[RATE MY TEAM] [BSD] The Princess and the Frog, A Round of Applause! (#43 on Showdown ladder)

[Pokeventurer]

Hi guys I am back with another team, thanks to everyone who took part in helping me understand the mechanics of the move called round, so soon after getting sufficient answers and a better understanding I sat down and started to put up ideas and ended up with a really cool team that also worked out well in the practice, so let’s get started with this team:

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This isn't an excellent achievement, however i am recognized as a n00b-ish player tho :P

The Team:


Gardevoir-Mega @ Gardevoirite  
Ability: Telepathy > Pixilate  
Level: 50  
EVs: 252 HP / 116 Def / 92 SpA / 12 SpD / 36 Spe  
Modest Nature  
- Hyper Voice  
- Psyshock  
- Round  
- Protect

So first up is the princess of the team, right before thinking of this round idea I was interested in trying out a move with mega gardevoir in that third mystery slot usually occupied by trick room, I looked over a lot of moves like encore, disable, imprison etc… then the first one that shone to me was specifically round. Round is a really strategic move, though with no opponent expecting such a bitter move soon fall prey to it on the very first turn even without making a move, which puts me in an amazing advantage right from the start. Gardevoir is a so so pokemon if I am up to using it specially without trick room but the speed control it gains from it’s round partner and thundurus’ t-wave makes it much much better, the slight bulk factor also comes in handy other than just running a physically glass frail. I looked over a lot of gardevoir spreads to find an all-rounder *no pun intended this time* one, this was something bulky and seemed promising so I decided to keep it on the party. Landorus’ intimidate becomes an essential factor for thingies it survives, other than anything named bisharp makes it to the field. telepathy comes handy with landorus' EQ and being reliant on trace is worse than ever, what if you trace traunt?

252+ SpA Aegislash-Blade Shadow Ball vs. 252 HP / 12 SpD Mega Gardevoir: 128-152 (73.1 - 86.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
92+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Psychic vs. 252 HP / 44 SpD Amoonguss: 206-246 (93.2 - 111.3%) -- 62.5% chance to OHKO
92+ SpA Mega Gardevoir Psychic vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Mega Venusaur: 156-186 (83.4 - 99.4%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Mega Venusaur Sludge Bomb vs. 252 HP / 12 SpD Mega Gardevoir: 114-134 (65.1 - 76.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 SpA Mega Venusaur Sludge Bomb vs. 252 HP / 12 SpD Mega Gardevoir: 114-134 (65.1 - 76.5%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
92+ SpA Pixilate Mega Gardevoir Hyper Voice vs. 252 HP / 4 SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 116-140 (56 - 67.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
survives physical attacks from kang and mence at -1 (i assume)



Greninja @ Focus Sash  
Ability: Protean  
Level: 50  
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe  
Timid Nature  
- Scald  
- Ice Beam  
- Round  
- Protect

Secondly comes the pokemon that is so average that the anime creators decided to give it Ash’s look, after building this team I realized why the hell weren’t people using this pokemon? I think it is overlooked, it’s stats were amazing specially in junction to support a round user gardevoir. I knew I needed something fast to make the round combination work, I decided onto greninja but thought it would have an average (fast) speed stat, I was amazed to find out it had a base 122 speed stat which made it faster than a mega salamence, soon after that I was tempted to use it, greninja proved to be an excellent and yet tricky pokemon with it’s protean ability making everything STAB. I know that I don’t have the usual life orb and dark puls eon my greninja, the stuff that dark puse will provide for me is fulfilled by upcoming members and other than the goal of spreading most damage, it goes a bit supportive and ice beam gets OHKO’es on mons it should even before life orb. Focus sash is an item that saved me way more many times than say that a life orb ever would.

252 SpA Greninja Scald vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Tyranitar in Sand: 80-96 (45.4 - 54.5%) -- 47.3% chance to 2HKO
252 SpA Protean Greninja Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 252 SpD Mega Salamence: 228-268 (112.8 - 132.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Protean Greninja Ice Beam vs. 252 HP / 80 SpD Assault Vest Landorus-T: 196-232 (100 - 118.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 SpA Protean Greninja Ice Beam vs. 4 HP / 0 SpD Hydreigon: 144-170 (85.7 - 101.1%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
etc....


Ferrothorn @ Rocky Helmet  
Ability: Iron Barbs  
Level: 50  
EVs: 252 HP / 148 Atk / 108 Def  
Brave Nature  
IVs: 0 Spe  
- Power Whip  
- Gyro Ball  
- Leech Seed  
- Protect

Ferrothorn came in as the third member with a bit of back story and contributing some essential things that this team should have. The idea came from building a core around gardevoir and greninja, as come their terrible defenses it was hard too but looking at the types, ferrothorn seemed a perfect fit to cover them up, also I felt the need to use it here, as I practiced with it for two days in a perish, rain, trap team which overall didn’t turned out well however ferrothorn was the reason that I won many of my matches, I also had some practice to use it effectively as a late-game boss and also well behind TR, which counted up ferrothorn as also my trick room counter. Ferothron also became my temporary kangaskhan counter, I never felt the need to be completely reliant on recovery, I EV’d it physically defensive to cover up for gardevoir’s pathetic physical defense. Loved gyro ball the most as it got me the most OHKO’es and what is there to not like about until up are walled up against a heatran/ anything with a fire move?

