Gen 3 ADV OU Mud Mood Mess - Bulky Rain Offensive

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Hendrick

The team is centered around Rain Dance, with multiple setters (Ludicolo, Swampert, and Jirachi) and a main sweeper (Kingdra); Jirachi and Ludicolo provide defensive support and help keep the rain active; Swampert and Dugtrio act as wallbreakers, helping Kingdra clean up in the late game; Claydol provides support with Rapid Spin and Explosion; The team maintains resilience and game control until the right moment for Kingdra to sweep.

I don't think it's very good; I have a replay where I lost:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-2325775185-5gtie1hk50hfitgqe7e8k5dn1ynw47tpw

Ludicolo – Rain Setter + Special Tank

Ludicolo (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Rain Dish
EVs: 252 HP / 72 SpA / 184 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
-Surf
-Leech Seed
-Toxic
-Rain Dance

Special tank and Rain Dance setter, Leech Seed + Toxic helps with passive chip damage, Surf gets boosted in the rain, increasing its damage, Rain Dish + Leftovers = great HP regeneration.


Jirachi – Rain Tank + Calm Mind Sweeper

Jirachi @ Leftovers
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 212 Def / 44 Spe
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
-Rain Dance
-Calm Mind
-Psychic
-Thunder

Abuses Rain to use 100% accurate Thunder, can set up Calm Mind and tank attacks, Rain Dance negates Fire weakness and reinforces the team, handles physical attacks well due to its defensive spread.


Swampert – Rain-Boosted Tank + Mixed Attacker

Swampert (F) @ Salac Berry
Ability: Torrent
EVs: 252 HP / 132 Def / 124 SpA
Lax Nature


-Hydro Pump
-Earthquake
-Ice Beam
-Rain Dance

Abuses Rain with a powerful Hydro Pump, provides defensive support against Rock- and Electric-types, Rain Dance keeps up offensive pressure, Ice Beam handles Salamence and Flygon.


Kingdra – Rain Sweeper

Kingdra (M) @ Lum Berry
Ability: Swift Swim
EVs: 104 HP / 252 SpA / 152 Spe
Modest Nature
IVs: 3 Atk / 30 SpA

-Rain Dance
-Surf
-Ice Beam
-Hidden Power [Electric]

The team's primary sweeper, Surf in the rain hits everything for massive damage, HP Electric covers Starmie and Gyarados, Ice Beam deals with Flygon and Salamence.


Dugtrio – Revenge Killer + Special Wall Removal

Dugtrio (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature

-Earthquake
-Hidden Power [Flying]
-Aerial Ace
-Rock Slide

Removes Blissey and Raikou to enable Kingdra and Jirachi sweeps, Traps and eliminates Tyranitar and other problematic Pokémon, Rock Slide covers Zapdos and Salamence.


Claydol – Rapid Spin Support + Explosion Utility

Claydol @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Relaxed Nature

-Rapid Spin
-Earthquake
-Psychic
-Explosion

Keeps the field clear for Kingdra and Jirachi, handles Dugtrio and other physical threats well, Explosion removes a problematic tank.

This is a version of my team that I used in Pokémon RS. I tried to improve it as much as I could based on what I know, but I've only been playing Pokémon Showdown for about a week, so I don't have much experience building competitive teams.
 
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This team has a bunch of cool things happening, but there are still some crippling weaknesses.

Thunder CM rain dance Jirachi is dope and a really nice synergy but I would recommend ice beam over psychic and faster evs. Without a way to heal the bulk just isn’t that useful.

I also like the Claydol here, since with Dug + Jirachi + Rain it should be enough to handle most physical threats and spin is always nice to relive pressure. Would recommend a more aggressive ev spread tho, since this team is not built for long games.

HP electric doesn’t seem necessary on Kingdra and I like Hydro Pump for damage, but that’s more personal preference.

I think Dugtrio has to be bulky, with 140 evs in Sp.D and beat up to win the Blissey 1v1. This is a standard for special offense.

I would probably want to change the Swampert and Ludicolo, I just don’t see what they offer to the team and the concept of setting rain for a teammate doesn’t really work too well in adv with no damp rock.

I’d reccomend Celebi and Zapdos as the replacements with a CM Pass and Offensive set (eg Thunderbolt, Baton Pass, Roar, Subsitute). These would help lure in Blissey to make dugtrio traps easier whilst passing CMs and Subs to Kingdra. This version of the team has no Physical Attackers to force out special walls, so you could try Choice Band Claydol but that’s a very band-aid (and probably not good) solution. The other option would be to get fancy with non-standards. You could run a physical attacking Tyranitar with rain dance over focus punch (paired with Jolteon probably) or Mixed Zapdos with Baton Pass. Leech seed Celebi could also help. These solutions aren’t perfect, but I don’t want to just tell you to make a team I’ve already seen/made before.

There are also team building guides for Rain and Special Offense on the ADV forums. Darth Tyros and BKC also have videos on special Offense.
 
mangoose49 said:
This team has a bunch of cool things happening, but there are still some crippling weaknesses.

Thunder CM rain dance Jirachi is dope and a really nice synergy but I would recommend ice beam over psychic and faster evs. Without a way to heal the bulk just isn’t that useful.

I also like the Claydol here, since with Dug + Jirachi + Rain it should be enough to handle most physical threats and spin is always nice to relive pressure. Would recommend a more aggressive ev spread tho, since this team is not built for long games.

HP electric doesn’t seem necessary on Kingdra and I like Hydro Pump for damage, but that’s more personal preference.

I think Dugtrio has to be bulky, with 140 evs in Sp.D and beat up to win the Blissey 1v1. This is a standard for special offense.

I would probably want to change the Swampert and Ludicolo, I just don’t see what they offer to the team and the concept of setting rain for a teammate doesn’t really work too well in adv with no damp rock.

I’d reccomend Celebi and Zapdos as the replacements with a CM Pass and Offensive set (eg Thunderbolt, Baton Pass, Roar, Subsitute). These would help lure in Blissey to make dugtrio traps easier whilst passing CMs and Subs to Kingdra. This version of the team has no Physical Attackers to force out special walls, so you could try Choice Band Claydol but that’s a very band-aid (and probably not good) solution. The other option would be to get fancy with non-standards. You could run a physical attacking Tyranitar with rain dance over focus punch (paired with Jolteon probably) or Mixed Zapdos with Baton Pass. Leech seed Celebi could also help. These solutions aren’t perfect, but I don’t want to just tell you to make a team I’ve already seen/made before.

There are also team building guides for Rain and Special Offense on the ADV forums. Darth Tyros and BKC also have videos on special Offense.
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Thanks dude, I appreciate the analysis.
I will improve and try, I think Zapdos(Rain Dance, Thunderbolt, Baton Pass) for setup Kingdra Rain Sweeper, but I not sure
 
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