Hey everyone smogons favorite cat here (a self proclaimed title) and this is my first pokebank team that hasnt been a complete joke or had persian. Before we meet the team let me give you a history lesson as much testing went into this team.
so i wanted to create a team centered around Rhyperior as he is one of my favorite pokemon and a very good physical wall. Well then i noticed Rhyperior's 4x weakness to grass and water attacks and his weakness to fighting and ground attacks so i though who can take all those and then it hit me...
mega venusaur would work as it resists all of those weaknesses but ground which rhyperior can normally take and can hit most of them super effectively and stall most things out with leech seed+sleep powder then i though im gonna need a fire and a water type so i can have a fire water grass core for more synergy so i chose...
good old darmanitan and rotom-w. i chose these to because i knew that they could form a solid volt-turn core and would work well with with the other too plus there really powerful and how can Ou not choose rotom-w in gen 6 i mean really come on. Now after this i knew i wanted a spinner for darmanitan and a spinblocker and i thought to my self whats the best spinner in ou and whats the only spinblocker that can block defog and it hit me so i chose....
excadrill and sableye. NOw exca is obviously the best spinner in ou being able to beat nearly every spinblocker and hit rotom w hard with a stab earthquake so that one was kinda obvious. The reason i chose sableye though was because it fit the criteria it was a spinblocker that could both block defog (thanks to taunt) and rapid spin because its a ghost type duh. well i was set and ready to go out and on my first battle i lost horribly too a sun team with char Y sweeping the entire team. So after my humiliating failure i got up pulled on my big boy pants and asked for help in which someone suggested that i take out sableye as he wasn't doing muchand at that sae time i didnt really like darm that much and realized i needed a sweeper so i decided to gowith his decision and my own and add...
AV snorlax and volcarona. So i though about it and i realized he was right sableye wasn't doing much and snorlax would help with my awful char Y weakness. I added volcarona because i needed a fire type and i wanted a sweeper (plus i needed a reason for excadrill to be there) so i decided on volcarona and his quiver dance shenanigans but after a while i realized that he just wasn't cutting it so i decided i need a more defensive fire type and a pokemon that had priority and then i realized one had been standing in my face all along and that is....
arcanine. I realized that arcanine with his fantastic movepool and including intimidate willow wisp and e-speed would solve my problem especially since bulk arcanine can take many hard hitting physical hits and pairs nicely with specially defensive rotom-w. Now we come to the final stages of my team building where i realized that i didnt need a spinner anymore and i tried to fight it but i realized i didnt need it as arcanine had reliable recovery to shrug off the stealth rock weakness so finally after i got swept b a DD dragonite i decided that i needed a revenge killer and a powerful one at that so i chose...
scarf chomp. Now scarf chomp came and he saved my life many times and often will clean up late game when either a fairy or flying type has been removed. Furthermore he has provided me with a last minute check to many threats and a check to the many dragons running around in ou. So without further delay i present to you the team
Now thanks to Higglybiggly who gave me some advice i decided to try out latios and celebii and say my sad farewell to my friends venasaur and garchomp. But i deceided to try it and they worked out decently especially seclebii but i was rather pursuit and t-tar weak and then higglybiggly showed one other pokemon that i should use to help out with t--tar yet keep a useful fast special attacker and that was
Mega lucario. Now meg lucario helped give me two things A a set up weeper that i needed really badly and B a heavy damage dealing special attacker and all this combined made him have a special place in my heart.
After a sad farewell thanks to pkmn gravija i decided to replace snorlax with mixed scarf kyub who handles everyhing snorlax did and gives me more offensive potential along with my only mixed attacker and straight out wall breaker.
so finaly after pokebank came out adn some changes were made to pokemon i decided to finally retire the old dog arcanine to the old farm my cousins run. No he is not dead my cousins actually have a farm where they keep dogs or at least thats what myt parents told me. I decided to replace the old dog wih entei his spiritual succesor and a pokemon that can do everything he can (besides have realiable recovery and hit water types) better. So without further ado i present to you what will most likely be the final copy of my team.
