XY OU Masquerade

[Hulg Bears]

Masquerade

I've always wanted to use Gardevoir in a team. Any team. My dream was finally fulfilled when XY came out and gave it a Mega Evolution to make it useful. It ended up being placed in UU. However, it soon got moved up to BL. It, at the time in the metagame, was simply not OU material. After a couple bans here and there, Gardevoir finally became a viable Mega Evolution to run and something to watch out for. So, here it is. My team based off of my favorite pokemon. Gardevoir.

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Masquerade (Gardevoir) @ Gardevoirite
Ability: Trace
EVs: 24 Def / 232 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 30 Atk / 30 SpA / 30 Spe
- Hyper Voice
- Psyshock
- Focus Blast
- Will-O-Wisp

The set is straight-foward. It offers dual STAB whilst being able to hit special walls hard. Focus blast helps hit the oh-so common steel type. Will-O-Wisp is there as nothing more than a filler. It often comes in handy when Gliscor dies. The EVs are pretty standard too. I just put 24 Def EVs in there so it could survive two Psyshocks from Latios (at least I think that's why it's that way).

Chaperone (Gliscor) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 244 HP / 208 Def / 56 Spe
Impish Nature
- Toxic
- Taunt
- Roost
- Earthquake

Synergizing with Gardevoir Gliscor becomes a pretty good wall and it takes care of things that would otherwise hinder it, such as Heatran (although, Gardevoir does have Focus Blast). Toxic Orb+Poison heal for recovery, Roost for added recovery, and Toxic to help wither down the enemy. All pretty standard. I threw in EQ for STAB and gave it Taunt so it counters Ferrothorn.

SnowFall (Azumarill) @ Assault Vest
Ability: Huge Power
EVs: 232 HP / 252 Atk / 24 Spd
Adamant Nature
- Aqua Jet
- Waterfall
- Play Rough
- Superpower

A hard-hitting, yet bulky physical attacker whose type synergizes with my wall. What more could I ask for? With an Assault Vest it's able to tank special attacks and dish out damage. 24 speed EVs to outspeed other Azumarills and Blissey. Nothing more to say here.

The Maid (Blissey) (F) @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 240 HP / 252 Def / 8 SpD / 8 Spe
Bold Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Heal Bell
- Soft-Boiled
- Seismic Toss

Blissey, possibly the best special wall in the OU metagame. Stealth Rocks support, along with Heal Bell and reliable recovery in the form of Soft-Boiled, and to a lesser extent, Leftovers. I used Stealth Rocks over a status move because I feel like it fits more on Blissey than anywhere else on the team. I absolutely need Toxic on Gliscor to hit flying types with, and running two Toxic-users is a bit overkill. I simply need Stealth Rocks, and that's what I got. You may ask, why Blissye over Chansey? Good question. Well, Chansey is generally Knock-Off bait. A Chansey without Eviolite is a bad pokemon, but a Blissey, even without Leftovers, is a great pokemon.

Prince Charming (Latios) (M) @ Life Orb
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Draco Meteor
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt
- Defog

I needed a mon that could rid me of the plague that is entry hazards and check Charizard X/Y at the same time, and Latios came to my rescue. With T-Bolt to hit Zard-Y, and Draco Meteor to nuke Zard-X, it's possibly the best check in the metagame. Psychic is there for extra STAB. The EVs are self-explanatory, really. Fast, special attacker.

Plague Mask (Bisharp) @ Focus Sash
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 248 HP / 252 Atk / 8 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Swords Dance
- Sucker Punch
- Knock Off
- Iron Head

What better physical sweeper to choose than Bisharp? With priority and a Focus Sash I can at least guarantee one hit off on the opponent, if not more. What makes the Focus Sash possible is Latios' hazard-removal in the form of defog. Bisharp's ability, Defiant, is great. It punishes hazard-removal so I can get a free SD from the start if need be. The EVs are pretty straight-forward also. Max attack, with near-max HP and 8 speed EVs to outspeed other Bisharp.


Now it's time to, well, RATE MY TEAM! Tell me what you think. I greatly appreciate your input. Please do not remove Gardevoir, or entirely change the structure of my team. Minor adjustments here and there, and at most I'd swap out two mons.