148+ Atk Ferrothorn Gyro Ball (119 BP) vs. 252 HP / 124 Def Gardevoir: 194-230 (110.8 - 131.4%) -- guaranteed OHKO
148+ Atk Ferrothorn Gyro Ball (150 BP) vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Terrakion: 224-266 (134.1 - 159.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
-1 252 Atk Life Orb Terrakion Close Combat vs. 252 HP / 108 Def Ferrothorn: 133-156 (73.4 - 86.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
148+ Atk Ferrothorn Power Whip vs. 252 HP / 76 Def Politoed: 188-224 (95.4 - 113.7%) -- 81.3% chance to OHKO
148+ Atk Ferrothorn Power Whip vs. 236 HP / 140 Def Milotic: 168-200 (84 - 100%) -- 6.3% chance to OHKO
148+ Atk Ferrothorn Power Whip vs. 252 HP / 100 Def Ludicolo: 96-114 (51.3 - 60.9%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Aerilate Mega Salamence Return vs. 252 HP / 108 Def Ferrothorn: 90-106 (49.7 - 58.5%) -- 99.6% chance to 2HKO
148+ Atk Ferrothorn Gyro Ball (150 BP) vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Salamence: 84-99 (49.1 - 57.8%) -- 96.5% chance to 2HKO


Entei @ Lum Berry  
Ability: Pressure  
Level: 50  
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe  
Jolly Nature  
- Sacred Fire  
- Stone Edge  
- Rest  
- Protect

Next up came Entei, let’s just start of by saying that this pokemon has a terrible movepool. However I am surprised that it fits well in some teams, such as this one. I needed fire type coverage on this team for things like ferrothron and amoongus to ensure my chances against such types. Entei also adds up to whatever the first three do and cover up more types for them, entei can do numerous things and I suffered with this spread selection, I tried the spread that Ray Rizzo used in his with with lefties but soon I found myself loosing because entei was getting OHKO’ed or he didn’t had enough HP to do something on a crucial tun. After giving it a thought I settled onto Lum berry variant with the move rest, with this I can do a lot of thingies, first is that I can use rest to make essential and full fast recoveries, I also didn’t opted only for chesto berry because para-hax can also sometimes render it useless. Another tactic is to swagger into my own entei and give it an early +2 boost. I really didn’t made a new spread however I knew that 252/252/4 spreads were ran often on so I just slap that on it. Lum berry also works like a substitute or a safety goggles against amoongus and balances out such situations (bye bye dark void smeargle) i apologize cuz in the battle vids the entei holds lefto/sub which never was significant, but lum set worked out alot better.

252 Atk Entei Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 212+ Def Amoonguss: 150-176 (67.8 - 79.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Entei Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 0 Def Sylveon: 111-132 (54.9 - 65.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Entei Stone Edge vs. 252 HP / 44 Def Mega Charizard Y: 244-288 (131.8 - 155.6%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Entei Stone Edge vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Volcarona: 216-256 (112.5 - 133.3%) -- guaranteed OHKO
252 Atk Entei Sacred Fire vs. 252 HP / 4 Def Aegislash-Shield: 110-132 (65.8 - 79%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
252 Atk Entei Sacred Fire vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Mega Metagross: 138-164 (109.5 - 130.1%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Geni-Duo


Landorus-Therian @ Choice Scarf  
Ability: Intimidate  
Level: 50  
EVs: 52 HP / 220 Atk / 52 Def / 4 SpD / 180 Spe  
Adamant Nature  
- Rock Slide  
- Superpower  
- Earthquake  
- Knock Off

.Outruns Timid Mega Gengar and Jolly Aerodactyl by 1 point
.Survives Hidden Power Ice from 84 SpA neutral Thundurus 100% of the time
.Survives Jolly Mega Kangaskhan Double-Edge 56.2% of the time
.Survives Modest non-boosted Hydreigon Draco Meteor 100% of the time
.Survives Sucker Punch from +1 Life Orb Adamant Bisharp 87.5% of the time
.Survives Ice Shard from -1 Life Orb Adamant Mamoswine 93.7% of the time
.OHKOs 4 HP / 0 Def Terrakion with spread Earthquake 81.3% of the time



Thundurus @ Sitrus Berry  
Ability: Prankster  
Level: 50  
EVs: 152 HP / 152 Def / 4 SpA / 164 SpD / 36 Spe  
Bold Nature  
- Thunderbolt  
- Swagger  
- Thunder Wave  
- Taunt

. Get's best of Both defenses.
. Outspeeds Breloom by 2 points and it's speed creepers by one point (thundurus mirrors usually).
. Misses swagger 50% of the time (i am unlucky).
. Survives any attack at full HP and sometimes even combinations of such maneuvers with the help of sitrus berry,

This team was covering majority of the metagame I needed some really specific mons to support the first four even further whence this team got started. The geni-duo was the one thing that shone out to me the most for the following reason: it’s hax factor, landorus’s intimidate, damage, another lead combination, ground immunities, meta-mons cuz everyone hates me for using anti-meta :P
So landorus is not something much to talk about it fit’s in well as my team didn’t had ice weaknesses and it needed some intimidate support, for things like gardevoir and to further buff up ferrothorn and also help’s the purpose of  entei’s bulk. I didn’t choose u-turn as I thought that dark coverage was missing and essential for the team as a second try to hunt down psychic types and aegislash. The most interesting thing to talk about this landorus is it’s spread, as I did mentioned some good and safer benchmarks that it can conquer.
Thundurus came and fitted well with thundurus added more flexibility to this team, this again is Toler Webb’s spread which I think is the best thundurus spread. Thundurus does little but completes the team with forms of speed control, taunt to shut things down and swagger to add more and more ‘hax=luck’ isn’t parafusion the most annoying thing ever? I feel embarrassed to use it sometimes when hax gets very real but it’s a part of the game anyway.

Battle Videos:

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278376767

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278369073

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278367541

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278366057

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278365050

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-278360196

The Last battle:
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/battle...-279076854

Conclusion:
So guys this was my team, hope you liked it and are having suggestions for it's improvement. this post would've been up a day ago but the problems of having an internet connection can get very real, hope you enjoyed reading through, Bye for now!