my first competitive team- donnie darko

[dsingle]

Starter

Donphan @ leftovers (dont have leftovers yet)
Impish:Sturdy
192 HP, 92 AT, 226 DF
-Stealth rock
-Ice shard
-EQ
-Rapid spin

mainly just to stall and get stealth rocks out then switch to a counter. ice shard for dragons like dragonite and salemence and rapid spin for spikers. Eq is for stab


sub splitter


Gengar @ wide lens (gonna switch to Life orb when i get it)
Timid:levitate
252 SP, 252 SA, 6 HP
-Shadow ball
-substitute
-pain split
-focus blast

substitute and life orb damage, then painsplit to recover and hurt them, and finish the kill with shadow ball

mixed sweeper

Electivire @ Expert belt
Mild : Motor Drive
36 AT, 252 SA, 220 SP
-cross chop
-eq
-flamethrower
-Thunder bolt

LOVE this thing it OHKO's almost everything especially with the boost from expert belt on super effective hits. also is a good switch in from gyarados when they use and electric pokemon because of motor drive

Physical sweeper

Gyarados @ leftovers (dont have leftovers yet)
Jolly: Intimidate
252 AT, 184 SP, 72 HP
-Dragon Dance
-Eq
-Waterfall
-Ice Fang (should i use stone edge instead?)
really fun to use because it can take some hits till i build it up with DD and start sweeping

Physical Wall suicide

Snorlax @ Leftovers (dont have leftovers for it yet)
Careful : immunity
168 HP, 120 DEF, 220 SP
-Body slam
-Curse
-eq
-self destruct

Curse up a couple times then just start using stab body slam also eq when i can hit for super effective. then when my health gets low simply pop that mother for a STAB self destruct

Defense

Celebi @ leftovers
(i have the 1 leftovers from in game on this one)
Bold: natural cure
252 HP / 220 Def / 36 Spe
-Leach Seed
-Recover
-Grass knot
-HP (fire)
I LOVE THIS THING its soo fun because it almost never dies and is really hard to take out because i can recover from most all damage with leftovers and leach seed while hitting with STAB grass knots and if i take too much damage i just use recover while slowly taking health from the leech seed


This is my switch in pokemon which i like using but i replaced it with celebi
Wish/trap passer

Umbreon
Umbreon @ Leftovers (dont have leftovers for it yet
Relaxed : Synchronize
252 HP, 96 SD, 160 DF
- Mean Look
- Wish
- Baton Pass
- Yawn
mean look then yawn and pass to a counter also wish and pass for healing

if you have any suggestions please comment also rate id really like to know if i should switch umbreon in with anything or keep it on the side for later battles when i want to change the team up a little bit

 

[coolking503]

For donphan, it dies to most of the top leads.

I use this set, which does better:

Donphan @ focus sash
adamant
80HP/252att/172 speed
-Earthquake
-seed bomb
-ice shard
-Stealth rock

enough speed t ooutspeed standard lead metagross, and thus a slower swampert. Seed bomb and EQ deals with both, and ice shard is for aerodactyl. Roserade 2hko'd with ice shard, and d'nite is killed by it too. EQ kills lucario and empoleon anti-leads. Jirachi, infernape, and t-tar are ko'd by EQ, and ninjask and gliscor cqan eat ice shard. Heatran is KO'd by eq, and hippodon is 2ko'd by seed bomb. Crobat also takes ice shard.

As you can see, this lead covers common leads alot better than yours. It only has problems with smeargle, azelf, bronzong, and abombasnow leads.

 

[dsingle]

yeah i'm thinking of using azelf or dactyl instead for my lead what do you think on those as a replacement for donphan?

i tested my team on shoddy and i seem to do better with the trap passing umbreon instead of celebi even though i love it =/ i guess ill use that instead

 

[coolking503]

aero isn't the best idea for your team, since you aren't playing heavy offense with a team where all the pokemon need SR down, enough to offset starting off down 6-5. Azelf is a very good lead, most used in OU, and for good reason. Test it out and tell us how you do with it, though I would say use umbreon over celebi if you do use it, since having 3 dark weaknesses isn't good, especially with tyranitar being so common.