Silver's RMT #1

[Silver]

This is a 5th gen team that i've used in many battles (most of them not from the site) and it works out very well.

Team at a Glance
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Overview: A more offensive team with only Suicune and Jirachi as walls. Most of these pokemon you will almost never see in a battle but they work extremely well. It works rather well with the pokemon messing with peoples heads.


In Depth:

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Pimp The Ambipom@ life orb
Jolly
Technician
252 atk 252 spd. 6HP
Move set:
Fake out
Low sweep
Double hit
Shadow Claw

Ok, I always like ambipom and i knew i had to use him on my team. With him getting technician i wanted some lower powered moves. With low sweep instead of brick break it got that boost. It works out with any lead with a ghost it has shadow claw and fake out and double hit for everything else. It may be only weak to fighting its defenses aren't that good but it can manage a hit or two.

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Starlight The Jirachi@choice specs
Sassy
Serene Grace
200 def. 200sp.def 108HP
Moveset:
Trick
Body Slam
Rest
Psychic

After seeing this been used against me a lot of times always messing me up I knew i had to try it but i wanted my own twist on it. giving it trick to switch its specs. To a pokemon wanting to set up can usually mess them up. With rest can always frustrate people, laking a lum berry it usually takes more than 2 hits to KO it so i can just stall with it. Psychic is the only other attacking move i got and it still works quite well.

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Freebutter The Butterfree@ focus sash
Timid
Compound eyes
250 sp.atk 250 spd. 10HP
Moveset:
Sleep powder
Psychic
Quiver dance
Bug buzz

Butterfree has always seen as something that no one would use in their right mind. Well guess what I decided to make one work. with the focus sash i can always get off the sleep powder in case the other poke is faster. I usuallly get off a quiver dance or 2 if I get lucky. When i get up the quiver dance it takes a bit to take it down as it does a ton of damage to just about everything.

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Puffballs the Jumpluff@ Flying gem
Jolly
Chlorophyll
250 atk. 250 spd. 8HP
Moveset:
Sleep powder
Swords dance
Acrobatics
Seed bomb

Yeah, its a jumpluff, what you know about it? Jumpluff was a very good choice to use, i dont know if people expect a sp.atk jumpluff or somethin else but with acrobatics and the flying gem it gets a good boost, I can get off a sleep powder or get up a swords dance with the expected switch if needed. And if in the sun nothing can outspeed it, i was thinking about bounce instead of seed bomb but in the end i'm glad i picked seed bomb as it has been very helpful.

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Monsoon The Suicune@ leftovers
Calm
Pressure
200 Def. 100 sp.Def 208 HP
Moveset:
Scald
Calm mind
Shadow ball
Ice beam

One of my walls, i use it more like a tank as it can take hits and with a calm mind hit hard. having scald is to try to burn the physical and ice beam for the dragon types. Not much to be said here other than its a wall, yeah.

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Earth The Terrakion@air balloon
Jolly
Justified
250 atk. 250spd. 8HP
moveset:
Swords dance
Sacred sword
Stone edge
Earthquake

My physical sweeper, rarely getting off the swords dance it's almost no needed as its already has a high attack. After messing around with other terrakions i found this one worked the best for this team, with sacred sword instead of close combat. I really liked how he turned out in the end and all the trial and error was worth it and with stone edge i can hit flying types.

Final thoughts: This team with most of it being very offensive works out very well. With no team being flawless i lost my fair share of battles with it but also winning. With jumpluff being a very odd on a team it would often mess people up. I honestly think ambipom would be the only good lead for this team as a rock set up wouldn't seem right, maybe it would work or maybe work better. I've had a lot of fun with this team and I will always still use it.

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Hm, this is a tricky team to rate. Since you ave two OUs I have to assume that's where it would be played. While it's certainly original, it think it needs a little more work. There are some redundancies and weaknesses I think you'll need to address.

Lets start with what works though, Ampibomb is a great scout with his speed as useful abilities. He can certainly do his job even in OU. Jumpluff also has a potential to pull off a surprise sweep.

Some of your EVs are a little odd. I'm assuming the odd hp on Jumpluff and Butterfree is to give you two switch-ins to stealth rocks? Why 8 on Terrakion instead of just 4? You're also missing out on an extra point in either atk or spd. You need to have a number divisible by 4 to have any effect, so you'd be better off putting 148 in one and 252 in the other. I'd also consider running Close Combat over Sacred Sword. Sacred Sword's abilities isn't going to come in effect very often and Close Combat is significantly more powerful, something you want on your sweeper.

The other thing was why specs on Jirachi. I know you want to trick someone and cripple them, but you only have one special move, so they're hindering you almost as much as your opponent. I would uggest either adding another special move (maybe thunder? It's only 70% accurate, but has a 60% chance to paralyze) or maybe a choice scarf, which will still cripple walls, but at least make Jirachi a little more useful before you trick thanks to Iron Head's fantastic flinch rate.

Finally, it seems like you have some coverage and threat issues. Since this team is designed to be used in OU, you need to think about how you're going to deal with OU's threats. Many of OU's primere steel types are going to give you fits. Skarmory, Brongzong, and Scizor are all going to cause problems defensively, especially if Terrakion goes down early. Scizor with it's priority Bullet Punch is a major offensive threat too. Don't forget about dragons either. Jirachi can sponge them pretty well and Suicune has Ice Beam, but just make sure to keep them alive. You also have to deal with weather, and unfortunately weather shits all over this team. Rain sweepers run all over it with boosted water attacks and perfect accuracy thunders and sand....well....Excadrill.

I think there are some issues that need to be addressed. I would actually consider finding a substitute for Jirachi and Terrakion and then running this team in UU where you don't have to worry about steel types and weather. It might give you a lot more success.

6/10