 

[Merkur_Lampe]

My favorite Mega Evolution Pokemon is here! Well, there are some things that I'd like to say about the team.
First, your Gardevoir's IVs are set to a Hidden Power. Just run 0 IVs for Atk and 31 for the rest.
I really hate to say this, but even if you are running Blissey, you shouldn't be taking Knock Offs anyways. That is the exact reason that you should be running Chansey instead, since it is significantly bulkier.
Well, if you are going to stick with Blissey, investing in HP is really inefficient since it already has a great HP stat. Putting the EVs into SpD will work better. Also, running Heal Bell while you have a Poison Heal Gliscor will cost you a turn every time you use a Heal Bell, not to mention when it got its item knocked off.
If you are running Focus Sash for your Bisharp, it means that you should have cleared Stealth Rock from your side. But then, you use Defog to clean rocks on your side, which will exactly remove the possibility of your opponent defogging. Investing in HP will make your slower, letting the opponent to kill it. People usually run full EVs in Speed for a Bisharp, but then you invested in HP AND at the same time, you run a Sash. I don't get what you were trying to do exactly, but if you wanted a bulkier set, try this.

Bisharp @ Assault Vest
Ability: Defiant
EVs: 64 HP / 252 Atk / 192 SpD
Adamant Nature
- Knock Off
- Sucker Punch
- Iron Head
- Pursuit (Edit:thanks Ukku for letting me know my mistake)
Latios usually runs Psyshock over Psychic, since it hits on the physical side. But then you already have a Psyshock user in your team.
Run 0 IV Attack for all the mons that don't use a physical attack. This will reduce the damage of confusion and Foul Play.

Please do not remove Gardevoir, or entirely change the structure of my team. Minor adjustments here and there, and at most I'd swap out two mons.

I'll keep in mind and try to figure out what I can give you..

 

[Ukku]

Merkur_Lampe you cant use AV bisharp with swords dance

Hulg Bears i love your team is really nice , i have few suggestions
blissey is really nice support in this team my suggestion is change heal bell and put wish, heal bell is great option but wish is better to recover the life of your team and bisharp has a second chance to sweep

another option is hp fire over tbolt in latios because m-scizor is a great threat for you team

44+ Atk Technician Mega Scizor Bullet Punch vs. 0 HP / 24 Def Mega Gardevoir: 288-338 (103.9 - 122%) -- guaranteed OHKO
44+ Atk Technician Mega Scizor Bullet Punch vs. 16 HP / 0 Def Azumarill: 126-148 (36.5 - 42.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO
+2 44+ Atk Mega Scizor Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 4 HP / 252+ Def Blissey: 407-479 (62.4 - 73.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
44+ Atk Mega Scizor Knock Off (97.5 BP) vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Latios: 272-320 (90 - 105.9%) -- 37.5% chance to OHKO

 

[blinkie]

I would suggest Taunt over WoW for Gardevoir, as you said WoW is somewhat filler, Taunt however shuts down lots of stall. Also I would suggest max Speed with Jolly nature so that you can outrun things, Bisharp is not very bulky and dies anyway pretty quickly, so running max speed is much more beneficial than max HP(considering you are running Sash). Also I agree that you should not be running Thunderbolt on Latios, Earthquake or HP Fire would be better. It depends on what you want to hit, Earthquake hits unexpecting Tyranitar and Heatran, while HP Fire nails Ferrothorn and Scizor. I would suggest HP Fire as Ferro and Scizor are much greater problems for your team. Finally, your team has lots of problems with Steels as Gardevoir is forced to run Focus Blast, while it is simply not reliable with 49% chance of hitting twice. Scizor dents all of your team, and Ferro walls a lot of your team as well. A good mon to put here would be Magnezone, preferably Scarf as it traps all of these steels, takes them out with an HP Fire and as a bonus takes care of Skarm and also provides you with a Scarfer. In a pinch, he can be a somewhat decent answer to Birdspam due to his decent natural physical bulk. I would suggest Scarf Magnezone over Blissey, as besides for Gliscor and maybe Azu, most of the mons on your team are on the somewhat frail side. The loss of rocks does not really matter as much, especially if you really want it then keep the Sash on Bisharp and use Sash SR Bisharp as a lead. Magnezone is just a really good mon in the meta right now.

 

[Hulg Bears]

I see the problems with my team, however all of what is suggested I already have on my team. Example: a person told me to run Assault Vest on Bisharp when I already had it on Azu, and to run Taunt on Gardevoir even though I had it on Gliscor.

 

[Hulg Bears]

Bump

 

[blinkie]

Um so what is wrong with running Taunt on mega Gardevoir if you have it on Gliscor? It just makes it easier for your team to beat stall. I'm not trying to be mean to you, but honestly that could be why people aren't responding.

 

[Hulg Bears]

I'm honestly going to drop this team. Suggestions have been tried and I've found them unhelpful and I get work my team around some common OU threats.

