Hi everyone.
I wanted to create a simple team based-off both vaporeon and machamp. The goal is to clean the game with either vaporeon, machamp or a combination of both. Using one to open up holes for the other. This team is quite comfortable to play for me and I've played through ~100 matches with it
Raikou @ Leftovers
- Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Roar
- Rest
Raikou is an amazing pokemon for this team. Safely allowing my team to absorb thunders and allowing me to pivot safely into snorlax when we need it.
I choose thunder here to deal a lot of damage and paralyze stuff on the switch such as snorlax.
It can also spikes shuffle to do a lot of damage.
Roar is very important here because It's one of the mons who allow me to check dangerous stuff such as perish trap gengar, perish trap misdreavus and umbreon mean look baton pass. Raikou is my only phazer so It's important to keep it healthy against the above threats.
This raikou can also be used as a late game cleaner If need be.
Exeggutor @ Leftovers
- Sleep Powder
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psychic
- Explosion
Exeggutor is the sleeper and boomer of this team. It's mainly a zapdos lure but sometimes you can boom on cool stuff such as snorlax. It's important to use sleep powder carefully to not be vulnerable to tyranitar and houndoom.
I use HP fire on predicted skarmory switch-ins to dent it and help my machamp to do It's job. It's also very nice to be able to surprise forretress from time to time.
Cloyster @ Leftovers
- Spikes
- Surf
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Explosion
Cloyster is my spiker and It can get rid of starmie the biggest counter to machamp and a very nice check/pivot to vaporeon. It's also a nice explosion absorber because this team has no normal resist. I prefer it over forretress to avoid random HP fire/Fire blast and I need to set my spikes ASAP without needing to scout my opponent moveset. HP electric to do a lot of damage to opposing cloyster. Surf is my stab move of choice and obviously explosion to allow cloyster to participate offensively and not waste momentum.
Snorlax @ Leftovers
Ability: none
- Curse
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Self-Destruct
Snorlax is another boomer who allows me to wall a variety of threats (especially special attackers). If I can boom on another snorlax with it It's welcome. Body slam to spread para on opposing snorlax, skarmory, golem and cloyster. Curse is there to give it more bite and threaten a sweep. It can be used as a last mon sweeper too.
Vaporeon @ Leftovers
- Hydro Pump
- Growth
- Sleep Talk
- Rest
Vaporeon is one of the most important pokemon on my team. It can absorb sleep, check annoying pokemon such as jynx, sweep in the lategame and put a huge dent on zapdos/raikou with Hydro pump. Hydro pump deals 36-42.5% to raikou and 38.6-45.6% to zapdos opening up a lot of opportunities for machamp to set up curses and sweep.
Machamp @ Leftovers
- Curse
- Cross Chop
- Rock Slide
- Hidden Power [Bug]
Machamp is my sweeper. It can be used as a late game cleaner and It is often brought in the midgame. Boosted rock slide 2HKO zapdos. Paraflinch is also very fun to abuse when skarmory is paralyzed.
Raikou @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 26 Def
- Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Roar
- Rest
Exeggutor @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 6 HP / 28 Atk / 24 Def
- Sleep Powder
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psychic
- Explosion
Cloyster @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 14 HP / 28 Atk
- Spikes
- Surf
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Explosion
Snorlax @ Leftovers
Ability: none
- Curse
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Self-Destruct
Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Ability: none
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
- Hydro Pump
- Growth
- Sleep Talk
- Rest
Machamp @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 26 Atk / 26 Def
- Curse
- Cross Chop
- Rock Slide
- Hidden Power [Bug]
Ability: none
IVs: 26 Def
- Thunder
- Hidden Power [Ice]
- Roar
- Rest
Exeggutor @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 6 HP / 28 Atk / 24 Def
- Sleep Powder
- Hidden Power [Fire]
- Psychic
- Explosion
Cloyster @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 14 HP / 28 Atk
- Spikes
- Surf
- Hidden Power [Electric]
- Explosion
Snorlax @ Leftovers
Ability: none
- Curse
- Body Slam
- Earthquake
- Self-Destruct
Vaporeon @ Leftovers
Ability: none
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA / 252 SpD / 252 Spe
- Hydro Pump
- Growth
- Sleep Talk
- Rest
Machamp @ Leftovers
Ability: none
IVs: 26 Atk / 26 Def
- Curse
- Cross Chop
- Rock Slide
- Hidden Power [Bug]
CHECKS AND COUNTERS
Blissey
Blissey completely shut down this team. It can safely absorb hydro pumps help out the team with light screen and is a good pivot in general to vaporeon. No pokemon on this team can really benefit from blissey passivity because they don't hit hard enough for it to matter.
Any variant of baton pass team
Nothing to say here. This team only has one phazer so any variant of Baton Pass should take care of it.
Starmie
If for whatever reason cloyster can't explode on it, then this pokemon will be very annoying. Good pivot to vaporeon and straight up counter to machamp.
Zapdos
Ironically Zapdos is a nice check to this team because It can paralyze Raikou (making it a lot less dangerous) and/or force to sleep the only phazer this team has and gain a lot of momentum. It's also a nice check to machamp in general.
Gengar
Gengar is very annoying because It can boom on raikou and there's nothing this team can do about it. Even If It see it coming It's still hard for it to do anything because this team has no normal resist.
Lovely kiss curselax
If this team doesn't predict the lovely kiss and It hits any of the pokemons(especially snorlax) then It can go out of control really fast.
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