ADV XU Backflow

Note that this was written for Smogon's ADV NU rather than PP's ADV XU, but it's not that spectacular a team anyway and it's out of date so I'm not going to update it.

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Welcome to the first ADV RMT of Pokemon Perfect, and my first ever RMT in the ADV NU tier. A bit about ADV NU first.. it's a tier that is very fun and potentially very competitive and complex, and honestly deserves more exploration than it's received. Also, I love it for being a tier where I can use childhood favourites like Mawile and Flareon without it being a 'shitty gimmick' :]. Named it after a song as ya do

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Anyway, to the team.

Overview:



TurnAround (Hitmonchan) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Rapid Spin
- Sky Uppercut
- Mach Punch
- Hidden Power [Ghost]
The only one with a totally dull spread, and the only one really fitting for a lead. Basically, glalie isn't going to get >1 layer of spikes on you, and most of the team is EV'd to handle threats at that point or possibly worse. HP Ghost is for haunter, I think Mach Punch is kinda filler, Protect might fit the team better. So few people to test with ;-;


Eliza (Flareon) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Flash Fire
EVs: 252 HP / 52 Def / 56 SAtk / 136 SDef / 12 Spd
Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Flamethrower
- Wish
- Toxic
- Protect
This cutie's one of my favourite Pokemon, and named after my highly cute girlfriend :3.. I found out that this was an alternative Wish user instead of lickitung; whilst it doesn't really handle Chimecho or Water types (neither of which Lickitung did particularly well, although I felt shadow ball+body slam wishtung was pretty great, whilst huntail more or less beats you), you get a great answer to mawile and the sunnybeamers of Tangela and Bellossom; The HP+Defense EVs let you survive without Spikes up a Choice Band Mawile Rock Slide so that should that suprise happen you're still prepared, and its special defense is so immense it's not a worry taking EVs away from it. The special attack EVs allow Flamethrower to get a guarantee'd OHKO on 252/0 Mawile. A little bit of speed creep since its speed tier is nice, but that's certainly customisable. The sunnybeamers are pretty much like 6HKOing you with lefties factored in the Sun so even with sleep they're not really overcoming you.


Lil' One (Lileep) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Suction Cups
EVs: 252 HP / 196 Def / 60 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Recover
- Giga Drain
- Protect
- Toxic
I'm proud to have discovered this little Gem. Walls virtually every purely physical attacker bar Hitmonchan, Machoke, and Mawile. It's EVd so that Jolly CB HP Fighting Raticate fails to 2HKO without a critical hit or spikes (pumping up the Defense from the SpD EVs doesn't turn into a guarantee'd survive if anything bad happens,) whilst the Special Defense EVs are merely all that's remaining, but it helps against stuff like Specially Offensive Whiscash. Whilst it only resists normal and Electric, and has a few weaknesses that do matter, it has no 4x weakness, and insane defensive stats (61/77/87) which lets it put in incredible work. Whilst it offers little in team support, walling a large portion of the metagame is often worth it. Recover is truly great, meaning one pokemon less reliant on Clerical support.


Fable (Sableye) (F) @ Leftovers
Trait: Keen Eye
EVs: 252 HP / 8 Atk / 208 Def / 36 SDef / 4 Spd
Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)
- Recover
- Toxic
- Protect
- Shadow Ball
Sableye's also pretty insane, and like Lileep, sorely underrated. Its typing gives it no weaknesses, and it has Recover. Furthermore it's normal immune. The HP+Specially Defensive EVs allow it to avoid the 2HKO from +1 Chimecho's Hidden Power Dark, whist the small amount of added Attack EVs guarantee a 3HKO on maximally physically defensive Chimecho (it's a 2HKO versus 252/0 variants fairly easily too). All of the remaining EVs are pushed into Physical Defense to take on artibatiry things and stuff like Hitmonchan that it handles pretty easily (beating Chimecho AND Hitmonchan hehe bwoi) and it also beats Swalot fairly comfortably and Haunter too (Flareon does that too). A tiny bit here's invested into speed creep since its speed tier is vaguely cool, but it's not really very significant. Also, I get to have EVs in 5 stats :] Great as a spinblocker and explosion absorber of course.


Norbert (Roselia) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Natural Cure
EVs: 252 HP / 188 Def / 60 SDef / 8 Spd
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Aromatherapy
- Spikes
- Giga Drain
- Synthesis
The other part of the clerical core, with Aromatherapy, alongside Spikes which is the main reason for using it over some other potentially fun Pokemon. It acts as a secondary grass type, doing stuff like checking huntail and Whiscash, but it fills no major defensive niche for the team, rather it provides clerical support on the back of some spinblocking by Sableye. I legitimately can't remember what these EVs did which means it wasn't especially cool. If anyone can find anything cool to do with it please comment :] Maybe something involving Synthesis versus something or other. Either way, the freedom of being able to handle Pokemon on both sides of the offensive spectrum is fairly neat, with its cool resistances to water, fighting, grass, and electric. Natural Cure is neat.


virtualboy (Dewgong) (M) @ Leftovers
Trait: Thick Fat
EVs: 252 HP / 156 Def / 100 SDef
Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk)
- Perish Song
- Sleep Talk
- Surf
- Rest
I mainly had this to stop dash lord Huntail and provide an anti-last-mon-mon with perish song, as well as help versus cro-sweepers (whiscash and chimecho are hardly problems, but being able to deal with Vigoroth is pretty vital since Sableye can't touch it). I think the EVs were meant to help with Vigoroth or something, but there's no Analysis of it so it's hard to tell what it'd run for Dewgong to be needing to handle it. If someone could improve my EVs on this that'd be nice =]

Main things that scare me using this team is well played Glalie (to an extent), Huntail, Sunnybeamers (my counter is good but it can be abused pretty easily), and Vigoroth, as well as any other particular stallbreakers that might have slipped my mind [can the team handle vigoroth is the question]