Monotype team

[kirbyraeg]

Yep, I had some fun with this team and got to about 1300 CRE...course, once you get anywhere past scrub level you can't expect a monotype team to compete with all the existing threats, particularly well-crafted stall >_>

I do the best I can to cover threats, but there isn't much to do when almost all of your team is weak to dark/ghost.

Metagross @ Occa Berry
Ability: Clear Body
EVs: 252 HP/236 Atk/12 Def/8 Spd
Adamant nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Stealth Rock
- Meteor Mash
- Bullet Punch
- Brick Break

Pretty standard OccaGross lead, with one big difference. Brick Break over EQ still lets me 2hko leadTran if I think they'll put up rocks first and keeps my team from being ***** by HO, which is a real pain in the *** to deal with. >_> I lose to ape and pert leads anyway, so vs. pert i'll just try to get rocks up then switch out. ape is a bad match since i'm not running eq, so i absorb the fake out and go to latias. Occa is a great item still because it's handy to have a bulky attacker that will still be safeguarded vs. a fire attack later in the game.
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Starmie @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Natural Cure
EVs: 4 Def/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Modest nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Trick
- Thunderbolt

Pretty standard, Modest for extra power while still outspeeding +1 100s. Trick is helpful for messing up a blissey/whatever that comes in, and it's nice surprising scarfed rotoms that come in expecting to scare me off/spinblock and knocking them out since specially bulky ones are relatively rare.
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Latias (F) @ Choice Specs
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 4 HP/252 Spd/252 SAtk
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Dragon Pulse
- Surf
- Thunderbolt(Draco Meteor)
- Trick

This is my way of dealing with the semi-stall response of switching scarftar in on latias expecting a trick. Surf 2hkos ttar/scizor with sr, which is handy. It's also a nice solid attack. I don't find myself using thunderbolt much, so I might replace it for draco meteor since there have been times where I wanted extra power in that first hit. :/
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Gardevoir (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Trace
EVs: 252 HP/148 Def/108 Spd
Timid nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Will-o-wisp
- Wish
- Psychic
- Thunderbolt

This is a nice way for me to check setup pokemon and deal with heatran/vap/jolt/vire/WHATEVER else has useful abilities that can be traced. Lots of possibilities there. XD Psychic for stab, tbolt for coverage, it's useful for dealing with gyara/vap in particular and gives a neutral hit vs. lots of other pokemon that generally won't be hurt by wisp. Wish is a handy bit of support, and his unexpected physical bulk does a lot of good for him as well.

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Bronzong @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP/84 Atk/80 Def/92 SDef
Sassy nature (+SDef, -Spd)
- Earthquake
- Gyro Ball
- Hypnosis
- Explosion

This is pretty much my only way to deal with gengar, which is pretty **** sad. I keep this guy safe and try to rely on being able to KO it with gyro ball. Scarf starmie can revenge the standard LOgar, but if it's scarfed I'm kinda ****ED without this guy.
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Slowbro (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Own Tempo
EVs: 252 HP/252 Def/4 SAtk
Bold nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Slack Off
- Surf
- Calm Mind
- Psychic/HP Electric

CMBro is one of the most solid guys on my team. CMbro walks all over standard defensive teams if they're not prepared for it. He can usually come in on any defensive pokemon, set up a CM as they switch to their counter, and just gives me all around good information. I haven't seen a lot of celebi/roserade, and slowbro can deal with anything else (excepting suicune, which I go to starmie/latias to trick or zong to explode on if it's the last remaining pokemon left). He also easily holds his own against scizor, since a CB 252 atk u-turn does an average of 70% damage, allowing me to slack off as he fires his u-turn. SD scizor gives him a lot of problems though if it chooses to run bug bite, then again if it runs bug bite my whole team has a lot of problems with it no matter what i do. >_>

One of the advantages of CMBro is that he's specially bulky enough after the +1 to set up vs. various threats like spinblock rotom's thunderbolt, scarf latias' draco meteor, etc. Although he can't overpower a suicune that comes in, he will be able to take it down after he's set up to at least +3 vs. a weaker opponent, even if it tries to stat up and rest... I like psychic for the better overall power and stab, but HP electric is an option just because it will nab the ohko on tauntgyara after SR as it switches in into calm mind.
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I was sad when I posted a version of this team on smogon and got over 500 views but no comments...

