My team (two questions)

[Ryu Shimazu]

I've went to smogon, but I want some opionions on a hard choice...

I have a leadgross that has bulletpunch/explosion/stealth rock, should its last move be EQ or meteor mash? MM has STAB but EQ is super effective on more, and doesn't miss. Your thoughts?

Also..I have a lucario, choice specs modest one. It knows Aurasphere/Shadowball/Dragonpulse/FlashCannon. I need to put vaccum wave in there somewhre, what should I get rid of?


Thanks ^^

 

[verycoolguy]

Metagross: I'd choose Earthquake because of type coverage. Steel is a mediocre offensive type and using two Steel type attacks seems rather silly. With Earthquake, you can kill the Infernape leads with it, following a Bullet Punch.

Lucario: Aura Sphere and Shadow Ball are amazing moves and provide unresisted coverage. Not much resists Dragon Pulse. Flash Cannon is a decent STAB move but it isn't necessary. Steel STAB usually pairs with Ground or Electric for decent effectiveness, so you should probably replace Flash Cannon. Ice and Rock types are already going to be demolished by your other STAB move anyway.

Since this is the Rating room, it would be nice if you posted your whole team.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Yeah I'm sorry^^; It's not 100 yet but...

Metagross Adamant @ Occa berry
Stealth rock
Explosion
Earthquake
Bullet punch

Vaporeon Calm @ leftovers
Surf
Substitute
Wish
Baton pass

Lucario Modest @ Choice specs
Aura Sphere
Shadow Ball
Vaccum wave
Dragon pulse

Dragonite Adamant @ life orb
Outrage
Earthquake
Roost
DragonDance

Tyranitar Adamant @ Choice band
Earthquake
Crunch
Aqua Tail
Fire punch

Infernape Rash @ Choice scarf
Overheat
Close Combat
Grass knot
U-Turn

I'm not totally sure on Infernape; but the rest seemed okay to me. This would be my first OU team (or any team..) made..

Edit: EVs in the pokemon (duh)
Infernape 24 att 252 satt 232speed
Tyranitar 252att 92speed 164hp
metagross 252hp 236att 12def 8speed
vaporeon 128 hp / 128 speed / 252 deff
Dragonite 224hp 200speed 84att
Lucario 4hp/252satt/252speed
Sorry about that^^

 

[Platypus]

With Vacuum Wave, you can worry less about Jirachi, but I don't know what you plan to do against Gyarados if it shows up after Metagross is gone.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I was thinking since I have infernape I could go with Thunder punch on Tyranitar but I had fire punch at the time because it helped more on battle hall

 

[Deleted member]

IMO drop one of the ground weaks. you have too many. it might work in the current metagame though. after vap is gone mamo kills your family.

also try this

Tyranitar @ Choice Band
Adamant, Sand Stream
60 HP / 252 Att / 196 Spe
Earthquake
Stone Edge
Crunch
Pursuit

guaranteed to **** something.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I have a UT Larvitar (I'm not done with leveling this team, only metagross/vaporeon/lucario are done..) it has 28hp/30att/24deff/27sdeff/31satt/28speed IVs but no pursuit, could I use something instead of pursuit, or just throw that one away and get pursuit into larvitars? Also Stone edge always misses for me, or doesn't critical, so many times I just used Aqua tail.. but maybe I had a huge string of bad luck. Thanks for the advice, and I've noticed too many pokemon I have are weak to ground.. Metagross/Lucario/Tyranitar/Infernape.. I've really considered dropping infernape, I like having a choiceband/spec and metagross seems like a good lead to me, but for what? Also, I was considering swapping the speed/hp Evs, the only reason I hadn't was the smogon template which is what everyone on gamespot linked me to -_-;...
Thanks a lot for the advice^^, I hope you can answer my other questions

 

[Wave⁂]

lol Gamespot

Are you opposed to using legendary Pokemon? You could try Latias.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

No I'm not opposed, I just don't have a Latias, and if I managed to get one that isn't hacked off trade it'd probably have a bad nature or something. (I kinda do want legit ones...) I was also thinking since Tyranitar wouldn't have pursuit, I could use Thunderpunch over it for the Gyarados scenario. The only question I have now is that is it really better to use more speed EV over HP in tyranitar? Makes more sense to me that way anyways but yeah, thanks for all the advice so far ^^

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

On that note I just got a Quiet latias with a 29 in Speed Ivs to balance out the nature, I think it could work really well. (best legit one i've found so far...)