AdrianMadr Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Hi there everyone, I have a request to make, I would like to hear your opinions on my pvp team. This team was built around Alakazam, and I would like for you to tell me how to improve or change my team in order to use Alakazam, and yes I want to use this team in OU tournaments. If you have any ideas about how to change/improve my team, please help a brother. Alakazam @ Life Orb Ability: Inner focus EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Psyshock - Focus Blast - Signal Beam - HP fire Haxorus @ Life Orb Ability: Mold Breaker EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Adamant Nature - Swords Dance - Outrage - Superpower - Earthquake Forretress @ Leftovers Ability: Sturdy EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD IVs: 0 Spe Relaxed Nature - Rapid Spin - Stealth Rock - Volt Switch - Gyro Ball Skarmory @ Leftovers Ability: Sturdy EVs: 224 HP / 252 Def / 32 SpD Impish Nature - Spikes - Roost - Whirlwind - Brave Bird Kingdra @ Life Orb Ability: Swift Swim EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Modest Nature - Surf - Hydro Pump - Dragon Pulse - Ice Beam And the last guy I dont know what to chose from : Probopass @ Leftovers Ability: Sturdy EVs: 252 HP / 56 SpA / 200 SpD Calm Nature - Stealth Rock - Power Gem - Toxic - Volt Switch Or Magnezone @ Leftovers Ability: Magnet Pull EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Modest Nature - Volt Switch - Tri-Attack - Flash Cannon - Thunderbolt Link to comment
razimove Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) To start, main reason to run Magnezone is either HP fire or ice, to either trap steel, or be a somewhat surprise element in the dragon meta, I'd consider something else for magnezone spot. Also, you're running to much steel, Hydreigon melts your team, like quite literally, only thing you can possibly do about hydreigon is revenge kill with zam, and this is, if hydreigon isn't scarfed. Volcarona also destroys this team. I'd honestly consider not only changing few movesets, but also changing most of the core. Alakazam is fine, just the rest is a bit meh, also Dclaw > Outrage for Haxorus. And kingdra kind of needs HP electric to not be fully walled by jellicent, not that is going to kill either way, but might helps with it? Also helps with the likes of gyarados which is probably the main argument towards it Edited January 10, 2018 by redspawn Link to comment
AdrianMadr Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 (edited) 28 minutes ago, redspawn said: To start, main reason to run Magnezone is either HP fire or ice, to either trap steel, or be a somewhat surprise element in the dragon meta, I'd consider something else for magnezone spot. Also, you're running to much steel, Hydreigon melts your team, like quite literally, only thing you can possibly do about hydreigon is revenge kill with zam, and this is, if hydreigon isn't scarfed. Volcarona also destroys this team. I'd honestly consider not only changing few movesets, but also changing most of the core. Alakazam is fine, just the rest is a bit meh, also Dclaw > Outrage for Haxorus. And kingdra kind of needs HP electric to not be fully walled by jellicent. And by changing most of the core you mean which one ? I am probably the most pooped guy, since I want at any costs to run a team with Alakazam, but if you could give me a hint on what cores to get or change/keep in my team would be a huge help . Edited January 10, 2018 by AdrianMadr Link to comment
Maelstrom Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Nah, wanting to keep alakazam is okay, I am the guy who keeps a canerupt on almost all my teams and somehow I get it to good use. Link to comment
DeadGorilla Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 3 hours ago, AdrianMadr said: And by changing most of the core you mean which one ? I am probably the most pooped guy, since I want at any costs to run a team with Alakazam, but if you could give me a hint on what cores to get or change/keep in my team would be a huge help . zam is really hard to build around without magic guard imo. skarm/forre as a defensive core is pretty dong, even more so with potential probo. i can see wanting spin over defog if you can reliably set hazards, but lefties skarm and forre are just mag bait. skarmbliss is meme af but i mean it works. spikes/roost/defog/brave bird skarm with shed shell, and rocks/wish/twave/ice beam on blissey. mag is ran mostly as a trapper, which is how you should use it here, because ferro/forre/ opposing skarm would give you a pretty hard time. i would personally run scarf on this team because of how important it is to dispose of scizor to allow zam to shine. granted you lose the ohko on ferro and its a roll on spdef forre (guaranteed at 2 spikes, or 1 spike + rocks), id say its worth. id replace hax with scarf mence. takes care of ttar, every other dragon, another answer to steel types, and a shaky volc check. just need to pivot into it. intim is always nice as well. lastly id replace kingdra with gyara. another ground immunity, another intim, and unfortunately another rocks weakness. https://pastebin.com/epFJ0H76 its not the standard MMO fatness, but its a quick build, and meh, thats waht RMTs are for. also took the speed off skarm since no taunt. aftershocker 1 Link to comment
