Hi guys today I am back with another teambuilding post, this
time with a weird title… well in case an idiot doesn’t know who Cybetron is.
Basically the concept ideas on this team are derived by sometems of Aaron
Cybertron Zheng who is clearly one of the best in the VGC format for like ever.
This team is combining cybertron’s worlds 2015 team and his latest Mewtwo +
Groudon team. Some of the mosns in these teams actually happen to coincide with
each other such as ferrothron, salamence and the gravity, trick room and shadow
tag mode to, I never realized that it would come out this awesome.
The Team:
Sylveon @ Lum Berry
Ability: Pixilate
Level: 50
EVs: 236 HP / 172 Def / 92 SpA / 4 SpD / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Quick Attack
- Calm Mind
- Rest
Sylveon counts the first mon on this team which is used at
the same pace as Breloom and Azumarill in this format and in other words not
really being used at all. Sylveon is a weird tec counter to two mons that
always have and will be a threat for my teams unless I use crobat and xerneas.
These are smeargle and yveltal, proofread it. That will explain why weird item
choice of lum berry. I loved having lum berry as this pokemon especially when
combined with gothitelle can rid of all smeargle and yveltal tactics going
around in this format. First of all I can beat xerneas + smeargle w/ goth and
syvlei; turn 1 protect goth and go for hyper voice, turn two quick attack into
smeargle and set up tr. GG. Similarly with yvetal + thundurus/any other swagger
user as I can negate their confusion and go for my fairy super effective
attack. Sylveon seems very gimmicky and of limited use from that perspective
however it is useful in other teams in terms of walling out specially offensive
teams completely w/ cm and rest. Quick attack being fairy type also hits gengar
and combining with a faster attack turns in my favor most of the times. It’s
full offensive potential is unleashed when I have two special attackers locked
in and set up calm minds. The spread’s defensive investment allows it to live a
adamant kang double edge from full health
Gothitelle @ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Shadow Tag
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Gravity
- Trick Room
- Psychic
- Protect
Next up is gothitelle. Can I say that goth center
strategizes this team? Yes. Gothitelle is a Pokemon has a lot of overlooked potential, in the start
of season I told that gothitelle would get good usge in the format especially
because of trapping in opposing mons with it’s shadow tag ability and setting up the weather of favor in your side
of the field, nowadays many popular pokemon players like Cybertron and Wolfe
Glick are using that tactic in the form of mega Gengar which they have stated
themselves to be very effective for their respective teams. Same as goth for me.
Gothitelle can also help in other means such as being my trick room setter and
even more important which is setting up a gravity in favor of my primal grouodn
and not to mention my ferrothorn from which 2 moves are slightly inaccurate.
The spread looks like it’s a bit weird and out of date but in a format where
hydreigon doesn’t exist at all and aegilsash is taken care of by my primal
groudon I needed no special bulk to survive specific attacks, so max hp and max
defense was chosen also Sitrus berry helps back up against Kang’s attacks as it
can threaten quiet some mons from time to time on this team. Ferrothorn +
gothitelle is also amazing.
Ferrothorn @ Leftovers
Ability: Iron Barbs
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 100 Atk / 156 SpD
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Power Whip
- Gyro Ball
- Leech Seed
- Protect
Ferrothorn is something I have used crazy lots this season
just because of the reason that it fits my playstyle the best and I feel very
safe in it’s presence on my team. Ferrothorn is the best pivotal switch in
pokemon for this very metagame it can take so much whether it is attacks from
any OP mon except any form of fire type attacks ofcourse. Ferrothron can
provide really good switch-in support for mence and sylveon on the team. When
combined with gothitelle’s shadow tag it can set up leech seed and slowly swap
away the health of it’s opponents. ferrothorn on my team can also be very much
considered a second option for countering stuff such as handling xern and
kyogre if primal groudon is not present in the party. Ferrothorn is the true
pokemon that can turn around games even in such an overpowering format for the
game. The spread that choose where
guarantees OHKO’s on 252 spa 252 speed and 4 defense timid natured xerneas’
which I felt was quite a reasonable number to invest in after maxing the hp I
invested the rest into special defense which comes in handle while in a 1-v-1
situation against a kyogre.
