Well, it's about that time to reveal another team, so yeah, enjoy the definition of OU's most boring type of team... a Standard team. Let's begin, shall we?
The Team
Team Synergy
Celebi
Bug - Scizor, Heatran, Salamence, Terrakion
Ice - Scizor, Heatran, Starmie
Fire - Salamence, Terrakion, Starmie, Heatran
Ghost - Scizor, Heatran
Flying - Heatran
Dark - Terrakion, Scizor, Heatran
Poison - Scizor, Heatran
Heatran
Ground - Celebi, Salamence
Fighting - Starmie, Celebi
Water - Celebi, Starmie, Salamence
Scizor
Fire - Heatran, Salamence, Starmie, Terrakion
Starmie
Bug - Heatran, Scizor, Terrakion, Salamence
Electric - Celebi
Grass - Celebi, Scizor, Heatran, Salamence
Ghost - Scizor, Heatran
Dark - Scizor, Heatran, Terrakion
Salamence
Ice - Scizor, Heatran, Starmie
Dragon - Heatran, Scizor
Rock - Terrakion
Terrakion
Fighting - Salamence, Starmie, Celebi
Steel - Scizor, Heatran, Starmie
Water - Celebi, Starmie
Ground - Salamence, Celebi
Psychic - Celebi, Starmie, Scizor, Heatran
Grass - Celebi, Scizor, Heatran
Teambuilding Session 101 with Lenub~
Alright, so i was building this team like 2-3 weeks ago, just trying to do some full out HO. Apperently, i suck at HO cause i always pick pokemons that die to like Scizor and Mamo, the top tier priority users.
ANYWAYS...
Yeah, i decided that it was time to stop using weird OU teams that involved rain or sand, and to stop with HO completely. So i started out with one of the sturdiest cores around; CeleTran. Outside the fact that it's actually a good core, it's more overused than Shuckle in NU. So obviously, it's gonna be good, but everyone and their mother is gonna know a way or two around it, which is where the rest of the team comes into play.
Mamoswine. Jeebuz, CeleTran fears the living hell out of that pig elephant thing, and for a good reason, since it can KO both of them with a STAB move respectively. Seeing Mamo isn't AS common as it used to be. Turns out, i have been using Scizor basically in all of my past (current) teams, so i was like, yolo, lets throw one in here. So yeah, Standard Band set to rid of Mamoswine, and other top threat pokemons, like Scarfed Terrakion and LO Alakazam, who can deal some heavy damage to the CeleTran, the latter being more scary than the former, due to the fact that it has LO to help it and can switch moves. But yeah, I'm running 56 Spd EVs to outspeed all Politoed's not running 12 Spd EVs or higher, allowing me to gain the momentum off the bat with U-Turn.
Well, at this point, synergy was well and all, but if you look carefully, i need Spin support. So yeah, whatevs, nothing is weak to Rocks yet, but knowing me, i usually can't resist the urge to slap a dragon onto the team later because dragons are good and i liek dragons :]. But yeah, i also have been adding Starmie as my spinner for most teams, and it can beat almost all common Stealth Rock setters alone (barring Chansey, Celebi, and Tyranitar with SDef investment, just to name a few of the few). And since this isn't Rain Starmie, i went Psyshock > Thunder, just for the sake of the Muskateer Trio always ruining my day, specially the rare Virizion and the commonly seen Rain Scarf Keldeo. But yeah, after Starmie, the only pokemon i had that can hit SDef pokemons for great ammount of damage was Scizor, so i added a couple of my favorite pokes to finish the team...
Scarfed Salamence. If you've ever lost your Steel type and/or scarf and you dont have Priority, then you might as well say gg (and maybe act like the other 10 year old on Showdown who just got off of COD). Literally, Salamence (after Keldeo - that things needs to get banned already :c) is arguably the best Scarf user in OU, and it's easy to see why. With a tremendously scary Base 135 Atk stat and Moxie, Outrage spams makes a weakened team see the real beauty of Dragon Spam in OU. But that isn't all... Salamence also has a decent base 110 SAtk stat, and with little invesment, can take out pokemons who are rather Defensive, like Skarmory, with a good ol Fire Blast. And with Starmie being the most prominent Spinner in OU as of now, Hazard damage doesn't worry me at all. If hazards are to remain, Salamence still has a chance to switch in 5 times max, if he takes no damage from the opponent. So really, Salamence is the King of all things Scarfed, but has an apprentice who plans to rule OU by his side...
Terrakion is here, and there is nothing you or your dead Scizor can do about it. Usually, in OU, it's appropriate to stop at one Scarf, if you have enough confidence in it. But, if you can risk the extra pokemon moveslot to act as a revenge killer as well, then it's encouraged to go for it. And seriously, Terrakion is the man or lion, whatever, for the job. Bragging an amazing 108 Base speed, it outspeed all but Scarfed Lat@s and the never-in-my-life-seen Scarfed Tornadus. But regardless of that, i rely on Speed tie wins against opposing Keldeo and Terrakions, who the former needs to get banned (Keldeo gone = every scarfer gets over 9000x better) and is walled decently by Starmie and Celebi, while the latter is easily disposed of by Scizor, which is what makes Terrakion so good, because you can't really counter it (inb4 Lando-T and Gliscor wall it).
Replay Section :]
Dont be THAT guy pls...
Or THAT guy...
But anyways, here's some real replays :)
Replay 1 (long battle, better be comfy)
Replay 2 (Ben make me so angry ;-;)
Replay 3(i liek torturing ppl)
Replay 4
Replay 5
Replay 6
Replay 7 & Replay 8
(fought that guy twice on the ladder in half an hour. Dem crits on Amoongus tho)
Replay 9 (Hail so pro)
Replay 10
Replay 11
Replay 6-0 :)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND the team is down below, thanks for checking out all of this useless writing i did so you wouldn't read it :)
K, so, if you plan on upvoting, be good nub and upvote the Q only, not the answer. If not, well.... die c:
