Drifblim > OU

ViVi

Ive gotten bored making standard teams with a little twist to keep people guessing, blah blah blah. My new thing is making teams that center around my favorite Pokemon, and for the first RMT, Im gonna go with Drifblim.

Please note the following:
  • This is a wifi team, but Hidden Powers are fathomable.
  • Seeing as I have no wifi, this team has not been used yet, its all hypothetical.
  • Please remember to keep in mind that the theme of this team is to sweep with Drifblim.
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I built this team to utilize Drifblims sweeping capabilities, by capitalizing on its many immunities and resistances, and the fact most people view it as a way to pass big fat subs.
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Gengar
Hasty
Focus Sash
6|x|x|252|x|252
~Counter
~HP Ice
~Destiny Bond
~Thunderbolt

Gengars purpose is a rather simple one, Counter any physical attack, maybe get lucky and they try to bring in Blissey when Gar is at 1 hp, otherwise just do what I can with BoltBeam

The more important function Gengar has is to lure my opponent into a false sense of security, making them assume my only Ghost is gone, leaving them feeling alot safer about Rapid Spining or using a Fighting move.

Ive been considering Explosion any of the moves, incase they try to bring Blissey in straight off the bat but I think thats a little to obvious these days..It might be a good idea for that reason alone though, opponents will assume that my only real 'bliss killer' is gone.
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Forretress
Relaxed
Leftovers
252|6|252|x|x|x
~Stealth Rock
~Rapid Spin
~Explosion
~Gyro Ball

Forry mainly serves to setup Stealth Rock, which is essential for any Focus Sashers that could screw with Drifblim. Skarmy was suggested before but I already have a bit of a Electric weakness. Forretress also atleast has a possibility of drawing a ground attack with which to bring Drifblim in on.
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Lucario
Rash
Life Orb
|x|88|x|252|x|170|
~Agility
~Close Combat
~Hidden Power Ice
~Dark Pulse

Ive always liked Agility Lucario, despite it having multiple Priority moves, Ive found Agility gives it more variety. The point is to lure Blissey out with the 2 Special based moves, which also give good coverage to other Pokemon, then CC it to death. I gave it enough Attack to OHKO Blissey, max SpAtt and then the rest in Speed to maximize its potential. Rash > Mild because it can switch into various rock and bug attacks nicely, most of which seem to be physical.
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Vaporeon
Bold
Leftovers
188|x|252|68|x|x
~Surf
~Ice Beam
~HP Electric
~Wish

Standard EV spread, I needed a solid way to counter Heatran, Infernape and any other Fire Pokemon, Wish Passing is helpful for my 2x SR weakness. Im considering Roar over something as I dont have any other option for a hazer.
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Weavile
Jolly
Life Orb
40|252|x|x|x|218
~Ice Punch
~Night Slash
~Brick Break
~Pursuit

I felt a Physical sweeper would be a good idea, and since of Weaviles weaknesses, Drifblim is immune to one and 4x resistant to another, I think its a good fit. Pursuit is to 'revenge kill' Gengar, who could otherwise give me problems.
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Drifblim
Modest - Unburden
Petaya Berry
120|x|x|252|8|128
~Sub
~HP Ice
~Thunder Bolt
~Shadow Ball

The HP activates Petaya Berry + Unburden on 3 Subs, giving it enough speed to outrun everything upto, and including Neutral ScarfChomp. BoltBeam is of course timeless, while Stab Shadow Ball is always a treat. Its SpAtt hits 459 after Petaya activates.

Drifblim already is able to come in semi-easily, be it on Rapid Spin or Fighting/Bug/Ground Moves. Ive tried to develop a team that will enhance the probabilities of the opponent using those moves and I think ive been succsesful with it.