Rate, comment, etc. please

 

[Metal~Mario]

How about giving Latias Psychic?

If you can predict Gengar's Thunderbolt, he's screwed.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

If you're not to keen on anyone, Gallade might be an interesting option to try out.

Also, Jirachi may also fit well due to being neutral to Dark-type moves which will obviously plague the team.

-Terywj

 

[kirbyraeg]

How about giving Latias Psychic?

If you can predict Gengar's Thunderbolt, he's screwed.

I'm not too keen on a choice-lock psychic move, simply because this is also a team I'm laddering with for fun, but if I used this for a monotype tournament, I'd probably go with dpulse/surf/psychic for the combination of STAB/coverage

If you're not to keen on anyone, Gallade might be an interesting option to try out.

Also, Jirachi may also fit well due to being neutral to Dark-type moves which will obviously plague the team.

-Terywj

Gallade is an interesting option I thought about, and it would help a lot for me to deal with blissey...I tend to run into some problems with those >_> I'm not sure what i'd replace for it though, I know gardevoir is the weakest option at this point BUT her status options+trace give her a nice place vs. heatran, who would otherwise have his way with this team after latias gets weakened/pursuited by scizor/ttar.

I used to have a jirachi over gardevoir, but I really disliked having 3 steels on my team (even though I had good ways to soak up fire hits in latias/bro/starmie) simply because of the physical frailty of those fire type checks. Wish/paralysis support was good to have, but he didn't really have enough of an offensive presence and also invited in a lot of ground hits that the rest of my team couldn't really handle, plus I liked the burn support gardevoir could offer as well as being a more permanent way to deal with tyranitar/other darks that got greedy coming in against me. It also gives metagross an opportunity to switch in and fire off a meteor mash OR for slowbro to switch in and start putting up calm minds against a crippled physical attacker (scarftar locked into crunch does a laughable 25% damage on average to slowbro, and even adamant CBtar locked into crunch does 41% average, letting me riskily set up CMs while using slack off to set up and drain ttar's health via burn damage).

 

[Pink Reaper]

Once again I feel the need to ask this question to yet another player.

WHY THE **** ARE YOU USING METAGROSS AS A LEAD?!

One of the most obscenely powerful and dangerous pokemon in the game and you limit it to "Set up SR and try to hurt one thing"

Use Jirachi as a lead(still the best lead out there IMO) and swap out something for Metagross(possibly Gardevoir) Go with CB Gross(BP over Tpunch so you have a secondary answer to Scarf Gengar) or Agiligross(cus it's ****ing ****)

Also, 3 steels is fine when you consider how amazing of a Fire Type check that Slowbro is. Even with it's only modest SpDef it's instant recovery+resist+calm mind+the fact that most fire type pokemon cant really do much to Slowbro w/ their secondary attacks(Infernape is the most dangerous but at that point you can just bait a Grass Knot and use Latias)

 

[CT Chia]

Slowbro laughs at Grass Knots

 

[Pink Reaper]

Not really, he takes ~60% from Infernape's Grass knot.

 

[Wave⁂]

Well, you'd ideally be at +1 Calm Mind.

 

[Pink Reaper]

In context, i was talking about Slowbro switching in to fire type attacks as a sponge so actually he wouldn't be and he'd also be at not full health >.>

 

[Wave⁂]

Ah. Well, Fire Blast does 39.1% max, Grass Knot does 69.5% max... you've got a decent chance of living the Grass Knot to OHKO with Surf, assuming no Stealth Rocks and no prior damage.

 

[Gates]

Make sure your Slowbro has one of the following names:

Bro
Brah
Broski
Broseph
Bro-ham
Brojo
Michelangebro
Broforce
Brahsome
Bro-magnon man
Bro ****
Broseidon, God of the Brocean
etc.