Hi! I just recently made some really good teams designed for sweeping, and getting a almost guaranteed win for Competitive Play (I play Pokemon Showdown competitively). So far, I've not lost a single battle with this team, and most of them I swept with only 1 or 2 mons, so here it is:
Kartana @ Razor Claw
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Careful Nature
- Sacred Sword
- Swords Dance
- Protect/ Substitute
- Leaf Blade
Kartana is insanely fast and has insane attack stats, but his defense just isn't there. While he may be great against most matchups, he still has multiple weaknesses, and I set up a great counter to all of his weaknesses that I thought of. Of course, his #1 weakness is fire, having a x4 weakness. Considering the fact that the fire type is mostly all about the special stats, (excluding Blaziken, Charizard X, etc.) it would only be logical that Kartana hits with attack rather than special attack. Not only that, but Kartana has the ability Beast Boost, and for Kartana specifically with this setup, the x1.5 boost would go towards his regular attack, making him insanely powerful. Still, Kartana would get stomped with fire, so this is why you need Protect or Substitute. However, I prefer Protect because your opponent may try to burn you (Will-o-Wisp goes through Substitute), which halves your attack stat. Protect, however, blocks everything your opponent may throw at you. Another weakness would be Bug-Type Pokemon. While Bug isn't super effective towards Kartana, he has no good counters to it. Also, Bug-Types are mostly centered around the Special Attack stat as well, so they would rip through Kartana, with his base Special Defense stat being around 31. While this moveset has no direct counters to Bug Pokemon, if you get your attack stat high enough, he should take care of them really easily, but just pray that your opponent doesn't have a Beedrill or Butterfree on hand. Also, if you have Razor Claw paired with Leaf Blade, it becomes better and better as you continue using Leaf Blade, as the crit chance keeps rising, and eventually you will get a crit almost every time, as the Razor Claw has the same crit ratio as Leaf Blade.
(Link here for whoever wants to see crit rates, this guy does a pretty good explanation with it https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/998/how-high-is-a-high-critical-hit-ratio)
Pheromosa @ Wide Lens
Ability: Beast Boost
EVs: 184 Atk / 252 SpA / 72 Spe
Naive Nature
- High Jump Kick
- Quiver Dance
- Shockwave
- Agility/ Lunge
To be honest, it took me a while to think of a good addition to this team, because the last 'mon I added was Pheromosa. The reason I settled on her is because of both of her attack stats and speed. The move High Jump Kick has a 90% accuracy ratio, but in the slight chance there is a time it misses, it will take a massive chunk out of any 'mons health, right around 50%. The Wide Lens is to lessen this event happening by a large margin. The Wide Lens boosts a Pokemon's accuracy by x1.1, which if you don't feel like doing math, is 99%. I feel as though they kept it at a x1.1 factor and not any more is because High Jump Kick would be so much more insane, with its 130 base power. This would mean that unless you found a level 5 Pidgey on Route 2 spamming Sand-Attack (we've all been there), then you would dominate everything, and everyone. Seems solid just by this right? Not completely, as Flying types have a x4 damage factor set in as she is a Bug/ Fighting type Pokemon. That's why Shockwave is here! Shockwave is and Electric-Type move, and has 60 base power, and on top of that, never misses, no matter how much Sand-Attack is spammed! Quiver Dance is solid, great moves, buffs Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed! Awesome! So... why is Agility here? Well, it depends on your play style. Agility is here in case you are already one-shotting everything, but not outspeeding some, basically. However, if the majority of your opponents' team is slow but tanky, I would go for Lunge, which also lowers the opponents' Attack by 1 every time, so it's pretty good.
Beedrill-Mega @ Beedrillite
Ability: Adaptability
EVs: 176 Atk / 80 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Roost
- U-turn
- Swords Dance
- Baton Pass
This one's going to be short and sweet. Basically, Beedrill isn't meant for sweeping, but rather Baton Pass spam. Unless your remaining Pokemon are the two Special Attackers (Deoxys-Attack and Greninja) I would recommend not using U-Turn unless you haven't used Swords Dance for Beedrill yet or only have used it once. The Mega is only here for Defense buff and in case of an emergency.
Deoxys-Attack @ Focus Sash
Ability: Pressure
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Calm Mind
- Protect
- Psychic
- Recover
In my opinion, this move set on its own is complete garbage, and not even able to damage Dark Types. But with this team, I'm confident that this moveset is good for taking down those dumb Toxapex spammers. And I think we can all agree that physical Psychic type moves are not good for many things.
Tauros @ Leftovers
Ability: Sheer Force
EVs: 252 Atk / 36 Def / 220 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Skull Bash
- Work Up
- Thrash
- Earthquake
Tauros was just another filler, not really important, and kinda self explanatory.... just a suicide attacker, and he works great!
Greninja-Ash @ Waterium Z
Ability: Battle Bond
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Modest Nature
- Water Shuriken
- Spikes
- Dark Pulse
- Hydro Pump
Alright last one. Greninja is obviously the favorite Kalos starter of Game Freak, pretty much giving him a not-so-much mega evolution. He's great, nice typing, great movepool, and good Speed with high Special Attack makes him a force to be reckoned with. After he KO's an opponent with an actual move (not like Spikes, Toxie, Stealth Rock, etc.) he turns into Ash-Greninja, which guess what? He's pretty freaking OP. His Water Shuriken attack gets buffed by 5 more base power per shot, which is actually really good. On top of that, he gains an extra 110 in total base stats, so yeah, pretty good. I don't even use Hydro Pump unless it's for the Z-Power, so stick with Water Shuriken....
TLDR; Each Pokemon listed has great qualities and strengths, but also weaknesses. I talked about some counters to these weaknesses and explained some Move Sets I gave each Pokemon. Hopefully you conquer all of your enemies with this team!
lol I spent 3 hours typing this
