【VCG14】Perish Rain Team -YT respect ver.- 【Doubles】

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Perish Song Rain Team for VGC2014 〜Yuya Tada Respect〜




Kingdra@ Choice Specs
Ability: Swift Swim
Level: 50
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature

  • Draco Meteor
  • Dragon Pulse
  • Muddy Water
  • Ice Beam

Politoed@ Sitrus Berry
Ability: Drizzle
Level: 50
EVs: 244 HP / 4 Def / 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 4 Spd
Calm Nature

  • Scald
  • Perish Song
  • Ice Beam
  • Protect

Gengar@ Gengarite
Ability: Levitate (Shadow Tag)
Level: 50
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Timid Nature

  • Shadow Ball
  • Perish Song
  • Disable
  • Protect

Scrafty@ Leftover
Ability: Intimidate
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SDef
Brave Nature

  • Drain Punch
  • Crunch
  • Fake Out
  • Protect

Gothitelle@ Lum Berry
Ability: Shadow Tag
Level: 50
EVs: 252 HP / 28 Def / 228 SDef
Calm Nature

  • Psyshock
  • Reflect
  • Rest
  • Protect

Smeargle@ Choice Scarf
Ability: Own Tempo
Level: 50
EVs: 100 HP / 156 Def / 252 Spd
Jolly Nature

  • Fake Out
  • Dark Void
  • Follow Me
  • Wide Guard


This team is basically the combination of Kingdra-Politoed rain and Perish+Shadow-Tag.
It is significantly influenced by Yuya Tada(YT,@warnyan0616) and Homare(@Nadeshiko_2013), who both are strong Japanese players and made Shadow Tag teams with Politoed.
Especially, I had battled against YT several times on Showdown, therefore I decided to use similar rainy-perish one.

I could easily determine which 5 pokemons to use: Politoed, Gengar, Gothitelle, Kingdra and Scrafty。
I started with Politoed with Perish song and Mega-Gengar with both Perish Song and Shadow Tag. Then I added Gothielle, another Shadow Tag bulky pokemon.
Kingdra is to have a simple "beat-down" as a rainy team, therefore I wish to have Choice Spec on him. I use Timid nature to defeat foe's Modest Kingdra. Some people might suggest of having Ludicolo which learns Fake Out, though I would rather care about foe's Talonflame and did not wish to employ this grass/water pokemon.
Then Scrafty soon came into my mind; Fake Out and Intimidate pokemon with bulky stats works well with Perish-Shadow Tag. Also, considering the previous 4 pokemons, the fighting pokemon is necessary against opponents' Tyranitar.
While I could select 5, it was not easy for the last one in contrast. These 5 pokemons above are the same as YT's original team, where his last pokemon is Amoonguss. I did not wish to use Amoonguss since it creates the team much weaker against Talonflame(cosidering Adamant Nature+Choice Band). Furthermore, I planned not to use Trick Room, and using this slow pokemon seemed to have few merit here.
Special thanks to another Japanese player Tsuge(@Tsu_ge_39), I looked on his blog when I was to decide the last one for my team. The only problem with Smeargle is that he sometimes misses DV, bad boy. Smeargle is Own Tempo because many Japanese players like to SWAG on opponents' pokemon, it is really sad.

Links to Articles
YT's perish team: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/YT0616/20140122/1390407078
Tsuge's perish team: http://tsuge-piplup.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/01/02/224210