Hello everyone, and welcome to my Third RMT! During the past few months, I've been stuck in a rut. Every team I've made has won occasionally in the beginning, and then fails miserably once I get higher in rank. Finally though, I've found a team I actually see potential in, and the most ironic thing is that it's a team I made for shits and giggles; Aggron is my sweeper after all. While it was on the PO server(which according to smogon is noob-ville) because Smogon's is down, I made it to around 1305 before getting my ass kicked by rain teams and dropping me all the way to 1201 :/.
Now without further ado, here's team Dinosore!
(keep in mind that the names I chose are almost completely irrelevant)
IN DEPTH
Romeo (Roserade) (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Def / 120 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Rest
He's who I usually lead with in order to set up spikes, and in general he does it quite well. TTar's flamethrower is a 3HKO so I can set up all 3 layers if he's out, Politoed can't do anything to me unless it's specs, and then I just 2HKO it with giga drain, healing virtually all my health back. Finally, I've never seen a hidden power OHKO me, so I always get at least 1 layer down if they have to resort to that. The only lead that really gives me trouble is ninetails (or any fire type for that matter), but sun teams give me trouble in general, so yea.
Unfortunately, he doesn't do much else besides set up spikes (and 2HKOing foolish ferrothorn with hp fire), and usually dies after the 2nd or third layer, paving the way for a spinner to come in and render all the turns I spent setting up for naught. A spinblocker would be appreciated, but someone who can kill common rapid spinners while at least setting up SR in Roserade's place would be even better.
Barney (Aggron) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Head Smash
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
- Rock Polish
The star of the show! Well, sort of. I have to admit that his head smash borderline ridiculous, in both power and ability to consistently miss. Yes, I can OHKO things like Thundurus, Gyarados (after intimidate), 252/0 Reuniclus and other things, but missing seems to be my downfall most of the time. What I wouldn't give to let me put hone claws on this set, but alas, fire punch and EQ are just too essential. Probably the best thing about this guy is that he sets up on ferrothorn, forretress and skarmory (I usually RP after the Head Smash, letting me retain the boost and hopefully 2HKOing skarm in the process).
Now, T-wave really hurts, but I guess it's best that I find out my opponent has T-wave by letting Aggron get hit, instead of something essential like Latios or Lucario. On top of all this, (bar ferrothorn) it's near impossible to get off even one RP. I usually end up leaving him to die after Head Smash misses, because his weaknesses are just far too common.
F-117 (Latios) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Surf
- Trick
I have mixed feeling about this guy too. The funny thing is, I like this team the least out of all of my inventions, and yet it's done the best for me so far. Irony just loves me it seems. Well anyway, Latios' Draco meteor really hurts a lot of things (call me a noob but it's pretty much the only move I use with him), and I can practically see the tears in people's eyes when I HP fire their scizor to death. The problem though, is I usually end up weakening myself so much I can't OHKO a lvl. 1 caterpie, so I switch and someone else ends up going down instead of Latios. DM also has a propensity to miss, but that might just be me whining.
Well despite it's shortcomings, scarfing the thing has turned it into the premier revenge-killer. Almost nothing survives his DM, and whatever hp they have left is far too little to survive a second. Also, while I can't count the number of times scarfing him has failed me, I also can't count the number of times it's saved me. Either I can't count, or it's just as likely to fail me as it is to save me. For that reason though, I'm at a loss as to what set to use instead.
Spin Cycle (Rotom-W) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 168 SDef / 88 Spd
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Hydro Pump
- Pain Split
This is the only guy I hate on this team, but it's not because he's ineffective, oh no. Just the opposite, in fact. I almost pity the number of people I have 6-0ed because of his combination of great special bulk, and will-o-wisp. Bulky Rotom is severely underrated, for some reason. The set is copypasted from smogon's 4th gen dex, but I switched the Def EVs for SDef EVs, because of will-o-wisp. He's probably the only member of this team I will never give up, yet be the most regretful of it.
He has his faults as well though, mainly his inability to take on Lati@s and other specially offensive dragons, along with grass types. NP thundurus also OHKOs him with thunder, and I cannot OHKO back . Also, he's essentially double dead weight in the sun. Once Lati@s and thundurus are gone though, he's quite the force.
Shiny (Lucario) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
- ExtremeSpeed
- Ice Punch
He's the coolest looking pokemon on the team, and the one I constantly change. I try NP lucario, and he fails against blissey. I try SD lucario, and he fails against Jellicent. I put crunch instead of Ice Punch, and Gliscor destroys me. This is the moveset I've used the most though. CC for great STAB, SD for set up, ES for great priority, and Ice Punch for Gliscor. EVs are straightforward as well. I find that he rarely gets to set up as well, and when he does it's usually because my opponent switched into jellicent. It's quite unfortunate, but when I do set up, I blow holes into people's teams. I've never outright swept anyone with him, but I very rarely get quite close.
I think his main problem is his speed and steel typing. He isn't bulky enough to abuse his resistances and EQ hates me with a passion. I've considered Agility, but I think that loss in power from losing SD would be too much.
