Hello and welcome to my new uu team. I've been battling competitively since Hoenn but i am new to posting on smogon. Im looking forward to all your critiques and help so thanks!
I decided to found this team around weavile. when i heard weavile may be falling to uu, i immediately started thinking up move sets. Weavile has many options to choose from and i decided the moveset is chose would be the best for sweeping.
I Then chose to put Nidoking on this team because i covers Weaviles weaknesses to fighting, rock, steel, and bug. the fire weakness is coveredd ny a latter team member. this Nidoking was just for covering weavile, so i made him an all out attacker not thurougly thinking of a strategy.
You may have noticed stunfisk is moving. It's because stunfisk rocks. I know having two teammates bad against water ground and ice is a terrible idea, but stunfisk gets me a minimum of two kills a match, one time getting five kills before a banded landurus used earthquake and ruined a possible 6-0. Anyway, That is the reason i keep him on the team and he doesn't interfere with the team at all.
Next is Altaria. this is my first attempt at a dragon type because personally i think they are cheap, besides this one, flygon, kingdra and druddigon. My Altaria is more or less a bulky sweeper under the right cirumstances. Altaria resists fire aimed at Weavile, Water at Nidoking and Stunfisk and grass towards stunfisk. she can be very deadly if the opponent allows me to set up and is a great asset to this team
After reviewing my team thus far, i realized i was royaly screwed if and ice type appeared. with that in mind, i scouted for a bulky rock type that could also deal some damage. Sudowoodo! sudowoodo resists ice which otherwise would do 4x to Altaria and 2x to nidoking and stunfisk. My sudowoodo has nice coverage and goes out with a *chuckle*... bang.
Lastly i wanted a specially defensive water pokemon. Mantine is a great candidate and resists fire, grass, bug, fighting, AND absorbs water. What happened to remoraid? whatever.
A closer look:
Weavile@ focus sash
Jolly-pressure
4/hp 252/attack 252/speed
swords dance
ice shard
brick break
pursuit/night slash
Weavile has great stats in speed and attack, but is very frail. focus sash guarentees a swords dance gets up and weavile is faster than just about everything in uu so it can sweep freely. ice shard is still very strong wit STAB and swords dance and weavile's already massive power, brick break can get weakened rock/steel types that would otherwise put a damper on sweeping. i cant decide between night slash for more power or pursuit for fleeing foes.
Nidoking@ Life orb
Adamant-rivalry (male)
252/hp 252/attack 4/speed
poison jab
earthquake
head smash
sucker punch
Once again Nidoking was only here to aid weavile, but he works fine this way getting at least one kill each match. poison jab and earthquake are STAB and powerful, head smash does immense damage paired with life orb but gives terrible recoil. and when nido's reign of terrors comes to an end, sucker punch will assure they wont forget the once king of pokemon. your spirit lives on king.
STUNFISK@ leftovers
relaxed-static
252/hp 192/def 64/sp def
thunderbolt
surf
rest
sleeptalk
mmm. m-m-m-m-mm. stunfisk. thunderbolt is great STAB, i use surf over earth power because another landurus or a gliscor could wall me, plus surf takes care of other ground types and the rock that i switch him in for instead of weavile. resttalk works extreemly well with stunfisk and i am quite pleased with his smiling troll face.
Altaria@ leftovers
modest-natural cure
252/hp 128/attack 64/def 64/speed
cotton guard
roost
dragon dance
dragon claw
Well, Altaria resists a lot of stuff that otherwise would ruin my team which i explained earlier. cottom guard "drastically" raises defense by three stages, then i use dragon dance to raise those stats for sweeping and then proceed to do so with dragon claw.
sudowoodo@ expert belt
adamant-rock head
4/hp 252/attack 252/def
wood hammer
stone edge
sucker punch
explosion
well sudowoodo was just here to resist the ice damage that cripples my team. but when i started looking for a set i found he could actually be useful. wood hammer takes care of other rock types that could wall sudowoodo, stone edge is his main attacking move for STAB, and since he is very very very slow he needs sucker punch for priority. and when he gets weak he can always explode to take out whoever he's versing.
Mantine@ ?
modest-water absorb
252/hp 252/sp def 4/def
toxic
surf
mirror coat
ice beam
this is just my special defensive wall who can deal some damage. nothing much to say here but i still need an item so if i can have any help with that it'd be great. Thanks!
