Krusty Kielbasi V2.0

[blue cheez]

Man, I go to the nerdiest college ever! I found out yesterday that we have a decent competitive pokemon community here. The thing is...they don't use shoddy battle : ( So I actually have to MAKE a team for once, gah.
I've made plenty of teams before, but I'm by no means a veteran. So I'm using pretty much standard sets instead of re-inventing the wheel. And I'm focusing on synergy rather than creativity.

Alright, so I'm centering this team around my in-game Red Gyarados.

<-(In case you dont know why this team is named Krusty Kielbasi)

To handle electricity and rock I'm adding rotom and gliscor.

Gliscor's main problem, gyarados, is handled nicely by rotom-A. Rotom's main weakness, Ttar, is somewhat-well-handled by gliscor (as long as he isn't special or mixed).
I'm need something to counter Tttar if he switches on rotom to set up for a sweep.

I'm using metachamp as my ttar counter instead of someone like hariyama because of his flexibility as a team player. He can take a hit or two, prevent a sweep with confusion, and maybe even absorb a hypnosis or spore.

Now at this point my team really seems to be begging for a ttar.
Rotom-A and Gyarados can really take those fighting and ground hits well. Except for Salamence and Infernape, a specially defensive Tyranitar coupled with a physically defensive Rotom-A can counter a large majority of the metagame. But, i think I'll max speed and make him scarf to take out psychics and outspeed pesky infernape and salamence. Gliscor is also a great partner because it can counter lucario and get the sand veil boost.

A great late-game sweeper made even better by tyranitar's ability to snipe out his threats.

Gliscor (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 HP/6 Def/252 Spd
Jolly nature
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
- Roost
- Taunt
Max speed is to out-speed other gliscors.
Gliscors Synergy:

1. Can absorb thunderbolts from gyarados and reply with earthquake, has high Defense to take Rock-type attacks, and SR helps Gyarados against Pokémon such as Celebi and Starmie.
2. SR is essential for lucario to sweep in the late game
3. #1 counter against lucario-& is a buffer in case rotom is out of the ring

Gyarados @ choice band
252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant nature
- Waterfall
- Payback
- Stone Edge
- Earthquake
It was hard to decide between choice band and DD, but I'm going with choice band for synergy with rotom-A.
Gyarados' Synergy:

1. Helps Rotom-A: with intimidate & typing, Gyrados handles pursuit-carrying scizor, by luring latias and hitting hard with payback.
2. Helps Lucario: since it lures in Rotom-A and Celebi and hits them hard with Payback, OHKOing 4 HP versions of Rotom and hitting Celebi hard as they switch in. Choice Band Waterfall will also rip Gliscor apart.

Rotom-A @ leftovers
64 HP / 232 SpA / 212 Spe
Timid Nature
- Charge Beam
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
- Thunderbolt
Originally I wanted to make this a scarf Rotom. But I usually run into problems against stall teams, so I decided use this set to handle them. This Rotom set handles scarm-bliss well.(Subsitute against blissey since icebeam can't break it, and use set up with chargebeam; t-bolt vs. skarmory) This set was originally intended to be a wall breaker, but was advised to switch it to being a wall and sleep absorber.
Rotom's Synergy:

• Hopefully this set will lure in Tttar, and I can use either machamp to counter, or lucario to set-up.
• Handles Gyarados' horrid electric weakness.
• Lucario makes a great offensive partner alongside this set. With a 4x resistance to Dark-type moves, Lucario switches into Tyranitar easily, while Rotom-A avoids Pursuit, thanks to its Substitute.
• Helps Tyranitar: resistance to fighting & by giving scizor,tyranitar's counter, a hard time

TAKEN OUT
Machamp@leftovers
252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe
Adamant Nature w/ No guard
- DynamicPunch
- Ice Punch
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
Machamp's Synergy:

• Helps Rotom-A with Tyranitar weakness
• sleep absorber.
• Rotom-As ability to handle skarm-bliss, helps eliminate skarmory from stoping machamp's fun.

I was advised to switch my machamp to a scarf latias to handle DDsalamence better.
SWITCHED WITH

Latias @ Choice Scarf
Nature: Timid
Hp 4 / 252 SpAtt / 252 Spd
Draco Meteor
Thunderbolt
Surf
Trick

Ttar@ scarf
4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly nature.
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Superpower
Tyranitar's Synergy:

• Helps machamp: eliminating pesky psychic & ghosts that are resistant to dynamic punch.
• Helps Lucario & Gyarados: Eliminating Rotom-A, and latias to give them a better chance of sweeping
• Scarf absorber

Lucario @ lifeorb
252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant nature
- Swords Dance
- Close Combat
- ExtremeSpeed
- Stone Edge
Adamant to get an OHKO off bronzong and skarmory. Switched from Ice Punch to get past Gyarados and Zapdos.
Lucario's Synergy:

• Gyarados eliminates gliscor
• My Rotom handles gyrados
• Tyranitar handles psychics
• Gliscor handles magnezone if it pops in early game.

Now for the Late-game sweep!

 

[blue cheez]

one week, no rates... I like the community we got here. :/

 

[xLeafybug =D]

We probably didn't see it. Your bump was completely justified.

Your team is pretty nice, I like it. That being said, Agiligross will give your team hell.

 

[supermarth64]

Ok this team is pretty good. There are two things I would advise:

1) Random Draco Meteors / Outrages. Just play smartly because Lucario's your only resist for them and it's not really bulky.
2) Your current Rotom-F set isn't really beating Blissey without HP Fighting. Therefore, there are two things I recommend:
a) Replace Thunderbolt with HP Fighting. At +6, this will allow you to 2HKO Blissey without having to rely on parahax.
b) Due to you having Tyranitar on your team, Rotom-F won't actually be gaining any health back from Leftovers, only pulling out even. This means that Blissey can win a war of attrition should it have a non-Seismic Toss move. Either follow the above or use this Rotom set instead:

Rotom-C (or whatever) @ Leftovers
Levitate / Timid
252 HP / 88 Def / 188 Spe
-Substitute
-Pain Split
-Will-O-Wisp
-Thunderbolt

Substitue, Pain Split, and WoW all help combat Tyranitar and Blissey, while Thunderbolt takes care of Skarmory. Although Blissey can Softboiled, Pain Split has more PP, so Blissey will lose in the long run. Additionally, WoW helps against Agility Metagross.

My memory sucks so I can't remember what else I was going to say.