Batman (Gliscor) (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 200 HP / 52 Atk / 180 Def / 76 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Ice Fang
- Swords Dance
- Protect
The final member of my team, acting as the "physical glue", to rotom's "special glue". While making up terms is fun, I'll just get right into his set. EQ for obvious STAB, Ice fang for other gliscor, SD because the boost in attack is just amazing, and protect to let poison heal activate. Unfortunately, his popularity along with the curse of sharing a weakness with dragons has led to me seeing everyone and their mother packing an ice move (usually hp ice) to go along with their universal hate for ferrothorn. Speaking of ferrothorn, all he can do is cancel my healing with leech seed (which does suck) and then die to a +6 EQ.
He's great at what he does (fighting counter/blissey and ferrothorn hater) but he usually ends up dying to things like scrafty, thundurus and heatran because of ice punch/Hp Ice. This, ultimately can destroy my team.
Well, that's my team. Hope you guys can help me out with it!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Just because I made this team with Aggron in mind, does not mean he must be in the final product. Also, do not suggest event pokemon please. I plan on using this team on wifi later, and the only event poke I have is a Victini with unknown (and probably terrible) EVs. Thanks in advance!
Now without further ado, here's team Dinosore!
TEAM DINOSORE
(keep in mind that the names I chose are almost completely irrelevant)
IN DEPTH
Romeo (Roserade) (M) @ Black Sludge
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 136 Def / 120 SDef
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Spikes
- Giga Drain
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Rest
He's who I usually lead with in order to set up spikes, and in general he does it quite well. TTar's flamethrower is a 3HKO so I can set up all 3 layers if he's out, Politoed can't do anything to me unless it's specs, and then I just 2HKO it with giga drain, healing virtually all my health back. Finally, I've never seen a hidden power OHKO me, so I always get at least 1 layer down if they have to resort to that. The only lead that really gives me trouble is ninetails (or any fire type for that matter), but sun teams give me trouble in general, so yea.
Unfortunately, he doesn't do much else besides set up spikes (and 2HKOing foolish ferrothorn with hp fire), and usually dies after the 2nd or third layer, paving the way for a spinner to come in and render all the turns I spent setting up for naught. A spinblocker would be appreciated, but someone who can kill common rapid spinners while at least setting up SR in Roserade's place would be even better.
Barney (Aggron) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Rock Head
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Head Smash
- Earthquake
- Fire Punch
- Rock Polish
The star of the show! Well, sort of. I have to admit that his head smash borderline ridiculous, in both power and ability to consistently miss. Yes, I can OHKO things like Thundurus, Gyarados (after intimidate), 252/0 Reuniclus and other things, but missing seems to be my downfall most of the time. What I wouldn't give to let me put hone claws on this set, but alas, fire punch and EQ are just too essential. Probably the best thing about this guy is that he sets up on ferrothorn, forretress and skarmory (I usually RP after the Head Smash, letting me retain the boost and hopefully 2HKOing skarm in the process).
Now, T-wave really hurts, but I guess it's best that I find out my opponent has T-wave by letting Aggron get hit, instead of something essential like Latios or Lucario. On top of all this, (bar ferrothorn) it's near impossible to get off even one RP. I usually end up leaving him to die after Head Smash misses, because his weaknesses are just far too common.
F-117 (Latios) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Surf
- Trick
I have mixed feeling about this guy too. The funny thing is, I like this team the least out of all of my inventions, and yet it's done the best for me so far. Irony just loves me it seems. Well anyway, Latios' Draco meteor really hurts a lot of things (call me a noob but it's pretty much the only move I use with him), and I can practically see the tears in people's eyes when I HP fire their scizor to death. The problem though, is I usually end up weakening myself so much I can't OHKO a lvl. 1 caterpie, so I switch and someone else ends up going down instead of Latios. DM also has a propensity to miss, but that might just be me whining.
Well despite it's shortcomings, scarfing the thing has turned it into the premier revenge-killer. Almost nothing survives his DM, and whatever hp they have left is far too little to survive a second. Also, while I can't count the number of times scarfing him has failed me, I also can't count the number of times it's saved me. Either I can't count, or it's just as likely to fail me as it is to save me. For that reason though, I'm at a loss as to what set to use instead.
Spin Cycle (Rotom-W) @ Leftovers
Trait: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 168 SDef / 88 Spd
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt
- Will-O-Wisp
- Hydro Pump
- Pain Split
This is the only guy I hate on this team, but it's not because he's ineffective, oh no. Just the opposite, in fact. I almost pity the number of people I have 6-0ed because of his combination of great special bulk, and will-o-wisp. Bulky Rotom is severely underrated, for some reason. The set is copypasted from smogon's 4th gen dex, but I switched the Def EVs for SDef EVs, because of will-o-wisp. He's probably the only member of this team I will never give up, yet be the most regretful of it.
He has his faults as well though, mainly his inability to take on Lati@s and other specially offensive dragons, along with grass types. NP thundurus also OHKOs him with thunder, and I cannot OHKO back . Also, he's essentially double dead weight in the sun. Once Lati@s and thundurus are gone though, he's quite the force.