Rhyperior @ Leftovers
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 252 HP / 172 Atk / 84 Def
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Stealth Rock
- Megahorn
Ah rhyperior one of the most badass looking pokemon ever to exist (I mean come one its a fucking rock triceratops) and a hell of a friend. Rhyperior has stuck through with me in thick and in thin and has saved my bacon more times then i can count. Ryperior is typically my lead and can beat most other hazard leads ninety percent of the time. Furthermore it gets stealth rocks up quite often and beats all magic bouncers with mega horn/stone edge combo. this will help out immensely with the greatest threats against this team such as Char Y and Dragonite. He is also my number one counter to talanflame and will shake off any attack it tries with not even a boo boo on its knee. Rhyperior forms with celebi. my physically defensive core and together can wall nearly every physical threat in the meta right now The weird ev's are tailored so i can take adamant band terakion and adamant mega lukes close combats if i really need to after stealth rock and KO back with a stab earthquake. Rhyperior is the only pokemon i wont replace as he is the base of the team. I will edit him in whatever way is most helpful but i will not replace him
Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 220 HP / 36 Spd / 252 Def
Bold Nature
IVs: 30 Atk / 30 SAtk / 30 Spd
- Heal Bell
- Recover
- Psychic
-giga drain
Celebi who used to be M-venusaur but replaced are tree friend thanks to higgylybiggly. Ceebii covers every one of rhyperiors weaknesses including ground and fighting and walls many of the threat that destroy this team such as rotom-w. celebi also provides something i really needed and that being a cleric as my team really hates status such as burn and toxic. recover is reliable recovery so he can last longer while psychic is a strong stab attack and giga drain is there for eliable stab and recovery and helps against the notorious azu who threatens this team. overall a very solid poke and im glad i switched from mega venu.
Entei @ Flame Plate
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Sacred Fire
- Extreme Speed
- Bulldoze
As you saw after much competition for this slot i finally decided to go with entei. Now you see after giving naway my olf dog i needed a new one that was stronger faster and has the best physical fire move in the game an so i chose entei. Entei does everything arcanine did but be really bulky and do it better he revenges better he sweeps better and he is a better aeig counter thanks to sacred fire not being a contact move. i decided to use enteis flame plate set from last gen but instead of flare blitz use sacred fire and instead of iron head use bulldoze so im not walled by heatran. sone edge is for that mess of a bird t-flame and e-speed allows me to revenge a majority of the threats in the meta.
Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
Honestly how could you expect it to be anything else in a FWG core rotom-w is just so good this gen. Rotom w completes my FWG Core along with burn core and my talonflame counter core (wow thats a lot of cores already) and is just so damn useful. i made him specially defensively to compliment arcanine better and because with his burn shenanigans he can already take a physical hit. hydro pump is stab and volt switch is for momentum grabbing a long with forcing switches. I decided to go with pain split+ leftovers because i hate the one time healing thing and i know that i will need him to heal as many times as possible. Rotom-w is also art of my specially defensive core with snorlax and the two of them together can take 90% of all special attacks. Overall Rotom w just does so many things and really solidifies this team and he really glues everything together.
so i wanted to create a team centered around Rhyperior as he is one of my favorite pokemon and a very good physical wall. Well then i noticed Rhyperior's 4x weakness to grass and water attacks and his weakness to fighting and ground attacks so i though who can take all those and then it hit me...
mega venusaur would work as it resists all of those weaknesses but ground which rhyperior can normally take and can hit most of them super effectively and stall most things out with leech seed+sleep powder then i though im gonna need a fire and a water type so i can have a fire water grass core for more synergy so i chose...
good old darmanitan and rotom-w. i chose these to because i knew that they could form a solid volt-turn core and would work well with with the other too plus there really powerful and how can Ou not choose rotom-w in gen 6 i mean really come on. Now after this i knew i wanted a spinner for darmanitan and a spinblocker and i thought to my self whats the best spinner in ou and whats the only spinblocker that can block defog and it hit me so i chose....
excadrill and sableye. NOw exca is obviously the best spinner in ou being able to beat nearly every spinblocker and hit rotom w hard with a stab earthquake so that one was kinda obvious. The reason i chose sableye though was because it fit the criteria it was a spinblocker that could both block defog (thanks to taunt) and rapid spin because its a ghost type duh. well i was set and ready to go out and on my first battle i lost horribly too a sun team with char Y sweeping the entire team. So after my humiliating failure i got up pulled on my big boy pants and asked for help in which someone suggested that i take out sableye as he wasn't doing muchand at that sae time i didnt really like darm that much and realized i needed a sweeper so i decided to gowith his decision and my own and add...
AV snorlax and volcarona. So i though about it and i realized he was right sableye wasn't doing much and snorlax would help with my awful char Y weakness. I added volcarona because i needed a fire type and i wanted a sweeper (plus i needed a reason for excadrill to be there) so i decided on volcarona and his quiver dance shenanigans but after a while i realized that he just wasn't cutting it so i decided i need a more defensive fire type and a pokemon that had priority and then i realized one had been standing in my face all along and that is....
arcanine. I realized that arcanine with his fantastic movepool and including intimidate willow wisp and e-speed would solve my problem especially since bulk arcanine can take many hard hitting physical hits and pairs nicely with specially defensive rotom-w. Now we come to the final stages of my team building where i realized that i didnt need a spinner anymore and i tried to fight it but i realized i didnt need it as arcanine had reliable recovery to shrug off the stealth rock weakness so finally after i got swept b a DD dragonite i decided that i needed a revenge killer and a powerful one at that so i chose...