AdrianMadr Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 6 hours ago, DeadGorilla said: zam is really hard to build around without magic guard imo. skarm/forre as a defensive core is pretty dong, even more so with potential probo. i can see wanting spin over defog if you can reliably set hazards, but lefties skarm and forre are just mag bait. skarmbliss is meme af but i mean it works. spikes/roost/defog/brave bird skarm with shed shell, and rocks/wish/twave/ice beam on blissey. mag is ran mostly as a trapper, which is how you should use it here, because ferro/forre/ opposing skarm would give you a pretty hard time. i would personally run scarf on this team because of how important it is to dispose of scizor to allow zam to shine. granted you lose the ohko on ferro and its a roll on spdef forre (guaranteed at 2 spikes, or 1 spike + rocks), id say its worth. id replace hax with scarf mence. takes care of ttar, every other dragon, another answer to steel types, and a shaky volc check. just need to pivot into it. intim is always nice as well. lastly id replace kingdra with gyara. another ground immunity, another intim, and unfortunately another rocks weakness. https://pastebin.com/epFJ0H76 its not the standard MMO fatness, but its a quick build, and meh, thats waht RMTs are for. also took the speed off skarm since no taunt. Thank you very much for your answer, but I have to ask something, isn't there something else I can replace magnezone with ? Because I dont think I can get hp fire on mine. Link to comment
DoubleJ Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 11 hours ago, redspawn said: And kingdra kind of needs HP electric to not be fully walled by jellicent, not that is going to kill either way, but might helps with it? Also helps with the likes of gyarados which is probably the main argument towards it Dragon Pulse is actually stronger: 85 BP x 1.5 = 127.5 Damage; 60 x 2.0 = 120 Base Damage. 252+ SpA Life Orb Kingdra Dragon Pulse vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Jellicent: 79-95 (38.1 - 45.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery 252+ SpA Life Orb Kingdra Hidden Power Electric vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Jellicent: 75-91 (36.2 - 43.9%) -- 99.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery Link to comment
razimove Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, DoubleJ said: Dragon Pulse is actually stronger: 85 BP x 1.5 = 127.5 Damage; 60 x 2.0 = 120 Base Damage. 252+ SpA Life Orb Kingdra Dragon Pulse vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Jellicent: 79-95 (38.1 - 45.8%) -- guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery 252+ SpA Life Orb Kingdra Hidden Power Electric vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Jellicent: 75-91 (36.2 - 43.9%) -- 99.8% chance to 3HKO after Leftovers recovery I know, I did that calc later, completely forgot, therefor my edit forgot Dragon Pulse as I didn't update my kingdra yet. Like I said main niche of HP electric would probably be for gyarados. Edited January 11, 2018 by redspawn typos Link to comment
Maelstrom Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Any reason to run kingdra on a non rain dance team over anything else? Link to comment
AdrianMadr Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 54 minutes ago, Maelstrom said: Any reason to run kingdra on a non rain dance team over anything else? I was thinking to make a rain team later, and since my team is weak to fire I tought that kindgra will be a good addition to the team, since it has 1/4 fire resistance and its pretty bulky. Link to comment
DeadGorilla Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 13 hours ago, AdrianMadr said: Thank you very much for your answer, but I have to ask something, isn't there something else I can replace magnezone with ? Because I dont think I can get hp fire on mine. mag is really the only thing that does what it does. you could forgo it and just rely on hp fire from zam(or blast on mence if you take my recommendations), which does ~70 to ferro, and IIRC is like a 20% roll on spdef forre. no idea what the calc on skarm is tho. the thing about relying on zam is that youre weakening it a lot. tho everything faster than it forces it out anyway, and you dont really need health on zam. could replace with duggy to trap the ttar thats inevitably going to come in on the zam tho. Link to comment
AdrianMadr Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 20 hours ago, DeadGorilla said: mag is really the only thing that does what it does. you could forgo it and just rely on hp fire from zam(or blast on mence if you take my recommendations), which does ~70 to ferro, and IIRC is like a 20% roll on spdef forre. no idea what the calc on skarm is tho. the thing about relying on zam is that youre weakening it a lot. tho everything faster than it forces it out anyway, and you dont really need health on zam. could replace with duggy to trap the ttar thats inevitably going to come in on the zam tho. I managed somehow to get a hp fire magnezone, unfornately no good nature, since I have a policy of only using my pokemons, and not of other ppl, but I got him, not full 31/x/31/30/31/30 - but 25 + on all. I think that should do the trick, and I only need to get a blissey and salamance and I will try your advice. I would like to thank you again for your insight. Link to comment
AdrianMadr Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) If someone has any other opinions ? About the team that DeadGorilla gave me, any other opinions. And thank you all for your insight, and opinions about the team, especially to DeadGorilla. Hope to see you in the game, and have a duel against you. Edited January 19, 2018 by AdrianMadr Link to comment
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