makes me nervous. My walls hate hazards... Are there any Spinners on the tier that are worth considering?

And then there's rain. Oh goodness Mega Pert.

Your presentation is fine, allthough I prefer sprites over icons (pls no gen6 gifs) and you do a great job giving insight about teambuilding and usage. Noting some threats would be awesome, replays too, if you have any. If you don't have any... I think you did too much already.

Edit: ok, how about a Hitmontop over Togetic? That thing is RU, but Vest and Intimidate make practically an Eviolite, it resists rocks, and it can be specially bulky, physically bulky, bulky in both to a disgusting level, and can fire strong attacks with good coverage or go to Technician Priospam. Togetic has recovery and doesn't take Spikes damage and TSpikes, and Hitmontop can't BatonPass for momentum, but hey.

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Meruem · September 2, 2015

you can go for hitmontop, but do note that special wall breakers like hydreigon will be a pain. you can also replace arcanine/cobalion/togetic with gligar/doublade/umbreon if you want to. you can keep cobalion instead of having doublade too, but do note the only thing you'll have for fighting-types is gligar, which isn't always a reliable physical wall. in any case, faster megas and scarfs are no longer too threatening and you should still be able to take care of most special/physical wall breakers like nidoking, hydreigon, mienshao, etc. by the way, since you now have a cleric and faster threats are no longer a problem, you can change shaymin into either a specs set (while keeping healing wish or changing that to giga drain) or a life orb set with rest in the last move slot.

here's the team after those changes (i listed more options on the movesets, so edit that when importing the team).

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Odybld · September 2, 2015

I still like the first draft the most. But hey, thanks a lot! Now I have to pay you overtime! I'll be able to play the team in around a month when I'm back home, so I'll be back with more feedback then. But I will try Hittop too, and I'll make it work

Meruem · September 2, 2015

alright, hope you enjoy it man :]]

Kamina · September 2, 2015

I will give you the most godly core to work on.... r u ready for it???

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Odybld · September 2, 2015

Hey, I was thinking about a ZoZo Rack - Mega Diancie team after you exposed my Mega Meta one You do are the all-knowing god after all

On 9/2/2015 at 5:28 PM, Kamina said:

I will give you the most godly core to work on.... r u ready for it???

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THE Whimsicott, zozoark core

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How is it OP

both of them take the same amount of hazards damage.

They kind of synergize defensively (who is gonna have the ballz to use a fighting move on a whimsicott???))

Offensively zozorack w/ flamethrower can take care of whim counters such as abamasnow (oh shit they also take same amount of damage from hail)

and whim can take care of fast fighting pokes / paralize fast stuff who think they can beat a zozoark.

idrk uu or sets but I think together they are a force to be reckoned with

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makeopteampls

Kamina · September 2, 2015

damn rite i am

Deleted User · September 3, 2015

Haxorus and Roserade if you'd please.

Drymus · September 4, 2015

Can I request a Flame/Toxic Orb Guts Heracross and Life Orb Arcanine core?

Meruem · September 7, 2015

guys, sorry for the wait. ive been busy (more like lazy tbh) lately and also caught a cold which developed to sinusitis. they should be up in two days or so. i already made the teams, all thats left to do is write the post.

thanks for understanding :].

Odybld · September 7, 2015

Well, after you get better and write the monsterpost for the other teams, give me a Nidoking-Hydra-Scarfcross team. Go very fast, very aggressive. A Taunt user would be cool too. Leave defensive synergy to resistances.

Meruem · September 13, 2015

alright, here they are guys :].

On 9/2/2015 at 5:28 PM, Kamina said:

I will give you the most godly core to work on.... r u ready for it???

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THE Whimsicott, zozoark core

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How is it OP

both of them take the same amount of hazards damage.

They kind of synergize defensively (who is gonna have the ballz to use a fighting move on a whimsicott???))

Offensively zozorack w/ flamethrower can take care of whim counters such as abamasnow (oh shit they also take same amount of damage from hail)

and whim can take care of fast fighting pokes / paralize fast stuff who think they can beat a zozoark.

idrk uu or sets but I think together they are a force to be reckoned with

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makeopteampls

wow interesting, but ur a fkn idiot u forgot the most syn3rg3t1c thing about them: they both have a base hp stat of 60!!1 but yeah zoroark is a really fun mon which i always enjoy building around. and playing with it is the best, especially when you manage to trick your opponents and just sit there giggling like a ten year old girl when they go "wtf?? how!!?!1". i think it can work really well with whimsicott ~~SYNERGY~~ because zoroark pairs especially well with pivots and, overall, anything that's fairy, psychic, fighting or ghost and/or shares a common move with it.

here's the team i got for you:

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first thing i wanted to add was a ghost-type or at least something that had moves in common with zoroark. i went with sub cm chandelure ~~60 HP EVEN MORE SYNERGY~~ as it can deal with things like florges and blissey which would normally trouble zoroark a bit. as i mentioned, ghost-types overall are very good fits for any team that has zoroark, but one of the greatest things about running sub cm chandelure on this team is that if you mess with your opponents enough, you can safely set up on many things that zoroark and even whimsicott tend to force in, and potentially sweep.

then i added in cobalion, as the team couldn't properly check certain dark-types. and also for rocks, which are always nice. i also gave it volt switch to further help zoroark on deceiving the opponents/opening a chance for chandelure to set up and sweep.

then i threw in a umbreon/gligar core to deal with wall breakers like nidoking and mienshao, and also because i still had no cleric or defogger.

now, there are many things you can adjust here to your liking. for starters, whimsicott has many other moves to choose from, such as tailwind and stun spore for better speed control, or moonblast over giga drain for coverage. the set shouldnt change as physically defensive/pivot whimsicott is more adequate to this team, imo.

on zoroark, i went with a mixed set because of how good its coverage is and how much of a troll it can be. it fucks up most leads thanks to its wide coverage and illusion. though, you can run a choice specs/scarf(or even band) over this, with three moves for coverage and switcheroo/u-turn. you can also run a swords dance or nasty plot set with focus sash/life orb, but i dont think thats necessary given the other team mates. finally, you can run low kick over grass knot in order to properly deal with dark-types like umbreon, but imo, grass knot is better so that you can fuck up things like swampert and even blastoise-m. furthermore, you have cobalion already, so having coverage for said dark-types isn't a must.

if you don't like sub cm chandelure, you can run a standard scarf set (flamethrower, shadow ball, energy ball, trick) which is pretty good on this team since you have no other revenge killer besides zoroark (w/ sucker punch). if you do run scarf chandelure, you can run sub sd cobalion (or w/ magnet rise/taunt over sub) instead of the standard pivot, since whimsicott already does well in that role. if you do that you should consider having rocks on gligar instead of u-turn or defog, since this team is all about forcing switches and whatnot.

finally, you can run vaporeon over umbreon, though imo, even if vaporeon might seem to have better synergy with the rest of the team, umbreon is a better fit as you will struggle to deal with special wallbreakers otherwise. also, another interesting change i found was infernape + doublade over chandelure + cobalion. i didnt actually try it, but you can, as both are good partners for zoroark. here's how the team will look like if you make those changes:

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as a side note, i switched zoroark to specs because the team only had physical attackers, which felt a bit redundant. you can try mixed/nasty plot infernape + mixed/sd/scarf zoroark too. overall, there's lots of things you can do with these two (and even whimsicott, if you wanna run an offensive one with lo), so your choice here!

late edit: i had done this long ago, but recently i noticed hoopa became uu, as expected. you can run that over chandelure too, though it is likely become bl at some point.

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On 9/3/2015 at 3:08 AM, Jericho said:
Haxorus and Roserade if you'd please.

so i came up with something that was between balance and hyper offense, which i think matches your play-style nicely. be careful when importing, because i was lazy at the time i made this and decided to list the changes you can make on the the import rather than on the team building process, though i did elaborate on some of them there. anyway, i like how this turned out, looks pretty solid to me:

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the first thing i decided to do was build a grass/fire/water core around roserade, in order to cover some of the team's major weaknesses. i also needed a steel-type and defogger/stealth rock setter, so i threw in empoleon/houndoom. empoleon fits very well on many teams because of how useful it can be and mega houndoom pairs very nicely with haxorus, as they can deal with each others' counters, "cleaning each others paths", to make sweeping easier for them.

then i added florges as it had very good synergy with empoleon/houndoom and cleric is very nice, even if you choose to have natural cure roserade. finished off with gligar since i needed a good and reliable physical wall, and also because empoleon isn't always completely reliable when it comes to hazard control, meaning you can switch around rocks and defog between those two.

as i mentioned, i left many options for you to edit when importing the team. some of them are pretty self explanatory, so ill only elaborate on the more "complex" ones:

- because you have a cleric, life orb is a nice item over lum berry. however, lum isn't only good on haxorus to get rid of annoying status that stops it from sweeping, but also because of outrage's confusion. that said, choose whichever you prefer, both are good items for different reasons.