scarf chomp. Now scarf chomp came and he saved my life many times and often will clean up late game when either a fairy or flying type has been removed. Furthermore he has provided me with a last minute check to many threats and a check to the many dragons running around in ou. So without further delay i present to you the team
Now thanks to Higglybiggly who gave me some advice i decided to try out latios and celebii and say my sad farewell to my friends venasaur and garchomp. But i deceided to try it and they worked out decently especially seclebii but i was rather pursuit and t-tar weak and then higglybiggly showed one other pokemon that i should use to help out with t--tar yet keep a useful fast special attacker and that was
Mega lucario. Now meg lucario helped give me two things A a set up weeper that i needed really badly and B a heavy damage dealing special attacker and all this combined made him have a special place in my heart.
After a sad farewell thanks to pkmn gravija i decided to replace snorlax with mixed scarf kyub who handles everyhing snorlax did and gives me more offensive potential along with my only mixed attacker and straight out wall breaker.
so finaly after pokebank came out adn some changes were made to pokemon i decided to finally retire the old dog arcanine to the old farm my cousins run. No he is not dead my cousins actually have a farm where they keep dogs or at least thats what myt parents told me. I decided to replace the old dog wih entei his spiritual succesor and a pokemon that can do everything he can (besides have realiable recovery and hit water types) better. So without further ado i present to you what will most likely be the final copy of my team.
Rhyperior @ Leftovers
Ability: Solid Rock
EVs: 252 HP / 172 Atk / 84 Def
Adamant Nature
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Stealth Rock
- Megahorn
Ah rhyperior one of the most badass looking pokemon ever to exist (I mean come one its a fucking rock triceratops) and a hell of a friend. Rhyperior has stuck through with me in thick and in thin and has saved my bacon more times then i can count. Ryperior is typically my lead and can beat most other hazard leads ninety percent of the time. Furthermore it gets stealth rocks up quite often and beats all magic bouncers with mega horn/stone edge combo. this will help out immensely with the greatest threats against this team such as Char Y and Dragonite. He is also my number one counter to talanflame and will shake off any attack it tries with not even a boo boo on its knee. Rhyperior forms with celebi. my physically defensive core and together can wall nearly every physical threat in the meta right now The weird ev's are tailored so i can take adamant band terakion and adamant mega lukes close combats if i really need to after stealth rock and KO back with a stab earthquake. Rhyperior is the only pokemon i wont replace as he is the base of the team. I will edit him in whatever way is most helpful but i will not replace him
Celebi @ Leftovers
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 220 HP / 36 Spd / 252 Def
Bold Nature
IVs: 30 Atk / 30 SAtk / 30 Spd
- Heal Bell
- Recover
- Psychic
-giga drain
Celebi who used to be M-venusaur but replaced are tree friend thanks to higgylybiggly. Ceebii covers every one of rhyperiors weaknesses including ground and fighting and walls many of the threat that destroy this team such as rotom-w. celebi also provides something i really needed and that being a cleric as my team really hates status such as burn and toxic. recover is reliable recovery so he can last longer while psychic is a strong stab attack and giga drain is there for eliable stab and recovery and helps against the notorious azu who threatens this team. overall a very solid poke and im glad i switched from mega venu.
Entei @ Flame Plate
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Sacred Fire
- Extreme Speed
- Bulldoze
As you saw after much competition for this slot i finally decided to go with entei. Now you see after giving naway my olf dog i needed a new one that was stronger faster and has the best physical fire move in the game an so i chose entei. Entei does everything arcanine did but be really bulky and do it better he revenges better he sweeps better and he is a better aeig counter thanks to sacred fire not being a contact move. i decided to use enteis flame plate set from last gen but instead of flare blitz use sacred fire and instead of iron head use bulldoze so im not walled by heatran. sone edge is for that mess of a bird t-flame and e-speed allows me to revenge a majority of the threats in the meta.
Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SAtk / 252 SDef
Calm Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp
- Pain Split
Honestly how could you expect it to be anything else in a FWG core rotom-w is just so good this gen. Rotom w completes my FWG Core along with burn core and my talonflame counter core (wow thats a lot of cores already) and is just so damn useful. i made him specially defensively to compliment arcanine better and because with his burn shenanigans he can already take a physical hit. hydro pump is stab and volt switch is for momentum grabbing a long with forcing switches. I decided to go with pain split+ leftovers because i hate the one time healing thing and i know that i will need him to heal as many times as possible. Rotom-w is also art of my specially defensive core with snorlax and the two of them together can take 90% of all special attacks. Overall Rotom w just does so many things and really solidifies this team and he really glues everything together.
