No.6459
TotT: What do you think about the ORAS meta? New megas you're excited about? New sets you wanna try out?
No.6460
I need help finishing this team for a small local tournament. The rules we use will allow ORAS tutors but we can't use the new megas until the next year.
The main thing I wanted was to use both Infernape and Greninja in the same team for once, even if it's not a great idea.
First I wanted to justify using Infernape over Keldeo so I went with the old anti lead set. It doesn't work as well as an anti lead as in gen IV and V but it allows me to outpriority a weakened Talonflame, set up rocks in an emergency and hit hard with CC. I also thought about Close Combat/Fire Blast/Thunder Punch/Mach Punch.
Mixed Greninja is a beast now that it knows Gunk Shot. Ice Beam has a better base power than Ice Punch and the targets you wanna hit with Ice are usually weaker specially. Low Kick hits Heatran, Tyranitar, Chansey, Terrakion… I'm considering let go of Hydro Pump, but I'm not sure of what to put in its place. I thought about Shadow Sneak to outpriority weakened Azumarils, Mega Pinsirs and anything not called Talonflame or using Extremespeed.
Since I had two very frail pokemon, I threw defensive Rotom and Landorus-Therian in the mix. They cover each other's and Infernape's weaknesses pretty well and allow safer switches to my frailer pokemon with voltturn.
Now my team has a lot of potential to force switches and make good use of rocks, but no one to remove rocks from my side of the field, if necessary, and no easy way to eliminate their setter/defoggers.
I added Gothitelle to eliminate Megasaur, Chansey, Skarmory, Mandibuzz and others. The 80 HP EVs allow Gothitelle to Rest in front of a Chansey and eliminate it, instead of only being able to Trick.
Specially defensive Scizor comes in to resist special attacks the rest of the team can't take, such as Latios' Draco Meteor, Defog if necessary and help Landorus and Rotom with the voltturning. I'm not sure if I should use Knock Off, Pursuit or Bullet Punch in the second slot.
I'd like to keep Infernape, Greninja and maybe Gothitelle in the team, but feel free to suggest substitutions for the other pokemon.
No.6478
I don't really know.
I need to see some successful sets of new megas and figure them out
No.6482
>>6459Yeah the meta is going to be swagplay and prankster double team.
Oh you mean smogon shit.. sucks for them, every smogon ragequit counts as a win on my screboard.
No.6484
I personally don;t own ORAS. Can someone tell me how battle spot is? Do they finally have a seperate ladder dedicated to VGC in this one?
No.6489
I like the new megas, especially Gallade