I ran some damage calcs recently, to my great surprise Drifblim can not only switch into the following attacks, but they will activate her Petaya Berry 100% of the time:
Azelf - Neutral - Life Orb - Shadow Ball
Weavile - Neutral Life Orb - Pursuit
Starmie - Neutral/Positive - Tbolt/Ice Beam

All those do between 75% and 100%

The only thing im unsure about is Weavile, Perhaps Dugtrio would be a better fit to trap Jolteon, Electivire, Heatran or (with Pursuit) Gengar and Azelf. A rather damaged Blissey would go down as well too I suposse.
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Changes I am considering
Magnezone over something.
I just realized most steel types can be a bit of a problem..
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Alumni
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Replaced by Vaporeon.
 
Well the format would be a bit easier to read if you just applied SpA, Atk, Def, Spe, HP, SpD, but w/e.

As for the actual team, the reason nobody would use Driftblim is simple. Can it take out special walls? No, then what makes it better than any other special sweeper. The simple answer of Unburden is really quite unreliable, as non-setup sweepers like Gengar can get the job done faster. As far as set up sweepers go, Jirachi, Azelf, Infernape, and even Raikou outclass it. I would stick to Driftblim's strengths on this one, notably switching into Banders and passing huge Subs.
 
Agreed...I think Drifblim's strength lies more in setting up special sweeps than sweeping itself. I like using mine to set up Porygon-Z for a romp through their team.
 
Drifblim can SO take out special walls. Here are some ideas. I have tried both of these with great affect.

Drifblim @ Ganlon berry, Sitrus berry
Timid Nature
252 speed. 220 special defense ...38 in special atack, HP, def/sp.def

~Calm Mind
~Substitute
~Shadow Ball/Thunderbolt
~Baton Pass/ Thunderbolt/Hidden Power Fighting

This blimp I used in OU. It has enough speed to tie with or outrun all togekiss. It has enough special defense to, after one calm mind, have a substitute remain after an air slash or blissey's ice beam. It can freely set up on these pokemon, and either lay waste on the opponent's team, or baton pass to a major threat. Sitrus berry allows more calm minds,( one extra substitute) but ganlon makes it able to baton pass more stats. It can get up several calm minds and demolish teams. After unburden, it hits an unrealisticly high number.

The goal is to set up a substitute on the thunder waves, then calm mind as they (attempt) to bust the sub. Then calm mind again as it fades. Set up another next turn. Repeat. Think Raikou with baton pass (and more speed after the boost) and the plus is, no one knows what it does until it is too late.




Drifblim @ Chesto Berry
xx/100/xx/252/28/128
-def +special attack nature. (rash? or Mild?)

~EXPLOSION
~Rest
~Shadow Ball
~Hidden Power/Calm Mind/ThunderBolt

This blimp rests to get it's boost, and then owns the team. It can switch in on status pokemon (like gengar's initial hypnosis or breloom's spore) and get tonnes of speed. It can nail things for super effective until it comes across something that walls it, and explode for a triple finish. OHKOs blissey after stealth rocks. You can run less attack if you think spikes will be down. I used this in UU with 16 attack instead, to OHKO the toughest hypnos, ninetales and others. Works like a charm. Should score around 2 free KOs per match...

...That is, when it works, there are only 6 pokes per team and each one cannot score 2 KOs. It is quite an effective set. Any driblim set can include explosion if it wants, but this one is the best exploder.
 
@Seds - I used to use Explosion, but decided it was more fun just sweeping and leaving Blissey to other Pokemon.

@ other 2 dudes - The entire team is designed for Drifblim to sweep, changing his role would call for the entire to team to be re-done. I was hoping to get more input on my strategies for setting Drifblim up, not for his actual role.
 
Well to set him up you might want to consider something like a quick nasty plot pass from a togekiss or something. Make it bulky as shit, it'll probably even force a switch when brought out. maybe something like:

Sub/nasty plot/baton pass/air slash(roost). I realize it's going to be walled alot, but you're just trying to set up your drifblim. From here, once you get the drifblim in, you can either sub (or sub again so you can activate your berry) or start attacking. Once the berry activates you'll be at +3 sp atk/+1 speed. Pretty savage.