Kyurem-Black @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Teravolt
EVs: 136 Atk / 120 Spd / 252 SAtk
Mild Nature
- Outrage
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Earth Power
So after consideration and a suggestion by pkmn gravija i finally found what i believe to be the final member of my team kyurem-b. kyurem b is my scarfed revenge killer and mixed wall breaker. the evs are set up so i can 2 hit ko beat rotom wash with the appropriate move no matter the set and so i can outspeed non scarfed Noivern an ko it. Furthermore this set counter everything that snorlax countered and gives me good offensive pressure. outrage is there for easily spammable stab after fairies and steels are gone and is his strongest move. ice beam is there for special stab and can hit many things that threaten this team such as venu and lando super effectively. fusion bolt is there for bulky waters and char Y and earth power is there for physically defensive rotom w and steel types.overall a solid poke and was the missing piece of the puzzle. He is also my only check to jolly drum azu.
Lucario (M) @ Lucarionite
Ability: Steadfast
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Aura Sphere
- Vacuum Wave
- Dark Pulse
mega lucario as suggested by higglybiggly once again helps glue this team together solidly as it provides great offensive synergy with the team and gives both a special attacker and a sweeper which i have been severely lacking out on. aura sphere is a fantastic stab after adaptability and vacuum wave is a very powerful priority move to help me from being revenge killed. dark pulse is there so ghosts don't wall me and nasty plot is there so i can boost up and sweep mid-late game. Lucario was the fast special sweeper that i have been missing out on the entire time and really helps with the team. Also his gif has the character from the game that another character is in that inspired my username.
Rotom-w
The bastard that solidifies my team so well is also the best counter too it as it threatens my entire team and if celebi is dead then i really am screwed and all it takes is one free switch in.
Azu is a huge threat to this team especially if belly drum. Furthermore if either rotom doesnt get in and burn it before set up or kyub is dead then i am screwed and will lose.
Low accuracy moves
35% of the time i lose is because i miss that crucial stone edge or willow wisp and proceed to get swept by a huge threat in the meta .
Well i'm not good and finishing these presentations so.... i guess rate reply say threats and give suggestions remember i will change most things other then rhyperior and well i guess bye *awkwardly shimmies off stage muttering about how he is a loser*... also nicknames are now up for grabs to submit. Also thank you all for participating it is a hell of a team now and i hope i inspired some of you to use rhyperior as he is a fantastic poke.
Ability: Teravolt
EVs: 136 Atk / 120 Spd / 252 SAtk
Mild Nature
- Outrage
- Ice Beam
- Fusion Bolt
- Earth Power
So after consideration and a suggestion by pkmn gravija i finally found what i believe to be the final member of my team kyurem-b. kyurem b is my scarfed revenge killer and mixed wall breaker. the evs are set up so i can 2 hit ko beat rotom wash with the appropriate move no matter the set and so i can outspeed non scarfed Noivern an ko it. Furthermore this set counter everything that snorlax countered and gives me good offensive pressure. outrage is there for easily spammable stab after fairies and steels are gone and is his strongest move. ice beam is there for special stab and can hit many things that threaten this team such as venu and lando super effectively. fusion bolt is there for bulky waters and char Y and earth power is there for physically defensive rotom w and steel types.overall a solid poke and was the missing piece of the puzzle. He is also my only check to jolly drum azu.
Lucario (M) @ Lucarionite
Ability: Steadfast
EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef
Timid Nature
- Nasty Plot
- Aura Sphere
- Vacuum Wave
- Dark Pulse
mega lucario as suggested by higglybiggly once again helps glue this team together solidly as it provides great offensive synergy with the team and gives both a special attacker and a sweeper which i have been severely lacking out on. aura sphere is a fantastic stab after adaptability and vacuum wave is a very powerful priority move to help me from being revenge killed. dark pulse is there so ghosts don't wall me and nasty plot is there so i can boost up and sweep mid-late game. Lucario was the fast special sweeper that i have been missing out on the entire time and really helps with the team. Also his gif has the character from the game that another character is in that inspired my username.
The bastard that solidifies my team so well is also the best counter too it as it threatens my entire team and if celebi is dead then i really am screwed and all it takes is one free switch in.
Azu is a huge threat to this team especially if belly drum. Furthermore if either rotom doesnt get in and burn it before set up or kyub is dead then i am screwed and will lose.
Low accuracy moves
35% of the time i lose is because i miss that crucial stone edge or willow wisp and proceed to get swept by a huge threat in the meta .
Well i'm not good and finishing these presentations so.... i guess rate reply say threats and give suggestions remember i will change most things other then rhyperior and well i guess bye *awkwardly shimmies off stage muttering about how he is a loser*... also nicknames are now up for grabs to submit. Also thank you all for participating it is a hell of a team now and i hope i inspired some of you to use rhyperior as he is a fantastic poke.
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