Rate my National Dex Team/ Radical Red Team

Question

This team is for Regular NatDex, not NatDex AG. This is the Team that I will also use for Radical Red as well since I find them to be similar.

Spyro (Charizard-Mega-Y) (M) @ Charizardite Y
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Weather Ball
- Solar Beam
- Scorching Sands
- Roost

Miller (Tyranitar) (M) @ Choice Band
Ability: Sand Stream
EVs: 228 Atk / 28 Def / 252 Spe
Adamant Nature
- Stone Edge
- Crunch
- Pursuit
- Superpower

Ronin (Excadrill) (F) @ Life Orb
Ability: Sand Rush
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Iron Head
- Rock Slide
- Rapid Spin

Kraayt (Kommo-o) (M) @ Leftovers
Ability: Bulletproof
EVs: 246 HP / 196 SpD / 68 Spe
Careful Nature
- Drain Punch
- Earthquake
- Toxic
- Stealth Rock

Kakashi (Greninja) (M) @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Protean
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- U-turn
- Spikes

Nightwing (Gliscor) (F) @ Toxic Orb
Ability: Poison Heal
EVs: 244 HP / 52 Def / 78 SpD / 136 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Earthquake
- Knock Off
- Toxic
- Roost

This core was inherently built around supporting Mega Charizard Y to its fullest extent, so I thought that a Greninja with Extrasensory would be good to negate Toxapex as an answer. Greninja, in conjunction with the Gliscor, also helps to check the possibility of encountering Cinderace with Zard Y's Sun up. Excadrill compresses speed control as well as our Steel-type, while also giving secondary hazard removal due to Zard-Y's high maintenance nature in that regard. Kommo-o is used in order to check Ash Greninja while also setting up rocks, while Gliscor was there due to the need for a secondary Ace check as well as a Defogger and a hard pivot into whatever Pex set is being used.

Comments

Explain fire punch on Tyranitar.

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Ferr oh thorn
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It’s GK man
You can use something else but if Ferrothorn irritate ya, use FP

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Overall good team. Just a few things:
- Assault Vest Excadrill isn't good. Also, you can't use Swords Dance if you're holding Assault Vest. I'd suggest Life Orb or Leftovers.
- Don't really know why Scarf Water Shuriken is there. Extremely weak since you don't have Specs or Battle Bond. Plus you're already using Scarf so I don't see the point of priority on a super fast Scarfer. I'd suggest Hydro Pump instead. For the last slot, I think you should run U-turn, as it scouts switches and deals some important chip damage.
- I think you should be using Weather Ball on MCY. Sun Weather Ball outdamages Sun Flamethrower. Or you can use Fire Blast, but I'd just stick to Weather Ball. I use Scorching Sands over Focus Blast. Scorching Sands also does decent damage to Tyranitar, and can burn switchins. It also hits Toxapex and does a lot to Heatran.

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Hello everyone,
@IncineroarforGods I put fire punch on tar for coverage against ferro since it walled my team if char y was dead
@SSuoeriority I will probably put Life Orb on excadrill, How is scald on Greninja instead of Water Shuriken or Hydro Pump? I will make the changes to char y

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Hydro Pump seems good. Greninja is too frail to try and fish for Scald burns anyway.

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(why don't you answer @SSuperiority? Your suggestion is really good)

Answer 1

Mega Charizard Y

Moves are all good. I doubt this will matter, but I run 4 Defense EVs so that Charizard takes less from moves like Close Combat, Grassy Glide, Iron Head, etc...

Tyranitar

Once again, moves are good. If the EV spread is something specific like avoiding a KO from Earthquake or outspeeding a certain defensive Pokemon, you can keep the EV spread. However, if not, I'd use the standard 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spe.

Excadrill

Looks like a good set. I also forgot to mention Z-moves. Excadrill is a pretty good user of Steelium Z, using it to get rid of common checks like Landorus-Therian and physically defensive Tangrowth after a Swords Dance boost.

Kommo-o

Seems good to me.

Greninja

Also good. If you're at around 1300 elo or higher on the ladder, I'd suggest using Spikes. Spikes in conjunction with Kommo-o's Stealth Rocks really mess with Regenerator and make Greninja's U-turn more spammable. Because of this, I think you can afford giving up Extrasensory.

Gliscor

The EVs and nature are good. You can definitely use Knock Off if you want to, but I would also suggest Toxic as an option. Gliscor has a good matchup vs most Poison and Steel types anyway. Toxic lets it do damage and slowly but steadily wear down Pokemon that can set up on Gliscor, as well as just being good at dealing damage if Gliscor ever needs to.

Answer 2

Bro so I think for tyranitar remove pursuit because it's an useless move because you have crunch. Keep Ice punch fir ground types instead of it for tyranitar. And for excadrill it's insane but instead of rapid spin keep X-scissor for grass types for him and I think glisgor should not have defog keep sword dance instead of it. It's my opinion. Other than it it's a beast team.

Comments

> Instead of rapid spin keep X-scissor for grass types for him

Do you need to counter a 'mon whose stab is neutral effective to you and forget about rocks? Same reason for Gliscor. Its role here isn't sweeping.

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How is pursuit a useless move again? You get to permanently remove a weakened Pokemon from the game. Excadrill isn't even weak to Grass types, and Iron head still hits Grass types pretty hard. Why replace Rapid Spin if it boosts Speed and really helps his team out? And then you suggest Swords Dance over Defog on a Gliscor that is obviouly more defensive? How would you deal with hazards? Mega Charizard Y is next to useless with Stealth Rocks on your side of the field and no way to get rid of them.