- again, since you have cleric, natural cure roserade isn't a must. toxic spikes are still pretty nice, especially since you have houndoom/haxorus, but hidden power fire is an option you should really consider, since it surprises things like forretress with a ko. if you do go for a full offensive roserade (i.e. hp fire), consider using a life orb. also, i didn't list it on the options, but you can have spikes if you want to. in my opinion though, toxic spikes work better on this team.

- as i said, you can switch hazard control around between empoleon and gligar. be careful when choosing the abilities though, because if you go for rocks on gligar and no defog, you have access to immunity which is pretty nice. though, gligar is better for removing hazards as it is immune to spikes and can take hits more easily (not to mention that it has reliable recovery in roost).

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On 9/4/2015 at 6:31 AM, Drymus said:
Can I request a Flame/Toxic Orb Guts Heracross and Life Orb Arcanine core?

i actually really like how this turned out, despite the fact that it seemed like i could never come up with something nice. overall, its a team that puts a lot of offensive pressure while having counters for certain wallbreakers/faster threats. its more balance than hyper offense tbh, but yeah, here it is:

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i threw in mega sceptile first, since it can do lots of damage once heracross and arcanine take care of walls like blissey and florges. furthermore, sceptile can take care of bulky water-types and physical walls that would otherwise threaten heracross and arcanine, so i figured they paired up nicely.

i then wanted a water-type to form a nice grass/fire/water core with sceptile/arcanine. at first i went with vaporeon (which is a good choice, if you still want to go with that), but soon afterwards i noticed slowking had a niche in the team, as it can paralyze faster threats that stop heracross from sweeping. it can also shuffle opposing teams around with dragon tail, slowly weakening them.

finally, since the team had no decent physical/special defensive core yet and i also needed some sort of hazard control, i added togetic and doublade. togetic was an especially good option because of its slow baton pass which allows it to safely bring in heracross/sceptile. doublade provides some nice offensive support while being able to deal with faster things like mega-aerodactyl and crobat, which heracross struggles with.

as for other options, there are a few things you can switch around to your liking:

- megahorn over facade isn't bad at all, but due to the miss rate, i think facade provides more reliable coverage along with cc/knock off (normal/fighting/dark)

- you can have close combat over wild charge on arcanine, since water-types aren't even that much of a problem to the team. you can also run crunch over morning sun, but recovery is pretty nice on arcanine, since it slowly loses hp due to life orb and it tends to force many things out.

- you should consider running hidden power fire over focus blast on sceptile, since you already have cc on heracross to deal with things like umbreon and blissey. hp fire provides a reliable way to deal with forretress and weakened av escavalier. substitute is also a good option over leaf storm, since sceptile also tends to force many things out, mainly bulky water-types.

- psyshock is okay over dragon tail on slowking, but id personally keep that as shuffling is better than coverage. either way, you'd only be able to hit things like dragalge and tentacruel for more damage, which you can paralyze and force out.

- finally, instead of running baton pass on togetic, heal bell is a pretty nice option if your arcanine/sceptile happen to get paralyzed or slowking gets poisoned. thunder wave is also good on it for the same reason as it is on slowking.

- cobalion isn't a bad choice over doublade if you want a nice pivot that can set up rocks. it also helps on dealing with fairies, which was one of doublade's major points. though, cobalion felt a bit redundant to me as you already have heracross. plus, its not like rocks are an absolute must on this type of team.

- instead of slowking/doublade, you can run vaporeon/bronzong. pretty good core in my opinion, so if you see yourself struggling with status and lack of recovery, try using this team instead:

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- side note: if you choose this team, another thing you can change around is heal bell/roar/baton pass. what i mean is, if you choose to have heal bell on togetic, you can run roar on vaporeon, which is pretty good in my opinion. even if you dont run heal bell on togetic, roar is a nice option if you feel like status doesnt threaten you.

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On 9/7/2015 at 8:27 PM, Odybld said:
Well, after you get better and write the monsterpost for the other teams, give me a Nidoking-Hydra-Scarfcross team. Go very fast, very aggressive. A Taunt user would be cool too. Leave defensive synergy to resistances.

okay, i tried to make it as aggressive as i could, but i ended up sacrificing some speed for a spinner (i.e. blastoise) and resistances. i don't think it is a major problem, however, as faster things like noivern and crobat don't really threaten the team too much, given their counters didn't faint. in the end, scarfcross was the fastest thing in the team, but if you really find this an issue you can make rotom-h scarf instead of specs.

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hope all of you liked the teams. i wont be taking any more requests now, since school starts next tuesday for me and i've been very lazy lately. though, if you're interested, i will likely do this some time in the future (basically once i feel like it again).

would appreciate if a mod locked this now. if you have any questions about the teams or need any help, just pm me and i should reply within a day or two, depending on how busy i am.

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