My first team in forever.

[clown master]

Based around Physical Jirachi. OMFGNOMAGGY.

Jirachi @ Leftovers
Trait: Serene Grace
EVs: 252 HP / 176 Atk / 80 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Hidden Power [Steel]
- Shadow Ball
- Substitute
- Thunderbolt

Tyranitar (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Stream
EVs: 252 HP / 68 Def / 188 SAtk
Quiet Nature (+SAtk, -Spd)
- Crunch
- Focus Punch
- Substitute
- Thunderbolt

Metagross @ Leftovers
Trait: Clear Body
EVs: 136 HP / 252 Atk / 104 Def / 16 Spd
Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk)
- Agility
- Earthquake
- Meteor Mash
- Rock Slide

Sandslash (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Sand Veil
EVs: 252 Atk / 128 Def / 128 Spd
Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk)
- Swords Dance
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Rapid Spin

Girafarig (M) @ Leftovers ** I'mNOTonCrack!
Trait: Inner Focus
EVs: 168 Def / 244 Spd / 96 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Agility
- Baton Pass
- Psychic
- Thunder Wave

Omastar (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Swift Swim
EVs: 52 HP / 240 Spd / 216 SAtk
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Rain Dance
- Ice Beam
- Hydro Pump
- Substitute

[charazard]

nice
I like your team

[HarryPotter]

great team Clown Master.

[charazard]

hey where did u catch jirachi

[clown master]

Please post C&C. I consider simply posting "Nice Team" and nothing else in it spam.

I'm open to any suggestions. Even if others may not consider them good.

EDIT: This is a NetBattle team, not ingame yet. But when I begin working on getting one ingame, Jirachi is obtained through Pokemon Colluseum's Bonus Disc.

[Kuiper]

I'd recommend Thunder on Jirachi, just because it gets the 42% paralysis rate and it's fun to mess with stuff like Weezing. Unless you wanted Psychic to counter Weezing, which you actually might wanna do.

[13:27] dullahan64: I think Skarmory is being used less these days.
[13:27] dullahan64: Or something.
[13:27] clownxmaster: Yeah
[13:27] clownxmaster: I didn't see it at all yesterday
[13:28] dullahan64: Yeah.
[13:28] clownxmaster: I saw it like 3 times Friday.
[13:28] clownxmaster: That's it.
[13:28] dullahan64: My most recent team is built around Magneton. ;x
[13:28] clownxmaster: lol

Yeah.

Also, Doom Desire is something you might want to try out, IIRC Obi2Kenobi wrote an article on it on Smogon.


Other than that, on any team without Magneton I usually use Thunderpunch Metagross, but then again you might actually want to use Psychic there, as discussed earlier. Isn't it great how all this stuff gets STAB Psychic? lol Medicham =P


Also, I really think you should use Surf over Hydro Pump (pretty much always) for PP reasons, unless it's on something that's using it as TecH (like Salamence, which doesn't learn Surf anyway, so in that case is irrelevant). 5 PP definitely isn't enough, and 8 IMO is pushing it.

[clown master]

Hmm.. I'll try out Thunder and Doom desire after I read said article.


And when Hydo Pump doesn't work, I'll switch to Surf.

[PhazonElite]

A while ago I tested a CB Jirachi with Doom Desire/Thunder on a stall-ish team. It actually worked somewhat decently, but it definitely needed the Wish support I had on the team. That's just a thought if you're playing around with physical Jirachi, although I must say that the 85% accuracy on Doom Desire was incredibly annoying at times.

Boah is Boah.

I never found too much use for Rock Slide on Metagross besides hitting Gyarados. Thunderpunch (which still hits Gyarados) or Explosion always seemed to work better for me, but to each his own. You should definitely ditch the Jolly nature on Metagross, though. Adamant with different EVs always yields a greater sum of actual stat points on Metagross since he has a higher base attack than base speed. Your EVs with Jolly yield stats of 335/369/322/198/203/216, but if you use Adamant and EVs of 140/176/104/88/0/0 instead, your stats are 336/385/322/198/203/216. As you can see, you gain extra points in attack and the ability to hit the 336 Leftovers break point now.

I'd give Sandslash just a tiny bit more speed in case of the rare occurrence that it needs to out speed an Agility Metagross or something.

How often does Girafarig help you? It just doesn't seem like it would help the team for some reason. If I'm wrong about it not helping, just kick me over the Internet and ban me from random MySpace groups like Ronin did. I'd suggest taking 32 EVs out of Sp. Def and putting them in HP just to go one over the Leftovers break point, since being picky about pretty numbers is always good, and you don't really lose any defenses anyway. lol

You should probably make Omastar Modest for a slight boost in power unless you were planning on out speeding something specific before that Rain Dance.

Generally, you should avoid Suicune, CB Hercules, and other various crap at all costs. All the team needs is more Gorillaz. =]

[clown master]

Everything needs more Gorillaz.

Metagross was supposed to be Adament with 88 Spd, lol. My bad. I've been hearing more and more suggestions for T-Punch on Meta, so I think I'll try it.


Girafarig is there for shock value, more than anything else. Besides, I like passing Agility to Omastar for some reason. I just like making random moves on it obsolete, such as Rain Dance, etc.

I may remove it for something, though. I know it's a bit out of place.