I love Regigigas to pieces. So much, in fact, that I want to try and use him, or at least cronies that work for him, in VGC 2013. But obviously that won't be easy, nor can I hope to try and do what I did at VGC 2012 in November and hope to get results. Thus, I will be scrapping that team and building anew from scratch.
The goal: be as annoying and as fast as possible.
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Obviously, Regigigas. He is going to be my main man. That's the whole point of the team.
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Now, to think of his partner. It needs to be someone who can get rid of Slow Start. Last time it was Reuniclus, who Skill Swapped Magic Guard onto the guy so he could abuse Toxic Orb Facade. But that's a bit too slow for my taste, so I thought of what could help, and I thought of Whimsicott. It has access to Prankster Worry Seed, letting Gigas get up and running right away.
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I want to continue the trend of being annoying, so who's annoying, tricky, fast, and effectively out of left field? An answer came to me right away: Cloyster.
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But since Cloyster, like Gigas, really needs a partner to get that Shell Smash off quickly, he needs someone who can draw attention, at least for a little bit. I look up who got Rage Powder and Follow Me, and I had to decide between Volcarona and Amoonguss. Going with the theme, the better choice seems to be Amoonguss.
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4 down, 2 to go. Again, I need someone annoying and fast, plus a good partner who can work with it. Weirdly enough, I think of Terrakion and Azelf.
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And now for the fun bit.
[animate]regigigas[/animate]
Regigigas @ Leftovers
Adamant Nature (+Atk -SpA); ability Slow Start (Halves Attack and Speed for 5 turns after being sent out
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Frustration // Substitute // Drain Punch // Ice Punch
Simple, but effective. Frustration is your basic STAB move, hitting for 102 BP plus STAB, even outclassing his other two moves at SE damage, unless it happens to be x4 or it resists Normal. Fire Punch could be used instead of Ice Punch, but there's other Fire around on the team (more so if Volcarona replaces Amoonguss) and Ice Punch will hit Garchomp, Lando, and the other Therians (and some Dragons) really hard. Drain Punch and Substitute are both to keep Gigas alive, and because Gigas drops 110/110/110 Substitutes, even without any defense investment they are near impossible to 1HKO outside of an SE hit.
[animate]whimsicott[/animate]
Whimsicott @ Sitrus Berry
Timid Nature (+Spe -Atk); ability Prankster (Status moves have a priority of +1)
EV Spread: 252 HP 220 Spe 38 SpDef
Worry Seed // Tailwind OR Taunt // Beat Up // Trick Room
This is not the Whimsitroll that everyone is used to. This is the support Whimsicott that makes the opponent's life a living hell. The moveset is also fairly simple. Worry Seed is what it gets off T1 to help Gigas, and Tailwind is to keep everyone's Speed up. The last 2 moves are for other support options - Beat Up is, obviously, used in tandem with Terrakion to get him up to the +4 on T1 - 200 EVs in Speed will make Whimsicott outspeed max Speed Terrakion by 1 point, but 220 Speed makes it outspeed max Speed Thundurus by 1, and Trick Room is to cancel the opponent's Trick Room, in case things go awry.
[animate]cloyster[/animate]
Cloyster @ White Herb
Jolly Nature (+Spe -SpA); ability Skill Link (Multi-hit moves always hit the max number of times)
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Shell Smash // Icicle Spear // Rock Blast // Razor Shell
Lol, nothing special here. I thought about using Cinccino instead since it gets going faster, buuuuuuuuut Cloyster is objectively better, due to Icicle Spear having 100% accuracy to Tail Slap's 80% - and Ice hitting things for SE damage. Other than that...pretty self-explanatory!
[animate]amoonguss[/animate]
Amoonguss @ Black Sludge OR Mental Herb
Bold Nature (+Def -Atk); ability Effect Spore (If hit by a contact move, there's a 30% chance of burning, paralyzing, or sleeping the attacker)
EV Spread: 252 HP 252 Def 6 SpDef
Rage Powder // Spore // Protect // Giga Drain
Guess who has zero experience using Amoonguss. I'm guessing this is the right thing to do...? Rage Powder is to protect Cloyster (or his partners), Spore is Spore, Protect is Protect, and Leech Seed chains with Protect to give him more HP. I'd put Protect and/or Leech Seed on Whimsicott, but I don't have space due to support. But yeah, this is the one guy I have no real experience with.
[animate]terrakion[/animate]
Terrakion @ Expert Belt OR Life Orb
Jolly Nature (+Spe -SpA); ability Justified (Raises Attack by 1 stage whenever user is hit by a Dark-type move)
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Quick Attack OR Protect // Rock Slide // Earthquake // Sacred Sword OR Close Combat
Not sure if Close Combat gets the OHKO on things that Sacred Sword doesn't. If it does, tell me, but until then I'm going with Sacred Sword. Anyway, the set here is...again, really basic. Hit fast and hit hard.