EDIT: Mantine has not been working out too well and I could use a replacement. Mantine doesnt serve a purpose on this team and could easily be replaced.
Team Building
I decided to found this team around weavile. when i heard weavile may be falling to uu, i immediately started thinking up move sets. Weavile has many options to choose from and i decided the moveset is chose would be the best for sweeping.
I Then chose to put Nidoking on this team because i covers Weaviles weaknesses to fighting, rock, steel, and bug. the fire weakness is coveredd ny a latter team member. this Nidoking was just for covering weavile, so i made him an all out attacker not thurougly thinking of a strategy.
You may have noticed stunfisk is moving. It's because stunfisk rocks. I know having two teammates bad against water ground and ice is a terrible idea, but stunfisk gets me a minimum of two kills a match, one time getting five kills before a banded landurus used earthquake and ruined a possible 6-0. Anyway, That is the reason i keep him on the team and he doesn't interfere with the team at all.
Next is Altaria. this is my first attempt at a dragon type because personally i think they are cheap, besides this one, flygon, kingdra and druddigon. My Altaria is more or less a bulky sweeper under the right cirumstances. Altaria resists fire aimed at Weavile, Water at Nidoking and Stunfisk and grass towards stunfisk. she can be very deadly if the opponent allows me to set up and is a great asset to this team
After reviewing my team thus far, i realized i was royaly screwed if and ice type appeared. with that in mind, i scouted for a bulky rock type that could also deal some damage. Sudowoodo! sudowoodo resists ice which otherwise would do 4x to Altaria and 2x to nidoking and stunfisk. My sudowoodo has nice coverage and goes out with a *chuckle*... bang.
Lastly i wanted a specially defensive water pokemon. Mantine is a great candidate and resists fire, grass, bug, fighting, AND absorbs water. What happened to remoraid? whatever.
A closer look:
Weavile@ focus sash
Jolly-pressure
4/hp 252/attack 252/speed
swords dance
ice shard
brick break
pursuit/night slash
Weavile has great stats in speed and attack, but is very frail. focus sash guarentees a swords dance gets up and weavile is faster than just about everything in uu so it can sweep freely. ice shard is still very strong wit STAB and swords dance and weavile's already massive power, brick break can get weakened rock/steel types that would otherwise put a damper on sweeping. i cant decide between night slash for more power or pursuit for fleeing foes.
Nidoking@ Life orb
Adamant-rivalry (male)
252/hp 252/attack 4/speed
poison jab
earthquake
head smash
sucker punch
Once again Nidoking was only here to aid weavile, but he works fine this way getting at least one kill each match. poison jab and earthquake are STAB and powerful, head smash does immense damage paired with life orb but gives terrible recoil. and when nido's reign of terrors comes to an end, sucker punch will assure they wont forget the once king of pokemon. your spirit lives on king.
STUNFISK@ leftovers
relaxed-static
252/hp 192/def 64/sp def
thunderbolt
surf
rest
sleeptalk
mmm. m-m-m-m-mm. stunfisk. thunderbolt is great STAB, i use surf over earth power because another landurus or a gliscor could wall me, plus surf takes care of other ground types and the rock that i switch him in for instead of weavile. resttalk works extreemly well with stunfisk and i am quite pleased with his smiling troll face.
Altaria@ leftovers
modest-natural cure
252/hp 128/attack 64/def 64/speed
cotton guard
roost
dragon dance
dragon claw
Well, Altaria resists a lot of stuff that otherwise would ruin my team which i explained earlier. cottom guard "drastically" raises defense by three stages, then i use dragon dance to raise those stats for sweeping and then proceed to do so with dragon claw.
sudowoodo@ expert belt
adamant-rock head
4/hp 252/attack 252/def
wood hammer
stone edge
sucker punch
explosion
well sudowoodo was just here to resist the ice damage that cripples my team. but when i started looking for a set i found he could actually be useful. wood hammer takes care of other rock types that could wall sudowoodo, stone edge is his main attacking move for STAB, and since he is very very very slow he needs sucker punch for priority. and when he gets weak he can always explode to take out whoever he's versing.
Mantine@ ?
modest-water absorb
252/hp 252/sp def 4/def
toxic
surf
mirror coat
ice beam
this is just my special defensive wall who can deal some damage. nothing much to say here but i still need an item so if i can have any help with that it'd be great. Thanks!
EDIT: Mantine has not been working out too well and I could use a replacement. Mantine doesnt serve a purpose on this team and could easily be replaced.