You'd really gonna need to keep tenta alive for rapid spinning until just before you execute the pass.
 
By set him up, I meant dispose of Blissey/ other NORMAL type Special Walls, then create oppertunities for her to come in, but BPing some SpAttack might work.

The main problem i see with doing it with Togekiss is they have the same weaknesses, so anything switching in to TBolt/Ice Beam/Stone Edge Togekiss, typically i like my BP cains, to have the recipient at least resist, if not be immune to whatever the giver is weak to, if that makes sense.

It is certainly an interesting option though.
 
24 hour bump..Im a little surprised at the semi-lack of responses, i thought I had a rather interesting strategy here..
 
Forretress and Weavile do little to support this team, I think you will do better with Skarmory and Vaporeon in their places. You have a lack of a Garchomp or Lucario switch already, and these two would help you out a bit with that.

Since you are reliant on Gengar to stop Lucario once it gets a Swords Dance in against Tentacruel for example, I strongly recommend using Focus Blast over Tbolt. Even if you do have Focus Blast, Bullet Punch variants of SD Lucario will pose an immediate threat with a Swords Dance. For this reason, I suggest using Nidoqueen instead of Tentacruel as it would assist you against Fighters like Lucario and Heracross while still providing your team with Toxic Spikes and possibly Stealth Rock.

Vaporeon could theoretically pass Substitutes to Drifblim to help you enable its sweep, but this severely limits its moveset. Instead you are better off using a Wish, Protect, Hidden Power Electric, Surf moveset to help you beat Gyarados, who poses a huge threat to the rest of your team.

Drifblim will be difficult to sweep with - I wish you gorg luck with this team!
 
Ive used Drifblim many times as a sweeper before, with a surprising amount of succss, this is the first time ive actually designed a team around it.

Weavile was a last minute decision so it can easily go.

I like Forry over Skarmy still, because with Driblim and Tentacruel/Vaporeon, Id have a hefty Electric weakness.

Vaporeon over Weavile is fine, do you have a suggestion on a moveset for Nidoqueen though?
 
Have you thought about replacing HP ice with baton pass, and then baton passing to something like a steel type (resists ghost, dark, ice and rock attacks) in case something goes wrong? Magnezone or Heatran would be good candidates. Magnezone has the benefit of resisting electric attacks. Empoleon could also be a good choice, though it is weak to electric attacks. Ghost and Electric have the best coverage, steelix and magnezone are the only pokes I can think of that resist that combo.

I'd be wary of treating Tentacruel like a "special wall" in the traditional sense, as 80/120 means it can switch on weaker special attackers, as well as specs users locked into a NVE move, but it can't switch into everything and lacks survivability without a 50% recovery move. I've found that Tentarcruel is best played as a pokemon on a mission to accomplish before it dies, rather than as stopper.
 
HP Ice is needed for sweeping purposes. I may add my own Magnezone in just to deal with other steel types..
 
Bumping for (hopefully) more feedback, specifically on whether Vaporeon,Nidoqueen or Magnezone are a good idea?
 
I'd definitely give Pursuit to Weavile. Your team looks like Gengar could be giving it problems.

Also, you have 3 Pokemon weak to fire and 1 resist. Just throwing that out there...

good luck
 
Well Vaporeon is coming in over something for sure, likely Tentacruel, then something else might go over weavile, im not sold on Nidoqueen though..
 
Nice to see another Driftblim fan.
Driftblim is a sort of ghost-type Wigglytuff with a beter defensive movepool.
Just one "problem"-Why don't you preffer Gengar's STAB with Focus Blast?
 
I hate Focus Blasts accuracy. Also I find BoltBeam covers more leads, that and I dont really see a need for 2 Ghost Stabs on the same team, and since its more important to Drifblim..
 
Last Bump..hoping to get more people with helpful advice, and less "Drifblim cna only pass subs"

kthxbai.
 
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