[animate]azelf[/animate]
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Timid Nature (+Spe -Atk); ability Levitate (User is fully immune to Ground-type moves)
EV Spread: 252 SpAtk 252 Spe 6 HP
Psychic // Flamethrower // Thunderbolt // Protect
Azelf could be subbed for Latios for this slot, with only minor changes to the set. Latios is more powerful and also bulkier, but Azelf is faster, and can use Flamethrower instead of having to resort to HP Fire, but doesn't have as wide of a movepool. I could easily sub it, but whatever. I think Azelf could work, but if it doesn't, tell me. I'm open to suggestions.
Regigigas @ Leftovers
Adamant Nature (+Atk -SpA); ability Slow Start (Halves Attack and Speed for 5 turns after being sent out
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Frustration // Substitute // Drain Punch // Ice Punch
Simple, but effective. Frustration is your basic STAB move, hitting for 102 BP plus STAB, even outclassing his other two moves at SE damage, unless it happens to be x4 or it resists Normal. Fire Punch could be used instead of Ice Punch, but there's other Fire around on the team (more so if Volcarona replaces Amoonguss) and Ice Punch will hit Garchomp, Lando, and the other Therians (and some Dragons) really hard. Drain Punch and Substitute are both to keep Gigas alive, and because Gigas drops 110/110/110 Substitutes, even without any defense investment they are near impossible to 1HKO outside of an SE hit.
[animate]whimsicott[/animate]
Whimsicott @ Sitrus Berry
Timid Nature (+Spe -Atk); ability Prankster (Status moves have a priority of +1)
EV Spread: 252 HP 220 Spe 38 SpDef
Worry Seed // Tailwind OR Taunt // Beat Up // Trick Room
This is not the Whimsitroll that everyone is used to. This is the support Whimsicott that makes the opponent's life a living hell. The moveset is also fairly simple. Worry Seed is what it gets off T1 to help Gigas, and Tailwind is to keep everyone's Speed up. The last 2 moves are for other support options - Beat Up is, obviously, used in tandem with Terrakion to get him up to the +4 on T1 - 200 EVs in Speed will make Whimsicott outspeed max Speed Terrakion by 1 point, but 220 Speed makes it outspeed max Speed Thundurus by 1, and Trick Room is to cancel the opponent's Trick Room, in case things go awry.
[animate]cloyster[/animate]
Cloyster @ White Herb
Jolly Nature (+Spe -SpA); ability Skill Link (Multi-hit moves always hit the max number of times)
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Shell Smash // Icicle Spear // Rock Blast // Razor Shell
Lol, nothing special here. I thought about using Cinccino instead since it gets going faster, buuuuuuuuut Cloyster is objectively better, due to Icicle Spear having 100% accuracy to Tail Slap's 80% - and Ice hitting things for SE damage. Other than that...pretty self-explanatory!
[animate]amoonguss[/animate]
Amoonguss @ Black Sludge OR Mental Herb
Bold Nature (+Def -Atk); ability Effect Spore (If hit by a contact move, there's a 30% chance of burning, paralyzing, or sleeping the attacker)
EV Spread: 252 HP 252 Def 6 SpDef
Rage Powder // Spore // Protect // Giga Drain
Guess who has zero experience using Amoonguss. I'm guessing this is the right thing to do...? Rage Powder is to protect Cloyster (or his partners), Spore is Spore, Protect is Protect, and Leech Seed chains with Protect to give him more HP. I'd put Protect and/or Leech Seed on Whimsicott, but I don't have space due to support. But yeah, this is the one guy I have no real experience with.
[animate]terrakion[/animate]
Terrakion @ Expert Belt OR Life Orb
Jolly Nature (+Spe -SpA); ability Justified (Raises Attack by 1 stage whenever user is hit by a Dark-type move)
EV Spread: 252 Atk 252 Spe 6 HP
Quick Attack OR Protect // Rock Slide // Earthquake // Sacred Sword OR Close Combat
Not sure if Close Combat gets the OHKO on things that Sacred Sword doesn't. If it does, tell me, but until then I'm going with Sacred Sword. Anyway, the set here is...again, really basic. Hit fast and hit hard.
[animate]azelf[/animate]
Azelf @ Focus Sash
Timid Nature (+Spe -Atk); ability Levitate (User is fully immune to Ground-type moves)
EV Spread: 252 SpAtk 252 Spe 6 HP
Psychic // Flamethrower // Thunderbolt // Protect
Azelf could be subbed for Latios for this slot, with only minor changes to the set. Latios is more powerful and also bulkier, but Azelf is faster, and can use Flamethrower instead of having to resort to HP Fire, but doesn't have as wide of a movepool. I could easily sub it, but whatever. I think Azelf could work, but if it doesn't, tell me. I'm open to suggestions.
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Yeah, I really don't know. I have about a month to build this team from scratch and I need/want all the help I can get. I didn't want to waste too many words on pretty explanations, so I just wanted to cut to the chase.
Help, please...? <3 ?
good job bud!