Tuesday, October 27, 2015

[OU] Hoopa-U, the New Meta

This is an improved and modified team that a friend of mine gave to me and allowed me to use. I adjusted it a little bit to make it work in circumstances that are now normally seen.

Landorus-Therian @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Intimidate
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature
- Stealth Rock
- Earthquake
- Toxic/Stone Edge
- U-turn

The Pokemon that stops physical sweepers from back to backing me. Against physical mons, Stealth Rocks is never a issue and if they wanna attack they take some nice recoil. EQ is there because it's a strong stab that unless your a flying type or levitate user usually you don't want to switch into. Toxic helps against bulky mons such as hippo and Slowbro that are annoying to my mega lopunny. Toxic is there also to put bulky and sweeper Mega Altaria into a tough situation. U-Turn is for momentum when I need it to get my threats inside and proceed to breaking my opponents team.This is my main switch into Lopunny and Mega Metagross. I usually scout set of Mega Altaria with torn cause special Altaria has been common and usually pivot from torn to tran against that. Sadly, having Toxic over Edge causes me to have a major weakness to Dragonite but with recoil and intimidate drops I try my best to hold it off. The Rocky Helmet also is to punish u turn spam which helps the star, Hoopa Unbound.

Hoopa-Unbound @ Choice Scarf
Ability: Magician
EVs: 4 Atk / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Hasty Nature
- Dark Pulse
- Drain Punch
- Gunk Shot/Trick
- Psyshock

The Pokemon that started it all and puts fear into your eyes. I choose for this team to use Choice Scarf Hoopa. I needed a dark type that was capable to outspeed Mega Lopunny and Mega Manectric and other fast mon's without scarf. Hoopa fit this role perfectly and I found it better then the possibly of scarf Hydregion. I didn't want a major ice weakness that Hydregion would bring a having few draco switch ins as it is I felt it wouldn't work. Hoopa is also a surprise scarf not many people suspect it being scarf until they see no lo recoil and then they start thinking oh boy. I have gunk shot on this set cause of Clef being annoying and want to not cm sweep possibly.  Trick can also mess up Bisharp which you can see is a threat to the team. Locking Bisharp into knock off or sucker helps a lot especially if it's trying to go for a late game sweep. Thing is, Bisharp barely sets up on anything except Torn but most are scared of heat wave or superpower. Having also sometime to scare out Keldeo is nice as it is a big pain to this team.

Rotom-Wash @ Leftovers
Ability: Levitate
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 29 Spe
- Hydro Pump
- Pain Split
- Volt Switch
- Will-O-Wisp

Rotom is here to give momentum. It really brings the team together and may be the beating heart of it. It is the main counter to Torn, Weavile, Pinsir, Tyranitar, Lando-T, Heatran, Keldeo, Jirachi, Hippo and more stuff. Its job is hard and can be overwhelmed easily so having wall of Lando t and decent wall of Tran to help it works a lot. Being able to switch into Slowbro willo and volt out is important as this is my main way to handle Slowbro. It is also my main answer to Hippodown. Most games I play aggressive vs Hippo to give my other mons free switch's and start applying the pressure we need to win.

Lopunny-Mega @ Lopunnite
Ability: Limber
EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
- Fake Out
- High Jump Kick
- Quick Attack
- Return

Lopunny is annoying let's face it. It can hit ghost types with its wonderful scrappy ability so technically the only mon who completely walls is Shedinja unless you wanna run magic coat or fire punch [: Do not really have to explain that much here. Lopunny stops you from losing to offense threats as Weaville and Starmie being able to take them out with ease. I have enjoyed fake out and qa Lopunny cause most don't expect on a jolly set and I would run adamant but the team can't afford adamant Lopunny. This literally is your only counter to LO Kyurem b so when you face that threat its very important to keep this alive. This also is the only mon on the team that can beat char y 1v1. If you face Kyurem b and Char Y say your prayers and then click x LOL [:

Heatran @ Power Herb
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 140 HP / 116 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Solar Beam
- Flash Cannon
- Hidden Power [Ice]/Taunt
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 Heatran @ Power Herb
Ability: Flash Fire
EVs: 140 HP / 156 SpA / 212 Spe
Timid Nature
- Magma Storm
- Solar Beam
- Flash Cannon
- Hidden Power [Ice]

This is my favorite set on the team/favorite Heatran set atm. It is my favorite anti-meta set. Being able to trap threats like Rotom-W and Azumarill as well as defensive Slowbro is brilliant. It being able to kill bulky chomp and special defensive Gliscor after a magma storm is amazing for this build.
-156 SpA Heatran Magma Storm vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 87-103 (20.7 - 24.5%) -- guaranteed 5HKO
-156 SpA Heatran Hidden Power Ice vs. 252 HP / 0 SpD Garchomp: 280-332 (66.6 - 79%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
-156 SpA Heatran Magma Storm vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Rotom-W: 72-84 (23.7 - 27.7%) -- possible 5HKO after Leftovers recovery
-156 SpA Heatran Solar Beam vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Rotom-W: 230-272 (75.9 - 89.7%) -- guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
I hope this set catches fire it is so good to use and is my main way of helping my Lopunny out. There has been games where my Tran gets 3-4 kills cause the set is so unexpected.

Tornadus-Therian @ Assault Vest
Ability: Regenerator
Shiny: Yes
EVs: 76 HP / 180 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
- Hurricane
- Iron Tail
- Knock Off
- U-turn

Iron Tail on torn is solely for Diancie. I have been in many games where they lead Diancie. I lead torn and their career ends and usually I win from there sense the threat is gone. No one protects cause who runs iron tail on Torn. Torn is my main draco switch in and brings a nice u-turn for my favorite type of playing style volt switch. I think every team should have a knock off user it's just too much of a good move to pass up if you can fit it in your teams. Torn should be S rank imo but that's another discussion. I would talk about hurricane but we already know how that works.

~Jimbo

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