Shiny (Lucario) (M) @ Life Orb
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Close Combat
- Swords Dance
- ExtremeSpeed
- Ice Punch
He's the coolest looking pokemon on the team, and the one I constantly change. I try NP lucario, and he fails against blissey. I try SD lucario, and he fails against Jellicent. I put crunch instead of Ice Punch, and Gliscor destroys me. This is the moveset I've used the most though. CC for great STAB, SD for set up, ES for great priority, and Ice Punch for Gliscor. EVs are straightforward as well. I find that he rarely gets to set up as well, and when he does it's usually because my opponent switched into jellicent. It's quite unfortunate, but when I do set up, I blow holes into people's teams. I've never outright swept anyone with him, but I very rarely get quite close.
I think his main problem is his speed and steel typing. He isn't bulky enough to abuse his resistances and EQ hates me with a passion. I've considered Agility, but I think that loss in power from losing SD would be too much.
Batman (Gliscor) (M) @ Toxic Orb
Trait: Poison Heal
EVs: 200 HP / 52 Atk / 180 Def / 76 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Earthquake
- Ice Fang
- Swords Dance
- Protect
The final member of my team, acting as the "physical glue", to rotom's "special glue". While making up terms is fun, I'll just get right into his set. EQ for obvious STAB, Ice fang for other gliscor, SD because the boost in attack is just amazing, and protect to let poison heal activate. Unfortunately, his popularity along with the curse of sharing a weakness with dragons has led to me seeing everyone and their mother packing an ice move (usually hp ice) to go along with their universal hate for ferrothorn. Speaking of ferrothorn, all he can do is cancel my healing with leech seed (which does suck) and then die to a +6 EQ.
He's great at what he does (fighting counter/blissey and ferrothorn hater) but he usually ends up dying to things like scrafty, thundurus and heatran because of ice punch/Hp Ice. This, ultimately can destroy my team.
Well, that's my team. Hope you guys can help me out with it!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Just because I made this team with Aggron in mind, does not mean he must be in the final product. Also, do not suggest event pokemon please. I plan on using this team on wifi later, and the only event poke I have is a Victini with unknown (and probably terrible) EVs. Thanks in advance!
FINAL GLANCE
Sun Teams: Ninetails really puts a damper on my pokemon, especially Rotom-W. Flamethrower/Fire Blast keeps my roserade at bay, and OHKOs Aggron because of Sun and his horrid SDef, and Chlorophyll users like Venusaur and Lilligant can either sleep poke's they can't kill, or they just outright over power them with Growth.
Espeon and Lati@s: I group them together because of the common move they share to make them a threat: Calm Mind. Especially Latias, because she's known for subbing too. If Gliscor dies and latias gets a sub, I've essentially lost unless Aggron comes in, and HP Fighting/Surf makes quick work of him, and even resisted attacks OHKO with enough CMs. Fortunately though, Head Smash OHKOs all three of them unless they heavily invest in defense, or I miss.
Scrafty: For some god-foresaken reason I can't kill him. He also ends up having SE moves on all of my pokes but that shouldn't matter because he's so damned slow. And yet, he sets up a DD after my DM fails to OHKO, and then proceeds to destroy my entire team. Frankly, it sucks and I can't think of a way to offset this weakness without making me horridly weak to a much more common pokemon. Although, that's where you guys come in I guess.
Rain Teams: But then again, who isn't? Drizzle and SS really kick my ass, and while I know that it's banned on smogon, it isn't banned on PO. Even without SS rain teams can really wreck me. I have to make sure Rotom-W is alive at all times, and gliscor is near useless (until ferrothorn comes in). Almost any decent rain team can destroy me, and it really pushes me to the limit to even get a slight advantage against them, let alone win (you may argue that Rotom-W rapes rain, but rain user's know this too, so they almost always have an answer to it).
Espeon and Lati@s: I group them together because of the common move they share to make them a threat: Calm Mind. Especially Latias, because she's known for subbing too. If Gliscor dies and latias gets a sub, I've essentially lost unless Aggron comes in, and HP Fighting/Surf makes quick work of him, and even resisted attacks OHKO with enough CMs. Fortunately though, Head Smash OHKOs all three of them unless they heavily invest in defense, or I miss.
Scrafty: For some god-foresaken reason I can't kill him. He also ends up having SE moves on all of my pokes but that shouldn't matter because he's so damned slow. And yet, he sets up a DD after my DM fails to OHKO, and then proceeds to destroy my entire team. Frankly, it sucks and I can't think of a way to offset this weakness without making me horridly weak to a much more common pokemon. Although, that's where you guys come in I guess.
Rain Teams: But then again, who isn't? Drizzle and SS really kick my ass, and while I know that it's banned on smogon, it isn't banned on PO. Even without SS rain teams can really wreck me. I have to make sure Rotom-W is alive at all times, and gliscor is near useless (until ferrothorn comes in). Almost any decent rain team can destroy me, and it really pushes me to the limit to even get a slight advantage against them, let alone win (you may argue that Rotom-W rapes rain, but rain user's know this too, so they almost always have an answer to it).