Salamence-Mega @ Salamencite
Ability: Aerilate
Level: 50
EVs: 44 Atk / 212 SpA / 252 Spe
Naive Nature
- Hyper Voice
- Draco Meteor
- Double-Edge
- Protect
Salamence is a amazing pokemon this season especially as it
has a lot of supportive potential while using things like tailwind and
intimidate and can do reasonably good offense to a lot of pokemons in this
format as well. There really isn’t much to say about this pokemon but mine
carries something unusual for the salamences nowadays. So basically the reason
behind is, most salamences run 2 flying type moves (thanks to aerilate) and a
third supportive move such as tailwind or substitute which are popularized. The
amount of having dragon moves on such mons is very rare nowadays though.
Similar is the fashion with the fierce mega rayquaza no dragon moves. Now is
the time in the format to use a dragon type move to get ko’s on them before
they do on you, there you go on the reasoning. Similarly to that thought people
without hesitating pull in their thundurus’ and raichus on the field whenever
they see a mega salamence expecting only flying attacks, dragon pulse hits them
w/ more damage. I don’t think if it needs to be said but it’s quite obvious
that my slow mode is very slow that it can’t be benefited by any tailwind and
my fast mode is fast enough without tailwind, o a side note here it’s my
primary counter to primal groudons.
Groudon-Primal @ Red Orb
Ability: Desolate Land
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD
Brave Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
- Precipice Blades
- Fire Punch
- Swords Dance
- Protect
Now for the last two slots I needed substitutions for Cybertron’s
2015 team with two restricted slot
options what to go for here? It didn’t took a lot of time to figure out what I
was gonna be going for so why exactly primal groudon. It could handle
ferrothorn and steel types in general that counter my first four really well,
that’s good enough reasoning for it, isn’t it? Also it could again help up
defeating opposing primal Groudons that after or before Salamence can hurt it
really well, groudon can be good behind trick room as well. I struggle with
it’s moveset choices a lot though. At first I was running overheat instead of
fire punch which caused a lot of risk taking scenarios for example whenever I
set up swords dance and gravity is not around I always went with overheat to
get accurate damage off and probably never used the attack boost w/p-blades
when SD was set-up because of just not taking the risk of missing my moves.
Then I added fire punch which also changed my mixed-groudon spread to a fully
physically offensive groudon spread which also landed ore damage and helped
overall while playing this pokemon on the team. I have discussed primal weather
+ goth trap before though.
Mewtwo @ Focus Sash
Ability: Pressure
Level: 50
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Timid Nature
IVs: 0 Atk / 0 Spe
- Psystrike
- Protect
- Trick Room
- Ice Beam
Last but not least is mewtwo on the team. Do I really like
copying cybertron for no reason in this format? Not really I realized how
awesome of a pairing this pokemon could be, as I say that I’ll be honest that
the original idea was to run a primal kyogre here then why I ended up deciding
mewtwo? The addition of primal kyogre will make this team was alot though and I
would make it a tailroom team probably then. Primal groudon even when
completely negating kyogre’s weather can
be threatened a lot by the popular rayquaza and kyogre combination; mewtwo has
an exceedingly good matchup against it. Mewtwo is also a very fast pokemon that
could give me potential of offense outside of trick room. If I added kyogre
here I would end up being every frail against landorus variants, mewtwo can
scout it’s item whether scarfed or not with pressure and OHKO it w/ an ice beam;
all that reasoning makes mewtwo an excellent addition to the team as well a
goof pairing with primal groudon on this specific team. Now for the moveset,
psystrike and ice beam also protect are self explanatory. To explain trick room
I need to tell stories which is considered merely a joke in this format before
it is supposed to work only in the past (2010) people basically don’t see it
coming also with lately cybertron’s gravity mewtwo. Originally I had gravity
here when I didn’t knew that gothitelle gets gravity. After making goth my
gravity partner I ended up giving mewtwo trick room, for one: I can potentially
set up trick room on the last turn of it if both of these mons are out on the
field for me. 2 it’s unexpected as heck so people don’t expect mewtwo to go for
such a move, I can surprise then by switching in my slower mons and then
setting up a trick room it also counts as a counter to things like icy wind
against my fast mode and tailwind as well.
Conclusion:
So guys this was it for my double trick room team inspired
by works of Cybertron of the past and the present. Hope you guys liked reading
through this post and are looking forward to give it a try. Bye for now!
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