 

[Srn]

Hi, i'm here to rate ur team :]

So first off, i'm seeing that this team is fairly offensive but blissey is totally out of place. It seems like blissey is kinda just there to set rocks, and you also lack a great mzor check, so i'm gonna suggest offensive heatran > blissey. Heatran in general is a very nice partner to mvoir as it gets rid of steels, sets rocks, and switches into talon for her, all of which she greatly appreciates.

Next, I personally would get rid of gliscor. The only good reason i even see it on there is because it switches into heatran, and there are plenty of other pokemon that can do that (not to mention mvoir can beat tran with focus blast anyways). Your team also has almost zero answers to common flyspam mons, which are rampant atm. For example, this team has almost nothing for a simple mpinsir, throw in a diggersby and this team is history :[ I feel like replacing gliscor with a mon that can both switch into tran and check flyspam, scarftar, would greatly help this team. Double Pursuit is also chill af to beat doublade.

Now for some nitpicks.
The ev spread on bisharp sucks, bisharp is ridiculously frail and you should just go max speed while staying adamant. Also, i'd make bisharp the standard black glasses set with pursuit over swords dance; its better at pressuring mvoir's #1 counter on stall these days, doublade.
To make up for the lack of a cleaner, i'd make azumarill the belly drum set. BD azu is ridiculously strong atm and while its a little difficult to use, its without a doubt an amazing set.
The IVS on mega voir are kinda messed up, put them all to 31 except attack, which should be at zero. As for her filler move, I personally don't like will-o and would run taunt or even calm mind over it. You can try all 3 and see what you like best, calm mind mega gardevoir is a personal favorite of mine.

Sets

Heatran @ Air Balloon
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
^being used over flash cannon cuz opposing gliscor become annoying.

Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Earthquake

Welp that's all i got, good luck with the team! :]

 

[Hulg Bears]

Hi, i'm here to rate ur team :]

So first off, i'm seeing that this team is fairly offensive but blissey is totally out of place. It seems like blissey is kinda just there to set rocks, and you also lack a great mzor check, so i'm gonna suggest offensive heatran > blissey. Heatran in general is a very nice partner to mvoir as it gets rid of steels, sets rocks, and switches into talon for her, all of which she greatly appreciates.

Next, I personally would get rid of gliscor. The only good reason i even see it on there is because it switches into heatran, and there are plenty of other pokemon that can do that (not to mention mvoir can beat tran with focus blast anyways). Your team also has almost zero answers to common flyspam mons, which are rampant atm. For example, this team has almost nothing for a simple mpinsir, throw in a diggersby and this team is history :[ I feel like replacing gliscor with a mon that can both switch into tran and check flyspam, scarftar, would greatly help this team. Double Pursuit is also chill af to beat doublade.

Now for some nitpicks.
The ev spread on bisharp sucks, bisharp is ridiculously frail and you should just go max speed while staying adamant. Also, i'd make bisharp the standard black glasses set with pursuit over swords dance; its better at pressuring mvoir's #1 counter on stall these days, doublade.
To make up for the lack of a cleaner, i'd make azumarill the belly drum set. BD azu is ridiculously strong atm and while its a little difficult to use, its without a doubt an amazing set.
The IVS on mega voir are kinda messed up, put them all to 31 except attack, which should be at zero. As for her filler move, I personally don't like will-o and would run taunt or even calm mind over it. You can try all 3 and see what you like best, calm mind mega gardevoir is a personal favorite of mine.

Sets

Heatran @ Air Balloon
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Fire Blast
- Earth Power
- Hidden Power [Ice]
^being used over flash cannon cuz opposing gliscor become annoying.

Tyranitar @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Earthquake

Welp that's all i got, good luck with the team! :]

But then my team becomes uber-weak to fighting and ground. Although I do have three resists, I don't think it would work out. Perhaps a Thundurus-I to replace Heatran, Bisharp, or T-Tar?

 

[AGuyWithPants]

You have Gliscor for fighting and ground o.O

 

[Srn]

But then my team becomes uber-weak to fighting and ground. Although I do have three resists, I don't think it would work out. Perhaps a Thundurus-I to replace Heatran, Bisharp, or T-Tar?

You mentioned that you wouldnt' want to take out 3 members of your team, but honestly i'd take out bisharp for something like a Double Dance Lando-T, or something else that can actually switch into excadrill. In fact give that a go :O you can keep bellyjet if you want.
You're fighting concern really isn't a problem as the other half of your team is all resists and mons that can switch into the most common fighting types, so your'e covered.