Sieg12 Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 (edited) Well I suck badly at team building so I decided to post this team to get some opinions on it. It revolves around mega altaria and lucario. Lucario is my favorite mon and so I decided to make a team featuring him. I was looking for a suitable sweeping partner for him when I changed upon mega altaria who has recently started growing on me so without further ado. Tyranitar @ Black Glasses Ability: Sand Stream EVs: 248 HP / 80 Def / 180 SpD Relaxed Nature - Stealth Rock - Stone Edge - Pursuit - Ice Beam My usual lead and rock setter. Ice Beam for landorus. Initially the hippopotamus was in Godzilla's place but I eventually replaced it. Tyranitar, despite having a worse typing, accomplished a lot more than hippowdon. Pursuit trapping stuff is awesome and tar's s defense boost from sandstorm is very helpful along with the chip damage. Tar is a good counter to talonflame but u turn poses a bit of a problem. Serperior @ Leftovers Ability: Contrary EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 Spe - Leaf Storm - Dragon Pulse - Hidden Power [Fire] - Glare Leaf storm spam and occasional paralysis. Serperior's speed and ability allows it to clear some of my opponent's Pokemons paving the way for lucario and altaria to clean up. I had chosen leftovers over life orb as the boost doesn't matter much after a leaf storm or so and I don't have a reliable way of getting serperior into battle. Dragon pulse handle charizard x after a leaf storm. Glare is there to paralyze faster threats that lucario can later handle. Volcanion @ Leftovers Ability: Water Absorb EVs: 248 HP / 8 SpA / 252 SpD Calm Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Steam Eruption - Fire Blast - Sludge Wave - Will-O-Wisp Counter to fairy types and some other Pokemon. Volcanion was indeed an odd choice on my part. I had never used it before but it's typing and ability make tuna good mon. Volcanion stops most fairies cold in their tracks. Azumarill which otherwise wrecks the team is quickly hardly does much to him. It's fire typing allows it to handle scizor and ferrothern, two otherwise problematic Pokemon. It also takes care of Lando from time to time. I'm a bit confused about the evs hence the strange spread. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. Altaria @ Altarianite Ability: Cloud Nine EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe Lonely Nature - Return - Earthquake - Roost - Dragon Dance While im not a fan of normal altaria, I have a soft spot for her mega. The balanced stat spread and it's amazing typing makes it the most versatile mon in this team. The ev spread is simple allowing it to 2hko unaware clefable with return. Early in the game, altaria serves as a wallbreaker of sorts making a good partner for lucario. Roost is to heal of chip damage of sorts. Cloud nine was chosen by because it proved more beneficial than natural cure. Lucario @ Life Orb Ability: Inner Focus EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Aura Sphere - Flash Cannon - Vacuum Wave - Nasty Plot The jackal of power. Lucario might not seem threatening at first glance but it packs a punch. Originally the roles of physical and special sweeper were rever but I found that special lucario works wonders. Lucario gains more opportunities to set up and nets many surprise kos. It's speed hampers it a bit though. Mandibuzz @ Leftovers Ability: Overcoat EVs: 248 HP / 136 Def / 108 SpD / 16 Spe Bold Nature - Foul Play - Roost - Taunt - Defog My defogger and wall. Mandibuzz has worked wonders for this team. She is a very cool bird and can counter things like mega metagross and gengar making it very invaluable to the team. It has surprising bulk and can also give other walls a run for their money by using taunt. Overcoat allows it to work well with tyranitar. If you have any suggestions feel free to state them. Thank you in advance. Edited May 22, 2016 by Sieg12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamina Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 overall team isn't to bad but it seems kinda weak to mega diancie (no switch-ins to it's stab) one improvement i saw was t-tar leftovers > black glasses unless there are some critical kos that i am missing, any time a lati switches it is pretty much going to die to a pursuit regardless and the residual recovery on t-tar is really nice. Also, you are only running one dark move on t-tar so it is kind of a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJMistery Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Why exactly Lonely nature on Altaria? Why not Adamant that does the same thing to attack but reduces your unused special attack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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