For those of you wondering about the POTW, it will be posted tomorrow at latest. Midterms suck and I've just now gotten around to it.
Back to our regularly scheduled programming.
In today's lesson, I'm going to teach all you little chitlins how to build your very own theme team by demonstrating how I did it in one of mine.
Step 1-
Pick a pokemon that you are absolutely in love with. It doesn't matter if it's an OU or a BL or a UU, I've made Butterfree teams that absolutely rap3. Within reason- Luvdisc and company are excluded for the obvious reasons.
I started with one of my favorites (but not my all-time; that position is saved for Arcanine), Ampharos.
Step 2-
Analyze its movepool, ability, and stats. Going back to Ampharos:
Base Stats
90 HP
75 ATK
75 DEF
115 SPATK
90 SPDEF
55 SPD
Okay, so we now know that he's got pretty good spatk, good hp, decent attack, and crappy speed. Keep that in mind as we move along.
The single ability is Static.
On to the Movepool- excluding crappy moves like Tackle, Thundershock, etc.
Physical Attacks
Focus Punch
Thunderpunch
Iron Tail
Facade*
Giga Impact
Take Down
Body Slam
*if you're ever using this, make sure it's on something with Guts and a Toxic/Flame orb equipped to maximize damage. You won't last long, though.
Okay, so not quite the broadest spectrum of physical attacks. On to special:
Special Attacks
Discharge
Signal Beam
Thunderbolt
Hidden Power
Focus Blast
Charge Beam
Power Gem
Thunder
Status Attacks
Safeguard
Screech
Reflect
Light Screen
Toxic
Rain Dance
Rest
Attract
Thunder Wave
Cotton Spore
Substitute
Sleep Talk
Okay, so a rather limited movepool, a pretty decent selection of status attacks.
So working from here:
Ampharos*SubTeacher (i.e. Substitute Teacher ^-^) @ Leftovers (or Expert Belt, doesn't really matter)
Static
Brave (+ Atk - Spd)
252 spatk/176 atk/80 spd
-Substitute
-Focus Punch
-Thunderbolt
-HP Grass/Ice/Power Gem
So since poor Amphy has next to no speed at this point, we're going to give him a buddy that's kind enough to lend him an Agility or two.
Step 3-
Choose a pokemon that will complement him.
Since we need to get Ampharos some speed up in heah, we're going to use a AgiliPassing Jolteon. Ninjask or anyone else works just as well, it's up to personal preference.
Jolteon**iFastur @ Leftovers
Volt Absorb
Timid (+ Spd -Atk)
100 spatk/252 spd/156 hp
-Substitute
-Baton Pass
-Agility
-Thunderbolt
Step 4-
Redo step 2. Cutting to the chase, I chose Starmie. Coss it's purty. n_n
Starmie**H4XStar
Natural Cure
Timid (+ Spd - Atk)
-Ice Beam
-Surf
-Recover
-Rapid Spin
Doubles as a rapid spinner as well as a pretty potent RSpinner for those pesky Spikez.
Step 5-
Fill in the rest of your party with pokemon that cover weaknesses. You'll also probably want a Spiker of some type.
Dugtrio**GoinUnder (evanescence, anybody? 0_0) @ Life Orb
Arena Trap
Jolly (+Spd -Spatk)
-Earthquake
-Sucker Punch
-Stone Edge
-Stealth Rock
You may be saying-
"But wait Psycho! Arena Trap makes it so that you can't switch out- I thought the point was to make them switch to take damage?"
Well you'd be right, except for the fact that this particular Dugtrio is meant as a glass cannon- get in there then get the fk out.
Articuno**BrrCold @ Leftovers
Pressure
Calm (+Spdef -Atk)
-Ice Beam
-Roost
-Roar
-Reflect
Here's the Dugtrio switch- a Roarer. Ensures Stealth Rock damage as well as pulling out any potential Ice weaknesses to pick off. If freeze h4x occurs, Reflect.
Leafeon**TooSexseh @ Leftovers
Leaf Guard
Jolly (+Spd -Spatk)
-Leaf Blade
-Swords Dance
-Baton Pass
-Grasswhistle
A defensive wall/SDPasser with a Jolly nature? Oh, the blasphemy!
Make sure that your team has no glaring weaknesses to certain types or particular OU threats (You Are Hera Weak), otherwise when you play really really good players, you will get wiped out.
Hope I helped you guys out- if you have any questions, post 'em here.
