Team Jaxon V2(UU)

[Jaxon]

Hey all this is my UU team, rate away!

Donphan-
Sturdy/Adamant/Leftovers
254 hp/ 128 def/ 128 SpDef
-Earthquake
-Stealth Rock
-Rapid Spin
-Ice Shard

My lead. EQ is for power and ice shard takes out grass types and some faster pokemon

Ursaring-
Quick Feet/Adamant/Toxic Orb
255 atk/ 255 spd
-Facade
-Shadow Claw
-Close Combat
-Protect

My physical sweeper. His STAB facade is deadly after getting boosted from toxic orb. He cant stay in too long or he'll get killed. His speed is fantastic after a quick feet boost.

Manectric-
LightningRod/Timid/LifeOrb
255 SpAtk/ 255 Spd
-Charge beam
-Substitute
-Thunderbolt
-Flamethrower

A simple charge beam sub sweeper. After he gets enough boosts he's almost unstoppable.

Slowking-
Own Tempo/Bold/Leftovers
254 hp/ 128 Def/ 128 SpDef
-Nasty Plot
-Slack Off
-Ice Beam
-Surf

A sturdy yet strong bulky NP sweeper. Surf and Ice beam get decent coverage and his defeces and slack off make him a good wall too.

Drapion-
Battle Armor/Adamant/Black sludge
254 Hp/ 128 Def/ 128 Atk
-Earthquake
-Ice Fang
-Swords Dance
-Crunch

Swords dance sweeper drapion. His good defences allow him to take a hit and his offences and speed make him a good sweeper too.

Hitmontop-
Technician/Adamant/Life Orb
128 Atk/ 128 Spd/ 254 Hp
-Fake Out
-Close Combat
-Aerial ace
-Mach punch

Im not sure about this one. Im considering replacing him with a dark pokemon.



My team does pretty well but it has some trouble with fast choiced sweepers
Replaced walrein and nidoqueen with drapion and slowking

 

[coolking503]

toxic spikes are bad in UU due to the large amount of (grounded) poison types, namely venasaur, the most used pokemon in the metagame. Nidoqueen just helps in getting swept by a psychic type, so I would replace it with steel or dark type. Also, DD altaria screws your team over, since... wait what? why is donphan bold. That lowers attack. I think you mean impish. anyways, it does under 50%. which is why a steel type helps.

walrein needs an attack, and that set only looks effective on full stall. I might replace that to something else, like registeel, who can do the exact same thing better.

Anyways, I hae to go to school, maybe I will post more later.

 

[Dopey]

Why does Donphan have Lum Berry? Its already immune to Thunder Wave which is gonna be the most used status attack by leads like Uxie and such, and you don't really see Toxic a lot anyway(unless its on Milotic or Venusaur, who would just OHKO or 2HKO with their STAB attacks anyway, or Chansey who'll almost never stay in on a Donphan). Leftovers will help it to stay around longer especially since it gets no other form of recovery.

 

[Jaxon]

OK, ive made some changes to my team.
BTW according to bulbapedia hitmontop cant lear fake out but smogon says it can. Can it?

 

[Troggy]

OK, ive made some changes to my team.
BTW according to bulbapedia hitmontop cant lear fake out but smogon says it can. Can it?

Hitmontop can't learn it, but Tyrogue can, so they are probably both right technically. Unless you delete Fake Out on purpose, all Hitmontops should have it when they evolve from Tyrogue.

 

[Dopey]

I still don't understand why Donphan is Bold.... all its moves are Attack-based... why not just train an Impish/Careful Donphan(supposing its for wi-fi play) or just change it to Impish if its on Shoddy ._.

 

[Jaxon]

My bad, it was supposed to be adamant

 

[pikmin]

I'd use a technitop, as your team lack priority. Also, it's a great revenge killer!

Spoiler

TechniTop
Life Orb / Leftovers Technician Adamant
Moveset EVs 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Def
~ Fake Out
~ Close Combat / Revenge
~ Mach Punch
~ Bullet Punch / Stone Edge

With Technician, and a whole slew of priority attacks, Hitmontop becomes one of the best revenge killers in the UU metagame. Basically, Hitmontop switches into a given Pokemon whom it can KO, and uses Fake Out to cause it to flinch and deal damage. After Fake Out, the opponent's Pokemon should be in KO range for Mach Punch. Close Combat or Revenge is used as a STAB attack, both of which carry various advantages and setbacks. Close Combat can dent more physically bulky Pokemon such as Steelix for more immediate power, however, Revenge has 90 Base Power because of Technician, or 120 Base Power if used after being hit, making it a very nice option when compared to Close Combat, which lowers Hitmontop's useful and above average defenses. Keep in mind that Revenge has a negative priority, making you attack last, though. Bullet Punch is there to basically be able to revenge kill Ghost-types, and Pokemon who resist Mach Punch more effectively. However, Stone Edge is still a viable option, to hit Pokemon such as Charizard and Moltres who effectively wall this set.

After all of your opponent's Pokemon are weakened and their counters are removed, Hitmontop can utilize its strong priority attacks and proceed to sweep late game.

This offensively oriented Hitmontop is very easily walled by Pokemon such as Weezing, Spiritomb, Slowbro, and basically any other defensive Poison-, Ghost-, or Psychic-type. Blaziken is a great Pokemon for getting rid of Spiritomb, because not only can Blaziken catch Spiritomb with a Fire Blast on the switch, it can also switch in with ease into Will-O-Wisp or Dark Pulse variants. Blaziken can also lure and 2HKO Slowbro as well. Unfortunately, the weakness to Flying-type attacks is a bad thing in the UU metagame because of Swellow's strong Brave Bird and Moltres' strong Air Slash, and both Blaziken and Hitmontop share this weakness. To get Swellow out of the way, one can try many tactics. Stealth Rock can be used on a Pokemon such as Regirock, so that Swellow is forced out and will have to take large amounts of damage switching in with Stealth Rock in play, on top of status and Brave Bird recoil. Venusaur, Sceptile and other Grass- or Bug-types are decent Swellow lures, and all can take Swellow out with the correct attack, but these plans are not foolproof by any means, so keeping a Swellow counter (such as nearly any Rock-or Steel-type) is ideal.

please rate my team back! Thanks.

 

[Jaxon]

Thats actually pretty close to what my hitmontop ALREADY was. Changed BP to Fake Out.