Our OU Team

So Envy and I were talking and we thought it was a good idea to create a team together.

That being said, what type of team should we make, what pokemon should we center it around?

Im not a good team builder by any means but what i normally do when create a team is get my main pokemon and then make my team around that. And seeing as we like to do thinks differently here, why dont we make a team around pokemon like:
haxorus, gyarados, hydreigon, toxicroak to name a few.

Right now I'm trying to think of a Pokemon that would function as a good lead / anti-lead

well, swampert, azelf, infernape those are some good leads. and if u wanna set up screens, iv used magic bounce espeon

Let's run Espy, Double Screens.

Got any ideas for a set?

This is the one i use, really nice (but i dont like the idea of dual screens unless this is hyper Offence)

Espeon @ Light Clay
Trait: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP/ 252 Spe/ 4 Def
Nature: Timid (- atk, + spe)
-Reflect
-Light Screen
-Psychic/Physhock
-Signal Beam

This Espeon looks great. I'd always go with Psyshock over Psychic though.

Espeon @ Light Clay
Trait: Magic Bounce
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Spe / 4 Def
Nature: Timid ( - Atk, + Spe )
- Reflect
- Light Screen
- Psyshock
- Signal Beam

thanks. Oh, can we make a balanced team?

Sure will. Now, what Pokemon should we use next?

How about we make it based around starmie?

Sounds awesome! What kind of set should we run for Starmie? There's tons!

How bout:
Starmie@ Life Orb
natural cure
252 spa/ 252 spe/ 4 Hp
timid
-surf/scald
-thunderbolt
-ice beam
-rapid spin
Surf is probably better as scald is not as powerful when starmie is sweeping. this set has a lot of coverage as well. what do you think?

Hmm... Well it depends. Do we want power or do we want Starmie to be able to cripple strong opponents?
If I remember correctly Starmie learns Discharge as well?

I was thinking it could be our star sweeper, and no it doesn't learn discharge

Damn I was hoping it did, then yeah on that set let's run Surf instead of Scald. If it also learned Discharge we could have ran Scald and Discharge for the status chance.

yeah, k, its settled then? We're using starmie?

Sounds good!

For the third one, how about Dugtrio? We could always use a good trapping Pokemon.

I've never really understood how dugtrio works

Its ability Arena Trap keeps whatever Pokemon Dugtrio switches in on from switching out. (As long as it's not a flying type / doesn't have the ability levitate)

Aka if the opponent had a Caterpie on the field, and you didn't want that Caterpie to switch out. You would switch in Dugtrio, set up on said Caterpie and sweep.

Ah, sure. Dugtrio, whats the set?

Dugtrio @ Focus Sash
Trait: Arena Trap
EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spe / 4 HP
Nature: Jolly ( - SpAtk, + Spe )
- Hone Claws
- Earthquake
- Stone Edge
- Sucker Punch

How does that look?

Yeah that works coz starmie can spin. sure! how about a hazard setter? Normally id give my lead the hazard but espeon cant learn any... who should set hazards?

What about Forretress? We could have two rapid spinners and a ton of entry hazards.

Yep, k. sounds good, set? 1 problem is that we might not get enough sweepers into our team. i was thinking 3 sweepers but as i said, i don't really know very well when it comes to team building. how many weepers do we need?

Two is the amount that I usually have.

Also, how about this for a Forretress set.

Forretress @ Leftovers
Trait: Sturdy
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDef
IVs: 0 Spe
Nature: Relaxed ( - Spe, + Def )
- Gyro Ball
- Rapid Spin
- Stealth Rock
- Spikes