Hey guys, today I want to bring you an RMT of my most succesful HO team. This team is pretty standard with a few unique sets. It has the ability to win against most playstyles as long as you don't play like a complete idiot. It features hard hitting mons to apply constant pressure on the opponent so you don't have to switch into things. Enjoy!
My friend I ABR I, had recently been using a stallbreaking core of d megascizor + fire punch diggersby, so I decided to build around it.
I decided on making this into a hyper offense team, so I added mamoswine, as it is an extremely good rocker and I wanted to test it with life orb.
I wanted a way to be able to ensure rocks on sableye so I used choice specs sylveon with baton pass to threaten it out then baton pass out.
Next I added greninja for a way for me to beat offense and balanced, and just to provide general offensive pressure to my opponent.
Loppunny was starting to look like a massive threat, so I added scarf latias in order to suprise it with scarf and kill it while also providing healing wish support.
At this point the first version of my team was complete, I tested some, and found some pretty big weaknesses that I needed to fix.
The biggest issue to my team at this point was bird spam, so I replaced sylveon with specs raikou as another way to keep momentum while still dishing out major damage and beating birds. Latias just wasn't strong enough to run a scarf set so I had to switch it with latios. Finally, mamoswine was switched with azelf as I wanted a faster rocker who could beat sableye.
In Depth Analysis:
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
Azelf is a pretty standard lead pokemon, with the obvious moves being stealth rock, fire blast, and explosion. The last move is a bit of a gimmick in being skill swap. Skill swap allows me to switch my ability with sableye or diancie, and get my rocks up. A lot of people will expect taunt either way and won't try to get rocks up. I maximize spa to get as much damage as I can on scizor, ferrothorn, and bisharp.
Scizor @ Scizorite
Ability: Swarm
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def / 148 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Superpower
Scizor was one of the mons I wanted to build around, and it is the MVP of the team. It's ability to sweep so many teams at +2 is just amazing. The three attacking moves I picked, are, in my opinion, the best moves for scizor. Bullet punch is obvious priority and a strong stab, bug bite allows me to hit rotom-w and most water types, finally superpower is useful for steel types such as heatran. The EV spread might seem a bit weird, but it enables me to outspeed 4 speed rotom-w before mega-ing, while maintaining bulk for setting up. Again, thanks to I ABR I for the spread.
hoes on mah bed (Diggersby) @ Life Orb
Ability: Huge Power
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
- Fire Punch
Diggersby is my main way of dealing with stall, and my strongest priority. This thing hits like an absolute truck, ohkoing scarf landot with return + quick attack as long as you don't get completely ass rolls. I'm using a fire punch set over SD, as I already have a sd user and fire punch is extremely nice for ferrothorn and skarmory. One thing I've found out is no one ever protects on diggersby with ferrothorn, and this always ohkos it. Try not to predict ferro switching in until it's actually in so you can bop it with fire punch.
Raikou @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Thunderbolt
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Shadow Ball
Raikou is an extremely good, but underrated mon. He gives me the ability to hit the opponent with powerful volt switches and keep momentum. He is also a very nice check to bird spam , as he resists flying and outspeeds most bird types. I decided to use choice specs as I wanted the most damage output on things like rotom-w, and this guy is one of my late game cleaners, with shadow ball or thunderbolt.
Greninja @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 40 Atk / 216 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Gunk Shot
- Low Kick
- Ice Beam
Greninja is an extremely good and broken mon right now. The four moves I chose to use, are the most standard. Dark pulse is for megagross, jirachi, mew, and slowbro, gunk shot are for fairies, low kick are for steel/ice types and ice beam is a strong hitting move for hitting pokemon such as gliscor and landorus. 40 attack evs ensure the OHKO on azumarill with gunk shot. Ban this mon.
Latios @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 Spe
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Trick
Choice scarf latios is an excellent revenge killer. It's my only way of beating greninja outside of priority and a speed tie with my own greninja, I'm using hp fire over surf or t bolt to get bisharp and ferrothorns on the switch in, which are other wise really annoying to take down. I haven't been using trick for long but I do like the ability to break stall easier, however I'm not sure I need it considering I can just double to diggersby on a chansey or clefable.
Threatlist:
Excadrill in sand is by far the biggest threat to my team. I have absolutely no safe switch ins to this, and the only thing that tanks is mega scizor which I have to keep at full, luckily it isn't too common anymore.
STUPID ASS BROKEN SHITHEAD. FUCK THIS THING. should be banned soon tho, dw
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I don't have any safe switch ins, but neither does she. Mega scizor sets up on it and latios outspeeds and OHKOs.
Same deal as lopunny, except scizor doesn't set up on it, easily worn down with LO+ rocks + prio though.
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
Scizor @ Scizorite
Ability: Swarm
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def / 148 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Superpower
hoes on mah bed (Diggersby) @ Life Orb
Ability: Huge Power
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
- Fire Punch
Raikou @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Thunderbolt
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Shadow Ball
Greninja @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 40 Atk / 216 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Gunk Shot
- Low Kick
- Ice Beam
Latios @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 Spe
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Trick
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Skill Swap
- Explosion
Scizor @ Scizorite
Ability: Swarm
EVs: 104 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def / 148 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Bullet Punch
- Bug Bite
- Superpower
hoes on mah bed (Diggersby) @ Life Orb
Ability: Huge Power
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Return
- Earthquake
- Quick Attack
- Fire Punch
Raikou @ Choice Specs
Ability: Pressure
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 32 HP / 252 SpA / 224 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 Def
- Thunderbolt
- Volt Switch
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Shadow Ball
Greninja @ Life Orb
Ability: Protean
EVs: 40 Atk / 216 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Gunk Shot
- Low Kick
- Ice Beam
Latios @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Levitate
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 Spe
- Draco Meteor
- Psyshock
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Trick
Thanks so much for reading. If you guys have any suggestions feel free to leave them down below, especially how to beat sab. Test it if you like and good luck!
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