BURNING SOUL!!!!!!
welcome to my first RMT!!!!!!!!! I've been on smogon for a while checking out teams looking at the different ratings and stuff , but never actually made an RMT of my own, so please be gentle :)
A few weeks ago i saw a guy who was using a sun team with a sunny day ninetails, which destroyed my rain team, so i decided to try out a sun team. After looking at the diiferent sun abusers that exist i noticed that my favorite pokemon was present, Charizard. I know what your thinking "charizard sucks cause of his SR weakness" WRONG! With good prediction and a good rapid spinner charizard can be the most devistating pokemon in the metagame , but i'll get in to that later.
Team building process:
so this is how my team started out! with my star pokemon and obviously the ninetails which is neccessairy for every sun team.
After charizard, i obviously was in need of a spinner, so i chose donphan, a reliable , bulky earth type pokemon, with decent attack.
here i wanted to add more sun abusers to the team so that if charizard went down i could still be able to finish the opponent off with my other pokemon.
after the adding sweeper phase i quickly realised that my team was in need of some special bulk who can do well under sun and could Twave the opponents team, so i went with jirachi.
after testing the first version out, jirachi didn't work vey well so i decided to take another beast of the sun HEATRAN!!!!!! And well sawsbuck was good actually but a friend suggested venusaur and he was just better and lasted longer.
after more testing i saw that donphan was not the best choice because it added on to the water weaknesses ,+ he wasnt that great so i decided to choose the dragon killer instead with his deadly icicle spear and access to toxic spikes which help charizard or venusaur to sweep.
after even more testing i saw that cloyster kept getting killed by spatk electric pokemon so i decided to add another earth pokemon in donphan's stead... Dugtrio which is the pokemon i use to destroy sand teams, unfortunatly i had to let go of arcanine who was a good physical sweeper. And this is the FINAL TEAM!
In deapth:
KURAMA
Ninetales (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Drought
EVs: 252 SAtk / 40 HP / 216 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Flamethrower
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- SolarBeam
- Sunny Day
this is my ninetails!!! you are probably asking yourself why i didnt put ninetails full speed, well its because i mainly use ninetails aginst other weather enducers and tyranitar's speed are much lower than ninetails's so I put what I took off in speed in HP . Also despite the fact that ninetails is my weather inducer , he also is a pretty good offensive pokemon , this is why you don't see him with the usual will-O-wisp set because he packs a pretty mean punch under the sun.
DRACO
Charizard (F) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Solar Power
EVs: 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Overheat
- Air slash
- Dragon Pulse
- SolarBeam
Welcome DRACO the coolest most awsome and probably strongest pokemon of my team!!!! He has always been my favorite pokemon and it bummed me out when i started playing stratagy and i realised he wasn't very good because of SR weakness + even with a spinner he wasnt very special when it came to his stats . But thank god that dream world gave charizard an awsome abilitty called solar power which acts like a choice specs , this allows charizard to switch between moves while having choice specs , but thats not good enough is it? so i decided at first to give Draco solar power + choice specs which destroyed practically any pokemon that opposed it but then i realised that he did not have the speed to keep up with the usual speedy threats like latios, alakasam, terrakion etc... So i decided to give him choice scarf which allows him to have a sort of double choice item. Charizard is not a good sweeper persay except in special circumstances however he revenge kills anything that dosnt resist it especially with overheat. He also works in great synergy with ninetails thanks to his flying type.
LANZADOR
Cloyster (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Skill Link
EVs: 248 HP / 84 Atk / 176 Def
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Icicle Spear
- Toxic Spikes
- Rock Blast
- Rapid Spin
basically when i chose cloyster i was hesitating between him , tentacruel and starmie (who was my first choice) but the two other spinners only work in rain because they use water attacks usually and if i wanted the better ice type user , cloyster was the clear choice, with his good bulk. I use toxic spikes over spikes or SR because the Tspikes allow charizard and venusaur to sweep better or revenge kill if the enemy's life is low. He is also a good addition to my team because i was lacking ICE power and it allowed me to kill all the annoying dragons that stopped me , such as dragonite, salamance ...
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Venusaur (F) @ Life Orb
Trait: Chlorophyll
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Sludge Bomb
- Growth
Venusaur is probably the second best asset of my team beacause of its massive speed thanks to Chlorophyll and its amazing sp atk after 1 or 2 growths thanks to his attack coverage not much can stop venusaur after 2 growths , with hp fire , under sun he kills pretty much any steel type except heatran, other venusaurs etc... Giga drain allows him to regain the life he lost because of life orb and sludge bomb allows him to kill dragon types.
Thers not much to say about him, he is the sweeper of the team , mainly late-game because he can finish any pokemon off , except heatran.
GANG STARR
Dugtrio (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Reversal
- Stealth Rock
- Sucker Punch
This is one of the most fun of my team , after i send him out against my opponent's heatran tyranitar or even politoad with one reversal , heatran and tyranitar die or earthquake if the enemie's balloon popped. he is basically the weather killer , he comes in and makes sure that drought stays in action, he is also a good offemsive pokemon thanks to his great speed . When he gets hit by heatran or tyranitar's attack his life usually drops to one and then it allows me to kill them and if he is still alive after that he allows me to hurt the next pokemon pretty bad or i can keep him for later , he also helps me to destroy any electric type that would enoy cloyster.
HEPHAESTUS
Heatran (F) @ Air Balloon
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 104 Def / 152 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Will-O-Wisp
- Taunt
- Earth Power
- Flamethrower
Meet the beast/supporter of my team :)
heatran is probably the most used pokemon in the whole metagame and thats because he is simply put a multitasker, he can take on any role, from sweeper to supporter to tank , evem to revenge killer. I took heatran to replace jirachi because i lost to another sun team and didn't have a counter so i chose heatran as supporter who can also be a beast in the sun. I also needed a taunt user so you know , what the hell :)
ONE LAST LOOK AT THE TEAM:
Thank you and please propose any chages to the team except taking off charizard of course ;)
IMPORTABLE:
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