Teambuilding process: The Based Gods

Teambuilding process :

It all started with Gyarados. This Gyarados was originally a Mega Gyarados but after a few battles I realized that mega Gyarados was nothing for me so I soon turned to ordinary Gyarados. I have always believed that ordinary Gyarados was a more capable sweeper than Mega Gyarados because of its better typing and so far, it has proven to be so. I decided to use a standard gen 5 Bulky DD set and it works wonders. for some time I have been using Moxie over Intimidate which goes in contrary of the originally set and it has personally done a great job, however after lemum suggested to make it Intimidate, I tried that too. It worked well too so now I generally always switch between abilities, however I must say, despite Intimidate making it easier for me to set-up on ost physicaly attackers, Moxie makes it much easier for me to sweep teams after one DD as every kill boosts my attack stat.

Next up I had Amoonguss. I love Amoonguss as it has to be one of my favorite grass types and it was great on my team as it was my Aegislash check/counter due to its slower Foul Play, however, after I dumped Mega Gyarados it wasn't really living up to its name anymore so I replaced it with a Mega venusaur, which I do not regret. In the first stages of the team this was a Bulky Mega venusaur but soon Lemum suggested to make it an offensive MegaSaur since Bulky is a useless piece of shit on this team. And thus far, I like it very much. However this MegaSaur does not have any reliable way to recover itself, something that is actually very handy for my battlestyle and I am not really planning to change it because my team does actually appreciate a sleeping mon from time to time

I needed an electric type for quite obvious reasons methinks; A Counter to talonflame, counter to Thundurus-I, counter to MegaSir, more electric resists etc...and yes, I did indeed choose Raikou over all the electric types in OU. Not because I am a Based lord, but because it can do something the others can't, ab00se CM o3o! Yes, many might believe that SubCM Raikou is a horrible Pokemon in OU but I sure dun proved them wrong. Imo, SubCM Raikou has proven to be much better than AV and Specs Raikou. Because of the unexpected Substitute it can pull off, many of lost to it due to expecting to be able to Sucker Punch it thus keeping Raikou safe and still a threat. This originally used to be a banded Dnite but that quickly got lynched out of the team :]. And it can oddly break through OU teams after a few CMs and at +2 being able to take an Aegislash' Shadow Ball without losing its Sub. #Based

I think it is pretty obvious that the LatiTwins do pretty much steamroll be right now, so ofc, I didn't look for Aegi, which I would actually consider because of all the HP Fighting Latis right now, or Bisharp (Let's face it, it can only switch into them after they have killed something) so I went all #yolo and slapped Tyranitar in (Like I always do o3o). So it was originally an AV Ttar because I feared Greninja since I originally didn't have any relevant switch-ins as it was perfectly capable of 2HKOing everything on my team, and I actually did love it, but there are better items for Ttar. Soon the hard truth stroke me and I was considering changing it to lure/scarf Ttar, but I was unsure and I wanted something new, so lemum said I should try out CB TTar on this team and since then, I have never changed it back again o3o. And yah, CB Ttar is still the monster it was last gen. And it basically just cleans Talonflame for the rest of the game as it OHKOs it with Pursuit when it is switching out, traps the LatiTwins and basically, everything that's scared of Ttar will lose a chunk of health when switcing out :]

So, you know, I like Gyarados, I like to be able to switch in 500 times in a battle so I needed defog/rapid spin support ;> I had a Bsed CounterSkarm here but it wasn't good enough. Lemum suggested I should try out Excadrill and that based idea booted Skarm out. And seeing as my team didn't have time to lose much momentum, which Skarm just completely ate up, Excadrill was obviously the superior one. With the ability to destroy every spinblocker that comes its way ( bar maybe Sableye), there was little reason to use Defog. Excadrill also serves as my late-game sweeper or just random mid-game team crippler because under sand, very little can actually switch into it, which is rather amusing.

Lastly, I had a Gothitelle because I was sick of Skarmbliss so I was like "FINE, if i can't catch Skarmory, I will trap it D:<" but yah, that idea didn't last for long as it was becoming deadweight on my team, I needed a scarfer and I was weak to IceCube, not against the sub variants which are becoming a myth, but against the Scarf Variants e_e. I thought of using ScarfCube myself but that was an horribad idea because I do have quite notable fighting type weaknesses and its not like Raikou is going to be taking any powerful fighting type attacks anyway, so I cried to lemum and the Unholy Whore answered me with Scaf Keldeo. There is no one going to convince me that Scarf Keldeo is bad, because it is good .3. As it enables be to revenge kill so many things, unlike Excadrill who relies on sand to kill revenge kill pretty much anything in OU. Scarf keldeo also helps me kill Deo-S a little easier, providing Hydro Miss doesn't miss

As of now, I am considering changing Ttar to Aegislash to deal with Deo-S better, but by the way it's looking, it doesn't seem like Deo-S will be staying in OU for very long now and TTar generally takes care of Chansey for me with Pursuit/Stone Edge